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        BadalAmritsar, August 18
 After paying  obeisance at the Golden Temple and Akal Takht, leaders of the newly formed Panthic Morcha  today gave a call to the Sikh ‘sangat’ in India and abroad  to boycott Mr Parkash Singh Badal, Chief Minister, till he tendered an unconditional apology for uttering derogatory remarks against its convener, Baba Sarbjot Singh Bedi.
 
 
 
          
          
            
              |  | Leaders of the Panthic Morcha, including Baba Sarbjot Singh Bedi, convener, Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra, Bhai Ranjit Singh and Bhai Jasbir Singh Rode, both former Jathedars, during the ‘ardas’ at Akal Takht on Saturday. — Photo Rajiv Sharma
 
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            Sandeep Joshi |  | Natwar
        hopeful of Cong landslide win in PunjabChandigarh, August 18
 “There is a visible change in the
        mood of the people as they have started realising that it is only the
        Congress which can give them good governance," says Mr Natwar
        Singh, a former External Affairs Minister and a member of the Congress
        Working Committee.
 Allow CBI
        to prosecute Bikramjit: BJPLudhiana, August 18
 Taking a stand against corruption, the state BJP has urged Chief
        Minister Parkash Singh Badal to let the CBI prosecute the Principal Secretary, Home, Mr Bikramjit Singh, on charges of corruption and accumulating wealth disproportionate to known sources of his income.
 Jaswant pledges support to NepalKathmandu, August 18
 External Affairs and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh, who is on a three-day goodwill visit to Nepal, met former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala here this morning.
 
 
 
          
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          ineligibleRohtak, August 18
 The Haryana Government appears to have made a laughing stock of itself by replacing one ineligible Director of Pandit
          B. D. Sharma Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences here with another.
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            |  | SC lays down law on
        non-MLAs as ministers August 18, 2001
 
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            |  | Pak not to raise
    Kashmir issue at  world fora: PM August 17, 2001
 
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            |  | Ultras kill 5 in Udhampur August 16, 2001
 
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            |  | 13 killed in HP landslides August 15, 2001
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            |  | Take Brajesh off J&K,
        Jaswant, Advani tell
        PM August 14, 2001
 
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            |  | NC leader among 12 killed August 13, 2001
 
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            |  | PM,
    Advani face Pak ultra threat August 12, 2001
 
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            |  | Loktantrik party pulls out of UP
          Govt August 11, 2001
 
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            |  | Centre determined to crush proxy war August 10, 2001
 
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            |  | Jammu to be under Disturbed Area Act August 9, 2001
 
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