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Employees to show black flags to CM during 'Vikas March'

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (UNI) The Punjab government employees, under the banner of 'Punjab Mulazam Sangharsh Committee', have decided to show black flags to Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh when he would be inaugurating the 'Vikas March' at Anandpur Sahib tomorrow.

The CM and Punjab Congress chief S S Dullo are scheduled to inaugurate the 'march' as the mass contact campaign of the ruling Congress with assembly polls due in February 2007.

In a statement issued here, the leaders of the 'Mulazam Sangharsh Committee' said hundreds of employees would show black flags to the chief minister tomorrow at Anandpur Sahib, the venue from where Capt Singh would flag off the 'Vikas March'.

The employees had termed the government's scheme of granting promotions after four, nine and 14 years of tenure in service with effect from November one, 2006 as ''a cruel joke'', the Committee conveners Succha Singh Khatra, Hari Singh Tohra, Dattar Singh and Ranbir Dhillon said.

They said the this scheme was being demanded by the employees with effect from November 1996, when the then Congress government had promised the same.

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Yuvraj's injury to be reassessed on November 10: BCCI

Mumbai, Nov 7 (UNI) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today rubbished reports which have stated that middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh might be ruled out of the World Cup, saying that the status of the injury of the southpaw remains unchanged and his fitness would be reassessed as scheduled on November 10. BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Professor Ratnakar Shetty said here that a decision on when the middle-order batsman would.....

Players annual contracts likely to be delayed, says secretary Shah

Mumbai, Nov 7 (UNI) The new players' annual contracts are likely to be delayed and are unlikely to be ready to be signed by the Indian players before they depart for South Africa to take part in a five match ODI series there, the Board of Control for Cricket in India stated today. The BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said today the discussions between the players and the board are on and ''it is unlikely that.....

Briton jailed for 40 years over US and UK plots

LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) A man who plotted to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and carry out attacks in Britain with gas-filled limousines and a ''dirty bomb'' was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in jail today. Briton Dhiren Barot, 34, was sentenced by a London court after pleading guilty last month to conspiracy to murder. Barot, a Muslim convert, was accused of plotting to blow up the headquarters of the.....
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