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Troops issue: 'New Delhi watching developments'
NEW DELHI, JULY 17. India today said it did not have any specific comment to offer on news reports quoting the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, that the U.N. Security Council might issue an appeal to nations to send their troops to ...
No aftermath in U.S. on 'no-troops' decision: Blackwill
NEW DELHI, JULY 17.There is no "residue", no "aftermath" in Washington to the Indian decision not to send its troops to Iraq in response to an American request, the outgoing U.S. Ambassador to India, Robert D. Blackwill, said today. He was ...
'Dosti Fund' swells
BANGALORE, JULY 17. The Pakistani child, two-and-a-half-year-old Noor Fatima, is recovering in the intensive therapy unit (ITU) of the Narayana Hrudayalaya here and a decision on taking her off the ventilator will be made on Friday. Noor's ...
People-to-people contacts will help, says Gujral
CHENNAI, JULY 17. The former Prime Minister, I.K. Gujral, said today that the best hope for improvement in India-Pakistan relations lay in encouraging people-to-people exchanges and strengthening the regional forum, the South Asian Association ...
`Threat to peace in Asia needs attention'
CHENNAI, JULY 17. The former Prime Minister, I.K.Gujral, said today that the need of the hour was to consider the threats to peace and stability in West, Central and South Asia in a holistic manner and to "collectively meet these challenges." ...
Don't hide information on tariff packages: TRAI
NEW DELHI, JULY 17. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has once again asked phone service companies to refrain from concealing information about tariff packages that do not suit them. The TRAI issued the instructions after an ...
Buddhadeb hits back at Vajpayee
KOLKATA, JULY 17.The West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, today countered the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's criticism of the Left Front Government saying that the Prime Minister's utterances reflected the Bharatiya Janata ...
Vivek Oberoi undergoes operation
MUMBAI, JULY 17. Bollywood actor, Vivek Oberoi, who fractured his left leg in Kolkata on Wednesday during a film shoot, underwent an operation here today and is expected to be out of action for at least three months, hospital sources said. He ...
Controversial defence deals to come under the scanner
NEW DELHI, JULY 17. Several defence-related controversies will come up for closer scrutiny by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament. These include the upgradation of over 100 MiG-21 aircraft and purchase of missiles at an allegedly inflated ...
Left has a big role in forming alternative to NDA: Pawar
MUMBAI, JULY 17. Though the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party had separately voiced the need for a broad, multi-party anti-National Democratic Alliance platform to fight the next Lok Sabha elections, the decision of the Communist Party ...
AIDS patient may have been cremated alive: NCW
NEW DELHI, JULY 17. The National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson, Poornima Advani told reporters here today that the 32-year-old HIV/AIDS patient, Poonamma — who died under mysterious circumstances at Kuppam village of Chittoor ...
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  • Parliament House to get more statues
  • IA plane makes emergency landing
  • Gowda for autonomy to CBI
  • Ceasefire with NSCN(I-M) extended



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