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Ceiling on FDI in petroleum, banking sectors up
New Delhi, January 15
The Centre today took a host of politically sensitive economic decisions aimed at taking the national economy from protectionist mould to liberal mode. The Union Cabinet decided to substantially raise the existing foreign direct investment ceilings in petroleum and banking sectors.


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Sonia launches poll campaign
Initiates process to empower panchayats
Bathinda, January 15
The AICC chief, Ms Sonia Gandhi, while initiating the process of empowerment of panchayats by the state government today used the opportunity to formally launch the election campaign for the next Lok Sabha election.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Ms Rajinder Kaur Bhattal vie with each other to get Ms Sonia Gandhi’s attention at a rally in Bathinda LEND ME YOUR EARS MA’AM: Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Ms Rajinder Kaur Bhattal vie with each other to get Ms Sonia Gandhi’s attention at a rally in Bathinda on Thursday.
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Pawar, Sonia discuss Cong-NCP alliance
BJP makes efforts to woo Mayawati
New Delhi, January 15
Five years after they parted company, political compulsions pushed Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar to seek each other out.

5-man Hurriyat panel for talks with Advani
Srinagar, January 15
The separatist Hurriyat Conference, led by Maulvi Abbas Ansari, has constituted a five-member committee to hold talks with the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, scheduled to be held in New Delhi on January 22.

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Samjhauta arrives to warm welcome
Attari, January 15
Resumption of the Samjhauta Express after a gap of two years today fulfilled hopes of families on both sides of the border. The historic event was ignored by politicians of both countries.

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Ms Rashida Begum, an Indian who married in Pakistan about 30 years ago, bursts into tears as she arrives at Attari railway station by the Samjhauta Express on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Rajiv Sharma

Terror camps in PoK yet to wind up,
says Army chief
New Delhi, January 15
The Chief of Army Staff, General N.C. Vij today said the terrorist camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir were yet to be wound up and asserted that the work on fencing along the Line of Control to control infiltration would go on at full pace.
Urmila Ghildiyal, widow of Major Atul Kumar Ghildiyal, tries to control herself at the gallantry award presentation function during the Army Day parade in New Delhi Urmila Ghildiyal (left), widow of Major Atul Kumar Ghildiyal, tries to control herself at the gallantry award presentation function during the Army Day parade in New Delhi on Thursday.
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