Vienna Tidings
So far so good
4 holdouts left after Norway and Netherlands agree to less precise language 
Sticklers: Austria, Ireland, New Zealand 
Waiverer: Switzerland
Vienna, September 5
Suspense mounted tonight on India getting NSG waiver with hectic negotiations going down to the wire with last-minute changes being pushed by sceptic countries to incorporate their concerns in the draft to hammer out a consensus.

Pranab swears by NPT goals
New Delhi, September 5
External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee today reaffirmed New Delhi’s commitment to a voluntary unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing, assuring the international community that India would not be the source of proliferation of sensitive technologies, including enrichment and reprocessing transfers.

Pak preparing for war on India: Obama
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama says Pakistan is diverting US aid to prepare for a war against India. The claim, which did not surprise many in Washington, was made in an interview to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly this week. “We are providing them military aid without having enough strings attached... So they're using the aid for preparing for a war against India,” Obama said.

Amritsar Improvement Trust Case
Capt, 3 others indicted
Chandigarh, September 5
Agitated over the indictment of former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his two ministerial colleagues, Chaudhary Jagjit Singh and late Raghunath Sahai Puri, besides then chairman of the Amritsar Improvement Trust and MLA Jugal Kishore Sharma by a committee of the Vidhan Sabha, Congress legislators today disrupted proceedings twice, forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House till September 10.

Nanda gets 5-yr RI
New Delhi, September 5
Sanjeev Nanda (34), grandson of former naval chief Admiral S.M. Nanda and son of arms dealer Suresh Nanda, was today sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment (RI) by the Patiala House Court for mowing down six persons, including three policemen, with his BMW car during the wee hours of January 10, 1999, while he was returning from a party in Gurgaon.

‘Sentence too harsh’
Editorial: Unwarranted leniency

There has been more blood than world knows
Officially speaking, the anti-Christian violence in Orissa has claimed 14 lives. But anyone who has travelled the tribal heartland of Kandhamal post-August 23 can tell that this place has seen more blood than the world will ever know. It takes only one visit to relief camps in the area to expose the government’s underreporting of Kandhamal’s dead.

Dance of death

Relief Tamasha Minister cuts ribbon as hungry wait Saharsa (Bihar), September 5 With hordes of TV channels making a beeline to flood-hit areas of Bihar, a senior minister has got himself busy in cutting ribbons to open relief shelters. Umesh Chandra Yadav, industry minister and minister in-charge of relief operations in Saharsa district, cut the ribbon to open a large tented relief camp at the sprawling Patel Maidan here flanked by senior officials of the local administration. Flood victims await relief in Bihar’s Farbisganj on Friday. — Reuters