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Rally creates ripples of sorts.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Arvind Singh Bisht LUCKNOW: The mammoth BSP rally here on Saturday marked a significant change in the BSP-BJP relation in this politically crucial state. And a couple of lakhs of people who...

Cong denies of being anti-Ambedkar.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Atul Chandra LUCKNOW: Dhikkar and thu-thu over, it is now the turn of the Congress to go into battle mode over the Indira Pratishthan issue. Even though the UP Congress chief Arun Kumar Singh...

Advani's clean chit a quid pro quo: Cong.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) LUCKNOW: Senior Congress leader and incharge of UP affairs of the party, Motilal Vora, has questioned the wisdom of Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani for the certificate of good governance which he gave to the...

SP blames CM, Admn for stampede.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) LUCKNOW: While expressing sympathy with the families of the deceased and those injured in the stampede at the Charbagh railway station on October 28, Samajwadi Party State President Ram Sharan Das said chief...

Police recover postal items, 4 arrested in Digha.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PATNA: The police reportedly recovered several items of postal department including postal stamps, postal orders, envelopes and 30 small packets of smack from an alleged den of city-based smack dealers in Ramji...

Admn 'plans' to beautify Gandhi Maidan.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PATNA: The Gandhi Maidan is going to get a facelift. It will now look more beautiful and clean. Hawkers, vendors and stray pigs will not be allowed to enter it. On Monday, the Patna High Court issued an...

PU senate okays Rs 78-cr deficit budget.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PATNA: The Patna University senate on Saturday passed a Rs 78.39 crore deficit budget for the next financial year (2003-04) without much hue and cry. Maybe, the members of the august house knew that the...

Illegal arms dealer discloses deals to rail police.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PATNA: Kamlesh Kumar, an alleged "dealer" of illegal arms, confessed to the police that he supplied a large number of countrymade pistols to Pehalwan, the bodyguard of controversial BJP MP Laxman Gilua and his...

Railway official caught for taking bribe.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PATNA: CBI sleuths on Friday evening arrested one Sangeet Kumar, a section engineer of the Sonepur division of the North Eastern Railway on the charge of demanding and taking bribe of Rs 500 from one of his...

Nitish opens Dalit Samata conference.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PATNA: Railway minister Nitish Kumar said here on Saturday that he had never named any extremist organisation in the Rafiganj accident of Rajdhani Express mishap, but his statement was not correctly quoted in...

'Fallen' women ostracised in rural Bihar.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) ARA: Life will never be the same for Bhuer Chaudhary of Saraiyan village under the Sandesh police station of Bhojpur disrict. Bhuer's wife, Janaki Devi, 32, unable to bear the humiliation meted out by some...

Centre blamed for polio cases in Bihar dists.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PATNA: The Bihar government has held the Centre responsible for the recent spurt in the incidence of polio in the state. Unnerved by the recent incidence of polio reported from five districts all bordering...

Rights body orders probe into death of 'torture victim'.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Balwant Garg MUKTSAR: Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PHRC) has asked the principal secretary of the state government and ADGP (crime branch) for an inquiry into the mysterious death of Gurmeet...

Rail traffic disrupted at various places in Punjab.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: Rail traffic on the Rajpura, Phillaur, Barnala and Mansa rail sections was disrupted for over two hours on Saturday afternoon following a call to stop trains in Punjab by the Communist Party of India...

PSEB not to purchase power from Goa, Uttaranchal.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Gur Kirpal Singh Ashk PATIALA: The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has decided not to further purchase power from Goa and Uttaranchal. The PSEB is purchasing power from these states through...

Paddy price: Farmers to plan next course of action on Oct 3.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PATIALA: With each passing day, stock of paddy is increasing in the mandis of Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib and Sangrur districts but there is no taker for it at the minimum support price (MSP). The farmers are...

1,800 kgs poppy husk seized in Ambala.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) AMBALA: Inspector General of Police, Ambala range, Alok Joshi said police seized 18 quintals (1,800 kgs) of poppy husk lying in 90 unclaimed bags at the sugarcane centre in Garhi Gujraon village, Radaur police...

Chautala for simpler labour laws.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala on Saturday stressed the need for simplification of labour laws and enhancement in the quantum of penalty for their violation in the same manner as had been...

MSP issue: Badal to meet PM on Monday.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: In order to step up pressure on Prime Minister Vajpayee, former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal proposes to call on him once again on September 30 along with chief ministers of Haryana and...

MSP: Amarinder exposes Badal's 'big lie'.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) BATHINDA: Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has strongly condemned the assertion of the BJP and SAD(B) leaders that the Punjab government did not formally present the state's case on MSP and bonus for paddy...

