Friday, December 22, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Bush Phone-in
N-deal concerns remain: PM

New Delhi, December 21 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told US President George W Bush that India still had some concerns over the Indo-US nuclear deal, though many had already been addressed in Mr Bush’s signing statement.

George W Bush & Manmohan Singh

Death for killers of schoolboy
Hoshiarpur, December 21
The District and Sessions Court awarded death penalty to Vikram Singh, Jasvir Singh and his wife Sonia today for kidnapping and brutally killing Abhi Verma,alias Harry, a student of Class 9 of the local DAV Senior Secondary School.

Finally, govt quits Maruti
New Delhi, December 21
The government today decided to exit from Maruti Udyog Limited by selling its residual equity of 10.27 per cent in the company.

Fodder scam: 15 sentenced
Ranchi, December 21
A CBI court here today sentenced 15 persons to prison for six years in a fodder scam case. The court slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 each on 10 former officials of the animal husbandry department and five suppliers.

BJP convention to draw up strategy to recapture UP
Lucknow, December 21
The three-day national convention of the Bharatiya Janata Party, beginning here tomorrow, is going to draw an elaborate plan and devise appropriate strategy for recapturing the political space in Uttar Pradesh, which it had lost to the Congress and Samajwadi Party, during the six years rule of the National Democratic Alliance at the Centre.

Nation page
BJP changes plank for national convention

WE SWEAR: Commandos of Jammu Kashmir Police raise their arms while taking oath during a passing out parade in Sheeri, 60 km north of Srinagar, on Wednesday. Over 700 Kashmiris were formally inducted into the police force after seven months of rigorous training. — Reuters

India: The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION

	PUNJAB: Now, sops for ex-servicemen
	HARYANA:  HUDA seals fate of 100 traders
	HIMACHAL: Govt orders probe into police firing on tribals
	J&K: Traffic suspended on Srinagar highway
	CHANDIGARH:  Crime time: When P’kula sleeps, so do cops
	LUDHIANA: Cheating in the name of donor passes
	DELHI: ‘Condition of kids a humanitarian emergency’
	OPINIONS: Hostile to truth
	BUSINESS: GoM to decide amendments to insurance laws
	NATION: Ex-corporator of Delhi convicted of murder
	WORLD: Bangladesh strike turns violent
	SPORTS: ‘My time, my terms’

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