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Khan's issue concerns entire world: Sinha
NEW DELHI, FEB. 6.Breaking its silence on Abdul Qadeer Khan's "confession" about the sale of nuclear secrets, India said today this was an issue that concerned the entire international community and would not end with the Pakistani scientist ...

Focus on regenerative medicine, says Kalam
CHENNAI, FEB. 6.Newer knowledge emerging out of research on stem cells from abroad and India has to be taken note of and studied, the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, said today. Urging institutions to pay attention to regenerative medicine, fast ...

`Give ideas for lunar mission'
CHENNAI, FEB. 6. Students can give their ideas to the country's space researchers in designing a payload for India's proposed space mission to the moon, the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, said on Friday. Answering a question from an engineering ...

I never accused Rajiv of taking money, says V.P. Singh
NEW DELHI. FEB. 6. The former Prime Minister, V.P. Singh, today denied having ever accused Rajiv Gandhi of taking money in the Bofor's gun deal. Addressing a press conference this afternoon, Mr. Singh said that "at no point of time did I make ...

Apex court to hear plea against dissolution on February 13
NEW DELHI, FEB. 6. The Supreme Court will hear on February 13 a public interest litigation petition challenging the Constitutional validity of the dissolution of the 13th Lok Sabha. The petition, filed by advocate Viplav Sharma, assailed the ...

JPC recommendation on norms for colas justified
CHENNAI, FEB. 6. A positive fallout of the Cola controversy could be a nation-wide movement for food safety, said G. Thyagarajan, chief scientific consultant to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that submitted its report on pesticide ...

Top terrorist shot dead in Srinagar
NEW DELHI, FEB. 6. Rafiq Ahmad Dar, overall commander of military operations for the terrorist group Al-Umar, was shot dead by a Jammu and Kashmir Police counter-terrorist unit in Srinagar on Thursday night. Dar, who operated using the alias ...

Vajpayee's leadership will be main plank: survey
NEW DELHI, FEB. 6.An NDTV poll of more than 400 Lok Sabha members finds that a majority believe that the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's leadership and the NDA Government's track record will be the main campaign issue in the coming ...

IIMs baffled at fee-cut fiat
AHMEDABAD, FEB. 6. The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are baffled at the latest Central Government fiat for lowering fees in the premier management institutions in the country. Speaking on behalf of the directors of all the six IIMs, ...

Rajiv perhaps knew the names of recipients, says Deshmukh
NEW DELHI, FEB. 6. Shortly after the Delhi High Court's `clean chit' to the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, a former Cabinet Secretary, who had worked under the former Prime Minister, in his autobiography, says the late Prime Minister or his ...

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`No move to ban outsourcing'

`Iraq attracted action for breaching U.N. resolution'

India urged to talk to Russia on Kyoto

D.N. Tripathi, ICHR Chairman

Centre given time to consider changes to Competition Act

P-21 for world prosperity, security mooted

`Large Asian nations increasing air pollution'

The `trimurtis' of the BJP

FEMA to be amended