Day after, PC woos Naxals for dialogue
Says govt doesn’t believe in fighting own people 
Mumbai, October 7
A day after a Jharkhand police officer was done to death in cold blood by Naxals, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today said security forces would engage the Maoists till they abjure violence and the Air Force would take steps to protect itself from any guerrilla attacks.
Home Minister P Chidambaram interacts with media in Mumbai on Wednesday. — PTI

Editorial: Punish the Maoists

Indian American shares Nobel  for chemistry
London, October 7
Indian American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan today won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with two others for their path-breaking work on ribosomes which may help in the development of new antibiotics.

Haryana, Punjab poor in secondary schooling
New Delhi, October 7
Northern and eastern states continue to post low gross enrolment rates (GERs) at the secondary school level as compared to their southern and western counterparts, a recent World Bank study showed.

Prices will come down soon, assures PM
Ambala, October 7
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today assured the country that the prices of essential commodities would come down soon as “the most difficult time is about to end.”

HC quashes allotment of power projects to Brakel
Shimla, October 7
In a major setback to the state government, the Himachal Pradesh High Court today quashed the decision of the state Cabinet to allot the twin Jangi Thopan and Thopan Powari hydroelectric projects to Netherlands-based Brakel Corporation on the grounds that the company played a fraud upon the government by producing the erased documents.

Qureshi allays concerns over US aid bill
Dismisses suggestions that conditions written in the bill trample Pakistan's sovereignty
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday defended U.S. legislation that will triple aid to his country and dismissed suggestions that conditions written in the bill trample on Pakistan's sovereignty.

Pak army concerned about riders