Thursday, November 2, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Give traders more time: Centre
Petitions SC as Delhi bandh ends on chaotic note

New Delhi, November 1 A day after Municipal Corporation of Delhi moved the Supreme Court for modification of its order on sealing of illegal shops in the Capital's residential localities over which traders have launched an agitation, the Union Government also filed an application in the court today for change of its order and postpone the sealing till the final decision on entire issue.	No sealing today New Delhi, November 1 There will no sealing of commercial units in Delhi tomorrow. A spokesperson of the Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee told mediapersons today that the MCD sealing drive would not be carried out tomorrow. — UNI
Delhi page: Dikshit offers to resign, blasts BJP

In video (56k) BURNING RAGE: A DTC bus is set on fire by protesting traders near Mother Dairy in East Delhi during the last day of the Delhi bandh on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Ambala medical student kidnapped in Bangalore
Ambala, November 1
Two medical students including an Ambala-based doctor’s son were kidnapped in Bangalore. While one of the medical students had been let off yesterday morning, the doctor’s son is yet to be released by the kidnappers.

PM prefers a left hook
Thiruvananthapuram, November 1
Choosing Left-ruled Kerala to answer critics of his government's foreign and economic policies, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today rejected that globalisation resulted in agrarian crisis and efforts to improve ties with the US marked a radical policy shift. In video (56k)

Kasuri not to attend conference on Afghanistan
New Delhi, November 1
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri will not be coming here for attending a crucial conference on Afghanistan that New Delhi is hosting on November 18-19.

Shoaib, Asif banned
Karachi, November 1
In a major jolt to Pakistan’s World Cup hopes, fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was today banned for two years and fellow pacer Mohammad Asif for one year following their positive tests for banned drugs. (Details on Sports page)

Not cricket: PCC member helps himself Mohali, November 1 In what could be a breakthrough in the sale of tickets on the black market for the semifinal encounter between Australia and New Zealand, the SAS Nagar police today arrested a member of the Punjab Cricket Club while selling tickets. Police collects feedback from cricket fans B.S. Gill (right), a member of the Punjab Cricket Club, the in-house club of the PCA, who was arrested from the Phase IX market, Mohali, for selling tickets on the black market on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph