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A clean sweep: Surat's saviour shines brighter with a Padmashri
It's not always that you associate awards with stinking slime or mountains of garbage. At least, not a civilian honour like the Padmashri. But when former Surat Municipal Commissioner Suryadevra Ramchandra Rao was announced a Padmashri awardee this year, no one seemed to have been taken by surprise.
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French, Russian bid to avert showdown
France and Russia today called for a diplomatic solution to the Iraq crisis as the chief UN arms inspector and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) warned that Iraqi weapons production remained a threat.
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Clinton to face Starr chamber
The White House suffered a setback as independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr was given a deposition that President Bill Clinton made in a sexual harassment case. Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that Kenneth Starr, who is investigating a variety of White House scandals, could have access to the January 18 deposition made for lawyers for Paula Jones.
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Arms drop case hearing deferred
The Purulia arms drop case seems all set to drag on for another long spell. Two of the accused , Britisher Peter Bleach and Benoy Singh, brother of the absconding Ananda Margi "Randy" have appealed to the Supreme Court for quashing the proceedings against them.
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