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Left parties' concerns will be addressed: Praful Patel
NEW DELHI, JULY 5.Faced with repeated protests from the Left parties, trade unions and airport employees, the Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Praful Patel, said today that he would take the Left parties into confidence on any decision ...

Laloo ready to face Opposition protests
NEW DELHI, JULY 5.With the spectre of a boycott by the BJP-led Opposition on the issue of `tainted' Ministers staring at him, the Railway Minister, Laloo Prasad Yadav, will present his maiden budget in the Lok Sabha at noon tomorrow. However, ...

Railway timetable deferred
NEW DELHI, JULY 5. The annual All India Railway Timetable has been deferred by two months. According to an official release today, "Trains At A Glance," scheduled to be effective from July 1, 2004, will now be published and enforced from ...

New RS members take oath
NEW DELHI, JULY 5.The Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, the Bharatiya Janata Party president, M. Venkaiah Naidu, the Bahujan Samaj Party leader, Mayawati, the Leader of the Opposition, Jaswant Singh, the former Deputy Chairperson of the House, ...

Hard decisions needed to attain growth, says Montek
NEW DELHI, JULY 5.The new Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, formally took charge today, saying that hard decisions were necessary to attain 7-8 per cent economic growth as targeted in the Tenth Plan. Much would ...

Petition filed against removal of Governors
NEW DELHI, JULY 5.A former Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament today filed a public interest litigation petition in the Supreme Court challenging the dismissal of the four Governors of Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Haryana and Gujarat by the United ...

Family reunion at SAARC camp
GULMARG, JULY 5. It was a coincidence that led to the reunion between Syed Abul Hassan Geelani an undergraduate student from Muzaffarabad and his uncle Syed Shabir Geelani. Abul Hassan arrived here as part of a 15-member Pakistani team ...

A musical colossus
CHENNAI, JULY 5. As the musical virtuoso Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna steps into his 75th year on July 6, he has reason to look back on his life with pride, and perhaps some dismay. Fifth in a line of direct disciples of the saint-composer ...

Other Stories

BJP running away from discussion, says Congress

Industry has modest hopes

Pakistani Scouts attend SAARC camp at Gulmarg

Manmohan's gesture

Budget will reflect basic tenets of CMP: Manmohan

Row over remark on ex-Governor

Gogoi retains 18 Ministers

Court order on surrogate ads in force for Assembly polls too

Completion of pleadings permitted

Amitabh mobbed for autograph

Sarna to continue as MEA spokesman

12 Punjab Ministers dropped