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| Pak train link with India next month | | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI|JAN18
India and Pakistan are ready to resume the Thar Express train service. Come February 10, the train link between Munabao in India and Khokhrapar in Pakistan will be resumed after a gap of over five months.
Indian authorities have informed the Pakistan Railways that repairing of a railway track in Rajasthan is going on and it is likely to be completed in the first week of February. Therefore, the service would start next month, official sources pointed out. According to Pakistan Railway Chairman, Shakil Durrani, there is no delay from the Pakistani side in resumption of the railway link.
However, railways needed a week to check the track on the Pakistani side before the resumption of the Thar Express, he has said. According to him, the Pakistan Railways would complete its work before February 10, the date which has been given by the Indian side for resuming Thar Express.
Thar Express was suspended from August 25, 2006 following floods caused by the rain in the Barmer district of Rajasthan. The track on Munabao-Barmer-Jodhpur section was submerged whil... | |
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| Madhuri Dixit back in front of camera | | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI|JAN 18
Bollywood's former leading lady, Madhuri Dixit, is back in front of camera. And despite a few nerves, she asserts that she still knows how to act, how to react.
Madhuri Dixit, who took a break from acting after marrying a US-based Indian surgeon in 1999, said in a newspaper interview, after her first day of filming in her comeback movie, that she has eased back into things. The newspaper quoted her as saying: "I was nervous during the first take, but gradually everything was fine. Acting is like swimming. You never forget it".
She is working on a film called Aaja Naachley (Come Let Us Dance). Madhuri Dixit, 39, was one of Bollywood's biggest stars until she qui... | |
| | | | Sonia Gandhi's workload increases | | Congress keen to retain power in three States | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI| JAN 18
Congress supremo, Sonia Gandhi, has issued fresh instructions to her partymen urging them to put in extra efforts to ensure victory of Congress party during the upcoming Assembly elections in three States. Instructions were sent out while Sonia was found engaged in the task of preparing strategy to retain power in Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipurin next month's polls.
The Congress party is making extra efforts to come out with attractive manifestoes and highlighting achievements of their governments in these States as well as at the Centre, as if anticipating voter backlash over the lukewarm performance of its governments. Northern States of Punjab and Uttarakha... | |
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