The Hindu : Sunday, December 21, 2003

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Sunday, December 21, 2003

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Assam bandh peaceful
GUWAHATI, DEC. 20.The first day of the 48-hour Assam bandh called by the United Liberation Front of Asom, the NDFB and the KLO from 5 a.m. today passed off peacefully. Banks, schools and colleges remained closed in Guwahati, while government ...

Dissident MPs to `expel' Fernandes from party
NEW DELHI, DEC. 20. Rejecting the Janata Dal (U)-Samata merger as "unconstitutional and illegal," the two Samata Party dissident MPs, Raghunath Jha and Brahmananad Mandal, will soon call a general body meeting of party workers to "expel" the ...

Modi sees `bid to tarnish Gujarat's image again'
PHAGWEL (GUJARAT), DEC. 20. The Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, today launched a scathing attack on the ``five-star activists and pseudo-secularists'' who were ``again trying to tarnish the State's image in the country and ...

Stamp scam: Karnataka Minister's kin surrenders
BANGALORE, DEC. 20.Rehan Baig, younger brother of the Karnataka Minister for Small Scale Industries, Roshan Baig, surrendered here today before the Stamp Paper Investigation Team (STAMPIT), which is probing the fake stamp paper racket. Dr. Baig ...

National mission needed to nurture mathematics, says President
KUMBAKONAM, DEC. 20. The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, today called for a national mission to nurture mathematics in the country. Everybody talked of the nation's strides in information technology, space, defence, agriculture and academic ...

Taking wing in Dindigal
HYDERABAD, DEC. 20.As the sun went up in the sky, columns of bright young men and women marching to the martial tunes of Kadam Kadam Badaye Ja were commissioned into the Indian Air Force at the Air Force Academy at Dindigal near here on ...

Other Stories

Rebels write to Speaker

Assembly poll trend will continue, says Advani

Peace is no longer a dream in Teetwal

Daler handed over to Punjab Police

Successful Trishul tests boost DRDO

National mission needed to nurture mathematics: Kalam

Baby Noor celebrates her third birthday

Many cooperative banks functioning without licence

Fixing population targets will backfire: report

Central pension scheme from January

Finally, self-healing software a reality

`ISRO's research facilities are international class'

Musharraf's offer on Kashmir welcomed

`Women can make a difference in politics'

``Dalit Christians' demand justified"

A New Year gift to them

Fencing cuts off villages in Kashmir

Pak. envoy calls on PM

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