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AUGUST 10

Sonia Steals
The Show!
Sitaram Kesri asks Madam to save the Congress party.
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Mamata Banerjee launches party!
Within the parent party, of course!
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Kesri blasts Deve Gowda
The Congress chief says he's ''an old man in a hurry'' to change the face of India.
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7 more attempt self-immolation over Khurana issue
The former Delhi CM is perturbed by the developments.
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Bodo effort to cut off North-East from rest of India
Three bridges bombed since Thursday night.
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'I fought for the country's freedom and in the process, lost all my family. Today I am alone and neglected by all, even the government!'
George Iype attends the prime minister's durbar a week before 50th anniversary of Independence.
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'If policemen kill criminals who are harmful to society, I don't see anything wrong with it'
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde, in an exclusive interview.
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Despite posthumous gallantry awards, army widows in bad shape
They get a raw deal in the 50th year of India's Independence.
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Children remain oppressed in golden jubilee year of Independence
The number of children working in streets swells. So does the number of illiterates and those without hope.
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36 per cent Indians feel the country will disintegrate in the next 50 years
One out of three Indians believe the country will break up into independent nations.
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Jayalalitha tries to tie up with TMC to finish DMK
Sources say the AIADMK has already sent feelers to Moopanar.
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'I think there is an Arun Shourie brigade doing all this'
Mai Ambedkar lashes out at the controversial author of Worshipping False Gods.
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Veerappan's ransom demand turned down
The Tamil Nadu and Karnataka governments reject the brigand's demand for Rs 50 million.
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Shed anti-India bias, 2 Congressmen urge US
The US should cultivate India for political, economic and strategic reasons, say Pallone and Brown.
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The States
Two individuals and their lone crusades for justice in Orissa
Seven killed in JK

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Yeh Hain India!

Does Utah look like Kashmir? Mukul Anand thinks so
But did he have to replicate even India Gate there?
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Justice, rural style!
When 22-year-old Gita Soma was forced to dip her hands in boiling oil to prove her innocence.
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AUGUST 9

Tremors in
the Parivar
Deprived of the Delhi CM's post, Madanlal Khurana quits as BJP vice-president. Two of his supporters try to commit self-immolation....
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Wrangles will rock BJP
The BJP leadership was afraid of dislodging Delhi CM Sahibsingh Verma.
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20 killed in Kashmir
17 militants, two soldiers are among those killed.
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Brigadier killed, bridge destroyed, as militants intensify activities
The Assam chief minister hints at return of suspended anti-insurgency operation.
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Coalition govts are disastrous: Kesri
No threat to Gujral as Chacha is only trying to make his party ''popular among masses''.
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Record 80 candidates file nominations for CWC poll
Oscar Fernandes, the returning officer for the CWC election, said polling will take place on Saturday evening and the results are expected late on Saturday night.
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CBI to investigate molestation charges against Orissa advocate general
The Orissa high court has ordered a CBI inquiryinto the molestation and dowry torture cases filed by Anjana Mishra against state Advocate General Indrajeet Roy and her husband Subash Mishra, an Indian Forest Service officer, respectively.
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Enforcement Directorate summons 'untraceable' Rao kin
Officials to question P V Prabhakar Rao in the Rs 1.33 billion urea scam on August 12.
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Sony to launch A R Rahman as international artiste on Independence Day
India's hottest music director dedicates his debut non-film album, Vande Mataram, to the nation.
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US explains Clinton's remarks on India
Bill, they say, had said the US presence must be "heavily felt" in South Asia.
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IN PARLIAMENT

Confusion in Parliament as ministers pass buck
The finance, industry and labour ministers wash their hands of public sector employees's wages.
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Govt to streamline PDS
I K Gujral is convinced that the poor cannot survive on the monthly 10 kg of foodgrains the present system provides for.
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Another setback for Gujral
The BJP blocks bill on presidential and vice-presidential elections in Parliament.
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BJP MPs clash with SP, JD MPs over Kanpur desecration
Furore after Vajpayee suggests JD, SP behind act.
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The States
Naxals kill five cops near Nagpur, Maharashtra
TDP leader Santosh Reddy shot dead in AP
Probe sought into death of Sanjoy Ghose in Assam

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AUGUST 8

Brouhaha in
the BJP
Banwarilal Purohit, the BJP MP from Nagpur, resigns from the Lok Sabha after his clash with former defence minister Pramod Mahajan got uglier.
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Verma gets the handshake, Khurana the cold shoulder
Sahib Singh Verma will continue as Delhi chief minister.
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Sanjoy Ghose dead, confirms ULFA
Activist fell off cliff while trying to escape, say captors.
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Long wait for mediator with Veerappan
R Gopal has hard time finding brigand scared off by cops
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Veerappan ready to settle for ransom to general amnesty
But the smuggler's gang prefers to remain in jungles than in jail.
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Karunanidhi takes a big chance with Veerappan mediation
He gets flak if hostages are killed; shares credit with Karnataka CM J H Patel if smuggler surrenders
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Biswas was in a hurry to arrest Laloo: Gupta
''There was no need to arrest Laloo Yadav on the very night of July 26. We do not want any Tom, Dick and Harry to call the army's help to assist the civil administration,'' the home minister said.
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Najma goes hammer and tongs at govt
As the ministers are not answering the questions raised in the House, the members should think of other forums to discuss matters of concern, said the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman.
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'Murdering people who are sleeping at home is beyond political decency. Political rivals should be faced on an ideological plane, not through muscle power'
A no-holds-barred interview with Marxist rebel M V Raghavan.
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Renuka, Jayaprada clash again
Chandrababu Naidu has taken a serious view of the rivalry in the Telugu Desam parliamentary party.
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Obscenity case slammed against Arundhati Roy
The novelist may find herself in hot water regarding certain objectionable passages in The God of Small Things.
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Clinton expresses concern over Indo-Pak differences
If the neighbours normalise their relations they could quickly begin to enjoy highest growth rates in East Asian communities, says the US president.
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Uncle Tom's country
Nearly 100 girls have been sold to landowners in Pakistan's Kachho area alone.
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Pak family sues school for forcing teenager to fight Taliban war
Probe ordered as hundreds of teenage boys are ''forcibly sent to fight in Afghanistan's bloody civil war.''
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AUGUST 7

