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Saturday,
August 6, 2005,
Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
Delete
names of criminals from rolls
EC directive to
Bihar
New Delhi, August
5
In a significant
order aimed at debarring criminals from contesting
elections in Bihar, the Election Commission today directed
the state government to delete from the electoral rolls
the names of those persons against whom, non-bailable
warrants could not be executed for more than six months.
In video (28k, 56k)
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YOUR VOTE
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Should MPs who
misbehave in Parliament be voted for by the voters?
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Doctors
can’t be prosecuted for simple negligence: SC
New Delhi, August 5
Placing medical profession entirely
in different pedestal for the applicability of IPC provision that deals
with causing death by negligence, the Supreme Court in a landmark
verdict said today a doctor couldnot be prosecuted for simple lack of
care and error of judgement or accident during treatment, while quashing
prosecution against Ludhiana’s prestigious CMC Hospital senior doctor
Jacob Mathew on the charges of negligence.
| India, Pak talks on nuke CBMs begin |
New Delhi, August 5
India and Pakistan today began the third round of expert-level talks on nuclear confidence-
building measures wherein the two sides reviewed the progress made in the previous two rounds.
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Meera Shankar (left), Additional Secretary (United Nations), External Affairs Ministry, with Tariq Osman Hyder, Additional Secretary (United Nations and Economic Coordination), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, before their
delegation- level meeting on Nuclear Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) in New Delhi on Friday.
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Tiger
task force submits final report
New Delhi, August 5
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today
endorsed a majority of the recommendations made by the Tiger task force
for saving tigers and their habitats, calling for their immediate
implementation.
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QUOTE
OF THE DAY
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“Deportation is a decision taken by the Home Secretary under statute. The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person’s beleifs or justifying or validating such violence.
Tony Blair
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Nanavati
report to be tabled on Monday
New Delhi, August 5
The Nanavati Commission report,
along with the Action Taken report would be tabled in Parliament on
Monday. The commission, set up by the NDA government to probe afresh the
1984-anti-Sikh riots, as there were criticism that none of the prominent
leaders, who were accused of being involved in the riots, were punished.
Pilgrims
stranded due to landslides
Jammu, August 5
As many as 797 pilgrims, who left
here this morning for Amarnath cave shrine, were stranded between
Udhampur and Kud as the Jammu-Srinagar national highway has been blocked
due to landslides at several places.
Himachal page: People suffering due to
landslides
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Railway employees repair the
Jammu- Udhampur railway track at the Bajalta village on the outskirts of Jammu on Friday.
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Rs 700 cr revival package for HMT on
cards
New Delhi, August 5
Amid controversy of disinvestment of government’s stake in the state-owned navratna BHEL, Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises has proposed a financial package of around Rs 700 crore to revive the HMT Ltd and some of its subsidiaries.
(Details on Business
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Afzal to die; Shaukat gets 10-year jail term
August 5,
2005
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Indo-US
nuke deal reciprocal
August 4,
2005
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Sonia
wants stamp papers abolished
August 3,
2005
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Mumbai reels under another deluge
August 2,
2005
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Advani
must go by October
August 1,
2005
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Srinagar
terror drama ends
July 31,
2005
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No
compromise on strategic interests
July 30,
2005
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200 trapped in
landslides
July 29,
2005
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Gurgaon
DC, SP told to go on leave
July 28,
2005
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Gurgaon
rocks Parliament
July 27, 2005
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