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

Pak not to hand over any suspect
Islamabad, October 2
A day after New Delhi said it would confront Islamabad with the evidence of its involvement in the Mumbai blasts, Pakistan today promised it would take action against any of its nationals having links with the attack if provided information about it but would not hand over any suspect.


Editorial: Mumbai blasts
Nation page: India’s assertion on blasts ‘based on concrete evidence’

South Africa backs India
Supply of nuclear fuel
Pretoria, October 2
South Africa declared today that once the US Congress cleared the Indo-US nuclear accord and it reached the nuclear suppliers’ group, it would fully support India’s case.

Business page
South Africa — gateway to African market
In video: PM praises film for preaching Gandhian principles. (56k)

Manmohan meets Mandela
Johannesburg, October 2
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Nelson Mandela, one of the world’s most respected statesmen who used Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent methods to end South Africa’s apartheid regime, here tonight. — PTI

Security to blame for poor turnout?
Manmohan Singh’s functions at Durban
Pretoria, October 2
Was it because of security that the turnout of people at all the public functions of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, in Durban was poor? The Prime Minister's train journey to Pietermaritzburg did not evoke any enthusiasm as, apart from security personnel and officials, only a few people turned up at the railway station to receive him.

Dengue spreads in region
Gurgaon, October 2
The Health authorities today asked the public not to panic in the wake of dengue outbreak even as 11 confirmed cases of the disease have been reported till date in the district.

Nation page
Ramadoss calls emergency meeting on dengue
Delhi page
Dengue toll 500, but govt insists no epidemic yet
Chandigarh page
8 dengue cases in tricity
Health Dept gears up to tackle dengue threat
Editorial: Dreaded dengue

Special Story
Indian Air Force grounds MiG 29 fighters

Chandigarh, October 2 Following the crash of a MiG-29 — the IAF frontline counter-air fighter — near Ambala last week, the Air Force has “grounded” part of the fleet for extensive checks, it is learnt.

A file picture of MiG-29 aircraft.

Nation page:
Centre mulls shortcut to get multi-role aircraft

Manu Sharma’s ‘confession’ with police
New Delhi, October 2
Television channels have access to an audio CD in which Manu Sharma has allegedly confessed in chilling detail to killing model Jessica Lall and making his getaway from the scene of the crime.

German tourist escapes rape bid
Dharamsala, October 2
A German tourist survived an attempt on her life today as she put up a brave resistance to abort a rape attempt on her by a local shepherd while she was having a stroll close to the Bhagsunag waterfall, near here.

2 Americans share Nobel in Medicine Stockholm, October 2 Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in controlling the flow of genetic information. Craig C.Mello (right) from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and Andrew Z.Fire of the School of Medicine at the Standford University in California who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine. — AP/PTI photo