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Sonia says PM responsible for evolving consensus
DONGARGAON (CHHATTISGARH), MARCH 8. Fixing responsibility on the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and other political parties for providing reservation to women in State Assemblies and Parliament, the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, said ...

`BJP destroying secular fabric'
RAIPUR, MARCH 8. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, today accused the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Sangh Parivar of ``destroying'' the country's secular fabric and asserted that her party was committed to national unity. ``It ...

Russia to use veto against war on Iraq: envoy
SHIMLA, MARCH 8. The Ambassador of the Russian Federation, Alexander M. Kadakin, has said that Russia will never support any U.N. resolution for a war against Iraq. "We shall veto any such resolution," he said presspersonshere today. He was ...

Historians concerned over court order on excavation
NEW DELHI, MARCH 8. Criticising what they called the "unhealthy precedent" being set by the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) order to excavate the disputed site at Ayodhya, eminent historians and academics today described the order ...

Set up all-religion centre on disputed land: V.P. Singh
CHENNAI, MARCH 8. The former Prime Minister, V.P.Singh today said the disputed land at Ayodhya should not be handed over to any of the parties to the dispute and that it should be utilised for setting up an all-religion research ...

Jamali unable to emerge as credible player
NEW DELHI, MARCH 8. The political emasculation of the Pakistan Prime Minister, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, has undermined the possibility of his emerging as an interlocutor with India. Unlike his last-elected, civilian predecessor, Nawaz Sharif ...

`It was a fruitless deployment of troops'
NEW DELHI, MARCH 8.India not only wasted a strategic opportunity by opting for a fruitless 10-month forward deployment of its troops, but it strengthened Pakistan's perception that the nuclear threat works. Pakistan has come to believe that ...

Bangladesh told to curb infiltration, ISI activities: Advani
TERANPUR (MP), MARCH 8.The Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, today said Bangladesh had been firmly told to curb infiltration and check ISI agents operating from its soil from carrying out terrorist activities in India. Addressing a ...

Other Stories

`Abortion pill a major step towards women's empowerment'

Maternity benefit scheme revamped

'Order on excavation unwarranted'

New Internet speed record set

`No oil surcharge now'

Tinsel world smoking out lives?

Court orders PSU to regularise 28 workers

`Organise Gita festival'

President urges doctors to help poor patients

`Greater cooperation needed between n-powers'

Will Shourie do away with telecom advisory panels?

Kalam tempted to speak in Tamil

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