Friday,
June 1,
2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
15-day ultimatum to Vasundhara
Gujjar trouble infects Haryana Jaipur/New Delhi/Hisar: Two people were killed in Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan today in clashes between members of the Gujjar community and police, hours after the state government finally opened talks over Gujjar demands for tribal status.
The buses parked near the Jagpura police station in Kota, Rajasthan set on fire by agitating Gujjars on
Thursday.
— PTI photo
Moderates carry the day in Punjab Fatehgarh Sahib, May 31
The procession of Sikh
organisations was peaceful here today. However,
difference of opinion emerged between the moderates
and the radicals. The former, clearly in strength,
virtually pushed the radicals to the background and
decided the future course of action against Gurmeet
Ram Rahim Singh, chief of the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha
Sauda.
The SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar presents a memorandum to ADC to Punjab Governor at Jyotisawrup gurdwara at Fatehgarh Sahib on Thursday. The ADC to Governor, Haryana, is on the right.
— Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari
New Delhi,
May 31
Buoyed by stupendous performance by the manufacturing and services
sector, the country’s economy grew by 9.4 per cent in the fiscal that
ended in March, highest in the last 18 years.
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talks begin New Delhi, May 31
Differences persisted between India
and the United States and within the Government of India even as under
secretary of state Nicholas Burns said today that the two sides were
“nearly there” to sew up the nuclear deal that would end India’s
isolation in international nuclear commerce.
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Mystery
woman in Gandhi’s life The Tribune's weekend
supplement Saturday Extra of June 2 features a cover story on
Saraladevi Chowdharani, the woman with whom Mahatma Gandhi had a
close association in the early 1920s.
BMW Case Public
prosecutor dropped after expose New Delhi, May 31
In the wake of a TV expose of an
alleged nexus between the prosecution and the defence in the
high-profile BMW case, Delhi police today decided to drop I.U. Khan, the
public prosecutor in the case.
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Maoists
behead two Patna, May 31
In a virtual challenge to the claim
by the Nitish government to have contained the naxal violence in Bihar
to a great extent, about 100 armed Maoists yesterday dragged two JD(U)
activists from their homes and slashed their throats killing them on the
spot.
Chandigarh, May 31
In a marathon hearing, the
Punjab and Haryana High Court today granted interim relief to
B.I.S. Chahal, media adviser to former Chief Minister Amarinder
Singh, till July 4 in Ludhiana City Centre case.
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Nation page: Call for peace
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