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Assam
Freebies for Assam students, housewives
GUWAHATI, MARCH 14.The Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, today presented a Rs 2446.21-crore deficit budget for the 2005-06 financial year in the Assembly and announced a host of sops for students and housewives. These include free computers, ...

Bihar
Drive against criminals intensified
PATNA, MARCH 14.With law and order remaining the topmost priority for the Bihar Governor, Sardar Buta Singh, law enforcing agencies have launched an intensive drive against criminals arresting over 60 anti-socials, including a member of the ...

Haryana
Haryana House to meet on March 21
CHANDIGARH, MARCH 14.The Haryana Governor, A.R. Kidwai, has summoned the Vidhan Sabha to meet in the hall of Haryana Vidhan Sabha here on March 21 at 2 p.m. A notification to this effect was issued here today. -- PTI ...

Himachal Pradesh
`Every penny coming to Himachal has a Central string attached'
SHIMLA, MARCH 14.Former Chief Minister and leader of Bhartiya Janata Party in the House, Prem Kumar Dhumal, has blamed the ruling UPA for "murdering democracy in Jharkhand, Goa and Bihar, and not at all working with a CMP spirit but instead being ...

Jammu & Kashmir
Uri market getting a facelift
URI (KASHMIR), MARCH 14.Anticipation and excitement, that is the mood in Uri, for businessmen and local people are really looking forward to the start of the bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad on April 7, 2005. With the Prime Minister, ...

Madhya Pradesh
Chaos in House over attack on MLA
BHOPAL, MARCH 14.The Congress members today staged a walkout in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly and MLAs of other Opposition parties sat protesting in the well of the House during the course of a discussion on a calling attention notice over the ...

Maharashtra
Sanjay Dutt exempted by TADA court
MUMBAI, MARCH 14.Eighty five persons accused in the 1993 serial blast case, including actor Sanjay Dutt, were today exempted from appearance till April 27 by a designated TADA court here. Abbas Shaikhdare, an accused, did not appear today and ...

Pondicherry
Pondy varsity to offer five-year medical course for tribals
PONDICHERRY, MARCH 14. A five-year integrated tribal ethno medical course will be introduced in the Anthropology Department of Pondicherry University from the coming academic year. The University Grants Commission sanctioned the course last ...

Rangasamy leaves for Delhi
PONDICHERRY, MARCH 14. The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, today said he would apprise the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary, Ambika Soni, who is in charge of party affairs in Pondicherry, of the developments in the Union Territory. ...

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Punjab
Amarinder gifts Elahi a tractor
WAGAH (AMRITSAR), MARCH 14.The Punjab Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, has gifted the Chief Minister of Pakistan's Punjab Province, Pervez Elahi, a tractor but the vehicle crossed over to the other side with some difficulty today. The State ...

Rajasthan
Tigers vanish from Ranthambhore too
JAIPUR, MARCH 14. After Sariska, the Project Tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan, where now it is almost official that the wild tigers are completely missing, there is no good news from Ranthambhore, the State's conservation flagship, either. A ...

Uttar Pradesh
UP Assembly passes Appropriation Bill amid boycott
LUCKNOW, MARCH 14.The Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha today passed the Appropriation Bill amounting to over Rs 75,000 crore for the year 2005-06 by voice vote amidst boycott by Bharatiya Janata Party and Bahujan Samaj Party members. While BSP ...

CNG buses for U.P.
LUCKNOW, MARCH 14.In a bid to check vehicular pollution, Uttar Pradesh has embarked on a plan to ply CNG operated buses in the state, Minister for Transport Naresh Aggarwal said today. To start with CNG buses would be plied in Lucknow, Kanpur, ...

`Funds for naxalite-hit areas being misused'
MIRZAPUR, MARCH 14.The Union Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal has alleged that the state government has failed to utilise the Central funds provided for the development of naxalite-affected areas in the eastern UP. "If the state ...

UP jails to have mobile jammers
LUCKNOW, MARCH 14.The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today announced in the state assembly that jammers would be installed in jails for checking crimes. "The orders have not been implemented fully...we will have to rectify ...

Two notorious criminals killed in Lucknow
LUCKNOW, MARCH 14.Two notorious criminals, wanted in several cases of murder and kidnapping in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were killed in separate encounters here late last night, a senior police official said here today. Acting on specific ...



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