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Saturday,
August 25,
2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Poacher
Salman on the run
Court dismisses
plea against jail term; may give up on Monday
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Jodhpur/Mumbai,
August 24
Yet another Bollywood
star Salman Khan today faced arrest after a Jodhpur court
dismissed his appeal against a five-year jail term given to
him for poaching an endangered chinkara.
Rs
80 cr riding on Salman
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 An
endangered species
The Chinkara is a species of gazelle found
in South Asia. Found in grasslands and desert
areas in India, parts of Iran and Pakistan. It
is also known as the Indian Gazelle Gazella
gazella bennetti. This gazelle stands at 65
centimetres and weighs about 23 kilogram.
Certain researchers consider the decline in the
Chinkara population as the reason behind the
extinction of the Asiatic Cheetah in India. It
is classified as extremely vulnerable and
endowed in the highly endangered species list.
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Closer
home, ‘Peacock Goyal’ is back
Chandigarh,
August 24
On a day when a Jodhpur
court upheld the five-year imprisonment handed down to actor
Salman Khan in the chinkara poaching case, the Punjab
government gifted a plum posting to its officer facing trial
in the peacock poaching case.
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New Delhi,
August 24
Dark clouds of
political uncertainty over the UPA government may soon be
lifting as the government has shown signs of pushing the
pause button on operationalisation of the nuclear deal.
Left
to lose big in case of snap poll: Survey
Cong
to hold talks with Left next week
New Delhi,
August 24
After holding a round
of consultations with her senior party colleagues tonight,
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is now expected to open a
dialogue with the Left next week in a last-ditch effort to
resolve the crisis over the Indo-US nuclear deal.
I
don’t see a crisis: Yechury
Yechury
meets PM
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kill 2 juniors to close school
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Mumbai, August
24
Two boys, aged eight
and five, have been allegedly killed by their schoolmates in
Partur village of Maharashtra’s Jalna district so that
they could enjoy a long holiday.
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Pune,
Auguts 24
In a separate incident in Rohtas district of Bihar, Bechan Azad of Class X beat Mukesh Kumar Choubey to death following an altercation in the school yesterday. He has been taken into custody. In Noida (UP), a 17-year-old student of Ishwar Chand Inter College, was killed in a clash outside the college premises yesterday. His father has lodged a complaint with the police against six students of the same college.
— PTI
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Girl
beaten up by gang of teachers
Bangalore,
August 24
Despite the recent
guidelines issued by the National Commission for Protection
of Child Rights, a 11-year-old girl was beaten up by teachers for not doing her homework.
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‘Blacky’
the black buck is born in lab
Hyderabad, August 24
In a first such experiment in the
world, scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
here have produced a black buck using a non-surgical, artificial
insemination method.
Sharif
may be arrested on return
Exiled Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz
Sharif could be arrested on return here by revoking the remaining part
of the remission of his unfinished jail term after he was convicted of
hijacking Musharraf’s plane prior to the military coup,
attorney-general Justice (R) Malik Muhammad Qayyum said on Friday.
Details on World
page
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Turban Trouble
Sikh bodies
protest US security rules
Amritsar, August 24
The dismay expressed by Sikh
organisations all over the world notwithstanding , the Transportation
Security Administration (TSA) held a briefing on the revised procedures
of screening head coverings at the US airports.
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A trifle mild but CPM sticks to its N-guns
August
24, 2007 |
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Soren acquitted
August
23, 2007 |
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Ronen
adds to turmoil, apologises
August
22, 2007 |
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PM pitches for N-energy, Left narrows govt options
August
21, 2007 |
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N-deal:
Govt may set up panel of experts
August
20, 2007 |
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Karat:
Pause or else...
August
19, 2007 |
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Support
now only on merit, says Bardhan
August
18, 2007 |
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India
free to test, not bound by Hyde: Govt
August
17, 2007 |
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Big
I-Day deal for farmers
August
16, 2007 |
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65
feared dead in HP cloudburst
August 15, 2007 |
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