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Wednesday, September 8, 2004, Chandigarh, India
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Natwar, Kasuri promise visa-free travel to journalists
New Delhi, September 7
External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri played to the gallery this evening. They exhibited their newly-struck personal chemistry and made spontaneous announcements of a liberal visa-free regime for journalists of the two countries.

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Kasuri’s ‘anti-India’ stand ruffles BJP

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Manmohan, Musharraf may meet on Sept 22
New Delhi, September 7
As the first round of 'composite dialogue’ between India and Pakistan wound up here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President General Pervez Musharraf could have their first meeting on September 22 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York.

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Pak army to shift headquarters

Soren not released
Fails to give passport details

Jamtara (Jharkhand), September 7
Though a Dumka court today granted bail to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Sibu Soren in a case relating to election violence in 2004, he could not be released as he was unable to give his passport number to a Giridih court as demanded.
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Janmashtami celebrated
Curd flows as the top person of a human pyramid breaks a curd pot hung from a decorated rope between buildings on the occasion of Krishna Janmashtami, the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, in Mumbai Mumbai, September 7

Human pyramids were formed to break ‘dahi-handis’ (curd pots) and people from all walks of life thronged temples since midnight last night to celebrate ‘’Janmashtami’’.
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Curd flows as the top person of a human pyramid breaks a curd pot hung from a decorated rope between buildings on the occasion of Krishna Janmashtami, the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, in Mumbai on Tuesday. 
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PUNJAB: Govt urged to take up turban ban issue with France

HARYANA: I’ll contest poll only to be CM: Bhajan

J&K: Kasuri fails to unite Hurriyat leaders

HIMACHAL: Doctors warn govt in NPA issue

DELHIMBA admission seekers duped of Rs 70 lakh

CHANDIGARH: PU red tape gives athletes anxious moments

LUDHIANA: Petrol station vandalised, tanks dug out

OPINIONS: Avoidable growth

BUSINESS: Working conditions for women discriminatory: ILO

NATION: Manipur stir to be intensified

WORLD: Massive rally against terrorism in Moscow

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Cong for fresh probe in Tehelka case
Congress leader Ambika Soni addresses a press conference at Shimla on Tuesday. Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh is also seen in the picture.Shimla, September 7
The Congress is in favour of a fresh probe into Tehelka case on the pattern of  Godhra carnage.

Congress leader Ambika Soni addresses a press conference at Shimla on Tuesday. Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh is also seen in the picture. — Photo by Anil Dayal

Haryana plans uniform  power tariff
Chandigarh, September 7
The Haryana Cabinet, which met here today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, decided to introduce a uniform rate of tariff for both metered and unmetered connections, thus withdrawing the slab system of tariff and giving relief to farmers to the tune of Rs 138 crore.

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114 die in China floods
Beijing, September 7
Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 114 persons and left over 77 others missing in south-west China with the army being deployed to rescue thousands of marooned people, local officials said today.

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Sikh boys refused entry into French schools
Paris, September 7
France’s small Sikh community is in an uproar after five of its boys were refused entry to state schools under a new law barring pupils from wearing conspicuous religious symbols in class.

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