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              |  Atalji, should we send him to the ‘sensitive’ states?
 
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                Sandeep Joshi |  | 6
        die in US chopper crash in Iraq Tikrit (Iraq), November 7
 An American Black Hawk helicopter crashed near Saddam Hussein’s
        hometown in Iraq today, killing all six persons on board. US soldiers
        said it had probably been shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade.
 
 
 
          
            |  Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai and Raima Sen at a press conference after a screening of their film, "Chokher Bali", in Mumbai on Thursday. — PTI
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        ordered into tea garden killingsKolkata, November 7
 Chief Minister Buddhadeb
        Bhattacharjee today turned down the demand for a judicial probe and
        ordered a magisterial inquiry into the gruesome killings at the Birpara
        Dalgaon tea estate, following a feud between two rival groups of CPM’s
        labour front CITU.
  Editorial:
         Gory
        violence
 PM defends pace of reformsLondon, November 7
 Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has said that reforms carried out in a democratic country like India are more deeply rooted and sustainable, and democracy cannot be blamed for impeding reforms.
  Vajpayee
        to open conference
 Rethink
        on Chief of Defence StaffNew Delhi, November 7
 Almost three years after the idea was first mooted, India may get its
        first Chief of Defence Staff in the coming months with not only the
        inter-services differences having been resolved but even the political
        leadership of the country shedding some of its insecurity.
  Nation
        page: Entire
        LoC to be fenced: Army chief
 
            
                | Raids
        detect tax evasion worth croresAmritsar, November 7
 For the second consecutive day, the
        high powered four teams of the Excise and Taxation Department today
        conducted raids on big business houses in Tarn Taran and Amritsar,
        detecting tax evasion and irregularities worth several crores.
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                |  | 19 hacked, burnt in tea garden clashNovember 7, 2003
 
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                |  | Emergency in LankaNovember 6, 2003
 
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                |  | Lankan
        Parliament suspendedNovember 5, 2003
 
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                |  | Sushil Sharma convicted November 4, 2003
 
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                |  | 3
        killed, 40 hurt in Gujarat violence November 3, 2003
 
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                |  | We’ll
        test Pak sincerity, says PM November 2, 2003
 
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                |  | India scalp Pak for hockey gold November 1, 2003
 
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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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