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 | Cong writes to EC on Sonia Says copter used for non-poll purpose
 New Delhi, November 20
 The Congress was quick to come to party president Sonia Gandhi’s rescue and promptly dispatched a two-page  letter to the Election Commission (EC) today in response to the EC’s notice on the violation of the model code of conduct.
 
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        Hurriyat meeting
        inconclusiveSrinagar, November 20
 A crucial general council meeting of the Hurriyat Conference to discuss the Centre’s offer of talks remained inconclusive today, even as dissident faction leaders continued to stay away. Any decisions taken at today’s meeting would be announced by Hurriyat leaders at Jama Masjid during Friday prayers here tomorrow.
 Capt presses for fresh waters tribunalNew Delhi, November 20
 Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has impressed upon the Centre to constitute a fresh tribunal at an early date for the distribution of Yamuna waters in its territory as the previous award has outlived the present-day
        realities.
 
            
                | Tohra re-electedAmritsar, November 20
 As Akali stalwart, Gurcharan Singh Tohra was re-elected SGPC chief for the 27th term which is unprecedented in the 78-year-old history of the SGPC — considered ‘Mini Parliament’ of Sikhs. He could not ensure the election of his confidant Sukhdev Singh Bhaur as senior vice-president.
 
 
  Punjab
        page: Huge backlog of issues await Tohra’s
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                |  | Militants holed up  inside BSNL office November 20, 2003
 
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                |  | Aircraft
        land Sonia, Jogi in soup November 19, 2003
 
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                |  | Judeo out, CBI probe on November 18, 2003
 
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                |  | Judeo
        to go if found guilty, says PM November 17, 2003
 
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                |  | Israeli troops must pull out, says Vajpayee November 16, 2003
 
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                |  | India
        to base planes in Tajikistan November 15, 2003
 
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                |  | Stop
        terror influx, Russia tells PakNovember 14, 2003
 
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                |  | PM, Putin vow to
        fight terrorNovember 13, 2003
 
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                |  | Russia
        for lifting N-sanctions November 12, 2003
 
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                |  | SC
        stays arrest of journalists of The Hindu
 November 11, 2003
 
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