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  Lucknow, September 21 Former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi was today arrested by the CBI in the poetess Madhumita murder case, more than five months after she was slained, following the matching of his blood sample with the foetus of her child.
 Verdict unfortunate, says JoshiAllahabad, September 21
 In his first public comments after resigning from the Union Cabinet, Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi today termed as “unfortunate” the Rae Bareli Special Court’s decision to frame charges against him in the Babri mosque demolition case and dismissed as “baseless” allegations about his involvement in the incident.
 
 
  No govt role
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                | State
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                |  |  |  | Vajpayee, Bush meeting rescheduledNew York, September 21
 Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will meet President George W Bush on September 24, the same day Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf also meets the US leader separately, when the American request for Indian troops in Iraq may also figure.
 
 
  Tight security for PM 
 
  In video: Terrorism - the
        main agenda of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's US visit. (28k,
        56k) Dawood in Pak, admits ministerNew Delhi, September 21
 Years after India claimed that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was based in Karachi, a senior Pakistani minister has for the first time admitted his presence in the country and that he had acquired “substantial interests” there, according to media reports.
 Mysterious fever claims
        five more livesShimla, September 21
 While doctors at IGMC Hospital await the final report of the NICD (National Institute of Communicable Disease), the mysterious fever claimed five more lives during the past 24 hours .
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                | Once prosperous, Jammu farmers nowon dole
 Ranbirsingh Pura, (Indo-Pak Border), September 21
 
          
            | With a major chunk of their fertile land producing high-quality basmati rice having come under landmines buried by the Army to prevent infiltration from across the border, the once prosperous farmers of the border belt of Jammu and Kathua districts are now living on government dole. |  A board warns against landmines in Suchetgarh in Jammu district.
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                |  | 12
        militants shot dead September 21, 2003
 
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                |  | Advani
                  let off; Joshi to face charges September 20, 2003
 
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                |  | SC
                  tightens noose on Maya September 19, 2003
 
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                |  | Decision
                  on troops after UN action: PM September 18, 2003
 
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                |  | SC
        stays disinvestment in HPCL, BPCL September 17, 2003
 
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                |  | Dara, 12 others
        convicted for killing Staines September 16, 2003
 
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                |  | India threatens to walk out of meeting September 15, 2003
 
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                |  | Kukka Parray shot dead September 14, 2003
 
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                |  | Quit if you
        can’t protect citizens, SC tells Modi govt September 13, 2003
 
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                |  | Al-Qaida vows
        more attacks September 12, 2003
 
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                |  | India, Israel vow to
        end terrorSeptember 11, 2003
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