Friday, November 3, 2000, Chandigarh, India
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Cabinet clears DTH service
Viewers to get access to 100 channels
NEW DELHI, Nov 2—The long-awaited Direct to Home  television service today became a reality with the Union Cabinet at its meeting this morning giving final clearance to it with a 49 per cent cap on foreign equity and “suitable safeguards” to take care of concerns relating to national security, morality and monopoly in distribution and broadcasting of television services.

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BCCI undersold TV rights
NEW DELHI, Nov 2 — The cricket board has been castigated for its functioning, selection policies and lack of accountability by the CBI which has accused it of having “undersold” TV rights for matches played in India.

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Mr A C Muthiah, President of the BCCI, addresses a news conference in Bombay on Thursday. Reacting strongly to suggestions in a CBI report on matchfixing that said that the BCCI had failed to do enough to stamp out matchfixing in Indian cricket, Mr Muthiah said the statements were ‘absolutely unwarranted and lacked accuracy’.Mr A C Muthiah, President of the BCCI, addresses a news conference in Bombay on Thursday. Reacting strongly to suggestions in a CBI report on matchfixing that said that the BCCI had failed to do enough to stamp out matchfixing in Indian cricket, Mr Muthiah said the statements were ‘absolutely unwarranted and lacked accuracy’. — Reuters photo

Digvijay to hold the reins
Jogi’s ministry formation
NEW DELHI, NOV 2—The Chief Minister of the newly created Chhattisgarh state, Mr Ajit Jogi, has to willy nilly work under the shadow of his counterpart from Madhya Pradesh, Mr Digvijay Singh, for some time because of the latter’s sway on party MPs and legislators.

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NEW DELHI, Nov 2 — The issue of rolling back oil prices continued to simmer in the Trinamool Congress with the party leader and Railway Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, raising the issue at the Cabinet meeting today.
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Peeved secy quits
NEW DELHI, Nov 2 — Peeved at the frequent reshuffle of his portfolios, the Economic Affairs Secretary, Mr E.A.S. Sarma today quit from the Indian Administrative Service.

2 soldiers killed in Fiji mutiny
Army back in control: Qarase
SUVA, Nov 2 — The Fijian authorities said today that they had wrested control of the country’s main military barracks from rebel troops after two soldiers were killed in eight hours of sporadic gunbattles.

 





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India, USA discuss UN peacekeeping
NEW DELHI, Nov 2 — Enlarging areas of bilateral cooperation, India and the USA today agreed to explore ways for stepping up the role of troop-contributing countries in the United Nations for preparing the mandates and operations of peacekeeping forces.

HC asks EC to inform on candidates' past
NEW DELHI, Nov 2 — In a significant decision to curb criminalisation of politics, the Delhi High Court today ruled that the Election Commission must gather information on criminality of all contesting candidates and make it available to public so that voters could make informed decisions.

Mittal to meet Shanta
Shifting of rice to deficit states
CHANDIGARH, Nov 2 — As another crisis looms over Punjab pertaining to paddy and rice, the state government will again knock at the door of the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Mr Shanta Kumar.



Ordinance on selection panel soon
KARNAL, Nov 2 — The Haryana Government is likely to soon issue an ordinance to constitute the universities and colleges selection commission. According to sources, the draft of the proposed ordinance is almost ready.

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