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Opposition frowns on PM, Advani statements at Ayodhya
NEW DELHI, AUG. 2.Opposition parties today criticised the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, for their statements in Ayodhya yesterday on building a Ram temple, and charged them with trying to "whip ...

Step-by-step approach to restoring transport links
NEW DELHI, AUG. 2. With the resumption of the New Delhi-Lahore bus service and agreement on holding official talks on the resumption of civil aviation links, clarity still eludes the third mode of transport — the rail connection. ...

Talks on to forge Opposition unity, says Jyoti Basu
KOLKATA, AUG. 2. Talks were on among the Opposition parties to forge unity to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the next Parliament elections which appeared to be a year away, the ...

Enough time to reply to NHRC plea: Modi
KANCHEEPURAM, AUG. 2. "The Gujarat Government has enough time — about 30 days — to reply to the special leave petition (SLP) filed by the National Human Rights Commission in the Supreme Court seeking fresh investigation into the Best ...

Railway Ministry's monopoly over fixing fares goes
NEW DELHI, AUG. 2.The Union Cabinet has decided to set up a Rail Tariff Regulatory Authority (RTRA) to rationalise rail tariff, thereby ending the monopoly of the Railway Ministry over fixing fares and freights. Overruling the objections of the ...

Other Stories

'Cancun meet must tread cautiously on farm trade'

Left gears up to protest WTO Cancun meet

Nirmala Deshpande to head Bapu Trust

Transparent phone tariff mooted

A major boost to Clean Development Mechanism

APHC team in capital

India condemns blast in Russia

'Cong. ready to face LS polls anytime'

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