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Bihar
Rare display of secularism in jail
PATNA, NOV. 19.In a rare display of secularism, about 20 Hindu prisoners of the Beur Central Jail here are observing fast on the occasion of Ramadan along with their Muslim brethren. The Jail Superintendent, Mahendra Kumar Bharti, told PTI ...


Gujarat
Trouble over seat allocation for BJP in Godhra
AHMEDABAD, NOV. 19. The first sign of dissidence over the ruling BJP's list of candidates for the December 12 Gujarat Assembly elections has come from Godhra, scene of the train carnage. About 500 supporters of the former Lok Sabha party MP, ...
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    Haryana
    Road blockade lifted
    JHAJJAR (HARYANA), NOV. 19.Villagers today lifted their five-day old daytime nine-hour blockade of various roads from here following an assurance from the district authorities that the innocent would not be harassed in the case relating to ...


    Himachal Pradesh
    H.P. delimitation panel notifies proposals
    SHIMLA, NOV. 19. The National Delimitation Commission has notified the draft proposals for delimitation of 68 Assembly and four Lok Sabha seats in Himachal Pradesh without altering the total number of constituencies. Notifying the proposals, ...
    NCP to contest Himachal Assembly polls
    SHIMLA, NOV.19The NCP today said it would contest a few seats in the Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh scheduled for February next and was not averse to forging an alliance with the Congress. ``Notwithstanding our differences with ...


    Jammu & Kashmir
    J&K Govt. files compliance report
    JAMMU, NOV. 19. The Jammu and Kashmir Government has submitted its compliance report to the High Court relating to the case of a woman from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, whose release was ordered by the court on August 2. The Jammu and Kashmir ...


    New Delhi
    Centre does a U-turn on Metro bill
    NEW DELHI, NOV. 19. In a complete turnaround from what the BJP-led Central Government has been claiming publicly, what was sent to the Delhi Government in the shape of a draft Metro Railway (Operations and Maintenance) Bill, 2002 is very ...
    Delhi college students seek security on campus
    NEW DELHI, NOV. 19.Even as the police conducted a series of raids on possible hide-outs of the three young men accused of criminally assaulting a Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) girl, the students of the college, the Lady Hardinge Medical ...


    Orissa
    NALCO: Orissa Cong. plans demonstration
    BHUBANESWAR, NOV. 19.Continuing its opposition to the Centre's move to privatise the National Aluminium Company (NALCO), the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee will organise a demonstration outside Parliament on November 22, the OPCC president, ...


    Uttar Pradesh
    More illiteracy among Dalit women: Amnesty
    LUCKNOW, NOV.19International human rights group Amnesty International has condemned the Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan governments for the poor literacy rate among `dalit' women in their domain, saying it directly violated their rights. ...
    Mayawati Govt. enjoys majority, asserts BJP
    NEW DELHI, NOV. 19.The BJP today asserted that on the basis of voting figures for the single election to the Legislative Council in Uttar Pradesh it could not be said that the Mayawati Government has lost its majority; although the BJP-BSP ...

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