Friday, July 27, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Midnight coup
Congress set to lose Goa
Mumbai, July 26
After two days of suspense, the 49-day-old Digambar Kamat-led Congress government in Goa was reduced to a minority plunging the state into yet another round of political unstability.

Avian Flu
1.5 lakh birds to be culled in Manipur
New Delhi, July 26
The Manipur Government, in its effort to check bird flu, today began culling of around 1.5 lakh chickens. Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh held a meeting with concerned officials after avian influenza was confirmed in the state yesterday to determine the strategy to control and contain the dreaded disease.

Rapid Response Party, a medical team of the Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Departments of Manipur, throws out eggs and birds infected with bird flu at Mantripukhri Poultry farm in Imphal on Thursday. — PTI photo

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US lawmakers take potshots at N-deal
Critics have begun lining up to take potshots at a nuclear deal struck last week between the USA and India even before both sides have had a chance to reveal the contents of the agreement.

PM briefs President, BJP on N-deal
BJP fears not fully allayed: Yashwant

Haneef case about to collapse; investigating officer dies
Melbourne, July 26
The Australian police has been asked to check if the “evidence” that led to the cancellation of Indian doctor Haneef Mohammed's visa in connection with the failed UK car bombings was “still correct”, a minister said today, a day after the top prosecutor's decision to “review” the case.

American gets 15-yr jail for supporting LeT
New York, July 26
An American national, Mahmud Faruq Brent, has been sentenced by a court here to 15 years imprisonment for conspiring to provide material support to the militant outfit, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Attack on CRPF camp:2 LeT men killed
Srinagar, July 26
Two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed when they attempted an attack on a camp of security forces injuring at least eight Central Reserve Police Force personnel at Zakura on Srinagar outskirts this morning.

Kapoor to be new Army chief
New Delhi, July 26

Vice-Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen Deepak Kapoor was today appointed as the next Chief of Army Staff. He would succeed Gen J.J Singh in the hot seat at the South Block when the incumbent Chief of Army Staff retires from service on September 30.

Lt. Gen Deepak Kapoor