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 20 killed in train
        mishapRamlingayapalli (AP), December 21
 Twenty persons were killed and 87 injured when nine bogies of the Hyderabad-Bangalore Express derailed at this remote village in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh just past midnight.
 Maharashtra in dock for ‘D’ linksNew Delhi, December 21
 A "secret" report by a Central agency has put the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party coalition government  in Maharashtra in the dock by accusing it of going soft on  underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his ‘D’ Company.
 Anti-terrorism
loans ‘not waived’
  New Delhi, December 21 Punjab
Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said despite a decision taken at the
prime ministerial level five years ago, loans worth Rs 5,800 crore taken to
combat terrorism were yet to be waived by the Centre.
 ’84 riot widows throng Akal
        TakhtAmritsar, December 21
 Hundreds of women widowed during the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 today assembled in front of Akal Takht to seek justice from the Sikh clergy. This is for the first time that the widows have assembled in front of the Takht to seek justice.
 Trader evades arrest, courtesy SenaNew Delhi, December 21
 The reported intervention by Shiv Sainiks in Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s government is said to have prevented the arrest of a businessman in Ludhiana for evading customs duty amounting to about Rs 22 crore.
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