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Monday,
February 21,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
40 die
as avalanches bury houses in J&K
Srinagar/Shimla/Chandigarh,
February 20
 Forty persons were killed in house
collapses triggered by avalanches and landslides in Jammu and Kashmir as
the heaviest snowfall in a decade and a half paralysed normal life in the
Kashmir valley which remained cut off from the rest of the country for the
third day today.
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Heavy snow has clogged the transmission lines in the Jawahar Tunnel area of Jammu and Kashmir.
— Tribune photo by Amin War
 J&K
page: J&K Government approaches IAF for
emergency supplies
Himachal
page: No luck for stranded passengers
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Would the shifting of Pappu Yadav to Tihar Jail help
curtail his activities?
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Pak cricketers to arrive on February 28
Mohali Test from March 8
Thiruvananthapuram, February 20
The Pakistan cricket team will arrive on February 28 for a 50-day tour of India comprising three Tests and
six-one-dayers, it was announced here today.
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Sports
page: 10,000 visas for Pak cricket fans
Shoaib
rues missing tour
Ethical
issues involved in stem cell research: ICMR chief
 Hyderabad, February 20
A day after a United Nation’s
committee resolved to ban “all forms of human cloning”, India’s
topmost medical administrator today cautioned that stem cell research in
this country, though having a huge potential, is riddled with “ethical,
environmental, religious, cultural and political” factors.
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In
Forum today
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What kind of a Budget would you like the Union Finance Minister to present?
The third instalment of the readers’ views appears on Forum
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QUOTE OF THE
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Overall, it should be a Budget which fulfills the commitments made in the CMP and it should be
pro-poor.
— CPI leader A. B. Bardhan
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Units
want entry tax on drugs from hill states
Chandigarh, February 20
The multi-crore small and marginal
drug industry employing about 50,000 skilled and unskilled workers in
Punjab, is in a quandary.
Shia-Sunni
clash claims three lives
Lucknow, February 20
At least three persons were killed
and as many as 15 were injured in sectarian violence in Lucknow and
Kolkata, while six Shia leaders were detained in Srinagar for defying a
ban on tazia procession during 'Ashura' of Muharram today.
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A boy throws stones during clashes between Shias and Sunnis in Lucknow on Sunday. Three men were killed during a tazia procession.
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Exam
fear claims six lives in Delhi
New Delhi, February 20
Parents should not mount pressure on
their children ahead of next month’s annual school exams, the fear of
which has already led to six suicides, a top psychologist has warned.
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Gaadiwalas
on fast track
Kila Raipur, February 20
There is more to the annual February
fete at Kila Raipur than just sport as was evident today when the sun
stopped playing truant and smiled brightly in the clear blue sky as the
three-day event came to a happy finale.
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Sports
page: Veterans
shine on concluding day
A tense moment during the bullock cart race in the 70th Kila Raipur Rural Games near Ludhiana on Sunday.
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Kashmir
cut off and in darkness
February 20, 2005
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Snow,
avalanches in Kashmir
February 19, 2005
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HC stays own order on appointments
February 18, 2005
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Bus
to Muzaffarabad from April 7
February 17, 2005
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Kidnapped student killed
February 16, 2005
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Restore
democracy, India tells Nepal
February 15, 2005
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EC
lodges FIR on Gujarat riots CDs
February 14, 2005
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Military
aid to Nepal suspended
February 13, 2005
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N. Korea
goes nuclear
February 12, 2005
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11,000 troops airlifted
February 11, 2005
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