Centre gives another jolt to Punjab on paddy procurement issue.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Ajay Bharadwaj CHANDIGARH: After declining to enhance the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy, the Centre has dealt yet another blow to farmers by turning down the Punjab government's demand for...

Canada broke his heart.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Harpreet K Kang LUDHIANA: After breakfast on May 19, Shavinder Sandhu (not his real name) left his home in Canada,wearing a brown kurta-pyjama. Never to return. Sometime in late June, his family...

Computer course in Haryana Urdu akademi.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Urdu akademi has decided to start a one-year diploma course in computer application and multi-lingual desktop publishing and a correspondence course in Urdu language in collaboration with...

BJP slams CM for dharna outside PM's house.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: The Punjab BJP has outrightly condemned the action of the Punjab chief minister and its cabinet of staging a dharna in front of the Prime Minister's residence and has sought a white paper on why the...

Staircase built over murder victim's body.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) BATHINDA: In a bizarre incident the highly decomposed body of a woman, who was allegedly murdered by her husband and sister about nine months ago was dug up from the house of her husband at Balian Wali Road at...

Panel to probe into burning of 'bir'.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) LUDHIANA: A three-member committee was set up here on Sunday to probe into the burning of the 'bir' of Guru Granth Sahib by some unidentified persons at the gurdwara in Guru Nanak Girls College, Model Town, on...

Central team visits drought-hit areas.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has urged the Central team, which toured the districts of Rewari, Narnaul, Bhiwani, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa on Friday to assess the crop loss due to drought in these...

Arhtiyas avoiding advance paddy payments.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Gur Kirpal Singh Ashk PATIALA: For the first time in mandis, paddy husk lifters are failing to get advance payments from arhtiyas. As procurement agencies purchase only dry and clean paddy from...

Parents write to V-C on pass percentage.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) KURUKSHETRA: Parents of students reading in engineering colleges affiliated to Kurukshetra university have expressed concern at the low pass percentage that prevails in these colleges and have written to the...

Woman alleges rape by husband, friends.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) LUDHIANA: A 35 year old woman living in Dugri Housing Board Colony alleged that she had been raped by her husband, Harbans Singh and his two friends on Saturday night. While the woman could identify one of...

Unfazed, he faces life 'armed' with his feet.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Harpreet K Kang LUDHIANA: In a world which frustrates the most able-bodied men at every corner, Avtar Singh, a three-feet-tall man born without arms, has proved an achiever. He has a couple of...

Unidentified motorcyclists attempt to poison boys.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HOSHIARPUR: In two separate incidents, an unidentified motorcycle-borne person is believed to have attempted to poison two children. According to information available, a 10-yearold boy was stopped in an...

He knows the world by touch and smell.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HOSHIARPUR: Eleven years old Piyush Kalia has been pummelled by life from the beginning. He is blind, so the school for deaf and dumb students won't accept him and because he is also deaf and dumb, the school...

Lack of police vigil emboldens criminals in Mushk Mahal.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: Mushk Mahal colony at Bahadurpura and its surrounding areas have numerous hideouts in nearby hillocks from where a few communities indulge in anti-social activities like committing dacoity and...

Novel parking spaces being planned for city.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: Taking a cue from parking solutions implemented in Mumbai, the authorities here are planning to build improvised parking lots which would require less space. Addressing a seminar on identifying...

ACB sleuths trap excise team.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: A state-level prohibition and excise task force team, led by a district superintendent of police P, D V Seshagiri Rao, was caught by the Anti-Corruption sleuths, while in possession of unaccounted...

Another case on Food-For-Work.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: APCC general secretary K R Amos filed an additional affidavit in the High Court on the alleged misuse of 'Food-For-Work' rice by the ruling Telugu Desam Party functionaries, including some of the...

Police may close Kundanbagh murders case.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: The police might soon close investigations into the mysterious death of three women whose bodies were found three months after they had died in their Kundanbagh residence earlier this month. ...

Huda rushes reminder to govt on layouts.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (Huda) has rushed a reminder to the government seeking clarification regarding Urban Land Ceiling (ULC) clearance in unauthorised layouts after it did not...

MCH official hacked to death in Chatrinaka.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: A works inspector with the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) was murdered by three unidentified men when he went to inspect an ongoing project in Chatrinaka police station limits here on...

'Gujaratis enjoy life to the fullest'.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: Gujaratis living in the city take life with a pinch of sweet -- gur (jaggery), to be specific. They say they believe in living life to the fullest. "Most people think we are ostentatious, but we just...

Haj training camp on Monday.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: A training camp for Haj pilgrims for 2003 will be held at Haj House at Nampally on Monday. According to a press release, the camp will begin at 10 am. More information can be had from assistant...

