The Hindu : Tuesday, August 19, 2003

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Sonia's day out in Parliament
NEW DELHI, AUG. 18. It was a performance for which the entire Congress was waiting, with its collective breath delicately bated. Not surprising, the entire senior leadership was there to watch the leader open the debate on the no-confidence ...

Sonia indicts Govt., Advani rebuts charges
NEW DELHI, AUG. 18. The Vajpayee Government escaped un-mauled, though not un-clawed on Monday, the first day of the no-confidence motion debate in the Lok Sabha. The Leader of the Opposition, Sonia Gandhi's nine-point indictment of the Government ...

Fernandes seeks proof of charges
NEW DELHI, AUG. 18. The Defence Minister, George Fernandes, today protested his innocence and challenged the Opposition to provide proof of the corruption charges levelled against him and his Ministry. Making an impassioned intervention in the ...

AIADMK to abstain from voting
CHENNAI, AUG. 18. The AIADMK, which has 11 MPs in the Lok Sabha, will not take part in the debate and voting on the Congress-sponsored no-confidence motion against the Vajpayee Government. After a meeting of the AIADMK executive here today, ...

Apang wins trust vote
ITANAGAR, AUG. 18.The 16-day-old Gegong Apang United Democratic Front (UDF) Government in Arunachal Pradesh today won the confidence motion by a voice vote on the first day of the two-day Assembly session. Mr. Apang took the trust vote on the ...

Ranvir Sena leader held
ARA (BIHAR), AUG. 18.The acting chief of the outlawed Ranvir Sena Visheshwar Roy, carrying a reward of Rs. two lakhs on his head, was arrested from a house in Bhojpur district today. Police said, that on a tip-off its team led by the ...

Sharp rally in Sensex
MUMBAI, AUG. 18.Powered by hectic buying support from operators on the back of increased purchases by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs), steel shares led a sharp rally lifting the Sensex by 57 points at the close on the Mumbai Stock Exchange ...