Wednesday, November 15, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Arunachal Pradesh ours, says Pranab
New Delhi, November 14
With India firmly rejecting the claim of the Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Yuxi in a television interview that Beijing considers Arunachal Pradesh as its territory, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee categorically said today that the state was an integral part of India.

Opinions page: Tawang is India’s

Indo-Pak deal on terror Joint mechanism will be a small body with Additional Secys as group heads New Delhi, November 14 India and Pakistan today reached a major breakthrough when they decided on broad contours of a joint mechanism on combating terrorism.  Pakistani Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammed Khan with Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar menon (left) in New Delhi on Tuesday.  — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Aish in cash row Mumbai, November 14 The Customs Department has called actor Aishwarya Rai for questioning in connection with a packet in her name that contained undeclared 23,000 Euros (Rs 13 lakh), received by the foreign post office here.          Aishwarya: Keeps mum

13 die as bus falls into gorge in HP
Kulu, November 14
Thirteen persons, including one woman, were killed and 39 injured, six of them seriously, in a bus accident today at Talada village, near Sainj, in Banjar subdivision of this district. The bus rolled down a gorge about 300 feet deep. 

Ludhiana Jingle
Miles of Congress rallyists

Ludhiana, November 14 Going by the turnout at the Congress rally here today, there could be no better time for the party to sound the bugle for the Assembly elections in the state.

The Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, PCC chief S. S. Dullo and AICC general secretary J. Dwivedi along with ministers at the Congress rally in Ludhiana on Tuesday. — Photo by Sayeed Ahmad

Punjab page
CM meets people in villages, breaks bread with farmers
Rally boosts Cong morale
Ludhiana page
Congress rally sees huge attendance
Lakhs of rupees for Vikas Yatra, not a penny for this village

Centre mulling dismissal of UP Government
Lucknow, November 14
The conflict between the Congress-led UPA government and the Samajwadi government in the state is set to widen in days to come.

Ransom call for Anant’s family
Noida (UP), November 14
The family of three-year-old Anant Gupta, the son of CEO of Adobe Sytems who was kidnapped, today received a ransom call for his release. Though the police and the family would not go on record on this, sources said a telephone call was received at the Noida Sector-15 residence of the Guptas this morning demanding money for the release of the child. — PTI

BSNL slashes call rates
New Delhi, November 14
The BSNL today slashed call rates from its PCO booths under which local and intra-circle calls to any network will be Re 1 per minute for a 60 second pulse, while STD calls will be cheaper by 50 paise. It has rationalised call charges from its GSM PCOs, CCB PCOs, local PCOs, and local VPT. — TNS