REGIONAL NEWS - Page 432

Northern Railways on Monday cancelled several trains in Punjab in view of the widespread violence in the state in the wake of the killing of a Dera leader in Vienna.

Normal life was disrupted in several parts of coastal Orissa as heavy rains accompanied by high-velocity wind pounded many areas.

Cyclonic storm Aila with a wind speed of 100 kmph was only 50 km away from Kolkata and was likely to hit the city any time soon,the met office said.

Two persons were killed in Kolkata in the aftermath of Cyclone Aila as the storm,accompanied by heavy showers,raged through the city.

Two persons were killed and more than a dozen injured in violence across Punjab and parts of Haryana after Sant Ramanand of Dera Sachkhand,injured in an attack in Vienna,died in hospital.

V S Achuthanandan advised that the visual media to be more responsible and cautious while airing news and talk shows.

Stung by the debacle in the Lok Sabha polls in Bihar,RJD supremo Lalu Prasad has convened a meeting of the party in Patna.

The day was marked by large scale lobbying in both the camps led by Khanduri and his bete-noire Bhagat Singh Koshiyari.

After taking over as Orissa CM for the third time in a row,Patnaik retained key departments like home and general administration with him.

BJD became the first regional party to come to power on its own in Orissa when a 21-member ministry headed by Naveen Patnaik was sworn-in.

Durga Soren,the eldest son of JMM chief Shibu Soren,died in Bokarao on Thursday due to suspected kidney failure.

The Marathi <i>manoos</i> is grieving the division of votes and I am getting reactions from voters who voted for others that they have committed mistake,said Uddhav.

With TDP biting the dust in polls mainly due to its stance on the Telangana issue,Chandrababu Naidu's party said it needs to do a re-think on separate statehood issue.

Pawan Kumar Chamling was sworn in as Chief Minister of Sikkim for a record fourth term along with eleven other ministers.

Maoists blew up a state government building in Bihar's Gaya district during a 48-hour bandh called by them since last night against holding of parliamentary elections.

At least 10 persons,including six NDFB militants,were killed in separate incidents at Assam's strife-ridden twin districts of Karbi Anglong and N C Hills.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister B C Khanduri will submit resignation over poll debacle to party chief Rajnath Singh,informed BJP sources.

MDMK leader Vaiko alleged that the DMK and Congress had won the just concluded Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu using money and muscle power.

J-K Govt has decided to acquire the private land for allowing the people to put up free food stalls during the yatra period for the pilgrims.

The CPI-ML said NDA's electoral performance was the outcome of people's anger against the "RJD kind of politics" and not a vote for Nitish Kumar government.

A Home Guard was killed and a police constable was seriously injured when unidentified persons opened fire at a police picket in Falaknuma 'basti' area.

In the lull between polling and counting,punters rushed to place bets worth Rs 20,000 crore on what was better - 'pizza' or 'roti'.

Backing the Congress-led UPA at the Centre,Shibu Soren advocated fresh assembly elections in President's rule-bound Jharkhand.