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    Bihar
    By-election for Bihar panchayat in November
    PATNA, OCT. 15. The Bihar Election Commissioner D.P. Maheshwari today announced that by-elections to vacant seats in the three-tier Panchayati Raj system will be held on November 25 and 28 next. Poll notification will be issued on ...

    Gujarat
    Gujarat defers promulgation of Ordinance on universities
    GANDHINAGAR, OCT. 15. In the face of stiff opposition from students and academics, the Gujarat Cabinet today decided to defer the proposed "Common Universities Ordinance." The move was viewed by the Congress and the party-affiliated ...

    Haryana
    NSG launches anti-hijacking training
    MANESAR (HARYANA), OCT. 15.With aeroplanes being increasingly used for terrorist activities in recent years across the globe, the Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, today said there was a paramount need for aircraft intervention by security ...

    Himachal Pradesh
    Rohtang Pass opens
    SHIMLA, OCT. 15.The Rohtang Pass which was closed due to heavy snowfall for the past five days was opened today but vehicular traffic is expected to be resumed only by tomorrow. The Ground Engineering Reserve Force (GREF) men worked overtime ...

    Pondicherry
    Gear academics to industry needs, says Anji Reddy
    PONDICHERRY, OCT. 15. Universities should emulate the `Bombay model', where academic and research programmes were geared to the needs of industry, said K. Anji Reddy, founder Chairman of Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Hyderabad, while inaugurating an ...

    Doordarshan to launch DTH service soon
    PONDICHERRY, OCT. 15. Doordarshan's free to air Direct To Home (DTH) platform will be launched shortly. It will start with 17 DD channels, programmes from 13 private channels and 20 DTH radio channels. The DTH platform requires a dish antenna, ...

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    Punjab
    Stay off couple, High Court tells villagers
    CHANDIGARH, OCT. 15.The Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed a Haryana panchayat not to interfere in the marital life of a couple, who were ordered by the village heads to live like ``brother and sister'' on the claim that brotherly ...

    Rajasthan
    Ambassador for closer Indo-Japan ties
    JAIPUR, OCT. 15.Japan's Ambassador to India, Yasukuni Enoki, today underlined the need for a closer dialogue and enhanced cooperation among three important countries of Asia -- India, China and Japan -- saying they had an enormous ...

    Bonus for govt. staff
    JAIPUR, OCT. 15.The Rajasthan Government has released bonus to its employees after a gap of six years and increased their dearness allowance by three per cent. The orders to this effect were issued here on Thursday after getting clearance ...

    Union Territories
    NABARD posts impressive performance
    CHANDIGARH, OCT 15.The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has claimed major achievements in its activities, which include the Non-Farm Rural sector, in Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. It ...

    Uttar Pradesh
    Amitabh Bachchan "deeply hurt" by media reports
    VARANASI, OCT. 15. Actor Amitabh Bachchan today took exception to the reported remarks by Congress MP, Rahul Gandhi, about the comments allegedly made by his wife and actress Jaya Bachchan regarding the ties between the Bachchans and the ...

    Sisters united with family after eleven years
    LUCKNOW, OCT. 15.In a scene reminiscent of a Bollywood pot-boiler, three sisters were united with their long-lost family at the Rajkiya Balika Bal Grah here after eleven long years. The three sisters, Naseema (20), Ameena (16) and Aruna (12) ...

    Uttaranchal
    30 pilgrims die as bus falls into gorge
    DEHRA DUN, OCT. 15. Thirty persons, nine of them women and one child, most of them pilgrims from Chhattisgarh, were killed when the bus they were travelling in from Hardwar to Yamunotri fell into a deep gorge near Sani Chatti beyond Barkot in ...

    Strikers storm into Raj Bhavan
    DEHRA DUN, OCT. 15.Activists demanding establishment of the permanent Capital of Uttaranchal at Gairsen gatecrashed into the Capital Identification Commission office in Raj Bhavan annexe here today, asked the Chairman, Justice Virendra Dixit, to ...



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