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Saudi support sought for closer ties with Arab world
India is an observer at the Arab League Summit

INTERNATIONAL
LTTE "nerve centre" captured
COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka military on Wednesday claimed to have captured Kokkadicholai, one of the "nerve centres" of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE), to the south of Batticaloa in the east. A statement by the military said troops ...

High Security Zone
BATTICALOA: Sri Lanka has declared portions of Sampur in Trincomalee district in the east, captured from the Tamil Tigers in September last year, as a High Security Zone. A number of such displaced persons of Sampur, housed in refugee camps in ...

INTERNATIONAL
Riyadh plan is the focus of summit
Israel should not expect any dilution of the plan, says Saudi Arabia

Women power on display in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Students of a prominent seminary in the heart of Pakistan's capital were locked in a tense stand-off with the Government on Wednesday after taking three women and two policemen hostage. This is the second confrontation between the ...

Musharraf 's claim disputed
ISLAMABAD: The woman who spearheaded the cause of the disappeared in Pakistan on Wednesday contested President Pervez Musharraf's claim that the Government was not linked to the disappearances. Gen. Musharraf told a public meeting in Rawalpindi ...

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"U.S. preparing to attack Iran"

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Hostage drama ends
SINGAPORE: A hostage crisis aboard a hijacked bus, scripted by an armed person said to be a professional attention-seeker, was played out by him in front of television cameras in downtown Manila on Wednesday. The drama ended peacefully, as all ...

Maoists disrupt House
KATHMANDU: Lawmakers belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) disrupted proceedings in Parliament on Wednesday demanding formation of an interim government. They also demanded dissolution of the recently-formed Constitution Delineation ...

India & World
Sunita's stay in space to be extended
CAPE CANAVERAL: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in space — at least temporarily. She flew up to the international space station in December 2006 planning to come home in early July 2007 after a seven-month stay. Her ...

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