The Hindu : Thursday, March 27, 2003

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Elite Iraqi troops to take on Marines
SOUTH-CENTRAL IRAQ, MARCH 26. A large contingent of Iraq's elite Republican Guard headed south today in a convoy of about 1,000 vehicles towards U.S. Marines in central Iraq — an area that has already seen the heaviest fighting of the war. ...

War update

Hundreds of Iraqis killed in battles as coalition forces advance on Baghdad.

U.N. Security Council open meeting to call for an immediate end to the conflict.

Faced with mounting Iraqi resistance, the U.S. is altering its ...

Haren Pandya shot dead
AHMEDABAD, MARCH 26. The former Gujarat Minister of State for Home and Revenue, Haren Pandya, whose differences with the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, cost him the BJP Assembly ticket in the last elections, was shot dead by unknown assailants ...

Sachin, Amitabh in Billionaires Club
LONDON, MARCH 26.Film actor Amitabh Bachchan and cricket star Sachin Tendulkar are in the United Kingdom's list of top 20 Indian billionaires. This is for the first time that Indians living in India have been named in a U.K. rich list of ...

'Prithvi' test-fired
BALASORE (ORISSA), MARCH 26.India today successfully test-fired the short-range missile `Prithvi', capable of carrying nuclear weapons, from the test range at Chandipur-on-Sea near here. The missile had a perfect lift off from a mobile ...

Jammu blast kills 1
NARWAL(JAMMU), MARCH 26.One person was killed in an explosion outside an oil depot on the outskirts of Jammu today. Militants triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) kept in an oil tanker parked outside the depot near the railway station ...

HC rejects extension to excavation
LUCKNOW, MARCH 26.The Allahabad High Court today rejected the ASI's plea for extension of time by one-and-a-half months for completing the excavation work at the acquired land in Ayodhya. PTI ...

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