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   | Speaker
        to meet leaders today again onPAC issue
 New Delhi, August 13
 Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi is likely to make yet another attempt in
        brokering peace between the Opposition and the government tomorrow at a
        meeting of leaders of all parties before the House begins on the PAC
        issue.
 
 
  CVC
        issue rocks Houses again Pawar,
        Mulayam oppose George’s boycott
         Indian
        MPs return from PakistanClaim Pak has softened stand on
        Kashmir
 Wagah, August 13
 Even as India today rejected
        Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s proposal for a ceasefire, along
        the Line of Control, the Rashtriya Janta Dal President, Mr Laloo Prasad
        Yadav, Mr Ram Jethmalani, Chairman on Kashmir committee, Mr Saleem
        Sherwani, a former Foreign Minister and other members of Parliament,
        returned to India after attending a two-day South Asian Media
        Association Convention.
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              |  Instead of sitting idle, why don’t you also go in peace mission to Pakistan?
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              | by
                Sandeep Joshi |  | Man
        of Indian origin held for smuggling missileWashington, August 13
 In an international sting
        operation, the FBI has arrested three persons, including a British
        national of Indian origin with alleged links to the Mumbai underworld,
        for smuggling a Russian shoulder fire -missile into the USA possibly for
        sale to terrorists.
 Six
        pilgrims die in road mishap near BalachaurHamiri Khera (Jalandhar),
        August 13
 
  Six residents of this village were
        killed and 22 others injured in a road accident at Rail Majra village,
        near Balachaur, late last night. An inconsolable Narinder Kaur,
        whose son was among six residents of Hamiri Khera village in Jalandhar
        district who were killed in a road accident near Balachaur on Tuesday
        night.
 — Photo S.S. Chopra
 
 Ex-police
        chief Danewalia dead
  Chandigarh, August 13 Mr Bhagwan Singh Danewalia, a former Punjab police chief, died today
        following a heart attack at the Chandigarh Golf Club. He was 78. He is
        survived by his wife and two sons, both of whom are settled abroad.
 Boy
        freed for ransom, kidnappers heldMalerkotla, August 13
 Parteek Bhanot, a Class XI student
        of the local DAV School, who was kidnapped by two car-borne miscreants
        from the town on August 7, was released at Benra village, near Dhuri,
        this morning.
 
 
 
            
                | Waiting
        for deportation to Pak since ’96
  Jammu,
        August 13 She was imprisoned for one year in
        1995 on the charge of entering Indian territory without valid documents
        in the Poonch district from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
 
 
 Pakistani national Shehnaz Parveen with her daughter Mobin Kesar at her flat in Jammu, allotted to her by the state government. — Photo Sarabjeet Singh
 
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                |  | Musharraf
              proposes ceasefire along LoC August 13, 2003
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                |  | 27 feared dead in ONGC copter crash August 12, 2003
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                |  | Vajpayee
        throws quota ball in Congress court August 11, 2003
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                |  | Govt
                  can’t be sacrificed for Ram temple: Advani August 10,
                2003
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                |  | 60 washed away in Kulu flash floods August 9,
                2003
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                |  | PAC
        report issue rocks Lok Sabha August 8,
                2003
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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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