Monday, October 9, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

PM visits dengue patients at AIIMS
61 fresh cases reported
New Delhi, October 8
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chose Sunday, the date of the discharge of his 11-year-old- grandson, to visit the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here. His grandson was also suffering from dengue. He had a word of praise for doctors treating dengue patients.

Delhi page: Dengue patients queue up at hospitals
Chandigarh page: Dengue tightens grip; 19 more cases reported
Punjab page: Dengue case reported in Bathinda
Haryana page: 7 suspected dengue cases in Fatehabad
Himachal page: First case of dengue fever in state

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Panel finds fault with Saraswati project
Chandigarh, October 8
In a move that could raise the hackles of some affiliates of the previous NDA Government at the Centre and the Sangh Parivar, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture has said the ambitious multi-crore Saraswati Heritage Project has not conformed to the criterion fixed for the excavation of archaeological sites.

Scintillating show marks Air Force Day
Hindon, October 8
Shifting for the first time the venue of its annual Air Force Day parade from the Palam air base in Delhi to the outskirts of the Capital at Hindon in Ghaziabad, the IAF today presented one of the grandest ever displays of its frontline fighter jets, helicopters and mid-air re-fuellers in a traditional fly-past.

The IAF’s Suryakiran aerobatics team performs at the Hindon Air Base, near Delhi, during the 74th anniversary function of the Indian Air Force on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Rajeev Tyagi (Details on Nation page)

No employing child labour from Tuesday
New Delhi, October 8
The ban on child labour will come into force in just two days from today on October 10, but there appears little cheer in store for a large number of working children whose future, NGOs say, will become uncertain in the absence of a comprehensive rehabilitation package.

Stop arming J&K militants, US watchdog tells Pak
New Delhi, October 8
An international human rights organisation has asked Pakistan to stop providing arms and finances to terror groups.

Protest by quake victims
Uri, October 8
Victims of the massive earthquake that hit Jammu and Kashmir exactly an year ago staged a protest here today against the slow pace of the rehabilitation of those affected by the disaster that devastated dozens of frontier villages.

J&K page: Patil assures all help to quake hit

Kashmiri children dance during a memorial ceremony in Uri, 105 km north of Srinagar on Sunday, to mark the anniversary of the earthquake in 2005. — AFP photo

‘Use of jets could have won India 1962 war’ New Delhi, October 8 India could have defeated China in the 1962 war had the combat power of its Air Force been used, a top serving officer has asserted, claiming that while the then political-bureaucratic combine had sought US Air Force's help but had not even consulted the IAF chief on the issue.