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Bengal alliance with BJP on: Mamta
TWO DAYS after resigning from the Vajpayee Government and withdrawing party's support to NDA coalition, Mamata Banerjee said that her party's electoral alliance with the BJP in the coming Assembly elections in West Bengal still existed.
"We have not snapped ties, it is their responsibility if they broke it," Banerjee said before the crucial meeting of the extended policy-making body of the party.
HTC, Kolkata
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Working News Cameramen's elections
S N Sinha, Pramod Mathur and Joginder Chawla were re-elected unanimously as president, general secretary and treasurer of the Working News Cameramen's Association at its Annual General Body meeting held on Saturday.
Other office-bearers elected were Bhawan Singh and Mahadeo Rao, vice-presidents, and Sushil Kumar as joint secretary. T Mathra was nominated patron of the association. P D Walsan, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Devendra Sharma, Sondeep Shanker, B Mathur, Kharak
Singh, Anamitra Chakradhar, H C Tiwari, Jalaj Kathuria and V Rajgopal were elected as executive committee members.
HTC, New Delhi
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SP not to back Cong
THE SAMAJWADI Party on Saturday stated there was no possibility of its support to the Congress to form an alternative Government at the Centre. Party general secretary Amar Singh said the Congress might be ready to form a coalition Government but his party
could not support it.
HTC, New Delhi
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RSS defends Tehelka
RSS Spokesperson M G Vaidya on Saturday sought to defend tehelka.com’s charges of conspiracy alleged by the BJP and its allies and said it had no reason to doubt the website’s bonafides.
PTI, New Delhi
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BJP charge false: Cong
THE CONGRESS on Saturday rubbished as "false and baseless" the BJP's charge that its senior leader Arjun Singh had links with Tehelka. "The BJP is known to resort to falsehood when they are caught napping. Now that Bangaru Laxman has been seen accepting
money for a dubious deal, their weapon of defence is to spread canards about the functionaries of the Congress party," chief spokesperson Jaipal Reddy said.
HTC, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar
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CPM rejects PM's proposal for inquiry
THE CPI(M) politburo on Saturday joined the Opposition's chorus demanding that the Vajpayee government quit office since it had lost credibility and the moral authority to govern the country after the Tehelka expose.
"Nothing less is acceptable to the people," the Left party said, as it dismissed the announcement of a judicial inquiry into the exposure as a 'diversionary' and 'delaying tactics' aimed to bail out the Government from the present crisis.
It also rejected as 'unacceptable' the PM’s appeal for a debate in Parliament given the government's obstinate stance and determination to defend the culprits.
HTC, New Delhi
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Maheshwar project
PTI, Bhopal
THE MADHYA Pradesh Government on Saturday said that it was committed to the implementation of the Maheshwar project on Narmada river and described as "totally contrary to facts" reports that the project was not receiving clearance.
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Hooch tragedy
PTI, Mainpuri (UP)
WITH THREE more persons dying after consuming spurious liquor, the toll in the hooch tragedy in the district rose to 16 on Saturday, the police said.
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Bhuria on Bengal
PTI, Midnapore
THE RIGHTS of SC and ST
people were not protected in West Bengal where the situation was worse than Bihar, chairman of National Commission for SC/ST Dilip Singh Bhuria said.
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Fodder scam case
PTI, Patna
THE CBI has sought sanctions from the governors of Bihar and Jharkhand to prosecute RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in yet another case of the multi-crore fodder scam.
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SPO killed in J&K
PTI, Srinagar
THREE PERSONS, including a Special Police Officer, were killed and two injured in separate militancy-related incidents in the Valley, where militants attacked a security camp with grenades.
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Tang launched
HTC, New Delhi
THE $26 billion Kraft, the food and beverages arm of the Philip Morris group of companies has announced the launch of its leading powdered soft drink Tang in the Indian market. Launched through KJS India Pvt Ltd, the Tang fruit juice will initially be sold
in the orange flavour.
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SBI to enter insurance
PTI, Hoshiarpur
THE STATE Bank of India (SBI) will soon enter into insurance sector, K.K. Mehra, deputy general manager of Punjab zonal office of the bank said. He said that in Punjab, it would introduce insurance subsidiary for its customers from June 1, 2001.
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Timex’s new range
HTC, New Delhi
TIMEX WATCHES Ltd has launched a new range of tech savvy watches from its international collection for the Indian market.
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Rediff strategic alliance
HTC, New Delhi
REDIFF.COM INDIA Ltd, one of India's leading portals focusing on India and the global Indian community, announced the completion of its acquisition of a privately held thinkindia.com Inc. Rediff.com forked out $3,00,000 for this buy-out.
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NABARD
PTI, Mumbai
THE NATIONAL Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned
Rs 651.88 crore for rural infrastructure including drinking water schemes and road connectivity in 14 states. The bank has extended loans worth Rs 194.57 crore to West Bengal and Rs 182.52 crore to Gujarat.
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SIDBI to raise Rs 1500 cr
PTI, Kolkata
THE SMALL Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has planned to raise Rs 1,500 crore by issuing priority sector and non-priority sector bonds next year for its financing programmes for the small-scale sector, SIDBI chairman and managing director P.B.
Nimbalkar said.
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Ratan Tata felicitated
PTI, Mumbai
RATAN TATA, chairman of Tata Sons Ltd, was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by the Ohio State University (OSU).
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Mandela statue
HTC, London
A STATUE of former South African President Mr Nelson Mandela will installed in Trafalgar Square. A round-the-clock protest against his detention mounted in the 80s at the Square was lifted after 1395 days when he was freed in 1990. A nine-foot-high bronze
statue will be unveiled in the shadow of the pillar on which Vice-Admiral Viscount Nelson stands.
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China blast toll 110
AFP, Shijiazhuang
CHINESE POLICE today named a deaf murderer as the chief suspect behind four huge explosions in the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang which hospital sources said killed at least 110 people. A police spokesman in the city said 41- year-old Jin Ruchao, on
run for the murder of his girlfriend, was being sought in connection with yesterday's explosions around a complex of cotton factories.
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Chinese ship sinks
AP, Beijing
A FREIGHTER capsized and sa-nk off China's southeastern coa-st, killing at least four people, an official said on Saturday. Another seven were missing. The ship sank on Thursday in gale-force winds off the port of Ningbo, just south of Shanghai, said a
police official. All 16 people aboard were thrown into the sea, and only five were rescued, he said.
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Malaysia situation
AFP, Kuala Lumpur
THE MALAYSIA government threatened on Saturday to use a draconian security law against opposition parties which it says are exploiting serious ethnic clashes. Laws like the Internal Security Act would be used if "certain political parties" took advantage
of the present situation to divide the people and to project their struggle through force, said Rais Yatim, the minister for legal affairs.
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Russia on hijackers
AFP, Moscow
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has asked Saudi Arabia to extradite two hijackers who took over a Russian plane - whom the Kremlin said are Chechen rebels - as soon as possible. "I hope that questions surrounding bringing these criminals before Russian
justice will be settled as soon as possible," Putin said in a message sent to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia on Saturday, according to a Kremlin statement .
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