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              | Indian soldiers killed nine rebels fleeing Bhutan in gunbattles as the Himalayan kingdom’s military offensive against the anti-India militants turned a week old today, officials said here. |  |  
          
            
              | Policemen escort
                Joydeb Roy, alias Tom Adhikari, chief of the Kamtapuri
                Liberation Organisation, a separatist rebel group with bases in
                Bhutan, at a police camp in Binnaguri, 110 km north of Siliguri,
                on Saturday. — Reuters photo |   Daler
        sent  to police custody Patiala, December 21
 Duty Magistrate Sat Pal today
        remanded Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi in police custody till December 24
        in the human trafficking case registered against him by the Patiala
        police on September 19.
 
 
  Punjab
        page: On
                  the run, Daler loses weight
 Punjab
        offers land to liquor baron at throwaway priceChandigarh, December 21
 A 100 to 125 per cent increase in
        real estate prices in Chandigarh and the surrounding areas
        notwithstanding, the Punjab Government is all set to allot 50 acres of
        prime land to the company of a liquor baron at a throwaway price of Rs
        40 lakh an acre in the Industrial Focal Point, Mohali.
 
 
 
          
            
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              Efforts on to start Muzaffarabadbus service
 Jammu, December 21
 After deciding to restore the Samjhauta Express from Attari to Lahore, decks are being cleared for the resumption of bus services on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, which remained snapped with the tribal invasion on Kashmir in 1947.
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                |  | DMK
        pulls out of NDA government December 21, 2003
 
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                |  | Samjhauta to resume from January 15 December 20, 2003
 
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                |  | Pak
        talks of dropping 1948 UN resolution December 19, 2003
 
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                |  | Amarinder, Bhattal leave it to Sonia December 18, 2003
 
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                |  | Historic victory for IndiaDecember 17, 2003
 
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                |  | Bhutan
        cracks down on Indian insurgentsDecember 16, 2003
 
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                |  | Saddam captured in Tikrit December 15, 2003
 
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                |  | Pakistan says open borders possible December 14, 2003
 
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                |  | AICC
        panel meets Punjab dissidents December 13, 2003
 
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                |  | Bhattal rules out compromise December 12, 2003
 
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                |  | Amarinder parades 40 MLAs in Delhi December 11, 2003
 
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