Winds of Change
No CBSE class X board exam from 2011
New Delhi, September 7
Class X students of CBSE schools will be the last batch to compulsorily take the board examination for entering class XI this year, with HRD ministry today formally announcing the end of class X boards in all CBSE senior secondary schools from the next, 2010-2011 academic session.

India intensifies patrolling along LAC
New Delhi, September 7
Even as External Affairs Minister S M Krishna sought to play down fresh reports of Chinese incursions, the armed forces have intensified patrolling along the line of actual control in Eastern Ladakh and the entire area is expected to be brought under radar surveillance.

Fuss over posters
Curfew extended in 2 Maharashtra towns
Mumbai, September 7
Curfew was extended in Sangli and Miraj towns of western Maharashtra on Monday and several senior leaders of the Shiv Sena and the BJP were taken into preventive custody following communal tension that erupted over a poster during Ganesh Utsav festivities last week.

27 killed in J&K bus accident
Assar (Ramban), September 7
At least 27 passengers were killed and 22 injured when the bus in which they were travelling skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge at Assar on the Batote-Kishtwar National Highway around 1.10 pm today.

J&K page: Guv, Omar express grief

BJP, allies boycott PAC meet
New Delhi, September 7
BJP's tussle with expelled leader Jaswant Singh cast a shadow on the first meeting of the Public Accounts Commitee of Parliament which saw a virtual boycott by the BJP and some of its allies like Shiv Sena.

They’ll come, says Jaswant

Centre cuts non-plan expenses by 10 pc
New Delhi, September 7
Faced with major drought and the resultant crisis in foodgrain production, the Union Government today “tightened its fists” and cut down on expenses of running the government.

Planeload of ammunition sets alarm bells ringing
New Delhi, September 7
A plane load of ammunition destined for China has set the Indian security establishment thinking on why the cache of arms and ammunition is being flown to its neighbouring country. Does this indicate something else that has larger game plan behind it?