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Sunday,
March 19,
2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated
at 3:00 am (IST)
2 pilots killed in IAF plane crash
Bangalore, March 18
Two pilots of the Indian Air Force’s Surya Kiran aerobatics team were killed today following an accident during a routine training sortie when their plane crashed on the outskirts of Bidar in North Karnataka.
The Surya Kiran aerobatics team is based at the Bidar Air Force Station
and comprises indigenously manufactured Kiran Mk II aircraft.
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Is Jaya Bachchan's disqualification from the Rajya Sabha membership justified?
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Hawks coming, training on MiGs to go
Bidar, March 18
There is nothing special about Bidar— a small 10th century town located at the cusp of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. But next year will change it all.
Come 2007 and Bidar skies will reverberate with the deafening sound of Hawk advanced jet
trainers (AJTs).
Curfew imposed in parts of Navi Mumbai
Mumbai, March 18
Some areas of the Navi Mumbai township were placed under curfew after violence continued there for the third consecutive day today, the police said.
Businessman shot dead in Kaithal
Kaithal, March 18
Residents today observed a bandh in protest against the murder of a businessman here last night. He had been receiving extortion demands.
The businessman, Narinder Arora, a plywood dealer, was shot at
point-blank range in the head while closing his shop on the Chatrawas road.
He was taken to a private nursing home but was referred to the PGI,
Chandigarh. He succumbed to his injuries on way to the PGI.
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India:
The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION
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I am relieved at winning this gold medal after yesterday’s disappointment in an event where Vivek and I were the title holders.
— Samresh Jung
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Nine jawans hurt in blast
Srinagar, March 18
Nine soldiers were among 10 injured when militants detonated a car blast on the Srinagar-Baramula bypass here today. The Hizbul Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the blast.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr K. Rajinder Kumar, said the
militants had parked an explosive-laden car at the Rawalpora bypass.
Jaya Bachchan
may file petition against disqualification
New Delhi,
March 18
Samajwadi Party leader and film actor Jaya Bachchan, disqualified from
the Rajya Sabha for violating the constitutional provision debarring
legislators from holding an “office of profit”, may file an
independent petition in the Supreme Court as she had only moved an
application seeking clear interpretation of the law as part of an
earlier decided case.
(Details in Nation
page)
PM keen on Hussainiwala route: Dullo
Chandigarh, March 18
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is keen to get the Hussainiwala border opened for travel and trade between India and Pakistan. At present the trade between the two countries is allowed through the Wagah border in this part of the country.
(Details in Punjab
page)
Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto A-I flights six times a week
Chandigarh, March 18
Air-India will fly its Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto flight for six days a week from this coming May.
Looking at the response of this flight that operated thrice a week, Air-India has taken this decision, less than a year after it re-started flights from Amritsar.
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