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        | Cops
    confess to false encountersSay they acted on directions from top
 Jalandhar, August 12
 More than 100 Punjab police officials
    facing a number of cases and CBI inquiries for their role in killing
    terrorists in “false” encounters during the decadelong turmoil in the
    state, virtually dropped a bombshell today, confessing that whatever they
    had done was on directions from the top.
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   | Progress in move to lift curbs on IndiaWashington, August 12
 President George W. Bush’s administration will start working with the Congress next month in hopes of lifting sanctions put on India after nuclear tests three years ago, The Washington Post reported today.
 
          
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        CBI notice to
        Tehelka scribesNew Delhi, August 12
 The CBI has served notice to two
        journalists of Tehelka.com to probe the alleged leaking of documents
        from the Home Ministry, agency sources said here today.
 
 
 
          
            | SGPC against voting
        right to Sehajdharis Alamgir (Ludhiana), August 12
 The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak
        Committee today put a spanner in the conduct of the election process of
        the General House of the SGPC by the Chief Commissioner, Gurdwara
        Election Commission, when it reiterated that the Sehajdharis should not
        be allowed the right of vote and only the Sikhs should have the right.
 |  Candles
        to be lit at WagahAmritsar, August 12
 Nearly 15 organisations in favour
        of Indo-Pak friendship will descend on the Wagah border on the midnight
        of August 14 to commemorate Indo-Pak ties by candle lighting on
        “no-man’s land” here.
 Skeletons
        of two lions found in zooChhat Bir (Patiala), August 12
 Mystery shrouds the death of two
        lions whose skeletons were found in the thick growth within the Lion
        Safari of Chhat Bir Zoo here today.
 
 
 
 
          
            | Hurriyat
    condemns dress codeWomen don burqa to avoid trouble
 Srinagar, August 12
 Amid growing resentment against the
    forcible implementation of the dress code, several front-ranking militant
    outfits today joined the Hurriyat Conference to condemn the campaign,
    describing it as an attempt to “malign the ongoing movement” in Kashmir.
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            |  | PM,
    Advani face Pak ultra threat August 12, 2001
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            |  | Loktantrik party pulls out of UP
          Govt August 11, 2001
 
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            |  | Centre determined to crush proxy war August 10, 2001
 
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            |  | Jammu to be under Disturbed Area Act August 9, 2001
 
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            |  | Ultras open fire at Jammu railway station, kill 9 August 8, 2001
 
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            |  | Caravan of peace to Pak will continue:
        Jaswant August 7, 2001
 
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            |  | Bodies cremated, curfew in Bhaderwah August 6, 2001
 
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            |  | Ultras massacre 17 in Doda August 5, 2001
 
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            |  | UTI crisis resolved August 4, 2001
 
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            |  | Motion on UTI defeated August 3, 2001
 
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