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    India, U.K. sign pact on transfer of sentenced persons
    NEW DELHI, FEB. 18.India and the United Kingdom today signed an agreement on the transfer of sentenced persons. The Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, and the visiting British Secretary of State, Jack Straw, signed the agreement. Under the agreement ...

    Five missing as four avalanches hit highway
    SRINAGAR, FEB. 18. Five workers, engaged in snow clearing operations, went missing while 21 others, including two journalists, were rescued as four avalanches hit the 300-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway today. The avalanches struck around the ...

    People are feeling unsafe in Jharkhand: Manmohan
    DHANBAD (JHARKHAND), FEB. 18. People are unsafe in Jharkhand under the BJP-led NDA dispensation in the State, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, said today while addressing a rally at the Randhir Verma ground in Dhanbad district and subsequently ...

    BJP seeks President's intervention in Goa
    PANAJI, FEB. 18. The Goa unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today sought the intervention of the President to check "police high-handedness" against its MLAs and urged the President to dismiss the Pratapsinh Rane Government immediately. It ...

    `India watching Nepal situation'
    NEW DELHI, FEB. 18. "We will see what we can do if things do not change. We do not want in anyway to hurt the people of Nepal ... we continue to hope that His Majesty [King Gyanendra] will sooner rather than later restart the political processes ...

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