Fuel price cut likely by year-end
New Delhi, November 25
The government will cut petrol and diesel prices after
assembly elections are over on December 24, oil
minister Murli Deora said today. “The international prices
have fallen and there is an expectation that prices need
to be reduced. I am also of the opinion that they should
be reduced and that will happen after December 24,”
Deora said.

Montek sees growth at 7%

29-year-old man claims to be N.D. Tiwari’s son
AP Governor asked to appear
in Delhi HC
New Delhi, November 25
Andhra Pradesh Governor N.D. Tiwari, who is in the thick of a legal battle initiated by a 29-year-old man claiming to be his son, was today asked to appear before the Delhi High Court on December 16.

Hannah Foster Case
Maninder Kohli gets life term

London, November 25 Ending years of legal tussle and a prolonged manhunt across India, Maninderpal Singh Kohli was today sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here after convicting him of the rape-and-murder of 17-year-old British schoolgirl Hannah Foster in 2003.

File photos of Hannah Foster (left) and Maninderpal Singh Kohli

Rajasthan
Candidates bank on ‘impact features’
Unlike the last elections, there has been a marked difference in the campaigning style during the ensuing assembly elections in Ganganagar and Hanumangarh districts, one of the richest areas, in this desert state.

Barely nine days before the elections, the Congress today released its manifesto promising a “new Rajasthan” to the electorate, sops for employees, women, youngsters, better power generation, water conservation and a look into the various

Former state Congress president B.D. Kalla along with Pradesh Congress Committee chief C.P. Joshi and Mukul Wasnik (left) during the launch of the state election manifesto in Jaipur on Tuesday. — PTI photo

New Delhi
Hindutva, BJP’s poll plank
New Delhi, November 25
The BJP is resorting to Hindutva in a big way to reinforce its election campaign in the Delhi assembly elections in the final lap of the campaign beginning today.

Navy delegation in Russia
Moscow, November 25
A top-level Indian delegation led by Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff Vice Admiral P R Suthan is here to review ongoing naval projects, including trials and delivery of Nerpa nuclear attack submarine to be leased to India next year and the refit of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier.

Somali pirates hijack Yemeni cargo ship
Nairobi, November 25
Somali pirates have hijacked a Yemeni ship loaded with steel in the Gulf of Aden, officials said today, a day after local sources said the gang holding a Saudi supertanker were demanding a 15 million dollar ransom.

Sugarcane cultivation down 40 pc Poses threat to working of 15 mills in Haryana Chandigarh, November 25 The drastic reduction in area under sugarcane cultivation in Haryana this year poses a threat to the working of 15 sugar mills in the state. With the sugarcane cultivation down by almost 40 per cent this year, most of the sugar mills will now be operating for only 50 per cent of the crushing season.