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        Pak intruders shotArmy steps up vigil along
        border
 Srinagar, October 4
 Stepping up anti-insurgency
        operations, the Army shot dead 17 Pakistani infiltrators along the Line
        of Control in Jammu and Kashmir overnight, a defence spokesman said
        today.
 
 
 
          
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              page: Pak militant arrested 
 
 Troops patrol near the fenced Line of Control in Mendhar Sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
 — Reuters photo
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        may get 60 US choppersIslamabad, October 4
 As Pakistan leaders kept pressing
        for more weapons systems from the USA to establish “conventional
        deterrence” against India, the Bush Administration has reportedly
        approved the sale of 60 attack helicopters to Pakistan for use in
        operations against the Al-Qaida and the Taliban.
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                | TRIBUNE
                  SPECIAL
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                | State
                  of universitiesA compendium
                  of special articles on institutions of higher learning in
                  Punjab, Haryana & Himachal Pradesh.
 
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                |  You don’t worry sir, they are burning only Ravana effigy.
 
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                | by
                  Sandeep Joshi |  |  World
        page: Avoid
        provocation, USA tells India, Pak 
 6,000 SPOs without salary for months
 Chandigarh, October 4
 Special Police Officers (SPOs), who played an important role in the fight against terrorism in Punjab, are a dejected lot these days for various reasons. In fact, many of them are facing an uncertain future as they have become over-age and ineligible to get any government job.
 Mumbai
        on alert after e-mail warningMumbai, October 4
 Security at important public places
        and vital installations here has been beefed up and the police has been
        keeping a strict vigil in the wake of an e-mail received by a news
        channel, purportedly from an alleged militant outfit, threatening to
        trigger more bomb blasts in the megapolis.
 Tarlochan
        warns Sikh youth on migrant labourers
  New
        Delhi, October 4 National Commission for Minorities
        Chairperson Tarlochan Singh today warned the Sikh youth that migrant
        labour from Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh would soon
        outnumber them if they continued to be indifferent to semi-skilled jobs.
 2
        buried alive in hillock collapseUna, October 4
 Two persons have died and two
        sustained grievous injuries when a pile of earth fell on labourers who
        were digging a plinth in Bhadsali village, 10 km from here today.
 Mann’s
        staff, cop lock horns over traffic rule violationJalandhar, October 4
 
  After
        high drama which lasted at the Phagwara police station for about three
        hours, two gunmen, a driver and a supporter of Mr Simranjit Singh Mann,
        President of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), who were travelling in
        Mr Mann’s car, were booked for allegedly illegally detaining a traffic
        police Head Constable after he tried to stop the vehicle. 
 
 
            
                | Yuvraj,
        Chopra in squad for first Test
        
         
          
            | Rajkot,
        October 4 Delhi player Akash Chopra was today
        rewarded for his consistent performance as the national selectors named
        him in the 14-member squad for the first cricket Test against New
        Zealand in a bid to find a long-term solution to India’s opening
        blues.
 
 Yuvraj Singh. — A file photo
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                |  | Mulayam’s
                  Cabinet now has 98 members October 4, 2003
 
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                |  | 6 rights activists detained October 3, 2003
 
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                |  | Naidu
        injured in mine blast October 2, 2003
 
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                |  | Joshi’s resignation
        rejected October 1, 2003
 
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                |  | Al-Qaida’s
        call to topple Musharraf September 30, 2003
 
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                |  | India beat Pak, lift Asia Cup September 29, 2003
 
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                |  | 2
                  cr Bangladeshis in India: Fernandes September 28, 2003
 
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                |  | No
                  bilateral talks with Pak at SAARC meet: PM September 27, 2003
 
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                |  | No
                  negotiations on terrorism September 26, 2003
 
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                |  | PM, Bush discuss Iraq, terrorism September 25, 2003
 
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