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Govt
toughens anti-hijack policy
Can shoot down
planes
New Delhi, August
14
In a bid to prevent
Kandahar-type hijacking and any hijacked plane being used
as a missile to target vital installations like the 9/11
terror attack in the United States, the government has
unveiled a tough anti-hijack policy.
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Chief
Justice Roy at Guwahati: different setting, same
script |
Chandigarh, August
14
It’s
Chandigarh once again for the Guwahati High Court
Chief Justice, Mr Justice B.K. Roy. If judges and
lawyers at the Guwahati High Court have expressed
reservations over his style of functioning, judges
and lawyers at the Punjab and Haryana High Court
were no different. |
Justice B.K. Roy
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House
panel suggests hike in Judges’ pension
New Delhi, August 14
The Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Law and Justice in its report on the Supreme Court and High
Court Judges’ salaries and condition of service amendment Bill,
introduced in Parliament, has proposed to increase their pension,
additional pension and maximum pension by 1.5 times.
121
dead in plane crash
Athens,
August 14
All 121 persons
aboard a Cypriot airliner died today north of Athens after
the pilot and a passenger reported cabin pressure problems
moments before the plane was due to land. “The
pilot has turned blue,” a passenger said in a mobile
text message to his cousin, Greek television reported.
“Cousin farewell, we’re freezing,” it said.
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QUOTE
OF THE DAY
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We need to evolve a comprehensive renewable energy policy for energy independence within a year.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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Firemen try to extinguish a fire at the crash site of a Cypriot airliner at Grammatiko village, some 40 km northeast of Athens on Sunday. The airliner carrying 121 people crashed north of Athens after the pilot and a passenger reported cabin pressure problems moments before the plane was due to land.
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Nathpa
project shut down as level of silt increases
Shimla, August 14
The abnormally high turbulence of
the Sutlej during the season is creating all sorts of problems for the
country’s largest hydroelectric venture, the 1,500 mw Nathpa Jhakri
Project, which has suffered a loss of over Rs 300 crore in the current
financial year so far.
DMK
favours law on quota system
Chennai,
August 14
The Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam (DMK)-led Democratic Progressive Alliance in
Tamil Nadu is against the latest Supreme Court judgement
abolishing the concept of any government quota in private,
unaided professional colleges in the country and banning
community reservations in such institutions.
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Al-Qaida
in Kolkata?
Kolkata, August 14
On the eve of Independence Day, the
Intelligence Department of the Kolkata police detected a gang that was
collecting funds from the people in the minority-dominated port and
Chitpur areas in the city in the name of Osama bin Laden. Fifty
persons were detained in this connection and other criminal activities
in the city during the past 24 hours.
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Lanka clamps emergency
August 14,
2005
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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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