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Manmohan in London essaying
'mutual comprehension'
What is India News Service, Monday, September 20, 2004, 2200 hrs IST
Ahead of his first meeting with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in New York on September 24, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday night asserted that a "precondition" for making progress in the bilateral dialogue was that Islamabad firmly control terrorism.
Reforms to continue: Dr Manmohan Singh arrived in London on Sunday on the first leg of his nine-day visit to the UK and the USA. On board the PM\92s special aircraft, he described his first visit to the West after assuming office as a \93voyage of discovery\94 and \93essay in mutual comprehension\94.
Peace talks and UNSC seat top agenda: Manmohan Singh said he would push forward dialogue with Pakistan and lobby for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council on his trip to the US and Britain.
Edusat ready for launch: The final countdown for the launch of India\92s first educational satellite, Edusat, began on Sunday. The satellite will beam educational programmes across the country.
Radio, TV staff postpone nationwide strike: The Programme Staff Association of the public broadcasters All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD) on Sunday decided to postpone till the first week of October an indefinite nation-wide strike that they had called from Monday.
UPA may make some Kargil report appendices public: The UPA Government is considering making public some appendices of the Kargil Review Committee report which examined the events leading to the Kargil conflict in 1999.
BSF guns down 3 Pak intruders: The Border Security Force shot dead three Pakistani intruders when they were trying to sneak into Indian territory, officials said here today.
Spotlight
The Savarkar row
"Please don't get angry with your shishya"
During the Gandhi murder trial, the Mahatma's assassin, Nathuram Godse, spoke of his casual visits to Savarkar Sadan and the nature of these visits being restricted to access to the Hindu Sangathan office. The Hindu has dug up letters to show Godse considered Savarkar his guru.
BJP betting on B-S-P factor: The B-S-P (Bijli-Sadak-Pani) factor is back for the BJP in the Maharashtra polls. The "national issues" of Tiranga, Savarkar and carriage of cows on train would remain "national" because the party has decided not to make these electoral issues in the coming state polls.
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States
Cong reopens list to weed out 'vested interests': Congress president Sonia Gandhi had to intervene at the last minute to correct "anomalies" in ticket distribution for the Maharashtra Assembly election, due on October 13.
Private medical colleges continue fleecing students: Directions of the apex court and subsequently of the State Fee Fixation Committee notwithstanding, students of private medical and dental colleges in Punjab allege that college managements are forcing them to pay much more than the approved rates.
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Pregnant wife 'gifted' back to war hero: Five years after he went missing during Kargil operations and was incarcerated in a Pakistani jail, Arif returned to his village to find that his wife, Gudia had been married off to another man. With Arif resurrected back to life, as it were, the Panchayat decided that Gudia could no longer be married off to a second man as Arif had not divorced her.
Mysore zoo elephants poisoned, says report: Two elephants have died in the Mysore zoo from respiratory distress caused by toxemia.
Neighbours
Taliban intimidates voters: Photocopied notices appeared on a blue mosque door in Uruzgan, a small town below a line of jagged mountains, early on Friday morning.
Hu acquires commanding presence: The Chinese President, Hu Jintao, today assumed charge as chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC) of the governing Communist Party of China (CPC). With this, he acquires military powers.
Tribe gets wanted men's list: The Pakistani government handed over a list of 200 wanted suspects to elders of the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe in South Waziristan on Sunday. The list does not contain names of foreign militants hiding in various areas of the troubled region.
View from abroad
4 per cent Americans regard Musharraf \91very favourably\92: As the Pakistani president arrives in the United States, only four percent of Americans say they have a \93very favourable\94 view of him, while 13 percent say they have never heard of him, according to a recent Pew Research Centre survey.
3 Pakistanis left at Guantanamo: With the transfer of 35 prisoners to Pakistan on Saturday, only three Pakistani prisoners have been left at the US Navy's prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Pakistani cleric singing like a canary for Americans: Maulana Ajmal Qadri, a leading Pakistani cleric, is currently in the United States \93singing like a canary\94 and providing US agents with intelligence relating to Islamist militants.
Gurinder Chadha in big league with Bride and Prejudice: NRI film director Gurinder Chadha's much-awaited Bride and Prejudice, a Bollywood-style screen adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, has elevated her to the level of an international filmmaker.
Overall:
PM arrived in London: He said he was ona "voyage of discovery" and would lobby for a seat in the UN Security Council.
Hu acquired military powers: The Chinese premier now heads the Communist Part and has supreme military powers.
Musharaff who? asked Americans: The Pakistani president has very little recall value for the American public.
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