Tuesday, March 27, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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Lashkar men storm CRPF camp, kill 4
Curfew reimposed in Baramula
Srinagar, March 26
In a major strike, a suicide squad of the Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) today stormed a security camp here killing four Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and one ultra perished in retaliatory fire.


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Villagers stand under the debris of a residential house gutted during a gunbattle at Dadoora village in Pulwama district, about 32 km south of Srinagar, on Sunday night.J&K page
Truce no solution: Omar Farooq

Srinagar, March 26
Former All-Party Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Omar Farooq has said “only political initiative and not patchwork like the ceasefire” will solve the 53-year-old Kashmir issue.





Villagers stand under the debris of a residential house gutted during a gunbattle at Dadoora village in Pulwama district, about 32 km south of Srinagar, on Sunday night. — Reuters photo

Laloo does balancing act
Patna, March 26
Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav, the RJD supremo and ‘de facto’ ruler of Bihar, did the balancing act on Siwan issue today. He, as expected, stole the show. Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav, while visiting the Pratappur village of the controversial
RJD MP of Siwan, Mohammed Shahabuddin, apparently 
to appease the minority community ministers and MLAs
of his party, today said that the MP was his younger brother.

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Cong meets Mamata on seat sharing
Kolkata, March 26

In a significant development after the Trinamool Congress (TC) pulled out of the NDA government, Congress leader Kamal Nath had a meeting with TC Chief Mamata Banerjee on seat adjustments between the two parties in the coming assembly elections.

Custodial death at Ellenabad, 6 cops suspended
Sirsa, March 26
Tension prevails in Ellenabad following the death of a person in police custody late last night. Angry residents raised slogans against the administration and damaged the jeep of the SDM and property at the police station.

Benicio Del Toro, Marcia Gay Harden, Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe share a laugh with their Oscars after the 73rd annual Academy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on Monday. From left: Benicio Del Toro, Marcia Gay Harden, Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe share a laugh with their Oscars after the 73rd annual Academy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on Monday. Del Toro was honoured as Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Traffic”, Harden as Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Pollock”, Roberts as Best Actress for her role in “Erin Brockovich” and Crowe as Best Actor for his role in “Gladiator”. — Reuters photo (World page)

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India clocks 1.02 billion
New Delhi, March 26
India has touched a population of over 1.02 billion as on March 1 this year, according to new census figures released today.

‘Sub-teachers’ in border schools
Staff absenteeism alarming, says minister
Amritsar, March 26
For the first time, a Cabinet Minister, Dr Rattan Singh, who hails from the border belt, has publicly admitted that government teachers, hardly visit their places of posting and have appointed ‘sub-teachers’ in their place.

Seven Principals reverted as lecturers
New promotion policy makes them ineligible

Bathinda, March 26
As many as seven officiating principals of various government colleges have come in for a rude shock as they have been reverted as lecturers by the state education authorities via a new promotion policy. Though in legal terms the accordance of the status of “current duty charge principal” to a lecturer is not considered a promotion, the education authorities seem to have humiliated them, making their juniors as principals.

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