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        Sandeep Joshi |  | Khatami arrives on 5-day visit 
      
        | New Delhi, January 24 Iranian President Seyyed Mohammed Khatami arrived here this evening on a five-day visit, aimed at imparting a new strategic dimension to Indo-Iran ties and making the Central Asian region better accessible to India without having to use Pakistani land route or airspace.
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        | Iranian
          President Seyed Mohammad Khatami being received by the Minister of
          State for External Affairs Digvijay Singh at Palam Airport in New
          delhi on Friday.  He will
          be the chief guest of the forthcoming Repubic Day Ceremony. 
          — PTI photo |  SYL meeting: Centre in ‘thinking mode’Chandigarh, January 24
 The Cabinet Secretary, Mr Kamal Pande, today heard both Punjab and Haryana on the construction of the SYL canal.
        Informed sources in New Delhi told TNS that the Centre was in the “thinking” mode having heard the views of the two states.
 UK to set up
        visa centre in ChandigarhNew Delhi, January 24
 The British High Commission today
        announced its decision of setting up new visa application centres in New Delhi, Chandigarh and Jalandhar from February 3.
        More such centres would be opened across the country over the next month.
 
 
 
      
        | TRIBUNE EXCLUSIVEBansi Lal, son indicted
 Chahal panel on prohibition
        policy
 Chandigarh, January 24
 The Justice G.S. Chahal Commission of Inquiry has indicted former
        Haryana Chief Minister, Bansi Lal, his son, Mr Surendra Singh; and the then Prohibition Minister, Mr Ganeshi
        Lal. The commission was set up by the Chautala Government on December 6,
        1999, to probe various facets of the prohibition policy introduced by
        the Bansi Lal Government in July, 1996.
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            |  | Pak
    expels four Indian staffers January 24, 2003
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            |  | Four
    Pak Mission staffers expelled January 23, 2003
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            |  | Nod to
    jail term for insulting Tricolour January 22, 2003
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            |  | Pak cops harass
    diplomat again January 21, 2003
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            |  | Indian diplomat harassed in Pak January 20, 2003
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            |  | LeT turning global January 19, 2003
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            |  | Cabinet reshuffle in 2 phases likely January 18, 2003
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            |  | Shinde
    to replace Deshmukh January 17, 2003
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            |  | Cabinet
    Secy convenes meeting on SYL January 16, 2003
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            |  | Chautala, MPs meet PM on SYL January 15, 2003
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