Manager shot dead

MEERUT: The manager of a sugar mill owned by the Bajaj industrial group was shot dead on Friday by unidentified men on the factory premises in Baghpat district. Police identified the manager as Siddharth Upadhyay. — HNS

Sonia to visit Jammu

JAMMU: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will be here on Saturday to address women workers of the party, a few months before the scheduled elections to the Jammu and Kashmir

assembly. “It would be the beginning of the poll campaign,” Pratibha Thakur, president of the All-India Mahila Congress, said. — HNS

Aid workers missing

KABUL: An Afghan doctor and a driver from a German aid group are missing in northern Afghanistan and police are probing whether they have been kidnapped, a police commander said on Friday. KinderBerg International said two of its workers had disappeared while travelling between Kabul and Kunduz province. — AFP

Taiwan veep-Hu meet

TAIPEI: Taiwan vice-president-elect Vincent Siew flew to China on Friday on a landmark visit. Siew led a delegation to Hainan Island to attend the Bo’ao Forum for Asia, but the media’s attention was to be on Siew’s interaction with Chinese President Hu Jintao. —DPA