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November 6
NDA says 'no' to Shibu Soren
The fear of a split in the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, if it takes an anti-Vajpayee government stand, has prevented its party chief from taking the extreme step of aligning with the Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal.
6 killed in attack on J&K army camp
Terrorists stormed an army camp in northern Kashmir on Sunday, killing four soldiers. Two militants died in the attack on the army base in the frontier Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Naidu to induct former minister's widow into cabinet
To be sworn in by Governor Dr C Rangarajan at a simple ceremony at the Raj Bhavan at 0930 hours IST on Monday, she will fill the vacancy in the cabinet caused by her
husband's killing by Naxalites eight months ago.
Bhattacharjee to take over as CM on Monday
The West Bengal chief minister designate said that the void created by the retirement of Jyoti Basu will have to be filled through collective work.
PTI REPORTS
Interpol issues notice against Kandahar hijackers
The Central Bureau of Investigation approached Interpol for issuance of a red corner notice against Ibrahim Athar, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Zahoor Ibrahim, Shahid Akhter and Sayed Shakir -- and accomplices Yusuf Azhar and Abdul Rauf.
Garekhan elected to UN committee
A former Indian ambassador to the UN, he served till last year as under-secretary general of the body and was the secretary general's representative to West Bank and Gaza.
Prasada refuses to withdraw from fray
A tussle between Sonia Gandhi and
Jitendra Prasada for the post of Congress president has
become inevitable with the dissident leader sticking to his
stand of remaining in the fray for the November 12
elections at the close of withdrawal on Sunday.
REUTERS REPORTS
CWC backs Sonia Gandhi
All 24 members of the Congress Working Committee, the party's highest decision-making body,
except Jitendra Prasada, signed a statement endorsing her candidature, a party official said on Sunday.
INSAT-2B fails again
A satellite that partly supports the country's telecommunications and broadcast sectors has failed for the second time in two days, a space department official said in Bangalore on Sunday.
November 5
BJP disowns RSS call for swadeshi churches
The party was not apologetic on the issue, Bangaru Laxman said replying to a question, even while agreeing that there were churches the world over owing allegiance only to their respective countries.
Shia leader laid to rest
Thousands of people, mostly Shia, who gathered at the main chowk in Badgam early on Saturday morning mourned the death by beating their chests and raising anti-Pak slogans.
Curfew clamped in parts of J&K after Mehdi's killing
An indefinite curfew was imposed in several Shia-dominated areas after the killing sparked unrest.
Congress captures Leh council
The ruling National Conference was routed in the poll winning only five of the 26 seats. The Congress secured a two-thirds majority with 20 seats.
Former Chambal dacoit pleads for Rajakumar's release
The reformed dacoit, who was once charged with murdering more than 100 people, is now on a mission of peace.
3,000 Sikhs to visit Guru Nanak's birthplace in Pakistan
They will be ignoring appeals by Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee against sending (pilgrims groups) to Pakistan by undertaking the pilgrimage to celebrate Guru Nanak Dev's birthday.
Conservationists up in arms in Dehradun
They are protesting the take-over of the Himalayan Heritage Centre by the district administration, which will convert it into the Governor's bungalow.
Maharashtra seeks UP's help to identify riot victims' kin
Though the Maharashtra government has paid the next of kin of at least 800 families, about 173 families still have to be paid and most hail from UP.
PTI REPORTS
INSAT-2B recovered
The satellite lost its 'earth lock' on Friday. It was recovered around 1830 hours (IST) on Saturday and its health was being closely monitored.
3 cops sentenced on kidnapping charges
They were found guilty of charges of abducting a Thane youth and demanding ransom from his parents.
Govt asks Maruti management to resolve labour unrest
It has proposed a meeting between the management and union representatives.
Jagir Kaur's security officer surrenders
Nishan Singh is the sixth of seven persons named by the CBI in the FIR on the mysterious death of the SGPC chief's teenaged daughter to be arrested. The seventh is Jagir Kaur herself.
Fresh violence in Midnapore district
Three Trinamul Congress activists were killed, 45 houses set afire while 35 shops were
looted in Pingla police station areas of Midnapore district on Saturday.
4 PWG activists killed in encounter on running train
The encounter took place Friday when the police tried to search the PWG cadres on the Jabalpur-Howrah Shaktipunj Express. One of them whipped out a pistol and opened fire injuring three constables. The police retaliated.
Curfew off; probe ordered into Manipur firing
District magistrate of Imphal West district has been
asked to probe the incident and submit a report within
20 days, official sources said.
