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Saturday, July 2, 2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Gujarat flood kills 94; 500 cr aid announced

Ahmedabad, July 1
The Centre today announced Rs 500 crore assistance to the Gujarat Government to meet the flood situation which has left at least 94 persons dead and caused immense losses to the state’s infrastructure.

A flooded national highway, 40 km south of Ahmedabad, on Friday.
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A flooded national highway, 40 km south of Ahmedabad, on Friday.
— Reuter photo

Mumbai Rajdhani cancelled

In video: Heavy rains shut textile mills in Gujarat. (28k, 56k)

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Sonia meets Left leaders, fails to break impasse
New Delhi, July 1
The UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s meeting with the Left leaders over the BHEL disinvestment today broke the ice between the two parties, but failed break the impasse on the issue with the Communists continuing to hold to their stand to stay away from the coordination committee.
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Punjabis dubbed ‘liars’ in 1925 Lahore HC verdict
Supreme Court moved to undo remarks from law books

New Delhi, July 1
An advocate of the Supreme Court Sonia Raj Sood is desperately seeking to undo what she believes is a humiliating and demeaning judgment handed down by the Lahore High Court 80 years ago that Punjabis are habitual liars even in the face of death.


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HARYANA:  BKU plans rally to honour CM

HIMACHAL:  Life may return to old Hindustan-Tibet road

DELHI: 265 Ghaziabad buildings unsafe for habitation

J&K: Chenab flows 30-ft above danger mark

CHANDIGARH: Stars spurn fans’ attention

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BUSINESS: Steel firms cut prices as inventory rises

NATION: Dissent in CPM over RS nomination

WORLD: Tripartite talks on Kashmir only way out: Pak PM

SPORTS: Davenport sets up clash with Venus Williams


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I have not resigned as BJP Secy: Kulkarni
New Delhi, July 1
The BJP Secretary, Mr Sudheendra Kulkarni, today acknowledged a letter that he wrote to party President L.K. Advani on June 24, saying that he was prepared to work as an ordinary worker if the party seniors wanted, but refuted media stories that he had resigned from the post.

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Aziz, Rashid ‘visit’ India by mistake
Srinagar, July 1
A Pakistani helicopter, carrying Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and controversial Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, flew across the Line of Control (LoC) into the Indian side yesterday, a media report said here today.

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Sansar gets CBI remand
New Delhi, July 1
A city court today sent India’s most wanted animal killer and smuggler Sansar Chand to 10-day CBI remand. — TNS


Living dangerously close to Sutlej
Rampur Bushahr (Shimla District), July 1
It is a lesson people living along the Sutlej did not learn and they have paid the price for it.


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Houses constructed dangerously close to the Sutlej at Rampur Bushahr and its surrounding areas. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan
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