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Police express doubts over witness to shootout

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's hopes of returning to power in Uttar Pradesh have risen with growing dissension within the rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), even as the Congress party, whose support will be crucial for Yadav, has chosen to wait and watch.

Even as the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is scheduled to take up the sealed proposal of Jagadguru Swami Jayendra Saraswati, Sankar-acharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, on resolving the vexed Ayodhya dispute through mutual negotiation early next month, a leading news weekly has come out with startling revelation that the majority of Indian Muslims want a negotiated settlement on the dispute.

Opposition stalwarts launch 'Third Front'

Fernandes, Nitish heal rift

BJP meet to review ties with Mayawati

Padmaja denies ministership deal

Sukh Ram forms third front in Himachal

Gehlot manages to pass the buck to Girija Vyas

The opposition Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, who carried out a massive reshuffle of her secretariat on Friday, has introduced more new faces in the party set up.

Bhasin emerges frontrunner as new envoy to Islamabad

New Delhi is believed to have officially communicated the name of its new High Commissioner to Islamabad, though a formal announcement is still awaited until Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announces his nominee in parliament today.