Monday,
May 29,
2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated
at 3:00 am (IST)
Govt
agrees to examine students’ demand Agitators not to call off stir
New Delhi,
May 28
The government
tonight agreed to examine the students demand to set up an
expert committee to review the reservation policy. The
students, however, are not satisfied with the
government’s half-baked proposals on the issue handed
over to them by Union Minister Oscar Fernandes and have
decided not to call off their fortnight-long agitation.
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Indo-Pak
talks in Islamabad tomorrow Combating
terrorism high on agenda New Delhi/Wagah,
May 28
Barely days after
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's bold initiative to set up
five working groups on Kashmir, Union Home Secretary V.K.
Duggal left for Islamabad for the Home Secretary-level
talks with Pakistan to provide an impetus to the composite
dialogue process and launch a full-throttle campaign
against terrorism.
Bantul (Indonesia),May
28
Rescue workers dug desperately for survivors today
as residents returned to ruined homes on
Indonesia’s densely populated Island of Java, a
day after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 3,300.
Tourists walk through a destroyed Hindu temple with pieces of columns lying on the ground in
Prambanan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday. Saturday’s deadly earthquake in Indonesia badly damaged the world renowned Prambanan temple complex, sending intricate carved reliefs crashing to the ground and destroying years of restoration work in under a minute.
— AP/PTI photo
Ramdev security breach: police
in the dark Dharamsala, May 28
The Hamirpur police is working on various theories to establish the designs of an imposter, Gaurav, who sneaked into the inner security ring around Swami Ramdev.
Incidentally, a local court in Hamirpur today remanded the imposter in four days of police custody after state counsel said his custody was essential to arrive at the truth.
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BJP leader Shanta Kumar touches his feet while Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh relaxes during the opening day of the seven-day yoga camp at Hamirpur on Sunday.
— PTI photo
Only
39 of 3,800 clear HCS (Judicial) examination Chandigarh, May 28
Just 39 out of 3800 candidates have
cleared the written test for the Haryana Civil Service (Judicial). The
result seems all the more dismal when compared to the fact that for a
candidate to clear the written test, all that was required was to secure
just 50 per cent marks.
Office of profit : SAD sends proof to EC Chandigarh, May 25
The Shiromani Akali Dal today sent copies of documents, which show that 34 Congress MLAs held office of profit,to the Election Commission along with affidavits relating to 34 Congress MLAs for holding an office of profit.
Uma to launch
Telangana movement Hyderabad, May 28
Bharatiya Jana Shakti President Uma
Bharti today announced that the BJS would launch a movement for a
separate Telangana with the slogan “Jai Telangana, Jai Sriram” at
the earliest.
Punjab,
Haryana farm growth less than
1 pc: Jha Chandigarh,
May 28
The agricultural growth in Punjab
and Haryana is less than one per cent. Almost 78 per cent of all farm
households in Punjab are under debt, amounting to a whopping Rs 57,000
crore.
Dr S.C. Jha, Member, Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister. — A Tribune
photograph
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