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          Pak-based militants reject Mirwaiz’s callIslamabad, January 21
 Signalling the widening divide between moderates and hardliners in Kashmir, a conglomerate of Pakistan-based militant groups has rejected Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's call to give up armed struggle to pave way for a peaceful negotiated settlement of the issue.
  World page: Mirwaiz, PoK govt form working
        groups 
  J&K page: Mirwaiz
        statement may ease tension 
  Chandigarh page: Sajjad
        suggests evolutionary model on Kashmir
 Bir:
        Review or I quit
  Mohali,
        January 21 Mr Bir Devinder Singh today
        appealed to the All-India Congress Committee chief, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, to
        review the decision to allocate the Kharar ticket to Balbir Singh Sidhu.
 
          
            | FOES TURN FRIENDS: OSD to the Chief Minister Lakhvinder Kaur Garcha joins hands with Mr Bir Devinder Singh at a rally in Mohali on Sunday.
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        Votes ’07Vets on
        poll duty; livestock left to die
 Chandigarh, January 21
 Punjab’s livestock has been left
        to die. With veterinary officers and pharmacists being pulled out of
        hospitals for election duty, the livestock stands exposed to an epidemic
        outbreak.
 Gangrape
        CaseMayawati
        demands CBI probe
 Lucknow, January 21
 The madarsa gangrape case is turning into a major embarrassment for the
        Mulayam Singh Yadav government just before the Assembly elections as
        Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today demanded a CBI probe into the
        case.
 Advani admits disputes in BJPNew Delhi, January 21
 In a candid admission senior BJP leader L.K. Advani today acknowledged that organisational disputes did exist in the party and regretted that they came out in the open.
  
  
 Boy killed in B’lore police firingBangalore, January 21
 Communal rioting in the IT city today left a 12-year-old boy dead and 25 others injured when the police fired on a rampaging mob, which had torched two buses and damaged several other vehicles besides looting shops in the Shivaji Nagar area here.
 
 
 
          
            
              | Monday SpecialUnmarried Biharis ‘owe’ it to kala azar
 Patna, January 21
 Even as the Bihar Government targets to turn the state free of kala azar (black fever) by 2010, this hardly brings cheers to the homes of many.
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                                  |  | EC clears Gill as new Punjab police chief January
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                                  |  | Inflation soars to
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                                  |  | Mulayam must quit, says Cong January
                                    19, 2007
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                                  |  | Congress leaves Mulayam January 18, 2007
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                                  |  | Jolt
                                    for Badal as Delhi votes Sarna way January 17, 2007
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                                  |  | PM:
                                    Pacts on Siachen, Sir Creek far away January
                                    16, 2007
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                                  |  | Boost border talks, say Manmohan, Wen January
                                    15, 2007
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                                  |  | PoW kin welcome: Pervez January
                                    14, 2007
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                                  |  | SC cancels ‘tainted’ NDA-given oil outlets January
                                    13, 2007
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                                  |  | Supreme Court asserts January
                                    12, 2007
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