New Delhi, Oct. 1 : The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on the DMK-led Tamil Nadu Government for virtually ignoring its order on a shutdown call given by the ruling alliance over Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project.

Warning the State Government of initiating contempt of court proceedings, a bench headed by acting Chief Justice B N Aggarwal and Justice P Sathasivam said: “If there is no compliance with our order, it is complete breakdown of Constitutional machinery. We will then have to direct the government to impose President's rule.”

London, Oct 1 : A diamond-encrusted Rolex belonging to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is up for sale.

Lahore, Oct 1 : The second Indo-Pak Students Peace Camp will begin in Chandigarh tomorrow to promote peace and people-to-people contact, especially between the youth of the two countries.

Twelve Pakistani students are leaving for Chandigarh today via Wagah to participate in the camp.

Mubashir Ahmed, the Centre for Youth Development and Activities (CYDA) coordinator, said that the CYDA, in collaboration with several Indian organisations, was working to develop relations between India and Pakistan.

New Delhi, Oct.1 : Chinese President Hu Jintao is all for his country's economy opening up to the outside world, but has also called for a stronger economic security system.

Presiding over a group study of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Hu was quoted by the Xinhua news agency as saying that the government must monitor economic security situations better, give early warnings, and respond to the crisis, as and when it arises.

China, he said, must protect and safeguard its assets and citizens abroad.

London, Oct.1 : A BBC producer has expressed his determination to prove that George Mallory, and not New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit of the over 29,000 feet high Mt. Everest.

Graham Hoyland will tell the Royal Geographical Society this week how George Mallory and Andrew Irvine were the first men on Everest in 1924.

Hillary and Tenzing reached the summit in 1953.

Mallory's frozen body was recovered in 1999, 75 years after he started out on his expedition.