TOP STORIES
DMK shows the door to MDMK
Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said he could not let the MDMK reopen the seat-sharing talks from scratch. 'They can contest the polls on their own, if they so desire,' he said.

GSLV relaunch likely in May: PTI
The aborted GSLV is likely to be re-launched 'sometime in May', Union Minister for Science and Technology Murli Manohar Joshi said.

Nepal invites Hrithik Roshan: PTI
The Himalayan kingdom has invited Hrithik to 'dispel' the misgivings created by his alleged controversial statement that had sparked violence in that country.

CBI directed to probe Garbeta killings
The Calcutta high court came down heavily on the West Bengal CID for its failure to make any progress in the probe even three months after the incident.

J&K DEVELOPMENTS
Hurriyat firm on Pak trip
The separatist All-Parties Hurriyat Conference has set a visit to Pakistan as a pre-condition for dialogue with the Centre.

Pak steps up support to cross-border terrorism: MEA report
Pakistan, the report said, has persistently sought to sabotage any prospect of peace in J&K whenever initiatives in this regard were taken.

SPECIALS
'I am a political worker'
Militants in the Valley are hoping democratic means will help them redress their grievances.

'The police say they will make me a widow'
Dhanpati Bhagwandas is accused of sheltering Naxalites. 'What would you do,' she asks, 'if guns were pointed at you?'

DIARY
Death, you win!
Behind that façade, she was grieving as much, maybe even more than the women who let it all hang out... Meet Shanthi Shankarkumar's friend Janet.

OTHER REPORTS
8 hacked to death in Andhra Pradesh
The persons were killed allegedly by followers of a local TDP leader in Kurnool district.

Blockade hits rail services in Orissa
Train services were disrupted by a 24-hour blockade organised by 12 Left, secular and democratic parties to protest against the step-motherly attitude of the railway ministry towards the state.

President may be discharged on Saturday
K R Narayanan is recovering well after a surgical procedure on Thursday to remove gall bladder stones, doctors attending on him at the Ganga Ram Hospital said.

Governor gives CBI nod to prosecute Laloo, Mishra
Vinod Chandra Pande sanctioned the prosecution of the former chief ministers, former animal husbandry ministers Chandradeo Prasad Verma and Vidyasagar Nishad and four IAS officers in the fodder scam case RC-47A/96.

105 children hit by food poisoning in Orissa
The cook found a poisonous snake in the food, but no one stopped the children from eating the food.

Technicalities delay signing of Assam accord
Some of the demands made by the BLT will need the approval of the Union Cabinet.

Keith Vaz hospitalised
The British minister for Europe passed out during a TV interview in his office.

PTI REPORTS
Sex scandal shocks Maharashtra town
Twenty people have been arrested in connection with sexual exploitation of girls in Satara by a gang which promised them a break in Bollywood.

Clinton to visit Calcutta
The former US president is visiting India to see the devastation caused by the earthquake in Gujarat and the relief operations there.

Coimbatore bomb blasts accused arrested in Bihar
A release from the additional director general of police, crime (SIT), CB-CID, said Ayesha and Ibrahim Gani were arrested in Bettiya district, where they were living under assumed names.

Court expresses displeasure over Hindujas' absence
The court refused to decide on their applications for exemption from personal appearance in the Bofors case.

Non-bailable warrant against Uma Bharti
A court in Hubli ordered issuance of the warrant against the Union minister for sports and youth services for not appearing in a criminal case relating to the Idgah Maidan issue.

SC rejects Chandra Swami's plea to go abroad
The apex court dismissed a petition filed by the 'godman', accused in the St Kitts forgery case, seeking permission to go abroad for medical treatment.

Talks on Bodo issue after assembly polls
Tripartite talks will decide various measures to strengthen the Bodoland Autonomous Council and make it financially viable.

Manipur govt may not extend ceasefire
The state government said it may not extend the unilateral ceasefire because many of the militant groups had acted against it.

Centre has stopped work on Tehri dam: VHP
The Centre has directed the dam authorities to suspend their move to stop the main current of the Bhagirathi for filling the hydel power project's reservoir, till an expert committee submits its findings, the VHP claimed.

COLUMN
The Bhutanese dilemma
'Despite limitations on the Indian Army's counterinsurgency operations in Assam due to armed camps in Bhutan, India is not pushing Bhutan into military action. And the present stalemate is preferred by Bhutan,' says Major General (retd) Ashok K Mehta.

March 30, 2001

INTERVIEW
'Any good story should hurt corrupt people'
'We are not the story. Politicians are trying to make us a story.' Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of tehelka.com, takes on his detractors.

THE GREAT DEFENCE SCANDAL
'They cannot even stop my increment'
Thomas Mathew, Union home ministry official suspended for allegedly helping tehelka.com, protests his innocence and promises to fight the charges against him.

Mathew seeks presidential intervention: PTI
The suspended Union home ministry official said there was not even a grain of truth in the charge that he had masterminded a conspiracy to destabilise the government.

Ministry may give Mathew some more time
Meanwhile, the CBI is studying a five-page letter from one of its standing counsels suggesting the arrest of those named in the Tehelka tapes.

Congress demands answers from PM: PTI
Party spokesman Jaipal Reddy wanted to know the 'personal equation' Vajpayee has with R K Gupta, a self-proclaimed middleman.

'Krishnamurthy determined to cleanse party'
'Krishnamurthy's revolutionary suggestion shows his determination to improve the party's image. This is the stuff self-introspection is made of,' party spokesman Narendra Modi said.

BJP's dalit leaders demand action against Shanta Kumar: PTI
They said that at a time when the top leadership of the BJP had defended Bangaru Laxman, Kumar's observations against the former president could send a wrong message to the rank and file.

'PM's ouster will only benefit Advani': PTI
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh noted that following tehelka.com's expose, the Union home minister's man had already replaced Vajpayee's choice as BJP chief.

COLUMNS
Lessons from Tehelka
'Those whom we admire as the rich and famous are mostly the scum of the earth. Crooks, criminals, carpetbaggers who survive only because we do not swat them hard enough,' says Pritish Nandy.

Views from the other side
'I am sure Tehelka did not deliberately aim at Laxman, Fernandes and Jaitly for ethnic reasons! And I was frankly shocked that a taxi-driver from Pakistan had more faith in Indian journalism than did the wealthy non-resident Indians gathered in Washington,' says T V R Shenoy.

MESSAGE BOARD
'The synonym for corruption will be India'
'This story is one of the millions since 1947. Just imagine the amount of money swindled over the last 50 years. We could have built 3 new Indias.'

Your Take on the Scandal

COMPLETE COVERAGE

THE GSLV EXPERIMENT
'Actually nothing unusual happened'
ISRO Director Dr K Narayana says the GSLV will be ready for a relaunch in a few weeks.

Scientists begin studying GSLV's failure: PTI
An ISRO spokesman said they would have to study an enormous amount of data before they could make their final assessment on what had gone wrong.

SPECIALS
ISRO looks beyond GSLV failure
A failure analysis committee will be appointed immediately. Two PSLV launches are expected to take place within the year. The next INSAT satellite is almost ready. And the GSLV flight is scheduled for next year. It's business as usual at ISRO.

Lal Salaam!
As Naxalites battle with the police for control in Uttar Pradesh, it is the innocent bystanders who are paying the heaviest price. Sharat Pradhan takes a look at the situation in the first of a three-part special.

OTHER REPORTS
Geelani hardens his pro-Pakistan stand
APHC, the 23-party political conglomerate, has been left clueless with Geelani reiterating his stand that Kashmir is a religious problem and the state's accession to Pakistan the only solution.

Centre-Bodo accord fails to take off
Home ministry officials were non-committal on the reasons, though it appears that Chief Minister P K Mahanta is the stumbling block.

Clinton to visit Bhuj, Ratnal, Anjaar and Bhachau
The main concern of the team finalising Clinton's itinerary was the best use of his time and arrangements for his security.

Woman panchayat president murdered in daylight in TN
The president of the Oorapakkam panchayat had sought the DMK ticket to contest the assembly elections from Thiruporur (reserved) constituency.

Foot-and-mouth disease claims 432 cattle in Rajasthan
As many as 204 heads of cattle have perished in Jaipur district alone, followed by Alwar, Sikar and Jhunjhunu districts where the disease has claimed the lives of 98, 97 and 33 livestock, respectively.

Novel protest in Maharashtra assembly against MLAs' suspension
The Sena-BJP alliance members stood silently in the House, refusing to take their seats, before staging a walkout when Finance Minister Jayant Patil began his reply to the Budget debate.

SC stops harassment of witnesses: PTI
The Supreme Court put a stop to harassment caused by frequent adjournments and directed that if a witness was present in a trial court he must be examined on that day itself.

Pappu Yadav held for threatening Dalit MLA
The independent MP from Purnea was arrested at his Patna residence on Wednesday night on a charge of threatening the Dalit RJD legislator, Bhupendra Rishidev.

CBI opposes Union ministers' discharge: PTI
Special Judge (CBI) Srikant Shukla posted the case for April 12 after the defence counsels sought time to prepare their replies.

12 injured after jumping off burning train
According to an NER spokesman, the engine of the 242 Up Passenger suddenly caught fire on Tuesday in Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh.

NTPC cooling tower crumbles, killing 6
The 175-metre-tall cooling tower was being erected as part of the upcoming Simhadri Thermal Power project in Visakhapatnam on behalf of the NTPC.

PTI REPORTS
Sena disowns activist's challenge to Dawood
The Shiv Sena's Delhi unit president, Jai Bhagwan Goyal, described Ajay Shrivastava's action as a 'cheap publicity stunt'.

JD-U quits DMK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu
JD-U state president K Balasubramanian said the party was hoping that DMK chief M Karunanidhi would invite it for seat-sharing talks, but now it was too late.

JD-U to go it alone in assembly polls
Spokesman Mohan Prakash said the idea was to rejuvenate the workers and also gauge the party's electoral prospects in these states.

President undergoes surgery
K R Narayanan needed the surgery to remove gall bladder stones.

Pawar labels NDA anti-farmer, corrupt
The NCP president said the BJP and its allies had coined slogans of swadeshi before coming to power, 'but it is sad that all such slogans do not find a place in the government's action'.

Salman visits police HQ to renew gun licences
It was the actor's third visit to the police headquarters in the last couple of months. His earlier visits pertained to the controversy surrounding his last release, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke.

Mahanta meets Basu, Buddhadev
Mahanta said his party believed in maintaining equidistance from both from the BJP and the Congress.

Pak missing 'window of opportunity': Bhutto
The former Pakistani premier said Vajpayee had taken a courageous step with his peace initiative in Kashmir, but ruled out delinking the issue from Indo-Pak relations.

Pak opens Chinese-built nuclear power plant
The inauguration was attended by a high-level 23-member delegation led by Chinese Minister for Science and Technology Liu Jibin.

DIARY
Far From the Madding Crowd
Nidhi Taparia encounters a Robinson Crusoe -- atop a mountain!

March 29, 2001

THE GSLV EXPERIMENT
Mishap hits GSLV-D1 take-off
GSLV-D1 failed to take off following a fire at the launch pad seconds before take-off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

ISRO chief plays down failure
Briefing the media minutes after the incident, Dr Kasturirangan said the mishap occurred when one of four liquid propellant strap-ons on the launch vehicle, which give a thrust of at least 90 per cent once they are ignited, failed.

Not a major setback, says Narasimha: PTI
The Space Commission member noted that most of the rocket is safe.

SPECIAL
'GSLV will fulfil the last element of Sarabhai's vision'
An exclusive interview with Dr K Kasturirangan before the GSLV's launch.

THE GREAT DEFENCE SCANDAL
Delayed response 'dented' government's image, admits Advani: PTI
The Union home minister said it would have been better if the Samata Party president had followed Bangaru Laxman's lead and also resigned quickly.

Mathew had links with Communists
Thomas Mathew worked closely with former Naxalite K Venu to formation Janasanskriti and Janakeeya Samskarikavedi, two outfits active in Kerala since the early 1970s.

R K Jain apologises to Mamata: PTI
The former Samata Party treasurer said all the statements made by him in the Tehelka tapes against the Trinamul chief and some others were false.

INTERVIEW
'Where have Vajpayee's values gone?'
Congress general secretary Ambika Soni demands the resignation of the Vajpayee government. And questions the timing of the FIR filed against Sonia Gandhi's private secretary, Vincent George, by the CBI.

MESSAGE BOARD
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OTHER REPORTS
Congress, Trinamul divided on seat-sharing
'Okay, we want to defeat the Left Front government, but Mamata must also give us seats which are not so difficult to contest,' Adhir Chowdhary, MP, said.

BJP calls off alliance with Trinamul: PTI
Accusing Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee of 'stabbing the Vajpayee government in the back', BJP vice-president Kailashpati Mishra said no alliance was possible with her unless she declares support to the NDA government at the Centre.

Top Lashkar commander in Kashmir killed
K Rajendra, DIG (Srinagar-Budgam range), said Tariq Mehmood was a Pakistani national and one of the most wanted militants.

Advani denies he is in race for prime ministership: PTI
He said there are no differences between him and the prime minister on the issue of the Ram temple or the handling of the Kashmir situation.

Padmanabhan, Mishra discuss CDS post: PTI
The meeting assumes significance in the wake of directions by Defence Minister Jaswant Singh to the chiefs of the three services to go ahead with preparatory work for establishing the post.

Three convicted in Dabwali fire case: PTI
A court in Ambala, Haryana, convicted three persons in connection with the devastating fire at a school function at Dabwali in 1995 which killed 441 persons, mostly school children, and injured 145 others.

Counterfeit notes worth Rs 15 million seized in Bombay
Crime branch sleuths suspect the ISI's hand in the affair as the quality of the notes is so good that they appear to have been printed in a government mint, possibly in Pakistan.

Serial killer of women held in Orissa
Thirty-five-year-old Bhagirathi Giri, who was held on charges of killing several women, was absconding for five years, a police officer said.

'Clinton eager to meet quake victims'
The former US president is expected to announce an aid package for 40 villages in Kutch on behalf of the American India Foundation, formed to help Gujarat's quake victims.

320 kg precious stones seized in Orissa: PTI
The police seized the garnets, rubies and yellow sapphires, valued at about Rs 20 million, from the parcel counter of Jaipur-Keonjhar Road railway station in Bhubaneshwar.

Vazhapadi's party walks out of NDA: PTI
The Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress was stung by the denial of seats for the forthcoming assembly election in Tamil Nadu.

UDF seat-sharing talks inconclusive: PTI
UDF convenor K Sankaranarayanan said the talks were nearing completion, but a final picture would emerge in a day or two.

India negotiating with Russia for missile guidance technology: PTI
The system on offer, the Defence Week said, is a highly sensitive electro-optical guided missile warhead.

US wants to improve ties with India: PTI
'US relations with India have been very good and we intend to further improve them,' state department spokesman Richard Boucher said in Washington.

US concerned about Pakistan's support to Taleban: PTI
Clinton said Afghanistan remains a serious threat to the US interests because of the Taleban's continued sheltering of Osama bin Laden and its increasing export of illicit drugs.

Pak Cabinet considers amendments to legitimise army rule: PTI
Though an official statement in Islamabad acknowledged that a Cabinet meeting headed by Gen Musharraf considered constitutional amendments for future political restructuring, it did not mention the nature or purpose of the amendments.

COLUMNS
The era of corruption
'When we commenced purchases from West European countries, the stench of corruption entered the corridors of the defence ministry,' says G Parthasarathy.

BJP is damned by perception
'If someone had taped a BJP leader taking money in the 1980s, it would not have been half as upsetting as seeing it in 2001. So let the BJP not cry. If they don't like the limelight, they can get out,' says Amberish K Diwanji.

March 28, 2001

THE GREAT DEFENCE SCANDAL
Union home ninistry official suspended
A director in the ministry, Thomas Mathew is under investigation for his alleged involvement in the Tehelka expose.

Mathew's wife says he is a honest man
She told rediff.com at their Sainik Nagar residence in west Delhi that her husband was not the kind of person who would fall for anything.

Govt plans to bury defence scam: Congress
The party expressed doubts about the impartiality of the Venkatswami Commission probe into the tehelka.com allegations.

R K Jain retracts his Tehelka claims
In a new twist to the expose, the key figure secretly taped in the fictitious defence deal said statements made by him against Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha and others were false and incorrect.

Tehelka expose to cast shadow on Rajnath Singh's election
The Opposition is out to train its guns on 'rampant corruption in the Uttar Pradesh ministry and at all levels of the administration'.

INTERVIEW
'I want to commence my inquiry with an open mind'
'It is a very tough case because it is being watched by the whole nation, and internationally too. It is tough because I have to probe a new type of investigation,' says Justice K Venkatswami, head of the commission of inquiry to probe the Tehelka expose.

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J&K SITUATION
Curfew lifted from Baramulla old town: PTI
The situation in the town began returning to normal as shops and business establishments reopened and all modes of transport started plying normally.

6 militants killed in J&K encounters
Terrorists attacked a BSF camp at Tral with rockets and looted Rs 700,000 from the Jammu & Kashmir bank at Zainakote.

Security forces on alert after suicidal attack: PTI
The alert in Srinagar followed Monday's attack by militants of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba in which seven people, including four CRPF personnel and two ultras were killed.

Contractors stop army's works in valley
In a strong warning, Lashkar militants recently gunned down a clerical-level employee of one of the local contractors who had been supplying items to the Army Supply Corps.

Hurriyat refuses to change team
Despite reservations over the pronouncements of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the APHC refused to change its team, including Geelani, for a visit to Pakistan.

SPECIALS
Madam's Man Friday
Last week we saw V George, the all-powerful secretary of Sonia Gandhi, tottering on the brink of notoriety, pushed there by a CBI investigation. Which way will he fall?

'A single GSLV flight can work out to Rs 4.5 billion'
'The GSLV is two decades behind the schedule set by Vikram Sarabhai, father of the Indian space research programme.' The second part of the series 10...9...8...

DIARY
C'mon India!
Maybe it's the Indian in her, maybe it's the hype, or maybe it's the gorgeous guys. Whatever, Reeta Sinha is far gone on cricket.

OTHER REPORTS
Shahabuddin may be hiding in Delhi
But the Centre is also not in a hurry to nab him because Shahabuddin has apparently been plotting the fall of Rabri Devi's government in Patna with RJD working president Ranjan Yadav.

Second-in-command of Rajan gang arrested
O P Singh, the man who managed Rajan's businesses after the ganglord was injured in an attempt on his life in Bangkok on September 15 last year, was arrested by the Delhi police.

Asia backs Annan for second term as UN chief
The fifty-member Asian group at the UN said no candidate from Asia would be fielded against Annan, though it is Asia's turn to stake its claim to the post.

9 BJP legislators in Maharashtra suspended
The legislative assembly suspended the members for the rest of the budget session for obstructing the presentation of the state's Budget for 2001-02.

Sunil Dutt has narrow escape as plane crashlands
Sources said the actor-turned-MP was out of danger. He has been moved to a hospital in Bombay.

Nagaland may face brunt of illegal migration from Bangladesh
According to the provisional census figures, Nagaland's decadal growth rate has jumped from 56.08 per cent in the years 1981-91 to 64.41 per cent in the decade beginning 1991.

Inbathamizhagan may take on father in TN
If Thamaraikkani, recently sacked from the AIADMK, offered to join any party willing to field him from his Srivilliputtur bastion, the son is in the news for similar reasons. But the father, who started it off, ended with mud on his face this time.

Trivandrum district collector, mayor in hostage drama
S Sreenivasan and Prof J Chandra were held hostage in the mortuary of the Trivandrum Medical College Hospital following the death of 27-year-old Shaji after a surgery.

Nanavati panel summons Union home secy
Kamal Pandey has been asked to make a statement regarding the non-availability of records pointing to the delay in the deployment of the army to quell the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

PTI REPORTS
Pakistan test-fires Anza missile
The Pakistani Air Force test-fired its 'indigenous' surface-to-air missile along with several other missiles, including those of American and French origin, during an exercise aimed at enhancing its combat preparedness.

Police charge alleged Gulshan killer
Abdul Rauf Daud Merchant will be produced before a trial court in Bombay on April 9.

Taleban chief to visit Pakistan: PTI
This will be the reclusive Mullah Mohammed Omar's first visit to a foreign country after the Taleban took control of over 90 per cent of Afghanistan.

Pak to maintain minimum deterrence
Musharraf said Pakistan would maintain its current defence spending as it did not want to provoke an arms race with India.

Sonali Bendre held, freed on bail
The actress was arrested with two others for posing on the cover of a magazine in a dress that allegedly hurt the religious sentiments of some people.

COLUMNS
Up on the dam
'What motivates ordinary rural folks to object to all those conventional notions of "progress" and "development", to confront the might of the state in doing so? Would you do the same?' asks Dilip D'Souza.

The emperor's new guns
'The public has a right to know how the government functions. It is an integral part of governing to inform the people. Armed with that knowledge, we can buy all the weapons in the world from the finest manufacturers at the most appropriate prices,' says Ashwin Mahesh.

March 27, 2001

J&K DEVELOPMENTS
4 jawans killed as militants storm CRPF camp
Initial reports said three militants had entered the premises in uptown Srinagar and engaged the security forces in a fierce gun-battle. One of the militants has been killed.

Militants attack Awami League leader's house in J&K: PTI
Awami League is a political organisation of reformed militants.

THE GREAT DEFENCE SCANDAL
Army inquiry summons Maj Gen Murgai
Murgai, who retired recently as additional director general, quality assurance, at Army Headquarters, has reportedly been missing since the tehelka.com expose.

Murgai elusive but CoI grills his deputy: PTI
Maj Gen S P Murgai, a key figure in the defence deals expose, has been missing ever since the defence deals scandal broke out. The CoI has summoned him to appear before it.

Home ministry official served show cause notice: PTI
Thomas Mathew has, among other things, been accused of actively participating in political activities despite being a government servant.

INTERVIEW
'The BJP will continue as a lame-duck government'
'Political parties function differently when in the Opposition. The Congress has its own way of responding and reacting. We are doing it our own way for considered reasons. And surely you do not expect the Congress to imitate?' Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee speaks to Sheela Bhatt.

COLUMNS
We, the suckers
'Every single ordinary Indian resident I know instinctively believes that what s/he saw on television is the truth. No amount of poetry on "morphing" and "video technology" will convince us to the contrary. No matter how black Tarun Tejpal & Co are, nothing can restore the BJP's past shine,' says Varsha Bhosle.

An irreparably damaged PM
'Vajpayee will find it difficult to break free from his troubles. His government was not elected to pursue political standards of the Congress and Laloo Yadav type. It was elected to provide good and clean governance,' says Brahma Chellaney.

GUEST COLUMN
Don't blame corruption on others
Till all of us stop paying bribes nothing is going to change says Sunil Chhabada.

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TOP REPORTS
India clocks 1.02 billion: PTI
The country registered a fall in its decadal growth rate by 2.52%, an improvement in its sex ratio and its literacy rate among the population seven years and above stood at 65.38%.

Kamalnath holds talks with Mamata: PTI
BJP president Jana Krishnamurthy said the party would go on its own if Banerjee did not make an open announcement about supporting the BJP-led government at the Centre.

Notices to Mishra, Bharti in JK Jain case
The Delhi High Court also issued notices against the Union of India, the cabinet secretary and the home secretary.

SERIES
Countdown to GSLV Take-off
On Wednesday, March 28, sometime between 1530 and 1930 hours IST, the GSLV will make its maiden flight from the Andhra coast.

OTHER REPORTS
Left Front kicks off poll campaign by lashing out at Trinamul
Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu described the party as 'anti-national' and said its chief Mamata Banerjee was part of the National Democratic Alliance government which had adopted various 'anti-people policies'.

SC sticks to deadline on non-CNG buses
Chief Justice A S Anand said that those transporters who have either deposited money to buy new buses and who will give an undertaking to do so to the transport commissioner by March 31, will be given time till September 30 to replace the buses.

Several surprises in LDF's Kerala list
A Christian priest, a famous poet, a leading economist and 26 young leaders are the surprise candidates of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist, which announced its list for forthcoming assembly elections in Kerala on Sunday.

Polls in October 2002: Musharraf
At a news conference at Governor's House in Karachi, he stated that he would not retire in October, but evaded a question on whether his elevation to presidency was part of a political restructuring plan.

HELPLINE
Do you want to help?
Addresses to send monetary aid and relief material for Gujarat quake victims.

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