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Thursday,
March 31,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 4:30 pm (IST)
BREAKING
NEWS
 2 Haryana ministers killed in copter crash
Traders’ strike almost total
Govt firm on VAT: Dasgupta
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New Delhi, March 30
The three-day nationwide traders’ strike against the introduction of a comprehensive value added tax
regime began today. The Confederation of All-India Traders and the Bharat Udyog Vyapar Mandal, the two major traders’ bodies’ spearheading the agitation, claimed that strike was total all across the country.
In video (28k,
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| Traders demonstrate against VAT at Karol Bagh area in Delhi during the Bharat Bandh call on Tuesday.
— Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal |
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Has the Haryana Govt been too soft in stopping illegal mining in Gurgaon?
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Editorial:
Uncalled
for strike
Punjab:
Traders not
consulted on VAT: mandal chief
Himachal: Complete
bandh against VAT
Chandigarh:
Traders
divided over course of action
PM looking forward to date with Pervez
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Arrives in Mauritius
Port Louis, March 30
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, said he was looking forward to meeting the Pakistan President, General Pervez Musharraf, when he comes to India to witness the one-day India-Pakistan cricket match on April 17.
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is received by Mauritius Prime Minister Paul Raymond Berenger on his
arrival at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam international airport in Mauritius on Wednesday.
— PTI photo by P.S. Sengupta |
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Full
coverage: India
vs Pak
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2005
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QUOTE OF THE
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Experience has shown that there is need for closer coordination among the Left parties.
— A.B. Bardhan
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Red signal to ministers going on foreign jaunts
New Delhi, March 30
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked all his ministerial colleagues to send him a report soon after returning from a foreign trip indicating the main purpose and the extent to which the issues being pursued were achieved.
Punjab liquor consumers to bear brunt of cess
Chandigarh, March 30
The responsibility for raising the Rs 100 crore Agri-Diversification, Infrastructure, Research and Development Fund has now shifted to drinkers of liquor in Punjab as the Vidhan Sabha today while passing the 2005-06 Budget approved levying of a cess on both Punjab medium liquor and Indian made foreign liquor from April 1.
Ultras for boycott of bus service
J&K leaders may travel to Muzaffarabad
Srinagar, March 30
Describing the move as an “Indian agenda,” four underground militant organisations here today appealed to the people not to venture to board the Muzaffarabad bus service scheduled to start on April 7.
Attack on BSF camp, 3 killed
Srinagar, March 30
As the countdown for the start of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service began, two militants strapped with explosives today carried out a suicide attack on a BSF camp in Jammu and Kashmir, leading to a heavy exchange of fire that left the ultras and a jawan dead.
Leaders
call for Left unity
Chandigarh, March 30
Disenchanted with the economic policies of the Congress-led UPA
coalition, the leaders of four major Left parties today emphasised
the need for unity amongst them to strengthen the Communist movement
in the country.
Party congress to introspect what ails CPI
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| Harkishan Singh Surjit being welcomed by
Anu Chatrath, Mayor of Chandigarh, at the 19th party congress of the CPI in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
— Tribune photo Pradeep Tewari |
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2,000 feared dead in quake
March 30, 2005
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Pak
to buy 70 F-16s
March 29, 2005
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20
battalions to curb influx of Maoists
March 28, 2005
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Pak to get
F16s, Bush tells PM
March 26, 2005
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21 states agree to
implement Vat
March 25, 2005
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Kashmir
issue can stall peace
process: Pervez
March 24, 2005
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Punjab proposes cess on diesel, petrol
March 23, 2005
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Kalam
calls for politics of development
March 22, 2005
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Speakers
voice concern
March 21, 2005
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PM
criticises USA for visa denial
March 20, 2005
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