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Andhra Pradesh
NIMS doctors join duty today
HYDERABAD, FEB. 14. The striking doctors of the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) on Thursday gave an undertaking to the Division Bench of the A.P. High Court that they would withdraw the strike and join duty on Friday. They were ...
Budget session likely to be a stormy one
The budget session of the Assembly begins on Friday with the Governor's Address to the House at 9|30 a.m. It will sit till the end of March. A feature of the session is that for the first time, the Government took a break from convention and ...
Vizag student's distinction
VISAKHAPATNAM: Raj Pujari, a XI standard student of Visakha Valley School, has become one of the youngest Sun Microsystems certified system and network administrators in the world. He has achieved this distinction, completing the courses in 15 ...
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  • Cong. suspends Karimnagar DCC ex-chief
  • 4 MNCs entrusted diamond survey work
  • Follow heritage rules, court tells officials
  • Master plan for Vizag metro region
  • New legislation to protect groundwater resource
  • Economy moving in right direction, says Ramakrishnudu
  • KCR seeks special allocation for backward regions
  • Second phase of farming project for women launched
  • Simhadri project commissioning advanced


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Call for separate law to check coop. urban banks
    HYDERABAD, FEB. 14. The Greater Hyderabad Cooperative Urban Banks Forum has demanded separate legislation for effective and professional supervision of cooperative urban banks. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, its president, N. ...
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  • Music, dance course exams
  • Transco `shock' looms large on operational staff


    Karnataka
    Gowda predicts political polarisation
    BANGALORE, FEB. 14. The former Prime Minister, H. D. Deve Gowda, said on Thursday that there would be polarisation of political forces in the country after the announcement of the results of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. He ...
    Govt. preparing `exim policy'
    The State Government is preparing its own version of exim policy, and has entrusted the task to the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, R.V. Deshpande, Minister for Large and Medium-scale Industry, has said. Inaugurating an FKCCI workshop on the ...
    People told to have faith in Almighty
    Jagadguru Prasanna Renuka Veera Someshwara Rajadeshikendra Shivacharya Swamiji of the Srimad Rambhapuri Math, Balehonnur, said here on Thursday that there was a need for people to have faith in the Almighty so that they could achieve greater ...
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  • Habitat improvement project yet to be cleared
  • Farmers' stir hits freight earnings of Mysore Rlys.
  • Poor response to Kodagu bandh call
  • Writers flayed for criticising Ananthamurthy
  • Dalits oppose use of Ambedkar's portrait in campaign
  • Bijapur physician's thesis adjudged the best
  • Poor response to bandh call in Kodagu
  • `State tourism needs Narayana Murthys'
  • Battle for Krishna waters all set to begin


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    No new engg. college for Bangalore
    The Minister of State for Medical Education and Higher Education, G. Parameshwar, said on Thursday that the Government had decided not to permit any new engineering college in and around Bangalore, as there were already 56 such ...
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  • Judges' round table on IPR
  • CD-ROM on teachings of Madhwacharya
  • `Invite writers to sammelan'
  • Punish property tax defaulters, local bodies told
  • Media centre for Kannada Sammelan


    Kerala
    Strike total; battle of nerves continues
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 14. The Government employees and teachers' strike, which entered the ninth day today, has become a virtual battle of nerves. The Government continued to maintain that it would not retract from its decisions on curtailing ...
    LIC loan bails out Govt.
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 14. A Rs. 200-crore loan from the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has just managed to help the State Government wriggle out of the embarrassment of keeping the treasury shut. The Government was on the verge of ...
    Alternative steps for health services
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 14. The Government is making alternative arrangements, including appointment of temporary hands, in view of the strike threat by nurses and doctors, the Health Minister, P. Sankaran, said here on Thursday. The Minister ...
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  • Showdown on the cards at CPI(M) meet
  • Govt. pushing ADB agenda: SUCI
  • Chicken racket busted
  • RCC: action to be taken on Parikh report
  • Hassan denies kowtowing to ADB dictates
  • INL 'bid' to win over unhappy IUML men
  • Call to make value education compulsory
  • HC upholds M.G. tribunal powers
  • SBI, SBT stop treasury payments
  • KPCC plea to pro-Congress unions to withdraw stir


    Tamil Nadu
    Stalin, Azhagiri put up show of unity
    ANDIPATTI, FEB. 14. A day after the AIADMK general secretary, Jayalalithaa's campaign caravan stormed into Andipatti villages, the Opposition DMK's rising sons, M.K. Stalin and M.K. Azhagiri, sought to bury their sibling rivalry and jointly ...
    Mood changes with turnout
    ANDIPATTI, FEB. 14. The AIADMK leader, Jayalalithaa's first day of poll campaign in the Andipatti constituency sent mixed signals. She responded to the people on the basis of the crowds she drew in the course of her drive through a segment of the ...
    Rethink ties, CPI(M) tells NDA allies
    COIMBATORE, FEB. 14. The CPI(M) today called upon the DMK, the MDMK and the PMK to quit the National Democratic Alliance to preserve the secular fabric of the nation and protect its economy. It also criticised the AIADMK for failing to oppose the ...
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  • I'm MGR's true heir: Jayalalithaa
  • Govt. to challenge HC ruling against rural reservation
  • VIT MoU with foreign varsities
  • Under EC gaze, AIADMK holds the purse strings
  • Impartial decision on Cauvery row sought
  • HC notice to Centre on Swamy's quo warranto
  • Academics' concern over varsity bill
  • Free LPG for SHG women
  • Five-Star status for Anna varsity
  • 'Tribunal alone can evolve formula'


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Small and medium traders advised to pay tax dues
    CHENNAI, FEB. 14. In a move that would bolster the Chennai Corporation finances, the Tamil Nadu Traders Associations Federation has urged the small and medium traders in the city to pay their profession tax dues since 1998. Representatives of ...
    Dacoity at Gummidipoondi; businessman attacked
    Chennai, FEB. 14. Six armed men attacked a businessman at Gummidipoondi this morning, and took away more than 90 sovereigns of jewellery, Rs. 65,000 in cash and five kg of silver. However, the police said they received a complaint that only 23 ...
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  • Show primacy to patient welfare, says Governor
  • Fake certificate: Student expelled
  • High levels of SPM, RDP cause concern among T. Nagar residents
  • Corpn. health centres crippled
  • Three murder accused surrender
  • 'Study USA' on Feb. 22, 23
  • Plainclothes police to monitor motorists


    Pondicherry
    Portfolios for Pondy ministers
    PONDICHERRY, FEB. 14. The two recently-inducted Ministers in the Pondicherry Cabinet were given portfolios today. The Congress nominee in the coalition ministry, A. Elumalai, has been named Minister for Local Administration including ...
    Breakfast scheme for school children
    PONDICHERRY, FEB. 14. A Rs. 3 crore breakfast scheme to distribute bread and milk in all government schools from primary to higher secondary classes in the Union Territory would be implemented from the next academic year. The Tourism and ...
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  • French sponsorship for Indian specialist
  • Rs. 11-cr.water project for Mahe
  • 'Don't ape foreign culture'

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