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Sunday,
June 19, 2005,
Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
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YOUR VOTE
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Should power arrears of farmers be waived off?
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Tiger
Pataudi surrenders
Jhajjar, June
18
Former cricketer
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi surrendered before Chief Judicial
Magistrate Sudheer Jeewan around noon here today. He
was wanted by the local police in a case of poaching. The
Punjab and Haryana High Court had rejected his plea for
anticipatory bail yesterday.
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In video
(28k, 56k)
Former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi is escorted by policemen after he surrendered in a case relating to recovery of carcasses of black bucks, in Jhajjar, on Saturday.
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Natwar
rushes to Brussels for G-4 meeting
New Delhi,
June 18
In a brazen attempt
to stall the US gambit of splitting the G-4 on the United
Nations Security Council expansion, the foreign ministers
of India, Japan, Germany and Brazil are having an
emergency meeting in Brussels on June 22 to review the
proposals on the table and chalk out a fresh strategy so
that the voice of the developing world is not muzzled in
the international body.
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QUOTE
OF THE DAY
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I have today amicably resolved the issues between my two sons, Mukesh and Anil, keeping in mind the proud legacy of my husband Dhirubhai Ambani.
— Kokilaben Ambani
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Job
quota for Muslims in Andhra
Hyderabad, June 18
Overcoming an initial legal setback, the Congress government in
Andhra Pradesh finally brought an ordinance providing for 5 per cent
reservation to Muslims in educational institutions and government jobs.
An earlier ordinance promulgated by the Rajasekhara Reddy government in
July last was struck off by the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
Bush
motives on Iraq suspect again
London, June 18
When Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief foreign policy adviser
dined with Condoleezza Rice six months after 9/11, the then-US national
security adviser didn’t want to discuss Osama bin Laden or Al-Qaida.
She wanted to talk about “regime change” in Iraq, setting the stage
for the US-led invasion more than a year later.
Indo-Pak
N-talks put off
Islamabad/New Delhi, June 18
Pakistan and India have decided to put off their nuclear talks, as they are yet to arrive at an understanding on an agreement on advance warning of missile tests.
Envoy’s
wife to be discharged today
Chandigarh, June 18
Ruth Norfork, wife of Canadian
diplomat Adrian Norfork, is expected to be discharged from the Western
Command Hospital, Chandimandir, tomorrow. She had been admitted there
on June 16 after being rescued by the IAF from a mountain crevice into
which she had fallen while trekking with her husband near Dharamsala.
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Freedom
fighter’s daughter harboured Hawara
Khanna, June 18
Her husband is an Army man fighting
terrorists in the trouble-torn Kashmir valley. Her father is a freedom
fighter. But she, Hardeep Kaur, is facing the serious charge of being
the main harbourer of Babbar Khalsa International chief Jagtar Singh
Hawara, and also the key to his post-Burail jailbreak life and
activities.
Punjab page: Another
Babbar held in Hoshiarpur
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Bonanza
for farmers
June 18, 2005
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Cabinet
nod for dual citizenship
June 17, 2005
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Be
impartial, PM tells Governors
June 16, 2005
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Punjab
hikes power tariff by 10.27 pc
June 15, 2005
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15
dead, 90 hurt in Pulwama blast
June 14, 2005
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Let Siachen be a peace mountain: PM
June 13, 2005
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A
world first in N-power programme
June 12, 2005
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Storm
wreaks havoc
June 11, 2005
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Advani isolated
June 10, 2005
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BJP board rejects Advani’s resignation
June 9, 2005
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