Now, Blair wants to break Indo-UK "deadlock"
India's "strategic dialogue" with its key interlocutors, the United States, France and Russia, is making the British government feel rather left out. Seeing that the Indo-US dialogue was making ground, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is believed to have written to Prime Minister A B Vajpayee, seeking a resumption of bilateral ties that had been put into cold freeze after the tests.

Milosevic has 24 hrs to stave off airstrikes
NATO has given Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic 24 hours to reduce his forces in Kosovo to pre-crisis levels or face airstrikes, officials said. Early Monday, the Serb leader started moving in the right direction.

MEA declares war on Haj panel
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is engaged in a battle of words and court petitions with the Central Haj Committee (CHC) over the arrangements for Haj '99. This follows the clearance given by Minister of State for External Affairs Vasundhara Raje Scindia in June to reconstitute the five-year-old CHC.

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  Govt wakes up to illegal charcoal manufacture
  Rajju Bhaiyya did not violate lease pact
  Unauthorised police firing range comes under fire
  Stone falls off Puri temple, one injured
  Gandhi's bust vandalised
  Cheetahs may soon be on the prowl in Indian woods
  Blair, Aznar say Pinochet's fate up to judicial authorities
  Support Primakov, Gorbachev urges West
  Swords recovered from Coimbatore school
  Boy stoned to death in Delhi
  S Korea-US war games
  Senior Modi Rubber director held
  Disparaging Diana
  Karnataka to get tough with violators of child labour norms
  Battling trouble on the home front
  Schroeder promises new beginning for Germany
  Plot to kill Sentinel editor foiled
  AGP to set up student-youth wing
  Hostages' release fuels rumours of renewed Lanka-LTTE talks
  TN to ban rallies kindling caste, religious passions
  HC lifts stay on scam accused's trial
  Panel unearths fund records
  Peru, Ecuador sign historic peace treaty
  All-party meet on TN cast clashes a failure
  Ban sought on rallies likely to cause clashes
  Pakistan hopeful of Saudi aid
  Drop Salman, Jains demand
  Village tense after damage to converts' church
  LTTE scores over Sri Lanka again
  Dawood kin stayed in Sharma's house near Delhi police station
  Onion arithmetic goes wrong
  Mumbai Beat
  82-yr-old stabbed to death by watchmen
  MCI revokes additional quota for Aurangabad medical college
  Thief pushes girl out of moving local
  Water seeker plumbs the earth, builds cult following
  Mumbai cyber-whiz goes int'l
  Meet on atrocities on Muslim women
  Pre-School Act to return
  Quicktakes
  Ministry sites caught in own web
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