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        concerns of people: PMIslamabad, July 12
 Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today said India and Pakistan should
        shed “narrow and cliche-ridden” approaches and seek ways to take
        their entire relationship forward and address the “core concerns” of
        the people of the two countries.
 KASHMIRI SIKHS — IPoK Sikhs’ tale of perseverance
 Mohan Nagar (Raisingh Nagar), July 12
 Their grit, perseverance and unshakeable faith in the will of the Almighty is what has kept the Kashmiri Sikh community, displaced from areas in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
        (PoK), going for the past 54 years.
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              K. Gujral on Agra summit
 "Guftgu bund na ho, baat se baat chaley / Subha tak
              sham-e-mulaqaat chaley"
 Mr I. K. Gujral, former Prime Minister, emphasises these sentiments in his article, specially written for The Tribune,  on reshaping India-Pakistan  relations. The article will appear on the
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 The first passenger special train enters India from Darshana station in Bangladesh territory as journalists ride on its engine at Jaynagar, near Gede station, Nadia district, about 117 km north of Calcutta, on Wednesday.
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              Sandeep Joshi |  | Simultaneous poll in Punjab, two
        other states planned Chandigarh, July 12
 “The Election Commission of India plans to hold  elections  to the state assemblies  of  Punjab, Uttar Pradesh  and Uttaranchal  simultaneously,”  says Mr  B.B. Tandon, a  newly appointed  Member of  the  commission, maintaining  that the “endeavour  of the  commission, as far as possible, is  to  conduct  all  future elections  using electronic  voting  machines (EVMs).”
 CBI challenges Sukh Ram’s acquittalNew Delhi, July 12
 The CBI today challenged in the Supreme Court the discharge of former Union Minister and Himachal Vikas Congress President Sukh Ram in the multi-crore telecom scam case saying that the trial court and the Delhi High Court ignored evidence against him in the case.
 
            
              | SECULAR VALLEY—SPECIAL STORYWhere Muslims look after Hindu shrine
 Tulamulla (Srinagar), July 12
 Eleven years of militancy in Kashmir may have done its bit in shattering the secular character of the Valley, but it has still not succeeded in uprooting the same  completely. Some areas of the Valley have survived the fundamental onslaught to prove an all-time relevance of tolerance and mutual coexistence — the two basic characters of a 700-year-old Kashmiri heritage.
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            |  | NDA not to
        attend Pak reception July 12, 2001
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            |  | 30 pc
    cut in PDS wheat, rice prices July 11, 2001
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            |  | Kashmir not sole issue: PM July 10, 2001
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            |  | PM to brief all-party meeting today July 9, 2001
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            |  | Musharraf softens stand July 8, 2001
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            |  | 3 Army men killed
    in ambush July 7, 2001
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            |  | PSGPC ‘must be on summit agenda’ July 6, 2001
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            |  | Karunanidhi freed on ‘humane grounds’ July 5, 2001
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            |  | Centre warns Jaya
        govt July 4, 2001
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            |  | Karunanidhi
        not to seek
        bail July 3, 2001
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            |  | Tamil Nadu Governor resigns July 2, 2001
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            |  | Karunanidhi
        held in pre-dawn swoop July 1, 2001
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