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Sunday,
August
16,
2009, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
PM’s
resolve for growth with social justice
A second Green
Revolution l
Restoring 9 pc growth l
Communal amity
New
Delhi, August 15
Unveiling the ruling
coalition’s agenda for its fresh five-year term, the Prime
Minister today declared his resolve to launch another ‘Green
Revolution’ and restore the economic growth rate to nine per
cent while stressing that the UPA had received an overwhelming
mandate in the Lok Sabha elections to start a new era of
cooperation and harmony in the country.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with his wife Gursharan Kaur, shakes hands with Services’
chiefs as he prepares to leave after attending the Independence Day function at the Red Fort
in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTI
Zero
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Hooda’s parting gift: Plots for MPs, MLAs
Chandigarh, August 15
A day before the Cabinet is likely
to recommend dissolution of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, Chief Minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda is ready with his parting gift for 80-odd MPs and
MLAs — a 14-marla plot each in Sector 6 of Mansa Devi Complex.
Vasundhra
snubs Rajnath, defies party summons
New Delhi, August 15
A defiant Vasundhra Raje cocked a
snook at the BJP high command, defying the party summons and staying put
in Jaipur, when BJP President Rajnath Singh wanted her to come
immediately and report to him today in Delhi.
Nation page: Fix responsibility for defeat
from top, says Raje
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Sugar
prices skyrocket to Rs 35 a kg
Chandigarh, August 15
Sugar prices across the country have hit the roof. Retail price
of sugar has touched an all-time high of Rs 35 per kg since yesterday.
In the past one month, the sugar prices have gone up by Rs 8 a kg. -
from Rs 27 a kg to Rs 34-35 a kg. Even the wholesale prices have gone up
from Rs 25 a kg in July to Rs 32 a kg.
Gas Row
MPs bat for either
of Ambani brothers in Parliament
New Delhi, August 15
The Parliament witnessed an unprecedented spectacle in its budget
session ended last week when members cutting across party lines took
sides for and against the warring Ambani brothers in their dispute over
sharing the gas extracted from Krishna-Godavari basin.
Candlelight Vigil
Call to defeat
designs of terrorists
Attari, August 15
People of India and Pakistan should
defeat the evil designs in the subcontinent and usher in peace and
prosperity in South-East Asia.
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President focuses on swine flu, drought
August 15, 2009
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Cabinet’s
bitter dose for Azad over H1N1
August 14, 2009
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H1N1
claims five more
August 13, 2009
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Water,
power woes deepen
August 12, 2009
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Three more deaths as govt sketches strategy
August 11, 2009
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NRI, teacher new fatalities
August 10, 2009
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Finally,
drought reality sinks in
August 9, 2009
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Govt wakes up on food front
August 8, 2009
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Rush
for test, only if you must: Govt
August 7, 2009
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Panic in Pune as 3 more test
+ve
August 6, 2009
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