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Congress role harmful, says PM
CALCUTTA, March 20 — Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today accused the Congress of trying to capture power at the Centre through undemocratic means and said the party was playing the role of a destructive opposition.
"We have no objection if the Congress captures power in a democratic way. But how can a party which has no inner-party democracy follow democratic norms?" he said.		   Dancers at a location in Dera Bassi where television programme ‘Kokey da Lishkara’ is being shot.
Dancers at a location in Dera Bassi where television programme Kokey da Lishkara is being shot.
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 Symbolic filling up of SYL canal
DOOMCHHERRI (Ropar), March 20 — The Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) led by its president, Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, today symbolically filled up a part of the Sutlej Yamuna Link canal on the boundary of Ropar and Fatehgarh Sahib districts near here with a view to permanently block the flow of Punjab water through this canal.

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Scribe, 3 others murdered in Delhi
NEW DELHI, March 20 — Four persons, including a freelance journalist and a girlfriend of Romesh Sharma, an alleged front man of underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim, were murdered in different areas of capital during the last 24 hours.

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HC grants bail to 44 in Staines case
CUTTACK, March 20 — The Orissa High Court has granted bail to 44 of 51 persons arrested in connection with the brutal murder of Australian missionary Graham Stewart Staines and his two minor sons at Manoharpur in Keonjhar district on January 23.

Fiscal panel for states
NEW DELHI, March 20 — The government today constituted a committee to chalk out fiscal reform packages for individual states.

Hooch claims 4 lives
BOOTHGARH (Khanna), March 20, Four persons have died and at least 12 are suffering from the after-effects of the consumption of spurious liquor served by a local resident in the village four days ago.
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HC serves charge sheet on
Sessions Judge
CHANDIGARH, March 20 — An Additional Sessions Judge of the Punjab cadre, Mr Jagroop Singh, is in trouble for allegedly purchasing a disputed house in Chandigarh and misusing his official position to evict three tenants who lived in the house.

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