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Government, Naxal groups
sign ceasefire agreement
What is India News Service,
Saturday, 16 October 2004, 2000 hrs IST
On the first day of the peace talks in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Government and the People's War (PW) formally
signed a ceasefire agreement, which will be in force for a period of three months.
Government representatives, including Home Minister K Jana Reddy and People's War delegates led by its state secretary Ramakrishna, formalised the modalities for the for the negotiations.
According to the understanding, the PW will refrain from violent activities during the talks period, and
will not prevent politicians, elected representatives and government officers from travelling in remote villages.
The government agreed to put a stop to all combing operations and encounters and police harassment of PW sympathisers.
Suspected naxalite attack casts cloud on talks:
Yesterday's violence in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, in which six jawans of the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) were killed (four had died yesterday and two today) has queered the pitch for talks between the
government and the Naxalites.
Cong wrests Bidar LS seat, Pappu Yadav wins in Madhepura:
The Congress Saturday bagged 12 assembly seats and wrested the Bidar Lok Sabha seat from BJP which romped home in six assembly constituencies while the ruling Left Front in West Bengal made a clean sweep of all the three seats, bypolls for which were held on Wednesday.
CM Mufti wins from south Pahalgam:
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was elected to the state Assembly after a gap of 17 years from south Pahalgam segment.
Arjun to be tested in combat conditions:
A few months after being commissioned into the Army and facing flak due to doubts over its capabilities, the main battle tank Arjun will undergo its first acid test in combat conditions in December.
SC issues notice to Pappu Yadav on CBI bail plea:
The Supreme Court today issued notice to Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav on a
petition filed by CBI seeking cancellation of his bail granted by the Patna High
Court in the Ajit Sarkar murder case.
J&K seeks economic package:
Jammu and Kashmir Government has urged the Centre to declare a special economic package for the state on the lines of the north-eastern states.
'Action plan to counter insurgency threat in North-East':
The intelligence chiefs of the North-Eastern States have chalked out an action plan to counter the threat posed by insurgent groups.
'Kher not called RSS
man': The CPI(M) today denied that the deposed Censor Board Chairman, Anupam Kher, had been described as an \93RSS man\94 in the party mouthpiece and said the actor was only referred to as an appointee of the NDA government.
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States
Reauction liquor vends, SC
tells Punjab: The Supreme Court today directed the Punjab Government to have fresh bids for auctioning of the liquor vends in Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahr districts, which were quashed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in March.
Gujarat defers promulgation of Ordinance on universities:
In the face of stiff opposition from students and academics, the Gujarat Cabinet today decided to defer the proposed "Common Universities Ordinance."
HC quashes selection of seven DSPs:
In a major setback to the Punjab Government, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today set aside the controversial selection of seven candidates as Deputy Superintendents of Police by the Government made recently under the sportspersons\92 category.
Kerala
liquor policy runs into rough weather: The Chandy Government's new liberalised abkari policy has virtually put the UDF's 10-year-old perspectives on its head.
30 pilgrims die as bus falls into gorge:
Thirty persons, nine of them women and one child, most of them pilgrims from Chhattisgarh, were killed when the bus they were travelling in from Hardwar to Yamunotri fell into a deep gorge.
Neighbours
Musharraf, Aziz urge clerics to stop edicts against sects: Islamic clerics on Friday told President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz that they would consider issuing a decree that suicide attacks on mosques and imambargahs were un-Islamic.
Pakistan not rigid on time frame, says
Aziz: Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said his country was not rigid about a timeframe for the resolution of the Kashmir issue but
wanted tangible progress within a reasonable period.
Efforts stepped up to capture Mehsud: Security forces on Friday stepped up their hunt for Abdullah Mehsud, an Al Qaeda-linked former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who had masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese
engineers.
View from abroad
Islamabad played useful role
in Afghanistan, says Khalilzad: US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, on Friday praised Pakistan for preventing cross-border attacks during the Afghan election and said Islamabad
had played a useful and important role in ensuring peace at that critical stage.
Overall:
Andhra, Naxals signed pact: The
ceasefire will last three months.
Congress
alliance won in Maharashtra: It defeated the anti-incumbency factor, and the
BJP-Shiv Sena alliance.
Pakistan looking
for kidnappers: Security forces are combing the borders for the militants
who killed a Chinese engineer.
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