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20th nuclear powerplant gets going
India now sixth country to have 20 or more nuke plants
Bangalore, November 27
Unit 4 of Kaiga Generating Station (KGS), the 20th nuclear power reactor of the country, achieved its first criticality today at 8.07 am.

Atomic Energy Commission chairman Srikumar Banerjee announces the feat at Kaiga on Saturday. — PTI

Key pages go missing from Adarsh files
Mumbai/New Delhi, November 27
Four crucial pages from the files pertaining to the controversial Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society have gone missing from the Urban Development Department here, according to a police complaint. Sources said the missing pages had notings made by former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and other senior bureaucrats.

North Korea warns against naval drills
Seoul, November 27
Hours before joint naval exercises by the US and the South Korean navy on the Yellow Sea were scheduled to begin on Sunday, tension mounted in the Korean peninsula with North Korea warning that if the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, George Washington, does go ahead with the drill, “no one can predict the ensuing consequences”.

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Dancers perform at the closing ceremony of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Saturday. — PTI (Details on Sports page)

Anti-India Statements
File case against Roy, Geelani: Court
New Delhi, November 27
A Delhi court today directed the Delhi Police to register a case against noted author and activist Arundhati Roy, Kashmiri separatist hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani and five others for making alleged anti-India statements at a seminar held here on October 21.

Lavasa links may put Sharad Pawar in dock
Mumbai, November 27
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is expected to face some heat in the coming days over his links with the controversial Lavasa hill station project after the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) said the Maharashtra government gave clearances to the project when it was not in a position to do so.

CAG hauls up Green Ministry
New Delhi, November 27
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has slammed the Environment Ministry for failing to implement its ambitious green projects and blamed it on loopholes in money allotment and poor implementation.

Obama elbowed at basketball game, gets 12 stitches on lip
Washington, November 27
US President Barack Obama received 12 stitches on his upper lip after he was accidentally elbowed in the face by one of his fellow players during a basketball match with friends and family.

OUCH! THAT HURTS: US President Barack Obama holds a piece of gauze to his lip after he was injured during a game of basketball with friends at Fort McNair in Washington DC on Friday. — AFP