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            | Police officers keep guard near the entrance of the Government College
              for Women school in Srinagar. Security around girl's colleges and schools in the
              city has been beefed up after two Muslim women had acid sprayed on them by unidentified rebels for violating an Islamic dress code issued by
              separatists. — Reuters photo
 
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        poll may be held before scheduleChandigarh, August 11
 Circumstantial evidence is a pointer that the Punjab Assembly poll may
        be held before schedule, i.e. February, 2002. The Akalis, for the first
        time, will complete a five-year term. But is it enough to make them
        buoyant? They certainly feel elated while talking about the overall
        “development” or “achievements” during the past five years.
 LCP
        splits, Agrawal expelledS.S. Sharma new party leader
 Lucknow, August 11
 The breakaway group of the Loktantrik Congress Party today expelled LCP
        president Naresh Agrawal from the party and unanimously elected Mr Shyam
        Sunder Sharma as the leader of the LCP Legislative Party.
 13 militants killedSrinagar, August 11
 Thirteen militants and a soldier were among 15 persons  killed in  different overnight operations in the state, while the security forces scuttled yet another exfiltration bid, when they arrested six Kashmiri youths in the Uri sector.
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