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All-party meet on Iraq comes at a crucial stage
NEW DELHI, MARCH 7. The Vajpayee Government's decision to convene an all-party meeting on Monday comes just before the United States and its allies are likely to place their "second resolution'' on Iraq before the United Nations Security Council. ...
'India committed to peaceful solution'
NEW DELHI, MARCH 7. The Minister for External Affairs, Yashwant Sinha, said today that India remained committed towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict between Iraq and the United States. "We are at a critical juncture in world history," ...
Karzai recalls Shimla days
SHIMLA, MARCH 7. "Just call me a boy from Shimla and not the head of a state," the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, said here today at the Himachal Pradesh University on the occasion of his being conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of ...
Youth held at Delhi airport
NEW DELHI, MARCH 7.The Delhi Police today detained a youth found moving in a suspicious manner at the Indira Gandhi International Airport around the time the visiting Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, was to reach the airport to take a flight to ...
Liberhan defers final arguments to April 9
NEW DELHI, MARCH 7. The Liberhan Commission, probing the sequence of events leading to the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, today deferred till April 9 the commencement of final arguments, after counsel said they ...
HC urged to recall excavation order
NEW DELHI, MARCH 7. The All-India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) today described the Allahabad High Court's order directing the Archaeological Survey of India to excavate the disputed site in Ayodhya as "unprecedented and uncalled for at a ...
B.C. Roy awards announced
NEW DELHI, MARCH 7. The Medical Council of India has announced Dr. B.C. Roy National Awards for 2001 and 2002. The annual awards are given to statesmen and eminent persons in medicine, philosophy, science, art and literature. Among the winners ...
Bukhari urges Muslim nations to unite against U.S.
NEW DELHI, MARCH 7. The Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, today urged all Muslim nations, particularly in the Arab world, to unite and challenge the U.S.' hegemony which was ``directed at eliminating Islam and Muslims from ...
A lot needs to be done for women, says Joshi
NEW DELHI, MARCH 7. Supporting the demand one-third reservation for women in Assemblies and Parliament, the Lok Sabha Speaker, Manohar Joshi, today said women should also be given preference in governance. Inaugurating a workshop, `Women in ...
They are still denied equality: Anand
NEW DELHI, MARCH 7. The Constitution guarantees equality to women, but society continues to deny them this, the new chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, Justice A.S. Anand, has said. Speaking at an International Women's Day ...
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  • Sanjay Dutt deposes
  • A road map for joblessness, says Opposition
  • New investment norms for provident funds
  • Change norms in foodgrains' allocation: Sonia
  • SC quashes detention under COFEPOSA
  • IAF launches relief missions
  • Sentence reduced in gang-rape case
  • Tributes to Ramakrishnan
  • Sri Lankan air link to Kochi
  • BJP team to visit Bhojshala
  • `Nuclear deterrence, fragile way of maintaining peace'
  • Probe into discrepancy in FCI wheat stocks
  • MTP Act may have to be amended for abortion by pill

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