Ten very fortunate Pakistani prisoners will be released and repatriated to mark the 63rd Anniversary of Independence from imperialist British rule as also the Partition of India. A similarly symbolic number of Indians incarcerated in Pakistan are also expected to return home.

An influential, upper caste khap panchayat or caste council in Haryana’s Bhiwani district agreed to withdraw the social boycott of a village family 22 years after it had imposed the damning diktat during which both, the head of the victim family and his younger brother passed away.

Adding a completely fresh dimension to Tibet’s five decades old democracy-in-exile, a woman politician has for the first time announced her decision to make a bid for the Kalon Tripa or Prime Minister’s office in the elections in 2011.

Happily oblivious to the raging controversies surrounding the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, 60 incredulously enthusiastic young dogs are training round-the-clock in preparation to sniff any terror threat to the prestigious sporting event two months from now.

The Australian cycling team manager for the pre-Commonwealth Games invitational event, Ms Linda Wibberley, has fulfilled her mother’s dying wish to have her ashes immersed in the Ganga.

Inconclusive investigations into the February 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing have now been handed over to the National Investigation Agency following a request from the Haryana police which failed to make any breakthrough over the past three years.

The police in Amritsar has arrested five men, including a French national, in possession of a large number of weapons, including armour-piercing ammunition and Kalashnikov rifles.

Officers of the Punjab police’s Special Operations Group insist that Pal Singh, a French national among five men arrested, allegedly with weapons and armour-piercing ammunition, is a Pakistan-trained weapons expert and a close associate of the BKI’s Narain Chaura.

Indian and Pakistani border guards have done away with the “insulting display of thumbs” as part of the marching drill exhibited during the daily ceremonial retreat at the Attari-Wagah Border.

Punjab’s former chief minister Capt.