Wednesday, April 23, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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17 Pak ultras shot in encounters
Jammu, April 22
Seventeen Pak ultras were killed today by the Army in two encounters in the border districts of Poonch and Rajouri. According to reports reaching here, 13 of these terrorists were killed in the Surankot area of Poonch and 4 others were shot dead at Kalakot in Rajouri.

World page: Pak plans to step up infiltration, says India

Blast kills six in Pulwama
Srinagar, April 22
Six civilians, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed and 10 injured when militants set off a powerful improvised explosive device that intended to target security personnel in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir today.

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Relatives of Bashir Ahmad wail after his death Edit page: Slaughter of the innocent is not jehad

Relatives of Bashir Ahmad wail after his death in an explosion in Khul Gulshanpora, 45 km south of Srinagar, on Tuesday. 
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CPI seeks greater autonomy for J&K
N.N. VohraSrinagar, April 22
The government should grant greater autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir and resolve all contentious issues, including Kashmir, with Pakistan through talks for a lasting solution to the Kashmir problem, the CPI today told the Centre’s interlocuter, Mr N.N. Vohra.

UN weapons inspectors to visit Pak
Islamabad, April 22

A three-member United Nations team is arriving in Pakistan on April 29 to look for chemical weapons, says ‘The News’.

Balwant Gargi dead
Balwant GargiNew Delhi, April 22
Renowned Punjabi dramatist and short story writer, Balwant Gargi, was cremated here today. 


  Edit page:  ‘No mourning on my death, please’
 
Chandigarh page: Balwant Gargi — prodigal son of Punjabi prose

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Govt tells truckers to end stir
New Delhi, April 22
The Centre today appealed to agitating truckers to call off their nine-day-old strike as “it would help in creating a congenial atmosphere”. 

Trident distribution to continue: Togadia
Praveen Togadia Ajmer, April 22

Soon after his release from prison on bail on the condition that he would not defy the ban on trident distribution in Rajasthan, an unrelenting VHP leader Praveen Togadia today announced that the programme would continue in the state.

POTA a national necessity, Centre tells SC
New Delhi, April 22
In the Supreme Court today, the Centre justified the enactment of the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the ground that such a law had become a national necessity for protecting the security, sovereignty and integrity of the country.

PMT scam: agent held
Amritsar, April 22
The police has arrested Amrik Singh from a place near Patiala, who was working as an agent for the Sirhind-based rice miller Devinder Singh Pappu, allegedly involved in the multi-crore CBSE PMT scam. 


Where all are not equal
Dalits not allowed into temple
Mandor (Patiala), April 22
All are not equal as far as the shrine of Baba Bhola Nath in this village, 17 km from here, on the Nabha road is concerned. Dalits are not allowed entry into the temple. If some Dalit wants to pay obeisance he has to put his offerings on a few loose bricks kept outside the temple.

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