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Thursday,
February 24,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Violence
mars Ajnala bypoll
Over 100 injured; complaints of
booth
capturing, rigging
Ajnala, February 23
Large-scale violence, clashes, firing
incidents and attempts of rigging/booth capturing today left more than 100
persons of both the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Congress injured, some of
them seriously, in the Ajnala byelection.
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FREE-FOR-ALL:
Activists of the SAD and the Congress clash at Chakk Bala village, 2 km from the Pakistan border, during the Ajnala byelection.
— Photo by Rajiv Sharma
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YOUR VOTE |
Are the state governments to blame for the high dropout rate among schoolchildren?
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10
killed in Bihar, Jharkhand elections
Patna/Ranchi, February 23
Incidents of violence marred the
third and final phase of elections in Bihar and Jharkhand. At least 10
persons were killed, said reports.
In video (28k,
56k)
 Exit
polls show split verdict in Bihar
Nation
page: BJP lauds EC for ‘clean poll’
Haryana
page: Repolling passes off peacefully
Daring Air Force men with flying
machines
Srinagar/Jammu, February 23
From evacuating stranded troops and civilians from snow-bound areas in Kashmir to maintaining the lifeline to the world’s highest battlefield, Siachen, it is the call of the Air Force’s helicopter pilots and the Army’s aviators.
Sonia
calls for speedy relief and rescue operations
Sonia’s chopper fails to
land (28k,
56k)
Fresh avalanche in Rajouri, two killed
9 more rescued
from Banihal
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QUOTE OF THE
DAY
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Standards of the Bar and the Bench in the country have gone down. Both sides must adopt a code of ethics to restore people's confidence in the judiciary.
— H.R.Bhardwaj, Law Minister
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More stories on J&k page
Ms Sonia Gandhi (far left) walks through snow towards a waiting helicopter in Srinagar on Wednesday.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan |
SC
refuses to refer Badal, Bhattal cases to Bench
New Delhi, February 23
The Supreme Court has declined to
refer a batch of petitions by some important politicians, including
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and former Chief
Minister Parkash Singh Badal, to the Constitution Bench to examine the
issue of prior sanction from a “competent authority” for their
prosecution in corruption cases.
Karzai
for trade corridor through Pak
New Delhi, February 23
 Visiting Afghan President Hamid
Karzai today told External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh that he had
taken up with Pakistan the possibility of a trade corridor for Indian
exports to Afghanistan through Pakistan and “would push this
further”.
In video (28k,
56k)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (right) shakes hands with External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh before a meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday.
— AFP photo
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Blow
to business along Indo-Nepal border
Jhulaghat (Nepal/India),
February 23
Traders at the once busy trade post
of Jhulaghat on the Indo-Nepal border look jaded. On the nippy February
morning no one shows the spirit of enterprise the businessmen at the
traditional trade posts along the Indo-Nepal border are known for.
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175
bodies found in Banihal
February 23, 2005
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Avalanches
kill 82 more
February 22, 2005
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40 die
as avalanches bury houses in J&K
February 21, 2005
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Kashmir
cut off and in darkness
February 20, 2005
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Snow,
avalanches in Kashmir
February 19, 2005
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HC stays own order on appointments
February 18, 2005
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Bus
to Muzaffarabad from April 7
February 17, 2005
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Kidnapped student killed
February 16, 2005
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Restore
democracy, India tells Nepal
February 15, 2005
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EC
lodges FIR on Gujarat riots CDs
February 14, 2005
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