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PM launches BSNL cellular service
LUCKNOW, OCT. 19. The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, today launched the countrywide cellular service of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited by making a call to the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, in New Delhi from the Raj Bhawan at ...

Pressure on India to resume talks with Pak.?
NEW DELHI, OCT. 19. Space for diplomatic manoeuvre has opened up after India announced its decision to "redeploy'' its troops from the International Border and Pakistan announced a "withdrawal'' of its forces in response. There is little doubt ...

PM unfazed by VHP attack
NEW DELHI, OCT. 19. The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, is reported to have taken in his stride the attacks on his principal official adviser, Brajesh Mishra, from two leading functionaries of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. Kya faark partha ...

Shatrughan Sinha visits Maran in hospital
CHENNAI, OCT. 19. As the ailing Commerce Minister, Murasoli Maran's condition "continues to be very serious", the Union Health Minister, Shatrughan Sinha, and the Director-General of Health Services, S.P. Agarwal, flew down to Chennai to ...

Ban VHP, Bajrang Dal, says Youth Congress
NEW DELHI, OCT. 19.Demanding an immediate ban on the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal, a large number of Indian Youth Congress activists demonstrated in front of the VHP's central office here today shouting for arrest of the VHP leader, ...

Will Cong. go it alone in J&K?
SRINAGAR, OCT. 19. The imposition of Governor's rule did provide breathing time for the Congress and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) to cobble together the required numbers for staking the claim to form the next government. But the ...

'He must apologise'
AHMEDABAD, OCT. 19. The Gujarat unit of the Congress has protested the alleged defamatory remarks against the party president, Sonia Gandhi, by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad international general secretary, Pravin Togadia. At a meeting held in the ...

NC needs me for some more time: Farooq
SRINAGAR, OCT. 19.The National Conference patron, Farooq Abdullah's mood has not apparently been affected by the stunning defeat his party suffered in the recent Assembly elections. On the last day as Chief Minister on October 17, Dr. Abdullah ...