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Forget
homes, they’re building drafts |
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The people who lost their houses in last year’s quake in Bhuj,
Anjar and Bhachau — the worst-hit towns of Kutch district —
will have to wait 20 weeks more before they get permission to
start construction. |
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Varsity’s
cure for the trauma: Spirituality |
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Sceptics
may dismiss it as new age mumbo jumbo, but spirituality is all
set to wrap its halo around psychology studies as well. |
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After
500 kidneys sold, Mysore police bust racket |
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Twelve
persons have been arrested. And with it, a flourishing racket
has been exposed. Some 500 kidneys of the poor have been sold
to the affluent within and across the border. |
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At
epicentre, hope fades |
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The most heart-rending photos of the damage wrought by last
year’s killer quake were from this town, closest to the epicentre
of the quake. |
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MCOCA
court finds Shakeel aide guilty |
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The conviction
of Chhota Shakeel’s female associate Tabassum Khan who was tried
under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act could cripple
his gang’s activities in his area of operation in Mumbai, a
senior police officer. |
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Omar
as CM Natwar’s solution for Kashmir |
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A suggestion
by senior Congress leader Natwar Singh that the Kashmir problem
would be solved once Omar Abdullah became the Chief Minister
of the state today left junior Abdullah blushing. |
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Eye
on key seats, Ajit doesn’t blink |
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Rashtriya
Lok Dal president and Agriculture Minister Ajit Singh met Prime
Minister Vajpayee today to seek his intervention to end the
deadlock over seat-sharing with the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. |
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‘CM,
Kalraj played favourites’ |
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Chief Minister Rajnath Singh and
state BJP president Kalraj Mishra are said to have favoured
their community and aides in the distribution of party tickets
in Uttar Pradesh, sources said. |
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BJP
offers no ‘free’ ticket to fight |
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Security
has been beefed up at the BJP’s office in Lucknow and police
posted there following violent protests by supporters of those
MLAs who were denied tickets by the party. |
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SYL:
Badal to file review petition |
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The
Punjab government has decided to file a review petition over
the Supreme Court’s decision on the SYL issue. Advocate General
of Punjab H.S. Mattewal said the government was already preparing
a draft of the review petition and it would be ready in about
three weeks. |
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Media
sings CM praise, LF smells foul |
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The
Left Front Coordination Committee in an internal report has
warned the CPI(M)-led government in West Bengal about the ‘‘media’s
hidden agenda to sabotage the state administration.’’ |
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Powell
in Nepal is message to the region |
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US Secretary
of State Colin Powell visited Kathmandu on Friday with a special
message of solidarity against Maoist insurgents — dubbed by
both countries as terrorists. |
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J-K
blast: 14-yr-old victim’s brother can still hear him |
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When
Jagriti Niketan School vice-principal Brij Mohan Sharma declared
the day as a holiday, the smile that such announcements normally
bring to the faces of the students was missing. |
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NGOs
punch holes into UN agency’s AIDS estimates |
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A
group of NGOs and independent activists today claimed that the
India figures of HIV/AIDS cases put out by UNAIDS, the United
Nations’ nodal agency for AIDS, contain several contradictions
and ‘‘cover-ups’’. |
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R-Day:
Air Force fly past too restricted |
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Apart
from a truncated parade with no tanks and armoured personnel
carriers, even the Air Force fly past will be restricted this
year to four Mi-8 helicopters and three Su-30 aircraft. |
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Rights
body holds Assam responsible for Vit deaths |
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Even
as the Assam government and UNICEF continue to assert that the
death of 23 children in November was not due to Vitamin A, the
Assam Human Rights Commission on Thursday held the state Health
Department responsible for the deaths. |
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