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London, November 1 Mr Straw declared after the talks: “We continue to support the proposal that India should join the United Nations Security Council as a permanent member along with Germany and Japan.” The talks ranged over many aspects of bilateral relations and, as both ministers indicated, were a follow-up to the meeting between Prime Ministers Atal Behari Vajpayee and Tony Blair earlier this month. As then, they were concerned largely with trade relations, and Mr Straw went out of his way to emphasise the determination that relations between the two countries should not be affected by political considerations such as what happened in Kashmir. Nevertheless, he congratulated India on the way the elections in Kashmir had been conducted. On the economic side, Mr Sinha suggested that the two countries should enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a framework which would give confidence to small and medium-sized companies to develop bilateral trade. He said the Indian government was working on a draft for such an agreement, which would be put before the British government. A similar initiative in the field of biotechnology was also being worked on, he added. Mr Sinha stressed as “very important” the fact that the “two-way traffic” in visits by ministers of the two countries was going to increase. “We are looking forward to more such visits of British ministers to India, which will help us intensify our dialogue,” he declared. Answering journalists’ questions, he said he would not be drawn on the Indian view on the validity of the Pakistan elections, which will be the main subject for the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) when they meet on Friday. India is a member of the group, which is charged with ensuring that members of the Commonwealth abide by the Harare Declaration that set out the criteria for democracy and human rights. Pakistan is currently suspended from the Commonwealth, because it is ruled by a military regime, and Friday’s meeting will decide whether the holding of elections will entitle it to be restored to membership.
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Divali London, November 1 Over 130 British MPs, cutting across party lines, attended the celebrations held in the dining room of the House of Commons where Lord Rama’s bronze statue took centrestage with traditional wick lamps and rangoli floral designs surrounding it. In a message, the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, described Divali as a wonderful festival. “It is a time when the family is centrestage. It’s also a time for celebration and reflection about what we have achieved in the past, and our ambitions and hopes for the future.” Mr Blair said he strongly believed that the UK’s diversity of backgrounds and experiences had brought tremendous strengths and benefits to its society. “Festivals like Divali play an important role in helping us to appreciate and celebrate this diversity,” he said. “The reception marks the celebration of a Hindu festival in the precincts of the House for the first time in the history of British Parliament,” Mr Ramesh Kallidai, general secretary of the Hindu Council, UK, said. Mr Ratilal Chohan, chair of the Hindu Council, said over 35 Hindu organisations and 14 parliamentarians co-hosted the event.
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North Korea: Pakistan did not help us Beijing, November 1 “We have not exported missiles to Pakistan and we have not received nuclear technology in return from Islamabad,” North Korea’s Ambassador to China, Choe Jin Su told reporters at a press conference held here to explain Pyongyang’s stance on the nuclear issue. The New York Times, quoting present and former senior American officials, recently reported that Pakistan provided North Korea with equipment, which may include centrifuges used to make weapons-grade uranium, as part of a deal made in the late 1990s. The Ambassador said he was responding to the recent US allegations that Pyongyang was developing a secret uranium enrichment programme in violation of the 1994 framework.
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Pak Assembly session on Nov 6 Islamabad, November 1 The decisions were taken at a Cabinet meeting here last night.
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Tigers not to withdraw from talks Nakorn Pathom, (Thailand), November 1 In the backdrop of the Colombo verdict sentencing Prabhakaran to a 200-year jail term, there were apprehensions here that the peace talks may derail, but the Sri Lankan Government delegation leader and minister G.L. Peiris said, ‘’We have not noticed any indication that the LTTE would withdraw from the talks currently under progress here.’’ ‘’In fact, they (LTTE) have assured that the talks will continue despite the court verdict sentencing their leader,’’ Mr Peiris said at the end of the morning session. ‘’The very fact that the LTTE delegation attended the talks this morning and compromised on many issues show that they are sincere,’’ he added. Meanwhile, the government and the LTTE, who are holding direct talks, reached an agreement on the basic structure of a joint task force (JTF) responsible for the reconstruction of the war-ravaged northern and eastern districts of the island country.
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Uproar over actress’ suicide in Nepal Kathmandu, November 1 Shrisha Karki, a former model and TV actress who was beginning to find jobs on the big screen, hanged herself on October 13, four days after the newspaper printed the picture. The suicide has outraged the film community in the Himalayan kingdom, which tends to have puritanical views on nudity, and has even brought words of condemnation from the Prime Minister. People close to the actress said she was devastated by the photograph that appeared in the Jana Ashtha, a Left-leaning weekly that is widely read for its exposes of official corruption. Her fiance was scandalised by the photo and, even though she tried to explain her side of the story, it severed the relationship. The final straw, a colleague of the late actress said, was when Karki walked into a beauty salon. A woman working at the parlour told her, “You’re in a well-covered dress today. It seems you’re used to being naked.” Karki stormed out and a few hours later her body was found hanging from the staircase of her home. Nearly 500 Nepalese film actors and producers have joined forces to demand action against the tabloid and its Editor Kishor Shrestha, who has been in hiding since the suicide.
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Death toll in Italy quake rises to 26 San Giuliano Di Puglia, November 1 Fire fighters said they had found the bodies of two more young children in the rubble and denied earlier reports by a regional government official that one child was pulled out alive on Friday about 24 hours after the quake hit.
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