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Bihar
Minister's grand-daughters `missing'
PATNA, FEB. 22. Four minor grand-daughters of the Bihar Revenue Minister, Ramai Ram, have been reported missing with cash and ornaments worth several lakhs. A case of suspected kidnapping has been lodged, police said today. The girls' father, ...

Project Sonia as PM candidate: Paswan
PATNA, FEB. 22. To provide a stable alternative to the National Democratic Alliance at the Centre, the Lok Janshakti Party chief, Ramvilas Paswan, today advocated that the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, should be the Prime Ministerial ...

We tried to woo Paswan: Nitish
PATNA, FEB. 22. The Railway Minister and senior Janata Dal (U) leader, Nitish Kumar, today claimed that the Lok Janshakti Party chief, Ramvilas Paswan, joining hands with the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal, would not cause any ...

Madhya Pradesh
BJP men upset over bid to induct Laxman
INDORE, FEB. 22. The proposed move of the BJP central leadership to induct former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh's brother and Rajgarh MP Laxman Singh has not gone down well with the BJP cadres and voices of dissent have started ...

Children play a big role in polio drive
BHOPAL, FEB. 22.The child-to-child approach that has been adopted to ensure the success of the Pulse Polio campaign was today evident in ample measure as the children were directly involved in bringing their siblings to the polio booths ...

Pondicherry
Good response to pulse polio programme in Pondy
PONDICHERRY, FEB. 22. The second phase of pulse polio campaign evoked good response in Pondicherry today. The Director of Health and Family Welfare Services, G.S. Reddy, said the department achieved a coverage 96 to 98 per cent of the ...

Banks should meet requirements of the poor: Rangasamy
PONDICHERRY, FEB. 22. The Pondicherry Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, today said the present position of non-performing assets in the entire banking industry in the country was alarming and hence there should be immediate steps to rectify the ...

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Pondy PMK leaders meet allies

Financial help for indigent artistes

Yanam delegation submits petition to Lt. Governor

Rajasthan
Congress to leave Jaipur seat for NCP?
JAIPUR, FEB. 22.The report about the Congress party leaving aside the Jaipur Lok Sabha seat for the Nationalist Congress Party to contest in the coming elections has evoked some reaction among the partymen and the political observers ...

Uttaranchal
Gusain's jail term remitted
DEHRA DUN, FEB. 22.The Uttaranchal Government has remitted the Tehri Fast Track court order sentencing Umesh Charan Gusain to three years' rigorous imprisonment for having participated in the mob fury in which the house of the Tehri ...