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Explosives
seized from train
GUWAHATI, Dec 2 (PTI) — In one of the largest
seizures of explosives in recent times, the Army here has
found among other things 2,840 gelatine sticks and 3,400
detonators from two compartments of the Brahmaputra
Express which arrived here from New Delhi yesterday. The
seizures also include Army uniforms and 26 bundles of
fuse wires, Major Ramesh Menon of the 21, Mountain
Division, which made the seizure, said today.Meeting
CHENNAI, Dec 2 (PTI) — AIADMK chief Jayalalitha has
no plans to visit New Delhi tomorrow to take part in a
meeting in which Congress president Sonia Gandhi is
taking part, an AIADMK press note said here today.
"Fire"
screening
MUMBAI, Dec 2 (PTI) — Scores of women members of the
Shiv Sena today stormed two cinema houses here and
stopped screening of the controversial movies
"Fire", protesting against the
"unwarranted vulgarity" in the film. Raising
slogans, agitators assembled outside cinema halls in
Goregaon and South Mumbai and burnt down the posters of
the film.
25 dead in Vietnam
HANOI, Dec 2 (AFP) — At least 25 persons were killed
when a gold mine in northern Vietnam collapsed, a report
said today. The Lao Dong newspaper said heavy rainfall
had caused erosion and the eventual collapse of the mine
in a remote mountainous area in the northern province of
Thai Binh.
Visas overstayed
BANGKOK, Dec 2 (Reuters) — The Thai police said
today four Pakistanis it feared had been plotting a bomb
attack during the Asian Games were not terrorists but
businessmen who had overstayed their visas. Assistant
National Police Chief Lieut-Col Thawatchai Pailee told a
news conference that suspected bomb-making components,
which police earlier said had been seized from suspects,
had not belonged to them.
Gunmen open fire
IMPHAL, Dec 2 (PTI) — Unidentified gunmen opened
fire at the private residence of Manipur Minister of
Planning and Revenue Elangbam Kunjeshwar Singh at the
Wangkhei Yonglan Leirak area in Imphal East district last
night, official sources said today.
3 killed
NEW DELHI, Dec 2 (UNI) — Three persons were killed
and at least 15 injured, two seriously, when a
four-storeyed building under construction collapsed in
the Lal Kuan area of the walled city today.
Mizo ministry
AIZAWL, Dec 2 (PTI) — A 10-member ministry led by
Mizo National Front (MNF) president Zoramthanga,
comprising five members each from the MNF and the Mizoram
People's Conference (MPC) would be sworn in tomorrow,
official sources said here toady.
12 massacred
ALGIERS, Dec 2 (AFP) — As many as 12 persons were
murdered by suspected armed Islamists west of Algiers
overnight, security services announced today. The attack
was carried out at Sidi Rached, near Tipaza, 70 km west
of the ALgerian capital.
BNP fast
DHAKA, Dec 2 (ANI) — Thousands of opposition
activists, protesting against "undemocratic"
government policies, launched a day-long fast here today.
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader
Khaleda Zia led the rally on Dhaka's Paltan Maidan
avenue.
Pak missile
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2 (Reuters) — Pakistani scientists
have built the subcontinent’s most modern
surface-to-surface missile and are awaiting a government
signal to launch it, the head of a missile project today
was quoted as saying. Dr Samar Mubarakmand, head of the
missile project of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission,
was quoted by The News as saying that the 759-km range
Shaheen was three times more powerful than India’s
Prithvi missile.
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