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Saturday,
May 7,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Picks
holes in sale of Centaur Hotels
New Delhi, May 6
A day after former Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie dared the
government to hold an open inquiry into the sale of two Centaur
hotels sale, the Comptroller and Auditor General today presented its
report which could snowball into another major controversy for the
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Says
funds diverted for ‘India Shining’
New Delhi, May 6
The Vajpayee government today
came under critical focus as the Comptroller and Auditor General
held the NDA administration guilty of diverting funds and incurring
unauthorised expenditure of Rs 63.23 crore for the “India
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Is the government to blame for delaying releasing the
Nanavati Commission report on 1984 anti-Sikh riots?
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Mr Blair, all the people you have killed and all the loss of life have come back to haunt you and the best thing that the Labour Party can do is sack
you...
— George Galloway, British MP
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Opposition says PM’s remarks insulting
New Delhi May 6
The political war between the NDA and the UPA appears to turning uglier every passing day as the Opposition alliance today charged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with “insulting” it and ridiculed him of having no “control” either over the party or the government.
In video (28k, 56k)
 LS adjourned twice
Nation page:
Third
front likely to figure in TDP Congress
Table
Phukan report or I’ll move court: George
A man suffering from bacterial meningitis walks outside his ward in a hospital in New Delhi on Friday. A strain of bacterial meningitis has killed over 10 persons in the Capital and possibly affected over 50 persons. — Reuters
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SC
quashes probe against ex-DGP Rathore
New Delhi, May 6
In a major relief to former Haryana
Director-General of Police S.P.S. Rathore in a case of alleged
harassment of the brother of Panchkula-based girl Ruchika Gehrotra, who
had committed suicide in 1993 after levelling the charges of “molestation”
against the police officer, the Supreme Court today quashed the judicial
inquiry against him ordered by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
No
to Sharma’s bail plea
Ban
on Muslim body extended
New Delhi, May 6
The government has extended by
another two years the ban on fundamentalist organisation ‘Deendar
Anjuman’ for allegedly indulging in anti-national activities.
UN
bans Lashkar
New Delhi, May 6
Terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba
responsible for whipping up violence in Jammu and Kashmir, has been
banned by the United Nations for its linkages with the Al-Qaida.
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Hooda orders inquiries into Chautala ‘irregularities’
Chandigarh, May 6
Contrary to his public posture of being soft on the INLD chief, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has quietly ordered inquiries into a number of cases in which, prima facie, several irregularities were committed by the previous regime.
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PM puts
Opposition on the mat
May 6, 2005
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George
cleared VIP planes for Justice Phukan, says Pranab
May 5, 2005
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NDA
to review boycott today
May 4, 2005
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No
tax on savings cash withdrawals
May 3, 2005
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Advani
to lead BJP in poll: Vajpayee
May 2, 2005
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Nepal lifts emergency
May 1, 2005
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India, Japan to usher
in new Asian era
April 30, 2005
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NDA
leaders meet Kalam, seek Lalu’s ouster
April 29, 2005
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Military aid in doldrums as Nepal arrests Deuba
April 28, 2005
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21
states agree on uniform VAT rates
April 27, 2005
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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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