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Andhra Pradesh
Now, grievance redress just a call away
HYDERABAD, JAN. 17. The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, has a plan to establish a unique computer system in the State for redress of public grievances through a one-call centre to which problems can be addressed "by anybody and from ...
First 'Cyber Grameen' launched in A.P.
NELLORE, JAN.17. In a major attempt to bring the remote rural areas into information technology fold, the first `Cyber Grameen,' a rural broadband venture, was launched by the BJP president, M. Venkaiah Naidu, at Venkatachalam village in Nellore ...
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  • Draft budget exercise a gimmick: Cong.
  • Probe temple robbery bid, says BJP
  • Handicrafts corpn. plans more emporia
  • Training programme for Neeru-Meeru staff gets under way
  • A summit of politically unemployed: TDP
  • TDP supporter done to death


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Cops step up efforts to nab culprits
    HYDERABAD, JAN. 17.Different wings of the city police have intensified efforts on Friday to nab the culprits involved in the two sensational cases -- robbery attempt at Venkatesewara temple (Birla mandir) and looting of an e-seva centre at ...
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  • Three new rail bridges cry for attention
  • HUDA revised draft master plan for public perusal
  • Urdu Academy's calendar released
  • White-collar offences on the rise


    Karnataka
    Baby girl among 10 crushed to death
    GULBARGA, JAN. 17. Ten persons, including five women and a baby girl, were crushed to death and 47 suffered grievous injuries when a truck in which they were travelling plunged into the dried up portion of the Kagina river after hitting the ...
    2,500 cusecs being released from Kabini
    MYSORE, JAN. 17. Irrigation Department officials began releasing 2,500 cusecs of water a day from the Kabini Reservoir near here late on Thursday night. The release of water from the reservoir comes in the wake of the Chief Minister, S.M. ...
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  • Vice-President to open 'Vishalakshi Mantap'
  • 'Tackle graft from the top'
  • Lokayuktas urge Centre to adopt Lokpal Bill
  • Water release will cause crisis: JD(S) leaders
  • Imbibe Nijalingappa's ideals: Shekhawat
  • All Indians are Hindus: RSS chief
  • KERC to hold hearing in Thirthahalli


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Special court brooks no delay
    THE STATE Government's commitment to improve policing in the City and expedite the trial of major criminal cases has come to be taken with a pinch of salt. The promises made and programmes announced in this regard in the past three years are ...
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  • Phones to be transferred to new exchange
  • 'Colours of liberation' begins
  • 3 timber merchants killed as jeep overturns


    Kerala
    A political milestone for UDF
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 17.The Global Investor Meet is a political milestone for the ruling UDF. After a free fall through one of the worst financial crisis during the last 20 months it has been in power, the GIM is apparently the first ...
    GIM live on DD, AIR
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 17.Doordarshan Kendra will telecast on the national network the inaugural proceedings of the Global Investors Meet(GIM) on Saturday being attended by the Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee. The telecast will be from 10.45 ...
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  • Kerala Court warrant to produce Maudany
  • CITU to ignore DGP's notice
  • Herbal village in Wayanad
  • MVR denies rift with Kunhalikutty
  • Jan Shatabdi timings to be revised
  • GIM: time-bound follow-up planned
  • Youth festival: Ernakulam district ahead of others


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    ERC developing solar still for water purification
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 17. The Energy Research Centre at Sreekaryam near here is close to developing a solar distillation unit to provide purified water to remote and parched areas. On the occasion of the Centre's annual day, the unit head, ...
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  • Cytopathology training at RCC
  • Revenue recovery: three shops attached
  • State-wide preventive detention drive
  • Oman Air to augment flight operations
  • Organised crimes cause for concern


    Tamil Nadu
    'BJP ties with DMK good'
    CHENNAI, JAN. 17. Describing the DMK as a very valuable ally, the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, Vijay Goel, today said the BJP was "not flirting with anybody except the DMK''. Talking to presspersons after meeting the party ...
    'States must chip in for sports development'
    NAGERCOIL, JAN. 17.Though the Centre was committed to providing the wherewithal for improving sporting activity across the country, participation of State Governments was essential to create overall growth, the Union Minister for Youth Affairs ...
    All set for exclusive women commando force
    CHENNAI, JAN. 17. Dressed in black dungarees, 20 women commandos leap from a vaulting height of 30 feet; from a moving winch, they shoot bang on target. And, they blindfold themselves and wield weapons with ease. They complete the complicated ...
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  • 5 critically injured in Alanganallur `jallikattu'
  • Marginal decline in IMR
  • No meeting with Azhagiri
  • Attractive VRS coming for busmen
  • CM to inaugurate Veeranam project works on Feb. 2
  • Expedite appointment of HC judges: DK
  • LPG tanker operators call off strike
  • Silent suffering is the Dalit lot at Chinnakannanur
  • Cauvery water yet to reach Mettur
  • Panel to give shape to 'knowledge society' concept


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Zero garbage efforts wasted at Valasaravakkam
    CHENNAI, JAN. 17. An urban local body has thrown cold water on the efforts of voluntary organisations working towards zero garbage in their localities, while creating serious doubts about its own decision to construct bins despite opposition from ...
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  • 2 held for possessing banned chemical
  • SIDBI has failed us: small units
  • TV artiste found hanging
  • Security cover for Mani Ratnam reviewed
  • 'Individualised treatment for AIDS patients at VHS'
  • Wanted: A vehicle data bank


    Pondicherry
    Govt to provide 100 p.c. subsidy for diesel
    KARAIKAL, JAN. 17. The Pondicherry government has decided to provide diesel for Karaikal ryots on 100 per cent subsidised rate to bale out water from deep bore wells to save the standing crop. Thirty litres of diesel per ha would be given to ...
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  • Rules framed to ban movement of carts
  • Analyse examination pattern, principals told

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