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India Has New State

Celebrations including fireworks and drumming ushered in India's newest state Monday. Telangana - created from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh - is the country's 29th state and represents the culmination of a decades-long separatist campaign. Regional political leader K. Chandrasekhar Rao was sworn in as Telangana's chief minister in a ceremony in the technology hub, Hyderabad. Hyderabad will serve as the capital of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for the next 10...

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