A Cry for Peace
Phalke Award-winning composer Bhupen Hazarika has offered to mediate between the GoI and ULFA to bring peace to Assam. He tells Rediff On The NeT why it is imperative to end the strife in the north-eastern state.
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'India must be bailed out from manipulators and those who have made it suffer'
Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda tells The Rediff Chat.
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CBI investigating Rs 300 million kickbacks in defence deal
No deals with Bofors until they reveal recepients of commissions: Mulayam Singh.
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Indian committed to peace in subcontinent, says PM
No deployment of weapons of mass destruction unless security is threatened.
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Karan Singh resigns from autonomy committee
The committee was meant to recommend measures for restoration of autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir within the framework of the 1952 Delhi accord.
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Govt promises action on diversion of funds in West Bengal
Rs 45 million diverted to personal ledger accounts to be recouped after final report from public accounts department
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Special economic package for north eastern states
Rs 61 billion allocated for overall development of region.
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US hails close ties to India
New Delhi and Washington are closer today than for a long time before.
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Court asks Maharashtra to act on AIDS issue
407 new victims a day in Bombay alone, warns health directorate report
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Dalits will respond to Shourie book in kind
The community will counter it with a Prabhodhan (mass education) movement aimed at creating awareness among the dalits about the life and teachings of Dr Ambedkar.
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Former PMs, MPs sign appeal to save tiger
Extinction of big cat could herald advent of ecological decay, PM warned.
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'By his poetry, by his writings, Iqbal created an infectious mood of irrational, revivalistic fervour in which the Pakistan idea could come to its fruition'
Iqbal Singh on Mohammed Iqbal and the birth of Pakistan.
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AUGUST 6

Jobs for Sale!
Every government post in Mayawati's Uttar Pradesh has a price. Lower castes pay less; upper castes, naturally more.
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India, China vow to, but may be unable to, resolve border dispute
India and China on Tuesday said they would peacefully resolve the long-standing border between them and affirmed their confidence in a 'constructive and co-operative' relationship in future.
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Madras dalit rally may be 'hijacked by militant elements'
"What they plan is a procession with participants from all over the state. It will have activists of over 30 dalit organisations, many of them militant in character,'' Madras cops say.
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Militant reveals ISI attempt to push mercenaries through PoK: J&K cops
Pak agency desperate as security forces take control, claims IGP Kuldeep Khuda.
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CBI asked to file status report on HDW deal within two months
The Delhi high court bench finds nothing much in the agency's confidential report.
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Pawar wants Kesri to nominate him to CWC
Meanwhile, Orissa Chief Minister Janaki Ballabh Patnaik has asked Kesri to nominate all 20 CWC members so that he could retain his grip over the party
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'The 50 years of India are more in dependence and this independence is a sham'
Naxalite ideologue Dr Vara Vara Rao tells The Rediff Chat.
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Jinnah was a villain says historian Rafiq Zakaria
"Never in India's history has even the worst Muslim ruler alienated Hindus from Muslims as Jinnah has done," says the wellknown Islamic scholar.
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'India is the greatest Muslim country in the world'
Did the poet Iqbal spawn the concept of Pakistan? Iqbal Singh examines the evidence.
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Audio companies play the copyrights music to show-organisers
Pay us royalties if you want to sing our songs abroad, they say.
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Nepali women till the land; the men own it
Discriminatory laws ensure women don't inherit property.
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AUGUST 5

Clean Chit
for Chacha
But the CBI asks uncomfortable questions about his son Amarnath Kesri's sources of wealth.
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The Abuse of History
Rajeev Srinivasan on the lessons India must learn from the past.
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India will give a fitting reply to Pak firing: Defence minister
Mulayam Singh Yadav says the Indian budgetary allocation for armed forces -- Rs 320 billion -- was less than that of China and Pakistan.
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IAF facing shortage of spare parts
The Russians are unable to meet demand but the situation is improving, says minister.
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Patna high court pulls up BJP, Samata Party for contempt petition
The judges reprimand counsel for both parties, asking them not to use the court as a political platform.
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India, China discuss border dispute
The tenth in a series of peace initiatives.
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Nagas's Atlanta meet pleads for peace
The summit calls for a complete ceasefire in Nagaland.
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Don't ban Shourie's book: Dalit meet
Independence Day, says Prakash Ambedkar, should not be observed as a black day.
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Deve Gowda has links with BJP: Congress
The former PM addressed a rally of the RSS where he praised its leaders, alleges V N Gadgil.
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Moopanar wants Congress to lead UF
Besides showing the CPI-M the door, Chandrababu Naidu should be told to quit as Front convenor, the TMC chief is reported to have said.
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Appoint special officers to settle Punjab compensation claims: NHRC
The commissioners will handle cases pertaining to mass cremation in Punjab.
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Home abroad
Hundreds of Tripura orphans are adopted by foreign families every year.
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Yamuna crosses danger mark; floods abate in Gujarat
People on the Yamuna's banks asked to shift; people return to homes in Gujarat.
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