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    Bihar
    Jet Airways begins Delhi-Patna flight
    PATNA, AUG. 16.The Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad, today said that the development of the State was not possible without a good air, rail, and road link with the markets across the country. Mr. Yadav was speaking after receiving the inaugural ...

    Haryana
    Pre-paid card to check power theft
    CHANDIGARH, AUG 16.The Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, today directed the Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation (HARTRON) to develop a pre-paid card, on the pattern of telephones, for consumers of electricity to check ...

    Special subsidy on gypsum
    CHANDIGARH, AUG 16. The Haryana Government has sanctioned Rs. 2 crores to provide special subsidy through the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board (HSAMB) at the rate of 25 per cent, for the current financial year, in addition to the ...

    Himachal Pradesh
    Convict facing death penalty flees jail
    SHIMLA, AUG.16.A double murder accused, Shyamal Rao Reddy, who was recently sentenced to death, fled from the police custody for the second time today. This time it was from the high security Central Jail in Nahan. Shyamal Rao Reddy, a ...

    Madhya Pradesh
    Illegal fishing thrives in tiger reserve
    BHOPAL, AUG. 16. There has been a spurt in illegal fishing in the Totladoh reservoir inside the Pench tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh despite a ban imposed by the Supreme Court in this Protected Area. There was tremendous biotic pressure ...

    Pondicherry
    A model State in the making: Lakhera
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 16.Pondicherry, which enjoys communal and spiritual harmony and has been blessed bountifully by nature, can well become a model state in developmental activities, said the Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, M.M. Lakhera here today. ...

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    Rajasthan
    `Trishul diksha' will fan riots, feels CPI (M)
    JAIPUR, AUG. 16.The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has expressed concern over the resumption of "trishul diksha''(trident distribution) programme by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal in Rajasthan. "This is preparing ground for ...

    Army called out in marooned Kota town
    JAIPUR, AUG. 16.Troops were called out to help the civic administration in Kota town in south-east Rajasthan on Monday as incessant rain played havoc with normal life in the districts of Kota, Baran, Bhilwara, Tonk and Jhalawar. The Army ...

    Rajasthan has 14 lakh disabled people
    JAIPUR, AUG. 16.Rajasthan has occupied sixth rank among the States in terms of number of disabled people by constituting 6.45 per cent of the total population of the disabled in 2001. The desert State has a population of 14.11 lakh ...

    Union Territories
    President to inaugurate power plant
    CHANDIGARH, AUG 16.The seventh unit of the Devi Lal Thermal Power Plant will be inaugurated by the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, between September 21 and 25, according to the Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala. Mr.Chautala said that ...

    Uttar Pradesh
    Ajit Singh not to give up `Harit Pradesh' demand
    LUCKNOW, AUG 16. Former Union Minister and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Ajit Singh today reiterated his demand for carving out a `Harit Pradesh' from the western part of Uttar Pradesh for the ``all-round development'' of the region. ...

    Uttaranchal
    Schools with little teaching
    DEHRA DUN, AUG. 16. Loud claims of the Uttaranchal Education Department that all government primary schools have been equipped with good buildings, teaching material and teachers seem to be hollow as far as scores of schools in the ...



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