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Bring back Quattrocchi: Vajpayee
Taking the Bofors issue to the Congress camp, the BJP has demanded that Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi be brought to India and interrogated to pursue the investigations into the gun deal pay-off case. It is asserted by the BJP leader that the Congress withdrew support to the Gujral Government because it was scared that the names of the beneficaries of the payoffs would be disclosed.
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No US strike on Iraq till winter Olympics
The United States on Monday said it respected a UN resolution for no hostilities against Iraq till the ongoing winter Olympics were over on February 22 even as Russia and China stepped up their opposition to a military strike. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed for cool heads in the Gulf crisis, and France said the chances for a diplomatic solution were narrowing.
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BJP, Trinamul break away in Midnapore
Although the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamul Congress have joined forces in the West Bengal, in the Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency they will pit candidates against each other. A last-minute hitch between the two poll partners over the Midnapore seat seems to have embittered the ``political friends'' who joined hands to fight ``their common enemy, the CPI(M)'', at the hustings.
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Betting: BCCI sues Outlook, Prabhakar
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) went on the offensive in the betting and match-fixing controversy afflicting Indian cricket, by slapping a Rs 5 crore defamation suit against Manoj Prabhakar and Outlook in the Mumbai High Court. The suit, filed by BCCI's secretary Jaywant Lele as the plaintiff, has Prabhakar as one of the defendants along with Outlook's owners, president and publisher, editor and its staff reporters.
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