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June 30, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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India,
Canada for strong defence ties Israeli
jets violate Lebanese airspace Surgery of
British patients in India Shahbaz’s
wife, daughters go underground
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USA
committed to end terrorism CIA chief High winds
delay NASA Mars launch Rally car
kills woman, infant Empty
chairs greet Bollywood stars
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India, Canada for strong defence ties Toronto, June 29 The Indian Navy chief, Admiral Madhvendra Singh, who is here on a goodwill visit, today said he discussed “matters of mutual interest” during his meeting with the Chief of Canadian Defence Staff, R.R. Henault, and the Chief of Canadian Navy, Vice-Admiral R.D. Buck, yesterday. They also agreed to find ways and means to boost cooperation between the two countries, he said. The Navy chief joined thousands of Indo-Canadians in welcoming the Tarangini when it touched Toronto’s waters yesterday. The sail training ship is here as part of its global goodwill visit during which it will visit 36 ports in 17 countries and provide training to over 400 Indian and 18 foreign navy cadets in basic elements of oceanography. The Tarangini, which began its voyage from Kochi in January, will be docked here till July 3. The last Indian ship to come to a Canadian port was the INS Brahmaputra in 1967. Later, Admiral Madhvendra Singh and other Navy personnel were honoured by the Indian community at a function. The chief was also presented a certificate of honour by Member of Ontario Parliament Joe Spina. Speaking on the occasion, Consul General of India Divyabh Manchanda said people of Indian origin might be entitled to get dual citizenship by the end of this year.
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Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace Sidon (Lebanon), June 29 Four jets flew over the southern ports of Tyre and Sidon, breaking the sound barrier and prompting Lebanese anti-aircraft machineguns to go into action, the police said. The planes also flew at areas located at the Israeli-Lebanese border, provoking Hizbollah’s anti-aircraft batteries also to go into action as the planes violated airspace over the western border area. Hizbollah fire has never hit any Israeli planes, but forces them to fly at higher altitudes. Incidents of Israeli planes flying over Lebanon have decreased since a period of intense activity in the area at the start of April following the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. UN forces in Lebanon have repeatedly called on Israel to end its violations of Lebanese
airspace. JERUSALEM: Israel will begin pulling its forces back from the Gaza Strip on Monday in a disengagement deal backing a new plan for peace with Palestinians, Israeli security sources said on Sunday. They confirmed accounts from Palestinian officials who held high-level talks with Israelis to iron out details of the pull-out, which would boost the U.S. efforts to line up the wary sides behind the “road map” peace plan. “Israel will start withdrawing on Monday,” a senior security source told Reuters of the deal, which emerged even though Palestinian militant factions put off for 24-48 hours a formal ceasefire declaration that had been expected on Sunday. The “road map” calls for a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank by 2005 after confidence-building steps by each side. The U.S. presidential adviser, Ms Condoleezza Rice, was meeting Israeli leaders on Sunday to push the fragile process forward.”
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to boycott BBC Jerusalem, June 29 The programme was broadcast for the first time in March in Britain, and was rerun yesterday on the BBC’s world service.
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Surgery of British patients in India London, June 29 NHS chiefs were currently in talks with medical authorities in India to consider the proposals in a bid to cut the waiting lists, the Sunday Times said. A Department of Health spokesperson, however, said patients would only be sent to India in exceptional circumstances. Dr Yaswant
Mehrotra, Managing Director of India’s Apollo hospital network, said: “We expect negotiations to work out within months. Once this arrangement is in place, patients on British waiting lists can be transferred to Apollo’s cardiac, orthopaedic and ophthalmology departments. “The facility will be available not only for non-resident Indians but any patient wishing an early appointment and treatment”, he said. The Indian operations would cost around £ 3,000, half the price of surgery in Britain, including the cost of the 12,800-km return flight. More than a million people in the UK were currently on the NHS waiting lists. One had to wait up to nine months for a cataract operation and six months for a heart surgery here. More than 1,000 British patients had operations abroad last year, including 200 in a trial programme which sent them to France and Germany. If the scheme for operations in Europe proved a success, NHS patients could soon find themselves sent to Mumbai or Delhi, the report said. The Confederation of Indian Industry had sent a delegation to Britain to discuss the possibility of British insurance companies recognising Indian hospitals. The move to ease the burden on the NHS came despite record government increases in health spending but would be an acute embarrassment for Prime Minister Tony Blair who promised to halt the rise in waiting lists.
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Shahbaz’s wife, daughters go
underground Islamabad, June 29 The police launched a frantic search for Shahbaz’s wife Nusrat and their daughters Rabia and Javeria as they could not find them in their houses yesterday, reports from Lahore said. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Faisel Saleh Hayat said yesterday that the three would be sent back to Jeddah where the Sharifs had been exiled. As the police continued a manhunt for the three, Shahbaz’s son Hamza filed a writ petition in the high court to prevent the deportation of his mother and sisters and sought the restoration of water and power connections to their house. The court ordered the immediate restoration of the water and power connections and listed the case for hearing tomorrow.
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Leader of pro-Iraqi PLO faction arrested RAMALLAH (West Bank), June 29 The movement, which broke away from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in the 1970’s, confirmed the arrest of its leader, who sits in the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s central council. The leader of the PLF is Mohammad Abbas — better known as Abu Abbas — the mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro who was captured in April by the US troops in Baghdad. The Army arrested Rakat Salem, secretary-general of the Arab Liberation Front, another pro-Iraqi PLO faction, which distributed Iraqi money to relatives of suicide bombers.
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USA committed to end terrorism CIA chief Washington, June 29 “Our foe is ruthless, resilient, and hides among innocent people.... on one point there can be no doubt - we will prevail,” CIA chief George Tenet said while addressing the George Town School of Foreign Service recently.
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winds delay NASA Mars launch Cape Canaveral, June 29 The launch is now scheduled for 11:46 p.m. tonight (09.26 a.m. IST tomorrow) with a second launch window, if needed, set for 12:28 a.m. (09.58 a.m. IST) at the Air Force base adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center here. The weather is expected to improve overnight and forecasters see a 70 per cent chance of favourable conditions, he said.
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Rally car kills woman, infant Geneva, June 29 An unnamed competitor careered into the woman and her daughter, who was in a pushchair, after the car encountered mechanical problems on the 10th stage of the event between Montreux and Bex. A 21-year-old male spectator was also hurt and is in hospital in Lausanne. Organisers said that 1,500 Swiss francs would be given to the family of the victims. Swissinfo.org reported on Sunday that the public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into the safety procedures at the event, which is part of the Swiss Rally Championship.
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Empty chairs greet Bollywood stars Durban, June 29 Only 2,000 persons turned up for the show which saw the likes of stars such as Kareena Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Urmila Matondkar and Daler Mehendi. Those who attended the show at Kingsmead Cricket Stadium attributed the poor turnover of crowd to highly priced tickets. Despite the poor turnout, the actors and the singer tried their best to cheer up the crowd. Akshay Kumar won the hearts of the small crowd with his sequence of dance, songs and interaction with people.
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