Wednesday, July 11, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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30 pc cut in PDS wheat, rice prices
Consumers above poverty line to benefit
New Delhi, July 10
Wheat and rice will become cheaper by 30 per cent for above poverty line consumers buying foodgrains from the ration shops. Foodgrain prices for below poverty line consumers has not been touched as they are getting wheat and rice at 60 per cent less than the economic cost in the ration shops.

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Kashmiri children walk to school along the Indian road which leads to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan, at Lal Pul, 117 km west of Srinagar. Kashmiri children walk to school along the Indian road which leads to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan, at Lal Pul, 117 km west of Srinagar. The 183-km Srinagar to Muzaffarabad road, which was the main route for travellers to independent Kashmir from the rest of the world, was blocked after a bridge was blown up at the start of the 1947 war between India and Pakistan. — Reuters photo

Pak rejects DGMOs’ meeting
Says talks should focus on Kashmir, not visa
New Delhi, July 10
In a move seen clearly as part of building pressure on India, Pakistan today formally rejected the proposal of holding talks between the Director Generals of Military Operations of the two countries before the Agra summit.

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Opening land route dangerous
Security agencies say move populist
Amritsar, July 10
Intelligence and security agencies are apprehensive about the opening of land route to Pakistan and feel it is a populist move to catch Muslim votes. Such a step may jeopardise the security of the country as it will facilitate espionage activity at the behest of the Inter Services Intelligence.

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Charges framed against Sukh Ram
New Delhi, July 10
Almost five years after the raids by the CBI and seizure of cash and property worth more than Rs 6 crore, a designated court here today framed charges against former Communications Minister Sukh Ram.
Dasgupta dead
Kolkata, July 10
Veteran Marxist leader and Chairman of the Left Front Sailen Dasgupta (82) died in a Mumbai hospital tonight after a protracted illness. 

CBI seeks nod to prosecute Laloo
Patna, July 10
The CBI has sought the Governor’s permission to prosecute former state Chief Ministers Laloo Prasad Yadav and Dr Jagannath Mishra, along with 72 others, in connection with a fresh conspiracy angle case related to the multi-crore-rupees-fodder scam.

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The missing War Diary
Chandigarh, July 10
A controversy has arisen over the alleged mishandling and mispossession of highly classified operational documents by some officers of the Leh-based 3 Infantry Division. 

Labourer kept in chains
Rescued by social workers
Fatehabad, July 10
In an act of sheer barbarism, a farm labourer was kept as a bonded labourer with his hands and legs chained by a land owner at Lamba village in this district. The poor man was rescued by social workers with the help of the local administration.

A senior BSF officer inspects an IED fitted in an LPG cylinder, recovered by the troops in Rainawari locality of Srinagar on Tuesday.RDX found on yatra route 
Srinagar, July 10
The BSF today foiled an attempt by militants to trigger explosions and disrupt the Amarnath yatra with the recovery of 14 kg of RDX from the Srinagar-Baltal route, the main route to the cave shrine, a BSF spokesman said.

A senior BSF officer inspects an IED fitted in an LPG cylinder, recovered by the troops in Rainawari locality of Srinagar on Tuesday. — Photo Amin War

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