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Sunday,
December 11,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated
at 3:00 am (IST)
Kalam
for speedy justice
Comes down on
adjournment culture in courts
Chandigarh,
December 10
The dream of the
country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that
common Indians must get “cheap and speedy justice”
found an echo at the function organised today to celebrate
the golden jubilee of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Punjab
page:
Kalam calls for
second Green Revolution
Kalam-farmer
interaction “stage managed”
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Chief Justice of India
Y.K. Sabharwal presents a souvenir brought out on the golden jubilee of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Chandigarh on Sunday.
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Uma spits fire on Mahajan, Jaitley
New Delhi, December 10
Spitting fire at her opponents, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti said in an interview, “Pramod Mahajan and Arun Jaitley cannot find ideology in goblets of wine”’.
In an exclusive interview to Janmat, the sanyasin, who was recently expelled from the BJP, ruled out forming a new political party saying, “I will live in the BJP or I will die in the BJP”.
India-ASEAN
summit to boost cooperation
New Delhi, December 10
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
reaches Kuala Lumpur tomorrow afternoon to attend the India-ASEAN
Summit, the fourth since the annual event started in 2002, the two sides
are going to bring to the table several new proposals for giving a filip
to an already existing multi-faceted cooperation. At the India-ASEAN
Summit the leaders will review what has been achieved, come up with new
ideas, and give the directives to the Ministers and the senior officials
for follow-up action.
Woman
crushed to death under Pak diplomat’s car
Gharinda (Amritsar),
December 10
A Pakistan High Commission vehicle,
allegedly driven by its counsellor, Mohammad Syrus Qazi, today crushed
to death a woman riding pillion on a moped with her husband on the
Amritsar-Lahore road, a few kilometres from the Wagah joint check post,
here today. The husband was seriously injured in the incident.
Sachin
puts Gavaskar to shade
Slams 35th Test century
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India:
The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION
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470
villages wrongly marked in forest area
Chandigarh, December 10
A blunder obviously committed by
officials of the Punjab Forest Department and top revenue authorities of
respective districts of Kandi area has become reason for the prosecution
of inhabitants of 470 villages in Hoshiarpur, Ropar, Gurdaspur,
Nawanshahr districts for the past several decades.
No
accord on labour reforms
New Delhi, December 10
The Indian Labour Conference, which
concluded today, failed to produce any major breakthrough in the much
talked about labour reforms as the employers and the workers struck to
their rigid stance.
Saif’s
car hits boy
103 die in plane crash
Port Harcourt (Nigeria),
December 10
A plane crash near the Nigerian oil
city of Port Harcourt claimed 103 lives, a civil aviation authority
spokesman said today. Seven persons survived the crash. The Sosoliso
Airlines flight from the capital Abuja to Port Harcourt was carrying 103
passengers and seven crew members. The aircraft reportedly missed the
runway while landing and burst into flames. — Reuters
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Iceland
beauty is Miss World
Beijing, December 10
Miss Iceland, Unnur Birna
Vilhjalmsdottir, who plans to be a lawyer as well as an
anthropologist, was today crowned as Miss World 2005 in the
tropical resort of Sanya in southern China.
Miss Iceland Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir (centre) waves after being crowned Miss World-2005 in Sanya on the Chinese island of Hainan on Saturday.
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Govt
rules out JPC probe
December 10, 2005
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Govt
in bind on EPF interest rate
December 9, 2005
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BJP
drama to divert attention, says PM
December 8, 2005
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Natwar resigns
December 7, 2005
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PM woos Russian businessmen
December 6, 2005
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Mathrani
questioned by ED
December 5, 2005
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Natwar meets PM, says he is innocent
December 4, 2005
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Pandemonium in Parliament
December 3, 2005
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PM calls for war against AIDS
December 2, 2005
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Palki reaches Nankana Sahib
December 1, 2005
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