Yet some of the chief ministers worry that backward states are being left behind in the information-technology race.
Mr Vajpayee has found strong allies among some of the chief ministers who are anxious to spur economic growth.
The chief ministers say that, for their part, they will waive sales tax.
In Congress, too, successful state chief ministers, such as Mr Singh or Rajasthan's Ashok Gehlot, may emerge as potential national leaders.
These chief ministers understand the connection between good politics and good economics.
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Jersey and Guernsey's chief ministers have announced negotiations with the United States on a Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) are "advanced".
The Chief Ministers of Jersey and Guernsey said the islands would be put at competitive disadvantage and are asking for more information.
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The chief ministers said they were awaiting the publication of the US' final FATCA regulations, which were due by the end of the year.
The chief ministers also want to revamp education policy to enourage the rapid expansion of computer skills and allow a much greater role for private colleges.
Some chief ministers are also trying to set up new colleges in their states with the help of Indian software billionaires working in America's Silicon Valley.
For now, the likely scenario is a cabinet reshuffle, a replacement of some state chief ministers, and the reaffirmation of a future transition to Anwar and Najib.
The bombing also preceded by two days a visit to Kashmir by the prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, for a meeting of chief ministers from Indian states.
Anoth-er, Muhammad Muham-mad Taib, will be challenged by a field of state chief ministers and cabinet members. (Abdullah is the third incumbent.) And Razaleigh cannot be written off.
The chief ministers of all three dependencies welcomed the recommendations.
To help create this, Mr Vajpayee and the chief ministers agreed to give unrestricted right of way to companies laying cables along national highways and other major roads.
On Monday, the chief ministers of Jersey and Guernsey announced they would not sign up to a tax exchange agreement with the UK unless it is a global regulation.
On Wednesday, the Indian and Pakistani chief ministers of the divided state of Punjab inaugurated a new road that will link the Indian city of Amritsar to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan.
They then got almost all the state chief ministers to endorse Anwar, who by then issued a statement that he felt obliged to heed the party's wishes and accept the nominations.
This in the country where the leader of the ruling party, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, at least three chief ministers, and a number of sports and business icons are women.
The NSC will comprise the three service chiefs and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, as well as the prime minister, the leader of the opposition, the four chief ministers and the chairmen of both houses of parliament.
The government working group, made up of the ministers and chief executives of the departments of tourism, transport and home affairs, met for the first time on Wednesday.
The claim, contained in the government's dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, has become the chief test of whether ministers "duped" the British public over the need for war.
It is chaired by the prime minister, with senior ministers and the chief of the defence staff, Air Chief Marshall Sir Jock Stirrup.
And corruption still festers nationwide and in the capital: Rousseff has already sacked six ministers and her chief of staff amid various scandals.
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On the second day, VIPs included Sok An, chief of the Council of Ministers, and Minister of Culture Princess Bopha Devi, daughter of King Norodom Sihanouk.
Carmon is a former chief counterterrorism adviser to Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Yitzhak Shamir.
Two Belgian ministers and a police chief resigned after Marc Dutroux, an alleged child-killer, briefly escaped from custody.
Speakers and panellists included heads of government, ministers, chairs and chief executives of businesses, researchers, multi-lateral agencies and NGOs.
PA's 22 ministries and calls on Mr Arafat to sack his existing cabinet and bring criminal charges against two ministers (including his chief negotiator, Nabil Shaath).
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