India may be worried about smuggling of drugs, arms and ammunition and infiltration of jehadis from across the border but Pakistan seems to be more concerned at the possibility of smuggling of rice, pulses and wheat from its territory. Skyrocketing prices in India has "forced' Pakistan to send an urgent missive to its Rangers deployed along the Indo-Pak border to check any possibility of smuggling of pulses, rice, wheat and flour to India and other countries.

Even as the debate over foodgrain scarcity being a major cause for the current inflationary trend rages, an advance estimate released by the government on Tuesday said foodgrain production in the country touched a record 227.32 million tonnes during 2007-08. The 3rd Advance Estimate, according to department of agriculture and cooperation, is based on feedback received from the states and validated with information available from other sources.

The ever-increasing security threat to Indian nuclear establishments could lead to almost all of them being declared no-fly zones to avoid the possibility of any plane crashing into them in a repeat of the 9/11 attack. National security adviser M K Narayanan is learnt to have written to the Prime Minister's Office to consider a no-fly zone status for these sensitive establishments, a copy of which was sent to the aviation ministry for technical evaluation recently.

Outrage over the illconceived BRT corridor rocked Parliament on Tuesday with members cutting across party affiliations protesting against the hardship inflicted on commuters in south Delhi by thoughtless planners.

Rampant drug abuse and unsafe sex is pricking the Punjab Police hard, jeopardizing the lives of as many as 178 police personnel in the district of Tarn Taran alone. What has only compounded their case is the indifferent attitude of the government, which is yet to wake up to the ticking bomb within its ranks. In startling revelations that should be enough to jolt the police brass, Sandeep Kakkar, the senior medical officer at Police Hospital, Tarn Taran, told TOI on Tuesday that during checkup doctors found 178 police personnel carrying the Hepatitis B, C and HIV virus.

The Delhi government's apathy towards thousands of children studying under testing conditions in over 200 schools run directly or aided by it came in for severe criticism from the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

If the power department is to be believed, the regular interruptions in power supply that have been plaguing the city in the last few days are likely to stop from Wednesday. Till late in the afternoon on Tuesday, large parts of the city faced power cuts ranging from 15 minutes to almost an hour because of continuous low frequency in the Northern Grid. However, officials said that some shut power plants will start generating again from Tuesday.

Dry Winds From Rajasthan Making Temperature Rise TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The season of sweltering heat has begun. For the first time this year, temperatures touched the 40-degree mark with the maximum temperature on Tuesday recorded at 40.2 degrees Celsius, three degrees above normal. The minimum was 23.9 degrees Celsius, two degrees above normal.

Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) is rare in children and is mainly due to congenital deformity or arrhythmic heart or short-circuiting of the heart. Doctors say stress, prolonged exposure to heat, fluid electrolyte imbalance can precipitate the risk of SCD. In such cases, a patient has to be given proper medical treatment within an hour.

Sudden Cardiac Death results from abrupt loss of heart function CAUSES Ventricular fibrillation | It is caused when heart is unable to pump blood due to short-circuiting in the lower chamber Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia | A condition in which heart muscles are weak Ventricular tachycardia | It is a condition in which heart rhythm becomes very fast Hypertrophy cardiomyopathy | A condition in which heart muscles are very thick PRECAUTIONS Children should be carefully screened for any cardiac defects