Tuesday, August 21, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

PM pitches for N-energy, Left narrows govt options
REDS say no to IAEA talks ALSO
New Delhi, August 20
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pitched for nuclear energy for the economic growth of the country, Left parties today narrowed the options before the government on the nuke deal by categorically stating that the UPA should not go ahead with the talks with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) or they withdraw support.

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Editorial: Save the deal

Pak vows nuclear tit for tat
Islamabad, August 20
Pakistan today hinted that it would review its unilateral moratorium on exploding atomic bombs, if India resumed nuclear tests, last carried out by the two countries nine years back.Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said India’s sovereign right to conduct nuclear tests being preserved in the Indo-US nuclear deal should be a “source of concern” not just for Pakistan but to the international community as well.

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Produce Argentinian court order on Q, SC tells CBI
New Delhi, August 20
The CBI was today directed by the Supreme Court to place before it the order of an Argentina court rejecting extradition of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in the Bofors gun deal case. Since this order was subject matter of the CBI appeal before the Argentina Supreme Court, from where it was withdrawn dramatically last week by a lawyer hired by the CBI there as a special prosecutor, a Bench, headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan sought to put it on record within four weeks.

Interim bail for Sanjay
New Delhi, August 20
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, serving six-year imprisonment in Yerwada Jail in an Arms Act case related to 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, today got a temporary relief from the Supreme Court as it ordered his release on interim bail till the copy of the judgement is delivered by designated TADA judge P. D. Kode.

Kauser Bi Case
No ‘info’ on killing
New Delhi, August 20
The Gujarat government today submitted before the Supreme Court that it had “no information about the time and manner” in which Kauser Bi, wife of alleged extortionist Sohrabuddin Sheik, was killed by the Gujarat police.

Nafed hikes onion MEP to curb speculation
New Delhi, August 20
To check speculative export of onions and control its spiralling domestic price, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed) today increased the minimum export price (MEP) of onion by $100, from $345 to $445 per tonnes. Effective from today, the decision is expected to control the price of onion within the next four to five days by putting a check on speculative export.

Indians attacked in Germany Muegeln, August 20 A mob attacked a group of Indian fairgoers in a village in the eastern German state of Saxony, German police said. Eight Indians and four Germans were reported injured. The incident occurred at a village festival overnight on Sunday night in Muegeln. After a scuffle broke out shortly after midnight in a festival tent, a group of about 50 mostly young Germans apparently pursued a group of Indian visitors, who fled into a pizzeria. The doors of the restaurant were kicked in by the pursuing mob.