The Hindu : Tuesday, March 25, 2003

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Tuesday, March 25, 2003

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Iraq War Updates

Allied forces face stiff resistance in Iraq
NEAR KARBALA (IRAQ), MARCH 24. Coalition troops pressed toward Baghdad with new wariness today, as militiamen loyal to the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, proved that they were not a beaten force and sandstorms snarled the advance. By night, a ...

Militants gun down 24 Kashmiri Pandits
NADIMARG (SOUTH KASHMIR), MARCH 24. In a gruesome incident that dealt a severe blow to the "healing touch" policy of the five-month-old Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Government in Jammu and Kashmir, heavily-armed militants mowed down 24 members of 11 ...

'Chicago' bags 6 Oscars
LOS ANGELES, MARCH 24.The musical "Chicago" won the Oscar for best film at the Academy Awards but it was a pair of stunning upset victories for "The Pianist" — director Roman Polanski and actor Adrien Brody — that gave the biggest ...

Advani to visit massacre site today
NEW DELHI, MARCH 24.An emergency meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) today took stock of the situation in the Kashmir Valley following the massacre of Kashmir Pandits early this morning, preceded a day earlier by the killing of the ...

Oil industry strike today
NEW DELHI, MARCH 24.Over 30,000 workers of the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited and the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited will go on a three-day strike from tomorrow protesting the Government's decision to privatise the two oil ...

Paintings seized
NEW DELHI, MARCH 24 Officials of the CBI and the Archaeological Survey of India today raided godowns of a South Delhi firm allegedly dealing in the sale and purchase of antiquities and seized nine precious paintings of Raja Ravi Varma worth over ...

No bail
NEW DELHI, MARCH 24.The Supreme Court today declined to consider the stock broker Ketan Parekh's plea to release him on bail in the case relating to the ``Rs. 120-crore Kolkata Stock Exchange scam'' of March 2001. A Bench, comprising Justice ...

Mahesh Bhatt spurns invitation
NEW DELHI, MARCH 24.Bollywood film maker, Mahesh Bhatt, has turned down an invitation to attend the International Film Festival in Spain saying ``this is no time to hold a film festival when Iraq was facing attack from U.S.-led coalitions ...