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April 13,
2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Now,
pulse import to fight prices
New Delhi,
April 12
Worried over the
political fallout of the continuing high prices of
essential commodities, the government today decided to
import additional 15 lakh tonnes of pulses over the next
six-eight months to bring down prices.
Jet
bags Sahara at a discount
Mumbai, April
12
Curtains on the Jet
Airways-Air Sahara saga were rung down today with the two
airlines agreeing to a merger before a team of
arbitrators.
Business page: Jet
shareholders’ spirits fail to take off
Agni
III test-fired
New Delhi,
April 12
After initial hiccups
and a failed launch in July last year, the country’s
defence scientists made significant headway in
successfully test firing the intermediate range ballistic
missile Agni-III from the test range off the Orissa coast
in the Bay of Bengal in the forenoon today. In
video:  (56k)
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Mubarak
Mandi Palace illuminated on the eve of Jammu
heritage festival on Thursday. — Tribune photo by
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Petrol
dealers call off strike
New Delhi, April 12
Around 32,000 petrol pump dealers
across the country have decided to call off their 24-hour proposed
strike from midnight tonight after Union Petroleum Minister Murli Deora
assured them that he would look at their demands sympathetically.
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Expulsion in
cash-for-query scam
SC dismisses
petitions of 6 MPs
New Delhi, April 12
The Supreme Court today dismissed
the petitions of six MPs expelled in the cash-for-query scam, for review
of its judgement upholding the Parliament’s decision, saying that
there was no merit in their plea.
Special
team to probe land grab, false cases
Chandigarh, April 12
Faced with complaints from the
public regarding the alleged registration of false cases by influential
persons and also land grab cases during the previous Congress regime,
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today constituted a special
monitoring and feedback team at the headquarters which will go to the
spot and submit a report after checking the veracity of the complaints.
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Virk
not going: CM
Chandigarh, April 12
The Punjab government today
probably opened the proverbial “can of worms” that has the potential
to drive a wedge between the centre and the state.
Punjab page: 
Virk
to join duty, MHA tells M’rashtra
Deputation:
Centre final authority
Cow
milk: Nestlé ready, Milkfed indecisive
Chandigarh, April 12
While Nestle India, one of the
biggest private companies in milk business in Punjab, has started
encouraging dairy farmers to shift from buffaloes to cows, Milkfed,
Punjab’s cooperative and flag bearer in milk products, is still
indecisive.
Pravin’s
wife alleges threats
Mumbai, April 12
Sarangi, wife of Pravin Mahajan
(charged with killing BJP leader Pramod Mahajan), alleged that she was
threatened by BJP workers on the court premises today.
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Toy
boys, not sugar daddies
London, April 12
The days of seeing a woman on
the arm of a man old enough to be her father might soon be over,
for an increasing number of the fairer sex are ditching sugar
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Virk sent back to Maharashtra
April 12,
2007
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Goodbye
Halwara, hello Sahnewal
April 11,
2007
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Vendetta:
Capt
April 10,
2007
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Don’t
overstep limit, PM to judiciary
April 9,
2007
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Cong blown away in Delhi
April 8,
2007
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Bench stays judge ruling
April 7,
2007
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Panel okays 83 SEZs
April 6,
2007
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Greg goes
April 5,
2007
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Duty-free
access for LDCs: India
April 4,
2007
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Dalal
St bleeds
April 3,
2007
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