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Vajpayee to complete five years in office on March 19
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, whose first government collapsed in 13 days, completes five years in office on March 19, setting a unique record for a non-Congress leader in steering the one-billion strong Democracy through vicissitudes in domestic and foreign policies, coalition challenges and pitch-forking 'hindutva' in the forefront of the political agenda.
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NATIONAL
PM meets Kalam; Iraq among topics discussed
New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on March 16 met President A P J Abdul Kalam over breakfast and is understood to have discussed the Iraq crisis among other issues of international and national interest.
Qaida has female suicide bomber squad: reports
New Delhi: A laptop computer used by al-Qaida's operational planner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, has yielded a list of at least six hiding places along the Pak-Afghan border used by Osama bin Laden and his supporters, even as the outfit has set up a squad of female suicide bombers, media reports said.
Committee term extended to complete water row probe
New Delhi: The committee enquiring into the issue of contaminated bottled drinking water is being given more time to complete its investigations.
KASHMIR
9 cops among 11 killed in J&K terrorist attack
Jammu: Nine policemen were among 11 persons killed and five injured, when militants attacked a police post at Ind in Gool area of Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir on March 15 night, official sources said.
NORTH
3 stoves, road emerge during Ayodhya excavation
Ayodhya: Three concrete 'chulahs' (stoves) of 1934 and a part of a road emerged
during excavation at the disputed site opposite the make-shift temple in Ayodhya on March 16, even as the district administration directed the local contractor to engage Muslim labourers also for the task, following the objection raised by the Waqf Board.
SOUTH
BJP would stick to cultural nationalism: Joshi
Palakkad: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Human resource Development Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi on March 16 said his party would continue to uphold cultural nationalism as its central philosophy to safeguard the unity and integrity of the nation.
'NDA govt provided 80 lakh employment per year'
Coimbatore: Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Murli Manohar Joshi on March 16 termed as "misplaced and motivated allegation" that Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had failed to keep its promise to provide one crore employment per year.
Advanced GSLV version to be ready by '09: ISRO
Bangalore: An advanced version of geo-synchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV Mk-III) with a capability to launch four tonne satellites into geo-synchronous transfer orbit (GTO) will be developed by 2009, according to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Central
Hindu Mahasabha to stage satyagraha before PM
Indore: All India Hindu Mahasabha will stage a "satyagraha" during Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's visit to Indore on April 4, to press for its demands on the Bhojshala issue, liberation of Lord Krishna's birthplace in Mathura and construction of Ram temple at the "garbhagriha" at Ayodhya.
EAST
Jharkhand Opposition legislators leave Ranchi
Ranchi: In a fresh development, most legislators of the Opposition group claiming a support of 42 MLAs moved out of the city limits of the state capital ahead of tomorrow's (Mar 17) one day session of House called by their leader and Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari.
LS polls to be held as planned in 2004: Naidu
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president M Venkaiah Naidu on March 16 categorically ruled out the possibility of advancing the Lok Sabha poll as speculated by the Opposition, and said that elections would be held in 2004 as scheduled.
Marandi meets party members privately on strategy
Ranchi: Embattled Jharkhand Chief Minister Babulal Marandi on March 16 went into a huddle with close party members and a Minister to deliberate on strategy as Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari announced that he was going ahead with the Assembly session he had called on March 17, saying there was "no Constitutional crisis".
'Lifting sanctions against Pak not to affect India'
Patna: Defence Minister George Fernandes on March 16 said lifting of economic
sanction against Pakistan by America would have no impact on India and said
Washington always considers Pakistan as its best friend and its love for America is well known.
No refuelling facility to US for Iraq war: Fernandes
Patna: India will not allow refuelling facility to American war planes in case of a war with Iraq, Defence Minister George Fernandes said on March 16.
'Speaker must quit before becoming CM candidate'
Patna: Defence Minister and Samata Party president George Fernandes on March 15
asked the Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari to quit before becoming a candidate for Chief Minister.
WEST
All communities should unite to wipe out terror: VP
Mumbai: The Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on March 16 appealed to all the communities to join together to achieve the goal of non-violence and thereby wipe out terrorism.
SIMI, JeM involved in Mumbai blasts: Advani
Panaji: The involvement of SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) and Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has been found in recent bomb blasts in Mumbai, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said in Panaji on March 16.
Indian Navy to showcase its might tomorrow
Panaji: Indian Navy will display its awesome firepower and carry out manoeuvres in which its sole aircraft carrier INS Virat, destroyers and submarines will take part off the Goan coast on March 17.
Govt committed to devolution of power: Advani
Panaji: Asserting the Vajpayee government was committed to devolution of power, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on March 16 said the Centre's interlocutor on Kashmir N N Vohra had been given the go ahead to hold talks with Hurriyat leaders and other groups which may subscribe to separatism but are not engaged in violence.
NORTH EAST & SIKKIM
Six killed, 50 injured in Assam bomb blast
Guwahati: Six persons, including a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan were killed and atleast 50 others injured in a bomb blast by the banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) in Lower Assam's Goalpara district on March 16.
2 killed, 3 injured in bomb explosions in Bihar shop
Buxar: Two persons were killed and three others injured in two bomb explosions in a scrap dealer's shop at Sonbarsa Bazar under Nauwa Police station of Bihar's Buxar district on March 16, police said.
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