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Thursday, May 28, 1998

	TDP firm on issue-based support Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu yesterday said his party was deeply committed to secular values and minorities welfare while making it clear that the TDP would continue to extend only "conditional and issue-based" support to the Vajpayee government at the Centre.		PM plays peace card to tackle Oppn Adding a new dimension to the ongoing nuclear debate, the BJP and its allies unanimously adopted a resolution yesterday describing India's nuclear tests as a "vital step towards the country's pursuit of global peace through nuclear control". The Prime Minister said that there would no change whatsoever in India's peace-oriented policy.
	PM promises to look into rubber growers' problem Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee assured the rubber growers and labourers in the sector of immediate action to tide over the crisis due to a steep fall in natural rubber prices. The assurance was given to a group of MPs who took up the issue with the Prime Minister yesterday.		Cabinet nod for extradition pact with UAE The Union Cabinet has approved the signing and ratification of an extradition treaty with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Minister of State for External Affairs Vasundhra Raje Scindia told the Lok Sabha yesterday. She also informed the House that the treaty had already been signed by the two sides last year.

Cong for consensus on Bill replacing power ordinance
Congress said the government should evolve a consensus on the provisions of the Bill to replace the power ordinance and accused it of not properly consulting even its allies before promulgating it. Party spokesman Salman Khursheed said, some of the constituents of the ruling coalition had opposed the Bill as they feared that the scheme of free supply of power to the farmers may come to an end if the bill was passed.

Kuntoorkar scents blood, gets set to take on Chavan
Will Gangadharrao Kuntoorkar finally avenge his public humiliation at the hands of S B Chavan? Kuntoorkar, the tall, fair, sharp-nosed, dhoti-clad Congress stalwart from Biloli had been moving from strength to strength in Nanded district, exploiting his position as member of Parliament to the hilt, till the Lok Sabha elections were declared in January this year.

RPI still split over Cong issue
Naik's Shivshakti to challenge Shivshahi
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Mahanta jolted, one more minister quits
Cong's N-dithering draws Shekhar's ire