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Thursday, April 14, 2011, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 2:30 am (IST)

New Delhi, Beijing to cement strategic ties
PM meets Prez Jintao, discusses border issue, trade
China refrained from publicly announcing any change in its policy of issuing stapled visas to Indian nationals from Jammu and Kashmir even as the two countries today decided to establish a working mechanism at the official level for consultation and coordination on border issues.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shakes hands with China's President Hu Jintao during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of BRICS summit at Sanya, China, on Wednesday. — Reuters

At G-20 meet, BRICS to put up a united face
Presenting a picture of unity, BRICS nations today rejected the growing demand of the developed nations to provide them easy access to their markets and resolved to work out common positions on key economic issues ahead of the G-20 summit in France later this year. Trade ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, after their meeting here, warned that global trade talks were at the risk of collapsing but said they were willing to resume negotiations based on 2008 agreements. 

PM, Medvedev bat for nuke safety reviews
Sanya, April 13
While pledging to continue their cooperation in the civil nuclear energy field, India and Russia today stressed the need for international efforts to re-examine nuclear safety and standards in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.


Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets PM Manmohan Singh at Sanya on Wednesday. — AFP

78% turnout in TN, Kerala, Puducherry
Thiruvananthapuram/Chennai, April 13
An average of nearly 78 per cent voters exercised their franchise to elect new assemblies in the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the Union territory of Puducherry today. While Tamil Nadu and Kerala registered a turnout of 75.21 per cent and 74.4 per cent, respectively, in Puducherry, it was the highest at 85.21 per cent, Deputy Election Commissioner JP Prakash told reporters in Delhi.

Thrown out of train, sportswoman wakes up to find her leg amputated
Lucknow, April 13
A brilliant sports career of national level female athlete has been cut short with the amputation of a leg after being thrown off a moving train near Bareilly early yesterday. The police, however, is trying to make light of the traumatic incident.

India, Pak to resume cricket series
New Delhi, April 13
Even as November 2008 Mumbai attack suspects Tahhawur Rana and David Coleman Headley have named Pakistan’s ISI for having plotted the attack, India has decided to take forward Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s “cricket diplomacy” initiative.

A file photo of Shahid Afridi with MS Dhoni after the Mohali World Cup semifinal

A cool April after 28 years
New Delhi, April 13
Call it sheer coincidence if not providence, but the April of 1983 - the year India lifted the Cricket World Cup for the first time - was weather-wise as comfortable as 2011, which is witnessing what is being termed a season of delayed summer. Maximum temperature is hovering way below the average of 36.4°C, very comfortable for people and also the rabi crops till now.