Sunday, December 5, 2010, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 2:30 am (IST)

Sarkozy for India in UNSC
Bangalore/Mumbai, December 4
India’s bid for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council and its candidacy for the Nuclear Suppliers Group today got vocal support from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who described India as a “stabilising factor in Asia”.

They keep date with symbol of love The (Sar)Kozy Couple: Nicolas Sarkozy with wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy at the ISRO in Bangalore on Saturday. — Reuters

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Farooq unplugged
New Delhi, December 4
Perhaps Union Minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah is the only politician who can say ‘bold things’ publicly, make people smile and applaud, even if some utterances may shock them. Abdullah was in his full elements, speaking from his heart at a book release function here late Friday night.
Dr Farooq Abdullah with Author Zeenat Ali at the launch of her book in New Delhi on Friday. A Tribune photograph

DRDO readies hybrid armour for tanks
New Delhi, December 4
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a specialised ‘hybrid’ armour that will make tanks safer in battle and somewhat immune to anti-tank missiles. The DRDO’s Pune-based High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) has worked on the new armour.

CBI registers FIR after hackers deface its website
New Delhi, December 4
A day after its website was hacked by a group that identified itself as “Pakistani Cyber Army”, the CBI today registered a case under various sections of the Information technology Act against the unidentified accused even as its website remained inaccessible.

Centre to promote farming of oilseeds, pulses in region
Pawar says move will check water table depletion
Chandigarh, December 4
Concerned over the depleting groundwater table in Punjab and Haryana, the Centre is planning to increase the procurement of oilseeds and pulses, both less water consuming, from the two states. The aim is to make farmers prefer these crops over paddy, in what may be seen as a shift in the Union government’s food policy.

A farmer gives his produce to Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar at Agro Tech organised by the CII in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tiwari

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She was hacked for seeking divorce
The Kapurthala man convicted of orchestrating his wife’s murder in London has been revealed as an illegal immigrant, guilty of identity theft, who travelled to the UK on a false Indian passport in 1994. Kawaljit Singh Aulakh, who assumed the identity of his younger brother Harpreet, will have to serve a minimum of 28 years in jail for his role in ordering his accomplices to hack his wife Geeta to death because she had the temerity to ask him for a divorce.