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Strike power: Navy fitting
subs with
missiles
What is India News Service,
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 1700 hrs IST
Missiles will give the submarines, inducted into
the Navy between 1986 and 2002, strike
capability to hit warships as well as surface targets from a standoff
distance of up to 40 nautical miles from ocean bed, according to high-ranking
Naval officials in Delhi.
The Navy, whose submarine fleet is floundering
in the absence of clearance for reopening the sub building lines at Mazagoan
docks, has already acquired ten of these huge diesel-electric patrol submarines
from Russia with the latest one, INS Sindhushastra, delivered late last year.
Under the deal already negotiated with Russia's
Vezdochka shipyard at Severodyinsk, eight of the submarines are being
retrofitted to enable them to carry the Russian 3M-54E1 Klub-S
Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile(SLCM).
Advani,
Laloo not averse to President\92s rule: Political
leaders including BJP President L.K. Advani and RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav
today took calculated steps to make the imposition of President rule on Bihar
friendly if not hostile to their party's interests.
Bihar
comes under President's rule: The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, tonight
approved the Union Cabinet's decision recommending President's rule in Bihar
following the stalemate in government formation.
Still
in power, says Lalu: The Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo and Railway Minister,
Lalu Prasad, who returned from New Delhi today, said he was now a tension-free,
relaxed man.
NDA meeting
with Kalam put off
Munda
moves SC on Soren\92s appointment:
Even as the Supreme Court today posted hearing in the Goa Government dismissal
issue for March 14, BJP leader in Jharkhand Arjun Munda moved the apex court
challenging the appointment of JMM leader Shibu Soren as the Chief Minister of
the state.
After
soul, Taslima pledges body: After declaring that her soul lived in India,
where she is seeking citizenship, the controversial Bangladeshi writer, Taslima
Nasreen, today pledged her body to a city-based NGO for posthumous medical use.
National
Anthem: Centre's response sought: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre
to file its response, within two weeks, to a petition seeking deletion of the
word "Sindh" from the National Anthem.
Court
permits Parrikar to amend prayer: The Supreme Court today gave liberty to
the former Goa Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar, to amend his prayer following
the imposition of President's rule in Goa and keeping the Assembly in suspended
animation.
Advance
bail granted to seer:
The Madras High Court has granted anticipatory
bail to Kanchi acharya Jayendra Saraswati, who apprehended arrest in connection
with the Ravi Subramaniam intimidation case.'
Ravi
makes statement before magistrate
States
Karunakaran
ignores threats, gives green signal to rallies:
Ignoring the threat of
disciplinary action, senior Congress leader K Karunakaran on
Tuesday said his
"I" faction would go ahead with its rallies as planned and was
prepared to face any action.
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Alert
in Bangalore after arms haul: A day after the Delhi Police announced the
unearthing of a terrorist plot to target information technology (IT) firms here,
the Bangalore Police said they had found country-made pistols, a carbine and 149
rounds of live ammunition at the railway station.
Delhi
Police to question MP for car crash:
Delhi Police on Monday said they would question
T.T.V. Dhinakaran, a Rajya Sabha MP, whose car knocked and killed a woman here
last week.
Decision to close
down Dashmesh Academy reversed: The
trust running Sri Dashmesh Academy today reversed its earlier decision to close
down the institution from March 31. The decision was announced by the chairman
of the trust and former Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal.
Neighbours
Pakistan
to foil hegemonic designs, says Aziz:
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Monday that Pakistan would
not allow domination of the Indian Ocean by any country.
View from abroad
US sent hundreds of
terror suspects to foreign prisons: The
CIA has transferred an estimated 100 and 150 terrorist suspects to foreign
countries for questioning \97 and, it is widely alleged, torture \97 since rules
governing the American policy of \93rendition\94 were relaxed immediately after
the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
WB
receives New Delhi's response on Baglihar:
India
has submitted its response to the World Bank to Pakistan's objections to the
construction of a dam over the Chenab River in Kashmir.
Overall
Navy began fitting subs with missiles:
Submarines
can now hit surface targets at a distance of 40 nautical miles.
Seer got advance bail: The Kanchi Shankaracharya got anticipatory bail in
an intimidation case.
World Bank received India's response: India has written to explain
its stand on the Baglihar issue.
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