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    13-Judge Bench should address the issue, say experts
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 5.The process of admissions to various professional courses for 2004-2005 across the country is in total disarray and it is time that a 13-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court took up the issue to clear the mess created due to ...

    Wrangle over chairmanship of parliamentary panels resolved
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 5.The Congress-Bharatiya Janata Party wrangle over chairmanship of the prestigious parliamentary standing committees was resolved today after the Congress agreed to let the BJP head the standing committees for Finance, Home and ...

    Inter-Ministerial task groups set up
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 5. The Planning Commission has got down to the task of implementation of the programmes and policies set out in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP), with the setting up of seven inter-Ministerial task groups to decide on the action ...

    Formalities for Dhananjoy's execution set in motion
    KOLKATA, AUG. 5. The West Bengal Government today received the formal communication from the Union Home Ministry turning down the mercy petition of rape and murder convict Dhananjoy Chatterjee and set in motion the formalities to execute him. ...

    'Reinforcement of tunnel shaft would have averted tragedy'
    DEHRA DUN, AUG. 5. The Tehri Dam tragedy of August 2 which claimed at least 29 lives could have been averted had the reinforcement lining work of the 206-metre shaft in Tunnel-3 been completed by April as scheduled. Rescue operations are ...

    Manipur protests to continue
    IMPHAL, AUG. 5.Several sportspersons, attempting to court arrest here defying prohibitory orders to press for immediate withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Act from Manipur, were today injured when police burst teargas shells to disperse them, ...

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