Crossings

Elected Daniel Ortega, 61, is Nicaragua president again 16 years after US-backed Contras warred to oust him. This Sandinista icon spelt scandal: of US make and his own.

Died Veteran Bollywood producer N.N. Sippy, 75 (Woh Kaun Thi, Chor Machaye Shor, Gumnam, Ghar etc). He gave Subhash Ghai his directorial break (Kalicharan).

Busted The module behind the rocket attacks on Pakistan prez Gen Musharraf in late September. Some 50 plotters held. Especially: a few PAF officers.

Sacked Darrell Hair, who’d earned the ‘racist’ tag for his umpiring, from the ICC elite panel. Asian votes decide his fate on the England-Pak Oval Test fiasco.

Blamed Calcutta’s B.C. Roy Children’s Hospital, a referral institute, does it again; 17 infants die in a space of 48 hours from November 2. The toll has hit 20.