Thursday, July 25, 2002, Chandigarh, India
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Centre unveils package for
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New Delhi, July 24
Faced with the worst drought situation in 12 years, the Centre today announced a multi-pronged package to tackle the situation. The package involves extension of the Calamity Relief Fund to all farmers, postponement of debt recovery from farmers, payment of the outstanding Rs 1,000 crore to cane growers and extension of the deadline for making claims under the Crop Insurance Scheme.

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Hold early poll in Gujarat, BJP asks EC
New Delhi, July 24
The BJP today urged the Election Commission to hold an early Assembly poll in Gujarat saying that the situation in the state was normal and “holding of elections today is a constitutional compulsion”.
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Narayanan focuses on unity
New Delhi, July 24
Disturbed by the recent communal riots in Gujarat, President K. R. Narayanan today made a parting appeal for safeguarding India’s “tradition of tolerance, religious tolerance, and communal and social amity”.
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The outgoing President, Mr K. R. Narayanan, greets the incoming President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, during an At Home at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the Capital on Wednesday. — Tribune photo Mukesh Aggarwal
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No visas for UK MPs keen to visit Gujarat
New Delhi, July 24
India is not going to issue visas to MPs of the UK’s ruling Labour Party who have expressed a desire to visit Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir.

Anantnag blast leaves 18 hurt
Narrow escape for Amarnath yatris
Srinagar, July 24
Eighteen persons, including four policemen, were injured today when militants exploded a powerful grenade at a crowded Anantnag bus stand in south Kashmir, minutes after a vehicle carrying Amarnath pilgrims passed by.

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Sarna elected DSGMC chief
New Delhi, July 24
The Delhi Shiromani Akali Dal chief, Mr Paramjit Singh Sarna was today unanimously elected President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC). His election ended days of speculation about former Akal Takht Jathedar Bhai Ranjit Singh voting against the Delhi SAD.
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Mr Paramjeet Singh Sarna (new DSGMC chief) with Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra at a Press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

Wife of Manpreet’s ex-aide in VB net
Charged with getting job on fake certificate
Muktsar, July 24
After certain ministers and MLAs of the previous Akali Dal government, it seems to be the turn of their supporters to fall in the net of Vigilance Bureau. The bureau has booked the wife of a former political secretary of an Akali MLA of the district for producing fake certificates to get admission to a higher course, on the basis of which she got the job of a teacher. Karamjeet Kaur, wife of Mr Charanjeet Singh, was appointed ETT teacher in 2001.

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