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    Manmohan meets Vajpayee
    NEW DELHI, SEPT. 3. In a bid to forge a political consensus ahead of the India-Pakistan Foreign Ministers-level talks on September 5-6, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, held a breakfast meeting with his predecessor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, this ...

    Inflation hits four-year high
    NEW DELHI, SEPT. 3. Inflation reached a four-year high, crossing 8 per cent for the week ending August 21, after a marginal dip last week. Rise in prices of primary articles such as fruits and vegetables, fuel and manufactured products have ...

    Withdrawal of case against Uma Bharti runs counter to Supreme Court verdicts
    NEW DELHI, SEPT. 3. The Congress-led Karnataka Government may be getting cold feet over the prosecution of the BJP leader, Uma Bharti, but its decision to direct the Public Prosecutor to seek withdrawal of the cases runs counter to a number of ...

    `Collapse of support system led to crisis in farm sector'
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 3. The crisis in the agricultural sector was mainly due to the collapse of support systems in the 1990s, Abhijit Sen, Member, Central Planning Commission, said today. Delivering the Millennium Lecture on "Changes in the cost ...

    New foreign trade policy will benefit farmers: NCP
    NEW DELHI, SEPT. 3.A day after the Left parties slammed the United Progressive Alliance Government's foreign trade policy, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) came out in support of it. In a statement to the media today, it said the policy would ...

    `We thought it was all over'
    NEW DELHI, SEPT. 3.The three truck drivers who arrived here today from Kuwait said they had "lost all hopes" when one of them — Antaryami — was taken out in an orange suit one day to be clicked with a gun pointed at his head. "We ...

    Uma Bharti suppressed facts, says Congress
    NEW DELHI, SEPT. 3. The Congress once again raised the issue of Uma Bharti having "suppressed facts" in the affidavit ahead of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly election by not declaring that she had a case pending against her in the Hubli court and ...

    Lawyers, police clash in Lucknow
    LUCKNOW, SEPT. 3.A minor accident involving a lawyer's car today snowballed into a clash between lawyers and policemen here, injuring over 40 persons. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, ordered a probe into the incident by ...

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