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Nation
& States
Crucial talks with Pakistan:
Singh, Vajpayee exchange ideas
What is India News
Service, September 3, 2004, 1800 hrs IST
Ahead of the crucial Indo-Pak
talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday had a breakfast
meeting with his predecessor Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Vajpayee went to the Prime
Minister's 7 Race Course Road house for a word with him ahead of the
talks between External Affairs Minister K Natwar and his Pakistani
counterpart Khurshid M Kasuri, beginning September 5, a PMO
spokesman said.
Musharaff
reiterates Kashmir line:
Musharraf on Thursday
reaffirmed Pakistan's commitment to the resolution of the Kashmir
dispute in line with "the wishes of Kashmiri
people".
Govt
consults allies, Opposition on talks with Pakistan:
The UPA government
today started the process of consultations with allies as well as
Opposition parties on the forthcoming Indo-Pak Foreign Ministers\92
talks here on September 5-6.
India wants LoC to act as a bridge with Pak:
Reopening of consulates in Mumbai and Karachi, repatriation of fishermen and
the confidence building exercises are being viewed positively by both countries.
Govt
mends ties closer home: Pakistan Foreign Minister
Khurshid M Kasuri's visit, it seems, is not just significant for
bilateral relations between the two neighbours. On the domestic
front, too, the occasion has facilitated the re-opening of a
dialogue between the Government and the Opposition BJP.
Militant groups clash, 3 Lashkar ultras killed:
Three Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were
today killed in a clash with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists in Jammu
and Kashmir\92s Pulwama district over distribution of funds sent
from across the border to sustain militancy in the state.
BJP livid with Cong's Uma 'double-speak':
Is Karnataka Chief Minister N Dharam Singh indulging in double-speak
on his decision to reopen the Hubli Idgah Maidan flag-hoisting case
against Uma Bharati?
For
RSS, it's sue time: The RSS on Thursday filed a
defamation case against HRD Minister Arjun Singh in a Haryana Court
for alleging that the organisation was involved in the assassination
of Mahatma Gandhi.
Speaker
calls meeting on code
of conduct:
Concerned over the repeated
boycott of parliament and unruly behaviour of MPs,
Somnath Chatterjee has convened a meeting of UPA and opposition
leaders on November 18.
Al-Jazeera
pact: Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based news network, today signed an
exclusive news bulletin sharing agreement with India TV, Hindi news
and current affairs channel.
Terror
court verdict goes against Vaiko: The Pota
court today refused permission to withdraw cases against MDMK
General Secretary Vaiko and eight others.
CBI
files charge sheet in Dubey murder case:
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday filed the charge
sheet against three accused in the Satyendra Dubey murder case.
New
education director: Prof. Krishna Kumar of the Central Institute
of Education, Delhi University, has been appointed Director of the
National Council of Educational Research and Training.
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States
Cong
may take Maya\92s help in Mainpuri poll battle:
An interesting proposition is doing the rounds in Congress
regarding the party\92s strategy vis-a-vis the coming byelection for
the two high-profile constituencies in Uttar Pradesh \97 Mainpuri
and Akbarpur.
6
new judges for Rajasthan: Six new Judges to the Rajasthan
High Court were today sworn in here, taking the total strength to 26
against the sanctioned 40.
Amarinder
meets Pranab, Patil: Punjab
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and PCC chief H. S. Hanspal today met
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, AICC in charge of Punjab, to
discuss candidates for the next month\92s byelections in the state.
HC bench
decision sparks agitation: North Karnataka has again started
demanding statehood after its demand for a High Court bench was
turned down.
Kashmir\92s
first photo website launched:
The first photo website of Kashmir by
a news photographer, Habib Naqash, was launched at a function here
yesterday.
Neighbours
Curfew
reimposed in Kathmandu: A curfew clamped after large-scale
violence yesterday to protest against the killing of 12 Nepalese
hostages in Iraq was lifted today for a few hours before being
re-imposed.
EU,
UK, China condemn killing:
The
European Union has said it was dismayed at the brutal killing of 12
Nepali civilian hostages in Iraq.
RAW
hand seen in Kathmandu violence:
Wednesday's
anti-Muslim riots and attacks on Arab and Pakistani establishments
in Nepal were sponsored by India, a Pakistan government official
alleged on Thursday.
Nepal
extends curfew to prevent rioting:
Nepal
extended a curfew in the capital on Thursday to prevent fresh
rioting as the embattled Himalayan kingdom marked a national day of
mourning for 12 Nepalese killed by a militant group in Iraq.
Over
500 Iraq-bound Nepalis stranded in Kuwait: Following
Kuwait\92s ban on sending Nepali job seekers to Iraq through
its borders,
over 500 Nepalis have been left
stranded in Kuwait.
20
die in US strike on Fallujah:
US air
strike overnight on Fallujah killed 20 people. The jets raided
targets suspected to be hideouts of al-Zarqawi.
Bangladesh
on alertbomb attacks feared: The government
yesterday worked out counter-terror moves after intelligence agents
said an unknown terrorist outfit may have been planning to explode
potent bombs in public places in Dhaka.
View from
abroad
India
prevents brain drain of teachers? India
appears to have politely signed a do-gooder deal to limit the brain
drain of teachers from developing Commonwealth countries to the UK.
India
slipping away from me, says Anita Desai: Desai says "India
is slipping away from me", and has set her new novel, The
Zigzag Way, in Mexico.
Defence
rests case in Kanishka bomb trial: The
defence in the Kanishka bombing trial rested its case on Monday with
neither of the two men charged with the plot that killed 331 people
being called to testify.
Overall:
Manmohan met Vajpayee:
The two leaders discussed the Delhi round of talks with Pakistan
beginning September 5.
CBI filed chargesheet in Dubey case: This
could be a positive step in cracking the murder of the upright
officer.
The
world sympathised with Nepal: The European Union and the
United Kingdom have condemned the killing of 12 Nepalis by their
Iraqi abductors.
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