Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Friday, July 30, 2004
Other States
News Update

News
Front Page
National
States:
• Tamil Nadu
• Andhra Pradesh
• Karnataka
• Kerala
• New Delhi
• Other States
International
Opinion
Business
Sport
Miscellaneous

Today's Headlines

Specials
In Focus
Photo Gallery
Events 2003

Features:
Life
Magazine
Literary Review
Metro Plus
Business
Education Plus
Open Page
Book Review
SciTech
Entertainment
Young World
Property Plus
Quest
Folio

Stocks
Quotes
SE Diary

Advts
Classifieds
Employment
Obituary

Archives
Yesterday's Issue
Datewise



Group Sites
The Hindu
Business Line
The Sportstar
Frontline
The Hindu eBooks

Home

Bihar
Women tortured for practising `witchcraft'
PATNA, JULY 29.In separate incidents three women were tortured suspecting them as witch wherein one of them was badly beaten up, paraded naked and forced to drink human excreta while acid was poured on another resulting in severe burn injury, ...

Haryana
Congress to step up drive against Chautala Government
NEW DELHI, JULY 29.The Congress party today decided to step up its activities in Haryana and decided to bring out a charge-sheet against the Indian National Lok Dal Government in the run up to the Assembly elections due in the State early next ...

Himachal Pradesh
Andretta-A sanctuary of potters
PALAMPUR, (Himachal Pradesh), JULY 29. Picture bamboo thickets, rhodenderon shrubbery, banana boughs, blackberry stems - all in two kilometres and more. Truly Andretta is fertile. Thirteen kilometres from the Leopard-infested Palampur, against ...

Madhya Pradesh
M.P. Government to amend Panchayati Raj Act
BHOPAL, JULY 29.The Madhya Pradesh Minister for Panchayat and Rural Development, Narendra Singh Tomar, today read out a policy statement in the State Assembly to announce the State Government's decision to go in for an amendment to the ...

Maharashtra
NDA should not take us for granted: Bal Thackeray
MUMBAI, JULY 29. Signalling that BJP-led NDA should not take his party for granted, the Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray appears to doubt the existence of the National Democratic Alliance, saying its leaders were not consulting the constituents ...

Nagaland
Naga Ceasefire Agreement extended
NEW DELHI, JULY 29. Keen to continue the ongoing peace process in Nagaland, the United Progressive Alliance Government has given the go-ahead for a further extension of the Naga Ceasefire Agreement by a year. The ceasefire with the main Naga ...

Pondicherry
School breakfast scheme extended
PONDICHERRY, JULY 29. The Education Minister, K. Lakshminarayanan, today announced in the Assembly that the Rajiv Gandhi breakfast scheme had been extended to cover kindergarten classes and students in standards IX and X and in higher secondary ...

Sand mining licences `meant to keep prices down'
PONDICHERRY, JULY 29. The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, today said the Government had sanctioned sand mining leases to state-owned corporations to keep the price of sand under control. He said the idea was to sell it cheaper than the rates ...

Other Stories

  • B.Ed counselling completed
  • Tractor subsidy for Adi Dravidar ryots hiked

    Rajasthan
    Rajasthan MLA arrested
    JAIPUR, JULY 29.The lone Lok Janshakti Party MLA in Rajasthan, Ranveer Singh Gudha, was arrested today on charges of assaulting an assistant engineer of the Public Health and Engineering Department. Mr. Gudha, MLA from Gudha in Jhunjhunu ...

    Raje not to beg for Central aid
    JAIPUR, JULY 29. The Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, today said that the State would not go with a "tasla''(pan) to the Centre begging for assistance. "However, we are confident that we will be able to procure Central assistance,'' she ...

    Polls to Mandi Samitis under study
    JAIPUR, JULY 29.A proposal to hold elections to the Krishi Upaj Mandi Samitis in Rajasthan is under consideration of the State Cabinet and the final decision is yet to be taken. The Krishi Upaj Mandi elections were last held in the State ...



    Read Today's supplements: | Life | Entertainment |

    Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com
    Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address

  • Yesterday's
    Other States Page


    News: Front Page | National | Tamil Nadu | Andhra Pradesh | Karnataka | Kerala | New Delhi | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous | Today's Headlines | Features: Life | Magazine | Literary Review | Metro Plus | Open Page | Education Plus | Book Review | Business | SciTech | Entertainment | Young World | Property Plus | Quest | Folio |
    Advts:
    Classifieds | Employment | Obituary | Updates: Breaking News |

    The Hindu Group: Home | About Us | Copyright | Archives | Contacts | Subscription
    Group Sites: The Hindu | Business Line | The Sportstar | Frontline | The Hindu eBooks | Home |

    Copyright © 2004, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu