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    Kashmir parties, public greet decision on bus service
    SRINAGAR, FEB. 16. The decision to start the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service from April 7 has been greeted with euphoria in Jammu and Kashmir. Baramulla town glittered with lights and crackers were burst in the city. Barring feeble voices ...

    Divided families happy
    JAMMU, FEB. 16. The decision by India and Pakistan to launch the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service on April 7 has been greeted with joy here. Most of the State's divided families have been eagerly awaiting the opening of the road link. Harbans ...

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    Bihar: notepads, calculators out
    Patna: With barely a week left for the completion of the polling process in Bihar, notepads and calculators have become the Patna politico's most sought after accessories. Reason: The prospect of a hung house. However, the sums are turning out to ...

    Sonia, Manmohan to campaign in last phase
    NEW DELHI, FEB. 16. With electioneering for Assemblies of Bihar and Jharkhand entering the last phase, the Congress has decided to step up its efforts. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, and the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, will lend ...

    `Rudimentary Tamil-Brahmi script' unearthed at Adichanallur
    CHENNAI, FEB. 16. A piece of writing has been discovered inside an urn at the Iron Age burial site at Adichanallur, 24 km from Tirunelveli town in Tamil Nadu. The script has six letters. The urn has a human skeleton in it along with miniature ...

    "Let senior epigraphists take a look"
    CHENNAI, FEB. 16. "I feel it is the duty of the ASI to invite all senior epigraphists" from different institutions to see the inscribed urn and express an opinion, said Iravatham Mahadevan, an epigraphist of international repute. "If the ASI, ...

    It is a sky-high campaign in Bihar
    PATNA, FEB. 16.The place to catch VVIPs these days is the airport hangar at Patna. This impressive abode of some 18 or so helicopters is where they descend every morning — and again in the evening — surrounded by kurta-pyjama clad ...

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