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Jammu & Kashmir
Three Bills passed by Upper House
JAMMU, DEC 19.On the concluding day of the winter session the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council today passed three bills including Right to Information Bill, Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act, 2003 (Amendment Bill) and the Jammu and ...
Electricity regulatory commission planned
JAMMU, DEC 19.The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to set up a State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) on the lines of those in other states, the Power Development Minister Mohd Sharief Niaz said today. Apart from fixing and ...


New Delhi
Assembly elects its youngest Speaker
NEW DELHI, DEC. 19.Creating history, the Rajouri Garden MLA and former Congress Minister, Ajay Maken, today became the youngest Speaker of the Delhi Assembly. The 39-year old Mr. Maken was elected by 50-19 votes and even managed to get support of ...
14 flights diverted
NEW DELHI, DEC. 19.As many as six domestic and eight international flights were diverted to Jaipur, Lucknow, Mumbai and Ahmedabad due to poor runway visibility range (RVR) at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here this morning. The ...
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    Punjab
    Temperature dips in North India
    CHANDIGARH, DEC 19.Dense fog at several places in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh continued to play havoc with normal life as poor visibility resulted in death of four persons in road mishaps in Hisar district even as rail and air traffic remained ...


    Uttar Pradesh
    Mulayam would have to cut Ministry size
    LUCKNOW, DEC 19.The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, would have to downsize his 97-member jumbo ministry to 60 once the President gives his assent to the Anti-Defection Bill providing for limiting the ministry to 15 per cent of ...
    Three cops hurt
    VARANASI DEC 19. Three police personnel were injured as an irate mob indulged in brick-batting and ransacked the Kotwan police outpost in the district snatching guns from police and damaging records and furniture, after a farmer was allegedly ...


    West Bengal
    Row over water tax in Kolkata
    KOLKATA, DEC. 19. The Department for International Development (DFID), which provides a major share of funds for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), is unhappy over the fight between the Mayor, Subrata Mukherjee, and the Trinamool Congress ...


    Jharkand
    `Health services in Jharkhand dismal'
    KOLKATA, DEC. 19. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said today that the public health services in Dumka district of Jharkhand were in a dismal state and deficiencies were noticed in Birbhum district of West Bengal too. Addressing a press conference, ...



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