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Andhra Pradesh
More die due to severe heat wave in A.P.
VISAKHAPATNAM, MAY 13.Heat wave continues to sweep across the coastal Andhra districts even as another low pressure has been formed in the east Bay of Bengal, 1,200 km. off Chennai, according to the Director of the Cyclone Warning Centre here, ...
18 tribal villages ban naxals' entry
NIZAMABAD, MAY 13. In a significant development, which should bring relief to the Adilabad police, elders of 18 tribal villages in Asifabad police station limits have passed a resolution banning the entry of the outlawed People's War Group naxals ...
Other Stories

  • PWG lures surrendered militants
  • Naidu refutes YSR charge on Janmabhoomi
  • Deverkonda bypoll: CPI decision tomorrow
  • And now, YSR targets marketyard


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Blacktopping of roads on massive scale planned
    HYDERABAD, MAY 13. The four-lane highway between Vijayawada-Hyderabad which could further be extended to Mumbai could be taken up on BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer) basis by the Centre. Disclosing this at a press conference here on Monday, ...
    CM calls for steps to prevent sunstroke deaths
    HYDERABAD, MAY 13. In view of the severe heatwave conditions in parts of the State, the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, today asked the administration in the districts to immediately issue "do's and don'ts'' through leaflets and newspaper ...


    Karnataka
    Dilemma over V-C appointment again
    BANGALORE, MAY 13. For the second time in two months, the question of selecting a vice-chancellor for a university in the State is posing problems to the Governor, V.S.Rama Devi, as also the Government. The discrepancies in the Karnataka State ...
    Cong., JD candidates file nominations
    MYSORE, MAY 13. The Congress candidate, Tanvir Sait, and the Janata Parivar's consensus nominee, E. Maruthi Rao Pawar, today filed their nominations for Narasimharaja Assembly byelection scheduled to be held on May 31. Though Mr. Sait and Mr. ...
    Towards effective harnessing of groundwater
    BANGALORE, MAY 13. Karnataka can boast of substantial natural and geographical endowments of rivers, hills, valleys, and forests. Bordered by the Western Ghats with tall peaks and lush greenery in the west, the tableland is fertile because of its ...
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  • Depositors to launch relay hunger strike
  • Animals lead a miserable life at NIV
  • 10,300 houses to be ready by March 2003
  • Man dies of sunstroke
  • Squads to check sandalwood smuggling
  • Five IAS officers transferred
  • VII std. data posted on Internet


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Teachers to back K. Mallaiah
    BANGALORE, MAY 13. The All-Karnataka Engineering College Teachers' Association (AKECTA) and the Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Institutions Teachers' Association (KARUPEITA) have pledged their support to K. Mallaiah, Assistant Professor, ...
    Other Stories

  • `Incentives must to increase use of solar energy'
  • Governor lends a helping hand to disabled woman
  • Govt. considering proposal to regularise services of doctors
  • VC: Governor sets up panel
  • Mobile squads delinked from Commercial Tax check-posts


    Kerala
    KSEB white paper moots cost-cutting steps
    PATHANAMTHITTA, MAY 13.The Kerala State Electricity Board has mooted restructuring of the pay and service conditions of its employees reportedly as part of the cost-cutting measures to tide over the ongoing financial crisis. The KSEB White ...
    Ensure `social control' on unaided colleges: IUCC
    KANNUR, MAY 13. The Inter University Consultative Committee (IUCC) has urged the State Government to empower the universities with a regulatory mechanism to ensure what it calls `social control' over unaided colleges. The meeting held here ...
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  • Promote value-added bamboo products: experts
  • Institute for sustainable development
  • `Passenger segregation to ensure aviation security'
  • Gangster arrested


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Korean industrial village to be set up in State
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 13. A "Korean industrial village'' will be set up in one of the three industrial parks being developed by the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation in the State by the Korean Federation of Small and ...
    Other Stories

  • Mahdhani blasts IUML
  • Planters give up wage cut move
  • `AI scuttling airport development'


    Tamil Nadu
    DMK Mayor calls on CM for assistance
    CHENNAI, MAY 13. Placing city development considerations above politics, the Madurai Mayor, S. Ramachandran of the DMK, today met the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, and sought funds. ``I have come along with the local MP, the MLA and ...
    Anxiety, jockeying in both camps
    CHENNAI, MAY 13.The merger of the Tamil Maanila Congress with the Congress is now only a formality, but instead of happiness or celebration, there appear some concern and anxiety among second line leaders and cadres of both parties. The crux of ...
    Nominations close, door-to-door canvassing begins
    CHENNAI, MAY 13. Nominations closed today for the May 31 byelections for three Assembly constituencies, with 13 more candidates filing their papers for the Saidapet seat here. A total of 30 candidates are seeking to be in the fray in the ...
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  • Balagurusamy Anna varsity VC
  • Vigil intensified after robbery
  • 178 TB cases detected in Coimbatore
  • Thousands witness Ooty Rose show
  • 21 contestants in Acharapakkam
  • 4 more file papers in Vaniyambadi
  • PMK fears AIADMK violence
  • Teachers stir hits valuation work
  • Sivasubramaniam to be questioned on court campus
  • Celestial spectacle


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Gang posing as IT team loots businessman
    CHENNAI, MAY 13. A four-member gang posing as income tax officials forced their way into a businessman's house in the busy Egmore area around 9 p.m. on Monday and took away Rs. 40 lakhs in cash. The gangsters struck at the rooftop bachelor ...
    Mobile computerised pollution checking units flagged off
    CHENNAI, MAY 13.Two mobile computerised `Pollution Under Control' (PUC) checking units were flagged off today by N.S. Palaniappan, Transport Commissioner. The Ashok Leyland and Swaraj Mazda vehicles equipped with a web camera, a computer and a ...
    Other Stories

  • Power supply disrupted
  • Train manpower to tackle cybercrimes: forensic scientist
  • Malaysia interested in leasing Chennai airport
  • Media role in prevention of suicide highlighted
  • Nurse found dead
  • Free movement of criminals sparks panic


    Pondicherry
    Loss of green cover adds to residents' woes
    PONDICHERRY, MAY 13. There is a general feeling among the people here that never before did Pondicherry experience such a hot summer during the `agni nakshatram' as is the case now. The loss of green cover with the felling of trees for widening ...
    Ban MDMK, Pondy PCC chief tells Centre
    PONDICHERRY, MAY 13. The Centre should ban the MDMK for the views expressed by its general secretary, Vaiko, unequivocally extending support to the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Pondicherry Congress leader, V. Narayanasamy, said ...
    Other Stories

  • Change in admission system criticised
  • Cong. ready to face civic polls, Narayanasamy
  • `Largescale labour law violations in Pondy'
  • Arrangements made to view planetary line-up

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