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Govt delaying women's Bill: Shabana Azmi
New Delhi: Filmstar-turned-MP Shabana Azmi has criticized the government for delaying the passage of the women's reservation bill that seeks to reserve 33 per cent legislative seats for women.
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Delhi not a safe city for women
Seven-year-old Anita, a resident of northeast Delhi, was returning home from school when an unidentified man lured her with sweets. She was sexually assaulted and an attempt was made to strangulate her.
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NATIONAL
German Youths cycle to campaign against Child Labor
New Delhi: Jorn Witt and Hagen Benckendorff, like many Germans, have been fascinated by the vibrant, ethnic designs of oriental carpets, which sell quite cheap in a number of stores across their country.
Vajpayee's visit marks new chapter in Indo-US ties
New Delhi: Indo-US ties, already on a roll since President Bill Clinton's trip to this country in March, are expected to scale new heights when Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee visits Washington in mid-September.
'Bring the colors out' was the message of fashion week
New Delhi: Bring the colors out. The brighter the better, going by the colors that reigned at the Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW) here last week.
IITs put rider on joint entrance exam
New Delhi: The six Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have put forth a rider to a proposal from the human resource development (HRD) ministry to hold a common entrance examination for admissions to all technical institutions in the country from January next year.
Lakshman asks party workers to strengthen BJP
Nagpur: Bangaru Lakshman, who took over as the first Dalit president of BJP, on Sunday, cautioned party workers against the machinations of the opposition and asked them to work towards strengthening the party.
'Govt. left too many loopholes in VDIS'
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has upbraided the government for allowing "misuse" of the voluntary disclosure of income scheme (VDIS), 1997, due to several lacunae in the text of the scheme that allowed declarants to undervalue their assets.
Vajpayee unlikely to meet Musharraf in US
New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is not likely to meet Pakistani military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf in New York during their stay there for the UN Millennium Summit commencing Sept. six.
KASHMIR
J&K doctors call off strike
Srinagar: The striking doctors at the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura have decided to call off their strike and resume normal duties from Monday.
Mujahid turns into a renegade for Kashmir villagers
Bonizalla, Jammu and Kashmir: Aziz Bhat, 52, and Rasul Bhat, 45, are brothers who live in this small hamlet, some 34 km north of Srinagar city. They live in the same house, tend the same cattle, and eat food cooked in the same kitchen. But they have not been talking to each other for the last seven years.
NORTH
Spanish tourists’ killers still at large
Shimla: Police have sounded an alert in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh to arrest the killers of Spanish tourist Maria Angeles Gironeus (35) and her 15-year-old son Cristobel who were killed on Friday night in their trekking camp in Kullu district.
Spanish woman, son clubbed to death
Chandigarh: A Spanish woman and her son were killed by four unidentified attackers in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh on Friday night in a suspected robbery, police said.
SOUTH
Ranga's ashes immersed in Bhavani confluence
Coimbatore: Ashes of former power minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, who died on August 23, were immersed in the confluence of Bhavani-Cauvery-Noyyal rivers in Erode district on Sunday.
19 killed in Kerala rain
Thiruvananthapuram: The death toll in heavy rains lashing Kerala since last week has risen to 19 as more casualties were reported from different parts of the state on Sunday.
Tamil Nadu Govt concedes major demand of Veerappan
Chennai: Conceding Forest brigand Veerappan's one of the two vital demands, the Tamil nadu government has set up a Rs 50-million corpus fund for the victims of ''Special Task Force (STF) atrocities'', even as official emissary R R Gopal is set to leave for his third mission to the forest to secure the release of Kannada superstar Rajkumar and three others.
Floods maroon more villages in Andhra
Hyderabad: Fresh floods marooned several villages in the West and east Godavari, Krishna, Karimnagar and Khammam districts Sunday even as relief and rehabilitation measures continued on a war footing in the rain-battered areas of Andhra Pradesh.
CENTRAL
Mouth-organ playing elephant astonishes visitors at Indore zoo
Indore: 50 years old, Moti is a wonder elephant in the busy industrial town of Indore.
