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The First Challenge Special supplement
to mark the 150th anniversary of India’s
first War of Independence.
Thursday,
October
23,
2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
GLOBAL CRISIS
Capital dose for 7 PSU banks: FM New Delhi, October 22
With elections around the corner, Parliament today formally approved an unprecedented financial assistance from the Consolidated Fund of India to meet the requirements of edible oil and fertiliser subsidy, to refund banks for the loan waivers announced for farmers and to pay enhanced salaries to employees, among other
items.
News Analysis Moon – the new frontier
Since time immemorial poets, writers and astrologers have looked at the moon for writing romantic poetry, prose or predicting future events.
India,
Japan ink security pact But Tokyo silent on
initiating nuclear commerce Tokyo, October 22 India and Japan today
inked a landmark security pact and pledged to bolster economic
cooperation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wooing Japanese
investors saying “sky is the limit”.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at the latter's official residence in Tokyo on Wednesday. — Reuters
In Ludhiana, they’re equal partners in real estate Ludhiana, October 22
In a major development that can pave way for a farmer-government partnership in developing newly planned mega urban estates all over the state, the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority
has decided to give 50 per cent partnership share in the developed area for new urban estates to those giving land for the project.
Punjab
bonus for farmers Chandigarh, October 22
Punjab will introduce crop
insurance for all marginal farmers from the next rabi season.
Violence in more Bihar
areas Irate students torch
train Patna, October 22
The spontaneous agitation yesterday by railway recruitment test examinees on their return to Bihar from Mumbai became more violent and spread to different parts of the state today with students belonging to different colleges and even schoolchildren joining
it.
Haryana Pulse Too costly to be an indoor patient Chandigarh, October 22
Shocking but true: an indoor patient admitted in a government hospital in Haryana spends a whopping Rs 11,665 out of his own pocket.
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