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Assam
`Militants planning strike before I-Day'
GUWAHATI, AUG. 8. The Assam Government has information that militants plan to strike vital installations in the State before Independence Day, the Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, has said. Security measures have been taken in the wake of this ...


Gujarat
Keshubhai to be campaign manager
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8. The Bharatiya Janata Party decided this evening that the former Gujarat Chief Minister, Keshubhai Patel, would be the party's campaign manager for the coming Assembly election in Gujarat. The decision was taken at a meeting ...


Madhya Pradesh
Digvijay proposes collective fine
BHOPAL, AUG. 8. Concluding the prolonged debate today on the admissibility of an adjournment motion in Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday's sati incident at Patna Tamoli village, the Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, mooted the idea of imposing a ...


Maharashtra
Women face discrimination in Maharashtra jails
MUMBAI, AUG. 8. Some of the women convicts serve longer terms than men in the jails of Maharashtra and the condition of women prisoners is worse, at least, in the Mumbai Central Prison, if they are Indians. Foreign women convicts ...
Scam accused traced
MUMBAI, AUG. 8. The cooperative bank chairman, Pawanaje Nimbalkar, who is wanted in connection with a securities' scam, has been located in the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Pune. The Osmanabad District Cooperative Bank, headed ...


New Delhi
Monument area gets saffron tinge
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8.In Lutyens' Delhi, saviours have themselves turned into perpetrators, and ironically the agency -- in this case the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) -- which should have initiated a corrective measure has turned a blind eye ...
Lawyers see erosion of prestige
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8.Lawyers in the Capital feel that the legal profession is losing the dignity and respectability which it commanded once. Erosion in the profession's prestige as a noble one, they feel, started about two-three decades ago when ...
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    Rajasthan
    Cap on subsidy to hit farmers, says Gehlot
    JAIPUR, AUG. 8.Rajasthan has asked the Centre to take back the newly introduced cap on subsidy to farmers on the centrally sponsored scheme of Macro Management of Agriculture. The condition that subsidy per farmer, per activity should not ...


    West Bengal
    Railways recreates Tagore magic on wheels
    SHANTINIKETAN, AUG.8 A ride filled with soulful Tagore songs and nostalgia would ensure a rich experience for the passengers on board Santiniketan Express to this idyllic abode of the Nobel laureate's legacy. And as the travellers step out of ...


    Chattisgarh
    What people do for rains...
    RAIPUR, AUG. 8.From an aged couple re-marrying to tying frogs in the nuptial knot, there are rituals galore across Chhattisgarh to please the rain gods. Men have tonsured their heads and priests have performed numerous `yagnas' to seek blessings ...


    Uttaranchal
    Over 50 per cent polling in Ramnagar
    RAMNAGAR ( NAINI TAL), AUG. 8. The polling for the prestigious Ramnagar Assembly by-poll, passed off peacefully today, with complaints by the Bharatiya Janata Party that three Ministers had indulged in rigging at five polling stations. Nearly ...


    Jharkand
    HC asks Govt. to justify boards
    RANCHI, AUG. 8. The Jharkhand High Court has asked the State Government to submit a report within three months to justify the constitution of State-managed boards and corporations. A Division Bench of Chief Justice, V.K. Gupta, and Justice ...

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