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            |  | This image photographed at about midnight (Alaska Standard time) on Thursday shows aurora over the Matanuska glacier and the Chugach mountains in the southeast sky. The Matanuska glacier is about 100 miles northeast of Anchorage. Without any moon, the glacier doesn’t show very well. A second huge magnetic solar storm hit Earth on Thursday, just a day after an earlier one hurtled into the planet in what one astronomer called an unprecedented one-two punch. “It’s like the Earth is looking right down the barrel of a giant gun pointed at us by the sun and it’s taken two big shots at us,” said John Kohl of the
              Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts. — Reuters
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       Charles mingles
        with villagers, avoids Indian scribesKutail Gamri (Karnal),
        October 31
 The Prince of Wales has supported
        the campaign to immunise more than 100 million children in India as part
        of an ongoing programme to eradicate polio in the country. He has also
        hailed the UK Department for International Development for providing £
        100 million aid to India to eradicate this disease.
 
            
                | Unauthorised
        ‘ahatas’ dot Haryana highwaysChandigarh, October 31
 “Peeo te jeeo” (drink and
        live), “Daroo-di-e-band botle,
  tainu peenage nasiban wale” (o,
        sealed bottle of liquor, someone lucky will consume you) scream the
        slogans painted on liquor vends located on the national highway No 1 in
        Ambala, Kurukshetra and Karnal districts. CAMERA SHY: Two young men hide their faces as Tribune cameraman Karam Singh takes a picture of open an ‘ahata’ on The Chandigarh-Ambala road, near Lalru, on Thursday.
 
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                |  | Kashmir-specific proposals rejected October 31, 2003
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                |  | Pak accepts
        proposals, but harps on Kashmir October 30, 2003
 
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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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