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                              India Has New State

   by VOA News

   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 years, after which Andhra Pradesh will develop
   a new capital city.
   Telangana, with a population of 35 million, is comprised of 10
   districts.
   Telangana supporters say the area had remained undeveloped and its
   residents faced discrimination in the allocation of funds, water and
   jobs.
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