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India beat Kiwis in the openerSHARJAH: India tonight won their opening match against Kiwis in the Cocal Cola cup at Sharjah. Put to bat Indi...

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India beat Kiwis in the opener
SHARJAH: India tonight won their opening match against Kiwis in the Cocal Cola cup at Sharjah. Put to bat India made 220 with the help of Saurav Ganguly8217;s fine century. They then bundled out Kiwis on 205 with Ajit Agarkar scalping four wickets for 35 runs in ten overs.

Mayawati moves SC
NEW DELHI: Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati today moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the March 23 order of Speaker Kesrinath Tripathi recognising the split in the party and dismissing her applications for disqualification of 19 party MLAs who broke away to support Kalyan.

Telecom scam
NEW DELHI: A special court here would give its ruling on April 25 on whether charges could be framed against former Communications Minister Sukh Ram in a telecom scam case. Special Judge Ajit Bharihoke today reserved his order on framing of charges after conclusion of the arguments by CBI and the defencelawyers. Sukh Ram, who is a minister in the BJP-led coalition government in HP, was present in the court.

Gogoi in Guwahati
GUWAHATI: Assam police, armed with a court order, today shifted ULFA vice-chairman Pradip Gogoi, arrested on April 8, here from Calcutta. Gogoi, held in Calcutta, was immediately whisked away to the headquarters of the Fourth Assam Battallion here for interrogation.

 

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