Assam : CM to arrive in Guwahati Friday and resume office Monday after a 45-day absence due to triple heart surgery in Mumbai last month          Kolkata : A shopping mall salesman found dead at Akhra in South 24 Parganas; three mall managers held for allegedly abetting his suicide          Haryana : Govt sets up cow commission for preservation, welfare, development of cow breeds, managing cattle generated bio-products in state          Gujarat : Two killed, three injured in a collision between a jeep and a truck at Mangal Mahudi in Dahod today          Northeast : 24-hour strike called by trade unions failed to make any impact in Arunachal, Mizoram and Nagaland          Orissa : Normal life hit in Orissa due to nationwide strike called by trade unions; schools, banks, post offices, petrol pumps stay closed          UP East : Banking, postal services in UP paralysed by trade union strike today, public transport partially affected, public inconvenienced          UP West : Banking, postal services in UP paralysed by trade union strike today, public transport partially affected, public inconvenienced          Tamil Nadu : Three nurses of a govt hospital at Dharmapuri attempted suicide today allegedly over non-payment of salary for past six months          Chennai : HC directs civic body, police to act against people encroaching on public places and preventing others from parking vehicles          Punjab : State transport services crippled in Bhatinda, Ludhiana, Moga districts due to trade union strike today          Himachal Pradesh : Shimla court rejects interim anticipatory bail of army officer caught redhanded by the CBI in Aug selling diesel from army stocks          Mumbai : One person killed when a tree crashed on a Sumo car near P Demello Road this afternoon; deceased identified as Rahim Sheikh          Maharashtra : 18 people die and several fall ill due to mysterious viral fever in last 22 days in Warud area of Amravati district          Bihar-Jharkhand : BJP stakes claim to form Jharkhand govt with support of JMM, hands over a letter of support of 45 legislators to governor today          Andhra Pradesh : Special court in Hyderabad directs ACB to book cases against 19 officers for transferring government land to Emaar Properties          West Bengal : Clashes between CPM and TMC activists reported from across state even as trade union strike cripples normal life          Kerala : Met department records 9 mm of rainfall in the state in last 24 hours, predicts light rains in the next 48 hours          Karnataka : Police begin probe into email sent to CM Aug 29 threatening to kill state ministers, after complaint was lodged late Monday          Madhya Pradesh : State government approves new mineral policy today; all applications to be accepted online          Jammu & Kashmir : Met predicts partly cloudy sky with thundery development in next 48 hours across state; maximum temperature to hover around 31C          Rajasthan : Three-day-old strike by doctors, during which about 50 patients died due to lack of treatment, has been called off