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Thursday, August 18, 2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Series of blasts rock Bangladesh
*Explosions in 63 districts
*2 dead, 138 hurt
*Ultras target govt offices, courts, press clubs

Dhaka, August 17
About 400 small bombs, suspected to have been planted by an Islamic militant outfit, exploded almost simultaneously in cities and towns across Bangladesh today killing at least two persons, including a child, and injuring 138.
Two members of the ‘Rapid Action Battalion’ (RAB) of the Bangladeshi Special Security Force take a close look at an explosive device, following a series of blasts, in Chittagong
Two members of the ‘Rapid Action Battalion’ (RAB) of the Bangladeshi Special Security Force take a close look at an explosive device, following a series of blasts, in Chittagong on Wednesday. — AFP photo

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Knowledgeable circles in the Government of India believe that the 370 bomb blasts that rocked 63 out of 64 districts of Bangladesh today bear signatures of Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda-affiliated outfit, signalling that sinister Jehadi forces are now firmly entrenched in India’s eastern neighbourhood.



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New Delhi, August 17
Overruling the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s directive to send the entire question paper of the Punjab Pre-medical Entrance Test to the Central Board of Secondary Education for determining the correctness of “key answers” set out by Guru Nanak Dev University, the Supreme Court today ordered fresh examination of only 10 answers by the CBSE and Delhi University simultaneously.

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The government will bring a legislation in the Winter session of Parliament to overturn Supreme Court judgment abolishing government quotas for the members of depressed sections of the society in private unaided colleges and a regulatory mechanism to exercise social control over the entire education system.

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CRPF man killed, 9 hurt in Anantnag car blast
Srinagar, August 17
A jawan of the CRPF was killed and nine others, including six CRPF personnel and three civilians, were injured in a car bomb blast in Kulgam of Anantnag district today. The police here said militants detonated an IED planted in a car at Katran in the Kulgam area this afternoon, when some security forces vehicles were on the move.

Men rush a wounded civilian for medical treatment in a hospital in Srinagar on Wednesday. A CRPF jawan was killed and nine others were injured when militants blew up a car filled with explosives Men rush a wounded civilian for medical treatment in a hospital in Srinagar on Wednesday. A CRPF jawan was killed and nine others were injured when militants blew up a car filled with explosives. — Tribune photo by Amin War

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New Delhi, August 17
Byelections for Rohtak and Asansol parliamentary constituencies and two Assembly seats in Goa and Uttaranchal will be held on September 28, the Election Commission announced here today.

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New Delhi, August 17
Law Minister H.R. Bharadwaj today said that there was no question of permitting any parallel Islamic judicial system in the country as the Constitution only recognised a judiciary functioning under the supervision of the Supreme Court of India.
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