Germany backs India on anti-terror convention
Sharing India's concern on cross-border terrorism, Germany agreed to 'fully support' New Delhi's initiative in framing a new comprehensive global convention to fight international terrorism.
US asks Taliban to expel bin Laden
Washington also left open the option of launching another military strike on Afghanistan if it was proved that bin Laden was involved in the suicide bomb attack on the destroyer USS Cole.
SPECIALS
Why I am not a candidate
'That a large number of young Congress leaders and workers who describe themselves as the 'sunrise Congress' support her despite our defeat in elections is a significant political statement. We want debate and we want change, but we do not believe we will succeed without Mrs Gandhi. That is why we are not candidates in this election. That is why we do not support JP the candidate,' says Salman Khurshid.
The woman behind Mrs Clinton!
Neera Tanden's success is what America would proudly call a true-blue American success story.
COLUMN
Fie, fie Scindia
How Madhavrao Scindia signed on Vajpayee's hospital visitor's book in Bombay. Capital Buzz. Gossip from the Delhi Durbar.
GUEST COLUMN
Thank You, Mr Nandy!
'If not for his column about these chance meetings with three "patriotic" Muslims, we may never have known that "we stand together as one community under one flag",' says Sajid Bhombal.
November 4
Militants attack police training school in J&K
They had warned the youth not to join the police force following a recruitment drive launched by the state police in the remote villages of J&K to fight militants.
Shia leader killed in Kashmir blast
Agha Syed Mehdi was killed when the jeep in which he was travelling hit a landmine at Kanihama village in Budgam district of J&K.
Four soldiers among 10 killed in J&K
Four security personnel and an equal number of militants were killed, three soldiers injured and ten houses gutted in a night-long gun battle at Wahthora in central Kashmir.
Laxman releases list of BJP office bearers
Former Delhi chief ministers Madanlal Khurana and Sahib Singh Verma will assume charge of West Bengal-Sikkim and Rajasthan respectively.
Girls try to rob Poona bank with TV remote
The girls fell short of money to return to their native Assam and resorted to the bizarre hold-up.
Governor Suraj Bhan shunted out of UP
Uttar Pradesh Governor Suraj Bhan was on Friday shifted to Himachal Pradesh in place of Vishnu Kant Shastri, who will assume charge as governor in Lucknow.
Why Suraj Bhan was shunted
Political analysts are speculating whether it was Chief Minister Rajnath Singh's decision or forced on him by BSP leader Mayawati.
Starvation death: NHRC seeks Orissa govt's response
The NHRC's direction has come in response to a petition filed by the
Committee for Legal Aid to Poor, an non-government organisation involved in rehabilitation work in cyclone affected areas.
Lenin Hall ransacked in Jharkhand
The JMM has been protesting against wasteful expenditure on restructuring Lenin Hall when Audrey Hall could have served.
Soren will eat humble pie before BJP
After two rounds of JMM legislature party meeting in Patna on
Wednesday night and Thursday, he has realised his weakness, that his own party men are not entirely behind him.
Cops rapped for jailbreak, undertrials' killing
Justice K C Jagdev Ray commission of inquiry, probing the R Udaygiri jailbreak and murder of two Christian undertrials by a mob of tribals, submits report to Orissa government.
UP loses vast forest cover to Uttaranchal
According to Chief Wild Life Warden, UP, Dr Ram Lakhan Singh, the total protected wildlife area of Uttaranchal would be 34,359 sq km, while Uttar Pradesh would be left with just half of that -- 17,259 sq km.
PTI REPORTS
Ambika Soni resigns as AICC gen secy
She said she resigned to campaign for Sonia Gandhi, who is seeking re-election as Congress president.
HC suspends sentences of Jaya, five others
The Madras High Court Friday suspended prison terms
of three years rigorous imprisonment and two years RI
imposed on the former Tamil Nadu chief minister, her close friend Sasikala Natarajan and four others by a special judge in two TANSI land deal cases.
IA's plea for sale of Kandahar plane rejected
Sessions Judge S N Aggarwal rejected the application after the defence counsel contended that since the case (of hijacking) was pending before the court, the aircraft, may be required during cross examination.
26 kg RDX, arms seized near LoC
The BSF raided hideouts at Raja Ram Ki Ladi and Sunda Goi Ridge in the frontier district of Kupwara.
Indefinite curfew clamped in Imphal
Sources said the curfew was imposed after receiving reports that
there was likelihood of breach of peace and that there was a grave danger to human lives and property in the two districts.
