20 killed in train
mishap
Ramlingayapalli (AP), December 21
Twenty persons were killed and 87 injured when nine bogies of the Hyderabad-Bangalore Express derailed at this remote village in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh just past midnight.
Maharashtra in dock for ‘D’ links
New Delhi, December 21
A "secret" report by a Central agency has put the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party coalition government in Maharashtra in the dock by accusing it of going soft on underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his ‘D’ Company.
Anti-terrorism
loans ‘not waived’
New Delhi, December 21
Punjab
Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said despite a decision taken at the
prime ministerial level five years ago, loans worth Rs 5,800 crore taken to
combat terrorism were yet to be waived by the Centre.
’84 riot widows throng Akal
Takht
Amritsar, December 21
Hundreds of women widowed during the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 today assembled in front of Akal Takht to seek justice from the Sikh clergy. This is for the first time that the widows have assembled in front of the Takht to seek justice.
Trader evades arrest, courtesy Sena
New Delhi, December 21
The reported intervention by Shiv Sainiks in Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s government is said to have prevented the arrest of a businessman in Ludhiana for evading customs duty amounting to about Rs 22 crore.
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