Ramakrishna appointed legal advisor.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: K Sreedhar Rao HYDERABAD: To speed up its anti-corruption procedures, the government has appointed an advisor who will guide it on matters relating to vigilance, disciplinary action and...

Govt hospitals in a spot over disposal of waste.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Nihal Koshie HYDERABAD: Government hospitals in the state are in no position to clean up their waste disposal practices before the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 1998 come into...

Footwear worth lakhs gutted.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) COIMBATORE: A building - being used as a chappal godown -at Variety Hall Road here went up in flames around 1 a.m. on Sunday. Goods worth several lakh were destroyed, police sources said. They ruled out the...

Encounter could have been disastrous.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) BANGALORE: The striking force of Tamil Nadu police carefully trod on a virtual landmine while gunning down five Tamil Nadu-based terrorists at a Bangalore locality in the early hours of Sunday. The...

Terrorist Imam Ali, 4 others shot dead in Bangalore.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) BANGALORE: In a swift pre-dawn operation on Sunday, the police shot dead five Tamil Nadu-based terrorists, including their ISI-trained leader Imam Ali, at their hideout in the narrow bylanes of M.S. Ramaiah...

Man convicted for raping minor.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) MARGAO: District and sessions judge Nelson Britto on Saturday convicted one Alfred Fernandes of Kurpe-Quepem, aged 22, for raping a minor. He was arrested by the Quepem police. According to the prosecution,...

Balcony view: Protest breakfast.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PANAJI: All of India shut shop on September 26, in condemnation of the terrorist attack on devotees at Akshardham in Gujarat. In Goa too, the streets lay dead and it was a day when there was no school, no...

Boat trips to get a boost in tourism drive.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PANAJI: On the occasion of World Tourism Day, the All Goa Tourist Boat Owners Association (AGTBOA) has resolved to promote tourism and give a boost to domestic and foreign tourist arrivals in the state by...

Call to preserve marine eco-system.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PANAJI: A lecture on marine eco-tourism organised by the Goa Science Centre (GSC) and the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) to commemorate World Tourism Day stressed the need to conserve marine...

Cleanliness drive underway in govt offices.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) PANAJI: Practically all employees working in government and semi-government offices responded to the call given by the Goa government to keep the offices clean. The drive commenced in Goa last week. It will end...

Pakistan: A happening nation only in foreign parts.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: EUROVISION/Rashmee Z Ahmed Exactly 70 years ago, some 20 miles out of London, in a pretty little English town straight out of a light-suffused Turner watercolour, Choudhury Rehmat Ali had a...

US women go bust over mammary gain.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: ONLY IN AMERICA / Chidanand Rajghatta America obsession with mammaries appears to have reached an all-time high - or large - judging by the record number of women going in for what is euphemistically...

Match at bookies' bet and call.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Yudhvir Rana AMRITSAR: A cricketer may earn lakhs by sporting a particular brand of sunglasses on the field but, out here, there's money to be made from betting on the number of times he takes them...

Men who matter... and how.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) INDIA Virender Sehwag Point: Has the licence to kill. Quickly. Has all the strokes, and is on a high too. Can dent any bowler's confidence. Useful bowler. Silly Point: Shot selection or temperament...

A clash of titans.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) I hate to admit it, but I do not follow cricket the way I used to as a kid. I still remember the World Cup final when India downed the fancied West Indies. As Sunil Gavaskar is a family friend the victory...

Srinath should be asked to play Tests too.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: sporting life/ayaz memon When he suddenly opted out of the Indian Test team earlier this year, I thought the selectors were justified in axing Javagal Srinath from One-day team too. It appeared then...

China stand between Indian women and gold.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Vineeta Pandey Beating a country that had colonised it for many years in its own backyard a la Lagaan has given the Indian women's hockey team enormous confidence. They are now aiming for the Asian...

Koreas tango as Games get going.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Sunil Warrier BUSAN: 'A Beautiful Meeting' finally took place. And it took a beautiful mind to craft, conceive, conceptualise, co-ordinate and, finally, create a two-hour extravaganza that had...

Has Simran broken up with Kamal Hasaan?
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) The Simran-Kamal Haasan link-up seems to have begun to fade already. What with the pretty actress being seen around with someone else. And the lucky man seems to be none other than the Shaheed-E-Aazam actor...

Shweta Menon in fracas with producer-director.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Actresses seem to be getting on the wrong side of producers/directors with alarming regularity. Yukta Mookhey, Manisha Koirala...and now Shweta Menon. Apparently, the actress has signed one of her first lead...

Ramgopal to cast Fardeen in yet another film.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Dominic Ferrao We all know Fardeen's bagged Ramgopal's thriller Bhoot and a great (negative) role at that. Now we hear, Fardeen's signed yet another Varma Corporation film. Now Ramu has us...

