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No change of stance in J&K yet, says Army
New Delhi: Army Headquarters on Friday said there was no change in the military
stance against the proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir following the ceasefire announced
by the Hizbul Mujahideen.
Cong MLA expelled for fake medical claims
Calcutta: Congress legislator Shyamdas Banerjee was stripped of his membership on
Friday by the West Bengal Assembly for submitting fake medical claims.
Assaulted BJP MLA quits in Uttar Pradesh
BJP MLA Ganga Singh Chauhan, who had been recently assaulted by a gang that killed
his wife, resigned his seat on Friday in protest against government's failure to take
action against an SP and a Loktantrik Congress minister alleged to be behind the
assault.
Jyoti Basu shifted to AIIMS
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Marxist icon Jyoti Basu was shifted to Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where a team of cardiologists were attending on him. Basu was earlier admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Friday after he
complained of uneasiness during a party meeting.
Kalyan defiant over summons in Babri case
Lucknow: Kalyan Singh, who was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh when Hindu zealots
demolished the Babri mosque on December 6, 1992, has indicated that he will not
appear before a commission that is probing the circumstances leading up to the event.
It was Govt that cut off the Mumbai phones
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government had ordered a partial shutdown of the telephone
system in the city on Monday, when Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray was arrested.
Delhi cops rapped for evicting vendors
New Delhi: The capital's police force is under fire from the human rights watchdog
for hurting the livelihood of vendors it took off the streets as part of the security
drill for US President Bill Clinton's visit in March.
Indians relieved as Dubai gets crematorium
Dubai: Dubai has got a new electric crematorium which has been set up using
donations by the Indian community, a move that will greatly help the huge Indian
community in the emirate and in the entire United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Bengal: No holds barred as Trinamool gains
Calcutta: Thursday's massacre of 11 people in West Bengal's Birbhum district has once
again brought to the fore the simmering political tensions as the Trinamool Congress
and the ruling Communists wage a bloody battle for political supremacy in the state's
rural belts.
Role in truce offer? Nonsense, says Jamaat
Lahore: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed has denied
reports linking the unilateral ceasefire declared by Hizbul Mujahideen in
Jammu and Kashmir with his visit to the United States and said the
declaration by the rebel group was not unanimous.
Basu faints, admitted to RML
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu on Fridaytoday fell sick during
a CPI-M Polit Bureau Meeting here and was rushed to a hospital, party leader Prakash
Karat said.
Army moves into lower gear in Kashmir
Srinagar: The Indian army said on Friday it had reduced operations against
separatist guerrillas in the troubled northern state of Jammu and Kashmir since a
frontline guerrilla group declared a three-month ceasefire.
Order to attach Lalit Yadav’s property
Patna: A fortnight after sacked Bihar Minister of State for Cooperatives Lalit
Kumar Yadav was declared an offender in the torture case of two dalits, the Patna
police have procured the warrant to attach the property of Yadav and four others
accused in case.
'India must seize the moment in J&K '
Washington: The only United States think tank here, which has an exclusive
program on confidence building measures (CBMs) in South Asia has called on
New Delhi to seize the moment in Kashmir in the wake of the pro-Pakistan
militant group Hizbul Mujahideen's unilateral ceasefire.
Search on for Andhra's mysterious village
Hyderabad: Law enforcers in Andhra Pradesh are frantically trying to locate a tiny
and hitherto unheard of village that is apparently being used by a religious sect as
a base for its allegedly anti-India operations.
Illegal shrines in Mumbai to be demolished
Mumbai: Tiny street side "shrines" that have sprung up illegally on this city's
already crowded sidewalks have their days numbered as Govind Ragho Khairnar,
Mumbai's best known municipal official, is soon to resume demolition of such
structures.
Northwest, KLM to double flights on India sector
New York: Alliance partners Northwest Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have
announced they will double services and improve connections between the growing
North America-India sector this fall.
