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Bihar
Laloo's bail extended
PATNA, FEB. 19.The Patna High Court today extended by nearly another three months the provisional bail granted to RJD supremo, Laloo Prasad Yadav, in a disproportionate assets case, an offshoot of the multi-crore fodder scam. Justice S.K. ...


Haryana
Crime against women declines
CHANDIGARH, FEB. 19.The Haryana police today claimed a drastic decline in the rate of crime against women during the last three years. According to an official spokesman, the Haryana police had initiated concerted steps to curb this menace by ...
Poor response to BKU bandh call
CHANDIGARH, FEB. 19. A bandh call issued by Bharatiya Kisan Union activists today failed to evoke much response in any part of Haryana. An official spokesman of the Haryana police said here this evening that flow of traffic on roads in the ...


Jammu & Kashmir
Snow brings cheer to Kashmiris
JAMMU, FEB. 19. After heavy rains during the last four days, there were cheers in Srinagar city last night as it experienced its first heavy snowfall of the season. The snowfall, however, cut Kashmir from the rest of the country as ...


Madhya Pradesh
Digvijay appeals for calm
BHOPAL, FEB. 19.In view of the call given by the Hindu Jagran Manch for a protest bandh tomorrow in the Dhar-Nimar region of western Madhya Pradesh, the Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, has urged the people to maintain peace and harmony while ...
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    Nagaland
    Cong. for two-day poll
    NEW DELHI, FEB. 19. The Congress today urged the Election Commission to have a two-day poll in Nagaland, instead of one, to enable proper deployment of paramilitary forces in all the constituencies. In a memorandum to the Commission, the ...


    New Delhi
    Senior citizen's long wait for justice
    NEW DELHI, FEB. 19.A senior citizen has been running from pillar to post for the past eight months to get the services of the Delhi Legal Services Authority for recovery of his provident fund which he alleged was embezzled by his private ...
    MCD's e-service begins
    NEW DELHI, FEB. 19. The Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, today inaugurated the interactive and dynamic website of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi -- http://www.mcdonline.gov.in -- and the ...


    Rajasthan
    Govt. weighing ban on `trishul'
    JAIPUR, FEB. 19. The Rajasthan Government, it seems, has decided to act cautiously on the demand from certain quarters that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's "trishul diksha samaroh'' (ceremonial distribution of tridents) be banned. The Government is ...
    Green signal for several projects
    JAIPUR, FEB. 19.The Union Government has cleared projects worth Rs. 160 crores, submitted by the Rajasthan Government under the Prime Minister's Gram Sadak Yojana, formulated for linking of 411 villages with roads. The Public Works Department ...


    Uttar Pradesh
    BJP, BSP opt for `friendly' clash in bypolls
    LUCKNOW, FEB. 19.While the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have arrived at an agreement to avoid their intermittent quarrels in Uttar Pradesh in the interest of political unity between the two parties, they have ...


    Chattisgarh
    Opposition stalls proceedings
    RAIPUR, FEB. 19.The Chhattisgarh Assembly was adjourned for the day today without transacting any business as the ruling and opposition members raised slogans and counter slogans over an issue of a notice for a breach of privilege against the ...

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