Solheim apprises Chandrika of talks with Pirabhakaran
On Thursday, the Norwegian envoy had said that LTTE chief V Pirabhakaran sounded very serious about resuming the peace process and has not set any preconditions.
SPECIAL
Paradise for liquor barons
The manufacture of hooch is illegal in India. Yet, it is one of the nation's most money-making businesses. The concluding part by George Iype.
COLUMNS
I encroach, but I still am
'What would you think if your home was torn down one morning? What would you think if you were not given any warning? What would you think if you were told it was pulled down to pretty up your neighborhood?' asks Dilip D'Souza.
Veerappan & Co: Divide and fool
'Unless there exists a significant level of understanding about the habits and beliefs of the local population, more and more Veerappans and Dara Singhs will sprout and flourish,' says S Gopikrishna.
November 2
KANISHKA BOMBING
Militants target journalist for talking of bombing
The journalist, who participated in a talk show on the arrest of Sikh militants in the Air India bombing case, was threatened of dire consequences by members of extremist groups in Vancouver.
Accused arrested while preparing to go to Pakistan: PTI
But, his lawyer, Terry La Liberte denied that his client was planning an escape. "Anybody who knows Malik knows he travels extensively," he said.
PLANE CRASH IN TAIPEI
Relatives of crash victims leave for Taipei
Relatives of the Indian passengers who were on the ill-fated Singapore Airlines aircraft, which crashed in Taipei airport, left for Madras on their way to Taipei on Wednesday evening.
Late in the night a call brought the bad news
Among the 14 Indians aboard the Singapore Airlines flight that crashed at the Taipei international airport in Taiwan on Tuesday night were four members of Colonel S L Reddy's family.
12 Hyderabadis were aboard SA flight
Singapore Airlines office in Hyderabad Wednesday released the list of 12 passengers who had left by an A-I flight (AI-422) on Tuesday for Singapore where they boarded the SA flight.
CONGRESS PRESIDENTIAL POLL
Prasada gets threatening calls
However, Prasada will be going to Madras on Thursday to seek support among PCC delegates.
'The days of 'tall' Cong leaders are over': PTI
Jitendra Prasada dismissed as an 'absolute lie' that he was getting support from those outside the Congress in his fight against Gandhi.
Sonia 'undeterred' by Prasada's candidature: PTI
Not at all, she shot back, when asked by reporters if she was deterred by the contest from Jitendra Prasada, who is the first to take on a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family for the party presidential election.
INTERVIEW
'Congress will not grow by nominating leaders'
Former Tamil Nadu State Congress President K V Thangabalu speaks to Shobha Warrier about the ground situation in his state and the Sonia
Gandhi-Jitendra Prasada race for the Congress presidency.
SPECIAL
'There is no threat to me'
Ramesh Menon profiles Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, whose real battle will be giving the poor people in the resource-rich Chhattisgarh a new life.
OTHER REPORTS
Army chief to visit border areas
General S Padmanabhan will discuss Chinese intrusions with local commanders next week, close on the heels of Union Defence Minister George Fernandes' one-day trip to the north-east.
Two kids too many: Puri council chief loses job While sources close to the sacked civic chief said he may appeal against the tribunal's verdict, the decision was welcomed by political leaders all over the state.
World Bank to discontinue Narmada funding
''Narmada dam is not on our agenda. We have nothing to do with it now,'' Robert Maurer, lead urban sector specialist, World Bank,
told reporters Tuesday evening after a day-long workshop to
unveil the bank's urban development, water supply and sanitation
strategy for India.
Bombay police team may return empty-handed
Thai authorities insisted the Indian government get in touch with them directly to solve the legal issues in the Chhota Rajan extradition case.
Jogi is a duplicate tribal: Oram
The Bharatiya Janata Party tribal leader and Union minister for tribal affairs challenged the chief minister of the newly born Chhattisgarh state to prove that he is a 'tribal' and then start his term
BJP rejects JMM demand for chief ministership
Party vice president Jana Krishnamurthy said it was wrong on part of the JMM to insist that they alone represented the tribals of Jharkhand.
Seven women Naxalites killed in AP encounter
This is the first time that so many women Naxalites have been killed in a single encounter.
11 militants among 16 killed in J&K
Sixteen people, including eleven militants and three security personnel, were killed, five militants arrested and two others surrendered in Jammu and Kashmir in the last 24 hours.
