Tuesday, July 18, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Bush reassures PM on N-deal
St. Petersburg, July 17
President of the US George W. Bush today assured Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that there would be no shifting of goal posts with regard to the Indo-US nuclear pact and that they would ensure that New Delhi would not be required to meet any expectations beyond those already spelt out in their joint agreement of July 18, 2005.

In video (56k) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with US President George W. Bush during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-8 summit at St Petersburg on Monday. — PTI photo

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G8 leaders call Mumbai blasts barbaric
St. Petersburg, July 17
Although the G8 summit of industrialised countries was predictably preoccupied with the escalating violence in the Middle East, India was able to persuade the world's most powerful leaders to look beyond the region and denounce the recent terrorist incidents in Mumbai.

World page: G-8 agrees to subsidy cuts

President to lead mourning in Mumbai
Mumbai, July 17
President A P J Abdul Kalam will lead a condolence meeting to mourn the death of those killed in Mumbai’s serial bomb blasts tomorrow. In video (56k)

Nation page: Bomb hoax throws Mumbai trains out of gear
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CBMs: Musharraf has more at stake
New Delhi, July 17
The growing ability of Pakistan to export jihad and jihadis all over the world, not just India, is turning the heat on the Islamic nation from the international community.

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Tsunami kills 86 in Indonesia Jakarta, July 17 A two-metre-high tsunami crashed into beach resorts and fishing villages on Indonesia’s Java island today, killing at least 86 persons, leaving scores more missing and sending thousands fleeing to higher ground, witnesses and officials said. Andamans, West Bengal, Chennai on alert New Delhi, July 17 A high alert was sounded in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and West Bengal following an earthquake struck beneath the Indian Ocean off the coast of Indonesia around 1.49 p.m.

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	PUNJAB: SAD-BJP panel may tie up with non-Cong parties
	HARYANA: Birender in land row
	HIMACHAL: Mankotia submits list of corrupt bureaucrats
	J&K: Jammu varsity’s tacit warning to illegal study centres
	CHANDIGARH: Eleven file nominations for Mohali MC poll on day one
	LUDHIANA: Lack of funds stalls PAU project
	DELHI: Balli appears in SC in contempt case
	OPINIONS: Quality of judges
	BUSINESS: Govt asks ONGC to wind up retail plans
	NATION: SIMI activists held in Assam
	WORLD: G-8 agrees to subsidy cuts
	SPORTS: Inzamam steers Pak to draw

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Naxals kill 25 in Chhattisgarh
Raipur, July 17
At least 25 persons were killed and 80 injured, 32 of them seriously, while around 250 were missing following an attack by around 800 armed Naxalites in Dantewada district here today, the police said. The Maoists killed the villagers brutally. In video (56k)



Muslims form front for uplift of community
Chandigarh, July 17
For the socio-economic uplift of the community, Muslims of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territory of Chandigarh here today formed the United Progressive Muslims Front.

SC orders salary to AIIMS docs for 15-day strike period New Delhi, July 17 The doctors of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in their face-off with Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on anti-reservation agitation issue today got partial relief with the Supreme Court directing the government to pay them 15-day wages up to May 30, a day after the order for ending the agitation was passed.