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Epidemic breaks out in Orissa
BHUBANESWAR, Nov 3 — A grim battle was on to provide food and water to lakhs of people facing the twin scourge of cyclone and floods and spectre of epidemic loomed large with outbreak of gastroenteritis even as Army relief teams today moved to interior parts of coastal Orissa.		 Army a godsend to end Orissa Vandalism
BHUBANESWAR, Nov 3 — For a state government too stunned to react to the unforeseen situation, the arrival of various army contingents has come as a godsend.

Preparations for mass burial on in Paradip

Aid pours in for cyclone hit
Expand BJP base: Thakre
NEW DELHI, Nov 3 — The national executive of the BJP at its first post-election meeting, today stopped short of celebrating its impressive showing in 18 states and the union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with the cyclone devastation in Orissa casting its shadow on the session.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at the BJP national executive meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday. — PTI
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Bofors charge sheet scrutiny today
NEW DELHI, Nov 3 — A Delhi court today asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to bring the original documents supporting the Bofors charge sheet tomorrow and deferred its scrutiny till then.

Sonia rules out understanding with govt
FURSATGANJ (UP), Nov 3 — Congress President Sonia Gandhi today ruled out her party entering into an understanding with the Vajpayee Government to have Rajiv Gandhi’s name removed from the Bofors payoff charge sheet and said there were allegations that the Prime Minister’s office was protecting a big business house.


Hundreds of Punjabis in Ukraine jails
BATHINDA, Nov 3 — "We were kicked around, insulted repeatedly, and given no food for days together. Any protest invited more torture. We were asked to drink our own urine and supplied only one bottle of water per day. We prayed for death in these inhuman conditions," said Rajesh Kumar (not his real name) a resident of this district, who recently bought his release from a jail in Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, where he was detained along with hundreds of other Punjabi 'migrants' .

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