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Thursday,
August 25, 2005,
Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
Punjab
PMET: SC orders fresh merit list
To include 8
answers suggested by DU, CBSE
New Delhi, August
24
Imposing a cost of Rs
1 lakh on Guru Nanak Dev University for its
“apathetic and casual” approach in preparing the
Punjab Pre-Medical Entrance Test paper with a number of
wrong questions and incorrect “key answers”, the
Supreme Court today directed the varsity to prepare fresh
merit list by including correct answers of eight questions
suggested unanimously by the Delhi University and CBSE in
their reports submitted to it.
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Is the government right in criticising the SC’s decision on quota in private colleges?
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CBI
finds Mayawati’s assets worth Rs 100 crore
New
Delhi, August 24
Bahujan Samaj
Party leader Mayawati has filed an income tax return
of
Rs 88.75 lakh for one year. Yet, she magically
manages to acquire immovable assets worth over Rs 5
crore during the same year. |
Mayawati
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Sarabjit
was forced to embrace Islam
Amritsar,
August 24
Urns of at least 30 Prisoners of War, preserved in Kot
Lakhpat Rai Jail, Lahore, where Sarbjit Singh alias Manjit
Singh is also lodged, are awaiting rites.
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QUOTE
OF THE DAY
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What is important is that there should be a harmonious relationship between major Constitutional organisations like the Legislature and the court and nothing should be done or said which may create an avoidable controversy.
— Somnath Chatterjee
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Pak
examining India’s request for
consular access
Islamabad,
August 24
Pakistan today
informed India that its request for consular access to
Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death for his alleged
involvement in bomb blasts in this country, was being
examined as senior Ministers here were locked in a debate
whether President Pervez Musharraf was authorised to
pardon him.
| ‘Save
Sarabjit’ campaign gains momentum |
New Delhi, August 24
Dalbir Kaur,
who along with her brother Sarabjit Singh’s family
threatened to commit suicide if he was executed by
the Pakistan Government, is a more confident and
relaxed person today. Support
to save the life of her brother Sarabjit Singh has
been pouring in from quarters she least expected. |
Sarabjit Singh
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Lawyer
petitions Musharraf, seeks mercy
for Sarabjit
Chandigarh,
August 24
Chandigarh-based
human rights activist advocate Ranjan Lakhanpal has moved
a petition before the Pakistan President, General Pervez
Musharraf, seeking commutation of the death sentence
awarded to alleged Indian spy Sarabjit Singh.
No
response yet from Pak on Sarabjit case
New Delhi,
August 24
India today once
again raised the Sarabjit Singh issue with Pakistan, but
there was no response yet from Islamabad on the issue of
consular access to the Indian national who has been
convicted and sentenced to death on charges of espionage.
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NDA
for 33 per cent women candidates
New Delhi, August 24
In a move to resolve the impasse
over the Women’s Reservation Bill, the BJP-led NDA Opposition today
proposed to the government that political parties should earmark 33 per
cent of the tickets for women.
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PM, Natwar to take up Sarabjit issue with Pak
August 24, 2005
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Enough evidence to prosecute Maya: CVC
August 23, 2005
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PM exhorts Naxals to join mainstream
August 22, 2005
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Khurana suspended from BJP
August 21, 2005
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Mamata tried to organise riots in 1984: Surjeet
August 20, 2005
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Appointment of HP Chief Parliamentary Secys quashed
August 19, 2005
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Series
of blasts rock Bangladesh
August 18, 2005
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SC issues notice on fatwas
August 17,
2005
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Dismantle
terror network, PM tells Pak
August 16,
2005
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Kalam
calls for energy independence
August 15,
2005
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