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ULFA finally agrees to unconditional talks
Dialogue with Centre to begin in Delhi on Feb 10
Guwahati, February 5
After three decades of armed conflict that cost thousands of lives in Assam, the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam( ULFA) has finally decided to sit for “unconditional” talks with the Government of India.

ULFA leaders Mithinga Daimary (C), Sasa Choudhury (L) and Pradeep Gogoi in Guwahati on Saturday. UB photos

Samjhauta bombing case
Pakistan provokes India before talks
Islamabad, February 5
On the eve of Foreign Secretary-level talks in Thimphu, Pakistan today came out with a provocative statement saying that India's handling of the Samjhauta Express bombing case showed that it lacked "courage to unearth culpability of Hindu extremists".
Nation Page: India rejects Pak bid to link 26/11

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Mubarak, son Gamal quit leadership of ruling party
Cairo, February 5
Embattled President Hosni Mubarak and his son Gamal today quit the leadership of Egypt’s ruling party in a new gesture to convince anti-government protesters that the regime is serious about political reform. State TV said the top leadership body of Egypt’s ruling party, including party secretary-general Safwat el-Sharif, resigned.

EC needs more teeth, says Quraishi
Chandigarh, February 5
The Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi made an impassioned plea today for more powers to the Election Commission and more radical electoral reforms to ensure free and fair elections. Addressing a regional consultation on electoral reforms here on Saturday, sponsored jointly by the Union Law Ministry and the EC, he said that it was time to ban all criminals, even those who are out on bail, from contesting elections.

Looking for youth icons to boost turnout

Kupwara youth dies in Army operation
Villagers protest; case slapped on troops
Srinagar, February 5
A student was killed allegedly during an ambush by the Army in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, following which a murder case was registered today against the unit which carried out the operation. The incident, which comes four days after the mysterious killing of two sisters in Sopore, triggered a massive protest.

Charges of sexual misconduct
Naval officer to be sacked 
New Delhi, February 5
After facing a 10-month-long probe, senior Naval officer Commodore Sukhjinder Singh will be sacked from service for his "illicit" relations with a woman while he was posted in Russia to supervise the refit of the sea-borne aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.

Sukhjinder Singh with the Russian woman