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Temple:
Uma pleads for PM, court order |
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As
top VHP leaders today began a crucial meeting here to chalk
out the course of their Ayodhya movement, Union Minister Uma
Bharti asked the Sangh Parivar outfit to defer its programme
and wait for the court verdict. |
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Punjabi
University suffers but absconding V-C can’t be fired |
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Punjabi University’s Vice-Chancellor may be on the run, facing
among other sexual harassment charges. And the university may
be looking at a financial logjam, with March 31 deadline to
pass the new budget looming and the V-C nowhere in the picture
to sanction it. |
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HC
raps doc team for shoddy work in Pratyusha case |
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In the face of contradictory submissions made by the counsel
for the Central and state Government on the CBI inquiry into
actress Pratyusha’s death, the Andhra Pradesh High Court today
asked the state government to explain the status of the CBI
probe. |
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4
days, 30 kidnaps: Business booming in Bihar |
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Ten-year-old Akash is kidnapped by a gang in the Saharsa district
of Bihar. Akash’s parents immediately rush to the police for
help. |
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US
study says quake may have wiped out Harappa |
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Nobody really knows why the Harappan civilisation that thrived
around 2500 BC suddenly disappeared. Many theories have been
propounded till date which include sudden floods, drought and
even the invasion of the region by Aryans. |
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Testing
times, let students cheat: Gujarat parents |
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Parents of students appearing
for board examinations in this curfew-bound town are an angry
lot. Not only are their children being put through board examinations
in these testing times, they say, but they are not even being
allowed to cheat to make things a bit easy.
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Mob
fury guts 102-yr-old hotel where Mahatma ate jalebis |
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Biting
into fafda-jalebi in the august company of Mahatma Gandhi
and Sardar Vallabhai Patel is no longer possible here in Ahmedabad.
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Bapunagar
victims ashamed Home Minister is their MLA |
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Stones, bricks, burnt vehicles and debris of burnt shops continue
to litter the streets of Bapunagar, where 22 people from the
minority community have died so far in Gujarat riots (nine in
violence, 13 in private firing). |
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At
last, hope for UP Sarus cranes as HC intervenes |
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The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday stopped the draining of
five wetlands crucial for the survival of the world’s largest
concentration of the endangered Sarus cranes in Uttar Pradesh. |
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UP:
Don’t play games, take a stand, Rajnath tells Congress |
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Former Chief Minister Rajnath Singh asked the Congress to either
join the efforts to form a ‘‘secular government’’ in alliance
with the Samajwadi Party and the Communists in Uttar Pradesh
or back the motion in Rajya Sabha for the approval of Presidential
rule in the state. |
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Modi
govt probes e-mails on Godhra’s ‘true story’ |
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The Gujarat government has launched an inquiry into the mysterious
e-mails being sent to various persons and media houses in India
and abroad claiming to portray a ‘‘different and true story’’
of the Sabarmati Express carnage of February 27 at Godhra. |
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Scuffle
at Agra Nigam, police save Mayor from BSP corporators |
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Police had to escort Agra Mayor Kishori Lal Mahore to safety
from a municipal corporation meeting today after angry BSP corporators
threatened to beat him up, even trying to grab his collar. |
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Deuba
to trade security, cooperation |
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On his five-day visit officially beginning tomorrow, Nepalese
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will walk a fine line between
domestic concerns and the need for New Delhi’s support against
terrorism, bogged down as he is with rampant insurgency back
home and the trade barriers recently imposed by India. |
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CBI
wants case closed, Satish may go scot-free |
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Former union minister Captain
Satish Sharma is likely to go scot free in a disproportionate
assets case after the CBI submitted a closure report in a
Tis Hazari court, saying that it cannot probe further due
to the absence of assistance from the US.
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MORE
HEADLINES
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»
Spellbound
LS listens to a Scindia again
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NHRC panel tours
Gujarat for feedback
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Surjeet back to
basics, asks ‘secular’ NDA allies to rethink
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Ultras want ransom
to free Manipur DC
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I’ve never met
a gangster in my life: Varma
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Khonglam picks
9 UDP ministers
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Katiyar summoned
to appear on April 29
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