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Wednesday,
October 5,
2005, Chandigarh, India
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at 3:00 am (IST)
India,
Pak take step forward on Sir Creek
Siachen issue remains frozen
Islamabad,
October 4
India and
Pakistan failed to achieve a thaw on Siachen issue
despite hectic back-room diplomatic efforts that
continued well past midnight last night, though the
two nuclear neighbours did take a step forward in
resolving the Sir Creek maritime boundary dispute. |
Pakistan President
Pervez Musharraf shakes hands with Foreign Minister
Natwar Singh in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. — Reuters
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Punjab
Congress looks to Delhi for help on paddy
Chandigarh, October 4
Peeved by the tardy procurement of
paddy by state agencies, especially the FCI,
senior Congress leadership of Punjab, including the state President, Mr Shamsher Singh Dullo, is desperately trying for intervention by the
party high command as well as the centre to prevent the situation from
deteriorating any further.
Cong,
SAD to lock horns over Nanavati report, farmers’ suicides
Chandigarh, October 4
A number of high-voltage political
issues such as terrorism in the '90s, report of the Nanavati
Commission on the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, action taken report on the
findings of the Nehra Commission, suicide by farmers and issues related
to paddy procurement will dominate the session of the Punjab Assembly,
scheduled to begin tomorrow.
Tribune
reports again cited in SC in Shankaracharya case
New Delhi, October 4
It is for the second time within a fortnight that the reliability of The Tribune reports today became a subject matter of citation in the Kanchi Shankaracharya’s case before the Supreme Court.
Nation page: Shankaracharya
seeks transfer of case outside TN
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learn from past mistakes and I am also trying to
rectify my mistakes.
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Gen
J J Singh stresses on all-round development
Sanawar,
October 4
The Chief of the Army Staff,
Gen J.J. Singh today stressed upon discipline and the need to
reinforce the importance of all-round development of students
rather than mere academic excellence.
The Chief of Army Staff, Gen J. J. Singh, takes the salute at the
158th Founder’s Day celebration function at Lawrence School,
Sanawar, in Solan district on Tuesday. — Tribune photo BY Vinay
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10
die as truck rolls into gorge
Mandi, October 4
Ten persons were killed and 30
injured, most of them women, when a private local Mazda truck rolled
down a 300 ft gorge at Dhayantra, 20 km from here, this evening.
Fodder
scam: 10 convicted
Ranchi, October 4
A special CBI court today convicted 10 accused in a case
related to the multi-crore rupee fodder scam that rocked the undivided
Bihar a few years ago.
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Hopkins
surgeon brings hope for conjoined twins
New
Delhi, October 4
Ten-year-old conjoined twins
Sabah and Farah from Bihar could not have asked for more. They
have got the green signal for surgical separation from
internationally renowned paediatric neurosurgeon Dr Benjamin
Carson and 21 senior consultants. |
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| Team of doctors stands behind Saba and Farah, the conjoined twin sisters with their father (extreme left) of Samanpura in Patna, Bihar, in a hospital in New Delhi, on Tuesday. Dr Benjamin Carson of the John Hopkins Children’s Centre, USA, is second from right. Tribune
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India, Pak heading for Siachen breakthrough
October 4, 2005
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Shahabuddin
booked for ‘appearing’ in exam
October 3, 2005
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Deepender Hooda wins by huge margin
October 2, 2005
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Nationwide
CBI raids
October 1, 2005
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Govt clears armed forces tribunal
September 30, 2005
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LNG, gas pipeline deals on, says Iran
September 29, 2005
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Ganguly, Chappell bury the hatchet
September 28, 2005
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Ex-chief of BCCI wants Sourav to go
September 27, 2005
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Ganguly,
Chappell to meet BCCI
panel separately
September 26, 2005
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