India has a
strong case for Security Council:
British Home Secy
 MUMBAI,
Sept 8: India has a strong
case for a permanent berth in the  United Nations
Security Council, visiting British Home
Secretary Jack Straw has said.
"India has a one-billion strong
population and a growing economy —
and hence a case for a permanent berth in
Security Council is strong," Mr
Straw said during an interactive session
with the members of the Travel Agents
Association of India (TAAI) last
evening...........more
|
Jadeja
re-examined by CBI; interim
report on Sept 29
 NEW DELHI, Sept
8: The CBI is
likely to submit its interim
report on match-fixing to the
Sports Ministry on September 29
after having questioned
cricketing icon Kapil Dev and
re-examined Ajay Jadeja.
Highly-placed sources in the
agency said that an interim
conditions and making players
responsible towards the game
would be submitted to the Sports
Minister S S Dhindsa. The sources
said the report was being given
final touches by the sleuths of
the Special Crime branch and
added that meeting of CBI
officials with the batting
maestro Sachin Tendulkar was a
step in that direction
only.........more
|
|
Democratic system has
collapsed in WB: George
 MIDNAPORE
(WB), Sept 8: NDA
convenor and Defence Minister George
Fernandes today alleged democratic system
had broken down in West Bengal and
charged the ruling Left Front with
"making a mockery of the democratic
apparatus". "Democracy has been
reduced to a mockery. The entire
democratic apparatus has collapsed,"
Fernandes said after returning from his
five-hour long drive to the trouble-torn
Keshpur, Chandrakona Road and Garbeta
areas of Midnapore district.........more
|
 |
Musharraf bid to replace
President
 ISLAMABAD,
Sept 8 : Pakistani military
regime is seriously considering a
proposal to provide more powers to Chief
Executive General Pervez Musharraf to
replace President Rafiq Tarar as head of
the state, a newspaper reported today.
The President is expected either to step
down or go on indefinite medical leave,
paving the way for the Chief Executive to
assume the office, ‘The Nation’
reported. A final decision to this effect
is expected in the near future, if not
soon after General Musharraf’s
return from New York where he had gone to
attend the millennium summit of the
United Nations, it said..........more
|
|
|
UNITED NATIONS,
Sept 8: Lashing
out at Pakistan’s military regime for its vicious
terrorist campaign against India and double talk, Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today dismissed its new
initiative for a dialogue with a blunt response that
"terrorism and dialogue do not go together.".
In a hard-hitting address to the millennium summit of the
United Nations, Vajpayee responded to Pakistani military
ruler General Pervez Musharraf’s attacks on India
during his speech at the same forum two days ago with
probably his sharpest criticism without referring to him
by name.........
