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Saturday,
February
7,
2009, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Manmohan is Sonia’s man for PM
 New Delhi, February 6
The suspense is finally over. Congress president Sonia Gandhi today ended all speculation
about the party’s prime ministerial candidate, making it amply clear that Dr Manmohan Singh is the man for the top
job.
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He has led the UPA government with great distinction. He has many more years of service both to the party and to our country. |
Merchant of N-menace walks free
 The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday declared father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan a free citizen and quashed orders of his house arrest.
Chief Justice of IHC Sardar Muhammad Aslam, while announcing a verdict on several petitions filed against curbs on Dr Khan’s free movement, declared: “He is a free citizen and there will be no restriction on him to move anywhere in the country.”
Pak nuclear scientist
AQ Khan waves to the media after the court verdict on Friday. He was put under
house arrest by Gen Musharraf in 2003 after he confessed that he was involved in
N-proliferation. — Reuters
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New Delhi, February
6
In what may be considered as a fillip for the country’s indigenous production of defence equipment, the first-ever fleet of Indian-made Arjun battle tanks would be inducted into the Army by February
end. A total 45 tanks would form this armoured regiment and the first
order of tanks is expected to arrive within next three weeks.