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Clashes erupt in Baghdad
Threat to kill 30 hostages
Baghdad, April 10
Street fighting erupted in Baghdad today and sporadic gunfire echoed across Falluja despite a new US truce offer and an effort by Iraqi officials to secure a peace deal with insurgents in the western city.

Bush was informed of Sept 11 attacks


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A US Army Abrams tank burns after an attack on a highway junction in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad

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A US Army Abrams tank burns after an attack on a highway junction in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Saturday.
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NDA compromised with security: Cong
New Delhi, April 10
The Congress party’s second vision paper on “Security, defence and foreign policy,” released here today read more like a chargesheet against the NDA government for its all-round failure in these areas.


Bhajan under pressure to quit Cong
Congress launches offensive against PM
Jaitley hits out at Congress

BJP distorting history: Left Front
Kolkata, April 10
The CPM-led Left Front in its ‘election appeal’ to the people, has lashed out at the BJP and other NDA partners for disturbing the country’s unity by using the communal card.

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PUNJAB: Cong factions assure support to CPM in Hoshiarpur

HARYANA: INLD not to use film stars in campaigning

J&K: Two Pak militants shot dead

HIMACHAL: Virbhadra’s remarks against PM uncalled for: Rajnath Singh

NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION: Cong names Tytler, Krishna, Anand

CHANDIGARH: No hope of pension for PU staff

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70-year-old millionaire lives in penury

OPINIONS: Jogi’s re-entry will make our win easier: Raman Singh

BUSINESS: India may attract $1 b fresh FDI, says Ernst & Young

NATION: One killed in attack on RJD office

WORLD: Shiite radicals ready to cease fire

SPORTS: Wright hints at Yuvraj opening the innings


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Tohra’s widow unlikely to contest
Tohra (Patiala), April 10
Mrs Joginder Kaur, widow of the late Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president, Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra, is unlikely to replace Capt Kanwaljit Singh as the SAD’s candidate from the Patiala parliamentary seat even though she may reject the facilities being offered to her by the ruling Congress government.

Punjab page: Tohra set for bhog function

Fresh clashes between LTTE factions
Colombo, April 10

Sri Lanka’s east remained volatile today with unconfirmed reports of fresh clashes between rival Tamil Tiger factions, a day after the worst fighting since a two-year truce halted the island’s civil war.


Lankan Cabinet sworn in

CBSE cancels PMT exam
New Delhi, April 10
The Central Board of Secondary Education tonight cancelled the All-India Pre Medical Entrance Examination which was scheduled to be held tomorrow.

Over 1,000 held  in Nepal
Kathmandu, April 10

Over one thousand pro-democracy activists were rounded up by riot police in Nepal today as they marched towards the palace of King Gyanendra on the 10th day of their agitation, defying a government ban on public gatherings in the kingdom’s capital.

1 killed in car bomb blast in Karachi
Karachi, April 10
A car bomb exploded outside a golf club staging a peace concert, featuring singer Sonu Nigam and Pakistani artists, in Karachi today, killing one person and injuring six others, police and medical officials said.

Dharmendra on sticky wicket
Bikaner, April 10
Dharmendra
Although the Jat from Punjab and the “He-man” of Indian cinema, Dharmendra is not finding himself on a foreign ground in this dusty township, more famous for its ‘Bhujia’, he is definitely trying hard to explain to the people that he is not just a star, but also the people’s man.

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