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OCTOBER 11

The Man Who Hunted Veerappan
Former Special Task Force chief Walter Dawaram created terror in the forest brigand's mind. His efforts ensured that Veerappan was on the run, but the change of government in Tamil Nadu brought a whiff of strength for the sandalwood smuggler. And he continues to rule the roost. Is he so invincible? Or is it that the present DMK government does not want to nab him? ''They never wanted action against him. It is very obvious.'' Discover how cowardly the criminal is, how vulnerable he is, how stupid the goverments are.... In the daredevil policeman's no-holds-barred encounter.
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Veerappan threatens to kill 50,000
The sandalwood smuggler threatens to take this extreme step, and kill the hostages he has taken now, in an attempt to force Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to let him surrender. On his terms.
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British stand on Kashmir irks India
Prime Minister Gujral will make it clear to the officials accompanying Queen Elizabeth that India hates outside interference in the Indo-Pak conflict.
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'The Kashmir situation is now moving at its own momentum'
Farooq Abdullah has just finished an eventful year in power. His election last October was promoted as a return to peace, to the tranquility of the past. But has life really changed in the valley? Has peace really returned to Kashmir? Chindu Sreedharan found out.
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Tea & Terror
What were the links between Tata Tea and ULFA? The inside story of the tea companies and the terrorists.
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Congress will fight the next election alone: Kesri
No alliance with anyone. And the Congress will not force a mid-term poll on the country.
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DMK to gun for Rajiv, Indira to ward off Jain panel fallout
If this does not work, the party will toe the BJP line: rake up the Bofors row all over again.
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IRS-1D beams right signals
The satellite's normal functioning is cause for some jubilation among space scientists.
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The States

Nine killed in Kashmir valley
RJD-Congress pact in Bihar
Keen contest likely for Marathi theatre body poll
Maharashtra CM flays Centre for delaying gangsters's arrests
Recent incidents in your state

NEWS BRIEFS

Storm over chief justice's appointment unfortunate: Law minister
CPI-ML congress from October 20

OCTOBER 10

Rescue Mission
Hamstrung by the failure of INSAT-2D, the government now plans to lease transponders on foreign satellites so that India's ambitious telecommunication plans are not disrupted.
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Veerappan strikes again!
The sandalwood smuggler and self-confessed killer has kidnapped six people including a senior official of the Indian Institute of Horticulture Research from the Bandipur game sanctuary on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border. Negotiator R Gopal is unsure if he will mediate in the crisis.
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Hope lives on...
Scotland Yard experts conclude that the recently-exhumed skeleton does not belong to any of the Kashmir hostages.
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The US has finally accorded India its due
Perhaps the most important thing Mr Gujral has done, says Professor Kanti Bajpai, is to implicitly signal to both the US and the Indian public that a foreign policy which is more alert than in the past is on the anvil. This does not mean selling Indian interests for a pot or two of gold.
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China behind Pak atomic bomb
If Beijing continues its assistance at the present rate, Pakistan will produce M-11 missiles within a year, a leading US arms control expert told the senate foreign relations committee.
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US slaps terrorist law on Harkat, LTTE
Besides making the oganisations's fund-raising drives illegal, the move denies their members American visas.
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Indian leaders may be denied US visas
Several leading politicians, including Parliament member George Fernandes, V Gopalasami and K Ramdoss, some judges, lawyers, writers and journalists who have in the past attended LTTE conferences, may face the fallout of US action.
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Gujral flays 'mediation' offer on Kashmir
The prime minister said India believes that durable peace can come from direct negotiation between the parties.
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Dreams Die First in the quarries of Kundrathoor
Everyday childhood dreams are crushed in the stone quarries of Kundrathoor, near Madras. Young labourers oscillate between the crushing units and lorry-carriers with basketloads of crushed stones and dirt. Languishing in unhealthy and hazardous surroundings while other children their age attend school.
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Child guerillas
A substantial number of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam guerillas are children, either forcibly recruited or somehow coerced into joining up.
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Hong Kong still wary of Chinese rule
Many people still fear Sinification of the former British colony and a resultant deprivation of freedom.
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The States

Six killed in Kashmir valley
3 civilians die as Pak rangers open fire in Jammu
Pawar, Joshi lock horns in Maharashtra
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OCTOBER 9

Left grounds UF's
ambitious drive
The United Front's bid to launch a concerted campaign in view of Congress president's diatribes has run into rough weather.
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The natives refuse to return
Kashmiri pandits reject the state government's resettlement package.
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More trouble for Kalyan Singh govt
All Uttar Pradesh BJP legislators oppose Atal Bihari Vajpayee's proposal for defusing tension with alliance partner, the BSP.
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Mulayam, Chidambaram meet Yeltsin
Commerce and defence are on the agenda.
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More and more women offer namaz at Lucknow mosque
A section of Sunni moulvis has failed to understand the move. "What is the problem if the women offer their Friday namaz at homes?'' remarked an angry Maulana Mohammad Wali Farouqi. ''Alternatively, let them go to mosques every day and eventually create law and order problems.''
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Bihar rebellion may split JD again
While the party president's supporters blamed vested interests for the crisis, sources said Jaipal Reddy was backing the rebels.
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Queen tells India, Pak to stop bickering and work together
''We all know from experience that animosity retards development, that development requires trust, that lack of trust closes off opportunities,'' she said, while speaking in Pakistani parliament.
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The States

