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Another hike and support will be off, warns Trinamool
New Delhi/Kolkata, Nov 8
Trinamool Congress would pull out of the UPA if there is a hike in the prices of diesel, LPG or kerosene, asserted Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata today.
Trinamool Congress leaders talk to mediapersons after a meeting with the Prime Minister on petro price hike in New Delhi on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal

16 killed in Haridwar stampede
n Thousands had gathered for Shanti Kunj centenary celebrations
n Second incident in 19 months
n PM, state announce compensation
Haridwar, November 8
Sixteen persons —14 women and two men — were killed in a stampede today during a religious ceremony attended by tens of thousands of devotees near the famous Har-Ki-Pauri on the banks of the Ganga here.
Footwear left in a field after a stampede during Gayatri Mahakumbh, a religious ceremony, in Haridwar on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur

High-speed travel on NH-1 still a distant dream
Irregular supply of raw material, financial crunch, delayed clearances key hurdles
Chandigarh, November 8
When the proposal to six-lane the highly congested stretch of the National Highway No. 1 between Panipat and Jalandhar was cleared in May 2008, it raised hopes of high speed road travel between the country’s Capital and the vital cities in Haryana and Punjab. But more than three years down the line, the dream of a high speed highway seems nowhere close to reality, with work on the project moving at a snail’s pace.

Yeddyurappa walks free after getting bail
Bangalore, November 8
In a total disregard to LK Advani’s so called nationwide yatra against corruption, loyalists of BS Yeddyurappa gave a hero’s welcome to the former Karnataka Chief Minister on his release from the Central Jail here today following granting of bail to him by the High Court.

4 Hindu docs gunned down in Pak
Four Hindu doctors have been gunned down in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, sparking fears and panic among the minority community. The doctors were gunned down on Monday at their clinic in Chak town close to Shikarpur.

Agnivesh is new entrant to ‘Bigg Boss’ house
Team Anna smells a ‘rat’, suspects govt to be the ‘new director’ of the show
New Delhi, November 8
The latest entrant in the television reality show “Bigg Boss” — Swami Agnivesh — may claim to have an innocent agenda of social reforms like female foeticide and gender inequality lined up during his confinement in the action packed house, but his former friends-turned-adversaries in the Team Anna are quite intrigued with the saffron-clad social activist’s “startling” decision to land up in the controversial house.

A night spent in Gaddafi’s bedroom Obari, Libya, November 8 While I lay in silence, my eyes adjusted to the darkness and I could hear the fighters talking excitedly next door - I felt like a child who had been put to bed early. Libyan fighters speak to a member of the NTC in a room in Muammar Gaddafi's villa just outside Obari. Reuters correspondent Oliver Holmes was one of the first foreign journalists to visit the Sahara desert town of Obari in southern Libya since the fall of Gaddafi.