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SPECIAL
Editorial
Parliament – A Sadhu’s sanctuary
By H.K. Dua
The people of India have been taking some pride in the nation being the largest democracy in the world. They are, however, feeling rather worried over what is happening in Parliament lately.
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No apology from
Dutch on detention of Indians
New Delhi, August 25
There has been no categoric apology from the Dutch for the detention of 12 Indian passengers on board a Mumbai-bound Northwest Airlines flight that took off from Amsterdam on August 23. The Indians were detained for alleged suspicious behaviour.
Nation page: Passengers
recount Amsterdam incident
Editorial: Avoid
paranoia
SC refuses to intervene in HUDA’s auction of plots
New Delhi, August 25
The Supreme Court today declined to intervene in the auction of plots by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) on the plea of MPs and MLAs outside the state, claiming reservation of certain per cent of plots for them.
Chandigarh page: Protest
at HUDA office
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The BJP wants to ensure that benefit of reservation for the backward castes goes to deserving and economically weaker sections of the students from the classes.
— Prakash Javdekar
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‘South Africa
tampered ball against India in 1997’
Proteas resorted to such
methods under Bob Woolmer
Melbourne,
August 25
Pakistan may have the dubious record of being involved in most of the
ball-tampering scandals so far but a former Match Referee has
sensationally disclosed that South Africa too resorted to such methods
during Bob Woolmer’s stint as coach. (Details
on Sports page)
US consulate
in Punjab likely
New Delhi,
August 25
The USA will examine the possibility of opening a Consulate in Punjab
considering the high number of immigrants and travellers the state sends
to the country every year. (Details
on Nation page)
Press freedom
in Pak, still a distant dream
Karachi, August 25
Freedom for the Fourth Estate in
Pakistan it seems, is still a distant dream. (Detail
on World page)
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Vohra: federalism in dynamic state
Srinagar, August 25
Federalism in the country has been evolving over the past six decades and has entered a dynamic state which has seen the emergence of coalition governments at the national and state levels.
With the democracy taking routes in the past century, the 21st
century is expectedly to be known as that of federalism.
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Centre’s special representative for Jammu and Kashmir, Mr N.N. Vohra (right), at the three-day conference “Indian Federalism at Work” in Srinagar on Friday. On the left is Mr George Mathew, Director of the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.
— Tribune photo by Amin War |
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