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Mansingh, Shah, others receive Padma awards
Noted Odissi danseuse Sonal Mansingh, Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, senior journalist Prabhu Chawla and well known actors Aamir Khan and Naseeruddin Shah on April 3 received Padma awards from President A P J Abdul Kalam who set aside protocol and walked up to present the awards to seven others because of their poor health.
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NATIONAL
Noted singers seek ban on Pak musicians in India
New Delhi: After cricket, it may be music, which could fall victim to Indo-Pak tensions if some Indian musicians have their way.
Passengers from all countries to be tested for virus
New Delhi: Government on April 3 decided to screen passengers from all the countries at airports for the symptoms related to unknown pneumonia rather than limiting it to those from where the virus has been reported, officials said.
FBI questions Pak woman for alleged al-Qaida links
New Delhi: US intelligence officials are interrogating a Pakistani woman for her alleged involvement in moving al-Qaida funds and helping out with logistics planning of the terrorist outfit, according to Western reports.
'UK seeks end to terrorism, beginning of talks'
New Delhi: Britain has voiced grave concern over the "increasing evidence" of infiltration across the line of control (LoC) from Pakistan and said it wanted to see Islamabad "encouraging" an end to all kinds of militant and terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
Vohra meets Advani, finalises schedule for talks
New Delhi: Centre's interlocutor on Jammu and Kashmir N N Vohra on April 3 met
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and finalised a working schedule to hold talks with the political parties in the state during his visit to the valley scheduled for April 20.
Centre-NSCN talks likely to be held next week
New Delhi: In a bid to further the Naga peace process, informal discussions between National Socialist Council of Nagalim – Issac/Muivah (NSCN-IM) leadership and Centre's special emissary K Padmanabhaiah are likely to be held abroad next week.
KASHMIR
Three of family among five killed in Kashmir
Srinagar: Three members of a family and an Army jawan were among five persons killed in overnight violence in Kashmir valley, where security forces recovered 50 kgs of explosives from a hideout, a police spokesman said.
'Wiping tears of victims is true healing touch'
Jammu: Dismissing criticism of his healing touch policy as sheer propaganda, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on April 3 said wiping out tears of families of victims of militancy was the true meaning of this policy.
Omar to take up autonomy issue with Vohra
Srinagar: National Conference president Omar Abdullah on April 3 said he would plead the case for restoration of autonomy when Centre's interlocutor N N Vohra visits Kashmir to hold talks with the state leadership.
Couple, 3-year-old child shot dead by ultras in JK
Srinagar: In a gruesome incident, militants shot dead a couple and their three-year-old daughter in Kupwara district in North Kashmir, official sources said on April 3.
Pak intruder, 14 Bangladeshis arrested near IB
Jammu: A Pakistani intruder and 14 Bangladeshi nationals were apprehended near the international border in Jammu region, official sources said on April 3.
NORTH
Aim to convert India into developed nation: Advani
Hardwar: Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on April 2 said eminent people like K S Hedgewar, E M S Namboodiripad and Indira Gandhi had aimed to develop India into an ideal nation despite their ideological differences.
SOUTH
TDP activist, ex-extremist shot dead by PWG
Hyderabad: A ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) activist and an ex-extremist was shot dead by naxalites of banned People's War Group (PWG) in Andhra Pradesh during the last 12 hours.
Tiff over RS seat: Murali quits as Kerala PCC chief
Thiruvananthapuram: Sore over the high command's rejection of his proposal for the Rajya Sabha polls, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K
Muraleedharan has submitted his resignation as the state unit chief to All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Sonia Gandhi.
Central
BJP to focus on local issues in coming polls
Indore: Sobered by defeat in Himachal Assembly poll, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to focus on local issues in the coming Assembly elections, rather than resort to aggressive 'hindutva' and the party is expected to draw its strategy on these line at its national executive beginning in Indore on April 4.
BJP national executive meet to begin tomorrow
Indore: The strategy for four Assembly elections and "Mission 2004" targeting 300 seats in the Lok Sabha polls next year would be chalked out at the two-day national executive of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) beginning in Indore on April 4.
EAST
Abducted Bihar NCP leader, five associates freed
Bagha: Bihar Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) vice president Mohammed Salauddin and his five associates, who were abducted from Aurahiya area of Bihar's West Champaran district on March 25, have been freed after eight days of captivity, police said on April 3.
Protest against war: NBU cuts ties with US varsities
Siliguri: North Bengal University (NBU) has decided not to continue co-ordination and collaboration with American universities in protest against the American invasion of Iraq.
Dhantala rape case prime accused re-arrested
Krishnanagar (WB): The prime accused in the February 5 rape and molestation of women at Dhantala in Nadia district, Chimu Sardar, was re-arrested from Maslandpur in North 24 Parganas district on April 1 night after escaping from CID (Criminal Investigation Department) custody on March 19, police sources said.
WEST
Aishwarya to be out of action for over a month
Mumbai: Popular Bollywood Actress Aishwarya Rai would be out of action for more than a month due to the "significant" fracture on her left leg after she was hit by a jeep during a shooting of a film near Nasik on April 2.
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