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EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUND

Thursday, October 13, 2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Landslides, snow hit rescue work
Six jawans killed
Srinagar, October 12
Amidst fading hopes of finding survivors in the week-end devastating earthquake, troops raced against time today to reach inaccessible villages in Kashmir valley but their job was hampered due to overnight snowfall and landslides killing six Army personnel in Tangdhar.
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An injured Kashmiri girl is carried as she arrives at a military base after she was transferred from an earthquake-affected area of Pakistan in Rawalpindi on Wednesday
An injured Kashmiri girl is carried as she arrives at a military base after she was transferred from an earthquake-affected area of Pakistan in Rawalpindi on Wednesday. — Reuters photo

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IAF steps up relief operations
Armed forces’ healing touch, to adopt 6 villages
International aid pours in 
Industry to help quake-hit in Pak
Sikh bodies set up camps
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Repair road to PoK, Mufti urges Centre
Drenched quake victims wait for tents
Relief yet to reach Poonch villages
Relief distribution acquires political tinge in Srinagar
Dead take the last ride
India’s gesture to PoK families
2 journalists go missing in PoK
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Five Indians airlifted from PoK
Chakala Airbase (Pakistan), October 12
Five Indians from Jammu and Kashmir, who were  in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK)  when the earthquake hit the region, were  airlifted to Islamabad today.

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Rain stops but misery continues
Two women pulled alive after 80 hours

PM asks partymen to counter Left campaign
Manmohan Singh New Delhi, October 12
Having found little support from his Cabinet colleagues, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is now looking towards the party to help build public opinion on key government policies like economic reforms agenda and its recent decision to vote against Iran at the IAEA.

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HIMACHAL: 7 dead, 15 hurt in bus-van crash

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J&K: Repair road to PoK, Mufti urges Centre

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LUDHIANA: Man arrested for terrorising over 50 industrialists

OPINIONS: India Inc. can do more

BUSINESS: Additional BSNL levy on private operators

NATION: IAF steps up relief operations

WORLD: Rain stops but misery continues

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Left parties meet today
New Delhi, October 12
Left parties would meet here tomorrow to formally decide on resuming participation in the meetings of the UPA Coordination Committee.

You have right to information
New Delhi October 12
The Right to Information Act (RTI), that gives legal rights to people to seek information from the government and curb corruption, came into force today, placing India among 55 countries that have such a legislation.

Plan for fighter aircraft
Russia wants to team up with India
New Delhi, October 12
Russia is keen that India should partner it in developing a fifth-generation fighter aircraft as the defence needs of the two countries are similar.

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New Delhi, October 12
The Election Commission has issued a notice to Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan on a complaint that she was holding an office of profit and that she should be disqualified. The EC acted on the basis of a reference from the office of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam following a complaint from one Madan Mohan. — PTI

Kashyap Punjab’s Info Commissioner
Chandigarh, October 12
The Punjab Government has appointed Mr Rajan Kashyap, a retired Chief Secretary, Principal Information Commissioner. He will head the unit that will handle information to be given out under the Right to Information Act. TNS

Amidst mounds of debris, people wait for aid 
Batapora, (Karnah) October 12
They have already buried their 11 persons, including nine women and two boys in this hamlet, few km away from Tangdhar, one among a row of villages along the potholed, Dingy and mud road that leads to the Teetwal area.

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