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Saturday,
November 19,
2005, Chandigarh, India
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6 convicted for killing rights activist Khalra
Patiala, November 18
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Jaspal Singh and ASI Amarjit Singh were sentenced to life imprisonment and four others awarded seven-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 each in the Jaswant Singh Khalra disappearance case by the District and Additional Sessions Judge Bhupinder Singh here today. |
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DSP Jaspal Singh (right)who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Jaswant Singh Khalra case at Patiala on Friday.
— Tribune photo by Rajesh Sachar
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Is the regularisation of unauthorised colonies proper?
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Khalra’s wife unhappy over verdict
Patiala, November 18
With the indictment of Punjab Police personnel involved in the disappearance of her husband Jaswant Singh Khalra, Paramjit Kaur Khalra is a relieved women.
Paramjit Kaur Khalra with her counsel Brijinder Singh Sodhi at District Courts in Patiala on Friday.
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Truth triumphs: eyewitness
Amritsar, November 18
“Though late, it is the victory of truth”, says Mr Kirpal Singh Randhawa, the key eyewitness in the abduction of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, who exposed mass cremations of unidentified bodies during peak of militancy in ‘false’ encounters and custodial deaths.
PM shuffles ministers
Keeps External Affairs; Dasmunshi is I&B Minister
New Delhi, November 18
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today went in for a selective reshuffle of the portfolios of his ministers.
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Jaipal Reddy
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Oscar Fernandes
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P.R. Dasmunshi
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Dubai firm to build townships in Punjab
Chandigarh, November 18
The Punjab Government has signed an Rs 4,000 crore Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Emaar-MGF, a company formed by Emaar Properties PJSC — a Government of Dubai promoted company — for developing infrastructure and integrated township projects in Mohali, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar.
Editorial: Urban
mess
SC clears Mansa Devi housing complex
New Delhi, November 18
In a major relief to the Haryana Government, the Supreme Court today gave green light to its ambitious Mansa Devi housing complex on the outskirts of Chandigarh after the state government submitted that it had excluded the forest land from the project plan notified by it five years ago.
’84
riots: CBI files 2 cases
New Delhi, November 18
In the wake of recommendations made
by the Nanavati panel probing 1984 Delhi riots for fresh investigations
against some persons, the CBI today registered two cases against
“unknown persons” in riots, arson and murder following the
assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
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Man abuses daughter,
gets life term
New Delhi, November 18
In a bizarre incident shocking the conscience of the Supreme Court and putting society to shame, the apex court has awarded the maximum possible sentence of life imprisonment to a father for sexually exploiting his own minor child at the servant quarters of the Himachal Pradesh Raj Bhavan 17 years ago.
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Punjab’s nod to 85th Amendment
November 18, 2005
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4
killed, J&K ex-minister hurt in Srinagar blast
November 17, 2005
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None will be spared: Sonia
November 16, 2005
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Naxals kill 9 abducted Sena men
November 15, 2005
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Pak
hasn’t done enough to end
terror, says PM
November 14, 2005
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SAARC vows to fight terror
November 13, 2005
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Abu Salem, Monica extradited — finally
November 12, 2005
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SC quashes UP Govt order
November 11, 2005
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K.R.
Narayanan dead
November 10, 2005
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Buta’s
role unfortunate, says PM
November 9, 2005
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