Monday, September 22, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

RAW officer, 2 others killed in Rajouri blast
Jammu, September 21
An officer of the intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Mr A.C. Dutta, and two others were killed in an explosion in the main bazaar of the border district of Rajouri today. As many as 27 persons were injured and the condition of six of them was critical. One of the Rajouri blast injured being brought to Jammu Medical College and Hospital on Sunday.
One of the Rajouri blast injured being brought to Jammu Medical College and Hospital on Sunday. An IED exploded in Rajouri on Sunday, killing three persons.
— Photo by Sarbjeet Singh

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Tripathi arrested for Madhumita’s murder
Madhumita Lucknow, September 21
Former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi was today arrested by the CBI in the poetess Madhumita murder case, more than five months after she was slained, following the matching of his blood sample with the foetus of her child.

Verdict unfortunate, says Joshi
Allahabad, September 21
In his first public comments after resigning from the Union Cabinet, Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi today termed as “unfortunate” the Rae Bareli Special Court’s decision to frame charges against him in the Babri mosque demolition case and dismissed as “baseless” allegations about his involvement in the incident.

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Vajpayee, Bush meeting rescheduled
New York, September 21
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will meet President George W Bush on September 24, the same day Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf also meets the US leader separately, when the American request for Indian troops in Iraq may also figure.

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Dawood in Pak, admits minister
New Delhi, September 21
Years after India claimed that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was based in Karachi, a senior Pakistani minister has for the first time admitted his presence in the country and that he had acquired “substantial interests” there, according to media reports.

Mysterious fever claims five more lives
Shimla, September 21
While doctors at IGMC Hospital await the final report of the NICD (National Institute of Communicable Disease), the mysterious fever claimed five more lives during the past 24 hours .

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Once prosperous, Jammu farmers now
on dole
Ranbirsingh Pura, (Indo-Pak Border), September 21
With a major chunk of their fertile land producing high-quality basmati rice having come under landmines buried by the Army to prevent infiltration from across the border, the once prosperous farmers of the border belt of Jammu and Kathua districts are now living on government dole. A board warns against landmines in Suchetgarh in Jammu district.
A board warns against landmines in Suchetgarh in Jammu district.
— A Tribune photograph

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