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`Where developing countries put their foot down'
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 20.Asserting that the WTO Ministerial meet was not entirely a disappointment and that it yielded some positive results, the Commerce Minister, Arun Jaitley, today attributed the failure to evolve a consensus to the fact that it ...
What price counter-terrorism?
SRINAGAR, SEPT. 20.The Jammu and Kashmir Government is yet to pay compensation to the family of Abdul Hameed, a member of an anti-terrorist militia recruited from among the Gujjar community in Poonch's Hil Kaka area. Hameed was killed in action ...
Pak. invites PM
ISLAMABAD, SEPT. 20. Pakistan today formally invited the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to visit Islamabad in the first week of January to participate in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit. An invitation ...
`Developing nations can now counter subsidised imports'
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 20. Asignificant fallout of the failure of the Cancun talks of the World Trade Organisation was that with the lapse of the Peace Clause in December this year, developing countries would have the flexibility to impose ...
Gujarat official defends Public Prosecutors
AHMEDABAD, SEPT. 20. The Gujarat Chief Secretary, P.K. Laheri, who was summoned by the Supreme Court on Friday along with the State Director-General of Police in the Best Bakery case, has defended the appointment of new Public Prosecutors for ...
'Cong. must take public stand on reconstruction'
BHUBANESWAR, SEPT. 20.The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh today challenged the Congress to take a public stand to reconstruct the Babri structure if they came back to power in future. At a press conference here, the RSS spokesperson, Ram Madhav, ...
Time to get 'smart' on national ID cards?
BANGALORE, SEPT. 20. Consider this scenario: An Indian citizen has a `smart' card which contains his name, date of birth, address, blood group and a few other personal details. It also contains the holder's `digital signature'. He or ...
TDP MLA's remand extended in fake stamp papers scam
PUNE, SEPT. 20.The Telugu Desam Party MLA and former Andhra Pradesh Minister, C. Krishna Yadav's police remand was extended till September 26 by the Judicial Magistrate First Class, M.N. Bondre, here on Saturday. Mr. Yadav was produced before ...
V.P. Singh hails solidarity of South at WTO talks
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 20. The former Prime Minister, V.P. Singh, today welcomed the re-emergence of the "unity of the South" at the World Trade Organisation talks at Cancun and appreciated India's role, saying that only through the solidarity of the ...
Shiv Sena regrets resignation
MUMBAI, SEPT. 20. The Shiv Sena chief, Bal Thackeray has regretted the resignation of the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Murli Manohar Joshi. Mr. Thackeray said that Dr. Joshi's resignation has caused immense harm to the NDA ...
CBI submits scam report to U.P. Govt.
LUCKNOW, SEPT. 20. Following directions from the Supreme Court for lodging of FIRs against the former Chief Minister, Mayawati, former State Environment Minister, Nasimuddin Siddiqui, and four top State bureaucrats in the multi-crore Taj Heritage ...
Basu surprised
KOLKATA, SEPT. 20. The former West Bengal Chief Minister, Jyoti Basu, today expressed surprise over the discharge of the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, by the Rae Bareli Special Court despite his "presence" during the demolition of the Babri ...
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