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Assam
Rights panel notice to SP
GUWAHATI, OCT. 24.The Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today issued a suo motu notice to Sarat Phukan, Superintendent of Police of Nalbari, for his alleged statement that he had directed the district police to shoot and kill all militants and ...


Bihar
NHRC looks into farm wages
PATNA, OCT. 24.The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decided to treat the non-payment of minimum wages in the agriculture sector as a violation of human rights and would also work for proper treatment and "protection" of those affected ...


Gujarat
VHP pamphleteering worries Christians in Dangs
AHWA (DANGS), OCT. 24. There is apprehension among Christians in the tribal-dominated Dangs district in south Gujarat over a "Ram katha" discourse organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad-supported Shree Sabrimata Seva Samiti at Subir village, near ...
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    Haryana
    Compensation for Jhajjar victims' kin
    CHANDIGARH, OCT. 24. The Haryana Cabinet has granted a compensation of Rs. 5 lakhs each and employment to the next of kin of the five persons who were lynched by a mob at Dulina village in Jhajjar district recently. The Cabinet meeting, ...


    Maharashtra
    Bajrang Dal, Cong. workers clash
    NAGPUR, OCT. 24. Workers of the Congress and the Bajrang Dal clashed at Sonegaon Airport here today as the VHP leader, Pravin Togadia, arrived on a two-day tour of the region. Police said the activists of the Youth Congress, who were staging a ...
    Bechtel keen on reviving Enron power project: Minister
    MUMBAI, OCT. 24.Bechtel, a partner in the Enron-sponsored Dhabol Power Company, has assured the Union Power Minister, Anant Geete, that it will cooperate in reviving the project. Though the Enron is bankrupt, the Bechtel and the General ...
    Maharashtra reluctant to buy power from NTPC
    MUMBAI, OCT. 24. Maharashtra, despite a power shortage of up to 2,000 Mw, continues to be reluctant to pick up power from the National Thermal Power Corporation because of its inability to go in for an escrow arrangement to ensure that the NTPC ...


    Meghalaya
    `Pig doctor' invents wonder herbal drug
    SHILLONG, OCT. 24.A doctor, who had sparked a controversy by transplanting a pig heart in a human, has claimed he has invented a wonder herbal drug for treating heart and diabetic patients. Dr. Dhaniram Baruah, who worked as a cardiac surgeon ...


    New Delhi
    Record nominations for JNU elections
    NEW DELHI, OCT. 24. Even as a record number of nominations have been filed for this year's Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union elections, one of the girl candidates for Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment is likely to ...
    Metro gets latest announcement system
    NEW DELHI, OCT. 24. The way the arrival of trains at stations is announced is all set to undergo a radical change at Delhi Metro halts. For here both the Public Address System and the Public Information Display System will not only announce the ...


    West Bengal
    Trinamool may renew ties with BJP
    KOLKATA, OCT. 24. The Trinamool Congress, chief Mamata Banerjee, is trying to renew her ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party by way of forging an electoral alliance with it for the panchayat elections scheduled for next year. Ms. Banerjee had ...

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