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Thursday,
March 17,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
* PM to visit US in July
New Delhi, March 16
India and the United States broke new grounds today in bilateral cooperation as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Indian leadership that an institutionalised mechanism of an ‘energy dialogue’ would be in place
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shakes hands with Foreign Minister Natwar Singh prior to a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Wednesday.
— Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal |
IAF
to get SU-30s on March 21
Nation
page: Rice meets Patiala students
World
page: US House resolution flays Modi’s
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Kanishka
case: both Malik, Bagri acquitted
Vancouver (British Columbia), March 16
Two
Sikh activists were cleared today of involvement in the 1985 bombing of
Air-India Flight 182 that killed 329 persons. A Canadian judge said
Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were not guilty of murder and
conspiracy charges.
Judge’s
disclosure to be probed
New Delhi, March 16
Opposition led by the BJP today
walked out of both Houses of Parliament over Supreme Court Justice S.N.
Variava’s revelations that attempts had been made to replace the trial
judge in the fodder scam case against Railway Minister Laloo Prasad.
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QUOTE OF THE
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"...We try hard to make the point that this is not a hyphenated
relationship... The India and Pakistan relationship. This is a relationship with India. We also have a relationship with Pakistan and we are concerned about the well-being of
both".
— Condoleeza Rice
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Editorial: Justice
Variava’s disclosure
PM
meets LS Speaker
New Delhi, March 16
In a bid to clear the air that
differences had arisen between the executive and the legislature, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh took the initiative in meeting Lok Sabha Speaker
Somnath Chatterjee here this morning over breakfast and put the record
straight.

Centre
to widen Ambala-Shimla highway
New Delhi, March 16
The Union Government has given a
go-ahead to widen the much-awaited 168 km Ambala-Kalka-Shimla national
highway to four lanes under the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP-III).
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Munda wins trust vote
March 16, 2005
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Speaker
adamant, but in a fix
March 15, 2005
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UPA to contest Jharkhand Speaker’s post
March 14, 2005
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Munda, 5 others
sworn in
March 13, 2005
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Soren quits,
Munda made CM
March 12, 2005
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Speaker to seek Kalam’s view
on SC order
March 11, 2005
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Jharkhand
floor test on March 11
March 10, 2005
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Bihar’s
turf war shifts to Union Cabinet
March 9, 2005
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President’s
rule imposed on Bihar
March 8, 2005
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President’s
rule likely in Bihar
March 7, 2005
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Hooda
takes oath as Haryana CM
March 6, 2005
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Hooda
to be Haryana CM
March 5, 2005
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Kalam summons Jharkhand Governor
March 4, 2005
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