Arunachal boundary illegal, fumes China
Beijing, November 11
China on Tuesday angrily rejected India's assertion that Arunachal Pradesh is its integral part, insisting that Beijing never recognised the "illegal" McMahon Line and that the status of the border state was "never officially demarcated".

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Malegaon: BJP MP Adityanath may be questioned
New Delhi/Lucknow, November 11
Amid speculation that he would be questioned in connection with the Malegaon bombings, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday refused to assist in the investigations and dared Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to arrest him.

Minister arrested in MP
Army ban on Purohit

Navy foils pirate attack
Cargo vessel belonged to Mumbai-based GE Shipping
New Delhi, November 11
Within weeks of the Indian government sending out its naval warship to patrol the Gulf of Aden, that leads to the busy Suez Canal sea-trading route, the Indian Navy’s marine commandos today thwarted an attempt by pirates to take over an Indian merchant vessel.

Jalappa endorses Alva allegations
New Delhi/Bangalore, November 11
Under attack from partymen for her outbursts on distribution of tickets in the last assembly polls in Karnataka, beleaguered Congress leader Margaret Alva found support from senior Congress leader R.L. Jalappa.

Deshmukh camp upbeat about Alva’s back to the wall
Mumbai, November 11
The discomfiture of Margaret Alva, All India Congress Committee general secretary in charge of Maharashtra, has come as a shot in the arm for Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. The Chief Minister, who just completed four years in office, has been hamstrung by Alva, who openly opposed the state government's functioning on several occasions.

PM dismisses reports of Obama snub
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has dismissed reports of US President-elect Barack Obama ignoring India while making telephone calls to leaders of various countries following his election to America’s top office. Asked specifically whether it was true that Obama had ignored India by not calling him, the Prime Minister said, “No, this is not true... President Obama wanted to talk to me day before yesterday (November 8).

Maldives swears in Nasheed as Prez
Male, November 11
A former political prisoner and democracy crusader who defeated Asia’s longest-serving ruler in the first multiparty election in the Maldives was sworn in as the President of the Indian Ocean archipelago on Tuesday.

Polls 2008
Jammu & Kashmir
Dipping into faith
Kalakote (Rajouri), November 11
Mehbooba Mufti knows faith fires people. Especially the innocent and the ill-informed. That’s why she has reached out to “pirs and fakirs” to secure a pledge of support for the People's Democratic Party in the backward areas of Rajouri. Thousands of followers of Sufi saint Syeed Mussafar Hussain Shah have vowed “not to let her down” in the elections.

In Punjab, ministers ignore Badal’s roll-call
Chandigarh, November 11
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s move to make his council of ministers attend their offices on at least three days a week here seems to have failed on the first day of its implementation with only a few SAD ministers and no BJP minister attending offices at the Secretariat here today.

Polls 2008 Chhattisgarh In Naxal heartland, a call for boycott In the tribal heartland of Bastar, Naxalites have issued a call to boycott the assembly elections. To ensure that minimal or absolutely no polling takes place on November 14, when Phase I of Chhattisgarh poll takes place, they have also issued directions to traders to ensure that they do set shops in "Haat Bazaars", a place where tribals buy household essentials for the week.