11,000 troops airlifted
Choppers on rescue mission in snow-hit Kashmir

Jammu, February 10 While the Indian Air Force carried out major operations for airlifting Army-men stranded on the 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway during the past five days, six persons, including four children, were killed in three separate places owing to avalanches and land slides.

Passengers walk to board a helicopter on Thursday after remaining stranded on a key highway in Banihal, 180 km (113 miles) north of Jammu, for three days. — Reuters photo

Police crushes protest in Nepal
5 security men killed in attack on jail; govt releases 7 leaders

Kathmandu, February 10 Nepali police smothered the first political protest on Thursday against King Gyanendra's assumption of power and suspension of civil liberties, by arresting the handful of demonstrators who turned up.
Human rights activist Basu Devkota is arrested in Kathmandu on Thursday for opposing the royal proclamation. — Reuters photo

Aspirants for Haryana CM's post sent to Bihar
New Delhi, February 10
There is nothing known as a free lunch. Congress party’s chief ministerial aspirants for Haryana have discovered this the hard way.

Haryana: MLAs will pick CM: Singhvi

Series of kidnappings rattle police
2 recent cases solved, claims Virk
Chandigarh, February 10
Rattled by a series of kidnappings and disappearances under mysterious circumstances during the past few weeks, the Punjab Police claims to have solved two of the three cases that have been in the headlines during the fortnight.

MEA to retain full powers in gas pipeline negotiations
New Delhi, February 10
The Ministry of External Affairs will retain full powers in negotiations on gas pipeline projects with Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, authoritative sources in the Government told The Tribune tonight.

Editorial: Gas for growth

‘Make Nanavati report public’
New Delhi, February 10
The National Commission for Minorities (NCM), besides several Sikh leaders, today urged the government to make the report of the Justice Nanavati Commission on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots public.

Nation: ‘84 riots report to be made public in due course: Patil

155 kg of charas seized
Chandigarh, February 10
An Israeli, a Czech national and a man from Kulu were arrested along with 155 kg of charas in the country's biggest-ever haul of the contraband.
(Details on Chandigarh page)

Prince Charles to marry Camilla Parker
London, February 10
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, today announced that he would marry his lover Camilla Parker Bowles in April this year, ending years of speculation whether their three-decade-old romance would be solemnised in nuptials.
(Details on World page)

Man gets death for rape, murder of minor New Delhi, February 10 The Supreme Court today sentenced to death a man for rape and murder of a six-year-old school girl from Uttar Pradesh, holding his action as "beastly, barbaric and inhuman".