Pak fire halts JKLF just short of LoC
The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front's threat to cross the Line of Control (LoC) fizzled out with Pakistan police using force to block activists from advancing beyond Madarpura village in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, barely 100 metres from the LoC.

Delhi plays safe, to skip CTBT meet
With the CTBT debate hotting up in the run-up to the proposed visit by US President Bill Clinton, the Govt has decided to play safe and announced that India would not participate in the Review Conference to facilitate the entry into force of the CTBT.

Rane remembers report after 11 months, sacks jail officials
Almost eleven months after the receipt of the report against them, the Sena-BJP Government yesterday dismissed two top jail officials and suspended one for extending illegal facilities to jail inmates.

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