Tuesday, November 21, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Pranab welcomes Hu
PM sticks to protocol; border talks not on anvil

New Delhi, November 20 When Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived here this evening on a three-day official visit, the diplomatic symbolism made it clear that it is not going to be a landmark visit as his Premier Wen Jiabao’s was last year. In video (56k) Chinese President Hu Jintao with his wife Liu Yongping and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee waves to the media on his arrival in New Delhi on Monday evening. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Visa norms for Chinese businessmen eased
New Delhi, November 20

In a move which would help ensure easier movement and stay of Chinese business persons, professionals and their dependents in India for bona fide purposes, the Centre today announced streamlining of the visa guidelines.
Arunachal peg: Brigadier A.K. Bordoloi of the Indian Army and Colonel Li Shi Zhong of the Chinese army tost on the occasion of Year of Friendship 2006 at Washa Pass, Kibithu, in Arunachal Pradesh under Lohit district. — PTI photo World page Don’t interfere, China tells US Wants India to keep word on Tibet Delhi page: Tibetans hold rally to protest Hu’s visit

10 killed in Darjeeling Mail blasts
ISI, KLO hand suspected
Kolkata, November 20
At least 10 passengers were killed and 50 injured when several bombs exploded inside two compartments of the Darjeeling Mail at New Jalpaiguri station this evening.

Quota for OBCs: Stop lip service, SC tells Govt
New Delhi, November 20
The Supreme Court today questioned the government’s approach on implementing the “creamy layer” formula for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in reservation and delaying the publication of a list of artisans engaged in hereditary occupation exempted from the application of the formula in the Mandal Commission case.

AIDS and Punjab-I
HIV bomb ticking in Ludhiana
Ludhiana, November 20

Ludhiana—India’s most innovative city, known throughout the world for its ingenuity—is making news for all the wrong reasons. Intravenous drug users (IDUs) inject themselves in a public park at Ludhiana. — Tribune photo Sayeed Ahmed

Rahul Mahajan accused of torturing wife
Mumbai, November 20
Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, who was earlier accused of being a drug addict, is now plagued by allegations that he tortured his wife Shweta.

UNICEF poster girl works in dhaba Patna, November 20 The UNICEF’s poster girl to launch its campaign against child labour in Bihar earns her livelihood by working as a maid at a roadside dhaba here. Child labour faces systematic violence: ILO