Friday, October 26, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

SC: Register all marriages
Sets 3-month deadline
New Delhi, October 25
The Supreme Court today gave three months’ final deadline to the states and Union Territories to frame laws to make the registration of marriages compulsory, as a majority of them have failed to comply with its earlier order of February 2006 in this regard.

Nation page: Muslim leaders welcome SC order

Gujarat genocide was planned: Tehelka
New Delhi, October 25
In what could become a major embarrassment for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the eve of assembly elections in the state, Tehelka, on the basis of a series of sting operations, today claimed that Gujarat 2002 was “not a spontaneous swell of anger but a planned genocide”.
                                 — Tarun Tejpal, Tehelka editor-in-chief

Time for give and take, says China
Harbin (China), October 25
China today for the first time publicly said that “mutual concessions and adjustments” were a must to reach an early deal on the vexed boundary issue with India for which the two governments have set up a working group to prepare a framework agreement.

Man held for Ajmer blast
Godda (Jharkhand), October 25 
The Rajasthan police has taken into custody a man from Chanda village here for interrogation in connection with the October 11 bomb blast at the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer.

A larger and brighter moon
Chennai, October 25
In a rare astronomical event, Moon, the natural satellite of Earth, today appeared about 12 per cent larger than the normal size and much more brighter all over the world as it came closer to earth. Birla Planetarium executive director Dr Iyyamperumal told UNI that normally when the moon comes closer to earth at a particular time, it is crescent-shaped.

59 years later He is still here Jagan Nath was shifted from Lahore’s mental hospital to Amritsar in 1948 Amritsar, October 25 Frail and dressed in blue, Jagan Nath (87), who was shifted from Lahore’s mental hospital to Amritsar in 1948 - a year after the Partition, gives an impression of a character of Urdu writer Sadat Hassan’s famous story - “Tobha Tek Singh”. Editorial: Deranged system Jagan Nath (right) with another inmate of Dr Vidya Sagar Mental Hospital in Amritsar. — Tribune photo by Rajeev Sharma