Sunday, February 2
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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SC intervenes in Wanchoo murder case
Zaffar Iqbal and Aradhana Sharma, NDTV.com, February 2, 2003
The Supreme Court today, in a landmark judgement, overturned the controversial ruling of a TADA court, which had acquitted three militants accused in the murder of well-known Kashmiri Pandit H N Wanchoo.
Wanchoo, a human rights activist, was killed on 5 December 1992 after being kidnapped, from his house in Jawahar Nagar in uptown Srinagar, by three armed gunmen belonging to the Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen. ... (more)
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Karnal grieves for Kalpana
NDTV.com, February 2, 2003 (Karnal):
In a spontaneous outpouring of grief, hundreds of people today flocked to the school where Columbia astronaut Kalpana Chawla had studied to mourn her death.
They participated in a prayer meeting at Tagore Bal Niketan school to pay tributes to Kalpana, a source of pride for them ... (more)