...count, the 7.9 magnitude quake had killed 6,287 people in the industrial state of Gujarat, and the state's chief minister, Keshubhai Patel, said the toll could go as high as 20,000. Tremors lasting up to 30 seconds continued to shake...

...out," the United News of India quoted West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu as saying in Calcutta, the state capital...said. Opposition Congress party members met Deputy Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya to complain that sufficient...

...state governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the areas where most of his crimes were committed. N. Karunanidhi, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, said Rakjumar was released early Wednesday and "informed me that he is hale and hearty." The statement...

...7-magnitude quake. The disaster has probably killed 35,000 people, Gujarat's highest elected official, Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel, said Thursday, according to the state's emergency control room. The number of confirmed deaths...

...sheets, or else people will begin to flee the region," said P.K. Lahiri, the principal secretary to Gujarat's chief minister, Keshubhai Patel, the state's top elected official. International and domestic aid was piling up. Authorities...

...after the installation of a new government in Jammu-Kashmir, the heartland of a 12-year Islamic insurgency. Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the new state administrator, has promised to improve the government's image and to provide...