Tuesday, August 14, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

India’s interest unharmed: PM
New Delhi, August 13
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today assured Parliament that there was nothing in the 123 agreement that compromised India’s strategic programme or diluted the indigenous three-stage nuclear programme or put a cap on the country’s right to undertake future nuclear tests.

Faces Opposition boos, CPM walkout

Advani speaks to Karat Seeks vote against N-deal
New Delhi, August 13 The nuclear deal has brought ideological foes on talking terms as BJP leader L.K. Advani today spoke to CPM leader Prakash Karat and sought his party’s vote against the deal in Parliament.
Left not interested Nation page: UPA, Left hunt for middle ground Sonia to spell out stand today

Rain fury: 19 more killed in HP
Shimla, August 13
The over century-old railway station at Koti on the Shimla-Kalka track was washed away in a cloud burst and 19 persons were killed at various places over the past 24 hours as rain havoc continued in the state for the second day today. With this, the death toll due to rain-related incidents over the past two days has risen to 30.

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A bridge in the Industrial Area, Parwanoo, in Himachal Pradesh collapses following a cloudburst on Monday. — Tribune photo by Karam Singh

Depot Fire
25 still missing
Awantipora (Anantnag), August 13
Describing the Khundroo ammunition depot situation as "still sensitive", GOC-in-C Northern Command, Lt-Gen H. S. Panag said here today that the focus now was on clearing the area of any explosives to enable the evacuated civilian population to return.

Shot in the arm for Goa CM
Cong rebel quits BJP alliance
Mumbai, August 13
Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat of the Congress has received a big boost after allies and small parties that switched sides to join hands with the BJP have started showing signs of return.

SC hearing on Aug 17

Goa Speaker defies SC notice on MLAs petitions

Taliban free two Korean hostages
Ghazni (Afghanistan), August 13
Two women among the 23 South Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban in mid-July were freed today on a rural Afghan roadside and then driven to a US base, the first significant breakthrough in a hostage drama now more than three weeks old.

Wonderkid alleges torture, assault
Budhia’s coach sent to jail
Bhubaneswar, August 13
The Sub Divisional judicial magistrate today sent “marathon kid” Budhia Singh's coach cum mentor Biranchi Das to jail custody for allegedly torturing and assaulting the child. In Video (56k)

22 mentally retarded among 134 freed Wagah, August 13 About 22 mentally retarded Indian prisoners were among the 134 prisoners handed over by the Pakistani Rangers to the BSF at the Wagah joint checkpost here today. Most of the prisoners among the 34 civilians released were Punjabis. The condition of some of them was pathetic. A released prisoner, Chandra Devi, at the Wagah border in Amritsar. — AFP photo