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Punjab demands
Rs 300 cr aid
NEW DELHI, Oct 20 — The Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, today said the unseasonal rains in the state had caused losses worth Rs 1,000 crore to the farm sector and demanded a Central assistance of Rs 300 crore to provide relief to paddy and cotton growers in the state.The demand was raised at a meeting the Punjab Chief Minister held with the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, at his 7, Race Course official residence. 		Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, accompanied by Union Home Minister S. S. Barnala and Punjab Finance Minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh met the Prime Minister to discuss the crisis in the farm sector in Punjab.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, accompanied by Union Home Minister S. S. Barnala and Punjab Finance Minister Kanwaljit Singh, met the Prime Minister to discuss the crisis in the farm sector in Punjab.
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16,000 shifted to safer areas
NEW DELHI, Oct 20 — The steady rise in the water-level of the Yamuna is expected to reach 206 metres, one metre above the danger mark, tonight. Around 16,000 persons who were living in low-lying areas have been shifted to safer areas.		 Sahib
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10 feared drowned in Sutlej
JALANDHAR, Oct 20 — Ten persons were feared drowned in a boat tragedy in the Sutlej river near village Khera Fauja Singh in Nakodar sub-division of the district on Sunday.

Festive spirit marks Divali in region
CHANDIGARH, Oct 20 — Pleasant weather, after four days of incessant rain, warned up people of the region to the festive spirit of Divali.Rows of earthen lamps, candles and flickering electric bulbs on houses and bazaars brightened up the region.

4 militants held, arms recovered
GURDASPUR, Oct 20 — An unusual case of "people smuggling" by Punjab militants has come to light with the arrest of four members of a newly formed "terrorist group," including a would-be human bomb.

12 dead, 30 hurt in bus accident
SHIMLA, Oct 20 – At least 12 persons were killed and 30 injured, 17 of them critically, when a bus plunged into a gorge near Durgaghat, some 34km from here, this evening, the police said.

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Militants fortify border hideouts
SUNDERBANI, Oct 20 — There is fear writ large on the faces of the majority of residents of this subdivision of this border district. 		Attack at Siachen repulsed

Troops destroy six Pak bunkers

Gen Beg admits Pak incursions in J&K
LONDON, Oct 20 — A former Pakistan Army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg, has admitted to Pakistani troops making incursions into Jammu and Kashmir in 1990 when the Islamabad-sponsored militancy in the state was at its peak.


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