AP CM got huge kickbacks in Infotech City deal: Congress
Konkan Railway delayed again by tunnel collapse in Goa
Film world bans AP's top television channel
Ruling party makes clean sweep of panchayat polls in Sikkim
British experts arrive to help identify body, allegedly of Kashmir hostage
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NEWS BRIEFS

Two former PMs to attend Kshatriya meet

Yeh Hai India!

Orissa makes Daler dance to a non-existent tune
All pepped to sing, but no one to sing to -- that's how Daler Mehendi found himself the other day.
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Passengers thrash engine driver for averting accident
To slam or not to slam -- that was the question which Sarnath Express's engine driver faced on a lonely stretch of tracks in Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh.
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OCTOBER 8

Army moving out
of five J&K towns
In sensitive border towns like Kargil, however, the army's operations will be considerably stepped up. Besides, no reduction of troops would be effected on the Line of Control, which has been witnessing heavy Pakistani firing.
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Is Farooq lying about army withdrawal from Kashmir?
There is something rotten in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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India, Russia extend defence treaty to 2010
Russian President Boris Yeltsin said his country would not sell arms to Pakistan.
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More Pak shelling expected along Kashmir LoC
Pakistan may embark on another misadventure along the Jammu and Kashmir Line of Control before winter freezes the mountain passes.
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And now, London will be the locale for fresh Kashmir talks...
Thirtyseven prominent activists from India and Pakistan have been invited for a three-day dialogue in London from October 31.
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More controversy over Queen's visit
Labour Party support for plebiscite in Kashmir sparks protests in India.
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Despite skewed orbit, IRS-1D delivers 'very good' pictures
The cameras on board the satellite are functioning as planned, say sources.
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'Tainted' officials get the boot as Kalyan vows to end corruption
Mayawati frets and fumes as the move hits several of her trusted aides.
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TMC calls truce as only DMK can help in RS poll
Though several TMC leaders said the party would start training its guns on the DMK once the Rajya Sabha elections are behind them, others beg to differ. ''Moopanar is in no great hurry to break the DMK alliance, or discredit the ruling party,'' said a TMC leader.
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Clinton finds expatriate Indians make good administrators
The United States president has a soft corner for India. Else, how would you explain all these Indian bureaucrats -- some of them pretty senior ones -- in his administration?
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Protests over use of World Bank aid in MP wildlife sanctuary
Aid for forestry being diverted to fund Semarsot sanctuary that will displace 35,000 people, claim protestors.
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The States

TN leader Moopanar not to seek re-election to Rajya Sabha
Sikkim Democratic Front surges ahead in panchayat polls
JK assembly passes Disturbed Area Bill
Naxals spread terror to stop AP govt programme
Nine killed as jeep rams train in Rajasthan
Another lockout in Bihar secretariat

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NEWS BRIEFS

Pak general's volte face on Kashmir

OCTOBER 7

Mission Failure!
The failure of the INSAT-2D satellite, which had to be abandoned after an onboard power snag on Sunday, may affect the Rs 3.5 billion deal between the Indian Space Research Organisation and the International Telecommunication Satellite Organisation.
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Jethmalani firm on impeachment motion against SC judge
''Impeachment proceedings must be preceded by a lot of home work. That home work will be that Justice Punchhi will either explain himself to his own peers, which will be enough for me, or he will have the court to institute contempt proceedings against us (the Committee on Judicial Accountability) or file a libel suit,'' said the former Union minister.
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TIPS owner Ramesh Taurani arrested in Gulshan Kumar case
The Bombay police claims he made a 'large payment' to the killers.
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Akash missile test successful again
The missile system was for the first time integrated with the ground-based indigenous Rajendra phased array radar.
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Kashmir hostage crisis nears its climax
A fortnight, two at the most, and the 26-month-old suspense will end -- the world will know whether the Kashmir hostages, abducted by militants in July 1995, are alive or dead.
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Ban on professional blood donors may cause crisis
The move may push the trade underground, making it potentially more dangerous, say doctors.
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Rs 28 billion package to bring back Kashmiri migrants
The return of the natives is the government's first priority, says Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah.
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The States

Mohan Babu gets show-cause notice in AP
Bihar court takes serious view of shifting of Laloo
Rajasthan asked to compensate student who bore teacher's child

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NEWS BRIEFS

Forward Bloc leader Chitta Basu dead
Pranab heads Congress panel
Found at last! Clive's chest of gold

Yeh Hai India!

Gujral goes ga-ga over Dr Abdul Kalam's secularism
The PM calls the DRDO chief -- among other things -- a 'diamond'.
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