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 Swami for President’s rule in UPBJP leaves decision to Governor
 New Delhi, August 26
 “President’s rule should be imposed in Uttar Pradesh as the Mayawati government has been reduced to a minority,” said the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Mr I.D. Swami, thus clearly indicating the line of thinking of the Vajpayee government on the present crisis in the state.
 Proxy war by Pak
         
          
            | Attempt to destabilise nation, says AdvaniMumbai, August 26
 Visiting Mumbai a day after the bomb blasts which claimed 52 lives, Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani today said that the proxy war waged by Pakistan was not only directed at Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab or Delhi, but also aimed at destabilising the whole country.
 Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani inspects the site of a bomb blast at a market in Mumbai on Tuesday.
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                  Sandeep Joshi |  |  Sonia visits
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  Editorial:
        A city
        bounces back Mumbai moves on after twin blasts
         
          
            | Four arrested, death toll 52 Mumbai, August 26
 Mumbai was back on its feet today, a day after two bomb blasts threw the country’s financial capital into a state of panic.
              The city’s lifeline, the local trains, were packed to capacity as nearly five million office-goers returned to work in the morning.
 |  Five-year-old Harsh Solanki, looks at a building damaged by a bomb blast in south Mumbai on Tuesday. Solanki had stitches put in his hand after receiving a severe cut from a flying piece of glass.
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 |   In video: Indian shares scored early gains on Tuesday, rising by
        nearly one per cent, as investors shrugged off the twin blasts in
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                | Modi’s presence perceived as threat to security
           
            
              | PM opens Inter-State Council meeting todaySrinagar, August 26
 Even as 18 Chief Ministers arrive here tomorrow to participate in the two-day Inter-State Council meeting, the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is being perceived as a possible threat to “security, peace and communal amity”.
 A CRPF soldier walks past the billboard with the picture of the Prime Minister in Srinagar on Tuesday.
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                |  | Mumbai
        panics as twin blasts kill 46 August 26, 2003
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                |  | Mufti for
        opening of border posts at Uri, Suchatgarh August 25, 2003
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                |  | Centre
        clears new pension scheme August 24, 2003
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                |  | Sushma Swaraj clears the air August 23, 2003
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                |  | Sushma Swaraj gives clean chit to Pepsi, Coke August 22, 2003
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                |  | 20
        hurt as police clashes with Khanna supporters August 21, 2003
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                |  | No-trust motion
        defeated August 20, 2003
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                |  | Oppn
              charges govt with all-round failure August 19, 2003
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                |  | Battlelines drawn for no-trust vote August 18, 2003
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                |  | ‘Bought brides’ of Punjab face societal
        wrath August 17, 2003
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