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Bharat
Shah gets 1-yr RI, but will stay out of jail
 Mumbai,
October 1
Diamond merchant and film financier
Bharat Shah, who was sentenced to one year of rigorous imprisonment for
his alleged links with the underworld Wednesday, will not go to jail as
he has already spent 14 months in prison.
 Editorial:
Unholy
links
Arrest
Togadia, demands BJP minority leader
New Delhi, October 1
A prominent member of Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) Minority Morcha Salim Khan today asked the NDA
government to arrest senior VHP leader Praveen Togadia for his
anti-national, minority-bashing and ‘filthy’ utterances that did not
even spare the Prime Minister or the Supreme Court.
Naidu
for amending POTA
Defends Modi on Best Bakery
case
New Delhi, October 1
Faced with continuing criticism on
the misuse of POTA, BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu today strongly
favoured amendment to the law for introducing sufficient safeguards,
ruling out its outright repeal in view of the prevailing security
scenario in the country.
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Gandhi
Peace Prize for Havel
New Delhi, October 1
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel
has been selected for this year’s prestigious Gandhi Peace Prize for
‘’his outstanding contribution towards world peace and upholding
human rights in the most difficult situations’’.
A civic worker washes the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
— PTI photo
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Atal’s name
mooted for Nobel Prize
New Delhi, October 1
The local International Awakening
Centre has recommended, for the second time, the names of Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, US President George W. Bush and British Premier
Tony Blair to Norwegian Nobel Peace Research Institute for this year’s
Nobel Peace Prize.
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Agitating
farmers lathicharged
7 cops among several injured;
BKU leaders held
Bhai Bakhtaur (Bathinda), October
1
More than 12 farmers were seriously
injured when the police resorted to a lathicharge as the farmers were
trying to stage a dharna at a level crossing on the Bathinda-Delhi
section to lodge their protest.
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No
‘rasta roko’, please |
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Student activists of various kisan unions being lathicharged near the Bathinda Civil Hospital on Wednesday after the death of one farmer in the Tuesday rail roko agitation.
— Tribune photo Kulbir Beera |
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TRIBUNE
SPECIAL
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State
of universities
A compendium
of special articles on institutions of higher learning in
Punjab, Haryana & Himachal Pradesh.
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Joshi’s resignation
rejected
October 1, 2003
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Al-Qaida’s
call to topple Musharraf
September 30, 2003
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India beat Pak, lift Asia Cup
September 29, 2003
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2
cr Bangladeshis in India: Fernandes
September 28, 2003
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No
bilateral talks with Pak at SAARC meet: PM
September 27, 2003
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No
negotiations on terrorism
September 26, 2003
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PM, Bush discuss Iraq, terrorism
September 25, 2003
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Let
us increase Mission strength, India tells Pak
September 24, 2003
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Dara
sentenced to death in Staines murder case
September 23, 2003
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RAW officer, 2 others killed in
Rajouri blast
September 22, 2003
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12
militants shot dead
September 21, 2003
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Andhra
Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today escaped a bid on his
life by suspected Naxalites who set off a series of powerful landmine
blasts at the foothills of Venkateswara Temple in which he
received injuries on the nose, chest and collar bone.
