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                Sandeep Joshi |  | Positive signals from
        Pak Information Minister arriving on IA
        flight
 New Delhi, November 8
 Positive signals are emanating from Pakistan vis-a-vis a multilateral
        forum like the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC),
        which may be indicative of a bilateral diplomatic thaw between New Delhi
        and Islamabad.
  Nation
        page: Al-Qaidisation
        of Pak worries US expert
 Mumbai top cop
        quizzed
  Mumbai, November 8 Mr Ranjit Sharma, Mumbai’s Police Commissioner, is the latest police
        officer to be quizzed in the fake stamp paper racket allegedly
        masterminded by Abdul Karim Telgi. He was today summoned before the
        Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the racket.
 Challan against Badal
        ready, says PandeyJalandhar, November 8
 The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has finalised the challan against the former
        Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, for having assets
        disproportionate to his known income sources. The challan would be
        submitted in the court by the bureau sometime next week.
 
 
 
            
                | Sore over govt
        apathy, residents, ‘Bridge Baba’
        build roadManko (Jalandhar), November 8
 Perturbed over the alleged failure of the government to provide them
        with a motorable road, panchayats and residents of about 10 villages,
        NRIs and Sant Malkit Singh, also known as ‘Bridge Baba’ in the area,
        joined hands to resolve the matter. The result of their efforts was a
        stretch of 7-km of a well-built road and that too within a short period
        of about two months.
 
          
            |  | Mr Balwinder Singh
              Minhas, Secretary, Ministry of Industries, Government of India, (left with black turban) inaugurates a 7-km-long stretch of road constructed by Manko village-based Baba Malkit Singh with the help of some NRIs, residents of 10 villages, and their panchayats. The road has linked 10 villages of Jalandhar district. — Photo by S.S. Chopra.
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        penalty for Sushil Sharma in ‘tandoor’ case November 8, 2003
 
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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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