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to address India-Pakistan river row: Hillary Clinton
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US on Friday said that Indo-Pak differences over
sharing of river waters will be a component of
its strategic dialogue with Pakistan and it will
try to address "international disputes"
concerning this issue. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, who is on an official visit here, made
the remarks during an interaction with women civil
society leaders.
She was responding to a question from a participant
about India allegedly "strangulating"
Pakistan's economic growth by choking the flow
of river waters.
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Halt violence, come and talk: Chidambaram to Naxals
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Minister P Chidambaram has made yet another appeal
to the CPI Maoists to abjure violence. He says
if the Maoists stop violence, the Centre will
persuade the states to talk to them on their demands,
including forest rights, land acquisition, industrialisation
and development.
The minister made it clear that no talks could
be held in an atmosphere of violence. "The
violence by Naxalites must end. The state governments
have a duty to stop this violence," he said
while addressing the media in New Delhi.
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Bhattal calls upon Akali Govt. to announce matching
bonus
Punjab
Congress Legislature Party Leader Rajinder Kaur
Bhattal has thanked the UPA Government for announcing
bonus of Rs. 50/- per quintal on paddy.
while seeking a matching bonus from present SAD-BJP
regime in the State. Recalling that during the
previous month, a delegation of Punjab Congress
had met the Union Agriculture Minister & the
Prime Minister to provide bonus to farmers on
paddy, in view of difficulties due to scanty rains
and power scarcity, she said that if Akalis claimed
themselves to be 'farmer-friendly', Punjab C.M.
should come up with matching bonus announcement
from State Coffers also.
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Airtel joins tariff war; introduces pay-per-second
plan
Joining
the tariff war, India's largest mobile operator
Bharti Airtel on Friday introduced a "pay
per second" plan across the country. In this
plan, called Freedom Plan, Airtel customers will
be charged one paise per second for all Local
and STD calls to Airtel numbers and 1.20 paise
per second for local and STD calls to other networks.
Some of the new operators, however, are offering
pay per second tariff plan across networks. The
plan will be available initially only to pre-paid
subscribers of Airtel, an Airtel statement said.
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Kovalainen pips Hamilton in second free practice
Heikki
Kovalainen topped the times in the second free
practice session for the season-ending and inaugural
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Britain's Lewis Hamilton,
who dominated the first session, was the man to
beat for most of the second session being held
in twilight and darkness but his 28-year-old Finnish
teammate just managed to outpace his McLaren Mercedes
in the final minutes.
Kovalainen clocked a best time of one minute
and 41.307 seconds, beating Hamilton by just one-tenth
of a second although the entire top ten were only
separated by six-tenths of a second.
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