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Andhra Pradesh
Over 67 per cent pass in A.P. SSC exam.
HYDERABAD, APRIL 30. Students in the State registered a pass percentage of 67.89 in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Examination held in March 2002. This year's figure is 2.78 per cent higher than last year's 65.11. Warangal district ...
Swaminathan takes over as Chief Secretary
HYDERABAD, APRIL 30. K. Swaminathan, the seniormost IAS officer in the State, took over as Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. He succeeds P. V. Rao, who retired today on attaining the age of superannuation after a nearly ...
TDP team dazzled by China's progress
HYDERABAD, APRIL 30. The Telugu Desam team has returned from its study tour of China, thoroughly impressed by the economic resurgence and rapid strides made in several fields. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, the Minister for Home, T. ...
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  • Vadde asks ryots not to rush for Bt cotton
  • Dept. of Posts to distribute SSC marks memos
  • Left agrees to join hands with Cong., says MSR
  • Naxals gun down former dalam commander


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Transco out of sync with water board
    HYDERABAD, APRIL 30. Next time you find drinking water coming in a trickle in your house, do not blame the water board. For all you know, the fault may be with the Transmission Corporation of A.P. Due to excess demand during current summer ...
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  • Naidu pats top performers in SSC exam
  • Conference on biotechnology begins tomorrow
  • Governor's call to check abuse of power
  • One more IA flight to Mumbai


    Karnataka
    A responsive police force in the making
    BANGALORE, APRIL 30.The Karnataka Police are thinking of introducing "Dial 100 and recording facility'' at all police control rooms in the State and installing the global positioning satellite (GPS) system in Bangalore. These ...
    Medical college: Villagers prevent BJP padayatra
    Bangalore April 29. Leaders and activists of the city unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who planned to take out a "padayatra" on Tuesday against the construction of Infant Jesus Medical College close to Nelamangala on the ...
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  • Fight to the finish, working class told
  • Basava Dal, police heading for showdown
  • `Plan to recover loans under study'
  • Bommai predicts snap poll to LS


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    `Youngsters lack AIDS awareness'
    BANGALORE, APRIL 30. Are young Bangaloreans aware of HIV/AIDS? Yes. Do they know how it is contracted? The overwhelming and disturbing answer is, "No". That is what a survey of colleges and corporates has found. The study by City-based Freedom ...
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  • Decentralisation to help speed up garbage clearance
  • `Water adalat' at Ulsoor
  • Treated water from new plant to be supplied to industries


    Kerala
    `Porattam' activists storm ADB office
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 30. More than 10 activists, including three women, of "Porattam'', a left-extremist group sympathetic to the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), went on the rampage at the Kerala nodal office of the Asian Development Bank ...
    Higher education to get priority
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 30. A full-board meeting of the State Planning Board today decided to initiate steps to improve the quality of the university education in the State with the help of various research organisations and the industry. At ...
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  • Former editor, publisher jailed
  • Coop. Ordinance undemocratic: VS
  • Extremism: State police on alert
  • SEC reinstates disqualified woman panchayat member
  • Abkari-dominated areas top in toddy shop sale


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    AIR archives to go digital
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 30. The department of archives at the All India Radio, Thiruvananthapuram, is involved in a mammoth exercise these days. Its legacy of the past 67 years _ the rare collection of recordings of old songs, interviews or ...
    Other Stories

  • Govt. urged to lift ban on appointments
  • Teachers assn. opposes Plus Two courses in aided schools
  • Four held; gold, cash seized


    Tamil Nadu
    'Karunanidhi betrayed State's interests'
    CHENNAI, APRIL 30. The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, and the PWD Minister, O. Paneerselvam, today accused the DMK president, M. Karunanidhi, of having betrayed the interests of Tamil Nadu in the Cauvery issue. After a bout of explanations and ...
    Sadhasiva panel final sitting in Bangalore
    ERODE, APRIL 30. The Justice Sadhasiva Panel, constituted by the National Human Rights Commission, will hold its final sitting at Bangalore on May 15, 16 and 17 when the Special Task Force personnel from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka would depose ...
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  • AIADMK MP's plea for grant to T.N.
  • Chautala woos investors to Haryana
  • Create more seats in medicine, engineering, SC tells T.N.
  • `Keep children out of fireworks manufacture'
  • Plantation workers' strike disrupts life in Valparai
  • Now all-women sub-jail
  • Kanchi Acharya to head two HR&CE panels
  • Govt. can't process MBA, MCA applications: High Court
  • Jothi can examine witnesses in defamation case
  • Choice of ministers prerogative of CM: court
  • Leaders greet workers


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Bharti Telenet to target high-value corporate clientele
    CHENNAI, APRIL 30. Less than a month after a private operator launched the service and much less time since another unveiled plans for the city, the battlelines in the basic telecom sector are drawn. The impact is pretty visible--beyond the ...
    Secretariat, for solace or suicide?
    CHENNAI, APRIL 30. The heady cliffs in the Udhagamandalam and Kodaikanal hills have been the notorious ``suicide points'' in Tamil Nadu so far. But now the sprawling Secretariat complex in Chennai too, threatens to join the list of ...
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  • Forensic analysis with ashes alone not possible in Balan case
  • Poor lighting, bad roads cause more accidents
  • Another sandalwood tree found cut in Guindy park


    Pondicherry
    Arrangements for civic polls under way
    PONDICHERRY, APRIL 30. The State Election Commission has designated five Returning Officers (AOs) and 27 Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) for the municipal polls in the Union Territory. These officers are in charge of the municipalities in ...
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  • Govt. drivers call off stir
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya to have spacious campus

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