<h1>Criminal conviction reported for state minister and separate public-safety threats prompt law-enforcement investigations and bail proceedings.</h1> A reported criminal conviction and sentence was imposed in a longstanding cheating and forgery prosecution of a state minister, with an associated fine and reported bail, raising issues of criminal conviction, forgery and bail procedures. Law-enforcement probes were opened after emailed threats against a senior official's vehicle, and alleged insurgent killings implicated internal security investigatory responses. The state budget was presented without new taxes, implicating state budget tax policy, while a one-day nurses' strike engaged public-sector labor-relations procedures.