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Sunday,
October 30,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated
at 3:00 am (IST)
BLASTS
ROCK DELHI, 60 DEAD
Markets teeming with Divali shoppers, DTC bus targeted
New Delhi, October 29
At least 60 persons were killed and over 200 injured in a series of powerful explosions that ripped through two congested markets and a running DTC bus in the Capital this evening, on the eve of Divali festivities, causing panic among the citizens.
Such was the intensity of the blasts that many
people in the vicinity of the explosion sites were
left in a dazed condition.
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Scattered remains of stalls after a bomb blast in the Paharganj market and (right) an injured foreign tourist is comforted by a local resident in Delhi on Saturday.
— Tribune photos by Mukesh Aggarwal
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Should criminal charges be filed against the Naval officers dismissed for leaking classified information?
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150 die as train derails, falls into rivulet in AP
Hyderabad, October 29
A passenger train derailed after the track gave way due to incessant rains in the early hours of today, killing around 150 persons and injuring many more.
Most of the passengers were asleep when the engine and seven coaches of the Repalle-Secunderabad Delta Fast passenger train derailed around 4 am after the track was washed away by flash floods caused by heavy rain in the
area.
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Nation
page:
Lalu
regrets loss of life
Engine and compartments of the Secunderabad
-Rippali Delta passenger train that fell into a rivulet after derailing in Nalgonda district of
AP on Saturday.
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H.K.L.
Bhagat dead
New Delhi, October 29
Former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat, the Delhi Congress strongman during the ’80s and one of those indicted by the Nanavati Commission in the anti-Sikh riots, died in a city hospital today after prolonged illness.
SC upholds compensation for land acquired by Army
New Delhi, October 29
The Supreme Court has upheld the award of Rs 40,000 compensation per acre to the residents of five villages in Amritsar district for acquiring of their land by Army for expansion of cantonment in 1977, fixed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
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Navy
sacks 3 officers
October 29, 2005
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Rain
cripples Chennai
October 28, 2005
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Kalam
for policy on death penalty, pardon
October 27, 2005
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No consensus on sharing of waters
October 26, 2005
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Evict Buta
Singh from Delhi house, says SC
October 25, 2005
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No Congress decision on power sharing in J&K
October 24, 2005
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Open
up LoC at 5 points, urges Pak
October 23, 2005
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Indo-US
N-deal by early 2006
October 22, 2005
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Changes in uplinking policy okayed
October 21, 2005
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Saddam defiant at trial
October 20, 2005
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