Friday, August 23, 2013, Chandigarh, India
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Govt seeks to negate SC order on convicted lawmakers
  Clears amendment to Representation of People Act
Okays formation of Judicial Appointments Commission 
New Delhi, August 22
Days after a Bill to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act to keep political parties out of its purview was tabled in the Lok Sabha, the Union Cabinet on Thursday gave its nod to amend the Representation of People Act (RPA) to ensure that convicted lawmakers are not disqualified from either Parliament or Legislative Assemblies.

Govt gives in, says PM will speak on coal issue
Speaker calls all-party meeting today
New Delhi, August 22
PM Manmohan Singh in the Rajya Sabha.The Lok Sabha logjam entered its 10th consecutive day today with the government failing to push through food security bill despite giving in to the Opposition BJP’s demand of Prime Minister’s intervention in the missing coal file issue.

PM Manmohan Singh in the Rajya Sabha.


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Sub fire: Sabotage not ruled out, says Antony
New Delhi, August 22
INS Sindhurakshak Admitting that the sinking of submarine INS Sindhurakshak has cast a shadow on the capability of the Indian Navy to provide maritime security, Defence Minister AK Antony today said the Board of Inquiry (BoI) set up will look into all aspects, including ‘sabotage’, behind the August 14 fire and explosion.
                                        
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Poonch posts, villages shelled; 2 hurt
Pak National Assembly passes resolution flaying firing by India
Poonch/Jammu/Islamabad, August 22
Farzana, one of the injured in firing by Pakistani troops, being treated at a Poonch hospital. Pakistani troops opened heavy fire on Indian forward posts and villages along the line of control (LoC) in Poonch district on Thursday after a 24-hour pause, even as its National Assembly passed a unanimous resolution condemning retaliatory firing by Indian forces that killed a Pakistani army captain as an “act of aggression”.
Farzana, one of the injured in firing by Pakistani troops, being treated at a Poonch hospital. Tribune photo
LoC firing: Pak summons Indian envoy
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Spurt seen in cancer cases in India
India to have 13 lakh cancer patients by 2020
New Delhi, Aug 22
As many as 10 lakh cancer cases have already been detected in India in current year with the case load set to shoot to 11.48 lakh by 2015 and 13.20 lakh by 2020.
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Women queue up to cast their votes during Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council elections in Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.
Women queue up to cast their votes during Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council elections in Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Tribune photo: Amin War

After SEZ fiasco, Reliance plans township in Gurgaon
Chandigarh, August 22
With the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) failing to take off in Gurgaon, the company is now ready with an Integrated Township Project (ITP) on 1,200 acres of prime land.

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