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Sunday, May 29, 2005, Chandigarh, India
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PM says no to free power
Dedicates 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri project to nation
Jhakri, May 28
Expressing concern over the growing power shortage in the country, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, today said the time had come to declare in “no uncertain terms” that free power to farmers was a major impediment, hampering the efforts to enhance power generation.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh at a public meeting at Jakhri, Rampur Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh at a public meeting at Jakhri, Rampur, on Saturday after inaugurating the country’s largest 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydroelectric Project.
— Tribune photo by Anil Dayal

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EPF Board for 9.5 pc interest
New Delhi, May 28
Employees Provident Fund Board today recommended 9.5 per cent interest to nearly four crore EPF subscribers for 2004-05 by withdrawing Rs 716 crore from Special Reserve Fund to bridge the deficit. In video (28k, 56k)

Blasts at Dal Lake, yatra route; 44 hurt
Srinagar, May 28
Militants struck yet again on the holy Amarnath cave route and near the Dal Lake, triggering two blasts and causing injuries to about 44 persons, including six Central Reserve Police Force personnel.
A grenade blast victim is rushed to hospital after militants detonated a grenade in the market at Dal Gate in Srinagar J&K page: Governor to take up ‘yatra’ issue with Mufti

 



A grenade blast victim is rushed to hospital after militants detonated a grenade in the market at Dal Gate in Srinagar on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Amin War

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Defying Deputy Commissioner’s orders, a few supervisors of anganwadi centres were caught on camera replacing rotten eatables at an anganwadi centre of Siwia village last evening. This despite the fact that the Deputy Commissioner asked the officials concerned yesterday only to take 15 samples of eatables from each block.

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Rotten eatables being loaded in a government vehicle in the presence of anganwadi supervisors at an anganwadi centre of Siwia village on Friday evening. — Tribune photo by Kulbir Beera

Mufti sees new tourism era
Opens 2nd phase of cable car project
Gulmarg, May 28
Asserting that Gulmarg was developing as “an international destination for tourists”, the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, today inaugurated the second phase of the Gulmarg Gondola cable car project.

Cable cars move between the towers after the launch of the second phase of Kashmir’s cable car in Aphanwat, 60 km west of Srinagar, on Saturday.

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