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No US strike on Iraq till winter Olympics
The United States on Monday said it respected a UN resolution for no hostilities against Iraq till the ongoing winter Olympics were over on February 22 even as Russia and China stepped up their opposition to a military strike. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed for cool heads in the Gulf crisis, and France said the chances for a diplomatic solution were narrowing.
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Chancellor puts V-C on high pedestal
Most certainly, it was a touching moment for Dr Vasant Gowariker, the Vice-Chancellor of University of Pune. With a month left for his term to end, the V-C for three years now has had his share of highs and lows, thanks to an ever alert management council and the no-nonsense non-teaching staff.
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Poll battles lost, obsession wins each time
It is not pessimism, or even negative fatalism. But few candidates, contesting the general elections, already know that they have lost. Yet, they will contest again, the way they did last time and the time before that. Maharaj Kumar (48), an advocate, is contesting the Lok Sabha elections for the seventh time. He lost on all the earlier six times, but that does not bother him.
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Maharashtra has highest number of HIV cases in India: IHO chief
India is the hot spot for HIV and Maharashtra is leading in the number of HIV positive cases, secretary general of the Indian Health Organisation (IHO) Dr I Gilada said. He was speaking at the international seminar on complimentary medicine in AIDS organised by the Rashtriya Shikshan Mandal in Pune on Sunday.
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China, Pak upbeat over Sharif's trip
China and Pakistan on Monday expressed confidence that the visit of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to China on Tuesday would forge even more closer political, economic and cultural ties between the two. Further during the visit, Sharif will brief his Chinese counterpart on Pakistan's recent initiatives to bring permanent peace in Afghanistan among other important things.
33 MTNL employees on strike
Thirty-three workers of the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited's (MTNL) Kandivli exchange, who are affiliated to the Shiv Sena's Sthaniya Lokadhikar Samiti, have begun an indefinite strike to draw the MTNL authorities' attention to their grievances. Samiti members said despite the acute lack of space in the commerce department, workers of two other departments had been accommodated in the same place.
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 Pune Notes
New lease of life
Nothing non-biodegradable about it
Sangharsha Sanman awards presented
Students go on indefinite hunger strike; Agashe adopts a hard stance
Quicktakes
Doc in the dock for delivery death in Delhi
Nath Valley School to launch a residential section for boys
Youth rips open 90-yr-old man, eats his heart, drinks his blood
Memorial to honour Punjab's soldiers planned
In doctor Abdullah's Kashmir, paramedics treat patients
Young hope for a new India, feels Amte
Concern over sensitive polling booths in State
Search for ways to throttle Saddam quietly
Scribes booted out of IMD conference
Clinton lawyer targets affair leaks
Mumbai Notes
"Cop knew Sayama sold peanuts"
14-yr-old crushed under a truck
Crime Notes
Mahabaleshwar environment violations
Health agenda sick, no cure in sight
Pune Beat
7 children kidnapped
Varsity begins golden jubilee celebrations
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