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Thursday,
December 15,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated
at 3:00 am (IST)
North
shivers
Amritsar, Jalandhar
touch sub-zero temperature
Chandigarh,
December 14
Cold wave
further tightened its grip over Punjab, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Jammu and Kashmir
as the mercury fell to sub-zero level in certain
areas of Punjab and the hilly region today.
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Minimum temperature |
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- 0.6°C |
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Amritsar |
-0.2°C |
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Bhuntar |
-1.7°C |
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Sundernagar |
-1.1°C |
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Shimla |
6.5°C |
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Chandigarh |
5.6°C |
| As the mercury drops below zero degree Celsius, rickshaw-pullers gather around a bonfire to save themselves from the biting cold in Amritsar on Wednesday.
—Tribune photo by Rajeev Sharma |
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Shouldn't MPs caught in the "cash for questions" scam be expelled from Parliament?
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It was not just because of the lucky ground, we played good cricket. And we played hard.
— Rahul Dravid
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Time
Asia plays its part, says India
Kuala Lumpur,
December 14
A new grand pan-Asia
grouping was born today with the holding of the first-ever
East Asia Summit here today and India telling the
16-nation body that the development created a virtual East
Asian economy and presented a cusp of new opportunities.
In video (28k,
56k)
Editorial:
FDI at the
next store
Tainted MPs file
reply
Bansal panel to hold daily hearing
New Delhi, December 14
The Bansal Committee probing the
cash-for-question scam in the Lok Sabha today said it would hear the
case of 10 MPs allegedly caught on the camera accepting money, on a
daily basis.
Editorial:
RS shows
the way
India
insists on cut in farm subsidy
Hong Kong, December 14
The deadlocked WTO talks made little headway at the sixth Ministerial
with the EU and US asking each other to make the first move while
developing countries, including India, remained categoric that they
wanted reduction in farm subsidies and a development package.
World page: Anger,
misery greet leaders
Ganguly
gets the sack, Jaffar in
 New
Delhi, December 14
Former Indian captain Sourav
Ganguly was dealt a numbing blow today when the senior selection
committee replaced him with Wasim Jaffar of Mumbai for the third Test,
starting in Ahmedabad on December 18.
India win by
188 runs
New Delhi, December 14
India scored an emphatic 188-run victory over Sri Lanka in the second Test to go up 1-0 in the three-Test series at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here
today.
— TNS
(Details on Sports
page)
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India:
The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION
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FORUM
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The new question being posed is:
Should there be “one rank, one pension” for defence personnel?
Readers are invited to send their letters, not more than 150 words, to:
The Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune, Sector
29-C, Chandigarh, with 'Forum' superscribed on the envelope.
The answers can also be
e-mailed to:
forum@tribunemail.com
H.K. Dua,
Editor-in-Chief
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Sports page: It
was a hard-earned win: Dravid
Haryana Assembly
CBI probing
SI’s recruitment
Chandigarh, December 14
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr
Bhupinder Singh Hooda, today informed the Assembly that three inquiries
regarding the selection process for recruitment by the Haryana Staff
Selection Commission during the tenure of the previous government were
being conducted by the Vigilance Department.
Haryana page: INLD
legislators stage walkout
Bill
to abolish post of gram sahayak passed
Aiyar goes back on fuel price
New Delhi, December 14
Amid ongoing LPG shortage and petroleum adulteration controversy, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar today distanced himself from any proposal to hike prices of cooking gas and kerosene in near future.
In Parliament, however, he had blamed the present pricing policy for the mess in the oil sector.
— TNS
Unicef
reports child abuse causes
London, December 14
Millions of children across the
world have become “invisible” on account of various forms of
exploitation they have been suffering for years.
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Gudia Khatun from India (left) shares space with Ms Ann M.
Veneman, Executive Director, Unicef, who launched “State of the World’s Children 2006: Excluded and Invisible” report in London on Wednesday.
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India
dares big WTO players
December 14, 2005
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CASH
FOR QUESTIONS
December 13, 2005
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No change in terms of Pathak panel: PM
December 12, 2005
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Kalam
for speedy justice
December 11, 2005
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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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