The state's chief electoral officer, Umesh Sinha, says he is working to change that.

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This month, Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari, founders of a San Jose, Calif.

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Transphorm was co-founded in 2007 by CEO Umesh Mishra, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Reports said the government has roped in a senior bureaucrat from Maharashtra state, Umesh Chandra Sarangi, to negotiate with Mr Hazare.

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Writing in the NEJM, Dr Roger Glass and Dr Umesh Parashar, of the US Centers for Disease Control, welcomed both studies as showing promising results.

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"We have managed to reunite most of the lost people with their families, but we still have about 150 people waiting, " says Mr Tiwari's son, Umesh Tiwari, who is taking over the running of the camp from his father.

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