Stage set for Phase II J-K polls today
Omar Abdullah’s fate hangs in balance;
separatists call for ‘Ganderbal Chalo’ march
Srinagar, November 22
The stage is set for tomorrow’s polling in six constituencies in the second phase of elections in Jammu and Kashmir, which include the prestigious constituency of Ganderbal and Kangan in the newly created Ganderbal district near here.

2 killed in Baramulla
Srinagar, November 22
Public anger swept across the north Kashmir town of Baramulla as two persons, including a 15-year-old youth playing cricket who became a collateral casualty when PSOs of a candidate fired at a stone-throwing anti-election mob, were killed in firing from police and CRPF.

‘Pakistan won’t be the first to use nuclear weapon against India’
Zardari declares ‘hand-off’ Kashmir policy
New Delhi, November 22
Unveiling Pakistan’s nuclear doctrine under a democratic government, President Asif Ali Zardari today declared that Islamabad would pursue a policy of ‘no-first use’ of nuclear weapons and went a step further by proposing a south Asia non-nuclear treaty.

Avtar Singh SGPC chief for 4th time
Unpleasant scenes mar general house, Haryana members to boycott committee
Amritsar, November 22
Avtar Singh was re-elected SGPC chief for the fourth consecutive term with a voice vote at Teja Singh Samundari Hall here today. He has become the 40th president of the SGPC, also called mini-Parliament of the Sikhs.

SGPC member from Haryana Jagdish Singh Jhinda (right) argues with Avtar Singh over representation for Haryana in the SGPC executive committee in Amritsar on Saturday. Tribune photo: Vishal Kumar

Home minister rules out POTA-like law
New Delhi, November 22
While ruling out the possibility of introducing any tougher law like POTA to deal with terrorism, home minister Shivraj Patil today claimed there had been fewer terror attacks in the last four-and-a-half-years under the UPA government as compared to the period before and regretted that an impression was being created that the number of such incidents had increased.

Has she? Hasn’t she?
New York, November 22
The flip-flop over the future plans of Hillary Rodham Clinton continues. Though there are reports that discussions are “very much on track” for her to accept the post of secretary of state under the Obama administration, Clinton officials flatly denied that she had accepted the job offer.

Polls 2008: Rajasthan
Rebels major worry for BJP, Congress
Jaipur, November 22
Rebels of both Congress and BJP are all set to give the parties a run for their money in the state with 50 BJP leaders, including 10 MLAs, and 55 Congress leaders are either contesting elections on their own or openly campaigning against their original parties.

Caste factor plays major role here
In every poll, they say lakes will be saved...

Polls 2008: Madhya Pradesh BJP and Congress caught up in ad war It was not a printer's devil! Eyebrows were raised in this big commercial city and elsewhere in Madhya Pradesh when people recently saw senior Congress leader Margaret Alva's picture in a Bharatiya Janata Party's election campaign advertisement in newspapers. Scindia family on test BJP not fulfilling its poll promises in MP: Rahul Digvijay escapes in dais collapse BJP promises military training for school students