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UPA-Left panel skirts EPF issue
For scrapping private bids to modernise airports
New Delhi, January 12
While calling for scrapping the bid process for airport modernisation, the Left parties today agreed to hold talks with the government on disinvestment on a case-to-case basis, while the UPA coalition agreed to discuss the alternative resource mobilision suggestion of the Communists.
Punjab okays 16 mega projects
IT companies show more interest in real estate
Chandigarh, January 12
The Empowered Committee on Industries, which met here today under the chairmanship of the Punjab Chief
Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, approved 16 new mega projects, including the establishment of a Special Economic Zone
in Amritsar, worth Rs 15,981.17 crore.
Miraculous escape for Jodhpur Express passengers
Patiala, January 12
The negligence on the part of railway officials at Dhablan railway station almost cost passengers of the 4888 Jodhpur-Kalka/Hardwar Express their lives while another official’s alertness helped avert a major disaster early today. The passengers had a providential escape when the train hit a goods train from the rear near Dhablan, about 12 km from here.
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The coaches of trains which were involved in an accident at Dhablan railway station, 20 km from Patiala, on Thursday.
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India:
The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION
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We have already decided on the combination we are going to play, but we don’t want to reveal it as we want to keep the opposition camp guessing.
— Rahul Dravid
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Ski villages faces wrath of ‘devta’
Shimla, January 12
One of the biggest foreign direct investment projects in the country, the 350 million Himalayan Ski Village in Kulu is facing opposition from the most unusual quarter, the local Jamlu deity, who has exhorted the 365 ‘devtas’ in the Valley of Gods to oppose the project.
All accused in sex racket case acquitted
Kozhikode, January 12
A local court today acquitted all 16 accused in the Kozhikode ice cream parlour sex scandal case, stating that there was no prima facie evidence against them.
(Details in Nation
page)
A Partition story completed
Attari, January 12
There was moving scene as Rabia Bibi, nee Agya Kaur (72), a resident of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, who had embraced Islam after being separated from the caravan at the time of partition was hugged by her Sikh bothers and their family members, here today.
Mr Kesar Singh hugs his sister Rabia Bibi (Agya Kaur) at Attari Railway station on Thursday.
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FM
rules out scrapping FBT
January 12, 2006
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114
grenades dug out from SGPC complex
January 11, 2006
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HC notice to Houses on MPs’ expulsion
January 10, 2006
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Speaker
rules out court jurisdiction
January 9, 2006
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PM promises voting rights to NRIs
January 8, 2006
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Natwar not included in revamped CWC
January 7, 2006
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AMU not a minority institution: HC
January 6, 2006
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Dense
fog hits rail, air services
January 5, 2006
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LeT militant held for IISc attack
January 4, 2006
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Manmohan’s New Year resolutions
January 3, 2006
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