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Assam
Adivasis to press for ST status: Murmu
Guwahati: The Adivasi community will press for their demand for granting ST status with the Centre, president of the Jharkhand Disom Party and chief convenor of the Joint Adivasi Action Committee, Salkhan Murmu said here on Monday. Addressing ...

Bihar
High Court directive to Bihar Government
Patna: The Patna High Court on Monday asked the NDA Government in Bihar to constitute the state human rights commission by June 30, 2008 and report it to the court. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha and ...

Principal killed in Bihar
Kishanganj: Principal of a Government boarding school was killed in the school premises by slitting his throat, police said on Monday. Police said that Ajit Kumar, son of Ratan Paswan, a peon of the dalit school had an altercation with ...

Haryana
For Bhajan, Chautala family came first: Hooda
‘Both did nothing for Haryana’; Mandi Adampur by-election on Thursday

Entrance test for hospitality course
CHANDIGARH: The entrance test for admission to the four-year Bachelor degree course in International Hospitality Business Management-2008/09 will be conducted by Kurukshetra University on June 28. An official spokesman said here on ...

Rains cool Punjab, Haryana
Chandigarh: Maximum temperatures on Monday dropped sharply across Punjab and Haryana, by up to 15 degrees at some places, after rains lashed many parts of the region. Patiala had 28 mm of rain and was the coolest place in the region, with a ...

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Jammu & Kashmir
Jawan commits suicide
Srinagar: An army jawan on Monday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in Anantnag district. Havaldar Suresh Chander, posted with First Rashtriya Rifles unit, shot himself inside a camp at High Ground in the ...

Three arrested with weapons
Jammu: Three persons, including two criminals, were arrested on Monday with weapons in the city. On a tip off, police raided Domana area of the district and arrested one Jyoti Sharma, officials said adding one pistol was recovered from ...

Orissa


Puducherry
Encroachments removed on the banks of Pallavakial
Around 250 huts had come up illegally during first week of June

Red Ribbon Express in Puducherry on June 7, 8
PUDUCHERRY: The Red Ribbon Express that spreads awareness of the need to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS across the country will halt here on June 7 and 8. Flagged off on December 1, 2007, the train has been dedicated to carry ...

Medical camp
PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry Society for the Care of the Aged is conducting a special medical camp in the discipline of Siddha for senior citizens on May 21. The camp will be held at the Government Primary School, Karasur from between 10 a.m. ...

Bandh supporters arrested
PUDUCHERRY: As many as 26 functionaries of the All India Central Council of Trade Union were arrested for attempting to block roads near the Thattanchavady Industrial Estate on Monday. The AICCTU Puducherry unit had called for an bandh to ...

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Punjab
Sukhbir demands crores for farmers
CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to pass on to Punjab’s farmers the benefit of Rs.13,000 crore saved in foreign exchange as a result of record wheat procurement ...

Domestic help held for murder
CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh police on Monday claimed to have solved the mystery behind the murder of 33-year-old Anuradha, the wife of property dealer Baljinder Singh Sandhu, by arresting the domestic servant employed at their Sector 38 ...

Rajasthan
Milk producers threaten stir
Want Jaipur Dairy to reverse its decision

Uttar Pradesh
DDU University gets new Vice-Chancellor
Lucknow: Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, Namdeo Shriramji Gajbhiye has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Deen Dayal Upadhyay University, Gorakhpur. The appointment has been made by Uttar Pradesh ...

Security at UP courts to be tightened
LUCKNOW: Moves are afoot to tighten security at the Allahabad High Court, its Bench of Judicature here, and in the district courts in the wake of the agitation launched by lawyers following the death of a colleague in police custody last week ...

Uttaranchal
11 Congress, BSP members suspended
Uttarakhand Assembly adjourned sine die

West Bengal
Railway job racket busted
Dhanbad: With the arrest of eight persons from the district, police claim to have busted an inter-state job racket in the Eastern Railway. A joint police team led by Manoj Kumar Banerji (in charge of Barakar police station in West Bengal) and ...




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