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Saturday,
April 23,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
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Should the interest rate on the Employees Provident Fund be restored to 9.5 per cent?
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Denel cases referred to CBI
New Delhi, April 22
Having frozen all transactions which the Ministry of Defence was negotiating with the South African firm Denel, following charges that it paid a British firm to obtain classified documents, the Defence Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee today referred all deals with this company to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
 Cornering
deals Denel style
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two-and-a -half- year-old Noor Fatima, a Pakistani girl whose heart
ailment had aroused emotions across the Indo-Pak divide two years
ago, another girl from Pakistan, Binish Fatima, of the same age
group, reached here today to undergo surgery for plugging multiple
holes in her heart. |
Binish Fatima, two-and-a-half -year-old Pakistani girl, crossed over
into India at Wagah along with her parents on Friday to undergo
surgery for plugging multiple holes in her heart. — Photo by Rajiv
Sharma
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Siddiqui
tipped to be Election Commissioner
New Delhi, April 22
The superannuated Director General
of Police of Punjab, Mr A.A. Siddiqui, is strongly tipped to be an
Election Commissioner in the three-member Commission with Chief Election
Commissioner T.S. Krishnamurthy retiring on May 15.
Probe
into train mishap begins today
Vadodara, April 22
Even as the railway authorities
today said that 16 persons died and 137 were injured in the Sabarmati
train mishap at Samlaya on Vadodara-Godhra section of the Western
Railway yesterday, the list of dead provided by Railway officials and
the hospitals put the toll at 19, including the four unidentified
bodies.
In video: BJP to inquire into Sabarmati accident. (28k, 56k)
Nation
page: GMs,
DRMs to be responsible for accidents
Punjab
page: Driver’s
family yet to get pension, job
Another
BSF patrol party attacked
Agartala, April 22
The Border Security Force has
refuted charges levelled by Bangladeshi Rifles that it has posted
additional forces along the Indo-Bangla border near the Akahura check
post even as another BSF patrol party came under attack from Bangladeshi
smugglers.
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Come
summer, melting snow bounty will fill reservoirs
Chandigarh, April 22
After last year’s near drought
— like conditions, when it snowed less and the monsoon was not bright,
nature’s cycle has turned this year. The Hyderabad-based National
Remote Sensing Agency has indicated that the Himalayas have received
double the snow than last year.
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QUOTE OF THE
DAY
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If we are going for friendship with Pakistan, need for arms is not necessary.
— Farooq Abdullah
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17 killed as trains collide in Gujarat
April 22, 2005
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Phukan
report to be tabled in House
April 21, 2005
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Parivar in
trouble
April 20, 2005
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India,
Pak give a push to peace process
April 19, 2005
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No
redrawing of borders, PM tells Pervez
April 18, 2005
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I’ve
come with open mind: Pervez
April 17, 2005
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India, Pak must fight terror jointly: PM
April 16, 2005
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US
vows stronger ties with India
April 15, 2005
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PM ready to meet Hurriyat leaders
April 14, 2005
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Wen
for border as peace zone
April 13, 2005
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