Jaswant meets Sattar at SAARC meet
Kathmandu: External affairs minister Jaswant Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Abdul Sattar shook hands and spoke to each other before a formal meeting of the SAARC foreign ministers in Kathmandu.

Terrorism was on top of the agenda at the SAARC foreign ministers' meeting.
The foreign ministers of the seven South Asian countries discussed ways to enhance economic cooperation between the SAARC members.
Prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf will be in Kathmandu for the meet on January 4.
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Crude production slips 1.9% in first 8 months
New Delhi: Domestic crude oil production slipped 1.9 per cent to 21.236 million tonne in the first eight months of the current financial year as against 21.658 million tonne in April-November 2000-01.
Crude oil production, however, rose 0.6 per cent to 2.72 million tonne in November 2001 as against 2.70 million tonne produced in the same month last year, according to latest data released by ministry of petroleum & natural gas.
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