The Hindu : Friday, December 26, 2003

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Another attempt on Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, DEC. 25.The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, today escaped another attempt on his life, the second in 11 days, when suicide bombers rammed two cars into his motorcade and killed 14 persons in the high security zone of the ...

No politician is committed to democracy: Lyngdoh
NEW DELHI, DEC. 25.The Chief Election Commissioner, J.M. Lyngdoh, has likened politicians to a "cancer" afflicting the body politic of the country. "... And we have not been able to find any cure for cancer yet. So in due course if cancer is ...

Mohite Patil to succeed Bhujbal
MUMBAI, DEC. 25.The senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra PWD Minister, Vijaysinh Mohite Patil, was today named the new Deputy Chief Minister. The State NCP president, R.R. Patil, will take charge of the Home Department that ...

THE GREG CHAPPELL COLUMN
The special allure of Boxing Day Tests
MELBOURNE, DEC. 25. Boxing Day is a festival that dates back to Roman times. It is thought to have started with the gift-giving custom called strenae. The early Christian church adopted the custom by placing boxes in the churches in ...

Mars mission in jeopardy
LONDON, DEC. 25. The fate of Britain's first space mission to Mars plunged into uncertainty today when Beagle 2, the tiny probe vehicle, failed to confirm that it had landed, raising fears that it might have met the same fate as previous American ...

191 killed in China blast
CHONGQING, DEC. 25. At least 191 people have been killed and hundreds of others injured in a devastating explosion at a natural gas field in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, state media and officials said today. ...

8 held in Naidu attack case
TIRUPATI, DEC. 25. The Special Investigation Team probing the assassination bid on the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu, on October 1 has so far arrested eight persons suspected of helping a nine-member People's War team in ...

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