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              Sandeep Joshi |  | Baba Dhanwant held on rape chargeGurdaspur, August 29
 Baba Dhanwant
        Singh, Chairman of the Noor Vishav Roohani Charitable Sansthan, has been arrested from his residence here by the Hoshiarpur police on a charge of  raping a minor girl at his dera about a year ago.
 11 killed as bus
        falls into khudShimla, August 29
 As many as 11 persons were killed and 28 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a private bus fell into a khud near Nathpa in Kinnaur district, 180 km from here today.
        The bus was on its way from Rekong Peo to Rampur. There were about 40 passengers on board when the mishap occurred.
 BJP, Cong workers hurt in scuffleNew Delhi, August 29
 Several BJP and Congress workers  received minor injuries in a scuffle outside the  residence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi here this afternoon.
        The trouble started at about 2 pm, when around   70 BJP Mahila Morcha workers landed at Mrs Gandhi’s  10,
        Janpath, residence in vehicles.
 Former
        Governor Mukarji dead
  Chandigarh, August 29 Nirmal Mukarji, former Governor of
        Punjab, died in New Delhi this evening after a prolonged illness. He was
        81. The Governor of Punjab from December 8, 1989, to June 11, 1990,
        Mukarji was an ICS officer.
 
 
 
            
              | 24
        of family jailed for murderHisar, August 29
 The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mr Dharam Pal, today sentenced 24 members of a family, including four women, for various jail terms in a murder case.
        Six of them were sentenced to life imprisonment and 18 given a jail term for three years each.
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            |  | SC stays decision on petrol stations August 29, 2002
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            |  | Work restored to
        3 HC judges August 28, 2002
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            |  | SC notices to Centre, EC, states & parties August 27, 2002
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            |  | President okays
          poll Ordinance August 26, 2002
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            |  | Cabinet returns poll Ordinance to Kalam August 25, 2002
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            |  | India
    gives clear message to Armitage August 24, 2002
 
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            |  | First-phase J&K
        poll notified August 23, 2002
 
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            |  | SAARC agrees on
        combating terror August 22, 2002
 
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            |  | SC
            gets presidential reference on Gujarat August 21, 2002
 
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            |  | J&K
    poll on schedule August 20, 2002
 
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            |  | EC’s order
    referred to President August 19, 2002
 
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