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    Haryana
    Transferred
    CHANDIGARH, AUG. 3. The Haryana Government has issued the posting and transfer orders for three IPS officers and one HPS officer. Alok Joshi, Inspector General of Police, Railways and Technical, Panchkula, would also hold the charge of Law and ...

    Himachal Pradesh
    Portfolios re-allocated
    SHIMLA, AUG 3. The portfolios of the three Ministers who were shown the door during the downsizing exercise recently were reallocated today to some other Cabinet Ministers in the Virbhadra Singh Government. The Health portfolio, earlier held by ...

    `No threat to Nathpa Jhakri project'
    SHIMLA, AUG 3.The Sutlej Jal Vikas Nigam Limited authorities manning the prestigious 1500-MW Nathpa Jhakri Power Project today heaved a sigh of relief as the artificial lake formed on the Indo-Tibet border did not burst and the water started ...

    Madhya Pradesh
    `No power crisis by 2007'
    BHOPAL, AUG. 3. The Chairman and Managing Director of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) and the Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation (NHDC), Yogendra Prasad, today said that there would be no electricity crisis in ...

    Pondicherry
    Dental college will be upgraded: Valsaraj
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 3. The Health Minister, E. Valsaraj, today said the Pondicherry Government-owned Mahatma Gandhi Dental College and Hospital here would be upgraded to a postgraduate institute. Speaking to presspersons, he said the college had ...

    Youth federation protest
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 3. Activists of the Pondicherry unit of the All-India Youth Federation today held a demonstration at the Head Post office on Rangapillai Street to protest against the hike in prices of petrol and diesel. The federation ...

    Power shutdown
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 3.There will be no power supply for five-and-half hours from 10 a.m. on Thursday at Moolakulam, Pitchaveeranpet, J.J. Nagar, M.G.R. Nagar, Annai Theresa Nagar and Oulgaret in view of construction work scheduled on high-tension ...

    Calling foreign students: `Study India'
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 3. Pondicherry University has launched a `Study India' programme under which foreign students can do courses in Indian culture, heritage, literature, philosophy, religion, ancient science, astrology, yoga and meditation, dance ...

    Punjab
    Troops called out in flood-hit Patiala
    CHANDIGARH, AUG 3.Though no loss of human life has been reported, two Army columns were deployed to evacuate people from at least a dozen flood- affected places in the Rajpura and Dera Bassi sub-divisions of Patiala district today. Incessant rain ...

    Call to check child abuse
    CHANDIGARH, AUG 3. The Punjab Governor, O.P. Verma, who is also Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh, today called upon non-government organisations (NGOs) and voluntary groups to launch a concerted drive to check exploitation and ...

    Rajasthan
    Bhabra's letter evokes strong protests
    JAIPUR, AUG. 3.A war of wits is on in the Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan following a letter from the former Deputy Chief Minister, Harishankar Bhabra, to the party president, Venkaiah Naidu, seeking collective leadership in the State. The ...

    Uproar over bungling in grain distribution
    JAIPUR, AUG. 3.The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's charge that the foodgrain allocated by the Centre to Rajasthan under various schemes during the previous Congress regime was sold in the black market led to a turmoil in the Assembly during ...

    Noisy scenes over backlog of ST/SC vacancies
    JAIPUR, AUG. 3.The Rajasthan Assembly today witnessed noisy scenes over the mounting backlog in filling vacancies reserved for the members of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes in Government jobs. The House was adjourned for half an hour and then ...

    Uttar Pradesh
    Vaqar Ahmad joins Cabinet
    LUCKNOW, AUG. 3.The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today effected a minor expansion of his Ministry by inducting the former Deputy Speaker in the Assembly, Vaqar Ahmad Shah, as a cabinet minister. The Governor, T. V. ...



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