Sindhis demand right to self-determination
London: The World Sindhi Congress has demanded the right to self-determination for
the indigenous people of Sindh saying the Pakistan government is “flagrantly
changing the identity, traditions and way of life of Sindhis
at gunpoint.”
TMH queried on removal of eyes
Patna: The Tata Main Hospital (TMH) in the steel city of Jamshedpur has been asked
to explain why it did not report to the police the alleged removal of eyes from two
corpses in its mortuary.
Basu faints, admitted to RML
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu on Fridaytoday fell sick during
a CPI-M Polit Bureau Meeting here and was rushed to a hospital, party leader Prakash
Karat said.
Curbs on Indian housemaids in Kuwait may go
New Delhi, July 28 - The Indian government will soon send a semi-official team to
Kuwait for talks with the authorities there for working out a regulatory system that
ensures the well-being of the Indian expatriates, particularly housemaids, working
in that country.
Slap sanctions on Fiji, India urges ASEAN
Bangkok: India on Friday used an annual ministerial meeting of the Association
of the South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to call for economic sanctions on Fiji,
where an elected cabinet deemed favourable to ethnic Indians was recently
overthrown.
Govt doesn't agree with Jethmalini's views: PM
New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told the Lok Sabha on Friday that his
Government completely disagreed with the perception of former Law Minister Ram
Jethmalani contained in his statement on Thursday.
ADB to lend $180m for Indian toll road
Manila: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 180 million dollars loan
to finance widening and upgrading a toll road in India linking the states of Gujarat
and Maharashtra, the Bank announced.
Bankruptcy looms over Kerala: Former finance minister
Thiruvananthapuram: Former Kerala finance minister K.M. Mani on Thursday warned
that the state was heading towards bankruptcy and blamed financial mismanagement by
the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government for the situation.
Justice Anand cuts short UK trip, returns
London: Chief Justice of India A S Anand, against whom criticism has been leveled by
former union law minister Ram Jethmalani, cut short his week-long visit to the United
Kingdom and returned to Delhi on Thursday.
Jaswant Singh to visit Saudi Arabia
Dubai: India and Saudi Arabia will sign an agreement on foreign office consultations
during the official visit of External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh to the kingdom
in October, the first visit by a senior Indian minister to that country in six years.
Trawlers take to sea defying court order
Panaji: Mechanized fishing trawlers in Goa defiantly went to sea, sailing in the
face of public opinion and a Goa High Court verdict that bars such vessels from
fishing till mid-August.
Englishman nabbed in Goa for child abuse
New Delhi: Interpol arrested a British national at the instance of the Central Bureau
of Investigations (CBI) in London, who was accused by the agency in the infamous Goa
child abuse case.
Orissa CM’s wild party draws flak
Bhubaneswar: A party at the Chadaka-Dampara wildlife sanctuary, attended by Orissa
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and over 700 others, was slammed by wildlife lovers
and environmentalists on Thursday as a shameful violation of the law.
Narayanan’s impersonator nabbed
Ahmedabad: An undergraduate student who wrote a letter to Gujarat University
pretending to be an aide to President K.R. Narayanan has been arrested.
Jethmalani sparks political crisis with offensive
New Delhi: Former law minister Ram Jethmalani launched a sweeping offensive on
Thursday that has the potential to set off deep political rumblings, taking on the
prime minister, the Chief Justice of India and attorney general over his ouster from
the Union cabinet.
Akali legislator returns to Badal fold
Chandigarh: The ruling Akali Dal headed by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal
on Thursday received a shot in the arm following the return to its fold of a
breakaway legislator.
Squabble in UP BJP over state chief's post
Lucknow: Unabated infighting in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar
Pradesh has taken a new turn with two senior leaders coming out in the open against
the practice of nomination of the state party president by the national leadership.
TMH queried on removal of eyes
Patna: The Tata Main Hospital (TMH) in the steel city of Jamshedpur has been asked
to explain why it did not report to the police the alleged removal of eyes from two
corpses in its mortuary.
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