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Digvijay and Gehlot, special invitees to CWC
NEW DELHI, JAN. 19. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, today carried out a reshuffle in party hierarchy bringing in the former Chief Ministers, Ashok Gehlot and Digvijay Singh, as special invitees into the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and ...

Vajpayee, Advani review election issues
NEW DELHI, JAN. 19. Election-related issues were discussed by the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, over an hour-long luncheon meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, and the Bharatiya Janata Party president, Venkaiah Naidu, at ...

No compromise on ideology, says Sonia
JAMMU, JAN. 19. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, today said that the party would stick to its basic ideology and principles no matter what the circumstances were. At a function here to commemorate the inclusion of the Dogri language in ...

`Samyukta' presented to the Army
HYDERABAD, JAN. 19.In a landmark event aimed at strengthening the country's defence security, the first block of `Samyukta,' an indigenous, state-of-the-art Integrated Electronic Warfare (IEW) system was presented by the President, A.P.J. Abdul ...

Reformers, radicals lock horns
MUMBAI, JAN. 19. Reformers and radicals locked horns at the World Social Forum today while discussing the global economy. This debate is central to the different strands that make up the WSF. Both agreed that the regulations of the ...

Carnival of the unlettered and dispossessed
MUMBAI, JAN. 19."Porto Allegre was more academic, but Mumbai is a sheer carnival of the unlettered and the dispossessed" says Silumko Nondwangu, general secretary of the South African Metalworkers Union comparing the World Social Forum currently ...

Agricultural activism, Bove's style
MUMBAI, JAN. 19. Jose Bove of the Confederacion Paysanne, France, seems to be in the habit of going to jail. Or rather, the authorities seem to be in the habit of jailing him for his protests. Mr. Bove, a farmers' rights leader, is here to ...

South African judge held on rape charge
MUMBAI, JAN. 19. A South African High Court Judge, identified as Sirajuddin Mohammed Ibrahim Desai from Cape Town, was arrested and remanded to custody here today on a charge of rape made by a woman delegate from the same country to the on-going ...

Those young bravehearts and their tales
NEW DELHI, JAN. 19. Generation X is often labelled as being selfish, but here are some of its ambassadors whose selfless courage stand out through tales of horror. "I didn't think. Just acted," recalled 12-year-old Ramsadharan as he related ...

Cauvery: Karnataka asked to respond by January 26
NEW DELHI, JAN. 19.Participating in the Cauvery Monitoring Committee meeting here today, Tamil Nadu urged Karnataka to immediately release seven thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of water to save the standing crops in the Cauvery delta. The ...

Venkaiah Naidu all set to be re-elected
NEW DELHI, JAN. 19. The Bharatiya Janata Party president, M. Venkaiah Naidu, is all set to be re-elected to the top party post for a three-year term on January 28, the last date for withdrawal of nominations for the post. The returning officer ...

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Taslima undaunted by `fatwa'

India, U.S. to collaborate in disaster management support

No hike in Railway fares: Nitish

Supreme Court to hear plea against CVC Act curtailing CBI's powers

Janata Party to oppose BJP, Congress

Shirin Ebadi deplores Gujarat violence

Women's group condemns threat

Revived ties with Pakistan may help BJP in elections: Mahajan

Shinde turns up at World Social Forum

`PM's trip put off due to domestic preoccupations'