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128 die as 3 trains collide in Pak
Islamabad, July 13

In a deadly pre-dawn pile-up, three passenger trains collided at a station in southern Pakistan today, killing at least 128 persons, most of them in their sleep, and injuring nearly 200 in the country’s worst rail accident in 15 years. In video (28k, 56k)

A view of the passenger trains that collided at Ghotki, 600 km northeast of Karachi in Pakistan, on Wednesday. — AP/PTI photo

PM’s US visit upgraded to State Visit
New Delhi, July 13
Despite Washington’s strident opposition to the G-4 Framework Resolution on United Nations Security Council expansion, positive signals are emanating from the United States which hosts Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this weekend.

Nation page: Karat draws PM’s agenda for US visit

Taj belongs to UP Waqf Board, rules its Chairman
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Dullo is Punjab Cong chief
New Delhi, July 13
After months of speculation, the Congress today appointed former Lok Sabha MP Shamsher Singh Dullo as the new president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee.

A setback to Amarinder

Punjab page: I am Sonia’s soldier, says Dullo

3 bombers were UK nationals of Pak origin
London, July 13
The police said today three of the four bombers who carried out last week’s London blasts were British nationals of Pakistan origin, raising the prospect that western Europe may have suffered its first suicide attack.

World page: Britain under siege of home-grown terrorists
Extremists Imams to be deported: Blair

NASA calls off Discovery’s launch (Details on World page)

Emu eggs dying a slow death Chhat Bir (Patiala), July 13 Thirtyfive eggs of the emu bird lying in the bird’s enclosure at Chhat Bir Zoo may never see life, thanks to the laxity shown by the zoo authorities in arranging for an incubator for artificial hatching of the jumbo eggs (each weighing about 600 gm). A pair of emu strut about in their enclosures in Chhat Bir Zoo, near Chandigarh. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan.