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Papa, I hope it is not on April 1.
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by
Sandeep Joshi
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Flame rages across
the BASECO slum colony in Manila on Monday. More than 20,000
persons were left homeless in a seven-hour blaze that swept through
this slum colony in the Philippine capital. No deaths or injuries were reported, but the blaze that started late on Sunday reduced to ashes more than 2,500 makeshift homes on a man-made island, part of a closed state-run shipyard complex.
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Punjab
leaders want Hanspal to stay as PPCC chief
 New Delhi, January 12
Both the warring groups of the
Punjab Congress are learnt to have suggested to the party Central
leadership that the PCC chief should not be changed.
Tribune
Impact
Show-cause
notice to polluting distillery
Hamira/ Jalandhar, January
12
While the water samples collected
by the Punjab Pollution Control Board show that the effluents being
discharged from Jagatjit distillery were polluting water beyond the
existing parameters, the board has directed the distillery authorities
to take remedial measures and adhere to norms by January 15 or face
action.
 Editorial:
Get tough with polluters
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LS
poll may be in March or May
January 12, 2004
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Decision
on LS poll by Jan 14, says Mahajan
January 11, 2004 |
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Government
doles out more concessions
January 10, 2004
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Pre-poll
tax sops target middle class
January 9, 2004
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Unorganised
sector gets social security
January 8, 2004
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Pervez
promises end to terror
January 7, 2004
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Vajpayee
meets Musharraf
January 6, 2004
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India,
Pak avoid Kashmir at SAARC
January 5, 2004
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PM
keeps door open for talks
January 4, 2004
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It became official today when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee told Finance Minister Jaswant Singh to prepare for a Vote-on-Account so that the process of the
general election could be completed and a new government was in place by April-end.
In video (
New Delhi, January 12
Bangalore, January 12
Appealing to Pakistan
President Pervez Musharraf to allow both the exiled PMs to return
home and be part of the Indo-Pak peace talks, former Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto has said, “only after the restoration of
a democratic process, a political consensus would lead to a
durable peace process.”
