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India won't skirt Kashmir
during Musharraf's visit
What is India News Service,
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 1400 hrs IST
It's not just cricket on General
Pervez Musharraf\92s New Delhi schedule next month.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that he would
discuss all issues, including Kashmir, with the Pakistan President who lands
in Delhi on April 16 to watch a one-day international between India and Pakistan
the next day.
President Musharraf is not coming to \93discuss the state of the weather,\94
Singh remarked on board the PM's aircraft.
Reiterating that talks would be held on the basis of the two joint statements in
Islamabad (January 2004) and New York (September 2004), Singh said it would be
part of the ongoing composite dialogue process.
\93We stand by whatever we have stated,\94 Singh said, highlighting the
diplomatic significance attached to the two joint statements.
Expressing satisfaction with the progress of talks, Singh said, \93We have had
one round of comprehensive dialogue. The second round is about to begin. The
Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus problem has been satisfactorily resolved.\94
Red
signal to ministers going on foreign jaunts: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
has asked all his ministerial colleagues to send him a report soon after
returning from a foreign trip indicating the main purpose and the extent to
which the issues being pursued were achieved.
Withdraw bodyguards to tainted
people, says Patna HC: For the first time, the HC had a good word to say about the Bihar police. In fact, Siwan MP Shahabuddin kept away from a Laloo function apprehending arrest.
Attack on BSF camp, 3 killed: As the countdown for the start of the
Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service began, two militants strapped with explosives
today carried out a suicide attack on a BSF camp in Jammu and Kashmir, leading
to a heavy exchange of fire that left the ultras and a jawan dead.
Two
days after the quake, sea recedes by 60 metres in TN:
The sea receded by over 60 metres for the second day on Wednesday along
stretches of the coast in Tamil Nadu following the major earthquake.
Indian
pontiff may succeed Pope John Paul II:
As Pope John Paul II remains hospitalised, his mortality
is the topic of discussion in the Vatican and church circles around the world.
Ultras
for boycott of bus service: Describing the move as an \93Indian
agenda,\94 four underground militant organisations here today appealed to the
people not to venture to board the Muzaffarabad bus service scheduled to start
on April 7.
National plan for HIV affected children formulated:
Resources for the national plan will be mobilised from the public, private sectors, civil society organisations and development partners.
States
Malayalam fiction loses
a legend: Vijayan\92s novel Khasakinte Ithihasam (The Legend of Khasak) marks an epoch in Malayalam literary history
and divides it into post and pre Khasak.
Karnataka
will ban sale of liquor at dance bars: Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will head a State-level committee to monitor implementation
of VAT.
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BMIC:
Karnataka not to give more land: The Cabinet has taken a tough stance against the project promoter, based on the recommendations by the K C Reddy Committee.
Punjab
liquor consumers to bear brunt of cess:
The responsibility for raising the Rs 100 crore
Agri-Diversification, Infrastructure, Research and Development Fund has now
shifted to drinkers of liquor in Punjab as the Vidhan Sabha today while passing
the 2005-06 Budget approved levying of a cess on both Punjab medium liquor and
Indian made foreign liquor from April 1.
Andhra violating water tribunal
orders, says Ananth: Karnataka BJP president Ananth Kumar said AP was diverting water when Karnataka was not able to utilise even 70 per cent of its share.
Hyderabad's
son-in-law Malik fuels Pak to victory:
It was the perfect stage for Hyderabad's son-in-law to prove his credentials.
Shoaib Malik used the warm-up match to serve a warning to the Indians with a
swashbuckling 81.
7 NPCB operated patients turn blind in Lucknow:
Lucknow\92s King George\92s Medical University has put the blame on postoperative care at community health centres where the surgeries were carried out.
Neighbours
Pakistan nabs 6
Al-Qaeda-linked terror suspects: Pakistani security agencies have arrested six suspected Al-Qaeda-linked foreigners in a swoop on their hideout near the Afghan border.
Islamabad's
defence
spending may exceed allocation:
Pakistan's defence expenditure, which amounted to more than 52 per cent of the
total annual allocation, has outpaced development expenditure which stood at
about 40 per cent.
Five
killed in Afghan violence:
A suspected suicide bomb
rocked a city in eastern Afghanistan just before US First Lady Laura Bush
visited the country, while a Taliban ambush left four policemen dead, officials
said on Wednesday.
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View from abroad
Aftershocks as relief effort builds on Indonesia isle:
Strong aftershocks rattled Indonesia's earthquake-devastated Nias island on Thursday as international aid flowed in.
Another killer quake may be on the way:
Scientists say that the fault where the seismic slips occurred may be opening up under intense geological stress that could trigger further quakes.
Canadian
radio rapped for anti-Sikh insults: A Canadian radio station was formally
reprimanded on Wednesday after one of its presenters insulted immigrants to
Canada and then said the Sikhs of northern India were "a gang of
bozos".
Americans
worried about Armageddon: A majority of Americans believe that nuclear weapons pose a clear and present danger and that a rogue nation or terrorists will detonate a N-device within the next five years.
Overall
Manmohan said he wasn't shy of Kashmir talks:
The prime
minister said he would discuss all issues, including Kashmir, during's
Musharaff's upcoming visit.
O V Vijayan died: The legendary Malayalam writer, famous for his Khasak
series, died in Hyderabad.
Court asked police not to protect the tainted: The Patna High Court
ordered the police not to stand in guard for tainted politicians.
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