31.   Indian Home Minister Shankarrao Chavan on Monday welcomed further talks with Moslem separatists to try and end six years of separatist violence in Kashmir.

32.   Indian Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda arrived in the Kashmir Valley Saturday on a path-breaking visit that triggered a protest strike by Moslem separatists, officials said.

33.   Indian troops are battling Moslem separatists in Kashmir.

34.   It also said an army operation to flush out Moslem separatists from the holy Kashmiri town of Charar-i-Sharief was likely to end on Monday.

35.   A civilian died in a gunbattle between Indian troops and Moslem separatists elsewhere in the troubled state.

36.   A general strike called by Moslem separatists to commemorate the killing of a guerrilla leader five years ago paralysed the Kashmir Valley on Friday, police and residents said.

37.   A large fire broke out at the headquarters of a powerful forum of Moslem separatists and political organisations here on Thursday, police said.

38.   A senior leader of an organisation of former Moslem separatists was abducted and murdered by rival guerrillas in the northern Himalayan state of Kashmir, police said Saturday.

39.   A strike called by Moslem separatists to denounce Indian-sponsored general elections crippled the Kashmir Valley Monday, forcing authorities to order unprecedented security measures.

40.   A mainland source quoted by the daily also said Chinese officials would attempt to prevent Moslem separatists from Xinjiang region trying to enter Hong Kong.