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 Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee addresses the Lok Sabha members after the Opposition attacked him on the Ayodhya issue on Monday.
              — PTI photo
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        favours simultaneous LS, Assembly pollNew Delhi, August 4
 The Vajpayee government is toying
        with the idea of synchronising the general elections with the Assembly
        elections by advancing the Lok Sabha poll to November, this year.
 Bill
        for death penalty to spurious drug makers soonNew Delhi, August 4
 The government plans to bring in
        Parliament a Bill providing death penalty for those who make and sell
        spurious drugs, the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Mrs Sushma
        Swaraj, informed the Rajya Sabha today.
  SC
        cracks whip on drug firms (Nation
        page) 
  Parliament
        approves Bill on funding of parties 
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                  Sandeep Joshi |  | CM
        meets Sonia on Bhattal issue
  New Delhi, August 4 Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder
        Singh today met Congress President Sonia Gandhi amid discussions on the
        embezzlement case faced by state Agriculture Minister Rajinder Kaur
        Bhattal, which is likely to come up for hearing next week.
 Screen
        police, says Bir DevinderChandigarh, August 4
 Attacking the law and order
        machinery in the state, the Deputy Speaker, Mr Bir Devinder Singh, today
        demanded immediate screening of the Punjab Police and urged the Chief
        Minister to entrust the charge of the Home Department to a senior member
        of his Council of Ministers.
 Students
        clash in Shimla, 1 hurtShimla, August 4
 Tension gripped Himachal Pradesh
        University following a clash between activists of the Students
        Federation of India and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in which
        one person was injured.
 
 
 
          
            |  | ABVP activists block the national highway in Shimla on Monday. — Photo Anil Dayal
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                | 150
        medical teachers offer to resignAmritsar, August 4
 More than 150 medical teachers with
        nearly 20 years of service offered to resign here today in view of the
        stoppage of non-practising allowance from August 1. Dr Baljit
        Singh Dhillon, general secretary, Punjab Medical and Dental Teachers
        Association, said the resignations may force the Medical Council of
        India to de-recognise Government Medical College here.
 
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                |  | PM: no change in stand on Ayodhya August 4,
                2003
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                |  | Advani: govt for simultaneous LS, Assembly poll August 3,
                2003
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                |  | PM, Advani vow to build Ram temple August 2,
                2003
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                |  | Babri tapes rock Parliament August 1,
                2003
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                |  | No
        speech of Advani in Babri tapes July 31,
                2003
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                |  | Mayawati eats her words July 30,
                2003
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                |  | US
        Gen to plead for troops July 29,
                2003
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                |  | Interest
        rate on farm loans cut July 28,
                2003
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                |  | Japan clears troops for Iraq July 27,
                2003
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                |  | China refuses to recognise Arunachal July 26,
                2003
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