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September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A major fire broke out in the Electronic Niketan building in the CGO complex on Lodhi road on Thursday morning. However, no report of any casualties was reported.

August 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Government on Thursday decided to honour Major Mohit Sharma and Major D.Srikumar with the country's highest peacetime gallantry award the Ashok Chakra. Both Major Sharma and Major Kumar will receive the honour posthumously.

July 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik could be on the way out with the name of Raza Rabbani, a senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that heads the ruling coalition, doing the rounds as his successor. Rabbani would be given ministry of interior in a cabinet reshuffle that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is expected to undertake in the next few days while Information Minister Qamar-uz-Zaman would retain his ministry over his brilliant performance, Online news agency reported Wednesday, quoting sources.

July 14th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Amid the growing unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government Tuesday ordered a major shake-up in the police department transferring many senior officers. The reshuffle in the state police was ordered in the cabinet meeting headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

May 23rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Uttar Pradesh Government, in a major administrative reshuffle, has transferred 13 Indian Administrative Service officers (IAS). The decision was taken on Friday soon after the government transferred 34 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, including police chiefs of 17 districts.

March 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Local authorities were working overtime Wednesday to remove the large number of election posters, banners and roadside hoardings put up here by the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ahead of a visit by an Election Commission team to inspect observance of the model conduct code by political parties. The local municipal corporation engaged an army of labourers to pull down the thousands of hoardings, banners and posters that had defaced nearly every city wall and lamp post and the ugly cloth banners strung across major streets.

March 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - After India's election commissioners announced they would visit this Uttar Pradesh capital Wednesday evening, officials have been working overtime to remove all evidence of the large number of poll posters, banners and roadside hoardings put up by the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). The local municipal corporation engaged an army of labourers to pull down the thousands of hoardings, banners and posters that seemed to have turned the Lucknow skyline blue, the colour of the BSP.

February 22nd, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Shabbir Hussain Shekhadam Khandwawala was Saturday named Gujarat's new police chief, seven years after the state was enveloped by communal violence. Khandwawala, a 1973 Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a Muslim by faith, succeeds P.C.

February 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a major reshuffle in the key committee of the ruling Congress party Thursday night ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, senior leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was recalled as party general secretary. Azad has been given charge of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Orissa and Puducherry as the party reshuffled Congress Working Committee (CWC), its highest decision-making body.

February 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a major reshuffle in the key committee of the ruling Congress party Thursday night ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, senior leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was recalled as party general secretary. Azad has been given charge of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Orissa and Puducherry as the party reshuffled Congress Working Committee (CWC), its highest decision-making body.

February 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a major reshuffle in the key committee of the ruling Congress party Thursday night ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, senior leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was recalled as party general secretary. Azad has been given charge of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Orissa and Puducherry as the party reshuffled Congress Working Committee (CWC), its highest decision-making body.

February 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a major reshuffle in the key committee of the ruling Congress party Thursday night ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, senior leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was recalled as party general secretary. Azad has been given charge of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Orissa and Puducherry as the party reshuffled Congress Working Committee (CWC), its highest decision-making body.

February 6th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - A TV manufacturing factory, which was closed down several years ago, caught fire here late Saturday evening, officials said, adding that there were no reports of loss of life or injury. At least 10 fire tenders were rushed to the Texla TV factory in Sahibabad after an emergency call was received at 10.00 p.m., the officials said.

January 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Punjab’s new deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, son of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, was Thursday allocated the important portfolios of home affairs, information and public relations, NRI affairs and sports. The portfolios were allocated to Badal junior a day after he was sworn-in as deputy chief minister at Amritsar Wednesday.

December 31st, 2008 NEW DELHI - A major fire broke out Thursday evening at a cold storage in north Delhi. However, there were no reports of any casualties, fire officials said.