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Tuesday,
August 30, 2005,
Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
India,
Pak fail to reach agreement
Tackling drug
trafficking
New Delhi, August
29
The Home Secretaries
of India and Pakistan today discussed at length the
first-ever Memorandum of Understanding between them on
prevention of drug trafficking, but failed to reach an
agreement on it, sources disclosed to The Tribune tonight.
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Should Ludhiana be linked by air with Delhi?
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India
to ask Pakistan for transit facility
Trade ties with
Afghanistan
Kabul, August 29
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh today rounded up his first two-day
bilateral visit to Afghanistan by targeting the common man
or the “aam aadmi of Afghanistan, saying that with
India’s help, several welfare initiatives for the Afghan
would be put in place soon.
Kabul Diary:
Manmohan
lays stone of new Indian chancery
PM
terms Afghan visit ‘productive’
Editorial: Commitment to Kabul
Protest by angry newsmen forces CM to order probe
Disregard of law by police in arresting Dheer
Chandigarh, August 29
Angry protests by media persons over the utter disregard for the law shown by the Punjab Police to arrest Mr Gautam Dheer, a reporter with a national daily, last night, forced the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt. Amarinder Singh, to order a probe against the Special Investigating Team.
Dheer was released on bail in the evening.
SIT locks horn with CM
Editors Guild condemns arrest
Report
on police action against journalist sought
Punjab page: Reporter
freed on bail
I
was falsely implicated: Dheer
SIT
member suspended
Ludhiana page: Journalists
demand Dheer’s release
Chandigarh page: Police
bypassed law in arresting scribe
Lawyers’
body moves NHRC over scribe’s arrest
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QUOTE
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It is a privilege for India to be a partner in the path that Afghanistan has chosen.
Manmohan Singh
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Mediapersons
gherao the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt. Amarinder
Singh, in protest against the arrest of Gautam Dheer
at Chandigarh of Monday.
— Tribune photo by Vinay Malik |
Punjab govt may move application in High Court
Chandigarh, August 29
Faced with a crisis, all due to questionable activities of a Punjab Police team that picked up a journalist from his Panchkula residence yesterday night, the Punjab Government today finally swung into action for some damage control.
Sarabjit
to meet Indian diplomats today
Islamabad,
August 29
Indian diplomats will
meet Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death in Pakistan,
tomorrow. “We are
going to provide consular access to Sarabjit Singh
tomorrow,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Naeem Khan said at
his weekly press briefing here today.
Punjab page: Spy
tortured there, neglected here
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send proof of POWs to PM
Amritsar, August 29
The families of prisoners of war
today sent “concrete evidence” to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,
giving proof of the POWs languishing in Pakistani jails. Canada-based
Sheetal Das Kaler, secretary of the South Asian Human Rights Group, also
made a startling revelation about the presence of POWs in Kot Lakhpat
Rai Jail, Lahore, when he visited the jail to meet Sarbjit Singh, who
has been sentenced to death.
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No compromise with terrorism: PM
August 29, 2005
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Gujarat
rebels serve ultimatum
August 28, 2005
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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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