Saturday, May 10, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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India differs with Armitage
Figures show that infiltration has gone up
New Delhi, May 9
Richard ArmitageThe Vajpayee government is understood to be cool to the official visit of US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and does not expect any major breakthrough. India has sharp differences with the USA over the latter’s contention that infiltration of terrorists from Pakistan to India has gone down in the past few months and is going to present figures and "evidence" in this regard to Mr Armitage, well placed sources in the government said.

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Noting that the statement of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Parliament yesterday regarding the initiatives on the Indo-Pakistan front had helped in dispelling some “suspicions” and “fears”, the RSS today asserted that New Delhi needed to give up signs of war-weariness and reaffirm its position, taken unanimously in Parliament in 1994 on Kashmir.

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The Supreme Court today set aside a Delhi High Court order holding that the intercepted telephonic conversations among Parliament attack accused were not “admissible” evidence under POTA.

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Taking a serious view of two Congress MPs, Mr Jagmeet Singh Brar and Mr Laxman Singh, asking questions from Defence Minister George Fernandes despite his continuing boycott by the party in the Lok Sabha, the Congress has served show-cause notices to the MPs and relieved Mr Brar of his position as a whip of the party.

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