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Mulayam’s Cabinet now has 98 members
20 SP MLAs, history-sheeters get berths
Lucknow, October 3
It was Mulayam Singh Yadav who first decried the then Chief Minister Kalyan Singh for inducting 90-plus ministers in his Cabinet in 1997. Six years down the line, Mr Yadav carried out the largest ever Cabinet expansion today and inducted 91 ministers, taking the total number of ministers in the Cabinet, including himself to 98.
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Pakistan test-fires ballistic missile

Islamabad, October 3
Pakistan today ‘successfully’ test-fired a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile Hataf-III, capable of carrying conventional nuclear warheads and having a range of 290 km which could hit targets in India.

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Pakistan’s first short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile HATF-III Ghaznavi, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, takes off from an undisclosed location on Friday.
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Pakistan’s first short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile HATF-III Ghaznavi, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, takes off from an undisclosed location on Friday.

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Quota for economically poor okayed
New Delhi, October 3
In what can be described as election-oriented decisions, the government today not only approved the amendment to the Constitution for bringing about reservation for economically backward classes, but also decided to give further sops to sugarcane farmers in non-sugarcane producing states.

US redesignates Harkat as terrorist outfit
Washington, October 3
Pakistan-based militant outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Qaeda, LTTE and Hamas are among the 25 groups redesignated by the United States of America as Foreign Terrorist Organisations making it illegal for persons in the US to provide them with material support.

BJP takes exception to Jamali’s remarks
New Delhi, October 3
Bharatiya Janata Party President M. Venkaiah Naidu today took exception to Pakistan Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali’s statement in Washington that the BJP was blocking normalisation of ties between the two countries, terming the allegation as “ludicrous”.
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US Congressmen tell Jamali to stop violence in J&K

Militants kill 3 Doda pilgrims
Srinagar, October 3
Fourteen persons, including three pilgrims, seven militants and a counter-insurgent were killed in Jammu and Kashmir where the police averted a major tragedy with the timely detection of a powerful IED on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway since last night, official sources said today.

SAD moves rights panel against Amarinder
New Delhi, October 3
The Shiromani Akali Dal president, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, along with 45 party legislators and five MPs, including the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president, Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra, today met the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Justice A.S. Anand, alleging human rights violation and third-degree treatment meted out to political opponents by the Congress government in Punjab.

Punjab page: Fresh Vigilance directive to Sukhbir

Mr Parkash Singh Badal along with Akali Dal legislators and members of Parliament comes out after a meeting with the NHRC Chairman, Justice A.S. Anand, in New Delhi on Friday. Mr Parkash Singh Badal along with Akali Dal legislators and members of Parliament comes out after a meeting with the NHRC Chairman, Justice A.S. Anand, in New Delhi on Friday.
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