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Supreme Court upholds Ajmal Kasab's death sentence...more
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PM to hold talks with Iranian President today...more
Gurdwara shooter's death declared suicide...more

PM will have to do a balancing act at NAM
16th Summit begins today at a time when Iran faces increasing global isolation over its N-plans
Raj chengappa writes from Tehran
PM Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur arrive at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on Tuesday.
When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh landed at the Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran late Tuesday evening, he found himself once again walking the tightrope. Having tried his best to douse the coal fires that had ignited Parliament, the beleaguered Manmohan Singh must now perform a difficult balancing act at the 16th Non-Alignment Movement Summit that is to begin on Wednesday.

PM Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur arrive at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on Tuesday. — PTI


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The Punjab Cabinet on Tuesday approved various tax proposals to mop up additional revenue of around Rs 900 crore per annum. The Cabinet, which met here today, approved the levying of property tax in urban areas.

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Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, a key accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, was today sent to judicial custody by Rohini Court.

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Valley wakes up to teenager’s honour killing
Budgam girl allegedly murdered by her siblings to save family from ‘disrepute’; accused arrested
Srinagar, August 28
The Jammu and Kashmir police today claimed to have solved the August 24 blind murder of a teenage girl in the Budgam district. The police said it was a case of “honour killing”— probably the first such incident to be reported in the state — where a brother and his two sisters strangled their eighteen-year-old sibling to death to save their family from disrepute.

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