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May 8,
2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
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New Delhi, May 7
Days after China’s underwater nuclear submarine base was made public by photos taken from spy satellites, India flexed its “missile muscle” and fired the nuclear-capable
Agni-III from the Wheeler Island off Orissa coast this morning. This
surface-to-surface missile has the capacity to carry a 1.5 tonne warhead
and experts have classified it as “China specific”.
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Obama
on target, faint hope for Hillary
Barack Obama
coasted to a convincing double-digit victory over Hillary
Rodham Clinton in North Carolina last night, but lost
Indiana’s primary to the New York Democrat by two points.
The big victory for Obama pushed him closer to securing his
party’s presidential nomination, while Clinton’s
comparatively less convincing triumph will brighten her faint
chances.
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OBAMA TAKES North Carolina, LOSES INDIANA: US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama greets a supporter as he leaves his North Carolina and Indiana primary election night rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday.
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Panchayat polls
divide Punjab
Tarkheri (Fatehgarh Sahib),
May 7
This nondescript village on the
Sirhind-Bhadson road is one of the 12,500 villages of Punjab which will
elect its panchayat before the end of this month. Usually a spirited
affair and barely a fortnight to the elections, no one in the village
is, however, ready to talk about it.
Jail inmates in Punjab look for ‘freedom’
Chandigarh, May 7
Guilty, till proven innocent. That’s the way inmates are apparently treated in
Punjab jails. Even the ones, allegedly involved in minor offences, have been facing criminal proceedings for over a decade.
Though long periods have lapsed since their arrest, their release on bail is still a distant dream, resulting in overcrowding in jails.
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PoK
terror-breeding ground, say its leaders
New Delhi, May 7
In a startling revelation,
senior leaders and intelligentsia from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)
have said the terrorist infrastructure in the area is still
intact, and there is every chance of militants regrouping and
attempting to launch fresh attacks on the Indian soil. Arif Shahid,
general secretary of the All-Party National Alliance (APNA), said
only international pressure was restraining these sinister
elements from carrying out their nefarious and dastardly plans.
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Women quota Bill tabled in RS amid scuffle, drama
May
7, 2008
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Myanmar cyclone toll over 10,000
May
6, 2008
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Tibet talks end abruptly
May
5, 2008
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Bush-fire in Delhi
May
4, 2008
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Inflation
at 42-month high
May
3, 2008
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Speaker names 32 unruly MPs
May
2, 2008
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PM launches Tribune’s
125-yr anthology
May
1, 2008
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CRR up by 25 basis points,
key rates stay
April 30, 2008
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IOA
sacks Gill; IPL bans Bhajji
April 29, 2008
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Karzai escapes Taliban attack
April 28, 2008
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