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Sunday, April 19, 1998
  Buta, kin have hidden income of Rs 10 cr: ED
As if he doesn't have much to worry already. The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Union Communications Minister Buta Singh will have to face trial in the JMM bribery case. And now it has been learnt that the Enforcement Directorate is looking into his personal and family income assessed at around Rs 10 crore.
  Dump Buta, Hegde, Ram, Jaya tells PM
It's now official. AIADMK leader J Jayalalitha wants Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to dump Union ministers Buta Singh, Ramakrishna Hegde and Ram Jethmalani. If he doesn't, she says, Vajpayee should re-induct her partyman Sedapatti R Muthiah who recently quit after a Chennai court framed corruption charges against him.

SC rules out full quota for BCs
The Supreme Court has held that total exclusion of members of general public and cent per cent reservation for the backward classes, as in a single-post cadre, was not permissible within the Constitutional scheme. "In making reservations for the backward classes, the state cannot ignore the fundamental rights of the rest of the citizens," a five-judge Constitution bench comprising Justices S C Agrawal, G N Ray, A S Anand, S P Bharucha and S Rajendra Babu held in a 51-page judgment.
Assembly polls won't be advanced, asserts Naidu
Telugu Desam Party chief and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has ruled out the possibility of an early election in the State. Addressing TDP leaders from Hindupur and Bapatla Lok Sabha constituencies at the party headquarters on Friday, Naidu referred to the comments made by senior Congress leader Sharad Pawar that early elections were likely to the AP Assembly.


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Basu agrees on Kidwai as Governor
West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu has agreed to accommodate the BJP-led Government's request to transfer Bihar Governor A R Kidwai to his State. In return, Home Minister L K Advani assured Basu that he would be consulted before a new governor is appointed to West Bengal when Kidwai's term ends on August 12 this year.
Patel to protest TN move on Cauvery project
Karnataka Chief Minister J H Patel yesterday said he would write a protest letter to the Prime Minister against Tamil Nadu for directly writing to Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, Japan, urging them against funding the fourth stage of Cauvery drinking water scheme which envisaged augmenting water supply to the city.

 


LEISURE
  Malaysians in hot waters again
  Gogoi welcomes Vajpayee's offer for talks with ULFA

EXPRESSIONS
  The RSS's natural choice
  Key witness denies knowing Pawle

BUSINESS
  Lloyds Steel, Lloyds Metals merger within 3 months
  `Performance of the Sena-BJP govt has not been up to the mark'

GENERAL
  Kerala to set up State Open School
  Holy cow! Cattle industry sues Oprah again

POLITICS
  Flouting SC fiat in the name of Sonia
  Harvinder sets mark