Sunday, November 19, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

On eve of President Hu’s visit
Envoy’s talk continues to rankle India
New Delhi, November 18
The comments of Chinese Ambassador Sun Yuxi on Arunachal Pradesh have taken the Indian establishment by surprise. It feels that the Indo-China agreement on "Political parameters and guiding principles" on settlement of the border issue has apparently been put on ice.

Guiding parameters, principles on ice

Six-lane project for UT-Delhi highway
Panchkula, November 18 The Rs 270-crore Badarpur elevated highway project, aimed at ensuring smooth flow of traffic on the National Highway No 2, has been approved by the Union Government and the bidding process for the venture will be initiated soon.	Highlights Rs 270-cr Badarpur elevated highway project gets Centre’s nod Delhi Metro to run up to Gurgaon Two more flyovers for Gurgaon on November 21

Saturday just wasn’t Laloo’s day
One horse bolts, another goes on sale
Patna, November 18
Laloo must have hated it. Saturday brought ill-tidings for him. One of his one-time cronies and former national president of RJD Shivanand Tiwari accused him of disintegrating society on caste lines in the name of social justice.

Laloo Yadav’s four-year-old horse ‘Pawan’ up for sale in Sonepur on Saturday. — PTI photo

Seema Parihar, Bandit Queen II, goes political New Delhi, November 18 Bandit Queen II Seema Parihar today took a step towards public life when she joined the Indian Justice Party.                  Seema Parihar

2 kids shot in Assam police firing
Guwahati, November 18
An indefinite curfew was clamped after three persons were killed, two of them children, and 24 injured while a police station was set on fire in Assam’s Morigaon district today.

Terrorism in Afghanistan has PM worried
New Delhi, November 18
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed concern over spurt in terrorist violence in certain parts of Afghanistan and said dealing with this challenge was "a collective responsibility". (Details on Nation page)

Dawood gang member arrested
Mumbai, November 18
The Maharashtra Police has arrested a member of the Dawood gang, who is also reportedly the mastermind of a gang involved in distribution of fake Indian currency from Dubai.

Protest stalls shooting
Varanasi, November 18
Shooting of Rani Mukherjee-starrer ‘Chudian’ was stalled today after Shiv Sena activists protested the barricading of a bathing ‘ghat’ on the bank the river Ganga. They relented after the film unit removed the barricade and assured the protesters that the film’s shooting would not encumber the people or prevent them from visiting the ghat. — PTI

President? Let people decide: Prachanda New Delhi, November 18 Nepal’s top Maoist leader Prachanda, who led the 10-year-long bloody war against monarchy in the impoverished Himalayan nation, today expressed his readiness to be the Executive President of a new Democratic Republic of Nepal. "Individually, I am not interested. Nation page: Maoists will not give up arms, says Prachanda