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Four-day winter session begins in J'khand

Ranchi, Dec 14 (UNI) The four-day winter session of the Jharkhand Assembly began here today with the introduction of the second supplementary budget for the current fiscal.

The budget standing at about Rs 1473 crore was placed by Finance Minister Stephen Marandi. It would be passed tomorrow after a debate.

Mr Marandi, also the parliamentary affairs minister, tabled the Jharkhand State Highways Authority (ordinance), 2007 bill.

Speaker Alamgir Alam in his inaugural address urged the legislators to make the most of the small session and hoped that the members would extend cooperation in running the session smoothly.

The Speaker condoled the death of former Karnataka Chief Minister S R Bommai, Rajya Sabha member J P Mathur, law expert Laxmimal Singhvi, former union minister J Krishnamurthy, former minister of united Bihar Kailashpati Singh, former MLAs/MLCs Maniram Singh, Lambodar Pathak and Ram Vilas Jha and noted Hindi poet Trilochan Sashtri.

Others who expressed condolence were Chief Minister Madhu Koda, Leader of Opposition Arjun Munda, Deputy Chief Minister Sudhir Mahto and leaders of respective parties' legislature wings.

The House also condoled the death of victims in Chilkhari massacre by CPI(Maoist) in which 19 people were killed and death of an adivasi in Assam recently while adivasis residing in that state were holding demonstration in support of their demand.

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Kumawat appreciate training module to tackle Naxalites

Bhubaneswar, Dec 14 (UNI) Union Special Secretary, Internal Security, M L Kumawat today appreciated the advanced training being imparted to Special Operation Group (SOG) engaged in anti-naxal operation in Orissa. Mr Kumawat, who inspected the Orissa Police Training Academy this morning, expressed his satisfaction over the high level of training and security preparedness in the state. ''Such training should also be given to SOG engaged in anti -naxal operation in other states,'' Mr Kumawat added. Besides Mr Kumawat, top intelligence and.....

Fertilizer scarcity: UP, Centre war of words reaches a new high

Lucknow, Dec 14 (UNI) The blame game over scarcity of the DAP fertilizer in Uttar Pradesh continues with the Centre criticising the Mayawati government in the state for poor distribution system for the crisis. Earlier this week, UP Chief Minister Mayawati had urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allot additional one lakh tonne of the DAP and asked Railway Minister Lalu Prasad to provide wagons for ferrying the DAP to the state from Kandla port. The UP government had also.....

'Terrorists may target Indian, US embassies'

Islamabad, Dec 14: Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned against suicide attacks by terrorists based in the tribal areas and Swat targeting Indian and US embassies. Sources quoted intelligence agencies as further saying that terrorists could target VVIPs including President Pervez Musharraf, former premier Benazir Bhutto, and sensitive national and military installations. Top targets include Indian and US embassies, their consulates and several other religious and political personalities are also on the hit list, said a confidential National Crisis Management Cell.....
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