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Andhra Pradesh
Top naxal among 3 women cadres killed
ADILABAD, MAY 14. The banned People's War suffered yet another major setback when the Adilabad district committee secretary, Lalitakka, and two other women cadre were killed in an exchange of fire with the police on the outskirts of Agarguda ...
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  • ID cards to be made mandatory for Inter students
  • Power trippings annoy users
  • Cashew farmers' plea for subsidy on borewells
  • British diplomat to lay stone for agricultural centre
  • 25 housing projects planned
  • Minister predicts TDP victory in 2004 polls
  • Two doctors suspended for unauthorised absence


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    President's initiative saves Tripura boy
    HYDERABAD, MAY 14."This is Abdul Kalam speaking, Rashtrapathiji!,'' replied the boy coyly, much to the surprise of the President, A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, when he asked the boy's name through a tele-medicine link from Agartula to Kailashar, a remote ...
    IICT super computer access for select students
    HYDERABAD, MAY 14. The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), the lone centre in the City to boast of a connectivity with the Param Super Computer, would be providing access to the high performance computing facility to students ...
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  • Agitating revenue staff threaten to boycott Janmabhoomi
  • A `test case' for Govt. approach to adoptions
  • Storm weakens, moves towards Orissa
  • APIIC serves notice on Urdu varsity
  • CPI(M) plans mass campaign ahead of May 21 bandh


    Karnataka
    Excise contractor shot dead
    BANGALORE, MAY 14. There was commotion at the Bangalore City Railway Station after a leading excise contractor from Bellary, Siriwar B. Prasad, was shot dead by two youths on Wednesday. Mr. Prasad (36), alias Babu, who had just alighted from ...
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  • Davangere dist. officials told not to install new borewells
  • NGO project chief denies funds misappropriation charge
  • SC adjourns hearing of contempt plea
  • BNV decision hits weavers' strike
  • CM to inaugurate NET silver jubilee fete
  • Importance of arts for children stressed
  • Hindustani musicians to be felicitated
  • Railways to install anti-collision device in phased manner


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    A gamaka exponent in a class of his own
    BANGALORE, MAY 14. Among several forms of the age-old oral tradition, gamaka or kavyavachana is unique in many ways. Once practised with religious fervour in rural areas, gamaka was an inescapable art for a generation of boys and girls with its ...
    Airport work will begin on June 1, says CM
    BANGALORE, MAY 14. The Chief Minister, S.M.Krishna, today announced that work on the Devanahalli International Airport would begin on June 1. Inaugurating a 10 million litres a day-capacity tertiary water treatment plant at Yelahanka, Mr. ...
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  • AIJD teams to tour all districts
  • JD(U) welcomes Bommai's statement
  • MSIL to launch five lotteries on May 19
  • Governor extends Id-Milad greetings


    Kerala
    Marad: autopsy strengthens murder theory
    KOZHIKODE, MAY 14. The injuries found on the bodies of nine persons killed in the communal carnage on the beach at Marad on May 2 reveal that at least two groups of self-styled professionals were involved in the incident, according to the ...
    Focus on polio surveillance
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 14. In spite of the phenomenal strides made in calibrating surveillance of poliomyelitis over the years, India is now bearing the dubious tag of being the stumbling block to the achievement of the global goal of ...
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  • Episcopal jubilee of Mathews II begins today
  • Episcopal jubilee of Mar Chrisostum
  • Karunakaran laments `politics of neglect'
  • Coop. bank set to scale new heights


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Mozambique President visits State
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 14. The President of the Republic of Mozambique, Joaquim Alberto Chissano, along with five Ministers and a team of top officials of his Government, reached here today for a two-day visit to the State, scouting for ...
    AIR all-Kerala drama festival
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 14. This year's radio drama festival, organised by the All India Radio, begins on May 18. The festival this year will have 10 plays presented by Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Kannur and Devikulam ...
    City Traffic wing to be bifurcated
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 14. The city traffic police constabulary is proposed to be bifurcated into two police stations in order to usher in greater accountability into traffic enforcement and for the speedy disposal of cases. According to ...
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  • Online accessing of SSLC, VHS results will be difficult
  • KPCC campaign against communalism
  • Plan size hangs on ADB funds: VS
  • Four killed in accident
  • Women's panel summons finding few takers


    Tamil Nadu
    Doctors' strike evokes partial response
    CHENNAI, MAY 14.The token strike by government doctors today evoked partial response. Health authorities declared that government hospitals operated to near-full strength but doctors claimed that the strike was almost total in districts and ...
    Deaths of two women kick up controversy
    SALEM, MAY 14. The deaths of two women, one in Salem and the other in Tiruchi, today kicked up another controversy in the wake of the doctors' strike. In Salem, a 58-year old woman collapsed when she came to the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam ...
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  • CT Secretary and Commissioner shifted
  • Engg. aspirants throng varsity as application sale begins
  • Don't quit leadership, partymen tell Karunanidhi
  • Leaders extend Meelad greetings
  • Unnecessary rice purchase cost TNCSC Rs. 13.89 cr., says CAG


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Corporation sends show-cause to Onyx
    CHENNAI, MAY 14. The Chennai Corporation has sent a show cause notice to private conservancy operator, Onyx asking them to explain why the seven-year contract to clear garbage in three zones of the city need not be cancelled on grounds that they ...
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  • Gangster nabbed at Avadi
  • Woman held, stolen jewels recovered
  • Vijayakumar, new Commissioner
  • Traffic regulation for Meelad processions
  • HC directive to Kancheepuram authorities on sewage discharge


    Pondicherry
    Food park proposed
    PONDICHERRY, MAY 14. The Industries Minister, M. Chandirakasu, has said that the Pondicherry Industries Promotion Development and Investment Corporation, in collaboration with the private sector, will set up a food park here. Facilities such as ...



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