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Thursday,
April 14,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
PM ready to meet Hurriyat leaders
Chandigarh, April 13
Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh today described China’s support to India’s claim for permanent membership of the UN Security Council as “a step forward”.
During a brief interaction with newsmen at Haryana Raj Bhawan here this evening, Dr Manmohan Singh said before Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s visit to India, it was being said from Chinese soil that India’s membership of the Security Council “is a matter of consensus”.
J&K page: Threat
to passengers of second bus
APHC leaders to
sort out differences soon: Bilal
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Is the six-match ban on Sourav Ganguly justified?
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Udhampur,
April 13
As a Baisakhi gift for the
people of Jammu and Kashmir, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh,
inaugurated the 55-km-long Udhampur-Jammu rail link by flagging off
the Uttar Samparak Kranti Express here this morning. |

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presses the button to mark the flagging off the Uttar Sampark Kranti Express in Udhampur on Wednesday and (right) jawans stand guard along a bedecked train at Udhampur.
— Photos by PTI and Tribune photo by Amin War
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Chandigarh page:
PM
arrives 25 minutes before schedule
PM
cautions nation about excessive privatisation
in health sector
PGI
union unable to meet PM
Editorial:
Udhampur and beyond
Special
article: A vision for J and K
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Full
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2005
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QUOTE OF THE
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Let them do anything against me. I am prepared for anything. For me politicial vindictiveness is not new.
— George Fernandes
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Nankana Sahib bus soon: PM
Chandigarh, April 13
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here today that there were certain hurdles in starting a regular bus service from Amritsar to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan.
Repatriation of Pak
prisoners postponed
Wagah, April 13
For Mohammad Yunus, a resident of Haiwalbagh, who had strayed into the Indian side while grazing his cattle in 1997, the postponement of repatriation to his country, for the second time in three years, has come as a rude shock. |

Pakistani prisoners sit in a police vehicle awaiting repatriation to Pakistan at the Wagah checkpost.
— Tribune photo by Rajiv Sharma
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23
more Kargil cases sent to CBI for probe
New Delhi, April 13
After Defence Minister Pranab
Mukherjee came under attack from various UPA allies and even from within
the Congress for purported exoneration of former Defence Minister George
Fernandes about the purchases made during the Kargil war, the Ministry
of Defence in a fresh affidavit before the Supreme Court said it has
decided to refer 23 more cases out of the Comptroller and
Auditor-General report for probe to the CBI, including the purchase of
“coffins”.
Army Chief not to be present
in Delhi for Pervez visit
New Delhi, April 13
The Army chief, General J.J. Singh, will not be in the capital when Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf arrives here on a three-day visit on April 16.
General Singh will be in Karnataka when General Musharraf would be watching the Indo-Pak cricket match at Ferozeshah Kotla.
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Wen
for border as peace zone
April 13, 2005
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Sikkim
is part of India, says Wen
April 12, 2005
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Wen
for Indian software in Chinese hardware
April 11, 2005
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Protocol
on CBMs finalised
April 10, 2005
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Foreign
trade policy sets export target of $92 billion
April 9, 2005
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Bus passengers bridge the divide
April 8, 2005
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Ultras storm Srinagar Tourist Centre
April 7, 2005
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Kaman Bridge all set for
historic event
April 6, 2005
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200 escape from burning train
April 5, 2005
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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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