Indian superbug threatens world 
London, August 11
British scientists have found a superbug that is resistant to most antibiotics and are warning that it is widespread in India and could soon appear worldwide. The superbug has so far been identified in 37 people who returned to the UK after undergoing surgery in India or Pakistan.

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Ladakh Relief work in disarray
August 11
Frantic messages continued to pour in from tourists and locals stranded in remote areas across Ladakh for the sixth straight day today. While 120-odd persons, including foreign nationals, are still reported stranded, hundreds of foreigners and locals are walking across the valleys, risking their lives to reach their homes and destinations.

One of the foreign tourists rescued by the Army from a village in the interiors of Ladakh. Tribune photo: Anand Sharma n 60-km walk to shelter

GoM nod for inclusion of caste in census
New Delhi, August 11
GoM headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, today endorsed the demand for inclusion of caste in the ongoing census operations. The ministerial panel will recommend to the Union Cabinet that caste head count could be undertaken during the biometric phase of enumeration, which is expected to be undertaken by this year-end or early next year. The biometric phase covers photographing, fingerprinting and iris mapping of citizens for the National Population Register (NPR).

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Party to decide whether Sukhbir will be CM: Badal
Chandigarh, August 11
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal wants vendetta politics to end not only in Punjab but also in the whole of the country. “I do not believe in vendetta politics. It is not good,” he said in an interview with Raj Chengappa, Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune. Badal maintains that the case against his immediate predecessor, Capt Amarinder Singh, was not registered by the present regime but was initiated during the previous Congress rule in the state.

Government admits Bhopal guilt
New Delhi, August 11
The Government, for the first time, has accepted the guilt of Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Replying to a day-long debate on the subject, Home Minister P Chidambaram told Parliament today: “I hope that 25 years later we can all look back with a deep sense of regret and guilt that we did not address the issue as we should have.”

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Destruction after the deluge
Crops in 2.68 lakh hectares affected n 58 lives lost in 
Chandigarh, August 11
In the flash floods that followed the onset of southwest monsoon last month, both Punjab and Haryana suffered heavy losses. Fiftyeight persons died, 134 head of cattle perished, 6546 houses were damaged and crops spread over 2.87 lakh hectares were affected.