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Andhra Pradesh
'Ceasefire can't be precondition for talks'
HYDERABAD, AUG. 31.The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, today categorically ruled out the question of the Government declaring a ceasefire against naxalites as a precondition to resuming talks with the People's War. He made ...
Congress leader murdered in A.P.
MAHABUBNAGAR, AUG. 31. Senior Congress leader, APCC Panchayat Raj Cell co-convener and former Sarpanch of Yenugonda village (situated on the outskirts of Mahabubnagar town), Emmadi Narayana, was brutally murdered in the early hours of Saturday. ...
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  • Police image takes a beating
  • Concern over growing crime against women
  • People want good governance: Naidu
  • `Maitri' to be taken to the grassroots
  • Excise staff warned against aiding black jaggery smugglers
  • PW defends ZPTC killing
  • BSNL offers new service
  • Internet connectivity for software EOUs
  • Defer SAS, municipal council urged
  • Report on infrastructure requirement of BCM hostels soon
  • Farmers to get power at subsidised rate


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Cong. ridicules TDP claim
    HYDERABAD, AUG. 31. Five Congress MLAs have ridiculed the claim of the Minister for Information and Public Relations, S. Chandramohan Reddy, and the TDP spokesman, N. Sivaprasad, about the works taken up under the Food-for-Work programme in ...
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  • CM congrats chess player
  • Need to bridge rural-urban divide in medicare: CM
  • TDP dares YSR to visit Madugula
  • Scribe mourned


    Karnataka
    Panchayat chiefs' tenure extended
    BANGALORE, AUG. 31.The Karnataka Government has extended by three months the tenure of the presidents and vice-presidents of gram panchayats whose terms ended today. The Minister for Information, Kagodu Thimmappa, told presspersons after a ...
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  • KDCC chief's statement on Fernandes criticised
  • Centre urged to take up railway line project


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    DGP's action boosts his image
    BANGALORE, AUG. 31. Actions speak louder than words. This seems to be true in case of the Director-General and Inspector-General of Police, V.V.Bhaskar, who is now directly supervising the operation against Veerappan in the Gundal forest ...
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  • VIMS professor returns bribe money
  • Call to step up imports, exports
  • Govt. plans to set up Service Centre Park
  • CM opens Kannada meet
  • BDA demolishes illegal building in Jayanagar
  • Woman strangled by husband
  • New accounting system for BMP from Nov. 1


    Kerala
    Stir against power tariff hike escalates
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, AUG. 31. The agitation organised by the youth organisations of the CPI(M) and the CPI against the power tariff hike turned violent in several parts of the State today. The Opposition LDF announced that the agitation would ...
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  • KSRTC buses, KSEB offices attacked
  • `Distribution of farms to tribals not advisable'
  • Hudco loan to be restored soon
  • Ripper-style' murders on the rise
  • Cargo terminals along waterway mooted
  • Proposed Mental Health Act flayed
  • CPI(M) all set for State-wide stir


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    An Airbus `crash' and a 15-minute `rescue'
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, AUG. 31. A full-scale exercise of a mock aircraft crash and rescue operations, carried out at the International Airport here on Friday, showed that injured persons can be rescued within minutes and that they can be shifted to ...
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  • Traffic snarls the bane of capital city
  • Mercury touches 34 degrees C
  • Poabs may be losing interest in project
  • Sree Krishna Jayanti celebrated
  • Oppn. councillors gherao Mayor
  • DYFI activists clash with police
  • 5,000-odd Gulf-bound passengers stranded
  • Oppn. councillors gherao Mayor
  • Applications invited for bravery awards


    Tamil Nadu
    Retd. judge to probe Corpn. meet violence
    CHENNAI, AUG. 31.Two days after violence at a Chennai Corporation Council meeting, which left at least two DMK councillors with bleeding injuries, the AIADMK Government today set up a commission to probe the incidents. The panel, to be headed ...
    'Locals forthcoming on Veerappan'
    CHENNAI, AUG. 31. With some information trickling in on the movements of the poacher-turned sandalwood smuggler, Veerappan, the Special Task Force is despatching more teams to specific locations for cross-checking and initiate follow-up action if ...
    Women police alone will probe harassment, atrocities
    MADURAI, AUG. 31. In order to make women petitioners feel secure and confident, the Government has directed that complaints of harassment/atrocities preferred by them be investigated exclusively by women police. In a communique sent to all ...
    Rice price up as arrivals from AP, Karnataka dwindle
    CHENNAI, AUG. 31. Poor arrivals from the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and failure of kuruvai in Tamil Nadu, especially in delta districts, coupled with a new sales tax structure, have led to an increase in the price of rice in the ...
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  • Jaswant package for small units 'disappointing'
  • Dog squad to sniff illicit arrack
  • Rukmini Devi centenary from Feb. 28, 2003
  • New corporation for crop insurance likely
  • ICICI Bank to pay compensation for trespass, intimidation
  • 'Drought adds to crisis on tea estates'
  • Bid to burn CM effigy, Congress men held
  • 'Direct research at jobs for rural women'


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    First aid training for traffic police
    CHENNAI, AUG. 31. As part of their new road safety campaign, the city police have launched a `first aid training programme' for traffic personnel. The focus of this programme is to ensure `safe transportation of accident victims' to hospital. ...
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  • Moorthy conducts checks at Egmore
  • Draw of lots for IMFL shops tomorrow
  • TNPCB stipulates additional norms for industries
  • Congress support in Corporation on routine issues: Vetrivel


    Pondicherry
    Congress CMs to meet in Pondy
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 31.The Chief Ministers of all Congress-ruled States will meet here in December or early January. The meeting is being convened at the instance of the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, the PCC leader, V. Narayanasamy, told ...
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  • Expedite desilting works, officials told
  • Listens to villagers
  • Pay cane arrears: BJP
  • Efforts to make Pondy a 'green city'

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