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Wednesday,
April 27,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
21
states agree on uniform VAT rates
New Delhi, April 26
All 21 states which have migrated to
Value-Added Tax today arrived at a consensus to adopt uniform rates of VAT
for industrial inputs, capital goods, essential commodities and medicines.
 Nation
page: No VAT on CSD sales in Punjab
Laloo
must go, says Vajpayee
Dismiss Modi government, insists
Laloo
New Delhi, April 26
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee today demanded the resignation of Railway Minister Laloo Prasad
Yadav on moral grounds for the Sabarmati Express train accident.
Faux
pas by Vajpayee cools tempers in LS
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TV images of Laloo Prasad Yadav (left) and Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Parliament in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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SC
seeks details of Laloo’s income tax cases
Feels cases were disposed of in
haste
New Delhi, April 26
In a major a major setback to Railway
Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, the Supreme Court today questioned the Union
Government for not filing appeals in the high court against the Income Tax
Appellate Tribunal order exonerating him in tax violation cases, decided
by the Tribunal’s Special Bench at Patna last year in a “tearing
hurry”.
Editorial:
Cure for Laloo
Nation
page: Laloo's
car brought to Gandhinagar for forensic tests
Gujarat
Governor calls on Patil
NDA
to boycott Parliament for three days
Gujral
told me to go slow on Laloo: ex-CBI chief
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Amarinder
wants Hanspal to continue
New Delhi, April 26
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder
Singh today said he was in favour of “continuity” in the Punjab PCC
as the government and the party had worked well “as a team” in the
past three years.
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No
U-turn on Kashmir: Pervez
Islamabad, April 26
Refuting allegations of any U- turn
in Pakistan's policy towards Kashmir during his recent visit to India,
President Pervez Musharraf tonight said it was a complex issue with no
time frame fixed for its resolution and sought the support of all
Pakistanis and Kashmiris for his initiatives to resolve it.
Man
who bombed American Center convicted
Kolkata, April 26
Aftab Ansari, a Dubai-based
terrorist linked with the ISI along with six other criminals arrested in
connection with the attack on Kolkata's American Center on January 22,
2002, was pronounced guilty today by Justice Basudev Majumdar at the
Alipore special court.
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Privatisation
move boosts admissions in govt schools
Bathinda, April 26
The Punjab Government’s idea of
privatising government schools may be restricted to papers as of now,
but its positive outcome would soon be there for all to see. Fearing
privatisation of government schools, the schoolteachers in Malwa have
started a door-to-door campaign to increase admissions in their schools.
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Mr Vajpayee did not remove Mr Modi or take his resignation... and they are now teaching me lessons in morality.
— Laloo Prasad Yadav
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Laloo charge-sheeted
April 26, 2005
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Manmohan
calls for restructuring of UN
April 25, 2005
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Military aid for Nepal
April 24, 2005
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PM
meets King today
April 23, 2005
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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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