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Wednesday,
July 27, 2005,
Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
BREAKING
NEWS (Updated at
4 pm)
Rupan Deol Bajaj case
SC upholds conviction of K.P.S.
Gill
New Delhi,
July 27
In a setback to IHF chief K. P. S. Gill, the Supreme
Court today upheld his conviction for outraging the
modesty of woman IAS officer Rupan Deol Bajaj in
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Gurgaon rocks Parliament
Judicial probe ordered, says Patil
New Delhi, July 26
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today informed the Lok Sabha that a judicial probe has been ordered by the Haryana Government into the police action against protesting workers of a Japanese multinational company in Gurgaon.
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Lathis continue to rain on mobs
Editorial page: Police
brutality
More stories in
Nation, Punjab, Haryana,
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YOUR VOTE
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Is the government right in giving more autonomy to public sector undertakings?
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Protesters resort to
stone-pelting in violent incidents in Gurgaon on Tuesday.
— Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal
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Rain
paralyses life in Mumbai
Landslides, floods kill 54 in
Raigad
Mahad (Maharashtra), July 26
At least 54 persons were killed
today in the worst floods and landslides in Raigad district on the
Konkan coast of Maharashtra in 16 years, a senior police official said.
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A man walks past stranded vehicles in a waterlogged street in Mumbai
on Tuesday.
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FORUM
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Our
feature, Forum, provides our readers with an
opportunity to express their views on some of
the vital issues facing the country. The new
question being posed is:
What steps should be taken to curb the growth of
population?
Readers are invited to send their letters,
not more than 150 words, to:
The Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune, Sector
29-C, Chandigarh, with 'Forum' superscribed on
the envelope. The answers can also be e-mailed
to:
forum@tribunemail.com
H.K. Dua, Editor-in-Chief
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Power
cuts in Haryana from today
Panchkula, July 26
Power cuts varying from six to 12
hours a day will be imposed on all industrial consumers in Haryana,
while the urban consumers will face three to four hours of cuts a day.
Punjab page: Power
crisis deepens
HC
stays Bibi’s disqualification
Chandigarh, July 26
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak
Committee chief Bibi Jagir Kaur today got a breather from the Punjab and
Haryana High Court when her disqualification from her post ordered by
the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial Commission was stayed till further orders.
Punjab page: SGJC
proposes, High Court disposes
Ludhiana page: Khalsa
Panchayat supports SGJC action
Thackeray
hits out at Rane
Mumbai, July 26
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today
broke his silence on Sunday’s incidents of violence and alleged that
activists of his party were brutally caned by the state police in order
to let his expelled colleague Narayan Rane to address public meetings in
Mumbai.
Trishul
test-fired
Balasore, July 26
Indigenously built India’s most
sophisticated short- range surface-to-air missile Trishul was
successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-Sea,
about 15 km from here today.
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Discovery
embarks on 12-day mission
Carrying photograph of Kalpana
Chawla
Houston, July 26
NASA’s space shuttle Discovery
today embarked on a 12-day mission with seven astronauts onboard,
marking a return to flight nearly two-and-a-half years after the
Columbia disaster in which India-born Kalpana Chawla and six others were
killed.
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| The space shuttle Discovery lifts off from pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday. A crew of seven astronauts is aboard the craft bound for the International Space Station. — Reuters
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QUOTE
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A cane-charge can only be resorted to if the people concerned are endangering the safety of the police. What is of importance in the matter is who was the aggressor first.
— Shivraj Patil
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DSP
among hundreds hurt
July 26, 2005
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Troops
kill four teenagers
July 25, 2005
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Terror, now in Egypt
July 24, 2005
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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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