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            |  |  | Samata patch-up chances
        betterNEW DELHI, Jan 8  . Chances of a patch up in the Samata Party today seemed to have brightened up with the dissidents today deciding to withdraw their decision to boycott the party.s national council meeting in Mysore, which began this morning.
 Talks
        will be held: KatiyarNEW DELHI, Jan 8 . Despite being cold-shouldered by the Vishwa Hindu
        Parishad and the Bajrang Dal on his proposed Ayodhya talks, Bharatiya
        Janata Party MP Vinay Katiyar today insisted that the January 13 talks
        would be held in Lucknow as scheduled even as he claimed some more
        breakthrough in his personal contacts with Muslim leaders on the issue.
  
 
 
 A model of the proposed Ram temple on display at Allahabad, where the Mahakumbh Mela begins on Tuesday.
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            BMAC convenes
    meeting for Feb 1NEW DELHI, Jan 8 . In an apparent move to seize initiative over Ayodhya after the virtual failure of BJP MP Vinay Katiyar.s offer for talks with Muslim leaders, the Babri Masjid Action Committee (International) (BMAC) has convened a .conference of members of all communities. in the Capital on February 1 to find out ways and means of a negotiated settlement of the vexed issue.
 
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 |  | WB .fit case. for Central ruleCID probe into massacre ordered
 KOLKATA, Jan 8 . The West Bengal Government today ordered a CID inquiry into the alleged massacre of Trinamool Congress workers at Garbeta in Midnapur district, even as NDA team leader Vijay Goel described the incident as a clear example of .state-sponsored terrorism..
 Bharat Shah
        arrestedMUMBAI, Jan 8 . In a major development in the .Chori Chori Chupke Chupke. case diamond merchant and the film.s financier Bharat Shah was today arrested and remanded to police custody till January 18 by a special court here, sending shock waves in Bollywood and the Bombay Stock Exchange plunging 63 points.
 UJC terms for
        ceasefireNEW DELHI, Jan 8 . Pakistan-based United Jehad Council (UJC) has said it will agree to a ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir only if India accepts its three conditions.
  
         
          
            | SGPC, district admn lock
          hornsAMRITSAR, Jan 8 . The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) and the district administration have locked horns over the construction of fourth phase of .galliara yojna. (beautification of the surroundings of the Golden Temple).
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            |  | Patch-up
    efforts by George fail January 8, 2001
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            |  | Centre
              gives in to APHC demand January 7, 2001
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            |  | 18 massacred in Bengal January 6, 2001
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            |  | Nitish resigns January 5, 2001
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            |  | States overloading grid January 4, 2001
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            |  | North plunges into darkness January 3, 2001
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            |  | .We shall be bold, innovative on Kashmir. January 2, 2001
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            |  | Qureshi.s transfer stayed January 1, 2001
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            |  | Dawood-ISI
    nexus in Nepal December 31, 2000
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            |  | Hijacker back after 30 yrs December 30, 2000
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            |  | Protect Indians, Nepal told December 29, 2000
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