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Kargil controversy brews
NEW DELHI,
Feb 17 — The controversy over the circumstances
which led to the Pakistani intrusion into Kargil last
year refuses to die down with the Army now putting the
blame squarely on three senior officers and on the other
hand one of the officers held responsible writing to the
President, Mr K.R. Narayanan, that the Army chief, Gen V.
P. Malik, was trying to buy him out. Clinton’s
offer on Kashmir
WASHINGTON,
Feb 17 — In the run up to his visit to New Delhi
next month, President Bill Clinton has said the US wants
to be “more involved” in resolving the Kashmir
issue but both India and Pakistan must agree for such a
mediation.
‘Single-party
rule days over’
MEHAM, Feb 17
— Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister, Andhra
Pradesh, has said the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and
his Telugu Desam Party will work together to strengthen
the federal spirit in the country.
Exit
poll: NDA has edge in Bihar
NEW
DELHI, Feb 17 — A Doordarshan exit poll tonight
forecast that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance
(NDA) will bag 118 of the 216 seats which went to the
polls in first two phases of Bihar Assembly elections,
while the BJD-BJP combine in Orissa is poised to secure
56 of the 70 seats in the first phase held today.
10
injured in train blast
NEW
DELHI, Feb 17 — At least 10 persons were injured,
two of them seriously in a bomb blast in the
Lucknow-bound Gomati Express late night near Jhinjhak
station near Kanpur in the Allahabad section of the
Northern Railway late tonight.
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