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Nod for AJT purchase soon
BANGALORE, AUG. 20. The Government may soon give the nod for the purchase of the Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT), which the Indian Air Force requires. According to the Defence Minister, George Fernandes, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) is ...
MDMK pleads Vaiko's case with PM
NEW DELHI, AUG. 20. The presidium chairman of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), L. Ganesan, and the former Union Minister, Gingee Ramachandran, today met the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and submitted a memorandum ...
False hijack alarm at Delhi airport
NEW DELHI, AUG. 20.Memories of the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight to Kandahar returned to haunt national security agencies today after a distress message was accidentally flashed by an IA flight preparing to take off for Srinagar ...
India condemns attack on U.N. office
NEW DELHI, AUG. 20. India today condemned the killing of the United Nations Special Representative for Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and several others in Tuesday's bomb attack on the U.N. office in Baghdad. In a letter to the U.N. ...
Third Front concept yet to gain ground, says Bardhan
BELGAUM, AUG. 20.The CPI general secretary, A.B. Bardhan, told newspersons here today that the concept of a third front was yet to gain ground at the national level. The whole idea was that the fate of the country should not be left in the hands ...
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  • Staines case: judgment on Sept. 8
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  • Put Bill to vote, women's groups urge PM
  • The politics of chargesheets
  • IIT expels 5 students
  • `The challenge of diabetes'
  • Sonia inaugurates mobile diagnostic unit
  • Tributes to Rajiv Gandhi
  • Boisterous revelry marks Gokulashtami
  • Components in Insat-3E to be replaced
  • PM to unveil portraits, statues in Parliament House
  • PIL in Kerala HC against duty exemption for Tendulkar
  • CTE plans to acquire two more Airbus simulators
  • Poor fare likely at Venice, Toronto film fetes
  • Mufti makes first mobile phone call to PM
  • NHRC rescues sick undertrial from jail
  • `When I'm 64'
  • 60 injured in clash over opening of bridge
  • Apple brings fastest, most powerful PC to India
  • BJP reviews vote outcome
  • India forms new alliance on farm sector at WTO



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