Thursday, January 11, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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CM dissolves SAD front bodies
Announces Parishad, Block Samiti poll
CHANDIGARH, Jan 10 — The Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, today set the election ball rolling for the party rank and file. By dissolving all front organisations, including the youth wing of the SAD, and announcing the elections of the Zila Parishads and Block Samitis, Mr Badal gave a task, a warming-up exercise, to the party activists to fine tune the organisation (the SAD) for the Vidhan Sabha poll due early next year.

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Hindujas not to be detained
Decks cleared for appearance in Bofors case
New Delhi, Jan 10 — With the CBI asking the immigration authorities not to detain or arrest the Europe-based Hinduja brothers on their arrival in India, the decks for their appearance as accused in the Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case have been cleared. 

Foreign tourists dressed in traditional saris dance while Indians join in the festivities during a Hare Krishna procession at the Mahakumbh Mela in Allahabad on WednesdayWorld page: Hindus flay TV coverage of Kumbh


Foreign tourists dressed in traditional saris dance while Indians join in the festivities during a Hare Krishna procession at the Mahakumbh Mela in Allahabad on Wednesday — Reuters photo

APHC may cancel Pak tour: Lone 
NEW DELHI, Jan 10 — Senior Hurriyat leader Abdul Ghani Lone has said that the statement of Home Minister L. K. Advani about not issuing passports to all members of the APHC executive amounts to interference in the decision of the Hurriyat regarding composition of its delegation to Pakistan.
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NEW DELHI, Jan 10 — Opinion gaining ground in a section of the Atal Behari Vajpayee government is that all the seven executive members of the APHC should be provided with passports to travel to Pakistan.

5 states may go to polls in May
EC leaves for West Bengal today
NEW DELHI, Jan 10 — The Election Commission (EC) today hinted at the possibility of simultaneous elections to Assemblies in five states before the third week of May.

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Help end terrorism, PM pleads
Jakarta, Jan 10 — Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today called upon Indonesia to join hands with India in fighting terrorism.  

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee with Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on his arrival in Jakarta on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee with Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on his arrival in Jakarta on Wednesday. — Reuters photo

 

Brides shun Deswali youths
HISAR, Jan 10 — Youths hailing from the Deswali belt of Haryana are facing a peculiar problem. Their love for playing cards and attending political rallies has become a disqualification for marriage. Brides which are becoming increasingly hard to find in view of the alarming fall in the male-female ratio in Haryana, are now avoiding marrying in to Deswali families.

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