Bodo rebels kills 5 policemen in Assam
Official sources said National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants swooped down on the Rupsi outpost under Golokganj police station, and killed all the five policemen on the spot.
Villagers thrash policeman for raping woman
The sub-inspector was given a sound thrashing, stripped and paraded naked in the village.
Church, RSS welcome Goa CM's statement
Manohar Parrikar had said that the Goan
church is swadeshi as they conduct prayers in Konkani and the
Christians in Goa are patriotic by nature.
Sonia to inaugurate mega conclave
All seven Congress chief ministers will begin the three-day Mahasangamam in Amini, Lakshadweep Thursday, in a bid to rejuvenate the party and set a pace of change on the national political scenario.
Identity controversy deepens in Assam massacres
Although the till now unheard of insurgent group, Assam Tiger Force, has owned responsibility, police insist that the banned separatist outfit ULFA was behind the dastardly killings.
Sharief's brother held in corruption probe
The former chief minister of central Punjab province has been in detention
since Nawaz Sharief was ousted in a coup by General Pervez Musharraf in October last year.
DIARY
India Abroad
'You are accepted as and respected for being an Indian. Singapore is closer to India, not just geographically, but in so many more ways,' feels Sapna Mitter.
SERIES
Come, meet Kullu's foreign godfathers
Josy Joseph explores the connection between cannabis and dollars in the third of this four-part series.
PTI REPORTS
Pak presses for Indo-Iran gas pipeline
Pakistan
had already conveyed to Iran its readiness to provide
assurances for the security of gas supplies through the
pipeline to India.
Norwegian envoy meets Pirabhakaran
Sri Lankan officials attribute a great deal of importance to the meeting as this is the first time in recent years that the LTTE chief met a foreign envoy to discuss peace proposals.
Make me CM or get lost, says Soren
The JMM-S chief insisted that the BJP keep its earlier promise and make him chief minister of Jharkhand.
Five undertrials hurt in Yerwada jail clash
Security in the jail has been intensified after the attack by 15 prisoners, allegedly linked to the Dawood Ibrahim gang in Poona on Tuesday, police said.
COLUMNS
The AJT: Waiting for Godot?
'The Advanced Jet Trainer became the most widely reported but comatose military project in the history of the armed forces, and the episode is just the tip of the iceberg in non-decision making,' says Major General Ashok K Mehta (retd).
The desire to pull down the NDA cannot bring into being a front that the people need
'What will be the difference between the new front and the NDA? Apart from the rhetoric, both sides have an army of communalists, casteists and the corrupt. The nation is exasperated by such fronts,' asks Kuldip Nayar.
November 1
KANISHKA BOMBING
Malik, Bagri remanded to month's custody
Malik appeared in court wearing a white plastic hood over his head to replace the turban that his lawyer said prison officials had ordered both men to remove.
SITUATION IN J&K
CRPF castigated in Pahalgam massacre incident
A probe committee, inquiring into the August one Pahalgam incident in which 32 people, including 23 Amarnath pilgrims, were killed when security forces clashed with militants has castigated the CRPF for 'excessive firing' to control the situation.
Farooq orders judicial probe into Sikh massacre
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday announced a judicial probe into the Sikh massacre at Chattisinghpora and the subsequent killing of five persons at Panchthalan Pathribal in south Kashmir in March this year.
7 securitymen found guilty in Barakpora firing incident
J&K Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah said a First Information Report has been registered against the concerned security officials.
Army condoles death of foreign militants
The army said 58 foreign nationals killed between July 1 and September 30 were brainwashed to tread the path of extreme violence by Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence
5 BSF jawans hurt in grenade blast: PTI
Five Border Security Force
personnel were wounded in a militant attack on their picket,
while the police apprehended a self-styled battalion commander of the
Hizbul Mujahideen in Srinagar on Monday evening.
Farooq wants to attend wedding in PoK
The wedding is that of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Amanullah Khan's daughter with the son of All Party Hurriyat Conference leader Abdul Ghani Lone.
Pak accuses India of heightening tension: Reuters
A Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters that Pakistan
was seeking to lower the tension and was keeping a United Nations
military observers' group in the area informed of 'Indian violations'.
THE RAJAKUMAR CASE
New TN police chief talks of Rajakumar release plan
He said he would consult senior police colleagues involved in the
rescue mission and seek guidance from the state government.
SC reserves verdict in Rajakumar case
Justice S P Bharucha, Justice D P Mahapatra and Justice Y K Sabbarwal, who have been hearing the case filed by Abdul Karim, father of a cop killed by Veerappan, against the release of the TADA detenues by the Mysore special court, said they have "prima facie evidence" to quash the impugned order.