EAST
Pakistan thriving on unemployment in India: Fernandes
Calcutta: India's Defense Minister George Fernandes Sunday said Pakistan had been waging a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir taking advantage of growing unemployment in the country.
MCC kills four in Bihar
Ranchi: The outlawed Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) ultras have killed four persons in two separate incidents in Bihar, police said on Sunday.
Hizbul activist arrested in West Bengal
Barrackpore (West Bengal): The arrested Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) suspect and Hizbul Muzaheedin activist Jahid Ahmed has been remanded to police custody for 12 days by a Sub-Divisional Judicial Court Sunday.
No respite from politics for Basu
Calcutta: Marxist icon Jyoti Basu may be keen to leave politics, but politics seems to be in no mood to leave him.
Orissa's sex-workers want their profession legalized
Bhubaneswar: Sex-workers in the capital of cash-strapped Orissa have suggested a rather unique idea to help improve the state's balance sheet: a government corporation to regulate their trade.
Shoot for ‘Ashoka the Great’ set in Orissa
Bhubaneswar: A weeklong shoot of 'Ashoka the Great,' a film on the ancient Indian emperor with Bollywood favorite Shah Rukh Khan in the lead role, has been scheduled in Orissa from September 1.
'ISI plan to infiltrate via West Bengal'
Calcutta: The interrogation of three suspected Kashmiri separatists has revealed plans by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to push trained batches of extremists into India through West Bengal, even as the state government sought more security forces from the Central government to plug its porous border with Bangladesh, official sources said.
Informant says she is yet to get reward
Bhubaneswar: A woman has claimed she is yet to receive the reward for providing information to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that led to the arrest of an aide of Dara Singh, the alleged killer of Australian missionary Graham Stewart Staines and his two sons.
WEST
India will win proxy war against Pak: Advani
Nagpur: Union Home Minister L K Advani on Sunday said India would emerge victorious in the proxy war launched by Pakistan.
Click on mortar site for handicrafts
Mumbai: Antique hunters can now shop for artifacts online. A click of the mouse can bring home handlooms, pottery or brass inlay work from artisans across the country.
Security beefed up at Bachchan's house
Mumbai: Paying heed to film star Amitabh Bachchan's request for more security in the wake of anonymous threat calls, the Union Home Ministry has directed the Maharashtra government to tighten security cover for the actor-turned television anchor, an official spokesman said Sunday.
Vajpayee's trip to US is on
New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Sunday cut short his visit to Nagpur for the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) national convention and returned to the capital on the advice of doctors.
Vajpayee warns dissidents
Nagpur: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee warned dissidents in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday against indiscipline, saying he would tell new party chief Bangaru Laxman to draw a line that no member dare cross.
BJP wants to mend ties with Muslims
Nagpur: "Muslims are the flesh of our flesh and the blood of our blood," is the new credo of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Vajpayee, Advani pay homage to Ambedkar
Nagpur: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Sunday paid tributes to Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar at Deeksha Bhoomi, where the late dalit leader and architect of the Indian constitution embraced Buddhism in 1956.
BJP for protection of small scale sector
Nagpur: BJP on Sunday made a strong plea for protection of the small-scale sector and a transparent approach to disinvestments so that the interests of the workers in public sector enterprises is safeguarded.
Gujarat capital set to be a 'city of flowers'
Gandhinagar: The capital of Gujarat is all set to blossom into a "city of flowers" under a beautification drive launched by the Gandhinagar administration.
Nagpur is no longer power center of RSS
Nagpur: The modest, double-storeyed Hedgewar Bhawan, the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has stood in a narrow city by lane for nearly eight decades.
NORTH EAST
At dusk trains stop in North-East
Guwahati, (Assam): As evening descends over northeast trains chug into the nearest station calling it a day.
Manipur journalists targeted by extremists, govt
Guwahati: The press in Manipur is caught in a Catch-22 situation with journalists becoming the targets of both separatist groups and the state government, leading to a muzzling of the freedom of the press.
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