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Gogoi sees `foreign hand' behind Dhemaji killings
GUWAHATI, AUG. 19. The Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, today alleged that the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was playing into the hands of foreign agencies to create terror in the State. Dubbing the rebel group as a "band of ...

AICC meet on August 21
NEW DELHI, AUG. 19. The All-India Congress Committee meets here on Saturday. The daylong meeting assumes significance since it would be the first such exercise after the advent of a Congress-led coalition government at the Centre in May. Coming ...

JD(U) member's remarks spark heated exchange
NEW DELHI, AUG. 19. The tension over the Savarkar controversy reached a flash point in the Lok Sabha today after the Janata Dal (U) Prabhunath Singh uttered a profanity leading to heated exchanges between the two sides. This forced the Lok Sabha ...

An even-handed Chair
NEW DELHI, AUG. 19.Till this date, the Bharatiya Janata Party has produced only one classic administrator-politician-parliamentarian: Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. From June 1977 to August 2002 he was either the Chief Minister of Rajasthan (for a ...

Transporters' strike from tomorrow
NEW DELHI, AUG. 19. Criticising the Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram's move to introduce a 10 per cent service tax on "services provided by transport booking agents", the All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) — comprising the ...

Firm step towards launching a recoverable satellite
CHENNAI, AUG. 19. In a spectacular display of its capability to launch a recoverable satellite next year, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today airdropped a capsule weighing 500 kg from a helicopter at a height of 5 km over the ...

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UPA continuing NDA policy on missile defence

`Inflation rate will come down'

Rajiv statue to be unveiled today

'Names of VHP leaders figured in FIR'

New twist to case against Uma Bharti

4 CPI(ML) men shot dead

Production warrant against Shibu Soren

Appropriate action on Manipur: Patil

Verma sees declining moral standards in judiciary

Connect rural India through technology: Kalam

Teaching instinct

Wage board for scribes mooted

Best Bakery case adjourned to Sept. 8

Uproar over women's Bill

No arrest warrant pending against Taslimuddin: Bihar

Fact to fiction

`More infiltration bids being detected'

Order in rape-murder case reversed

`Set aside proceedings against Assam Rifles personnel'

Deal firmly with terrorism, says Farooq

Sanjay Paswan quits BJP

RSS urged to come out in the open

`DRDO has lived up to mandate'

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