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Monday,
September 6, 2004, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Natwar,
Kasuri hold positive talks
India has “open mind” on oil
pipeline
New Delhi,
September 5
A new area of possible
cooperation between India and Pakistan emerged on the day one of
Foreign Minister-level talks here as New Delhi, for the first time,
told Islamabad that it had an “open mind” on an Indo-Iran
overland pipeline passing through Pakistani territory subject to
three conditions.
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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri (right) shakes hand with his Indian counterpart Natwar Singh before the start of talks between the two countries in New Delhi on Sunday. — Reuters
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Bush lobbied for Boeing with
Vajpayee
New Delhi, September 5
Governments come and governments go but the aircraft manufacturer Boeing goes on. While cutthroat lobbying and competition by the aircraft companies vying for the more that Rs 20,000-crore aircraft acquisition contract for the two national carriers Air-India and Indian Airlines is well known; it now transpires that US President George Bush had called the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to lobby for Boeing after IA shortlisted rival Airbus.
Samajwadi
Party MLC shot dead
FIR names MLA as an accused
Lucknow, September 5
The law and order situation in UP
received a fresh jolt late last night when Samajwadi Party MLC Ajit Singh
and a 12-year-old boy were shot dead at his birthday bash at a motel in
Unnao on the Lucknow-Kanpur highway.
BJP
divided on demand to sack Mulayam Govt
Fifteen
ministers join Chandy Cabinet
Thiruvananthapuram, September 5
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy
today expanded his Cabinet inducting 15 ministers, 10 of them from the
Congress, three from the Indian Union Muslim League and one each from the
Kerala Congress (M) and the RSP (B).
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Manipur
peace talks fail
Imphal, September 5
Crucial talks between Home Minister
Shivraj Patil and the leaders of Manipur agitation against the Armed
Forces Special Powers Act collapsed here tonight following divergent
stands on the continuance of the legislation.
Detailed report on Nation
page
Nation
page: Dawn-to-dusk strike in Manipur
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3
terrorists held; 15 kg RDX seized
Move to revive terrorism, says
police
Gurdaspur, September 5
The district police has managed to
prevent a terrorist strike in Punjab with the recovery of a huge cache
of arms, including 15 kg RDX, following the arrest of three terrorists
and two suspected Pakistan nationals hiding in the Pathankot area.
Bhagat
Singh’s brother dead
Chandigarh, September
5
Kultar Singh, younger brother
of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, died here this evening following
brief illness, sources close to his family said. Family members of
Kultar Singh said no politician or bureaucrat visited him in
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Kultar Singh
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Fly
ash flows into Sutlej; third incident in two years
Ghauli (Ropar), September 5
The
leakage of contaminated water from the stage-1 dyke of Guru Gobind Singh
Super Thermal Plant, Ropar, has been polluting the Sutlej for the past
two days posing a threat to environment in the region.
Fly ash flows out of the southern part of the Stage-1 dyke of Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant on Sunday.
— Tribune photo by Kiran Deep
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Ordinance soon to repeal POTA
September 5, 2004
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150
die as commandos storm school
September 4, 2004
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Fresh probe into Godhra fire ordered
September 3, 2004
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PM’s package for
Amritsar
September 2, 2004 |
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Politics overshadows celebrations
September 1, 2004 |
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Sifti
da ghar overflows
August 31, 2004 |
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Pakistan
says no to extradition treaty
August 30, 2004 |
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Arunachal CM joins Cong with Cabinet
August 29, 2004 |
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Bomb
attacks, arson in Maharashtra; 18 hurt
August 28, 2004 |
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Budget passed without
debate
August 27, 2004 |
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