Sunday,
March 2,
2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Need
to do more for farmers: FM New Delhi, March
1 When
are the elections and is this an election budget ? These were
the questions on everybody’s mind when they read the Budget
presented by the Finance Minister P. Chidambaram yesterday. It
is the fourth budget of the UPA government and there are sops
for almost everyone, the middle class people, farmers,
students, senior citizens, budding corporate executives etc.
Pawar
unsure if loan waiver would curb farmer suicides Mumbai, March 1
Union agriculture
minister Sharad Pawar today said he was 'not sure' if suicides
by farmers in his home state would stop as a result of the Rs
60,000 crore farmers relief package announced in the Union
Budget.
Kashmir
Singh’s kin return disappointed Amritsar, March 1
Disappointment was writ large on
the faces of Parmjit Kaur, wife of Kashmir Singh who has been on the
death row in a Pakistani jail, and other members of his family as he
didn’t reach the Attari border today. According to media reports, he
could be released any time as the documentation was complete from both
sides, governments of India and Pakistan, leading to the confusion on
his release.
Parmjit Kaur, wife of Indian prisoner Kashmir Singh, along with her physically challenged son Shishupal, at the Attari checkpost on Saturday.
— Photo by Vishal Kumar
Zardari
ready to set aside Kashmir issue
Islamabad, March 1
In a major shift from Pakistan’s
long-standing position, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif
Ali Zardari, whose party is set to take reins of the country, has
expressed readiness to set aside the Kashmir issue to focus on other
aspects for improving relations with India.
No
consensus in PPP on Fahim as PM
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
has not yet been able to develop a consensus on front-runner Makhdoom
Amin Fahim as Prime Minister and some new names are under consideration,
party sources here said.
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Stop
me if you have guts, Uma dares Raj
Shajapur (MP), March 1
After Railway Minister Lalu Prasad,
it is now the turn of Bharatiya Janashakti Party president Uma Bharati
to lock horns with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Chief Raj Thackeray on the
issue of celebrating Chhath festival in Mumbai. “I will go to Mumbai
to celebrate Chhath and I dare Raj Thackeray to prevent me from doing so
if he has guts,” the firebrand former BJP leader announced in a press
conference.
Acquittals in drug
cases Shun zombie
attitude, HC tells investigators Chandigarh, March 1
In India just 26 per cent of the
drug trafficking cases registered under the Narcotics Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances Act end in conviction. Expressing concern over
large number of acquittals in drug-related cases in this part of the
region, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has called upon the “higher
authorities” to take a serious view of non-compliance of the procedure
prescribed under the Act in order to end laxity on part of the
investigating agencies.
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When
are the elections and is this an election budget ? These were
the questions on everybody’s mind when they read the Budget
presented by the Finance Minister P. Chidambaram yesterday. It
is the fourth budget of the UPA government and there are sops
for almost everyone, the middle class people, farmers,
students, senior citizens, budding corporate executives etc.
