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Saturday,
July
4,
2009, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
No hike in fare, freight
 New Delhi, July 3
As expected, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee presented the new UPA government’s first rail budget of for the ‘aam aadmi’ (common man) without tinkering with passenger fares or freight tariffs and instead focusing on passenger amenities.
List of new trains
Chandigarh, Amritsar to get world-class facilities
Mamata takes a swipe at Lalu; spares Tatkal scheme
New Delhi, July 3
The simmering political rivalry was to the fore as Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee did not hesitate in taking a swipe at her
predeces
Budget unrealistic: BJP
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CAST YOUR VOTE
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Should
Indian
students
continue to
go abroad
for studies?
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Mamata silences detractors
New Delhi, July 3
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee looked a tad nervous this noon as she tiptoed her way into the Lok Sabha, settling down in the backbenches despite gestures by TMC colleagues to be where she belonged, adjacent to UPA chief Sonia Gandhi.
Railways to get Rs 5,000-crore additional support
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Education policy
— A Tribune Debate
The Yashpal Committee on educational reforms and the plans announced by the new HRD Minister, Kapil
Sibal, have aroused nation-wide interest among parents, educationists and policy-makers.
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Haryana cheers, Punjab sulks
Chandigarh, July 3
The Railway Budget has brought in a lot of good news for Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, but Punjab has been ignored completely.
Other than the plans to turn the Amritsar and Chandigarh Railway Stations into world-class stations, setting up of a multi-functional complex at Anandpur Sahib, starting a first ever non-stop train service between Amritsar and
Kolkata, and extending the Sealdah- New Delhi train to Amritsar, no other major incentives have been announced for Punjab.
NAM Summit
Gilani to meet Manmohan
Afzal Khan writes from Islamabad
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will meet his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt) on July 16, the Foreign Office announced here amid continuing pessimism about the prospects of resumption of the stalled composite dialogue even after the forthcoming meeting.
Dawood
linked to Samjhauta blasts
New Delhi, July 3
In a startling revelation, the UN Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban
Sanctions Committee has said Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Arif
Qasmani utilised the money received from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim
to facilitate terrorist attacks, including the July 2006 train bombings
in Mumbai and the Samjhauta Express blasts in Panipat in February 2007.
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Medical
institute in doldrums
The project has been hanging fire
for 15 years
Jalandhar, July 3
Will the high-profile Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), which
was conceived here 15 years ago and to be built with an initial
estimated cost of Rs 156 crore, become operational ever? This is the
question that begs answer from the state government.
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Survey
sees 7% growth, urges radical reformsJuly
3, 2009
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Punjab
to hike taxes to bolster economy
July 2, 2009
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Advani,
Joshi, Kalyan, Uma indicted
July 1, 2009
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Maya under SC radar; reply on statues sought
June 30, 2009
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No
drought-like situation
June 29, 2009
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Region
sizzles as power plays truant
June 28, 2009
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Bill
on judges’ assets soon
June 27, 2009
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Maoists
strike as PC visits Orissa
June 26, 2009
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Poor monsoon
this year
June 25, 2009
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Maoists
ready for talks, truce
June 24, 2009
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