Thursday, August 16, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Big I-Day deal for farmers
New Delhi, August 15
In a move to usher in inclusive economic growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today announced that the government would increase farm spending by Rs 25,000 crore to enhance the livelihood of farmers and increase food production.

Nation page: Slew of sops for ‘aam aadmi’
Editorial: Freedom from poverty

Probe Ordered
UP police taped in fake encounter
Lucknow, August 15
Responding to a news channel’s telecast of live footage of a “fake encounter” in the posh Civil Lines area of Allahabad last year, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today ordered a CB-CID probe to bring the guilty policemen to book.

Identity of 28 missing established
Ghanvi: 5 bodies recovered
Ghanvi (Rampur), August 15
After toiling hard for all day today, rescue workers could extricate only five bodies from the mountain of debris brought down by the cloudburst which buried the sleepy village of Bhavi, near Ghanvi.

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Ammo fire: Relief drenched in apathy
Khundru (Anantnag), August 15
The floors in government’s relief tents in Shangus are without covers and the rain on Monday night drenched the blankets given to displaced villagers, leaving them to shiver away the night.

Gurgaon couple that wished death jailed
HUDA unmoved by pleas, couple determined to die
Chandigarh, August 15
For Rajvir and Sunita Yadav of Gurgaon, the diamond jubilee year of India’s Independence proved the biggest nightmare of life.

N-Deal
CPM politburo to meet today
Kolkata, August 15
The two-day CPM politburo, which will meet in New Delhi from tomorrow, is likely to take "a tough line" against the UPA government on the Indo-US nuclear deal in the wake of Manmohan Singh's "ultimatum" to the Left parties, stating that "if they want to withdraw support, so be it".

Picture getting clear: Japan

200 die in Iraq truck bomb blasts
Mosul (Iraq), August 15
More than 200 people were slaughtered when four suicide truck bombs targeted the ancient ‘Yazidi religious sect’ in northern Iraq amid growing fears that more dead were still trapped under the rubble.

Next goal — Chandigarh Chandigarh, August 15 Come September 11, the city will witness an absorbing feast of hockey featuring an encounter between teams of Shah Rukh Khan and Sunil Shetty. Shah Rukh’s team India will take on a team of Bollywood and TV stars in an exhibition game after Asian hockey giants India and Pakistan play a friendly game at the Sector 42 hockey stadium the same evening.