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Troops encircle intruders
Fernandes rules out truce; MiG 29s go into action
NEW DELHI, June 1 — Indian troops were in the process of encircling the last of the infiltrators putting up resistance in the remote regions of Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir even as the Indian Air Force pressed into service the ultra-modern MiG-29 fighter aircraft to strengthen the air patrol in the region.
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Time for George to go
by Hari Jaisingh
While we support the proposed dialogue with Pakistan and the visit to New Delhi by its Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz for this purpose, it is crystal clear that the Vajpayee government has bungled badly on the Kargil-Dras front.

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Cong calls it criminal negligence
NEW DELHI, June 1 — The Congress Working Committee today unanimously condemned Pakistan’s ‘‘naked aggression’’ and assailed the government for its "criminal negligence’’in allowing a breach of national security in the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

Pak video-filmed area in mid-Jan
NEW DELHI, June 1 — Pakistani agencies had started a series of exercises in January last before the troops and infiltrators were sent to capture vast "unheld" areas in Kargil and Dras which has resulted in a major armed conflict between the two sides since May.
Kargil shells fail to dampen their spirits
DAUKE (Amritsar), June 1 — Unfazed by warlike situation at Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir, children of border villages are seen playing cricket even near the Indo-Pak fencing. The fever of the World Cup seems to have gripped them.

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nation page		 Destroyed Agriculture Ministry office in Kargil
An Indian soldier walks past the destroyed Agriculture Ministry office in Kargil, Kashmir, on Monday after it was hit by shellfire, killing six persons. — AP/PTI

Delhi fire death toll 39
NEW DELHI, June 1 — Twentythree more persons succumbed to burn injuries today taking the death toll in yesterday’s devastating blaze in the Capital’s Lal Kuan area to 39, even as the police nabbed the owner of the transport company where the killer chemical, which blew up the victims, was stored. However, unofficial sources put the toll at 40.

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14 Santhals hacked by Bodos
GUWAHATI, June 1 — Fourteen Santhals, including nine women and two infants, were hacked to death by Bodo militants in Khoiraguri village of Assam’s Dhubri district yesterday, official sources said today.


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