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Tuesday,
April 5,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
SPORTS
UPDATE
 Dhoni’s ton makes India win
(updated at 5.45 pm)
200 escape from burning train
 Driver averts disaster in Mughalsarai
Mughalsarai (UP), April 4
More than 200 passengers of the Howrah-bound Toofan Express had a miraculous escape when five coaches of the train were gutted in a major fire near here this morning, a senior railway official said.
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Partial dry run of bus conducted
Four Haryana VCs told to quit
Chandigarh, April 4
Continuing its “cleansing process” the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in
Haryana today asked the Vice-Chancellors of four universities in the state to quit.
According to informed sources, Mr Vishnu Bhagwan, a former bureaucrat,
who was the Vice-Chancellor of Guru Jambeshwar University, Hisar, as
well as Choudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, sent his resignation to
the Chancellor, Dr A.R. Kidwai, this evening.
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Full
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QUOTE OF THE
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Launching a struggle for implementation of the CMP does not mean giving a call to overthrow the Congress-led UPA, but only make it realise that it should not deviate from the promises made in the programme.
— A.B. Bardhan
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Daylight robbery in Jalandhar
Cash, jewellery worth Rs 25 lakh looted
Jalandhar, April 4
Panic gripped the Jalandhar
cantonment area as four persons allegedly looted cash and jewellery
worth about Rs 25 lakh from a jeweller in the busy street No. 9 today.
The jeweller said that he was robbed at the gun point by four persons,
one of them posing as a customer, this morning.
Masand gets rank of Air Marshal
New Delhi, April 4
Air Vice-Marshal Harish Masand, who was denied promotion allegedly due to his differences with former Air chief S. Krishnaswamy in 2003, today finally got justice as the Supreme Court put its seal of approval on his promotion to the rank of Air Marshal against a specially created post after the court’s intervention.
Congress going out of way to support RJD
New Delhi, April 4
Having realised the folly of alienating Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, the Congress is now going out of its way to pledge support to the RJD in Bihar.
Nation
page: Paswan wants President’s rule to
continue
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PM launches national rural electrification programme
New Delhi, April 4
As part of the UPA Government’s commitment to electrify all the villages, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today launched the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana (National Rural Electrification programme) under which all the villages would be electrified by 2009.
PM to release ‘Dandi March’ postage stamps
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi during the inauguration of the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna in New Delhi on Monday.
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Nitish Kumar faces roadblocks
April 4, 2005
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Pope John Paul II is dead
April 3, 2005
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PM
open to talks with Musharraf
April 2, 2005
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Jindal, Surender Singh die in copter crash
April 1, 2005
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Traders’ strike almost total
March 31, 2005
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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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