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BJP reluctant to join issue with VHP
NEW DELHI, JAN. 3. The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is rather reluctant to join issue with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on its comments about the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's interpretation of Hindutva and his caustic remarks aimed ...

BJP pins hopes on a divided Cong. in Himachal
NEW DELHI, JAN. 3. The Bharatiya Janata Party is depending on uniting its own divided house in Himachal Pradesh and on the continuation of intense factionalism in the Congress to win the Assembly elections due in February end. Preparations ...

NHRC seeks report on 'encounter' deaths
NEW DELHI, JAN. 3.Even as the opposition parties in Bihar today observed a bandh to protest the killing of three youths allegedly in a fake police encounter, the National Human Rights Commission has sought a report in this regard from the State ...

S&T policy seeks to give greater autonomy to R&D institutions
BANGALORE, JAN. 3. The new national Science and Technology Policy unveiled today by the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, seeks to address the various challenges facing the sector because of the on-going globalisation process and, at the same ...