No Pak tilt, just healthy inclination for J&K: US
Angrily denying that there was any American tilt towards Islamabad, US Assistant Secretary of State Rick Inderfurth said the Kashmir dispute was an international reality that could not be wished away and called on India and Pakistan to address the matter bilaterally. He further commented that there was no tilt in their policy.

PM chides Oppn's new bhakti in Ram
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee yesterday wondered why the Opposition was raking up the Ayodhya issue when the Bharatiya Janata Party had dropped it altogether from its national agenda. Making a veiled criticism of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vajpayee admitted that for some of his party members and associated organisations time had stood still since December 6, 1992 (the day the Babri Masjid was brought down).

Now Jaya wants PM to meddle in Tamil row
Unrelenting on its demand for the dismissal of the DMK government in Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK came up with another demand that the Vajpayee government will find it difficult to concede. J Jayalalitha now wants India to intervene and stop the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

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