Hooda pleases all at Gohana show
SHAKTI RALLY Haryana CM doles out sops
Detractors stay away
Gohana, November 10
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today opened the floodgates of pre-poll sops, liberally doling out please-all incentives at the Congress' Haryana Shakti rally in the town. The 99-acre plot, chosen for the venue, was full to its capacity, emphatically underlining Hooda's political management.
The incentives
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Chief Minister BS Hooda addresses a gathering during Shakti Rally at Gohana in Sonepat on Sunday. Tribune photo: S Chandan

Pak PM’s Adviser meets J-K separatists; India unhappy
New Delhi/Srinagar, November 10
In a move which upset India, Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Adviser on Foreign Affairs met Kashmiri separatist leaders on Sunday shortly after his arrival here for the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).

PM writes to Rajapaksa over CHOGM decision
New Delhi, November 10
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has written to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, explaining his inability to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in Colombo next week.

Russia, India, China to cooperate in tackling terrorism
New Delhi, November 10
Terrorism, drug trafficking and situation in Afghanistan and Syria were among the issues that figured prominently during a trilateral meeting among the foreign ministers of RIC (Russia, India and China) countries here this evening.

Typhoon kills 10,000 in Philippines; heads for Vietnam
	Residents walk past debris and destroyed houses along a road in Tacloban City in central Philippines on Sunday. — AFP (Details on World page)

Chhattisgarh goes to polls today amid high security
Kondagaon/Raipur, November 10
Chief Minister Raman Singh and his three ministers are among the candidates whose fate will be decided tomorrow when 18 Assembly constituencies in the worst Naxal-hit regions of Bastar and Rajnandgaon go to polls amid heavy security in the first phase in Chhattisgarh.

Hotel failing to make turnaround even in vicinity of Golden Temple
Amritsar, November 10
That the holy city, famous for the Golden Temple, is one of the most-visited destinations across the world has failed to transform the fortunes of the Punjab Government’s three-star Amritsar International Hotel. Opened in the late 1980s, the complex has been lying abandoned for the last six years. (Details on Punjab page)

Punjab land grab: Justice Kuldip Singh Special Tribunal Report Part-II Illegal orders, mutations of Kansal public land enriched buyers Chandigarh, November 10 The Special Tribunal headed by Justice Kuldip Singh has revealed that in Kansal village, adjoining the Union Territory of Chandigarh, the public lands which certain people purchased at throw away prices had been illegally mutated following the orders of revenue officials and some of which were later sold at exorbitant rates.