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250 cities to be rid of slum scars
Cabinet okays ‘affordable housing’ project to make country slum-free by 2020
New Delhi, June 2
In an effort to create a slum-free country by 2020, the government today approved the development of housing and basic facilities in slums across 250 cities in the country. The decision to launch the first phase of the scheme for affordable housing for slum-dwellers under the Rajiv Awas Yojana was taken at a meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Union Ministers P Chidambaram, Jaipal Reddy and Jairam Ramesh share a laugh after the Cabinet meeting in New Delhi on Thursday. Union Ministers P Chidambaram, Jaipal Reddy and Jairam Ramesh share a laugh after the Cabinet meeting in New Delhi on Thursday. — PTI

Moving ahead, India, Pak mull visa relaxation
New Delhi, June 2
India and Pakistan have renewed attempts to ease visa restrictions to enhance people-to-people contact with a two-day meeting of senior officials of the countries in Islamabad today. The Indian side included officials from the Home Ministry and the External Affairs Ministry, while the Pakistani team included officials from the Foreign Ministry and the Interior Ministry.


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In crisis control mode, govt opens back-channel parleys with Ramdev
New Delhi, June 2
Having failed to dissuade Baba Ramdev from going ahead with his indefinite fast against corruption from June 4, a worried government is preparing for a fresh round of deliberations tomorrow where it will make yet another attempt to convince him to call off his proposed ‘satyagraha’.
A worker readies Ramdev’s posters at Delhi’s Ramlila Ground on Thursday. A worker readies Ramdev’s posters at Delhi’s Ramlila Ground on Thursday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal

Yeddyurappa wins trust vote
Karnataka CM’s fourth win on the Assembly floor since 2008
Bangalore, June 2
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa today won a confidence motion in the state Assembly amid walkout by the Congress. “The confidence motion, moved by the Chief Minister on the floor of the 225-member House (including one nominated member) has been voted in favour by 119 votes with none voting against it,” Assembly Speaker KG Bopaiah declared even as 71 members of the Congress staged a walkout.

On Leh tourists’ complaint, cops book Armymen for rioting
Srinagar, June 2
The Jammu & Kashmir Police has registered a case against unidentified Army personnel for allegedly entering three hotels in the dead of the night in Leh and harassing tourists, including foreigners, earlier this week.

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China ‘hacking’ Gmail accounts
Washington, June 2
Internet search giant Google has said ‘bad actors’ from China, in a sophisticated phishing attack, hacked into hundreds of Gmail accounts, including those of senior US officials and Chinese political activists. Google has uncovered a ‘phishing campaign,’ which ‘appears to originate from Jinan, China’ in which access was gained to Gmail user passwords and emails, Google Security Team’s Engineering Director Eric Grosse said in a blog post.


Taliban fighters storm border checkpost in Pak; 70 killed
Islamabad, June 2
Over 70 persons, including 28 security personnel, were killed when hundreds of heavily armed Taliban fighters crossed into northwest Pakistan and besieged a remote checkpost, in one of the deadliest attacks in months.
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To all women writers, from Sir Vidia with contempt
Paul TherouxLondon, June 2
After ending the famous 15-year feud with American writer Paul Theroux at the Hay Festival this week, Nobel laureate V S Naipaul has sparked off another row by claiming that there has been no woman writer whom he considers his equal. Often described as the “greatest living writer of English prose”, Naipaul made the comments at the Royal Geographic Society yesterday, prompting angry responses from literary critics, writers and readers.

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