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Tuesday,
September 20,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
North
Korea to give up nuclear programmes
Beijing,
September 19
In
a major breakthrough, North Korea today agreed to abandon
its nuclear weapons and programmes and rejoin the
Non-Proliferation Treaty, accept inspections by the
International Atomic Energy Agency after the USA agreed to
normalise bilateral ties and assured of non-aggression.
South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Song Min-soon (left) chats with North Korea’s chief negotiator Kim Gye Gwan at the end of six-party talks over North Korea’s nuclear crisis at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing on Monday.
— AFP photo
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YOUR VOTE
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Do you believe that KGB successfully penetrated the Indian govt. in the 1970s?
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Natwar
Singh meets Kasuri in New York
New Delhi, September 19
External Affairs Minister K Natwar
Singh, who has stayed on in New York because of back-to-back meetings
and other business, met his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmood
Kasuri yesterday and is scheduled to meet US Secretary of State
Condoleeza Rice later today.
In video (28k, 56k)
Nation
page: Terrorist groups in Pakistan unaffected
Business
page: India, Pak press for free trade
Punjab
page: Pakistan identifies 42 more prisoners
Mystery
of Daya Ram’s family resolved
Sonepat family withdraws claim
Amritsar, September 19
family from Sonepat (Haryana) today
withdrew its claim over Daya Ram after meeting him again at Dr Vidhya
Sagar Government Mental Hospital, here. This ended the week-long mystery
over his real relatives.
Bofors
case: PIL filed in SC
Nation
page:
BJP for
probe into Soviet agent’s charges
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QUOTE
OF THE DAY
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If you think I am indispensable I am honoured, but the country already has institutions that can run the affairs of the country.
— Pervez Musharraf
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A huge pall of smoke is seen after a major fire broke out on Monday morning at a plastic godown located between Achud and Kalamboli villages in Navi Mumbai. — PTI |
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BJP head to have Sangh’s stamp
New Delhi, September 19
Despite BJP President L.K.
Advani’s swipe at the RSS during the just-concluded National Executive
Meeting of the party in Chennai, party insiders strongly felt that the
Sangh will have an overbearing influence on who will be the successor to
Mr Advani, who has decided to demit presidentship in December.
Editorial: An
outcome of dual loyalty
SC
for regulating student unions’ poll
New Delhi, September 19
Concerned over the “unleashing of
unrest” in colleges during student unions’ elections across the
country every year, the Supreme Court today directed the Centre to lay
down proper guidelines for conducting the elections and gave the
government two-week time to submit its response on the issue and the
proposed modalities.
Confusion
in Gauhati High Court
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Advani
to quit by December-end
September 19, 2005
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New
rules for IIT admission from 2007
September 18, 2005
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Advani
warns dissidents
September 17, 2005
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Indo-Pak
talks run into trouble
September 16, 2005
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US
committed to N-energy deal
September 15, 2005
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Manmohan in New York for UN session
September 14, 2005
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India to buy 6 French Scorpene submarines
September 13, 2005
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India, Pak should make border irrelevant: PM
September 12, 2005
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Sarabjit
involved in blasts, says Musharraf
September 11, 2005
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EC
pulls up Hooda for violating code
September 10, 2005
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42 Army men feared dead in bridge collapse
September 9, 2005
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