GLOBAL CRISIS
Capital dose for 7 PSU banks: FM
New Delhi, October 22
With elections around the corner, Parliament today formally approved an unprecedented financial assistance from the Consolidated Fund of India to meet the requirements of edible oil and fertiliser subsidy, to refund banks for the loan waivers announced for farmers and to pay enhanced salaries to employees, among other items.

Business page:
Govt may miss fiscal, revenue deficit targets
Sensex tanks 513 points
Global growth to slow down to 3.7%
Breather for airlines

Up and away
Chandrayaan-I thunders into the cloudy sky in a bright orange plume dot at 6.22am.

Prez, PM congratulate
World salutes ISRO
Editorial: Date with the moon

News Analysis
Moon – the new frontier
Since time immemorial poets, writers and astrologers have looked at the moon for writing romantic poetry, prose or predicting future events.

India, Japan ink security pact
But Tokyo silent on initiating nuclear commerce
Tokyo, October 22
India and Japan today inked a landmark security pact and pledged to bolster economic cooperation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wooing Japanese investors saying “sky is the limit”.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at the latter's official residence in Tokyo on Wednesday. — Reuters

In Ludhiana, they’re equal partners in real estate
Ludhiana, October 22
In a major development that can pave way for a farmer-government partnership in developing newly planned mega urban estates all over the state, the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority has decided to give 50 per cent partnership share in the developed area for new urban estates to those giving land for the project.

Punjab bonus for farmers
Chandigarh, October 22
Punjab will introduce crop insurance for all marginal farmers from the next rabi season.

Violence in more Bihar areas
Irate students torch train
Patna, October 22
The spontaneous agitation yesterday by railway recruitment test examinees on their return to Bihar from Mumbai became more violent and spread to different parts of the state today with students belonging to different colleges and even schoolchildren joining it.

Nation page:
26 trains for Bihar cancelled
Interim bail for Raj

Haryana Pulse Too costly to be an indoor patient Chandigarh, October 22 Shocking but true: an indoor patient admitted in a government hospital in Haryana spends a whopping Rs 11,665 out of his own pocket.