The Hindu : Monday, March 24, 2003

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Iraq War Updates

U.S. forces near Baghdad
SOUTHERN IRAQ, MARCH 23. U.S. forces surged ahead within 160 km of Baghdad today, but their battlefield success was tempered by pockets of resistance and pictures shown on Arab television of bodies in U.S. uniforms lying in a makeshift Iraqi ...

Al-Jazeera TV shows U.S. PoWs
WASHINGTON, MARCH 23.The Qatar-based Al Jazeera television today aired footage of captured American soldiers, some of them seen wounded and lying, sparking questions in the United States about the treatment being meted out to them. At least one ...

Australia retains World Cup
JOHANNESBURG, MARCH 23. Australia retained the World Cup with a 125-run win over India in today's final at the Wanderers. Skipper Ricky Ponting scored an unbeaten 140 off 121 balls as Australia compiled 359 for two — a record total for a ...

Ex-Hizb commander shot dead
SOPORE, MARCH 23. The former chief commander of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Abdul Majid Dar, was shot dead here today by unidentified gunmen in broad daylight. In the shoot-out his mother and sister were injured. According to eyewitnesses, four ...

Ansari brought back
KOLKATA, MARCH 23.Aftab Ansari, the main accused in the American Center shooting case, was today brought back to the city after he was produced in a court in Delhi yesterday. He was taken straight to the Presidency Jail from the Netaji Subhas ...

INSAT-3A launch
BANGALORE, MARCH 23. After a delay of nearly two months, India's latest communication satellite, INSAT-3A, is all set to be launched on April 8, sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation said today. ``But advancement or postponement by ...

Inflation rises
NEW DELHI, MARCH 23.The annual rate of inflation skyrocketed to this fiscal's highest at 5.13 per cent, up 0.44 per cent, for the week ended March 8. UNI ...

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