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Assam
Three buried alive
GUWAHATI, JUNE 4.Three construction workers were buried alive and seven others were injured when an approach bridge of a city temple collapsed during construction at Pandu locality here this afternoon. The incident took place at around 2:45 pm ...

Gujarat
Gujarat Congress against sanction to organised crime bill
GANDHINAGAR, JUNE 4. The State Congress Legislature Party will appeal to the Governor and the Centre not to sanction the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Bill, passed by the Assembly on Wednesday. Talking to mediapersons here today, the ...

Gangster shot dead in encounter
SURAT, JUNE 4.A hardcore criminal Subhash Bhaskar Nair, who had undergone facial surgery to change his identity and was arrested in Delhi recently, was shot dead today by the Gujarat police when he allegedly tried to escape from custody. The ...

Haryana
Accept verdict with grace, Chautala tells Amarinder
CHANDIGARH, JUNE 4. The Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, has urged the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, to ensure early completion of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal in Punjab territory in view of the Supreme Court ...

Jammu & Kashmir
Pilgrim dies
JAMMU, JUNE 4.A pilgrim from Indore to the Vaishnodevi died due to cardiac arrest at Katra while a Border Security Force jawan killed his colleague in Rajouri district of Jammu division since yesterday, police sources said here today. One ...

Jharkand
Assembly nod for shifting CIL headquaters
RANCHI, JUNE 4.Jharkhand's ruling NDA today got a unanimous verdict on a resolution moved in support of shifting HQ of CIL and DVC to Jharkhand from Kolkata in the State Assembly, but its attempt to include the shifting of SAIL HQ met with ...

Madhya Pradesh
Scrap Maheshwar power project, demands NBA
BHOPAL, JUNE 4.The Narmada Bachao Andolan has called for scrapping of the Maheshwar power project on Narmada citing the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in which the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) has ...

Maharashtra
MCOCA review committee set up
MUMBAI, JUNE 4. The Maharashtra Home Minister, R.R. Patil, today announced the setting up of a three-member committee to review the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). Mr. Patil told the Assembly that Justice (retd.) ...

Pondicherry
Police to upgrade fingerprint bureau
PONDICHERRY, JUNE 4. The Pondicherry police department plans to upgrade its fingerprint bureau at cost of Rs. 11 lakhs in a month's time, according to the Senior Superintendent of Police (Law and Order) Sunil Garg. Mr. Garg told the press today ...

Re-examination for higher secondary school students
PONDICHERRY, JUNE 4. The Department of School Education here will conduct soon a re-examination to enable students of the government higher secondary schools to have an opportunity to get promotion to the Standard XII. Announcing this to ...

Punjab
Akali Dal to oppose SYL construction
CHANDIGARH, JUNE 4.The Shiromani Akali Dal president, Parkash Singh Badal, said today that his party would "fight politically and through all other legitimate means available'' to safeguard the interests of the people of Punjab on the ...

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    Rajasthan
    RAS officers top list of complaints to Lokayukta
    JAIPUR, JUNE 4.The maximum number of complaints received by the Rajasthan Lokayukta during 2003-04 pertained to bureaucrats, including those belonging to the Indian Administrative Service and the Rajasthan Administrative Service. The RAS ...

    Uttar Pradesh
    Poll process for Rajya Sabha, Legislative Council begins
    LUCKNOW, JUNE 4.The process for the crucial biennial elections to 11 Rajya Sabha and 13 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council seats commenced today after issuance of notification by the Election commission. Elections for both Rajya Sabha and ...

    Congress alarmed at Rae Bareli incidents
    LUCKNOW, JUNE 4.The Congress leadership has taken a serious view of the incidents of violence taking place in Rae Bareli since the Lok Sabha elections. These are seen as a deliberate attempt to create an atmosphere of terror in the constituency ...

    BJP has potential to grow in Uttar Pradesh: Kalyan Singh
    NEW DELHI, JUNE 4. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Kalyan Singh, who returned to the Bharatiya Janata Party just ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, may have lost some of his bravado after the poor showing of the party in State, but he ...

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  • Supreme Court refuses to stay order quashing abolition of U.P. districts

    West Bengal
    `Crime against women on the rise in West Bengal'
    KOLKTATA, JUNE 4.The cross-border trafficking in women from Bangladesh and Nepal has led to an increase in crime against women in West Bengal over the past year, according to the Chairperson of the National Commission for Women, Poornima Advani. ...

    IOC tank fire: contingency steps taken
    KOLKATA. June 4. The bolt of lightning that struck one of the 20 petrol storage tanks at the Indian Oil Corporation oil terminal in Rajbandh, about 150 km away from Kolkata, around 6 p.m. last evening has triggered one of the worst fires.Despite ...



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