Kamal Khan to turn actor?
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) MUMBAI: With all singers turning into actors, there sure is a lot of muti-tasking in our industry. And the good looking Kamaal Khan's not the one to be left out. It's heard that singer Kamal Khan (of 'O O...

Economy will be guided by politics: Jaswant.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) NEW DELHI: Finance minister Jaswant Singh was candid enough to concede in a meeting with the CEOs of leading US companies on Saturday that electoral politics will determine the course of economic reforms in...

Community FM all set to buzz.
September 30, 2002... (From The Times of India) Byline: Bhaskar Roy NEW DELHI: The government is all set to turn the broadcast media scene upside down with a draft cabinet proposal allowing low -cost community FM radio centres, with a five-km range, to be...

Rebuilding a nation from scratch, almost.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Urmi A Goswami : As the plane does its final lap on the runaway, it is difficult to ignore the scattered remains of airplanes that line the path. As you get off, you realise that the air is clean and...

Assocham to refocus on manufacturing sector.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Krishna Kant : The old economy is back in fashion at industry chambers. After attending last few years to tourism, infrastructure and other service sectors, Assocham under its new president will...

Priority sector lending scope to be widened.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Samik Dasgupta : THE ministry of finance plans to widen the definition of priority sector lending to include tourism, education (school, college and professional), infrastructure, housing and health...

No decision to defer MUL issue beyond Dec 2003.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) : The government has not decided to defer the Maruti public issue beyond December '03, but would float the company as soon as the market conditions improve. Disinvestment secretary Pradip Baijal told ET that...

Minor ports can be brought under tariff authority.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Tina Edwin : The law ministry has lobbed the ball back into the shipping ministry's court on the issue of setting tariffs for services provided by the ports to shipping lines. The law ministry...

Compensation, service tax row may delay VAT.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: G Ganapathy Subramaniam & J Padmapriya : The central government's plan to introduce value added tax (VAT) from April 1, 2003, is in trouble again, this time over a demand from state governments for...

Govt's SEZ dream going sour.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) : The government's plan to promote special economic zones (SEZ) as a major engine of medium-term growth in exports has failed to make significant progress. Not even one of the dozen greenfield SEZ projects...

No TDS on co-op bank members.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Girish Kuber : The Central Board of Direct Taxes has ruled that TDS will not cut out the interest a 'member' of a co-operative bank receives on deposits. Besides all borrowers who are members of...

Education may get priority sector tag.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Samik Dasgupta The Ministry of Finance plans to widen the definition of priority sector lending to include tourism, education, infrastructure, housing and health care services. The proposal is...

Govt clears decks for setting up country's first maritime university.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Anto T Joseph : The ministry of shipping has cleared the ground for setting up a maritime university in the country. The 'Indian Institute of Maritime Studies' - which will include the four existing...

Law ministry wants minor ports brought under TAMP jurisdiction.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Tina Edwin : THE law ministry has lobbed the ball back into the shipping ministry's court on the issue of setting tariffs for services provided by the ports to shipping lines. The law ministry...

Rubber industry seeks level field.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Indra Bhadra : Natural rubber is the one major component of rubber industry, constituting nearly 24% of the cost of the raw material for the tyre industry and over 50% of the raw material for the...

Tea crisis: Kanu Sanyal blames anti-labour policies.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) : Veteran Naxalite leader, Kanu Sanyal, has said that the Left Front government's anti-labour policy in West Bengal caused the worst-ever crisis in tea plantations in north Bengal. Addressing the two-day...

Tea market fragments, but prices remain high.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) : Close on the heels of a study on the tea auction system, A F Ferguson has now analysed the post-auction pricing structure and supply chain of tea and concluded that although the retail price is high it has...

Easier forex norms must benefit customers: RBI.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) : THE RBI has lambasted banks for their failure to effectively pass on the benefits of foreign exchange liberalisation to the end user. "Our experience based on the feedback we have received in this regard,...

UK leaves it to Indian teachers.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Urmi A Goswami : South East Asia's preference for Indian teachers hasn't escaped British eyes. Wigan and Leigh, a British further education institute, is cashing in on this preference while...

Wigan & Leigh India to run colleges in S-E Asia.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Urmi A Goswami : South-east Asia's preference for Indian teachers hasn't escaped British eyes. Wigan and Leigh, a British further education institute, is cashing in on this preference while expanding...

IIM-A offers placement course.
September 30, 2002... (From The Economic Times) Byline: Satyendra Shrivastava : Even if it was a transition from the virtual to the physical at the summer placement programme, it finally delivered for the first year PGP students at the premier business...