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Saturday, May 7, 2005, Chandigarh, India
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CAG raps NDA govt
Picks holes in sale of Centaur Hotels
New Delhi, May 6
A day after former Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie dared the government to hold an open inquiry into the sale of two Centaur hotels sale, the Comptroller and Auditor General today presented its report which could snowball into another major controversy for the previous NDA government.

Says funds diverted for ‘India Shining’
New Delhi, May 6
The Vajpayee government today came under critical focus as the Comptroller and Auditor General held the NDA administration guilty of diverting funds and incurring unauthorised expenditure of Rs 63.23 crore for the “India Shining” media campaign.

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Historic third term for Blair
London, May 6
Braving public anger over the Iraq war, Prime Minister Tony Blair today won a historic third term in power for his Labour Party but with a drastically reduced majority that could force him to step aside even before his term expired.

Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie arrive back at 10 Downing Street in London on Friday. — Reuters photo
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PUNJAB: Govt planning separate gurdwara panel, says Hooda

HARYANA: Education Dept to regain control of primary schools

HIMACHAL: Parbati II: undo damage, HP asks NHPC

DELHI: MLAs, councillors roped in for awareness drive

J&K: Bandipore encounter militant toll reaches 10

CHANDIGARH: KFC, Gulati emporium issued demolition notices

LUDHIANA: SPO nabbed in rape case

OPINIONS: Victory without sheen

BUSINESS: SEBI to probe bank stock rigging

NATION: Third front likely to figure in TDP Congress

WORLD: Abu Ghraib General given demotion

SPORTS: Harbhajan’s ‘doosra’: ICC yet to form panel

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Opposition says PM’s remarks insulting
New Delhi May 6
The political war between the NDA and the UPA appears to turning uglier every passing day as the Opposition alliance today charged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with “insulting” it and ridiculed him of having no “control” either over the party or the government. In video (28k, 56k)

 LS adjourned twice
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 Third front likely to figure in TDP Congress
 Table Phukan report or I’ll move court: George

A man suffering from bacterial meningitis walks outside his ward in a hospital in New Delhi on Friday. A strain of bacterial meningitis has killed over 10 persons in the Capital and possibly affected over 50 persons. — Reuters
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SC quashes probe against ex-DGP Rathore
New Delhi, May 6
In a major relief to former Haryana Director-General of Police S.P.S. Rathore in a case of alleged harassment of the brother of Panchkula-based girl Ruchika Gehrotra, who had committed suicide in 1993 after levelling the charges of “molestation” against the police officer, the Supreme Court today quashed the judicial inquiry against him ordered by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

No to Sharma’s bail plea

Ban on Muslim body extended
New Delhi, May 6
The government has extended by another two years the ban on fundamentalist organisation ‘Deendar Anjuman’ for allegedly indulging in anti-national activities.

UN bans Lashkar
New Delhi, May 6
Terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba responsible for whipping up violence in Jammu and Kashmir, has been banned by the United Nations for its linkages with the Al-Qaida.

Hooda orders inquiries into Chautala ‘irregularities’
Chandigarh, May 6
Contrary to his public posture of being soft on the INLD chief, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has quietly ordered inquiries into a number of cases in which, prima facie, several irregularities were committed by the previous regime.