Saturday, May 13, 2000, Chandigarh, India

LTTE signal centre smashed
Rebels kill nine soldiers
COLOMBO, May 12 (UNI, PTI) — Sri Lankan troops today destroyed the Pooneryn Signal Centre, used by the LTTE for communication within their cadres from across the Jaffna lagoon, amid claims by the rebels that they were getting closer to Jaffna city centre.

Govt denies LTTE claims on Jaffna

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Children from a Kashmir border village play at a refugee camp in Srinagar on Friday. Thousands of villagers of Kupwara district, near the Indo-Pak border, migrated recently to safer places after Pakistan artillery intensified firing. — AFP photo

11 massacred in Bihar
LAKHISARAI (Bihar), May 12  — Eleven persons, including 10 labourers of backward communities, were killed, and four seriously injured when unidentified assailants sprayed bullets at them at Balughat in Lakhisarai district late last night, the police said today.

27 die in mishap near Doda
JAMMU, May 12 — At least 27 passengers were killed and 33 wounded when the bus in which they were travelling rolled down a steep slope near Bharatpur on the Ghat-Doda road in Doda district this morning. Six women were among those killed while four children were among those seriously injured.


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Bibi Jagir KaurHarpreet KaurHarpreet’s death: foetus exhumed
PHAGWARA, May 12 — After keeping mediapersons on tenterhooks for six hours, the local administration today exhumed a female foetus from the Hoshiarpur road cremation ground.
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P. S. BadalBadal camp sweeps DSGMC poll
NEW DELHI, May 12 — The Tohra faction of the Shiromani Akali Dal today received a major set back as the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) candidates were elected unopposed to the executive of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC).

Woes of a victim of travel agents’ greed
BATHINDA, May 12 — “I don’t know whether I will come back to India, alive or not. The sub-agents has been forcing me to do labour like a donkey to pay him back the money he spent to get me released from a Greek jail”, writes Boota Singh of Pitho village of this district to his parents in a letter from Greece.
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