Sunday, May 18, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)


 POETESS MURDER CASE 
Mayawati sacks Tripathi
Opposition demands CBI inquiry
Lucknow, May 17
The controversial Uttar Pradesh minister Amar Mani Tripathi, whose alleged relationship with a murdered poetess caused much embarrassment to the government, was sacked from the ministry today.

File photo of Madhumita; and Mayawati talks to the press. 
— PTI photo
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Casablanca blasts kill 40
Casablanca, May 17
Terrorists set off a string of deadly blasts in the heart of Casablanca, killing dozens and damaging a Jewish community centre and two western targets.

Damaged exterior of Hotel Safir following a suicide bomb attack in Casablanca, Morocco’s biggest city, on Saturday. 
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Settle bilateral issues: Sinha
Yashwant Sinha Moscow, May 17
India has ruled out any summit talks with Pakistan until all bilateral issues are “settled” at official-level parleys and asserted that dismantling of the terrorist infrastructure by Islamabad is a must.

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Khan is Pak envoy to India
Islamabad, May 17
Riaz Muhammad KhanDoing exactly what India had done a few days ago, Pakistan today named its Ambassador to China Riaz Muhammad Khan, a career diplomat, as the High Commissioner to India, ending speculation that journalist-turned diplomat Maleeha Lodhi could occupy the key slot.

Pak: no unilateral rollback of  N-programme
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Naggar to have school of art
PM announces Rs 1 crore for gallery
Manali, May 17
Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, today announced that an International School of art would be set up at Naggar village in the memory of Nicholas Roerich, noted Russian artist and philosopher who made this hamlet his permanent abode.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the Roerich Art Gallery at Naggar, near Manali, on Saturday.

Ground for Akali unity ready
Amritsar, May 17
Blueprint for unity between the Shiromani Akali Dal led by Mr Parkash Singh Badal and the Sarb Hind Shiromani Akali Dal (Tohra) is ready. 

Punjab page: Decision on Akali unity likely on May 25

Hope turns into despair at Wagah
Wagah, May 17
Mohinder Kaur along with her grandchildrenDisappointment was writ large on the faces of the families waiting for a re-union with their wards when the Pakistani authorities informed that the repatriation of Punjabi youth languishing in Pakistan jails would take place tomorrow.
Mohinder Kaur along with her grandchildren waits at the Wagah checkpost for her son Surinder Singh who was to be released by Pakistan on Saturday. — PTI photo

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