Newswallah: Bharat Edition

Himachal Pradesh: While the plains are gearing up for summer, there was fresh snowfall Thursday in the high-altitude regions of the northern state, according to an IANS report on the NDTV Web site.

Meghalaya: The state will soon have a functioning high court, Governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary said Thursday, according to a Press Trust of India report on the Zee News Web site. Earlier this year, The Hindu newspaper reported that the Law Ministry had created three new high courts, subordinate only to the Supreme Court, for the states of Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura.

Uttar Pradesh: Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadavdistributed 10,000 laptops to students on Monday in the state capital of Lucknow, upholding a promise he made during his election campaign, The Hindustan Times reported. These laptops come with “tamper-proof” photographs of the chief minister and his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, which governs the state, the report noted. Mr. Yadav, who completed one year in office on Friday, had pledged free tablets and computers to high school and college students, among other benefits, to woo voters.

Rajasthan: The Rajasthan Commission for Protection of Child Rights has rescued approximately 50 children from two illegal children’s homes, according to a Press Trust of India report in The Indian Express. The childre! n, brought to the state under the pretext of providing them schooling, were kept for months with inadequate food and inhumane living conditions, the report said.

Gujarat: The death of two more swine flu victims this week has brought the number of deaths caused by the H1N1 virus in Gujarat to reach 103, the IBNLive Web site reported. The state, that now has the second highest swine flu deaths in the country after Rajasthan, also has 133 people currently undergoing treatment for the virus.

Tamil Nadu: The state’s chief minister J. Jayalalithaa called the recent changes to the civil service exams “retrograde” and “highly discriminatory” in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday, the New Indian Express reported. Ms. Jayalalitha, who governs a state where a majority of people speak Tamil, said that the changes discriminate against civil service aspirants from non-Hindi speaking regions of the country.