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Sunday,
July 24, 2005,
Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
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Terror, now in Egypt
Car bombs leave 88 dead, 200 injured
Sharm el-Sheikh, July 23
At least 88 persons were killed and 200 injured when car bombs ripped through shopping and hotel areas in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh today in the worst attack in Egypt since 1981.
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Site of a bomb blast at a market place in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday.
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Is the Punjab government’s move to phase out grant to private schools justified?
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London blasts: police makes another arrest
London, July 23
A second man was arrested in connection with Thursday’s failed bomb attacks on the London’s transport system, hours after another person was held and a suspected militant killed by armed officers in a subway shooting, the police said today.
Man
shot was ‘innocent’
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New Delhi, July 23
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
today said coercion of any kind for achieving population
stabilisation is unacceptable in a free society.
In video (28k,
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at the first meeting of the newly constituted National Commission on Population, in New Delhi on Saturday.
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The link between social and human development and demographic trends is obvious and too stark to ignore.
— Manmohan Singh
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High-profile
wedding under intelligence eyes
Dummy bookings made at hotels
Dubai, July 23
Indian intelligence agencies are
reported to be keeping a close watch on the much-talked-about wedding
here today of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s daughter with former
Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad’s son.
Rane
resigns from Assembly
Mumbai, July 23
Former Shiv Sena leader Narayan
Rane today resigned as a member of the Maharashtra Assembly prior to his
formal entry into the Congress party. He met with Speaker Babasaheb
Kupekar this afternoon and tendered his resignation.
C. R. Irani
is no more
Kolkata, July 23
C.R. Irani, Editor-in-Chief,
The Statesman, died in a city nursing home today after a
protracted illness. He was 75. He
was suffering from heart ailment and kidney problems.
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Himachal page: CM
condoles Irani’s death
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Used syringes dumped
in open bins, recycled
A junk dealer in Dhanas, Chandigarh, on Saturday with disposed of syringes.
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Chandigarh, July 23
Disposed of syringes are finding their way back to the markets.
In the absence of bio-medical waste’s proper disposal despite judicial pronouncements and rules promulgated by the Central Government, the syringes are being openly purchased by junk dealers from rag-pickers in Chandigarh for onward transmission to some of the manufacturers in Delhi and other places.
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Suspected bomber shot
July 23, 2005
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Terror
strikes London again
July 22, 2005
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PM
allays fear of Pakistan, China
July 21, 2005
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US recognises India as nuclear state
July 20, 2005
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Indo-US
ties in for transformation
July 19, 2005
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Advani
to stay on both posts
July 18, 2005
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India
not on sale: PM
July 17, 2005
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LeT
hand in Ayodhya attack
July 16, 2005
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London blast mastermind of Pak origin
July 15, 2005
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128 die as 3 trains collide in Pak
July 14, 2005
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