Monday, November 27, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Pranab: China endorses Indo-US nuclear deal
New Delhi, November 26
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said China had endorsed the Indo-US nuclear deal. The minister also indicated that India would accept any nuclear deal between Pakistan and China as “the ground reality” and that India would not have serious objections about it.

India to streamline visa process for Pakistanis
Islamabad, November 26
India has taken steps to streamline visa procedures for Pakistanis and will possibly increase their issuance from the current level of 8000 a month. 

Don’t include non-judicial members in council: Govt
New Delhi, November 26
On the Law Day function a confrontation was witnessed between the Supreme Court Bar and the judiciary and the government, with the Centre rejecting the demand for inclusion of non-judicial member in the proposed national judicial council (NJC) to probe judges’ misconduct.

Lanka studying panchayati system
Rajapakse opens Asian Mayors’ conference

Dehra Dun, November 26 Sri Lanka will adopt an all-party approach to end its ethnic strife, said Mr Mahinda Rajapakse, President of Sri Lanka, inaugurating the first Asian Mayors conference here today. He was on a four-day visit to India.

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse discusses a point with Uttaranchal Chief Minister N D Tiwari during a meeting of Asian Mayors in Dehra Dun on Sunday. — PTI photo

Sarabjit’s sister catches Kasuri by surprise in hotel, pleads for mercy
New Delhi, November 26
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, who is here on a private visit, was surprised this evening as he was stopped in his hotel lobby by Ms Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian currently on death row in a Pakistani jail.

VP Singh against acquiring land for mega projects
Chamkaur Sahib (Ropar), November 26
Former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, after a decade’s silence today urged the central and state governments including Punjab, to waive loans of debt-ridden farmers.

Rajnath re-elected BJP chief
New Delhi, November 26
Mr Rajnath Singh was today re-elected BJP President for a three-year term, national returning officer O. P. Kohli announced.

Indian beauty is Miss Earth-Air
New Delhi, November 26
India’s 21-year-old beauty Amruta Patki ranked third in the Miss Earth, 2006, pageant held in Manila, Philippines, while Chile walked away with the top crown.

AIDS and Haryana Shunned, they live in deathly silence Rohtak, November 26 Parsanni Devi (name changed) is like hundreds of women in Haryana who have been widowed, with their husbands succumbing to HIV/ AIDS. Yet she is more fortunate than most who remain untreated due to ignorance of their HIV-positive status or are forced to suffer in silence. Only lucky Haryanvi women manage to visit an HIV clinic during the life time of their husbands.