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Thursday, November 11, 2004, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Uma suspended after protest walkout

New Delhi, November 10
A well-planned high-voltage publicity drama today boomeranged on BJP President L.K. Advani as party bickerings were telecast live, leaving the party no options but to suspend defiant general secretary Uma Bharti from the party on charges of indiscipline.


Uma Bharti at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Rajeev Tyagi
Uma Bharti at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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A top Muslim cleric rushed to Yasser Arafat’s bedside in a French hospital today, insisting the veteran Palestinian leader was still alive, even as aides pushed ahead with burial preparations.

Sonia non-committal on economic package
Shimla, November 10
Assuring cooperation to accelerate the pace of development in the hill state, Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, today asserted that the UPA government at the Centre would not discriminate against any state on political consideration.

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Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson of the UPA, at bhoomi pujan of Himachal Congress Bhavan in Shimla on Wednesday. Also in the picture are Mr Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister, and Mrs Vidya Stokes, HPCC chief. Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson of the UPA, at bhoomi pujan of Himachal Congress Bhavan in Shimla on Wednesday. Also in the picture are Mr Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister, and Mrs Vidya Stokes, HPCC chief. — Tribune photo by Karam Singh

India to revive hotline with Pakistan
New Delhi, November 10
India has provided to Pakistan technical details for installation of a hotline between the two Foreign Secretaries, one of the major confidence-building measures between the two nuclear neighbours.

Pilot of Mirage dead
New Delhi, November 10
Clarifying reports that the pilot of the Mirage-2000 fighter aircraft, which had crashed last night near the Gwalior airbase, had bailed out safely, the Indian Air Force today said Flight-Lt Neehar Gururani, who was flying the aircraft, had been killed.
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Her “martyr” husband may be alive
Captain Bhajan Singh KatwalMohali, November 10
For 33 years, 65-year-old Surjit Kaur believed that her husband, Captain Bhajan Singh Katwal, had been killed in the 1971 Indo-Pak war. But today she has reasons to believe he might be alive.

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