Tuesday, September 16, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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Dara, 12 others convicted for killing Staines
Sentence on September 22
Bhubaneswar, September 15
A Khurda Sessions Court today pronounced Dara Singh and 12 others guilty of burning alive Australian Missionary Graham Stewart Staines and his two sons Phillips (11) and Timothy (7) in the Keonjhar forests four years ago. District and Sessions Judge Mahendra Nath Pattnaik would deliver the sentence on September 22.


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Dara Singh is surrounded by police officers as he arrives at a special court in Bhubaneswar on Monday. — AFP photo

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VHP ultimatum to Centre on Ram temple
New Delhi, September 15
Vishwa Hindu Parishad International President Ashok Singhal comes out after attending a party meeting in New Delhi on Monday.
Setting the agenda for the coming elections in the country, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad today served an ultimatum on the Centre that it would launch a countrywide agitation if the government failed to bring in a legislation for Ram temple in Ayodhya by October 15.


VHP International President Ashok Singhal comes out after attending a party meeting in New Delhi on Monday. — PTI photo

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Cancun, September 15
A bitter North-South rift over industrialised nations’ demands for taking up contentious issues like trade and investment overriding agriculture spelt doom for the fifth Ministerial Conference of the WTO, which collapsed without coming out with a final declaration.

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Geelani heads breakaway Hurriyat group
Syed Ali Shah Geelani Srinagar, September 15
Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has been unanimously elected chairman of the breakaway group of the Hurriyat Conference, a week after the split in the separatist conglomerate. An announcement to this effect was made by interim chairman Masarrat Alam Bhat in the presence of Geelani here this afternoon.
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PU says it is not of Harbeant
Amritsar, September 15
The beleaguered SGPC secretary, Mr Harbeant Singh, is in a fix following the fact finding report submitted by the flying squad which has found his matriculation certificate to be bogus. However, Mr Harbeant Singh has refuted the charge that his certificate was bogus as he has been working in the SGPC since 1968 on the basis of this certificate.

Kashmir’s village of widows
Chuk Seer (Srinagar), September 15
In the twilight of her life, 60-year-old Sarah hears news about the death of some persons in Kashmir and sighs, “There, now we will have more widows and some orphans too.” Tears well up in her eyes as she looks at four widows in her own family besides almost 40 others working outside in the fields or cursing their ill-luck sitting in a corner of the thatched huts in this unique ‘village of widows’ on the Srinagar-Baramula highway.
Ameena Bano (extreme right), with her two daughters, tells the tragic story of her life at her home in Chuk Seer village in Pattan. Her husband was killed by assailants on his farm. Ameena Bano (extreme right), with her two daughters, tells the tragic story of her life at her home in Chuk Seer village in Pattan. Her husband was killed by assailants on his farm.
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