Sunday, August 12, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

123: War of words cools off
We will sort it out: PM
New Delhi, August 11
The differences between the UPA government and the Left parties over the Indo-US nuclear deal are growing but there seems to be no immediate threat to the ruling combine. A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued an ultimatum to Left parties to withdraw support to the UPA government because of their stiff opposition to the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement, both sides appeared to pull back from the brink today.

N-Deal
Govt to talk it out with Left: Pranab
New Delhi, August 11
External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee made it clear that the government will have further talks with the Left on the Indo-US nuclear deal.

Don’t counsel us, Karat tells PM

Go ahead, bite, BJP to Left

16 from Hindi areas killed in Assam
Guwahati, August 11
In a barbaric incident that have exposed glaring loopholes in the security arrangements, tribal militants gunned down 16 Hindi-speaking people, including six children, at Dolomara Rang Teron village, under the Bokajan police station of Karbi Anglong hill district of Assam, late Friday night.

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Ayodhya temple attack mastermind killed in encounter
Jammu, August 11
The mastermind behind the terrorist attack on the Ayodhya temple, Saifullah Qari, was today killed here in an encounter with a joint team of the J&K and Delhi police.

Kanishka Probe
Canada plans to send team to India
Toronto, August 11
Canadian Police has sought permission from the Indian government to visit the country to further the criminal investigation into the June 1985 bombing of Kanishka airliner that killed 329 people, an official said here.

J-K arms depot fire kills 2
Adoosa (Achchabal), August 11
Two persons were killed and 20 others were injured in an accidental fire which broke out at the Army ammunition depot at Khundroo, near here, around 9 am today. Over 25,000 residents of the nearby villages had been shifted to safer places officials said in Srinagar.

Ammunition explodes during a fire at an Army depot in Khundroo on Saturday. — Reuters photo

ULFA blast near Army camp
Sibsagar, August 11
Militant outfit ULFA today exploded a bomb in front of an army camp at Borhat in Sibsagar district. The blast took place at around 6.45 pm but there was no immediate report of any casualty, the police said. The area along Assam’s boundary with Arunachal Pradesh was immediately cordoned off by the Army.

Andhra police books Taslima Hyderabad, August 11 The Andhra Pradesh police has registered a case against the exiled Bangladeshi novelist Taslima Nasreen, who was the target of an attack by Muslim activists on Thursday, for hurting religious sentiments. Based on a complaint by Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, whose partymen had led the attack, a case has been registered at the Panjagutta police station here under Section 153 (A) of the IPC for “creating enmity between the communities”.

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	Atta-dal scheme takes off — from back door August 5, 2007
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