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                | In our series, State of Medical Institutions Assistant Editor Nirmal Sandhu examines the functioning of Amritsar Government Dental College on
                  Opinions page.
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            |  Overlooked for chief-ministership again. Didn’t I tell you to be a permanent dissident?
 
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            |  |  J&K page: 17
              terrorists surrender
 
 Two girls mourn the death of their relatives who were killed when holed-up militants exchanged fire with the security forces in Akhnoor village near Jammu on Tuesday night. — Reuters
              photo
 |  PM
        rules out demand for greater NagalandKohima, October 29
 Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
        today virtually ruled out the demand for greater Nagaland, saying there
        was no political consensus for changing boundaries of states in the
        North-East.
 
 
  Editorial:
        Reaching out
        to Nagaland 
 Sonia
        tells Amarinder to change advisers
  New Delhi, October 29 Amid reports of a turf war in the
        Punjab Congress Legislature Party, state Chief Minister Capt Amarinder
        Singh met the party’s central leaders in the Capital today to apprise
        them of the political situation in the state.
 
 
  No
        order from high command: CM 
 
 
          
            | Biggest solar flares |  
            |  A photo made available in London on Tuesday of one of the biggest solar flares in living memory which erupted from the Sun, threatening to disrupt power and communications of Earth. After a week of intense activity on the Sun a massive flare bust from the star, according to space weather scientists in America and Europe. Superheated gas and energy called a coronal mass ejection, exploded from the Sun’s surface travelling at five million miles per hour.— AP/PTI 
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 Brahmos
        tested successfullyNew Delhi, October 29
 India today successfully test-fired
        the universal supersonic cruise missile, Brahmos from the Interim Test
        Range at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore in Orissa.
 
 
  Agni-III
        tests put off till next year 
            
                | Tahira
        greeted with ‘aarti’Amritsar, October 29
 It was a delightful moment for
        Tahira who was greeted in the traditional Indian way. “It is a
        pleasant surprise for me”, said Tahira Hazur when Hindu and Sikh women
        performed an ‘aarti’ when she entered the house of Sanjeev Tangri
        here today.
 
 
  Editorial: 
        Cross-border
        love 
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                |  | 1 dead, 37 hurt in Srinagar CTO blast October 29, 2003
 
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                |  | Series of explosions rock Baghdad, 37 dead October 28, 2003
 
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                |  | Pak
        response to peace moves by next week October 27, 2003
 
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                |  | Talks not at
        cost of unity, says Advani October 25, 2003
 
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                |  | Hurriyat
        cautious October 24, 2003
 
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                |  | Fresh
        move to improve ties with Pakistan October 23, 2003
 
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                |  | Govt
                  raises ceiling on poll expenses October 22, 2003
 
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                |  | Militants
                  take eight villagers hostage October 21, 2003
 
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                |  | Pope
        beatifies Mother Teresa October 20, 2003
 
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