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Peace chantings, bandh on Godhra anniversary
Majority community members held chantings, 'yagna' and morning prayers for peace on February 27 morning amidst tight security, marking the first anniversary of Godhra train carnage, even as Shiv Sena-sponsored bandh evoked partial response.

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Disunity, dissidence led to defeat in HP: BJP
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on March 1 blamed its defeat in Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections on "disunity" and dissidence in the party ranks in the state, forcing Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and other top party brass to meet on March 2 to analyse the rout.

Pak rejects Indian demand for handing over ultras
New Delhi: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has rejected India's demand for handing over 20 wanted terrorists and criminals who have taken refuge in that country.

Virbhadra Singh frontrunner for CM's post in HP
New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Virbhadra Singh appears to be emerging as the frontrunner for the post of Chief Minister.

Major gains for ruling parties in by-elections
New Delhi: Ruling parties registered success on March 1 in six of the seven Assembly by-elections in Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Assam and Maharashtra, while results of Haidergarh Assembly in UP were "withheld due to some technical" reasons.

Lankan PM Ranil holds talks with Vajpayee
New Delhi: Sri Lankan Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe on March 1 held wide-ranging talks on bilateral co-operation with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and is understood to have briefed him on the peace process with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

India, Columbia to cooperate in fighting terrorism
New Delhi: Sharing concerns over threats posed by terrorism and its nexus with drug trafficking, India and Columbia have agreed on the need to co-operate in combating this scourge.

Maruti, Ford, Hindustan Motors cut car prices
New Delhi: Ford India and Hindustan Motors on March 1 slashed their vehicle prices by Rs 15,000-Rs 1.4 lakhs following the eight per cent excise duty reduction in the 2003-04 Budget.

Jaswant rules out rollback of fertiliser price hike
New Delhi: Despite opposition from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other allies, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh on March 1 virtually ruled out any rollback of the fertiliser price hike in the Budget saying it would not affect drought-hit farmers.

Sonia calls for early passage of women's Bill
New Delhi: Stating that the 73rd and 74th Constitution amendments providing 33 per cent reservation to women in local self-governments are "nothing short of a social revolution", Congress president Sonia Gandhi on March 1 expressed the hope that Women's Reservation Bill granting similar reservation to them in Parliament and state Assemblies would be passed soon.

'Party discipline killing spirit of Democracy'
New Delhi: Hitting out at the term "party discipline", Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan on March 1 favoured politicians being allowed to hold independent views on issues while limiting party whip to the Budget and confidence vote in Parliament.

HP poll results most encouraging: Sonia Gandhi
New Delhi: Enthused by the Assembly poll outcome in Himachal Pradesh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on march 1 said the results are "most encouraging".

'Long-term capital gains tax may be abolished'
New Delhi: A day after presenting the Budget, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh on March 1 said he will consider abolishing long-term capital gains tax totally if the difficult war-like situation in Iraq and drought condition in the country eases.

'BJP setback in HP due to organisational flaws'
New Delhi: With Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) facing imminent defeat in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, the party on March 1 said it was more due to organisational weaknesses rather than the issue of development.

BJP's Gujarat bluff called off in HP: Congress
New Delhi: Congress on March 1 said the trends in the Assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh show that the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) bluff has been called off and the ruling party has miserably failed to "replicate Gujarat".

KASHMIR
6 jawans feared killed in Feb 19 JK avalanche
Srinagar: Six Army jawans were feared killed in a massive snow avalanche in Karnah sector of North Kashmir in Kupwara district, official sources said.

NORTH
Congress gets absolute majority in Himachal
Shimla: Congress gets absolute majority in Himachal Pradesh by winning 37 seats in the 68-member Assembly.

Cong wins three seats in HP; BJP gets one
Shimla: Congress on March 1 won three seats and was leading in 19 others in the Assembly election in Himachal Pradesh, where ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged one seat and was ahead in 11 of the 65 constituencies.

SOUTH
DMK seeks rollback in diesel, fertiliser price hike
Chennai: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a constituent of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), on March 1 welcomed the Union Budget for 2003-04 fiscal, presented by Union Finance Minister Jaswant Singh in Parliament on February 28.

Phaneesh Murthy joins the board of FutureSoft
Chennai: Phaneesh Murthy, who had quit Infosys board while serving as head of the company's global sales and marketing in the wake of a harassment suit filed by a woman employee, has joined the board of Chennai based Futuresoft, a leading player in the communications and embedded software solutions space.

India, Pakistan tie casts shadow on Tirumala too
Tirupathi: The India-Pakistan cricket match in the World Cup at South Africa has cast a shadow on the temple town of Tirumala too. Normally very crowded during weekends, the hill shrine of Lord Venkateshwara wore a deserted look on March 1, according to sources.

AIADMK wins Sattankulam Assembly byelections
Sattankulam: The ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on March 1 won the by-election to Sattankulam Assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu defeating Congress by a margin of over 14,000 votes, officials said.

Congress wins Humnabad Assembly bypolls
Bangalore: The ruling Congress' candidate Rajashekhar Patil has won the Humnabad Assembly seat in Bidar district in the February 26 byelection, defeating his nearest Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) rival Mirajuddin Patel by 9,320 votes.

EAST
Four more Nepalese Maoists arrested in Patna
Patna: In yet another crackdown, four Nepalese Maoist rebels were arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) in the state capital, police said on February 28.

WEST
SENSEX opens strong at early stages, moves up later
Mumbai: The SENSEX opened on a firm note and later surged up further during opening session, in line with a smart rally in equities on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on February 28 on all-round buying support.

NORTH EAST & SIKKIM
Hung Assembly in Meghalaya; Cong bags 22 seats
Shillong: With a fractured verdict in Meghalaya, the Congress, which went to the polls projecting it would emerge as the single-largest party and form the next government, on March 1 secured 22 seats in the 60-member House, five more than it had in the outgoing Assembly.

Cong suffers setback, Naga heads for hung House
Kohima: Nagaland is heading for a hung Assembly as no party is likely to cross the 25-seat mark with the ruling Congress facing a rout in the party stronghold of Kohima and Phek district at the hands of its arch rival Nagaland People's Front (NPF), which wrested 13 seats among the 33 results declared so far.

Left Front secures absolute majority in Tripura
Agartala: The ruling Left Front in Tripura on March 1 secured absolute majority by winning 32 seats in the 60-member House.

Cong ahead in Meghalaya with 10 of 30 seats
Shillong: The Congress on March 1 surged ahead of its coalition partners of the Meghalaya People's Forum (MPF), in 10 of the 30 seats, trends for which were available in Meghalaya till now.

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