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| Muscle takes over from muck |
| Indian politics emerged from the mud today, only to nurse a bloody nose and a black eye as muscle power ran riot outside the nerve-centres of the country’s two biggest parties. ... | Read.. |
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| Bleach on fast in jail |
| A glass of water. That’s all Peter Bleach had today, signalling the start of an indefinite fast in his Presidency Jail cell. ... | Read.. |
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| Pervez pays hawks premium |
| Pervez Musharraf, his back to the wall with a swirling domestic crisis, has bought an insurance on his life by loosening his grip on religious extremists, including militants active in Jammu and Kashmir, according to intelli ... | Read.. |
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Thorn taken out of farm policy
‘Contract farming’ dropped, but contract on produce remains
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today announced that a new agriculture policy — without the controversial clause of contract farming — has been drawn up. ... | Read.. |
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| Congress general secretary Ambika Soni tries to break the police cordon. (Right) Activists of the BJP’s Mahila Morcha confront police. (PTI pictures) |
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Our protesters were hopelessly outnumbered by the Congress
ARUN JAITLEY
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