State No. 29 – TELANGANA
Centre buckles l Resolution likely today l Rao ends fast 
New Delhi/Hyderabad, December 9
Succumbing to pressure, the Centre tonight conceded to the demand for a separate Telangana state for which the process will be initiated and an appropriate resolution moved in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
The Telangana region was rocked by violent protests for the past few days. — PTI

BJP: Liberhan report a tragedy of errors
New Delhi, December 9
A day after Home Minister P Chidambaram castigated the Sangh Parivar over demolition of Babri Masjid, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today dismissed Liberhan Commission’s findings as a “tragedy of errors”.

Nation page:Amar: Singling out Rao won’t work

India flexes Moscow muscle, snubs US N-suppliers
New Delhi, December 9
After inking a path-breaking civilian nuclear pact with Russia, New Delhi has shown the proverbial cold shoulder to a visiting US nuclear mission of 50 companies eager to do business in India.

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China makes economic inroads into Sri Lanka
New Delhi, December 9
It is clearly not a case of Chinese Whisper anymore. The Finance Ministry has raised a red flag over “overwhelming” economic control China now exercises over Sri Lanka.

CLIMATE CALL: Members of envi- ronmental activist group Act!onaid, dressed as‘climate debt agents’, hold up a banner out- side the congress centre at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday. — Reuters

PM regrets Beni’s remarks
New Delhi, December 9
A day after Congress MP Beni Prasad Verma raised a storm in the Lok Sabha by talking loose against top BJP leadership, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came to the House to apologise on his behalf. “I was not there in the House yesterday but I have learnt that something undesirable happened.