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Saturday,
October 30, 2004, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Deshmukh
to be CM
Maratha lobby prevails
Mumbai, October 29
After more than eight hours of tough
political bargaining, Congress MLAs this evening elected Mr Vilasrao
Deshmukh to be Maharashtra’s Chief Minister for the second time.
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Newly elected MPCC Legislative party leader Vilasrao Deshmukh is congratulated by party observer Ghulam Nabi Azad at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai on Friday.
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Punjab Governor Verma
resigns
General Rodriguez tipped to be new Governor
 New
Delhi, October 29
The resignations of NDA-appointed
Governors continued today with the Punjab Governor, Justice Om Prakash
Verma, submitting his resignation to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam here.
According to informed sources, General S.F. Rodriguez (retd) and
Lieut-General B.K.N. Chhibber (retd) are likely to be named Governors of
Punjab and J&K respectively.
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Tamil
Nadu Governor quits
Chennai, October 29
Ending a month-long controversy, Tamil Nadu Governor P.S. Ramamohan Rao
today sent in his resignation to the President, after the Union Home
Ministry sent signals to him that he was no more wanted and the Supreme
Court declined to stay his removal or transfer.
Copter
with General aboard missing near China border
New Delhi, October 29
One of the Cheetah
helicopters of the IAF with General Officer Commanding of the Sixth Mountain Division
based at Bareilly, Major-General D.P. Singh, and a Lieutenant Colonel on
board went missing near the border with China beyond Joshimath this
morning.
Serial
baby killer held
Jalandhar, October 29
 A spectre of fear terryfying local
residents for the past over seven months almost vanished in this morning
as a cruel serial baby killer, Darbara Singh, was finally arrested by the
local police.
Darbara Singh, alleged serial baby killer and rapist, being taken to the police lines in Jalandhar on Friday.
— Tribune photograph
16
hurt in refinery blast
Vadodara, October 29
A powerful blast in one of the
reactors of the Indian Oil Corporation-owned Gujarat Refinery today
injured 16 persons, spreading panic in the highly sensitive industrial
belt of Jawaharnagar on the outskirts of the city.
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Asif
wants to go back to Pakistan
Faridkot, October 29
 While
the district administration has sent a proposal to the state
government for sending Asif, a 13-year-old Pakistani boy languishing
in Juvenile Jail here, to a destitute home, he only wants to return to
his home in Pakistan.
Asif (left) and Altaf watch TV at Juvenile Jail in Faridkot on Friday.
— Photo by Iqbal Singh
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Maratha
lobby averse to Shinde as CM
October 29, 2004
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Cong
to head govt in Maharashtra
October 28, 2004
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Musharraf’s
new Kashmir formula
October 27, 2004
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NCP
defers decision on Congress proposal
October 26, 2004
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Omar, Farooq survive bomb attack
October 25, 2004
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Final
decision likely today
October 24, 2004
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Decide
turban issue by Nov 5, French court tells school
October 23, 2004
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Centre ready for talks with
Bodos
October 22, 2004
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FDI in civil aviation hiked
to 49 per cent
October 21, 2004
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Sharad
Pawar wants Home at the Centre
October 20, 2004
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