Mumbai Heat
Pak to take on Lashkar
Action in 48 hours: Post
Washington, December 6
Pakistan has agreed to a 48-hour timetable set by India and the United States to formulate a plan to take action against Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and to arrest at least three Pakistanis who, Indian authorities say, are linked to the multiple attacks in Mumbai, a top US daily reported citing a top Pakistani official.

2 arrested for buying SIM card used by terrorists
Kolkata, December 6
In the first arrests in the probe into the Mumbai attacks, two persons, one from Srinagar and another from Kolkata, have been arrested for allegedly obtaining on fake IDs 22 SIM mobile cards, one of which was used during the November 26 terror strikes. Mukhtar Ahmed Sheikh (35), originally a resident of Rehanbari in Srinagar, who ran a shawl business in Kolkata for some time.

Al-Qaida may target Goa installations

Hoax call by Pranab to Zardari ‘absurd’
New Delhi, December 6
India has dismissed as “absurd” news reports from Islamabad that a hoax call made to President Asif Ali Zardari during the Mumbai terror attacks, purportedly by someone posing as external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, had sent the Pakistani security establishment into a tizzy.

RBI spreads more liquidity
Mumbai, December 6 Aiming to kick-start the economy which is reeling under a global recession, the Reserve Bank of India today slashed key rates by 1 per cent and unveiled other measures that would allow easier funds for industry.	Repo rate cut and reverse repo rate cut by 1 pc CRR, SLR kept unchanged at 5.5 pc and 24 pc, respectively Housing loans up to Rs 20 lakh under priority sector lending
Business page: Too little, too late

Indo-China Joint Military Exercise
‘Hand-in-Hand’ annoys Tibetans
Bangalore, December 6
The Indo-China joint military exercise, currently underway in the forests of Belgaum in Karnataka, has raised the hackles of Tibetan refugees living in Karnataka. “I am hurt,” said Thondup Tsering, principal of Tibetan Children Village in Bylakuppe in Mysore in Karnataka.

Senior colonel of PLA China Qin Xiang You (3rd from left), Brig S.K. Patiyal (4th from R) and others officials during the inauguration of the Sino-Indian Joint Training Exercise, at Maratha Light Infantry Regimental Centre in Belgaum on Saturday. — PTI

Cong suspends Narayan Rane
New Delhi, December 6
The Congress on Saturday suspended Maharashtra revenue minister Narayan Rane, stating “gross indiscipline” as the reason. The action follows Rane’s public outburst against the party high command after he was ignored for the post of the state Chief Minister.

Rane threatens to split Cong

Judges’ Appointment
It’s for govt to take a decision: CJI
New Delhi, December 6
Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan today sought to stay away from the controversy over the appointment procedure for high court and the Supreme Court judges, stating that it was for the government to take a decision on the Law Commission recommendation for a review of the collegium system.

Some things just don’t stop in Punjab Trainee pilot lands on car-lit strip Chandigarh, December 6 In less than three months of the tragic crash of Kingair executive aircraft at Sahnewal, extra-adventurous Punjab Civil Aviation Department had yet another escapade that would have led to yet another tragedy. A trainee pilot, along with chief flying instructor G.S. Mangat, engineer Mandeep Singh and Mahant Atma Ram of Jalla village onboard, undertook his cross-country flight from Jaipur.