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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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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.

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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’.
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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. 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 photo


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PUNJAB: Irregularities at toll tax barrier

HARYANA: Private firms to set up power plants in state

HIMACHAL: Campaigning for students’ body poll ends

DELHI: Privatisation of garbage collection in three city zones

J&K: Govt, Hindu bodies on collision course

CHANDIGARH: Sukhna suicides: mother fails, 2 daughters succeed

LUDHIANA: Mystery shrouds death of hospital inmate

OPINIONS: Consult NGOs before FMCC Bill is enacted

BUSINESS: Chidambaram pulls up public sector banks

NATION: Planning panel to push quadrilateral project

WORLD: Pak Senate panel seeks release of prisoners

SPORTS: Aussies fighting for survival

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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.
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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.

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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
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