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Ram Prakash Gupta elected leader
Kalyan quits, says no to Central post

LUCKNOW, Nov 11 — Mr Ram Prakash Gupta was today formally elected leader of the UP BJP Legislature Party shortly after the Chief Minister, Mr Kalyan Singh, resigned and proposed his name for the leadership to facilitate change of guard following the party’s debacle in the Lok Sabha polls.		 Mr Ram Prakash Gupta is congratulated by outgoing Chief Minister Kalyan Singh.
Mr Ram Prakash Gupta is congratulated by outgoing Chief Minister Kalyan Singh and state party president Raj Nath Singh after being elected leader of the UP BJP Legislature Party in the presence of BJP president Kushabhau Thakre, in Lucknow on Thursday. — PTI
6 BSF men killed in encounter
JAMMU, Nov 11 — While the Indian troops have launched search operations to eliminate or arrest a large group of Pakistani infiltrators who had sneaked into the Indian territory from across Faulad post at Leninmarg, the remote hilly belt of Gulmarg in Uri sector, 19 persons, including six BSF personnel, including an Inspector, and six militants were killed in a major encounter between the militants and the security forces at Panzipora near Sopore town today.
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PM reschedules loan repayment
NEW DELHI, Nov 11 — The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, today directed rescheduling of repayment of Rs 104 crore loan by Orissa in view of the devastating super cyclone as the state Chief Minister, Mr Giridhar Gamang, sought Central assistance of Rs 10,000 crore for rehabilitation in the affected areas.
Relief for cyclone victims
PATIALA, Nov 11 — A convoy of trucks carrying clothes, shawls, quilts, rice, wheat along with other eatables donated by the people of the district left for the cyclone-hit regions of Orissa yesterday.
PM flags off relief trucks
NEW DELHI, Nov 11 — Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, today jointly flagged off 300 trucks loaded with relief material for cyclone-hit Orissa from near seven Race Course Road. (Nation page)
To our readers
Orissa cyclone relief: an appeal

Next to manpower, Orissa needs money to rebuild life brick by brick. Millions of rupees are required to reconstruct the ruined huts and vanished roads. We appeal to the readers to rise to the occasion

Higher pay, longer hours for judges
NEW DELHI, Nov 11 — The first National Judicial Pay Commission today recommended higher pay scales and perks rechristening of subordinate judiciary along with longer working hours.


24 Indians in Budapest jail
Gang of extortionists busted
GURDASPUR, Nov 11 — The police today claimed to have busted the Indian leg of an international gang which, in tandem with its foreign counterpart, had been extorting money from India-based relatives of illegal Indians abroad by threatening to implicate their wards in false cases abroad.


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IN PASSING

IN PASSING
I hope we will get some relief. Most of the VIPs are on aerial survey!
by Sandeep Joshi
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