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Saturday,
October 14,
2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated
at 3:00 am (IST)
Gujarat
HC nullifies Banerjee Committee
Probe into Godhra carnage
Ahmedabad,
October 13
In a setback to the
UPA government at the Centre and Railway Minister Lalu
Prasad, the Gujarat High Court today quashed the
appointment of the U C Banerjee Committee whose report
negated the conspiracy theory behind the Godhra train
carnage, holding it as “unconstitutional, illegal and
void.”
2009
elections to have redrawn boundaries
SC seats in
Punjab to go up
New Delhi,
October 13
Major political
parties today agreed to delink delimitation of
constituencies from 33 per cent reservation for women and
hold the elections in 2009 on the basis of redrawn
boundaries as per the Delimitation Commission’s report.
B’desh
economist, Grameen Bank win Nobel Peace Prize
Manmohan lauds
his microcredit concept
Oslo, October 13
Bangladeshi Professor
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize today for their work in advancing economic and
social opportunities. The economist and his bank, who will
share the prize, were cited for their efforts to help
“create economic and social development from below” in
their home country by using innovative economic programmes
such as microcredit lending.
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