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Second test-flight of GSLV likely on May 9
In another significant milestone in India's pursuit to make its space programme self-reliant, space scientists are now planning the second test-flight of India's ambitious Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) on May 9.
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PARLIAMENT
Maya's deeds drive MPs to demand code of conduct
New Delhi: The filing of cases by Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh against
Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders on April 21 provoked members in the Lok Sabha to demand a code of conduct for Chief Ministers.
NATIONAL
India rubbishes Pak minister's charge on WMD
New Delhi: India on April 21 dismissed as "totally baseless" Pakistan's charge that it has developed chemical and biological weapons and kept them in some neighbouring countries.
Truckers in AP, Bengal, Orissa call off stir
New Delhi: The transporters' agitation appears to have lost steam with truckers in at least three major states having called off their agitation while in some other important cities small-time truck owners were back on the roads.
Malimath report against death penalty for rapists
New Delhi: Differing radically from the political view, Justice Malimath Committee on criminal justice system reforms, which called for revamping the entire criminal justice system including the police prosecution and the judiciary, said on April 21 that it was against imposition of death penalty on rapists.
Cong backs demand for code of conduct for CMs
New Delhi: Congress on April 21 supported the demand for a code of conduct for Chief Ministers but said this required a political initiative.
It's up to Pak to reciprocate PM's gesture: India
New Delhi: India on April 21 said it was up to Pakistan now to respond to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's fresh friendship offer by giving "atleast a guarantee" that it would not support cross-border terrorism.
Planes coming from SARS-hit nations to be sanitised
New Delhi: The Union government has asked all airlines to sanitise aircraft coming from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-affected nations following concerns over possible spread of the virus in the country.
Zambia agrees to demand for liberalise Visa regime
New Delhi: Responding to India’s demand seeking liberal Visa regime, Zambia said on April 21 said that its Embassy in New Delhi would be given the right to issue Visas.
VHP vows to 'throw out' Gehlot govt in Rajasthan
New Delhi: Buoyed by the granting of bail to its leader Praveen Togadia, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on April 21 declared it would continue with its trident distribution programme and vowed to oust the "anti-Hindu" Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan.
'All nations must have zero tolerance for terror'
New Delhi: The United States on April 21 said the fight against international
terrorism would not be won until terrorism against India stopped permanently.
Truckers stir enters 8th day; deadlock continues
New Delhi: Fresh efforts were underway to break the deadlock between the government and the agitating transporters in a bid to end the week-long truckers' strike that has hit hard both common man and industry following disruption of movement of goods across the country.
US envoy Robert Blackwill 'back to school'
New Delhi: High-profile American Ambassador to India Robert D Blackwill on April 21 announced his decision to return home to pursue his academic career at Harvard University at the end of a two-year term during which he sought to bring new dimensions in bilateral relations.
KASHMIR
Five killed in J&K; seven militants nabbed
Srinagar: Five persons, including a militant and a nomadic tribe member, were killed in separate incidents in Jammu and Kashmir where security personnel arrested seven ultras since April 20.
'Slain LeT militants behind Nadimarg massacre'
Srinagar: The three Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants killed by security forces in an encounter in South Kashmir on April 18 were involved in the recent massacre of Kashmiri Pandits at Nadimarg, police said on April 21.
Vohra in Srinagar to hold parleys with JK leaders
Srinagar: Centre's interlocutor for Kashmir and former Union Home and Defence Secretary N N Vohra arrived on April 21 for a weeklong visit to hold talks with political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, even as separatist groups, including the Hurriyat Conference, were still undecided over holding parleys with him.
'Pak pushing terrorists to keep militancy alive'
Krishnagati (Poonch): With the snowline starting to recede along the Pir Panjal
mountain ridge due to arrival of summer, Pakistan has stepped up infiltration of heavily armed foreign mercenaries, particularly those of
Pakistani-origin, to keep the pot of militancy boiling in Jammu and Kashmir, (J&K) a senior Army official said.
Gujjar tribal hanged by militants in Rajouri
Jammu: Militants hanged a member of nomadic Gujjar tribe in Rajouri district of
Jammu and Kashmir after abducting him when he was on his way home, official sources said in Jammu on April 21.
NORTH
Mayawati scales down offensive against SP leaders
Lucknow: In the face of unfavourable judicial observations, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has instructed officials not to arrest Samajwadi Party leaders and others named in first information reports (FIRs) filed in connection with "misuse" of the discretionary fund without getting clearance from courts.
SOUTH
Sessions court grants bail to Stalin
Chennai: Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (DMK) youth wing leader and former city Mayor M K Stalin, who was remanded to judicial custody till May 5 by a city magistrate for allegedly inciting party cadres to attack police personnel who had gone to arrest him on the night of April 9, was granted bail by a sessions court on April 21.
Stalin remanded to judicial custody till May 5
Chennai: A metropolitan magistrate's court on April 21 remanded Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) youth wing leader and former city mayor M K Stalin to judicial custody till May 5, who has been charged with attempt to murder for allegedly inciting party cadres to attack police personnel during his arrest on the night of April 9.
TADA court rejects Nedumaran's bail plea
Chennai: A designated Prevention Of Terrorist Act (TADA) court on April 21 rejected bail pleas by Tamil Nationalist Movement (TNM) leader P Nedumaran and three other movement functionaries, who have been detained under the anti-terrorist law for allegedly speaking in favour of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ever since August 1, 2002.
EAST
Maoist ultras attack village in Jharkhand
Ranchi: MCC (Maoist Communist Centre) extremists raided Karampatha village in
Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district late on April 20 and set on fire to railway
sleepers in the nearby railway station and couple of houses.
WEST
SARS patient gets married under doctors' supervision
Pune: Despite testing positive to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Julie, who contracted the dreaded virus following a visit to the South East, on April 21 got married under the supervision of doctors in a city church.
3 of a family test positive for SARS in M'shtra
Pune: Three persons of a family, including a girl who was to get married today (April 21), have tested positive for SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), Maharashtra Minister for Health Digvijay Khanvilkar said.
Suspected SARS patient admitted to Pune hospital
Pune: A patient, suspected to be suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), was admitted to a private hospital on April 21.
Key Dawood aide remanded to custody till April 29
Mumbai: Anil Parab, a close associate of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, was remanded to police custody till April 29 by a local court on April 21 for his alleged involvement in several criminal cases, including murder.
Court grants bail to VHP leader Pravin Togadia
Ajmer: A court on April 21 granted bail to VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) leader Praveen Togadia who was arrested on the charge of violating a ban on distribution of tridents and giving inflammatory speech at a function in Ajmer on April 13.
Ten days police remand for Pandya's killers
Ahmedabad: The five alleged killers of former Gujarat Home and Revenue Minister
Haren Pandya were on April 21 remanded to CBI custody for 10 days.
Stocks: Second-line shares in limelight at BSE
Mumbai: Second-line software shares were in limelight in an otherwise dull and
listless trading at opening session at the Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE) on April 21 on select buying support from operators on the back of positive advices from Wall Street.
Alleged Pandya killers brought to Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad: Five alleged killers of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya were brought to Ahmedabad from New Delhi by the CBI sleuths by an Indian Airlines flight amidst tight security.
NORTH EAST & SIKKIM
Lapang-Gogoi for joint efforts against militancy
Shillong: The Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang would meet his Assam counterpart, Tarun Gogoi, on April 22 to discuss a joint operation between the two states to curb militancy and issues belated to boundary disputes.
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