INTERVIEW
'I can still go into the jungle and free Rajakumar
Walter Dawaram, former Tamil Nadu Director General of Police, almost cut down Veerappan down to size when he was a police officer. Now he has joined the battle against the brigand in the Supreme Court.
OTHER REPORTS
Cong's presidential poll taking ugly turn
On Tuesday, Sonia Gandhi's supporters burnt an effigy of her rival Jitendra Prasada after hitting it with slippers and sandals outside the All India Congress Committee headquarters.
Forgery alleged in Prasada papers
Three Congress delegates from Jharkhand's west Singhbhum district have denied having signed any proposal in favour of Jitendra Prasada for presidentship.
BJP's Narmada show turns out to be a fiasco
Many party workers and people were stranded and could not attend the Bharatiya Janata Party function, organised to formally recommence work at the Sardar Sarovar Project, on Tuesday.
Angry crowds manhandle Gujarat ministers
The ministers and other dignitaries tried to jump the queue in a massive traffic jam at the end of the grand function organised for re-launching the construction work on the Sardar Sarovar Project.
Hooch barons' disclosures embarrass politicians
Kerala's liquor barons admitted to making regular payments to politicians cutting across party lines.
Rebel outfit bans Hindi in Manipur
The ban on Hindi films, music and serials began in mid-September after one senior
leader of the outlawed Revolutionary Peoples Front was killed.
Madagascar offers free land to Indian farmers
It was suggested that some progressive farmers in agrarian states like Punjab and Haryana be roped in to avail of this opportunity.
Rajnath does not change portfolios
The new chief minister has kept 15 departments with him, including portfolios held by four former ministers hailing from
Uttaranchal.
Centre alerts UP about threat from Tamil Tigers
The central government has asked the state administration to give
adequate security to the leaders on the basis of reports of central
intelligence agencies two Tamil Tigers plan to sneak into the
state to kill prominent political personalities.
Brahmaputra threatens prized tea heartland
Unabated erosion by the channel of Brahmaputra, flowing along the southern fringe of the Dibru-Saikhowa national park, is threatening to wipe out large tea estates in Assam. Many villages, the army base at Dinjan, Mohanbari airport in Dibrugarh district and
Dibru-Saikhowa national park are facing the same fate.
Cong lands in a mess on land deal
The spate of denials, clarifications and volte faces over the last few days by Nationalist Congress Party's Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Chhagan Bhujbal and Congress Minister of State for Home (Urban) Kripashankar Singh over their alleged role in the now infamous Pune land scam have only deepened the controversy.
Iceland to support India's candidature at UN
The two countries also agreed to evolve a mechanism for regular Foreign Office consultations and work together for UN Security Council
reforms.
Indo-Russian group on terrorism to meet next month
The group is expected to discuss the threat of religious extremism and international terrorism faced by both countries.
India, Japan to combat piracy on high seas
A Japanese Coast Guard vessel will visit India from November 5 to 9 for a joint exercise with the Indian Coast Guard off Madras, in a show of resolve to promote cooperation
between the two nations to check the growing menace along Asia's busiest maritime route, a crucial lifeline for commerce in the continent.
MCC activists kill seven PWG activists
Extremists of the Maoist Communist Centre stormed two villages in Palwa and Jorakhurd and killed seven people who were supporters of the rival People's War group. The report reached the police late as the village is based in the interiors of the state where communication links are not uptodate.
PTI REPORTS
Ajit Jogi sworn in as Chhattisgarh CM
Notably, seven legislators owing allegiance to former Union minister V C Shukla, a claimant for the top post, boycotted the function.
JMM threatens to snap links with NDA
It has set Wednesday as the deadline for the NDA to clarify its stand on the issue of chief minister of Jharkhand.
BJP warns VHP on construction of Ram temple
"Kanoon ko jo kaam karna hai, wo kaam kanoon karega
(the law would deal with the matter as it deems fit)," party
president Bangaru Laxman told a press conference when asked
about the VHP's plans to go ahead with the construction of the
temple next year irrespective of the stand of the government and
the Supreme Court.
SERIES
This way to Malana... no police, no laws
In tranquil Kullu, hashish is cheaper than a chocolate bar. And as common as water. The second of a four-part series
COLUMN
JMM case: Payoffs for all
'The nation has been taken for a ride, not by the Supreme Court, not by the Constitution, but by our politicians,' says Indira Jaising.
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