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Saturday, October 23, 2010, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Chidambaram eases curbs on farmers
Expects Hussainiwala border to open soon
Hussainiwala (Ferozepur), October 22
The Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, who today found himself at the receiving end of demands and petitions for improving the lot of people living in border areas, agreed to extend the time for farmers to work in their fields beyond the border fencing.

Centre withdraws CM, Deputy CM’s security
Chandigarh, October 22
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son-cum-Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, both under Z-plus security, are at present in the same boat as Beas legislator Manjinder Singh Kang with regard to their security covers. The Centre in a recent review has withdrawn the security cover of both Badals.

Mid-day darkness in Chandigarh, snowfall 
in hills
n Snowfall in higher reaches of HP and J&K, untimely heavy rains in region
n High-velocity winds and hail storms announce 
early winter
Chandigarh, October 22
It was darkness in the late afternoon as duststorms and chilly winds lashed Chandigarh and New Delhi, heralding the arrival of an early winter. As the higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir experienced the season’s first snowfall, the ripple-down effect was untimely heavy rains and hailstorm, with the temperature plummeting and people scampering for woollens in the hill states.

Special to The Tribune
‘Churchill had apologised for my father’s treatment in jail’
Winston Churchill’s belated admission that Ranjit Pandit, Nayantara Sahgal’s father, died because of poor conditions and the treatment he received in jail was revealed for the first time at a London literary festival highlighting South Asian writers.


Nayantara: Steals the show at UK literary fest