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 | Saturday,
                      February 3,
                      2007, Chandigarh, IndiaUpdated at 3:00 am (IST)
 
 Civic PollsSena-BJP back, jolt for Cong
 Mumbai, February 2
 Urban Maharashtra’s honeymoon with the Congress is clearly over with the party holding onto just a single civic body on its own.
        Despite being buffeted by defections of both former Chief Minister Narayan Rane and Raj Thackeray, the Shiv Sena along with its ally, the BJP, managed to bag six of the 10 civic bodies that went to the polls on Thursday.
 
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  Editorial: Tiger’s
        day 
  Nation page: Cong
        can’t take on Sena-BJP sans NCP crutches Punjab Votes ’074 Dimpa gunmen suspended
 Beas firing: 4 others also pay for ‘negligence of duty/involvement’
 Beas, February 2
 On the recommendation of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), the district police chief, Majitha, Mr Lok Nath Angra, has reportedly placed eight constables, including four gunmen of Mr Jasbir Singh Dimpa, Congress MLA, under suspension for “negligence of duty or their involvement” in the recent firing incident here.
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 | EC
        warns SukhbirNew Delhi, February 2
 The Election Commission has taken umbrage to the violation of the Model
        Code of Conduct by Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Badal and 10
        others belonging to different parties.
   
 Dhruv co-pilot dies in pre-aero show crashBangalore, February 2
 The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) acrobatic team “Sarang” suffered a setback following a crash during rehearsals for the forthcoming Aero India show resulting in the death of a co-pilot of a Dhruv advanced light helicopter (ALH) today morning.
 
 
  Nation page: HAL
        bent on Dhruv despite design flaws 
          
            |  A smokestack is seen at a thermal power plant in Inchon, west of Seoul. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which draws on research by 2,500 scientists from more than 130 countries, has spoken of a big rise in temperatures this century and warns of more heatwaves, floods, droughts and rising sea levels linked to greenhouse gases released mainly by the use of fossil fuels. — Reuters
              (Details on World page)
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 | NC to boycott meeting with Centre’s panelJammu, February 2
 The National Conference (NC), the main Opposition party in the state, has decided to boycott the meeting of the Working Group on Kashmir (KWG) on Centre-state relations here tomorrow to register the party’s protest over the “spurt” in incidents of human rights violation in Kashmir.
 Second body exhumedSrinagar, February 2
 The police today fired shots in the air and teargas shells to prevent an agitated massive crowd from entering a graveyard at Ganderbal where a special investigation team (SIT) of the Jammu and Kashmir police had gone to exhume a body of a missing person.
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              | Bibi style — Notes & votesBholath, February 2
  It’s raining money on Bibi Jagir Kaur these days. She steps out of her dera to garner votes every morning and returns richer by several lakhs each
        night. No wonder in Bholath, the constituency she has represented twice, she is known as a ‘note and a vote catcher.’
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              led attack, Rajan fired AK-47: SAD January
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                                    29, 2007
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                                  |  | No pension funds for stocks, says  EPF board January
                                    28, 2007
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                      Gen combat aircraft in Putin’s sales bag January
                                    25, 2007
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                                    24, 2007
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