Sunday, October 1, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

ISI hand in 7/11 blasts
*11 Pakistanis involved, says Mumbai police chief
*Operation carried out by Lashkar with SIMI help

Mumbai, September 30 Claiming to have cracked the July 11 train blasts case, the Mumbai police lays the blame on Pakistan's ISI and several other organisations like the Students Islamic Organisation of India and Lashkar-e-Toiba. In video (56k)
Police Commissioner A.N. Roy at a Press conference in Mumbai on Saturday. — PTI photo World page: US bounties made Pak detain people illegally

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PM arrives to rousing welcome in SA
Durban, September 30 It was just a 15-minute journey from Pentrich to Pietermaritzburg for the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, but the significance of it weighed so heavily on him that he found “it is easy to feel the presence of the Mahatma here and to imagine what he went through during that night of June 7,1893”.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is received by South African officials on his arrival at Durban airport in South Africa on Saturday. — PTI photo

Senate fails to take up nuclear deal Bill
Washington, September 30
The US Senate today formally went into recess prior to the November 7 Congressional polls without taking up a Bill on enabling Indo-US civilian nuclear cooperation as the ruling and opposition lawmakers failed to reach a consensus on how to deal with the legislation.

Now, pharmacists manhandled
Bathinda, September 30
Newly appointed rural pharmacists faced the wrath of the men in khaki as they started raising slogans when Punjab Finance and Health Minister Surinder Singla completed his address at a health camp organised at Goniana Mandi, near here, today.

Policemen take away protesting pharmacists from the venue of a medical camp organised at Goniana Mandi on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Kulbir Beera

AIIMS student dies of dengue
New Delhi, September 30
An AIIMS student died of dengue today taking the death toll to 11 in the national capital which is already hit by nearly 350 dengue-afflicted cases this year. Kamal Raj Kiran, a fourth-year student, died in the day due to the deadly disease which has spread its tentacles across the AIIMS campus hitting as many as 11 medicos and five other staff members. In video (56k)

Menon takes over as Foreign Secy today
New Delhi, September 30
Mr Shiv Shankar Menon will take over as new Foreign Secretary tomorrow. Mr Menon succeeds Mr Shyam Saran who has been appointed as Special Envoy for negotiations relating to the Indo-US deal after his retirement.

Quick legal remedy for elderly parents soon New Delhi, September 30 Elderly parents will soon have provision for a fast-track and cost-free legal remedy against neglect by their children. For this, they will just have to complain to tribunals, to be set up soon to consider and dispose of their claims for maintenance in a time-bound manner.