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Monday,
January 2,
2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated
at 3:00 am (IST)
SAFTA
takes effect
Pak yet to ratify
New Delhi/Islamabad, January 1
The long-awaited South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), paving way for free trade of goods among countries of the region, came into being today but Pakistan was yet to complete the formality of ratifying it.
Editorial:SAFTA’s
potential
Pak, India exchange lists on nuke installations
Islamabad, January 1
Pakistan and India today exchanged lists of nuclear installations under a special agreement that prohibits Islamabad and New Delhi from attacking each other's nuclear facilities.
6 of family burnt alive in Bihar
Hajipur, January 1
A woman and her five children were burnt alive by some persons at Raghopur in Vaishali district in the wee hours today for apparently refusing to withdraw a complaint of theft.
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| Grieving family members talk to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after five children and a woman were burnt alive in Rampur-Shyamchand village in Vaishali district of Bihar on the midnight of the New Year on Sunday. — PTI |
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Do
you feel that crime
rate has
significantly
decreased in Punjab?
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India:
The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION
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Nitish orders probe into
arson incident
Hajipur, January 1
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today ordered a high-level inquiry into the arson incident at Ram Shyamchand village in Vaishali district last night, in which six members of a family, were burnt alive. After visiting the spot, Mr Kumar said a high-level inquiry into the incident.
Woman raped in moving car
New Delhi, January 1
A married woman, aged about 23 years, was allegedly picked up from the market area in Narela and gang-raped by two unknown persons in a moving car. This was the fourth such incident during last six months.
Rajnath Singh to take over as BJP chief today
 New Delhi, January 1
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh’s new innings will begin tomorrow when he assumes charge of the BJP, succeeding Mr L.K. Advani who stepped down as the party president yesterday.
Rajnath Singh
Tanneries a bane for villagers
Phillaur, January 1
Chemically treated discharge from tanneries at Ramdaspura Mohalla in Nangal village, near here, has been playing havoc with the lives of humans and livestock for the past many years.
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| A drain carrying discharge from tanneries that has been playing havoc with human lives at Nangal village in Phillaur.
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There were no internal differences in the party in the past. Nor there will be in the future.
— Rajnath Singh
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Rel Info’s New
Year gift
Launches one nation, one tariff
plan; STD call at Re 1
New Delhi, January 1
Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Infocomm
today became the first telecom operator to launch IndiaOne tariff
"One nation, one tariff" plan offering STD call anywhere in
the country for just Re 1 per minute. (Details on Business
page)
IISc attack:
3 detained
New Delhi,
January1
Security agencies probing the attack on the Indian Institute of Sciences
(IISc) detained three persons in connection with the incident and feared
more such strikes in Mangalore in Karnataka and some other cities in
adjacent Andhra Pradesh.
(Details on Nation page)
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Churchill was tough, even with Mahatma
London, January 1
Winston Churchill, Britain’s Prime Minister during World War II who had described Mahatma Gandhi as a “half naked fakir,” was ready to let him die in prison if he went on hunger strike, while interned during the war, archives released here today showed.
Gandhi was held for two years at the Aga Khan’s Palace in Pune, from August 1942 after slamming India’s involvement in the war and calling for the Civil Disobedience movement.
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Advani
quits, it’s over to GenNext
January 1, 2006
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Fresh
terror threat on New Year’s Eve
December 31, 2005
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CM sees LeT hand in IISc shooting
December 30, 2005
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Terror
strikes IIS campus
December 29, 2005
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Advani to quit on December 31
December 28, 2005
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Maya expels stung MPs from party
December 27, 2005
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Delhi
mall cave-in leaves 11 dead
December 26, 2005
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2 Haryana trucks torched in Assam
December 25, 2005
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11 MPs expelled from Parliament
December 24, 2005
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