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Sunday,
August 28, 2005,
Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
Gujarat
rebels serve ultimatum
Seek removal of
Modi
New Delhi, August
27
Even before the party
could douse the fire in Jharkhand, BJP president L.K.
Advani is facing yet another crisis as dissidents under
the leadership of former state Chief Minister Keshubhai
Patel have served an ultimatum on the party’s central
leadership to either remove Narendra Modi from the chief
ministership or they would resign from governmental
positions.
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CAST
YOUR VOTE
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Is the Mumbai Police being too harsh on dance bars?
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India,
Pak to stick to guns at Home Secretary-level talks
New
Delhi, August 27
India and
Pakistan are expected to stick to their stated
positions and go through the motions when the two
countries’ Home Secretaries begin their two day
talks on August 29 on terrorism and drug trafficking
under the composite dialogue framework.
World
page: Pak
won’t change stand on Kashmir: Aziz
Mumbai
resonates with ‘Govinda ala re’ slogans
Mumbai, August 27
Amidst enchanting
slogans of ‘Govinda ala re’, teams of youths
today enthusiastically participated in traditional
‘dahi handi’ (earthen pot containing curd)
programmes in the city and adjoining areas on the
occasion of ‘Gokul Asthami’.
In video (28k,
56k)
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People watch Lord Krishna devotees in the process of making a
human- pyramid to break a “dahi- handi” during a contest in Mumbai on Saturday. — AFP
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QUOTE
OF THE DAY
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Public sector banks have been consistently outperformed by the new private sector banks in deposit
mobilisation.
— P Chidambaram
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Intelligence
agencies deserting families of spies
Gurdaspur,
August 27
Are Indian
intelligence agencies deserting families of poor labourers
who are used to spy in the neighbouring country? From the
condition of the families of suspected spies, it seems to
be a fact.
In video: A ray of hope for Sarabjit. (28k, 56k)
Pak
national handed over
World page:
Pak
Senate panel seeks release of prisoners
Punjab page: Muslim
leaders seek release of Sarabjit
Charge sheet filed against Hawara
New Delhi, August 27
Babbar Khalsa militant Jagtar Singh Hawara, a key accused in the former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh assassination case, was today chargesheeted by the Delhi police along with seven others for the May 22 twin cinema blasts in Delhi that had claimed the life of a person and caused injuries to 55 others.
J&K
page: KZF activists trying to revive militancy
Sanjay Kapur complains getting death threats
New Delhi, August 27
Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor's estranged husband industrialist Sanjay Kapur has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police Special Cell that he has received threats to his life from anonymous callers.
High Court tightens screws on nursing institutes
Chandigarh, August 27
Tightening the screws on nursing institutes flouting government guidelines and functioning without adequate infrastructure, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered that no nursing institute, which does not have the requisite infrastructure, will make admissions for the
2005-06 academic session.
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Pakistan
grants consular access to Sarabjit
August 27, 2005
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7 Jharkhand ministers rebel against Munda
August 26, 2005
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Punjab
PMET: SC orders fresh merit list
August 25, 2005
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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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