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Assam
Doctor held in Mumbai
Member of Indian Mujahideen: police

Bihar
Bihar Govt. employees go on strike
They are demanding total implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations

Teachers set fire to books to fend off cold
Gaya: To escape the biting cold, teachers of a government school at Paraiya block in Bihar’s Gaya district set ablaze two bags of textbooks meant for free distribution among students, official sources said. According to reports reaching ...

Bail plea rejected
Patna: The Patna High Court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of controversial RJD MP from Siwan Mohammed Shahabuddin in a case pertaining to recovery of foreign arms and ammunition from his house during a police raid in April 2005. -- ...

Haryana
Cases registered against Haryana IAS, IPS officers
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has registered cases against an IAS officer, an IPS officer, ten officers of the Haryana Police Service and the Haryana Civil Service, Director-General of the Bureau S.C. Sinha told the media here ...

Crime against women on the rise in Punjab, Haryana
Cases of assault, dowry deaths, female foeticide increase in 2008

Promotion schemes notified
CHANDIGARH: The State Government has notified the Haryana Civil Services (Assured Career Progression) Rules, 2008, which have come into force with effect from January 1, 2006. An official spokesman said here on Wednesday that the ...

Double pension for widows of ex-Servicemen sought
CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday suggested that widows of ex-Servicemen, who had also served the State Government’s Civil Service after retirement, should be allowed to receive the military pension as ...

Himachal Pradesh
Himachal hikes housing subsidy for socially backward classes


Kolkata
Left front to protest Israel’s attack on Gaza
KOLKATA:The ruling Left Front in West Bengal will organise protest marches across the State on January 10 condemning Israeli attacks on Gaza. Biman Bose, Left Front Committee chairman, has said that processions would be taken out in the ...

Madhya Pradesh
“People’s nod for Govt. works”
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Governor, Balram Jakhar, on Wednesday said the results of the recent Assembly elections showed that the people had given their approval to the development works launched by the State Government in the last five ...

Rohani elected Speaker
BHOPAL: Senior BJP leader Ishwardas Rohani was unanimously elected Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly here on Wednesday. Soon after the House assembled at 10-30 a.m., pro-tem Speaker Jamuna Devi announced that only Mr. ...

Orissa


Puducherry
Academic Excellence Award for French teacher
Ambassador of France presented it to Georgette Hacq

Convict ends life at Central Prison
PUDUCHERRY: A prisoner convicted for life in a murder case committed suicide in the Central Prison at Kalapet on Tuesday night. The deceased had been identified as Murugan (31) a resident of Ariankuppam. According to Inspector General of ...

Vegetables to be procured with police escort
PUDUCHERRY: To avoid any shortage of vegetables owing to the strike called by truck owners, the Civil Supplies Department has sent several vehicles with escort of armed police to procure the vegetables from Andhra Pradesh and ...

Power shutdown
PUDUCHERRY: There will be no power supply on Thursday from 10.30 a.m to 4 p.m at Kurunji Nagar and Kumaran Nagar extension, Raman Nagar, Bharathiar Salai, Avvai Nagar and Ashok Nagar, said a release from Electricity Department. — Staff ...

Public holiday declared
PUDUCHERRY: The Lieutenant Governor has declared January 8 as public holiday on account of Muharram for government offices, educational institutions and banking institutions including co-operative banks in Puducherry, Karaikal and Yanam ...

Fishermen observe fast
PUDUCHERRY: Several fishermen went on a hunger strike on Wednesday demanding grant for construction of houses. According to a release, the Puducherry Fishing People Kazhagam said that the government had not constructed houses for ...

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Punjab
Crime against women on the rise in Punjab, Haryana
Cases of assault, dowry deaths, female foeticide increase in 2008

Students block NH-1
Rajpura (Patiala): Over 400 nursing students on Wednesday blocked the Delhi-Amritsar National Highway near Gagan chowk here, demanding better working conditions and revival of stipend during their four years of training. The students ...

Rajasthan
Strike hits power supply in Rajasthan


Assembly uproar over teachers’ issue
JAIPUR: The issue of a large number of para-teachers in Rajasthan still waiting for their regularisation led to heated exchanges between the ruling Congress and opposition BJP members in the Assembly on Wednesday. Both sides accused each other ...

Uttaranchal
Constables dismissed for harassing students
DEHRA DUN: Constables Sanjay Singh and Brij Mohan Kumar posted at the Dalanwala police station here have been dismissed and sent to jail for having forced two students to enact obscene scenes and trying to blackmail them with video clippings ...

Uttarakhand schools to open at 9 a.m.
DEHRA DUN: The Uttarakhand Education Minister, Madan Kaushik, has ordered the district magistrates to ensure that all schools open at 9 a.m. during the month of January. The district magistrates have also been authorised to extend the period ...

Suicide by widow
Dehra Dun: A widow, who survived a suicide attempt last month but lost her two mentally-challenged children, allegedly ended her life by consuming poison in Harrawala village here. Police said Vidya Devi (42) was found dead in her ...




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