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Sandeep Joshi
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Dhindsa meets PM on Badal issue
New Delhi, December 3
The Union Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal general secretary, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, today met the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and apprised him of the “harassment” meted out to SAD president Parkash Singh Badal and his son and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhbir Singh Badal in Ropar jail.
For
more stories on Badal, see Punjab page
Mahmuda Bee, a 105-year-old survivor of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, sits in front of the poster showing Warren Anderson, former Chairman of Union Carbide, during a demonstration to mark the 19th anniversary of the disaster in Bhopal on Wednesday. More than 3,000 person were killed and thousands injured when tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal on December 3, 1984.
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India
proposes coast guard links with Pak
New Delhi, December 3
On the eve of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s departure to
Nigeria for the CHOGM summit, India today announced another confidence
building measure vis a vis Pakistan by proposing the establishment of
communication links between the Indian Coast Guard and the Pakistan
Maritime Security Agency.
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Gorshkov
deal incomplete: Russia
Moscow, December 3
Russia has said the price negotiations for the sale of Admiral Gorshkov
aircraft carrier to India have not been finally settled even as Indian
Navy Chief Madhvendra Singh said yesterday that the price negotiations
had been completed.
BSF
returns 2 Pak boys
Jammu, December
3
It was a happy reunion for the two Pakistani brothers with
their family this morning when the BSF handed them over to
the Pak Rangers. They had accidentally crossed into the
Indian territory in the Karotana village in the
Ranbirsinghpura sector on last Monday. The brothers were
identified as Sikandar Ali (18) and Bashir Ahmed (16). |
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Two Pakistani boys being taken by BSF personnel for handing them over to Pakistani Rangers in Ranbirsinghpora sector of Jammu on Wednesday.
— Photo by N.R. Sharma |
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31 die in bus mishap near Chamba
December 3, 2003
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Badal,
Sukhbir sent to Patiala jail
December 2, 2003
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Pak to lift ban on
Indian overflights
December 1, 2003
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India
differs with EU on Pak policy
November 30, 2003
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HC
stays tribunal order on transfers
November 29, 2003
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SC upholds Punjab’s decision on
liquor fee
November 28, 2003
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Guns remain silent
November 27, 2003
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Ceasefire
begins
November 26, 2003
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India
goes a step ahead, offers truce in Siachen
November 25, 2003
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Challan sees
rowdyism on roads
November 24, 2003
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Chargesheet filed against Badal, five others
November 23, 2003
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