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In video:
Blanket security in Kashmir ahead
of Prime minister Vajpayee's visit to the state. (28k,
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Army withdrawn from Gujarat
Put on operational status along border
New Delhi, May 21
With tension on the border with Pakistan on the rise, the government today decided to withdraw the Army on duty in the riot-affected state of Gujarat and asked the troops to return to their “operational status” along the border in the state.
POTA
is need of the hour: HC
Chandigarh, May 21
In the first-ever judgement of its
kind in the country on a petition challenging the constitutional
validity of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, Mr Justice Jawahar Lal
Gupta and Mr Justice N.K. Sud of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today
held that the “Act rightly aimed at reducing the procedural tangles
and armed the Court with the power to impose effective penalties on the
terrorist as well as on those who were his partners in the commitment of
the heinous crime against man and his kind”.
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IN
PASSING
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Atalji, we have a truck-load of evidence against Pakistan. Should we send these papers to General Musharraf?
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by
Sandeep Joshi
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 Bhullar submits resignation
Chandigarh, May 21
The Punjab Irrigation Minister, Mr Gurchet Singh Bhullar who, it is alleged, was involved in the murder of senior Akali leader Gurdial Singh and six others in
Bhikhiwind, near Amritsar, on May 19, today tendered his resignation to the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh.
Badal
sought favours from gurdwara judicial panel
Amritsar, May 21
After the letters of Mr Parkash
Singh Badal written to the Prime Minister to recommend the name of
Ravinder Pal Singh Sidhu, the tainted Chairman of the Punjab Public
Service Commission, for membership of the UPSC, two more letters
written to the President of the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial Commission by
Mr Badal in his capacity as the Chief Minister for seeking favours are
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No
sitting Judge for commission: CJ
Chandigarh, May 21
A search has started for a
retired Judge to head the one-man inquiry commission to probe all acts
of omission and commission by the previous SAD-BJP government in
Punjab as the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has
expressed his inability to spare a sitting Judge for the commission.
The reply of the Chief Justice to the Punjab Chief Minister is the
second major setback to the Congress government in the state in its
crusade against corruption.
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Six Pak troops killed
May 21, 2002
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Paramilitary
forces on LoC, border under Army control
May 20, 2002
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Pak told to recall High Commissioner
May 19, 2002
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Nation
committed to end Pak-backed terrorism
May 18, 2002
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Time for action, says Army Chief
May 17, 2002
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Badal sought UPSC berth for Sidhu
May 16, 2002
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Militants
massacre 23 kin of Army men
May 15, 2002
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India to expose
Pak mischief
May 14, 2002
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12 killed in UP
rail accident
May 13, 2002
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NDA
leaves it to Vajpayee
May 12, 2002
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LONE SHOT DEAD
