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Krishna pitches for access to Headley
‘India’s neighbourhood epicentre of transnational terrorism’
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Thursday made a strong pitch for access for Indian investigators to David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American who has admitted to helping Lashkar-e-Toiba plan the 2008 attacks in Mumbai.

Editorial: Strategic ties with US

Foreign Minister SM Krishna and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a press conference after the US-India Strategic Dialogue at the State Department in Washington, DC, on Thursday. — AFP

Will put in place nuke pact with US: India
External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Wednesday assured members of the US business community that India is committed to implementing a 2008 civilian nuclear deal with Washington. The slow progress on the nuke deal front has resulted in growing frustration among the Indian and US firms.

RS Poll
Cong renominates Ramesh, 3 others
New Delhi, June 3
The Congress today renominated four sitting Rajya Sabha members, including Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, for the upcoming biennial elections to the Upper House from Andhra Pradesh.

Home remedy for H1N1
Low cost, desi vaccine guarantees one-year immunity
New Delhi, June 3
Sick…suspecting H1N1? Fear not, for a single shot of country’s first indigenously manufactured H1N1 vaccine guarantees the recipient yearlong immunity to Influenza A.

Dilnaz out of borewell, but dead
Dhira (Gurdaspur), June 3
The Army, in cooperation with the local police, today failed to pull out Dilnaz Kaur alive after she got trapped 30 feet deep in a borewell yesterday.

Grieving mother of Dilnaz (inset), who died after falling into a borewell, in Dheera village of Gurdaspur on Thursday. — PTI

Suitable law to strengthen DGCA: Patel
New Delhi, June 3
In the aftermath of the terrible Mangalore air accident, India is now contemplating introducing a “suitable legislation” in Parliament to strengthen Directorate General of Civil Aviation. (Details on Nation page)

A TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION WHY SUKHNA IS DYING-II The fatal delay in desilting Chandigarh, June 3 These days the placid environs of Sukhna lake have been disturbed by the constant sound of an army of earth movers, trucks and tractors plying busily in and out of the dried up bed of the lake. The Regulator End, as it is called, of the lake has been cordoned off for walkers, as tonnes of silt is scooped out from the bed of the lake and then transported out. An earth mover dumps silt into a truck during the ongoing desilting drive at Sukhna Lake on Thursday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari