SEPTEMBER 28

Vaghela's fate in balance
Congress president Sitaram Kesri buys time to assess RJP dissident Atmaram Patel's strength.
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IAF jets force Canadian plane to land in Bombay
Airport sources said the aircraft deviated from the permitted path and moved towards defence-sensitive area along the Western coast.
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Mayawati, Kalyan have an axe to grind in keeping 'dalit' storm alive
As the current tug-of-war rages, the two Uttar Pradesh leaders seem to be interested only in the political mileage accruing from the order curbing the misuse of a dalit act.
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Unwed mothers may spark tribal rebellion in Kerala
Tribals are seething with rage, despite the state government's assurance that their woes will end with DNA paternity tests. Declaring self-rule, the tribals have warned non-tribals against venturing into their domain. ''An Adivasi colony is not a brothel.... Restricting the movement of outsiders in tribal colonies will ensure that the number of unwed mothers does not increase," says firebrand tribal activist C K Janu.
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Pakistani troops open fire as Mulayam visits Siachen
Pakistani troops began firing from the higher reaches of the glacier even as the defence minister addressed soldiers at a height of 16,000 feet.
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'The JMM bribery case has given a setback to the Jharkhand movement'
An interview with the Jharkhand People's Party general secretary.
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Candles In The Wind
"Since these children are mostly abandoned at railway stations and hospitals, they are in a miserable state," says Sister Shanti. "Even if they are placed in other institutions, nobody wants to touch them." Which is why the nuns decided to start Snehanilaya, a home for HIV+ children. Continuing our Project Hope series.
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Indonesian fires won't affect India, says met dept
At worst, a thin haze will reach India, say officials
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AP storm toll touches 30

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Spy arrested with secret defence documents in Delhi
50 Pakistanis held

SEPTEMBER 27

It's War!
Gujarat Revenue Minister Atmaram Patel, who has raised a banner of revolt against Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, faces disciplinary action by Saturday. Vaghela says some Congress leaders are behind Patel's rebellion.
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Congress will decide on Vaghela's future on Saturday
Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee president C D Patel told Rediff On The NeT that "the Congress high command will decide on Vaghela's fate." That decision will be discussed and then ratified at Saturday's CWC meeting.
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Kesri told to handle Prasada with kid gloves
Congress general secretary Tariq Anwar seems to have drilled caution into the party president's designs of clipping his deputy's wings.
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Army chief exposes Mulayam's tall claims
While the defence minister had claimed that funds will flow to maintain the ''cutting edge of India's military might'', General Shankar Roychowdhury said, ''New acquisitions by the armed forces and their modernisation have suffered for want of adequate resources.''
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'Cloning will play a major role in surgery'
Dr Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first heart transplant 30 years ago, on cardiac disease, life and death.
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More US support for India's UN seat demand
The House of Representatives introduces a resolution, backing New Delhi's campaign.
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India will not sign CTBT in present form: Gujral
The prime minister said Inderfurth's statement -- that the US has opened dialogue with India on the issue -- has triggered unnecessary speculation.
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40 feared killed as bus plunges into AP stream
30 killed in Bihar bus mishap
Sada Pawle killed in Bombay police encounter
Rs 120 million for drought-hit Maharashtra
TN fishermen stir turns violent
Rajouri, J & K, tense as deadlock over cremation persists

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SEPTEMBER 26

Rao's fate sealed
With the CBI court framing charges against him in the JMM MPs bribery case, P V Narasimha Rao becomes the first former Indian prime minister to be tried in a corruption case.
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Indo-Pak ties futile: Farooq
"The talks will not end the people's miseries," says the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister.
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Kesri meets Tiwari, plans to fix Prasada
The Congress president's recent meeting with senior colleague Narain Dutt Tiwari is creating something of a political storm, with party circles speculating that the meeting owes to Kesri's desire to counter vice-president Jitendra Prasada.
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Gujral makes out a strong case for UN permanent seat
Addressing the General Assembly, the premier called for a determined global strategy to end terrorism.
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'The world has lived for too long on a diet of empty promises on nuclear disarmament'
What the prime minister said.
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Gujral meets the Pope
...in the Vatican on Thursday.
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AP storm claims 20 lives...
Curfew clamped in Rajouri, Jammu...
Minister levels serious charges against Maharashtra CM...
6 more districts in Gujarat...
Underground road between VT and Churchgate in Bombay...
Madras HC refuses bail for accused in granite quarrying scam...

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Former Ohio governor Richard Celeste, US envoy to India
Pak refusal to buy potatoes hits Punjab traders hard

The million rupee book
Vishwas Patil, well-known historian and famed novelist (Panipat, Zadazadti, remember?), who is currently researching Subhas Chandra Bose's life, has set the Marathi literary scene afire.
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SEPTEMBER 25

Dire Straits
Shankarsinh Vaghela, who split the Bharatiya Janata Party last year to form the Rashtriya Janata Party, may be on his way out as chief minister of Gujarat.
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Gujral, Sharief fail to end deadlock
The prime ministers, however, decided to reconvene the foreign secretary-level meeting in two months in Islamabad.
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Gujral, Sharief decide to avoid clashes along LoC
The prime ministers have decided to improve the communications between the armed forces along the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir to avoid a recurrence of last month's border clashes.
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US likely to stay clear of Kashmir: MEA
Pakistan's plea to US to raise Kashmir fails to move Washington, Indian diplomats say.
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Gujral may seek US help for UN seat
''We believe that we qualify on the basis of any global objective and non-discriminatory criterion,'' the PM says.
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Charges to be framed against Rao on Thursday
Supreme Court refuses to stay Delhi high court order.
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IAS-IPS officials on warpath in TN
Charges and counter-charges are flying as the state government is worried that development work would suffer.
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Action plan to reduce IAF accidents by 50 per cent
The Dr Abdul Kalam Committee on Aircraft Accidents submits its report.
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Integrate civil, military ATC, suggests Judge Lahoti
The government should introduce a scheme of licensing for controllers and make it applicable to the military too. This would help achieve uniform standards, the court of inquiry said.
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Militants kill 8 villagers in Jammu
6 CRPF men killed in Imphal
CRPF man kills superior in Tripura
Pak shelling kills soldier in Kargil, Kashmir
BJP prefers polls in Gujarat
Maharashtra fails to use development funds
Delhi dengue victims go up to 37
'Weight of new water tank crushed Poonam Chambers in Bombay'

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Queen Elizabeth to celebrate Pakistan's 50th anniversary