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Bihar
Dismissal of Rabri Government sought
PATNA, DEC. 8. The leaders of the Bihar unit of the National Democratic Alliance today submitted a memorandum to the Governor, M. Rama Jois, ahead of tomorrow's bandh, demanding the dismissal of the State Government in the wake of the removal of ...

Madhya Pradesh
Blessed by sadhus, Uma Bharti takes oath
BHOPAL, DEC. 8.The Bharatiya Janata Party's firebrand leader, Uma Bharti was this afternoon sworn-in as the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister along with 17 new Ministers at the imposing Lal Parade ground here. A host of dignitaries, sadhus and a ...

White paper tops new CM's priority
BHOPAL, DEC. 8.The new Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, today said that her Government would soon be coming out with a white paper on the State's economy with special emphasis on roads, employment and electricity. Addressing her first ...

New Delhi
MCD bids farewell to Councillors
NEW DELHI, DEC. 8.The Leader of the House in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Ram Babu Sharma, today promised to protect the interest of the civic body in the Delhi Legislative Assembly as an MLA. In his farewell address to the MCD House, ...

Sushil Sharma files appeal in High Court
NEW DELHI. DEC. 8. Sushil Sharma, who was sentenced to death in the sensational Naina Sahni murder case by a Delhi court last month, today filed an appeal in the Delhi High Court against the Sessions court judgment. The appeal, filed through ...

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`UGC trying to privatise higher education'

A new look at old age

Security exhibition concludes

Water supply to be hit

Punjab
NDA challenges Congress on Amarinder's turf
PATIALA, DEC. 8.The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) today challenged the Congress, when its leadership came out in open support of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which organised a rally here to announce the launch of yet another stir from this ...

Rajasthan

A strategy of micro-management pays off for the BJP
The verdicts of the recent round of Assembly elections have had their share of surprises. In this, the second instalment of a five-part, State-wise series, an analysis of the electoral outcome in Rajasthan, by Yogendra Yadav and ...

The methodology
This analysis is based on a post-election survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, exclusively for The Hindu. The field work for the survey was conducted on December 1 and 2. The voters were ...

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Saffron hues all the way

Vasundhara sworn in amid fanfare

West Bengal
No-confidence move defeated
KOLKATA, DEC. 8. The no-confidence motion against West Bengal's Left Front Government jointly sponsored by the Trinamool Congress and the Congress was defeated today after being put to a division vote in the State Assembly. Replying to ...

Bangladeshi killed in BSF firing
KOLKATA, DEC. 8. A man, stated to be a Bangladeshi, was killed and another injured when BSF jawans fired at a group of people who attacked them with stones on being challenged close to the Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal's Malda district ...