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Thackeray to be charged in Mumbai riots case
Mumbai: Maharashtra government on Saturday gave go ahead to the police to prosecute
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and Samajwadi Party city unit president Abu Asim Azmi
for alleged inflammatory writings and speeches during 1992-93 communal riots.
Meet the 'honest man of the year'
New Delhi: Noted author Khushwant Singh was honoured with the Rs 10 lakh ''honest man
of the year award-1998'' here on Saturday and promptly ''confessed'' to his fondness
for ''small lies and small thefts of ball point pens.''
Murder: A year's manhunt ends
Mumbai: Mumbai Police is completing the formalities for extraditing to the United
States a 22-year-old computer science student charged with killing his cousin's
daughter last year.
Himachal Pradesh in monsoon grip
Shimla: Sharp showers lashed the capital town of Shimla and its adjoining areas as
monsoon remained active in parts of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, triggering
landslides.
It's pouring all over Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: It was a rainy day all over Uttar Pradesh with the monsoon getting vigorous
in Varanasi and active in Gorakhpur divisions of the state during the past 24 hours.
UDF rally turns violent, 37 injured
Thiruvananthapuram: At least 37 people, including 25 policemen, were injured when the
protest marches to district collectorates organised by the Opposition United
Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala on the plus-two issue turned violent on Saturday.
NC doesn't know yet if it'll stay in govt
Srinagar: The National Conference (NC) in Jammu and Kashmir has deferred a decision
on whether or not to remain a part of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
in New Delhi.
A R Rehman deposes in Jayalalitha case
Chennai: The special judge presiding over former chief minister Jayalalitha's trial
here had a special visitor when well-known music director A R Rehman presented
himself in the court as a prosecution witness.
Karnataka cops crack church blast case
Bangalore: The Corps of Detectives (CoD) probing the three blasts in churches in
Karnataka on Saturday claimed that they had cracked July 8 Hubli St John Lutheran's
church explosion case with the arrest of two men.
Jeans-clad girls can enter gurdwaras
Amritsar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Bibi Jagir Kaur on
Saturday ruled out a ban on the entry of jeans or skirt-clad girls into gurdwaras run
by the SGPC.
Govt to open up telecom sector soon
New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Saturday announced major
initiatives in the telecom sector including opening up of national long distance
telephony by August 15 without any ceiling on the number of private players, ending
the state monopoly of the sector.
Curfew in Tripura, tribals homeless
Guwahati: An indefinite curfew has been clamped in the northeastern state of Tripura
after ethnic violence broke out with armed guerrillas setting ablaze more than 300
houses, official sources said.
Autonomy or bust, says NC
Srinagar: The National Conference on Saturday declared that the autonomy resolution
passed by the Jammu and Kashmir legislature will not be compromised or left midway.
At last, Lashkar admits Kargil role
New Delhi: For the first time since the Kargil conflict, Pakistan-based militant
group Lashkar-e-Taiba, engaged in subversive activities in Jammu and Kashmir, has
admitted to its active involvement in the aggression.
Kerala bus stir as injured conductor dies
Thiruvananthapuram: The bus conductor who sustained injuries in the violence let
loose by the BJP-ABVP activists in protest against the lathicharge of their activists
on the plus two issue here on Thursday, succumbed to his injuries at the medical
college hospital early on Saturday.
Gujarat's rain prayer answered - and how!
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad never had it so bad in five decades and, until last week,
scarcely knew that its prayers and yagnas for a good monsoon would be more than
answered by a deluge.
Bihar Minister a proclaimed offender now
Patna: Even as dismissed Bihar Minister Lalit Kumar Yadav continued to hoodwink the
police for the past six days, the special judge for offences against Dalits has
declared Yadav a proclaimed offender.
148 die as rains wreak havoc in three states
New Delhi: At least 148 people have died in the
past three days in incessant rains that savaged Maharashtra, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.
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