India for global treaty on terror
Nirupama Rao in Kabul, to meet Afghan leaders
New Delhi, October 9
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao arrived in Kabul to assess the situation arising out of Thursday's suicide bomb attack outside the Indian embassy there. The blast had claimed 17 lives and injured over 60. Taking a serious view of the incident, India has called for an international terror treaty to tackle the growing menace.

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Afghan official sees ISI hand
New Delhi, October 9
Security at the Indian embassy in Kabul is likely to be further beefed up in the wake of yesterday’s suicide bomb attack outside the mission yesterday. There is also talk among official circles of moves to strengthen the security apparatus at Indian missions in other neighbouring countries, particularly Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.

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Obama is Nobel peacemaker
United States President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." White House press secretary Robert Gibbs woke Obama up with the news shortly before 6 am on Friday.

He shouldn’t have got it, says survey Manmohan congratulates Obama Mahatma never got it World page: Nobel an incentive for Obama: World leaders US President Barack Obama speaks, after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Friday. — AFP

Blast kills 49 in Peshawar
At least 49 persons were killed and over 100 injured in a massive car bomb blast in the busy Khyber Bazar in the northwestern city of Peshawar at noon today. The blast occurred about a kilometre from the provincial assembly building where the house was in session.

SYL canal a dead issue among Haryana voters
Chandigarh, October 9
Though all political parties have reiterated their commitment to speed up construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal, the issue no longer evokes any emotions among the state’s voters. Over the years it has become customary for the ruling party to make a mention of the canal in the governor’s address or in the annual budget.