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Saturday,
January 8,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Indo-Pak
talks on Baglihar break down
New Delhi, January 7
The Indo-Pak talks on the Baglihar
hydel power project on the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir collapsed
today and Pakistan made it clear that it would go for international
arbitration and appointment of neutral experts for resolving the dispute.
Govt
proposes to bring judges under Lok Pal
New Delhi, January 7
The UPA government today proposed to
bring the judiciary, the executive and the legislature under the purview
of Lok Pal. A Group of Ministers has been set up under the leadership of
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee to examine the Lok Pal Bill.
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Dual
citizenship for all overseas Indians
Mumbai, January 7
 The
Indian Government has decided to allow dual citizenship to all
overseas Indians who had left the country after January 26, 1950,
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here today.
Mr Manmohan Singh lights a lamp to inaugurate the third Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Mumbai on Friday. The Prime Minister is accompanied by Mr Jules Rattan Kumar Ajodhia, Vice-President of Surinam (behind the Prime Minister), and Union Minister Jagdish Tytler. — AFP
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Jaya seeks funds
for wall along coastline
Chennai, January 7
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said
here today that the tsunami disaster should be converted into an
opportunity to rebuild the coastal economies in the affected areas.
 BSF
officer among five killed in militant attack
Srinagar, January 7
Three security personnel, including a
BSF Deputy Commandant, and two militants were killed in a gunbattle that
broke out in the Income Tax building, near here today.
A CRPF jawan escapes from a window of the Income Tax building in the heart of Srinagar during an encounter with militants on Friday.
— Tribune photo by Amin War
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SC reserves verdict
on seer’s bail plea
New Delhi, January 7
The Supreme Court today reserved
its judgement on the bail petition of Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra
Saraswati in the Shankararaman murder case, while the seer made a strong
plea for his release from the jail on the condition that he would not go
to the Kanchi Mutt till the police completed the investigation and filed
the chargesheet.
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Cong-JMM pact
leaves RJD sore
New Delhi, January 7
The Congress and the Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha (JMM) today joined forces and announced their electoral
pact for next month’s assembly poll in Jharkhand leaving the Rashtriya
Janata Dal (RJD) in the cold.
 Haryana
page: Paswan
favours tie-up with Congress
EC team meets
officials on code violation
Chandigarh, January 7
Two Election Commission of India
representatives, Mr Afjal Amanullah, state Observer for the Haryana
Assembly elections, and Mr R. Aggarwal, a Principal Secretary in the ECI
office, today met senior Haryana Government officials in connection with
the alleged violation of the model code by the state government.
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election stories on Haryana page
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Capt
trying to communalise education: NCM
New Delhi, January 7
The Chairman of the National
Commission for Minorities (NCM), Mr Tarlochan Singh, has taken
exception to the Capt Amarinder Singh government in Punjab trying to
communalise the education system in the state and undermine the high
office of the Vice-President of India. Mr Tarlochan Singh told The
Tribune that Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat as the Chancellor of
Panjab University had acted in a transparent manner.
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