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Left to oppose POTO despite amendments

Staff Reporter · Dec 8, 2001 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNI) The left partes remain firm in their opposition of the Prevention Of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO), in and outside parliament. Reacting to t...

Paks Afghan policy may hamper Kashmir cause

Staff Reporter · Dec 8, 2001 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNI) A leading Pakistani Urdu daily has expressed the fear that the failure of the countrys Afghan policy will adversely affect its interests ...

Cong rejects NDA amendments on POTO

Staff Reporter · Dec 8, 2001 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNI) The Congress today rejected the amendments approved by the cabinet on the Prevention Of Terrorism Ordinance as "marginal and cosmetic, in...

Govt firm on maintaining status quo in Ayodhya

Staff Reporter · Dec 8, 2001 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNI) The government today reiterated its resolve to adhere to the directives of the supreme court to maintain the status-quo at the disputed s...

Sikh academics resent, politicians tough on text issue by Harmeet Shah Singh

Staff Reporter · Dec 8, 2001 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNI) Resentment is brewing among Sikh academics over what they call "Politicisation" of a textual topic even as leaders of the religious commu...

Religious leaders advice to be sought in textbook revision

Staff Reporter · Dec 8, 2001 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNI) The advice of religious leaders would be sought during revision of textbooks only for those portions which deal with religions, minister ...

INFLATION RATE SHOOTS UP TO 2.53 P.C.

Staff Reporter · Dec 3, 2001 · 4 min read

MUMBAI, Dec 2 (NNN) : Pushed up by a sharp hike in the prices of vegetables and fruits, Indias annual inflation rate shot up further by another 0.06 per cent to...

Failure to pass POTO will help terrorist elements: Advani

Staff Reporter · Dec 1, 2001 · 5 min read

NEW DELHI, Nov 30 (UNI): Reiterating that the government is prepared to dilute the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) if suitable amendments are suggested...

PWG naxalites blast milk plant owned by Naidus kin

Staff Reporter · Dec 1, 2001 · 1 min read

HYDERABAD, Nov 30 (UNI): Naxalites of the banned Peoples War Group (PWG) went on a rampage in Andhra Pradesh, blasting a milk plant belonging to the family memb...

Veteran CPI (M) leader passes away

Staff Reporter · Dec 1, 2001 · 1 min read

HYDERABAD, Nov 30 (UNI): Veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Nanduri Prasada Rao died of kidney failure and heart problem at a city corporate hosp...

Reports of DGP being threatened by Rabri baseless : RJD

Staff Reporter · Dec 1, 2001 · 2 min read

RANCHI, Nov 30 (UNI): The RJD today described as "baseless" reports that Jharkhand Director General of Police T P Sinha had been threatened by Bihar chief minis...

NLFT kills two, kidnaps three

Staff Reporter · Dec 1, 2001 · 1 min read

AGARTALA, Nov 30 (UNI): Tribal guerillas shot dead two people, including a woman, and kidnapped three school students in separate incidents in Tripura last nigh...

Northern Alliance as bad for women as Taliban: RAWA

India Ms Saba · Dec 1, 2001 · 6 min read

NEW DELHI, Nov 30 (UNI) For years members of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) were forced to go underground by the regime of the...

15,000 Bangladeshi nationals untraceable

Staff Reporter · Dec 1, 2001 · 2 min read

KOLKATA, Nov 30 (UNI) Nearly 15,000 Bangladeshis have "vanished in the country till this October after entering India with valid travel documents in a security ...

Sonia blames governments for problems in legislatures

Staff Reporter · Nov 27, 2001 · 39 min read

NEW DELHI, Nov 25 (UNI): Leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha Sonia Gandhi, stating that the Congress had always followed the policy of constructive cooper...

PM supports move to rewrite history books

Staff Reporter · Nov 24, 2001 · 10 min read

NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (UNI): Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today defended rewriting of history books by the National Council for Education Research and Traini...

PM asks BJP MPs to neutralise opposition to POTO

Staff Reporter · Nov 21, 2001 · 15 min read

NEW DELHI, Nov 20 (UNI): Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today asked BJP Members of Parliament to neutralise effectively all opposition to the Prevention Of...

VP Singh accuses VHP, BJP of breaking commitments on Ayodhya

Staff Reporter · Nov 21, 2001 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Nov 20 (UNI) Former prime minister V P Singh today said that VHP and BJP leaders "refusal to abide by the constitution and law and making promises wi...

Opposition heckles Fernandes

Staff Reporter · Nov 20, 2001 · 15 min read

NEW DELHI, Nov 19 (UNI) The opposition in the Lok Sabha today heckled defence minister George Fernandes when he was introduced to the house by prime minister At...

Normalcy in Afghanistan will revive of old links: Vajpayee

Staff Reporter · Nov 19, 2001 · 3 min read

AMRITSAR, Nov 18 (UNI): Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today hoped for speedy return of normalcy in war-torn Afghanistan to begin the process of rebuilding...

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