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Hamas spiritual leader killed in Israeli missile attack
MANAMA, MARCH 22.In an early morning strike in Gaza city, Israel assassinated Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the top spiritual leader of Hamas, bringing tens of thousands of grieving and angry Palestinians into the streets and sending shockwaves throughout ...

EC to issue new guidelines on campaigning
NEW DELHI, MARCH 22. The Election Commission plans to issue new guidelines to political parties on the need to conduct a dignified campaign in the backdrop of complaints against the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, for persistently ...

Vajpayee seeks support to complete `unfinished agenda'
MAHARAJGANJ (UTTAR PRADESH), MARCH 22. Claiming that the National Democratic Alliance rule has changed the face of India, the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said today that the BJP was seeking re-election to complete the "path-breaking" ...

On `genuine' paper
MAHARAJGANJ (UTTAR PRADESH), MARCH 22.The Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee today made a humorous reference to the Telgi stamp paper scam, when he spoke about Indo-Pakistan relations. Referring to his Pakistan visit in January, he said he ...

POLL THEME / REGIONAL UNITY
Regrouping boosts AGP ahead of polls
The Lok Sabha elections have focused the attention of voters in Assam on regionalism once again with the run-up to the polls seeing a regrouping of regional forces in the State. In a major political development, the decks have been cleared for ...

Rahul not heir apparent: Sonia
NEW DELHI, MARCH 22.The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, today dismissed suggestions that fielding Rahul Gandhi from Amethi was an indication that he would be the "heir apparent"' and ruled out contesting from a second constituency other than ...

IA cuts fares
MUMBAI, MARCH 22.Indian Airlines has cut by over 50 per cent its fares to select destinations and extended till September-end various promotional, round-trip or excursion fares. These fares, effective from April 1, were for those travelling on ...

Train derails
JAIPUR, MARCH 22.Five persons were injured, two of them seriously, when 10 coaches of the Howrah-Jodhpur Express derailed between Shivdaspura and Sanganer stations of the Northwestern Railway near Jaipur this morning. UNI ...

Quota promised in manifesto
NEW DELHI, MARCH 22.The Congress manifesto promises immediate enactment of a national Employment Guarantee Act, 33 per cent reservation for women in Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies and a quota for backward class Muslims and other ...

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