Monday,
May 5,
2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Tibet talks end abruptly
Beijing talks tough; seeks end to violence
Beijing, May 4
The much-awaited talks between the Dalai Lama’s envoys and China ended abruptly today hours after the two sides met for the first time since the unrest erupted in Tibet in March, with Beijing demanding “credible moves” from the the Tibetan leader to stop violence as a precondition for the next round of parleys.
Agenda: More
buses, CBMs Indo-Pak
talks on May 21 New
Delhi, May 4
Keen to take the peace
process with Pakistan forward, India is expected to press for
launch of more cross-LoC bus services and propose some other
confidence building measures during the upcoming visit of
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Islamabad.
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Karachi, May 4
Beleaguered speedster Shoaib Akhtar heaved a huge sigh of relief as the appellate tribunal of the Pakistan Cricket Board today decided to suspend the five-year ban on him for a month, paving the way for his participation in the Indian Premier League
(IPL).
Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar leaves after facing the tribunal at the Cricket Academy in Lahore on Sunday. — AFP
photo
Exclusion
of Creamy Layer LS
to discuss issue today New Delhi, May
4
With the exclusion of
the creamy layer in reservation for OBCs in higher
institutes of learning turning into a controversy, the issue
will come up for close scrutiny in the Lok Sabha tomorrow.
A view of the human skulls found near the historic 383-year-old Kamlah Fort in Dharampur block of
Mandi district on Sunday.
— Photo by Hemkant Katyayan
Brands Hatch (UK), May
4
Narain Karthikeyan scorched the Brands Hatch circuit to win the Feature
race and close the A1GP season on a high note as Team India secured its
first ever top-10 finish here today. It was Karthikeyan versus Robbie
Kerr throughout and the Indian won the battle through a brilliant second
pit stop.
Narain Karthikeyan celebrates after winning the A1 Grand Prix Feature Race at Brands Hatch on Sunday.
— AFP
photo
Sikh
father-son duo makes it to Malaysian House Chandigarh, May 4
Malaysian ethnic Punjabi Karpal
Singh and son Gobind Singh Deo have created history by becoming the
first-ever father-son duo to be elected members of a Parliament in the
world. Though members of the Indian diaspora in general and Punjabis in
particular have made commendable achievements in political arenas of
their new abodes (countries), never before have an ethnic Punjabi
father-son duo got elected to an Assembly or Parliament anywhere in the
world.
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