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Advani takes a break, plays tourist
Taking out time from his official engagements, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on February 1 visited the "exquisite" Grand Palace and the Emerald Buddha temple, providing memorable photo opportunities to tourists from India.
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NATIONAL
India rejects Pak allegation of airspace violation
New Delhi: India on February 1 night described as "baseless" a Pakistani claim that an Indian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) had violated its airspace in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Our fight is against misuse of religion: Sonia
New Delhi: Caught between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s hindutva and charges of playing "soft hindutva", Congress president Sonia Gandhi on February 1 said her party's fight is not against religion, but against its political misuse.
Vajpayee aware of inconvenience caused to public
New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on February 1 took note of the inconvenience caused to the people because of traffic restrictions during his movements in the national capital and said this could be viewed differently by different people.
PM lays foundation for massive spiritual complex
New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on February 1 laid the foundation of a massive spiritual complex spread over 200 hectares in the heart of Delhi.
KASHMIR
National highway opened for traffic after clean-up
Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar national highway, the only road link between Kashmir
valley and the rest of the country, was thrown open for vehicular traffic after
Border Road Organisation (BRO) cleared it of snow and mud, a top BRO official said.
NORTH
UP reshuffle: Maya asks 13 BSP ministers to quit
Lucknow: With a view to accommodating the eight breakaway Congress Members of
Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in the ministry, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is understood to have taken resignations of about a dozen Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Ministers in the coalition government.
SOUTH
Naidu warns TDP cadres against infighting
Hyderabad: Taking a serious view of internal squabbles, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on February 1 warned partymen against "groupism and infighting" saying they would prove detrimental to the interests of the party.
EAST
Lyngdoh flays BJP's style of electioneering in Guj
Kolkata: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) J M Lyngdoh on February 1 attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its style of electioneering in the recent Assembly elections in Gujarat saying it came out with "new tricks" to campaign on communal lines despite a tight vigil by the poll body.
Bangladeshis' infiltration a BDR conspiracy: BSF
Kolkata: Border Security Force (BSF) on February 1 described as "conspiracy" the attempt made by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) to forcibly push 213 Bangladeshis across the border into India at Satgachi outpost in West Bengal's Coochbehar district even as tension continued to prevail along the Indo-Bangla international boundary with the border guards on alert.
Court rejects Parekh's bail plea, extends remand
Kolkata: A Kolkata court on February 1 rejected bail prayer of Mumbai stockbroker Ketan Vinaychandra Parekh in connection with the Rs 120 crore payment crisis at Calcutta Stock Exchange in March, 2001, and remanded him to judicial custody till February 15.
Lyngdoh gives clean chit to WB electoral revision
Kolkata: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) J M Lyngdoh on February 1 gave a clean chit to the West Bengal government on the issue of revision of electoral rolls, saying there was no evidence of malpractice in deletion of names from the list.
Border intruders were Bangladeshis, avers BSF
Siliguri: The Border Security Force (BSF) on February 1 said it had sufficient
documents to prove that the 213 persons who were pushed inside Indian territory by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) were Bangladeshi citizens.
BJP MLA held for violating prohibitory orders
Gaya: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Prem Kumar and 25 others were arrested in Gaya on January 31 where heavy deployment of security forces was made following desecration of a couple of idols by unidentified miscreants, a senior official said.
WEST
14 coaches of shuttle train derails; no casualties
Mumbai: Around 14 coaches of Dahanu-bound shuttle train derailed on January 31
morning between Palgarh and Umroli on the Virar-Dahanu Road section, Western Railway sources said.
NORTH EAST & SIKKIM
Absolved Mahanta to return with renewed vigour
Guwahati: Harried by bigamy charges, which forced him to go to a virtual political exile for more than a year, the former Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta on February 1 announced a comeback after being cleared of the allegations by the Press Council of India (PCI).
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