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Major rift emerges over communal violence Bill
* It’s dangerous & against majority, says BJP; Trinamool agrees
* Mamata, Modi, Nitish, Maya, Jaya, Chandy skip NIC meet
New Delhi, September 10
The National Integration Council (NIC) summoned specially today to deliberate the proposed Communal Violence Bill stood sharply divided, with the BJP leading the Opposition to oppose the Bill with some UPA partners like Trinamool Congress following suit. Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj who along with her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley attended the council meeting, said later, “This is a dangerous Bill.

Nation page: Naxalism, terrorism major challenges: PM

Khanduri back as Uttarakhand CM
New Delhi, September 10
Seeking to salvage its sagging image in poll-bound Uttarakhand, the BJP today announced that Bhuvan Chand Khanduri would replace Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank as the Chief Minister of the state. After day-long suspense and considerable effort, the BJP top brass finally succeeded in pressurising Nishank to quit immediately and pave way for former CM Khanduri.

A Horror TOO Real for CINEMA
A decade is a short period to look at an event of the magnitude and complexity of 9/11 with objectivity and Hollywood is still struggling with films on the World Trade Centre attacks; the box office remains lukewarm
Chandigarh, September 10
What seemed like an apocalyptic day, failed to ignite much creative energy in Hollywood. The industry that has been churning out outstanding documentation of human tragedy of the Holocaust, the World War II and the Vietnam War, year after year (The Schindler’s List 1993), The Pianist (2002), Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, etc), failed  to re-create the horror of 9/11— the most dramatic event in recent human memory — on celluloid.

Non-fiction scores over fictional accounts Norman Mailer once advised another author to wait 10 years before writing about the attacks of September 11 because "it will take that long for you to make sense of it." The estimate by the prominent New York novelist and journalist, who died in 2007, may have been premature. As the world marks a decade since the attacks, literary circles are still waiting for a definitive work on the topic.