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Pak national on scrap radar, 300 more shells found

NEW DELHI: A Pakistani hand surfaced in the rocket menace on Monday, even as over 300 shells, many of them live, were found Monday in Delhi, Rajasthan and Chattisgarh, pushing up the total number of recoveries to over 900.

[ 11:54:14 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 , TIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES ]

Reservation is a poll ploy: Uddhav

PUNE: Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said PM Manmohan Singh's recent announcement on job reservations in the private sector was a ploy to divert attention from the real issues facing the electorate.

[ 11:39:59 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 , TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

Sonia roadshow is Cong reply to Atal-Bal rally

MUMBAI: If it was former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, who tried to woo Mumbaikars on Sunday, on Monday it was the turn of Congress president Sonia Gandhi to win them.

[ 11:38:53 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 , TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

No plan to bring law to enact quota, says Sibal

PUNE: Union minister for science and technology and Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Monday clarified that the Union government had no intention to enact a legislation providing job reservations in the private sector.

[ 11:37:24 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 , TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

Muslims urged to back Cong-NCP

S BALAKRISHNAN
MUMBAI: The unpalatable prospect of living under a Shiv Sena-BJP regime is apparently forcing Muslim voters to back the Congress-NCP combine - albeit reluctantly - in the October 13 assembly elections.

[ 11:35:46 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 , TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

UPA finds itself in dilemma over executing Left's 'culture' hitlist

BHASKAR ROY
NEW DELHI: With the exception of film censor board chief Anupam Kher, no other personality on the Left hit-list is likely to get the boot immediately for being appointees of the previous NDA regime.

[ 11:34:02 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 , TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

Differences at top cast shadow on Lokpal Bill

MAHENDRA VED
NEW DELHI: Being drafted to be introduced for the ninth time, the Lokpal legislation is courting controversy involving the top three in the nation's hierarchy - the President, Vice-President and Prime Minister.

[ 11:32:22 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 , TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

Vioxx is banned in India, finally

KALPANA JAIN
NEW DELHI: Despite pressures from the pharma industry, the government on Monday accepted an expert group's recommendation that popular painkiller Roficoxib should be banned.

[ 11:48:29 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 , TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

Panel for cancelling 297 pump allotments

NEW DELHI: A high-level committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge S C Agrawal has recommended cancellation of 297 petrol pumps which were allotted by the previous NDA government.

[ 11:29:52 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 , TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

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