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Haryana
Crop loan limit raised
CHANDIGARH, NOV.17. The Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, has announced several incentives for the farmers including increase in the minimum limit of crop loan from Rs.60,000 to Rs.85,000 and one per cent reduction in the rate of ...


Jammu & Kashmir
Bank strike continues
SRINAGAR, NOV 17.The indefinite strike by the Ellaquai Dehati Bank (EDB) employees, asking for more workforce in the state, continued for the 12th day today, disrupting normal functioning of 80 banks in the valley. A spokesman of the EDB ...


Madhya Pradesh
BJP promises ban on cow slaughter
BHOPAL, NOV 17.Promising a complete ban on cow slaughter, BJP manifesto for Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls today pledged to provide a responsive and accountable government to ensure balanced development through private investment in sectors like ...


New Delhi
Cong. stronghold: yesterday, today, ... .
NEW DELHI, NOV. 17.The mass exodus of people over the past decade and blatant commercialisation of the area have changed the demographic profile of the Walled City tremendously. In addition, it has affected the voting pattern and outcome ...
BJP Dalit leader joins Congress
NEW DELHI, NOV. 17.In a major setback to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi, the Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, managed to pull off a major coup as a senior Balmiki leader and former BJP MLA, Swaroop Chand Rajan, along with a large ...
EC seeks undertaking on school bags
NEW DELHI, NOV 17. The Election Commission has said it is ready to lift the ban on procurement of five lakh school bags meant for SC/ST children with the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi's photograph on them if the State Government gives an ...
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    Punjab
    Tributes paid to Lala Lajpat Rai
    DHUDIKE (MOGA), NOV 17.Floral tributes were paid to Punjab Kesari Lala Lajpat Rai on the occasion of 75th-martyrdom day today at his birthplace here. Several people from all walks of life visited the memorial and paid tributes by placing petals ...
    Punjabi pop singer dead
    CHANDIGARH, NOV 17.Noted Punjabi pop singer Surjeet Singh Bindrakhia died in his sleep following a cardiac arrest early this morning at his home in Mohali, his nephew Gurmajor Singh said. Surjeet, 42, was cremated in the afternoon at his ...
    No dissidence in Punjab Congress
    MOGA, NOV 17.Punjab Congress chief, H. S. Hanspal, has denied that there was any dissidence in the party's state unit and said the entire party machinery was ``solidly behind'' Chief Minister Amarinder Singh. ``Rumours in this regard are the ...


    Rajasthan
    PM to kick-start campaign today
    JAIPUR, NOV. 17.The Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will address two public meetings in Rajasthan tomorrow, marking the formal launch of the Bharatiya Janata Party's election campaign in the State. The party has chosen Bikaner and Udaipur ...
    CPI(M) bigwigs to launch campaign
    JAIPUR, NOV.17.The Chief Ministers of West Bengal and Tripura, their Cabinet colleagues and a host of national leaders will campaign for candidates of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the coming Assembly elections in Rajasthan where the ...


    Union Territories
    Chandigarh Club members demand elections
    CHANDIGARH, NOV.16.Several members of the prestigious Chandigarh Club here have upped the ante against the management for not conducting the annual general elections for the last over two years. As per the Club rules, the elections should have ...



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