Friday, April 4, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Baghdad airport attacked
Iraq downs US plane, seven troops killed
Dubai/Baghdad, April 3
The Iraqi capital’s international airport came under US artillery fire this evening, leaving dozens killed or injured, even as invading US forces moved towards Baghdad from two directions and were 10 km away from its centre. Earlier, Iraq downed a US helicopter, killing seven troops.
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Iraqi forces positioned on the frontline of the Kurdish-controlled zone and Kifri have been falling back to new positions and regrouping towards Mosul and Kirkuk. (28k, 56k)

World page: Arab nations call for UN Assembly

	Edit page: The allied race to Baghdad Soldiers of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Fox Company ‘Raiders’ secure a bridge over the Euphrates river in the town of Nassariya in Central Iraq on Thursday.  — Reuters photo

Air passengers to be screened for SARS
New Delhi, April 3
The government today decided to screen passengers from all the countries at airports for the symptoms related to unknown pneumonia rather than limiting it to those from where the virus has been reported, officials said today.
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Editorial: Timely SARS alert
World page: WHO team in SARS epicentre

Vohra to begin talks on April 20
New Delhi, April 3
Former Home Secretary N.N. Vohra, who has been appointed the interlocutor by the Centre to talk to all groups in Jammu and Kashmir, said today that he would begin his work on April 20.

Stop infiltration, UK tells Pak
New Delhi, April 3
Britain has voiced concern over the “increasing evidence” of infiltration across the Line of Control from Pakistan and said it wanted to see Islamabad “encouraging” an end to all kinds of militant and terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir.

23 massacred by Hmar ultras
Guwahati, April 3
In one of the worst ethnic clashes in recent times, 23 Dimachas were killed by suspected Hmar militants in the Cachar districts of Assam.

Sachin in legal battle with CA
Mumbai, April 3
Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar today deposed before a five-member disciplinary committee of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India after filing a complaint against his chartered accountant Madhav Bhatkhande over a financial dispute.

SC dismisses Bhullar's plea
New Delhi, April 3
The Supreme Court has turned down a last-minute appeal by Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, convicted and sentenced to death in the 1993 case pertaining to an assassination attempt on the then Youth Congress president Maninderjit Singh Bitta, to escape the capital punishment.

Ash to be out of action for month
Mumbai, April 3
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai would be out of action for over a month due to the “significant” fracture on her left leg, the doctor attending on her said here today.
Former Miss World and Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai being taken to hospital in Mumbai early on Thursday. —  Reuters photo

Rockfall claims five lives
Shimla, April 3
The higher reaches in tribal areas of Kinnaur, Lahaul-Spiti and Pangi had another spell of heavy snowfall during the past 24 hours while the mid-hills, including the state capital, were lashed by hailstorm followed by showers, causing a sharp fall in temperature.

3 of family shot in Kashmir Srinagar, April 3 Four persons, including three members of a single family, were killed in separate incidents in the Kashmir valley since last night.