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Monday,
September 19,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
Advani
to quit by December-end
Chennai,
September 18
Bharatiya Janata
Party President L. K. Advani today finally succumbed to
growing pressure of the RSS and announced his resignation
from the top party post after the National Council meeting
in Mumbai from December 26 to 29.
Editorial: A
lame duck
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YOUR VOTE
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Will the Domestic Violence Act protect women from emotional, economic and sexual abuses?
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News
Analysis by K. Subrahmanyam
India, Pakistan and US
While
large sections of the Indian media bemoaned the lack of some much-anticipated positive outcome out of the Manmohan Singh - Musharraf dinner meeting in New York some important aspects of that meeting appear to have been overlooked in most of the media analysis.
World page:
Meeting
outcome a mixed bag: Pak media
Iraq
is OK, but focus on Kashmir: Pervez
PM
gave list of 33 terror camps to Musharraf
New Delhi,
September 18
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh took up the issue of terrorism firmly with Pakistan
President Pervez Musharraf when he hosted dinner for the
General in New York on September 14 and presented him a list
of 33 terrorist training camps being run in Pakistan and in
the territory under the Pakistani control.
Violence
mars Punjab civic poll
Baghapurana,
September 18
About 50 persons were
injured, three of them seriously, as large-scale violence
marred polling to 15 wards of the local Nagar Panchayat here
today. Violent clashes between Congress and SAD workers took
place in different wards, as the police became a “mute
spectator”.
More
stories in Punjab and Ludhiana
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QUOTE
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The RSS too must be concerned that such a perception will dwarf its greater mission of man-making and nation-building. Both the RSS and the BJP must consciously exert on themselves to dispel this
impression.
— L.K. Advani
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CMC
may face disaffiliation
Ludhiana, September 18
Annoyed at the management of
Christian Medical College and Christian Dental College’s refusal to
admit students nominated by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences
against government quota seats in the two institutions here, Director
Research and Medical Education Dr J.S. Dalal today indicated that
colleges might be disaffiliated by the university for this act.
Book
alleges links between KGB, Indira government
London, September 18
The Soviet intelligence agency KGB
was able to successfully penetrate into India in the 1970s and influence
the then government headed by Indira Gandhi even as the then Prime
Minister remained unaware of this, according to a new book under
publication.
Report
baseless: Cong
In
video: India's security in danger under Congress rule, says
RSS (28k, 56k)
Protesters
sore over the Supreme Court ban on loudspeakers and loud
mechanical noises after 10 pm delayed the immersion of idols of
Lord Ganesh in Pune last night. |
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Devotees
are surrounded by shoals of dead fish as they attempt to push an
idol of Lord Ganesh into the Kankaria Lake in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
Some 2,000 idols were immersed in the lake. The immersion of the
idols combined with recent weather has, according to local
meteorologists, brought about a decline in the levels of oxygen in
the lake leading to the deaths of the fish. — AFP photo
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New
rules for IIT admission from 2007
September 18, 2005
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Advani
warns dissidents
September 17, 2005
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Indo-Pak
talks run into trouble
September 16, 2005
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US
committed to N-energy deal
September 15, 2005
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Manmohan in New York for UN session
September 14, 2005
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India to buy 6 French Scorpene submarines
September 13, 2005
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India, Pak should make border irrelevant: PM
September 12, 2005
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Sarabjit
involved in blasts, says Musharraf
September 11, 2005
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EC
pulls up Hooda for violating code
September 10, 2005
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42 Army men feared dead in bridge collapse
September 9, 2005
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