Friday, February 4, 2000,
Chandigarh, India
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Barak-Arafat
fail to resolve row
JERUSALEM,
Feb 3 (DPA) — A meeting between PLO Yasser Arafat
and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at the Erez border
crossing point near Gaza ended today with a dispute over
Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank. Israeli
Prime Minister David Levy said the differences over
withdrawals from 6.1 per cent of the West Bank, which
Israel had committed itself to last year, persisted. Mr
Levy however, dismissed, suggestions of a crisis in
bilateral relations, saying that the talks would probably
be resumed within a few days.
2 Bihar MLAs
resign
PATNA, Feb
3 (UNI) — The Ruling RJD today received another
setback when two party legislators, Mr Mohan Ram from
Darbhanga (Rural) and Mr Yogendra Prasad Shahu from
Lalganj resigned from the party’s primary membership
for being denied tickets. According to a report from
Hajipur Mr Sahu resigned from the party and filed his
nomination as a BSP candidate from the seat.
Mohapatra
expelled
BHUBANESWAR,
Feb 3 (PTI) — Biju Janta Dal President Naveen
Patnaik today expelled senior party leader and chairman
of the Political Affairs Committee Bijoy Mohapatra from
the BJD for six years. Mr Patnaik also wrote a letter to
the returning officer of the Patkura Assembly
constituency that Mr Mohapatra was no longer the
party’s official candidate from the seat, party
sources said.
Dara denied bail
BARIPADA,
Feb 3 (PTI) — The Sub-divisional Judicial
Magistrate, Karanjia, has rejected the bail plea of Dara
Singh, the prime accused in the gruesome killing of
Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two
minor sons.
Additional
charge
NEW DELHI,
Feb 3 (TNS) — The Minister of State for Employment
and Poverty Alleviation today formally took additional
charge of Youth Affairs and Sports. After taking the
charge, Mr Dhindsa said all programmes relating to youth
affairs and sports would be given special attention.
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