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Rs 300 crore for flood-hit UP
India, Nepal to
build bundhs


LUCKNOW, Sept 10 — Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today announced several schemes totalling Rs 300 crore for flood-affected Uttar Pradesh and said the country would form a joint strategy with Nepal to build bundhs on certain rivers causing recurring floods in the state.
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee talking to flood victims during his visit to a relief camp at Gorkahpur on Thursday. —PTI
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee talking to flood victims during his visit to a relief camp at Gorkahpur on Thursday. —PTI
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Sonia to visit Golden Temple
KHADOOR SAHIB (Amritsar), Sept 10 — After paying obeisance at the Golden Temple and the Durgiana Mandir on September 27, Ms Sonia Gandhi, Congress president, will tour the state to rejuvenate the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee which suffered a "humiliating" defeat in the previous Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.

Congress not for Rabri's ouster
NEW DELHI, Sept 10 — The Congress today declined to demand the dismissal of the Rabri Devi government in Bihar and maintained that Article 356 of the Constitution should be sparingly used strictly within the Supreme Court guidelines spelt out in the S.R. Bommai case.

Yeltsin nominates Primakov as PM
MOSCOW, Sept 10 — The Russian President, Mr Boris Yeltsin, today nominated the Foreign Minister, Mr Yevgeny Primakov, to be the Prime Minister in a bid to end bitter dispute with Parliament, which has stalled efforts to stem the economic crisis.

CTBT: India refuses to be pressurised
BERLIN, Sept 10 — India will not buckle under pressure from any country to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty but is open to negotiations with major powers on the issue, official sources said here today.

Pak changes stand on CTBT

Vajpayee, Sharif to meet in New York
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10 — Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif will try to reach an agreement on resumption of the stalled bilateral dialogue process during their meeting in New York later this month, a Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman said here today.

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Police claims breakthrough in Chamba massacre case

SHIMLA, Sept 10 — The police has achieved a breakthrough in the massacre of 39 persons by Kashmiri militants in Satrundi, Kalaban and Sappa Choli areas of the Chamba district with the arrest of another Gujjar, Kasim Khan.

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