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This image photographed at about midnight (Alaska Standard time) on Thursday shows aurora over the Matanuska glacier and the Chugach mountains in the southeast sky. The Matanuska glacier is about 100 miles northeast of Anchorage. Without any moon, the glacier doesn’t show very well. A second huge magnetic solar storm hit Earth on Thursday, just a day after an earlier one hurtled into the planet in what one astronomer called an unprecedented one-two punch. “It’s like the Earth is looking right down the barrel of a giant gun pointed at us by the sun and it’s taken two big shots at us,” said John Kohl of the
Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts.
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Charles mingles
with villagers, avoids Indian scribes
Kutail Gamri (Karnal),
October 31
The Prince of Wales has supported
the campaign to immunise more than 100 million children in India as part
of an ongoing programme to eradicate polio in the country. He has also
hailed the UK Department for International Development for providing £
100 million aid to India to eradicate this disease.
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Unauthorised
‘ahatas’ dot Haryana highways
Chandigarh, October 31
“Peeo te jeeo” (drink and
live), “Daroo-di-e-band botle,  tainu peenage nasiban wale” (o,
sealed bottle of liquor, someone lucky will consume you) scream the
slogans painted on liquor vends located on the national highway No 1 in
Ambala, Kurukshetra and Karnal districts.
CAMERA SHY: Two young men hide their faces as Tribune cameraman Karam Singh takes a picture of open an ‘ahata’ on The Chandigarh-Ambala road, near Lalru, on Thursday.
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Kashmir-specific proposals rejected
October 31, 2003
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Pak accepts
proposals, but harps on Kashmir
October 30, 2003
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1 dead, 37 hurt in Srinagar CTO blast
October 29, 2003
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Series of explosions rock Baghdad, 37 dead
October 28, 2003
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Pak
response to peace moves by next week
October 27, 2003
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Talks not at
cost of unity, says Advani
October 25, 2003
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Hurriyat
cautious
October 24, 2003
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Fresh
move to improve ties with Pakistan
October 23, 2003
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Govt
raises ceiling on poll expenses
October 22, 2003
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Militants
take eight villagers hostage
October 21, 2003
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