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Monday,
May 15,
2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated
at 3:00 am (IST)
No
relook at quota proposals: Arjun Singh
New Delhi,
May 14
Having
reiterated his stand on the controversial issue of
reservation for OBCs in higher education, Union Human
Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh today chose to
dismiss the ongoing protests over the issue as mere
“propaganda”.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh addresses the media at his residence in New Delhi on Sunday. — AFP
Anti-quota
protest intensifies
Hospitals told to
maintain essential services
New Delhi, May 14
Medicos today
intensified their anti-reservation protest in the Capital
and several cities by striking work and disrupting
services at state-run hospitals, causing hardship to
thousands of patients.
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Srinagar-Leh
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A truck carrying supplies passes through walls of snow after the Srinagar-Leh highway is thrown open for traffic in Zojila, 108 km east of Srinagar, on Sunday. The 443-km-long Srinagar-Leh highway was opened by Army authorities to traffic after remaining snowbound at Zojila Pass, 3530 metres above sea level, for more than six months. — Reuters |
Indian
engineer killed on Pakistan’s order: Taliban
New Delhi, May 14
In a surprising
development in the killing incident of Indian engineer K.
Suryanarayan in Afghanistan last month, a Taliban
commander has claimed that the Hyderabad-based engineer
was killed on the direction of Pakistan. Zabul province
Commander of Taliban revealed this in an interview to a
private Afghan television, Tolo TV.
Pak
expected to respond to Indian proposal on Siachen
New Delhi,
May 14
Pakistan is expected
to respond to an Indian proposal on resolving the Siachen
dispute when the two neighbours sit across the table here
nine days later.
Office-of-profit
Bill today
New Delhi,
May 14
In a significant
development, the Congress-led UPA government is planning
to introduce an amendment Bill in Parliament tomorrow,
which would exempt National Advisory Council (NAC)
chairmanship and 46 other posts from the purview of the
office-of-profit.
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Rae
Bareli no longer on CM’s ‘privileged’ list?
Lucknow, May 14
Stung by the
humiliating defeat of the Samajwadi Party candidate in Rae
Bareli by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav got down to making the
electorate sweat it out — literally.
Fresh
row in Air-India
IATA restores ISO certification
after 2 months
New Delhi, May 14
Even as IATA has restored the ISO
certification to Air India after a gap of more than two months and
communicated the same to the carrier’s CMD V Thulasidas, another
controversy appears to be brewing in finding a replacement for Capt M K
Hathi as Director (Operations).
Jagmeet
Brar summoned to Delhi for outburst against CM
Ludhiana, May 14
Senior
Congress leader, Jagmeet Singh Brar is said to have been summoned by the
party high command to Delhi to explain his outburst against Chief
Minister Amarinder Singh in respect of providing land to Reliance
Industries.
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Terror
strikes demonstrators
May 14,
2006
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Anti-quota medicos face teargas, water cannons
May 13,
2006
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Left wins in Bengal, Kerala
May 12,
2006
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Maharashtra minister gets 1-month jail
May 11,
2006
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India, US ink pact on moon mission
May 10,
2006
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SC
dashes Jaya’s hope
May 9, 2006
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Shinde
blames UP for Delhi power crisis
May 8, 2006
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States told not to overdraw
power
May 7, 2006
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Angry protests, firing leave 17 hurt in J&K
May 6, 2006
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CBI raids 24 places of Chautalas
May 5, 2006
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