Be prepared for a surprise attack from Pakistan, warns President
President KR Narayanan, in his address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day, asked the people to be prepared for any `surprise attack' from Pakistan considering Islamabad's past record.

Sudhakar Naik to stand for assembly polls
As expected, the former state chief minister Sudhakar Naik has opted for the assembly than the parliamentary elections, and he has been nominated from his home constituency Pusad from the Yavatmal district by the Nationalist Congress Party.

Tea workers living in servitude, says report
Tea brings in millions of dollars in export earnings to India, the world's largest tea producer, but for the more than one million plantation workers in Assam and West Bengal, it has not brought any prosperity, a fact-finding team has reported.

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