New Delhi, Nov 23 : Finance Minister P. Chidambaram will inaugurate the three three-day annual Economic Editors’ Conference at the National Media Centre organized the Press Information Bureau.

There will be separate sessions with the Ministers and senior officers of the key economic and infrastructure ministries participating in the conference.

The conference will enable economic editors and journalists, invited from all over the country to interact with them and get a detailed background of the government’s policies and programmes.

The media persons will get a comprehensive view of the overall economic scenario in the country and the latest initiatives and thrust areas of the Government.

New Delhi, Nov 23: Addressing the conference of Directors General and Inspecters General of Police here on Sunday, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said the virus of communal violence that threatens the secular fabric of our country needs to be checked in time.

Dr. Singh said inability of intelligence agencies and police to obtain pinpointed and actionable intelligence in time has enabled naxals to carry out high profile attacks.

The Prime Minister suggested the task force to develop within 100 days integrated capability to address emerging challenges in areas on left-wing extremism, terrorism and insurgency.

Dr. Singh asked the policemen to win the trust of civil society, if they want to succeed in democracy.

New Delhi, Nov 23: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil leaves on a 10-day visit to Vietnam and Indonesia on Monday to expand bilateral ties with ASEAN neighbours.

President Patil’s high high-level visit is expected to give a fresh impetus to bilateral relations covering areas like political, economic and cultural ties with these countries.

“This visit essentially reaffirms India’s commitment to enhance our engagement with these countries, our close friends within ASEAN fraternity. It is part of our ‘Look East’ policy initiative,” said N Ravi, Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs.

Congress president and UPA chairperson, Sonia Gandhi extended her support to calibrated liberalization of economy and said that government is committed to galvanize country from the impact of global slowdown. She called for such economic policies which don't affect the vulnerable sections of society and do not compromise with social justice.

Delhi, Nov 23 : Union Home Minister. Shiv Raj Patil is strongly in favour of a multi-pronged approach to deal with terrorism, and called upon the affected states to raise Special Counter Force to tackle the menace.

Opening the two day conference of the top brass of Police in New Delhi, Patil said terrorists are using sophisticated small weapons and explosives at present.

But, he warned that the terror groups might use nuclear, biological and chemical devices besides psychological devices in future.

New Delhi - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said Saturday that he did not subscribe to nuclear weapons and favoured a South Asia non-nuclear treaty.

Zardari was responding to a question via video-conferencing at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi.

Nuclear-capable neighbours India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their independence from British colonial rule in 1947, two of them over the disputed Kashmir region.

Kashmir has often been described as a nuclear flashpoint which needs resolution.