Crisis in BJP not good: PM
Says stable political parties must for democracy
Barmer, August 29
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said what was happening in the BJP was not good. He also said unnecessary controversies were being kicked up over Pokhran-II and Kandahar. In Rajasthan to inaugurate Cairn India’s Mangala oil fields, the country’s biggest oil find in over two decades, the PM told mediapersons that the infighting in the BJP is not good.

Mangala oil fields inaugurated
Business page: Cairn turns on oil tap in India

Advani gives in, BJP discusses succession plan
Bhagwat holds parleys with party top brass
New Delhi, August 29
Even as the RSS and the BJP separately denied any discussion on the “succession plan,” Leader of the Opposition LK Advani met RSS chief Mohanrao Bhagwat here today amidst reports that he has finally agreed to step down from the post and look for a suitable successor.

Many questions to answer

BJP leader LK Advani arrives to meet RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTI

Higher education reforms on course
PM gives nod to regulatory body
New Delhi, August 29
In a major step towards reforming higher education in India, the government is learnt to have granted in-principle approval to the creation of an overarching regulatory body that will subsume all existing regulators, including the UGC, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), National Council of Teachers’ Education (NCTE) and Distance Education Council (DEC).

School Shame
Teenager raped by principal
Jaipur, August 29
Tension gripped Ramganj area of the city late last night after an incident of alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl by her school principal came to light. As soon as the word spread in the locality, an irate mob gheraoed the police station and raised slogans against the accused.

2 girls ‘stripped’ for not paying fee
Faridabad, August 29
Two cases of alleged stripping of female students in Faridabad Model School, Sector 31, here by teachers came to light today. The incidents occurred yesterday, but they came to public light today after the Haryana School Abhibhavak Ekta Manch took up the issue and launched an agitation.

Now, Himachal HC judges to disclose assets
Shimla, August 29
Judges of the Himachal Pradesh High Court have also decided to make public the details of their assets in its full court meeting. The assets of all judges, including Acting Chief Justice RB Mishra, will be posted on the high court website.

Mission Moon comes to abrupt end
Bangalore, August 29
India’s maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I came to a premature end today with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announcing that it had lost radio contact with the unmanned spacecraft. An ISRO press release issued here this afternoon said, “The radio contact with Chandrayaan-I was abruptly lost at 0130 hrs (IST) today.

WW-II hero’s grave found after 67 yrs Guwahati, August 29 Sixtyseven years ago at the height of World War II, Tarani Kanta Roy of Sarbhog in Assam’s Barpeta district, who was at the time a doctor with the Indian Hospital Corps, was asked to report for duty, at the Allied Forces headquarters in Singapore.