India, China ink landmark border pact
To ease LAC tension 8 more agreements signed
PM takes up stapled visa issue with Li
KV Prasad in Beijing
October 23
India and China today took a leap towards reducing recurring tensions across the border and promised to strengthen cooperation on trans-border rivers, even as New Delhi delayed a pact for a liberalised visa regime.

Editorial: Forward march

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Beijing on Wednesday. — AFP

BSF man killed as Pak shells 52 posts
Border fire 7 personnel injured 
Jammu, October 23
Barely few hours after Union Home Minister Sushikumar Shinde left for New Delhi, the Pakistan Rangers pounded 52 Indian forward posts and several villages along the 191.5-km International Border through the night, killing one BSF personnel and injuring eight others, including a civilian.

BSF men carry the coffin of their colleague in Jammu.

No respite in sight from onion tears
New Delhi, October 23
Onion prices continued to hover at record highs of Rs 90 per kg for the third day today with no sight of respite as Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said rates will remain high for two-three more weeks.

M’rashtra’s view sought on reducing Dutt’s term
New Delhi, October 23
The Home Ministry has sought opinion of the Maharashtra Government on reducing sentence of Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt and two other convicts in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts. The move came after Press Council of India chief Markandey Katju petitioned President Pranab Mukherjee seeking relief for the actor and two others, including a 70 year-old women, on humanitarian grounds.

Sharif-Obama meet unlikely to yield much
 Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to leave his meeting with US President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday a disappointed man. (Details on World page)