31.   Opposition parties and human rights groups organized the march to pressure Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to sack the chief minister of Gujarat state.

32.   Other members included Manohar Joshi, the Shiv Sena chief minister of Maharashtra, and the son and nephew of Thackeray.

33.   Pawar was once chief minister, the top elected post, in Maharashtra state and now leads the Congress parliamentary delegation.

34.   Participants included menteris besar and chief ministers.

35.   Prime ministers or chief ministers from Antigua, St. Kitts-Nevis, Anguilla, and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands are expected to attend.

36.   Quite understandably, its computer-savvy chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is going all out to woo investors over the Net.

37.   Political newcomer Ethlyn Smith beat former chief minister and opposition leader Cyril Romney, an incumbent.

38.   Rebecca Mark, chief executive of the Houston-based company, met Maharashtra chief minister Manohar Joshi in Bombay for half an hour.

39.   A state with so many problems, says opposition leader Modi, needs an effective chief minister.

40.   Abu Hassan resigned from the Cabinet on Friday and was to run for a seat in the state legislature that he must hold in order to be chief minister.