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Speight says
Indians can join govt
WELLINGTON, June 19 — Fiji rebel leader George Speight, who has been holding the government hostage at gunpoint for over a month, said today that he was ready to make concessions, prompting hopes of an early end to the crisis, news reports said.
Babu Parmanand sworn in
CHANDIGARH, June 19 — Babu Parmanand was sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana by the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice A.B. Saharya, at a simple, but elegant ceremony here today.
Dr
Yogesh Chawla to get MCI award
NEW DELHI, June 19 — Dr
Yogesh Chawla, Professor and Head, Department of Hepatology of the PGI,
Chandigarh, has been chosen for the prestigious Medical Council of India
Silver Jubilee Research Award.
HP
to insure poor women
SHIMLA, June 19 — The
State Cabinet today introduced an insurance scheme for covering 5.72
lakh women of the age group of 10 to 75 living below poverty line in
Himachal Pradesh.
Woman
sells daughters
JALANDHAR June 19
—Throwing all values of life to winds, a woman sold her two married
daughters for money. Middle-aged Lakshmi Bai, a resident of Kakya
village in Mandal district of Madhya Pradesh, today stands as a sign of
degeneration of morality after she was arrested for being a member of a
gang involved in human trafficking.
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