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This is an archive article published on October 25, 1999

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Truckers stir enters day 4NEW DELHI: Truckers struck work for the fourth day on Sunday affecting movement of goods across the country as ...

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Truckers stir enters day 4

NEW DELHI: Truckers struck work for the fourth day on Sunday affecting movement of goods across the country as stalemate persisted between the Government and All India Motor Transport Congress, which has called the strike demanding roll back of the diesel price hike. While the Government said that movement of essential commodities was not affected much8217; transporters claimed quot;total successquot; and threatened to intensify their agitation from Monday.

Booker today

NEW DELHI: Anita Desai8217;s Fasting, Feasting, which explores family values in the East and the West, is a leading contender for the last Booker of the millennium to be announced in London on Monday. Desai, who had been nominated twice before, hopes to become the second Indian in three years to bag the prize.

 

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