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          |  A boy offers a pack of cigarettes to a passing
            US Army convoy in the desert in southern Iraq after US troops crossed the Kuwait-Iraq border
            on Friday. — Reuters
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    copter crash kills 12 soldiersWashington, March 21
 A US Marine helicopter crashed in
    Kuwait today, killing the eight British and four American soldiers aboard,
    military officials said. The cause of the crash was under investigation, the
    officials said, adding that hostile fire had not been reported in the area.
    Earlier, US officials had said 12 Britons and four Americans had died.
 Anti-war
    protests swell around worldBoston, March 21
 Galvanised by the American attack on
    Iraq, anti-war activists set off a barrage of street protests around the
    world, clashing with riot police, chaining themselves together, blocking
    traffic, walking out of classes and parading in mock chemical suits.
    Hundreds were arrested from San Francisco to Washington, DC, yesterday.
 
      
        | Govt
        denotifies protected Ram BaghPaves way for Rs 5-crore Ranjit
        Singh panorama
 Amritsar, March 21
 The Punjab Government has
        de-notified part of historic Ram Bagh, the summer capital of Maharaja
        Ranjit Singh, to pave the way for the construction of Rs 5 crore
        panorama in memory of the Maharaja. In the notification, the 20-kanal
        “protected” area has been rendered “unprotected”.
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 A model of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Panorama  prepared by the National Council of Science Museum.
        — Photo Rajiv Sharma
 
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            |  | US WAR
            ON IRAQ HAS BEGUN March 21, 2003
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            |  | Saddam
            put on 48-hour notice March 19, 2003
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            |  | War
        clouds thicken; USA, UK shed diplomacy March 18, 2003
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            |  | 11 killed in attack on police post March 17, 2003
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            |  | Excavation leads to mosque floor March 16, 2003
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            |  | Gujarat
    tense; 10 hurt in Muharram violence March 15, 2003
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            |  | SC: poll reforms law
    unconstitutional March 14, 2003
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            |  | PM against war without UN
        nod March 13, 2003
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            |  | Jaswant
    rolls back urea price hike March 12, 2003
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            |  | 5 more
    join Punjab Ministry March 11, 2003
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