1.  Bangladesh thereby gained direct access to its Moslem-populated enclaves of Dahagram-Angarpota, within the Indian state of West Bengal in Cooch Behar district.

2.  In an unprecedented move, the World Bank has commissioned an independent investigator to review its controversial Narmada Dam Project in the Indian state of Gujarat.

3.  Apparently uncontrolled incursions into a national park in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan are threatening the survival of its fast-dwindling population of tigers.

4.  Among the dead was Ghulam Hasan Bhatt, the power minister for the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

5.  Ansari was implicated in the smuggling of a truckload of explosives and arms from Pakistan into the western Indian state of Gujarat last year, Indian investigators said.

6.  As always, the dispute centers on the Muslim-dominated northern Indian state of Kashmir, where Islamic militants have stepped up their attacks on civilians.

7.  Ashutosh Varshney, a professor at the University of Michigan, points out in a new book that levels of communal violence vary widely among Indian states.

8.  At least five trains carrying troops have left the northern Indian state of Assam in the past four days, the news agency said.

9.  Bechtel has joined Enron in starting legal proceedings against the Indian state, including a demand for arbitration, said spokesman Jeff Leichtman.

10.  Bengali is the modern Indic language of the Indian state of West Bengal and of Bangladesh.