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Saturday, September 25, 2004, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

PM, Pervez address Kashmir issue
New York, September 24
After 57 years of hostility and mutual suspicion, India and Pakistan today made a “new beginning” in their relations when they decided to consider all possible options for a peaceful negotiated settlement of the Jammu and Kashmir issue and explore the possibility of the Iran-India gas pipeline via Pakistan.

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Editorial: Sober, statesmanlike




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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh receives a painting presented to him by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Prime Minister Manmohan Singh receives a painting presented to him by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf during their meeting in New York on Friday. External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh (extreme left) and his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (second from right) are also in the picture.
— PTI photo by Subhash Chander Malhotra

PM talks business with Indian-Americans
New York, September 24
For the past several years, the annual meeting of the Prime Minister with prominent Indian-Americans, held on the margins of the UNGA session, had been a social affair.

Raja Ramanna cremated
Raja RamannaMumbai, September 24
The mortal remains of Dr Raja Ramanna, architect of India’s nuclear weapons programme, were cremated at the Shivaji Park electric crematorium in Central Mumbai this afternoon.
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DELHIRickshaw puller behind NRI’s death

CHANDIGARH: This time Lucky!

LUDHIANA: SAD (A), BJP activists clash as Tiranga Yatra enters city

OPINIONS: Sober, statesmanlike

BUSINESS: Suzuki investment shot in arm for PC

NATION: SC notices to Centre, ‘tainted’ ministers

WORLD: Elections in Jan, says Iraq PM

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Montek World Bank man, says Basu
Kolkata, September 24
The standoff between the Left and the UPA government over the involvement of foreign experts in the Planning Commission took a serious turn with veteran CPM leader Jyoti Basu today launching a direct attack on Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, terming him a “World Bank man”.

Cong denies World Bank lobby

I would not have been minister if Sonia was PM: Pawar
New Delhi, September 24
Despite the two UPA coalition partners fighting the Maharashtra Assembly elections together, NCP leader Sharad Pawar said today that he would not have been a minister if Congress President Sonia Gandhi had become the Prime Minister.

Mann supporters stone Tiranga Yatra
Rajpura/Fatehgarh Sahib, September 24
Black flags greeted Uma Bharti’s Tiranga Yatra within minutes of its entry into Punjab. Akali Dal (Amritsar) activists stopped the yatra for around 15 minutes at the octroi post here.

Punjab page: Uma ridicules Left’s ‘double standards’

Protesting Shiromani Akali Dal activists holding black flags gherao Uma Bharti's vehicle at the octroi post on the GT Road in Rajpura on Friday. Ludhiana page: SAD (A), BJP activists clash as Tiranga Yatra enters city


Protesting Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) activists holding black flags gherao Uma Bharti's vehicle at the octroi post on the GT Road in Rajpura on Friday.
— Photo by Rajesh Sachar


Punjab farmers disrupt rail traffic
Kirti Kisan Union members disrupt rail traffic on the Ludhiana-Ferozepore track at Ghal Kalan village in Moga on Friday.  Moga, September 24
Members of the Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta) and the Kirti Kisan Union disrupted rail traffic for three hours on the Ludhiana-Ferozepur track at Ghal Kalan village to press their demands.

Kirti Kisan Union members disrupt rail traffic on the Ludhiana-Ferozepore track at Ghal Kalan village in Moga on Friday. — Tribune photo by Inderjit Verma

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Planting evidence

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