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A POWERFUL bomb blast, one of four that injured scores of people along a Hindu pilgrim route in Kashmir, killed 18 Indian paramilitary troopers Thursday, a Muslim militant group said . . . A SENIOR RUSSIAN officer accused rebel Chechens on Thursday of holding more Russian prisoners than they are admitting and said the issue was hampering peace talks . . . AT LEAST 35 PEOPLE drowned when a passenger boat overturned in the Ganges river in India's eastern Bihar state, the United News of India said Thursday.