Saturday, August 4, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

123 Text
All quiet on N-testing
New Delhi, August 3
After two years of intensive discussions, India and the US today made public the text of their 123 Agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation, which, by and large, has no red lines for India.

Hyde Act not violated: US

Nation page: Left to study document, talk to govt soon

Indo-US N-deal
SC declines direction for Parliament’s ratification
New Delhi, August 3
A petitioner seeking the intervention of the Supreme Court in the Indo-US nuclear deal with a plea for getting it ratified by Parliament was today politely rebuked by the court for trying to invoke judicial intervention in a matter essentially falling in executive’s domain.

Taliban ‘kidnap’ Indian
Kabul, August 3
The Taliban on Friday claimed they had abducted an Indian engineer in Baghlan province of northern Afghanistan. However, denying the report, sources in the Indian Embassy here said that no Indian has been kidnapped by the Taliban, maintaining that all the Indians working in a power project in north Afghanistan were safe.

An Afghan policeman wearing traditional clothing watches as a motorcyclist approaches a checkpoint on the edge of Ghazni, on Friday. A local Taliban commander claimed it kidnapped an Indian engineer. — AFP photo

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

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Kafeel succumbs to burns
London, August 3
Kafeel Ahmed, who was detained in connection with the foiled UK terror plot after he allegedly rammed an explosive-laden jeep into Glasgow airport, has died after battling grievous burn injuries for more than a month.

Nation page: Silence engulfs Kafeel’s home

Manmohan rules out tie-up with JD (S)
Bangalore, August 3
The Congress today effectively shut the door for any re-alliance with the Janata Dal (Secular) in case the JD (S) ditches the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rather than handing over the Chief Minister’s post to it in October.

Munna has Telgi for company in Gandhi’s jail
Mumbai, August 3
Actor Sanjay Dutt, who was moved to the historic Yerwada Central Jail in Pune on Thursday to serve his jail sentence, will be sharing the company of master forger Abdul Karim Telgi. The jail is known for hosting a number of stalwarts from modern Indian history like Lokmanya Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi.

Priya calls on Sonia

First Arctic expedition flagged off
New Delhi, August 3
Seeking to compliment their research in Antarctica with that in Arctic, a team of scientists from India today left for the icy region in the northern hemisphere.

The West shivers at echoes of Cold War division
When the Americans sent a nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, under the ice cap to the North Pole exactly 49 years ago today, it was a powerful demonstration of US might to the Soviet Union.