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Thursday,
May 26,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Sunil Dutt is no more
Bollywood stars converge as city bids a tearful farewell
Mumbai, May 25
Veteran actor and Union Sports Minister Sunil Dutt died in Mumbai this morning after suffering a massive heart attack. He would have been 76 on June 6.
Dutt, who was suffering from a heat stroke, suffered a cardiac arrest while asleep around 11.40 am, family sources said. |
The mortal remains of Union Sports Minister Sunil Dutt who died in Mumbai on Wednesday. — PTI
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Sunil Dutt was
a remarkable human being and was always a tower of strength
whether it was in Bollywood or in any social movement.
— Shabana Azmi
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Obituary
Best-loved anti-hero to popular politician
STARDOM came to Sunil Dutt when he stepped under the klieg lights to essay the role of the original angry young man in Mehboob Khan’s “Mother India”.
 Ismail Merchant dead
Hurriyat team to board bus for Pak on June 2
Srinagar, May 25
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A high-level delegation of the Hurriyat Conference is expected to board the bus to Muzaffarabad on June 2 on its visit to PoK and Pakistan. The delegation is going to Pakistan to hold talks with the militant and political leadership regarding the resolution of the Kashmir issue.
All-Party Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Maulvi Ansari at a meeting at the party headquarters in Srinagar on Wednesday.
— Tribune photo by Amin War
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HC refuses to hear plea on ‘Naina’
New Delhi, May 25
The Delhi High Court today refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the All-India Ophthalmological Society seeking a ban on Hindi film ‘Naina’ on the grounds of the movie being “unscientific” and one that would “adversely affect the cause of eye donation in the country”.
Punjab
team to examine meat quality
Chandigarh, May 25
Taking a serious view of the supply of meat of dead animals to Mahendra Chaudhary Zoological Park (Chhat Bir Zoo), the Punjab Forest and Wildlife Department has decided to send a team of zoo staffers to the makeshift slaughterhouse at Saharanpur and examine the quality of buffalo meat.
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75-year old commits sati
Lucknow, May 25
Within hours of the death of 80-year-old Rageshwar Tiwari, life seemed unbearable for his 75-year-old wife Ramkumari of Bahudari village in Banda district.
Unnoticed by the household, she quietly changed into new clothes and
trudged her way to the burning pyre of her husband, adding her name to
the list of sati.
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Punjab faces power
crisis
May 25, 2005
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Bihar
Assembly dissolved
May 24, 2005
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2 dead, 50 hurt in
Delhi cinema blasts
May 23, 2005
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LJP
on verge of split
May 22, 2005
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PM
favours tenure security for bureaucrats
May 21, 2005
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Cabinet clears mid-term appraisal of 10th Plan
May 20, 2005
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UPA, Left rift widens
May 19, 2005
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More
charges framed against Lalu Yadav
May 18, 2005
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CWC
pats Sonia, Manmohan
May 17, 2005
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Punjab to promote religious tourism
May 16, 2005
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Opposition is fine,
but be responsible: Sonia
May 15, 2005
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