New Delhi, Nov 24 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will visit Kathmandu today to discuss issues, including the on-going peace process, economic cooperation and review of treaties and agreements.

Mukherjee will call on Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Prachanda, Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav and other senior political leader.

He will also be inspecting the Koshi Bank embankment and is scheduled to attend the ministerial level meeting of Nepal-India foreign affairs during his stay.

Indore, Nov. 24 : Addressing a press conference here on Monday, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani described Prime Minister Manmohan Singh''''s proposal for a task force to counter terrorism within a deadline of 100 days as "distressing" and demanded that the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) be revived instead.

"Manmohan Singh took over as prime minister in May 2004 and after so many days, he is talking about a 100-day roadmap," Advani said.

Raipur, Nov 24 : Repolling is taking place in 33 booths spread over seven Assembly constituencies in Chhattisgarh''s Bastar District.

Polling in these booths was affected during the first phase on November 14 due to Naxal violence.

In Madhya Pradesh, campaigning is on in full swing with just two days left for polls.

In Jammu and Kashmir, the filing of nomination papers for the fifth phase of polling will end by this evening. Polls are to be held on December 13 in 11 assembly segments spread over three districts of Kathua, Pulwama and Shopian.

In Rajasthan campaigning is in full swing.

New Delhi, Nov 24 : Finance Minister P. Chidambaram will inaugurate the three three-day annual Economic Editors'' Conference at the National Media Centre organized by 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.

Mumbai, Nov. 24 : Mumbai today gave a warm and relieved welcome to five of the 18 Indian crew members of the MT Stolt Valor, a ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in September.

Estidore Fernandes and Alistair Fernandes of Goa, Navid Borundkar of Ratnagiri, and Santosh Patil and Om Prakash Shukla of Mumbai were said to be in good health.

The remaining 13 crewmen will start returning from Muscat on Tuesday onwards.

Describing their ordeal, Fernandes said they lived in cramped conditions at an unknown, desolate location on shore with 20-25 heavily armed pirates guarding them round-the-clock.