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        BSF jawans die in blastMinister escapes unhurt in
        grenade attack
 Srinagar, August 7
 A Jammu and Kashmir minister
        escaped unhurt in a grenade attack in Baramula while two BSF jawans were
        killed and seven others injured in another grenade blast in the busy Lal
        Chowk here today.
 
 
 
          
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 Two-wheelers lie on the road beside a BSF vehicle which was damaged in a grenade attack by militants at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Thursday.
 — PTI photo
 |  CBI
        move in Ayodhya case challenged in SCNew Delhi, August 7
 An application was filed in the
        Supreme Court today challenging the CBI decision to drop the conspiracy
        charge against Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, Union Human Resource
        Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, BJP MP Uma Bharti and five
        others in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
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                  Sandeep Joshi |  | Liberhan
        panel gives Kalyan 3 weeks to deposeNew Delhi, August 7
 Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
        Kalyan Singh, during whose tenure the Babri Masjid was demolished at
        Ayodhya, was today granted three weeks’ time by the Liberhan
        Commission, probing the destruction, to appear before it.
 Charge
        sheet filed against Gupta, BhardwajChandigarh, August 7
 The Central Bureau of Investigation
        today filed a charge sheet against two judicial officers, including
        Jalandhar’s District and Sessions Judge, Mr R.M. Gupta, and UT
        Judicial Magistrate (First Class) S.S. Bhardwaj, in a corruption case in
        a local court.
 Norms
        on water in colas to be reviewedNew Delhi, August 7
 Taking note of the Centre for
        Science and Environment report alleging presence of high level of
        pesticides in soft drinks sold by Coca-Cola and Pepsico in India, the
        Bureau of Indian Standards today said it would soon review
        “voluntary” standards for potable water used in manufacturing
        beverages.
  Nation
        page: Drinks safe, claim Pepsi, Coke 
  Punjab
        page: Discharge of soft-drink bottling plants
        to be checked 
  Ludhiana
        page: Coke, Pepsi sales plummet 
  Chandigarh
        Page: Coke, Pepsi bottles seized 
 
 
            
                | Man,
        3 sons get death sentence in revenge killing caseBhasarke Bhaini (Amritsar),
        August 7
 A minor dispute over the collection
        of ‘theh’ has led to a series of revenge killings in this village.
        It has left 35 persons dead during the past 12 years and culminated in
        the death sentence, confirmed by the Supreme Court, of Piara Singh and
        his three sons.
 
 
 
          
            |  | The house of Piara Singh in Bhasarke Bhaini village of Amritsar wears a deserted look.
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                |  | Govt staff can’t go on strike, rules
        SC August 7,
                2003
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                |  | 5 die in copter crash near
              Srinagar August 6,
                2003
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                |  | PM
        to quit rather than act under pressure August 5,
                2003
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                |  | PM: no change in stand on Ayodhya August 4,
                2003
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                |  | Advani: govt for simultaneous LS, Assembly poll August 3,
                2003
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                |  | PM, Advani vow to build Ram temple August 2,
                2003
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                |  | Babri tapes rock Parliament August 1,
                2003
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                |  | No
        speech of Advani in Babri tapes July 31,
                2003
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                |  | Mayawati eats her words July 30,
                2003
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                |  | US
        Gen to plead for troops July 29,
                2003
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