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Andhra Pradesh
Employers of child workers arrested
KURNOOL, MAY 5.Police arrested the owners of beedi manufacturing units who employed two child workers at Budhawarpet here on Sunday. The rescued children were admitted to the Child Labour Rehabilitation Residential Centre at Vengannabavi on the ...
Expansion of e-Seva services
HYDERABAD, MAY 5.A major expansion in the `e-Seva' services is in the offing with new centres being opened and many new Government departments and even private companies being included in their portfolio. Speaking to The Hindu, here on ...
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  • Statute amendment on education opposed
  • Telugu Ganga water for another 40,000 acres
  • A.P. restores power supply to Karnataka
  • ZP meeting `deviates' from agenda
  • DIG tells police to work for new image
  • BSNL slashes target for new connections
  • Curbs sought on foreign legal firms
  • Efforts on to popularise telecom cards
  • World Asthma Day tomorrow


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Workshop on urban schemes next month
    HYDERABAD, MAY 5.A workshop on the Government of India-sponsored urban development programmes for the benefit of municipal chairpersons in the State will be organised next month, the Union Minister of State for Urban Development, Bandaru ...
    BCs' plea on teachers' recruitment
    HYDERABAD, MAY 5.The Andhra Pradesh Backward Classes' Welfare Association has demanded exemption for the BC candidates appearing for DSC-2002 in the eligibility criteria. They should be allowed for the DSC though they did not study either B.Ed or ...
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  • Plan to privatise discoms stands, says Transco chief
  • `Distortion' of remarks irks CM


    Karnataka
    Metro bus project to take off soon
    BANGALORE, MAY 5. Ending months of uncertainty, the Swedish Government has agreed to finance the metro bus project in the City. It is expected to be implemented in a few months. Sources in the Government told The Hindu on Sunday that ...
    CM hails K.C.Reddy's contribution to State
    BANGALORE, MAY 5. The Chief Minister, S.M.Krishna, today recalled the rich contribution of the late K.Changalaraya Reddy, the first Chief Minister of the Old Mysore State after Independence, for "his stewardship of the agitation for establishing ...
    Road project: Khanduri promises funds for payment of relief
    BELGAUM, MAY 5. The Union Minister of State for Roads and National Highways, B.C.Khanduri, has promised to release funds towards payment of compensation for land acquisition under the Prime Minister's Golden Quadrilateral Project "within 24 hours ...
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  • Lack of norms leads to fish famine
  • Leaders urged to oppose exploitation of religion
  • SHG board accused of violating policies
  • Forest Dept. yet to act on felling of `killer trees'
  • Tobacco Board diktat unfair: Vishwanath
  • `Nuclear energy for power generation inevitable'
  • Ballet sends fashion show crowd into raptures


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Ex-professor's plea to Governor
    BANGALORE, MAY 5. A former professor in Bangalore University and member of its Senate, M.P.Venkatappa, has urged the Chancellor (Governor), V.S.Rama Devi, to solve the imbroglio in the university caused by the existence of three lists of ...
    Other Stories

  • The role that went unnoticed
  • KSCB fiat to liquor shops
  • KSTDC to make CET students' stay comfortable


    Kerala
    Cabinet to decide on status of Mathikettan
    OTTAPALAM (PALAKKAD), MAY 5. The Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, has said that all encroachers in the Mathikettan Shola will be evicted soon and a decision on the status of the shola will be decided in the next Cabinet meeting on May 8. Talking to ...
    Other Stories

  • Bank unions urged to oppose `anti-labour' moves
  • Centre's attitude will destroy PDS: Gurudasan
  • Child handed over to Sishu Bhavan
  • Tourist offices at Agra, Jaipur wound up
  • Call for measures to preserve water
  • Wildlife census from tomorrow
  • `Farmers getting a raw deal'
  • Malimath report indicts Mar Dionysious
  • Pandalam Raja laid to rest


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Forest land `encroached' in Pooyamkutty
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY5.The details of yet another case of forest encroachment, perhaps of a bigger scale than that in Mathikettan Shola, have now come to the surface. This organised land-grab operation is in the Pooyamkutty region of Malayattur ...
    Actual interest rate on ADB loan is 8.05 p.c.: Minister
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 5.The Finance Minister, K. Sankaranarayanan, has said that the State will have an actual interest rate of only 8.05 per cent on the proposed Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan routed through the Union Government in the form ...
    Other Stories

  • AKPCTA cries foul over staff fixation
  • Hassan flays 'pseudo-democrats'
  • Scuffles may spoil UDF anniversary party
  • Gangadharan lashes out at Pillai


    Tamil Nadu
    Ties with BJP intact: DMK chief
    CHENNAI, MAY 5. Putting on a brave face despite the BJP decision to support the MDMK in Saidapet and remain neutral in Vaniyambadi, the DMK president, M. Karunanidhi, today said the differences between the DMK and the State unit of the BJP would ...
    `Withdraw fresh taxes on essentials'
    CHENNAI, MAY 5. The Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sangankalin Peravai has threatened to hold a series of agitations, including the boycott of byelections, if their demand for the withdrawal of fresh taxes on essential commodities was not ...
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  • Smuggling of IMFL from Karnataka unabated
  • Anti-rowdyism squad formed in Salem
  • `End atrocities on tribal women'
  • Do not permit VAO certificates: DMK
  • Inquiry begins into `rape' case in police custody
  • `Resolution against LTTE meant to prevent political realignment'
  • Govt. to set up accident relief centres on National Highways


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Bison safari to be opened for public soon
    CHENNAI, MAY 5.Visitors to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park (AAZP), Vandalur, can have a closer look at the amazingly huge ``Gaur'' species, when the bison safari is thrown open to the visitors in a about month. A ten-hectare area has already ...
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  • `Light rail system can ease city traffic congestion'
  • Rs. 2.5 lakh electronic goods seized


    Pondicherry
    Civic polls soon
    PONDICHERRY, MAY 5.The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, said the civic polls in Pondicherry, due for more than twenty-five years, would be held soon. The Congress-led Government is keen on restoring democracy at the grass root level, he told a ...
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  • NLC disinvestment put on hold: Minister

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