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BREAKING NEWS (updated at 2.30 pm)
India, US ink 10-yr pact for defence cooperation

Terror in Pak, PoK still exists: Pranab
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that while there have been “several positive developments” in India’s relationship with Pakistan, “we cannot still say for sure that the peace process is entrenched.”

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India wants US to ease space, N-tech curbs

Yashwant Sinha sacked as BJP spokesman
New Delhi, June 28
The Bharatiya Janata Party today divested party’s former External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha of party’s official spokesmanship, sending a strong signal to other leaders that indiscipline was not going to be tolerated.

Stranded tourists airlifted
Rekong Peo (Kinnaur), June 28
Victims of the Sutlej fury Anne and her friend Isabella, had being waiting for 48 hours to be airlifted out of this place located 250 km from Shimla. Their wait ended this afternoon when the two women along with 15 other foreigners were “rescued” by helicopters.

The road from Rekong Peo to Kaurik is blocked by a landslide at Pauri village in Kinnaur district on Tuesday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Bhakra filling up
 Himachal page: Flood hit state’s lifeline
 All tourists safe in Himachal
 Flood fury kept residents awake
 Sonia to visit flood-hit areas today
 46 tourists evacuated from Kinnaur

China promises ‘all help’ on Parechu crisis
New Delhi, June 28
History seems to be repeating itself within one year as China has promised “all help” on the crisis posed in Himachal Pradesh by floods in the Parechu river but no information has trickled in yet from Beijing.

LPG to be sent on mules
Rekong Peo, June 28
Apart from saving people and their property from any further damage from a raging Sutlej, it is the logistics of meeting the daily requirements of people that is the proverbial “mountainous task”.

Paswan may find the going tough with Digvijay Singh
New Delhi June 28
LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan will come under increasing pressure in the coming days to align with secular forces in the coming Bihar Assembly elections, failing which his position in the UPA government could become untenable.

Sub-committees on agriculture, state debts set up New Delhi, June 28 The National Development Council (NDC) today decided to set up sub-committees on agriculture and state debts to thrash out the broad contours of a new development paradigm premised on the recommendations of the mid-term appraisal of the 10th Five Year plan.