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Nation & States
Iraqi
kidnappers threaten to kill
Indian truck driver on Friday
What is
India News Service, July 29, 2004, 1700 hrs IST
Kidnappers holding seven foreign truck drivers hostage in Iraq
threatened to kill one of them on Friday if they received no response to their demands.
In a videotape given to foreign news organisations on Thursday, a masked man was pointing an M-16 automatic rifle at the head of an Indian hostage, who was wearing orange clothing.
The kidnappers did not say which hostage among the three Indians, three Kenyans and one Eygptian they were threatening to kill by 0700 hrs, IST on Friday.
Sonia cut up with Amarinder: Apparently unhappy with Punjab Chief Minister
Amarinder Singh over the manner in which his government went ahead with the legislation abrogating
water accords with the neighbouring states, Congress President Sonia Gandhi did not grant him an
appointment during his three-day stay in the Capital.
People's
War meeting draws big response: The revolutionary movement led
by the CPI-ML People's War (PW) has received a shot in the arm with
a large number of people turning up at the martyr's memorial meeting
organised by the naxalite party's emissary in the peace.
'Public
humiliation will cost Cong dear': Admitting his party's
"troubled relationship" with Congress, Samajwadi Party
general secretary Amar Singh Thursday said his "public
humiliation" at Sonia Gandhi's party, in the run-up to UPA
Government formation, would cost them dear.
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jawans die in Manipur ambush: Manipuri insurgents ambushed an
Assam Rifles patrol this morning, killing three personnel. They also
looted sophisticated weapons in the Namthilok area of Ukhrul
district. Officials said well-armed insurgents exploded a
powerful bomb by using a rocket launcher when the 19th Assam Rifles
personnel were patrolling the area, 25 km north-east from Imphal.
'UNDP is
ignorant and insolent': 'In Gujarat, of the total killed, about
a third were Hindus. If, at one stage, 100,000 Muslims were
struggling in relief camps, so were 40,000 Hindus. Thus, Gujarat
2002 was not genocide,' argues Arvind Lavakare
Neighbours
Nationalities of three terrorists
disclosed: The Pakistan interior ministry on Wednesday said that two of the terrorists arrested from
Gujarat were South Africans and one Tanzanian.
Three killed in Kohat blasts:
An assistant director and an inspector of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), and a suspected
suicide bomber were killed in two bomb explosions.
Bangladesh
PM seeks assistance: Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday sought
international assistance for post-flood rehabilitation. She visited flood-affected areas
of Chandpur and Brahmanbaria districts.
Inedible
food on the bowl: Around 10 lakh flood-hit people of Manikganj
in Bangladesh are suffering due to a food crisis, and many are suffering
from water-borne diseases.
Kabul mosque blast claims six: Six people including two UN election
workers were killed on Wednesday in an explosion in a mosque where the United Nations was registering people
for elections, as an ammunition depot was blown up after a missile attack.
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States
Private
colleges may keep CET seats: The proposed legislation on CET seats was not introduced as the government and the Opposition failed to agree on the fee structure.
Attack on Kerala papers: Members of the DYFI, CPI-M\92s youth wing, attacked the offices of two newspapers Malayala Manorama and Chandrika today when they were prevented from marching towards the office of the Inspector General of Police
in Kozhikode. They were protesting police high-handedness during their agitation to condemn the
situation that led to the suicide of an engineering student in Thiruvananthapuram last week.
Trinamool to start newspaper: The Trinamool Congress, whose fortunes plummeted after a morale-bursting defeat in the parliamentary polls, has the publication of a newspaper among its many-pronged plans for revival.
Rahul goes off press, police in Amethi:
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi\92s son Rahul is finally ready to break free and come into his own as a people's politician, deciding to travel in his constituency with minimum security and no accompanying media.
Kohli
says he killed Hannah: Maninder Pal Singh Kohli on Wednesday confessed to
having raped and murdered 17-year-old British schoolgirl Hannah Foster. "I
abducted, raped and killed Hannah Foster," Kohli told NDTV in Kharar,
Punjab.
Overall:
Iraqi
group said they would behead a truck driver on Friday : A
kidnapper pointed a machine gun at an Indian and made the threat in
a video recording.
Bangladesh PM sought aid: She visited flood-affected areas
and appealed for funds from the international community.
Trinamool will start a paper: Mamta Banerjee's party could
soon have a party organ.
Three soldiers were killed: An ambush in Manipur left three
army men dead.
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