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Sunday,
August 14, 2005,
Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
Lanka clamps emergency
No role in Foreign Minister’s assassination: LTTE
Colombo, August 13
Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency today following the killing of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar by suspected Tamil Tigers, threatening to derail the fragile peace process between the government and the LTTE.
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Can Sourav be a better captain than Rahul?
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India condemns killing
New Delhi, August 13
India today condemned the assassination of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar and hoped that the Chandrika Kumaratunga government would defeat the forces that seek to undermine the island nation’s unity and political stability.
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Ultras kill 5 of family, injure 9
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Jammu, August 13
Five members of a family were killed by terrorists in Shehjru village in Mahore block of the Udhampur district today. Reports said nine other members of the family were injured due to indiscriminate firing by the militants who attacked the house of Sawan Mal, a member of the village defence committee.
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A person injured in an attack by militants on a family in Shehjru village of Udhampur district is taken to hospital in Jammu on Saturday. — PTI
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J&K page:
Security stepped up for I-Day
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The country’s missile development programme is running smoothly and on schedule.
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Centre forms two panels for ’84 riot victims
New Delhi, August 13
In line with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s assurances, the Home Ministry today constituted two official committees to go into the “adequacy and uniformity” of compensation and “providing additional employment” to the surviving family members of those killed in the 1984
anti-Sikh riots.
Security beefed up for Tytler, Sajjan
Nation page: Sarna
meets PM, seeks CBI probe into ’84 riots
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CPI sets 7-point priority list for government
New Delhi, August 13
The CPI today set at least seven priorities for the UPA government, including introduction of the Employment Guarantee Programme and passage of Women Reservation Bills in the ongoing session of Parliament, and stop move on hike in petroleum products.
2 drug factory owners held for smuggling
New Delhi, August 13
Unearthing a major smuggling racket of prescription drugs to the Middle-East, the Narcotics Control Bureau today arrested two owners of medicine manufacturing units based in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana.
Neelam
drags India into dope fiasco
New Delhi, August 13
India’s veteran
discus thrower Neelam Jaswant Singh tested positive for a
banned drug, adding a sordid and shameful chapter to the
country’s disappointing campaign at the World Athletics
Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
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Kumble, Laxman dropped from ODI team
Mumbai, August 13
The national cricket selectors today wielded the axe on ageing non-performers in limited-overs games like Anil Kumble and V.V.S. Laxman and laid emphasis on youth while naming the 15-member Indian squad for the triangular series in
Zimbabwe.
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States
can’t enforce quota in private colleges: SC
August 13,
2005
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Manmohan apologises
to Sikhs for ’84 riots
August 12,
2005
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Jagdish Tytler quits
August 11,
2005
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Govt may amend ATR on Nanavati report
August 10,
2005
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Nanavati pins Tytler for ’84 riots
August 9,
2005
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ULFA
blasts oil pipelines in Assam
August 8,
2005
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India, Pak okay pact on ballistic missiles
August 7,
2005
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Delete
names of criminals from rolls
August 6,
2005
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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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