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Mughalsarai (UP), April 4
More than 200 passengers of the Howrah-bound Toofan Express had a miraculous escape when five coaches of the train were gutted in a major fire near here this morning, a senior railway official said.


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Partial dry run of bus conducted
Srinagar, April 4
A dry run of the India-Pakistan bus from Kaman Bridge, the last Indian military post, to Srinagar was today successfully completed. However, the trial from Srinagar to the Line of Control has been postponed and will now be conducted tomorrow.

A dry run of the India-Pakistan bus from Kaman Bridge to Srinagar was conducted under tight security on Monday.
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 		A dry run of the India-Pakistan bus from Kaman Bridge to Srinagar was conducted under tight security on Monday.
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Four Haryana VCs told to quit
Chandigarh, April 4
Continuing its “cleansing process” the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in Haryana today asked the Vice-Chancellors of four universities in the state to quit. According to informed sources, Mr Vishnu Bhagwan, a former bureaucrat, who was the Vice-Chancellor of Guru Jambeshwar University, Hisar, as well as Choudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, sent his resignation to the Chancellor, Dr A.R. Kidwai, this evening.
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WORLD: Pope’s body moved to St Peter’s Basilica

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Daylight robbery in Jalandhar
Cash, jewellery worth Rs 25 lakh looted
Jalandhar, April 4
Panic gripped the Jalandhar cantonment area as four persons allegedly looted cash and jewellery worth about Rs 25 lakh from a jeweller in the busy street No. 9 today. The jeweller said that he was robbed at the gun point by four persons, one of them posing as a customer, this morning.

Masand gets rank of Air Marshal
New Delhi, April 4
Air Vice-Marshal Harish Masand, who was denied promotion allegedly due to his differences with former Air chief S. Krishnaswamy in 2003, today finally got justice as the Supreme Court put its seal of approval on his promotion to the rank of Air Marshal against a specially created post after the court’s intervention.

Congress going out of way to support RJD
New Delhi, April 4
Having realised the folly of alienating Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, the Congress is now going out of its way to pledge support to the RJD in Bihar.

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PM launches national rural electrification programme
 New Delhi, April 4
As part of the UPA Government’s commitment to electrify all the villages, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today launched the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana (National Rural Electrification programme) under which all the villages would be electrified by 2009.

PM to release ‘Dandi March’ postage stamps 		Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi during the inauguration of the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna in New Delhi on Monday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi during the inauguration of the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna in New Delhi on Monday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

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