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Rajya Sabha passes Bill to end defections
NEW DELHI, DEC. 18.Two days after getting the Lok Sabha's approval, the Constitution Amendment Bill seeking to put an end to defections from one political party to another was today passed by the Rajya Sabha with 163 members voting for it and ...
Over 100 militants killed in crackdown
KOLKATA, DEC. 18. About 120 Indian insurgents sheltered in camps in southern Bhutan have so far been killed in the ongoing flushing-out operations of the Royal Bhutan Army. The Bhutanese Army lost six or seven personnel and some suffered minor ...
POTA Amendment Bill passed
NEW DELHI, DEC. 18. The Rajya Sabha today passed the Prevention of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2003, to amend the Prevention Of Terrorism Act, 2002, (POTA) after the entire Opposition led by the Congress walked out and the AIADMK insisted on a ...
Samjhauta Express from December 25?
NEW DELHI, DEC. 18.Indo-Pakistan talks on the resumption of the Samjhauta Express, the lone train service between the two neighbours, discontinued on January 1, 2002 in the wake of terrorist attack on Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001, began ...
`Karnataka can set up special court'
NEW DELHI, DEC. 18. The Supreme Court said today that Karnataka should go ahead with the process of setting up a special court in Bangalore as well as appointment of a special judge to conduct trial in the two disproportionate assets cases ...
`Britain will welcome any change in India's stand on troops for Iraq'
NEW DELHI, DEC. 18.Britain would welcome any change in India's position on sending troops to Iraq while it "absolutely" understood New Delhi's reasons not to dispatch its military personnel to the embattled west Asian nation earlier this year. ...
2 policemen killed in terrorist attack
JAMMU, DEC. 18. Two policemen and a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) man were killed in a fidayeen (suicide) attack on a highly guarded complex in Rajouri this afternoon. Police told The Hindu that around 10.45 a.m. a militant ...
J&K Assembly passes right to information Bill
JAMMU, DEC.18. The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly today passed a bill pertaining to right to information. The bill, drafted eight months ago, had to be forwarded to the select committee. Today the bill was moved by the State Finance ...
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  • Uma Bharti resigns from Lok Sabha
  • Dual Citizenship Bill passed in Rajya Sabha
  • `Fencing work does not violate Shimla accord'
  • Former U.S. foreign service official held
  • Centre's consent must for withdrawal of POTA cases, rules Supreme Court
  • Another site identified
  • Waiting for winged visitors
  • Supreme Court wants environment in school syllabus
  • The `talking' library'
  • `Privatisation will precipitate water crisis'
  • B.N. Kirpal to head Coca Cola environment council
  • Kushabhau Thakre critically ill
  • India, Iran to set up JWG
  • Trishul test-fired
  • Quota for Dalit converts: Minister cites RGI opinion
  • Salman case: `quashing of charge premature'
  • Farah Khan hopeful of news of her husband
  • Talks with Ansari faction unlikely before SAARC meet
  • Rail, air links will strengthen peace process: Mufti



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