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            | Editor's
              Column Compulsions of peace
 It’s worth
              experimenting with history
 by H. K. Dua
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              would be churlish to dismiss the significance of the moves India
              and Pakistan have lately made bringing hope and cheer to the
              people on both sides of the divide.
 |  56
        per cent cast votes in 4 statesRepoll in 56 stations tomorrow
 New Delhi, December 1
 An estimated 56 per cent of the 94 million electorate cast their votes
        today as stray violence claimed three lives and left scores injured in
        the assembly elections in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and
        Rajasthan.
 
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  Exit
        polls predict victory for Congress in Delhi 
  Vajpayee
        reviews political scenario 
  Congress
        looking for win in Rajasthan or MP Big
        haul of foreign currency in NashikMumbai, December 1
 Close on the heels of multi-million
        rupee fake stamp scandal that is rocking the country, a television
        channel has uncovered currency notes and stamps from different countries
        from a house in Nashik.
 Mumbai
        Police ex-chief heldMumbai, December 1
 Former Mumbai Police Commissioner
        Ranjit Singh Sharma, who retired from service on Sunday, was today
        arrested by Special Investigating Team for his alleged complicity in
        shielding prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi in the multi-crore fake stamp
        paper scam.
 
 
  Nation
        page: PIL for CBI probe in stamp scam amended 
 
 
          
            
              | Portugal
              court orders Monica’s extradition
  New
              Delhi, December 1 In a major success for the
              Central Bureau of Investigation, the Portugal High Court has
              ordered the extradition of Monica Bedi, wife of underworld don and
              prime accused in the Mumbai blasts case Abu Salem, to India where
              she is facing charges of forgery.
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                |  | Pak to lift ban on
        Indian overflights December 1, 2003
 
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                |  | India
        differs with EU on Pak policy November 30, 2003
 
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                |  | HC
        stays tribunal order on transfersNovember 29, 2003
 
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                |  | SC upholds Punjab’s decision onliquor fee
 November 28, 2003
 
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                |  | Guns remain silentNovember 27, 2003
 
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                |  | Ceasefire
        beginsNovember 26, 2003
 
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                |  | India
        goes a step ahead, offers truce in Siachen November 25, 2003
 
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                |  | Challan sees
        rowdyism on roads November 24, 2003
 
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                |  | Chargesheet filed against Badal, five others November 23, 2003
 
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                |  | SC stays trial in Godhra, nine
          other cases November 22, 2003
 
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                |  | 27 dead, 450 hurt in Istanbul blasts November 21, 2003
 
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                |  | Militants holed up  inside BSNL office November 20, 2003
 
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