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Andhra Pradesh
Yadav furious with TDP, threatens to speak out
PUNE, SEPT. 19.The former Minister and TDP legislator, C Krishna Yadav, who is presently under the Special Investigation Team (SIT) custody for his alleged involvement in the fake stamp paper scam, has threatened to `spill the beans' if he is ...
Suicide by farmers: Cong. to seek NHRC intervention again
HYDERABAD, SEPT. 19. Strongly condemning what it called the inaction of the State Government in taking steps to prevent suicide by farmers, the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) said that it would approach the National Human Rights Commission ...
Israeli firms likely to bid for State's LI schemes: CM
HYDERABAD, SEPT. 19. The world famous agri-tech exhibition held in Israel every two years is proposed to be organised in the State annually from next year with the sponsorship of the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute, which is ...
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  • Panchaloha idols recovered
  • Naidu caught on the wrong foot
  • Two naxals killed in encounter
  • Concern over short shrift to rural uplift
  • Counselling for medical admissions begins today


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    MCH pilot project under way
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 19. Hill Fort is blue, Gunfoundry pink, Boggulkunta brick red, Troop Bazar brown and Badi Chowdi green. The city is getting painted with different shades, as the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) launched the exercise of ...
    Wait to end soon for National Games winners
    Hyderabad Sept. 19. The long-awaited disbursement of prize money to sportspersons who had represented AP and won medals for the State in the 32nd National Games may take place some time before the Afro-Asian Games. According to L.V. Subrahmanyam, ...
    State's infant mortality rate alarmingly high
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 19. Ineffective implementation of interventional programmes is hampering Andhra Pradesh's efforts to reduce the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), which continues to remain around 66 per 1,000 live births annually, during the last six ...
    Two held on theft charge
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 19. The Lalaguda police on Saturday apprehended a driver of an oil tanker, Mohd. Jaweed, on the charge of stealing Rs. 1.10 lakh cash. The stolen amount was recovered from him within 36 hours of committing the offence, the ...
    Limited power cut likely for domestic sector too
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 19. A limited power cut not only for industries, but also for the domestic sector, appeared imminent in the State on Friday when the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, and the Energy Minister, K. Subbarayudu, mentioned about ...
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  • Indian Immunologicals to set up human vaccine plant
  • Official denies promising 80 tmcft water to delta
  • Voters should produce photo ID cards
  • Hasan cremated


    Karnataka
    Bangarappa acquitted in computer case
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 19. A designated Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court today acquitted the former Chief Minister, S. Bangarappa, the former Chief Secretary, J. Alexander, and three others in the Rs. 5.27-crore "Classik computer case" of ...
    HC restores surrendered seats to CET Cell
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 19. The Karnataka High Court today passed an interim order that all vacant seats in private unaided and minority professional colleges should be filled in the casual vacancy round of admissions scheduled from September 22 at the ...
    INS concern over 'price wars'
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 19. Expressing concern over the "predatory pricing policy" and "price wars" prevailing in the print media, the Indian Newspaper Society president, Abhay Chhajlani, today urged the industry to nip such practices in the bud. In ...
    Plan to check illegal plying of vehicles from outside
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 19. The Karnataka Government has granted permission for opening nine new assistant regional transport offices and establishing four check-posts to control clandestine and unauthorised operation of vehicles from other ...
    Bajrang Dal plans agitation in State
    HASSAN, SEPT. 19. The second State-level two-day workshop of the Bajrang Dal, which began here on Friday, will discuss preparations for an agitation in the State in four months, the joint convener of the Bajrang Dal (Southern Region), Sunil ...
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  • Govt. still indecisive on daily-wage employees
  • Two farmers end life


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Minister's comment criticised
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 19. The JD(S) State unit General Secretary, A. Ravishankar Shetty, has said that for the Urban Development Minister, D.K. Shivakumar, to preach political morality to the former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, is like the devil ...
    CM, Naidu to meet today
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 19. With the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, coming here on Saturday afternoon for discussing inter-State river water matters, if not disputes, the Karnataka Government is willing to approach them in a spirit ...


    Kerala
    Magistrate did not follow procedure: Speaker
    KOCHI, SEPT. 19.The Kerala Speaker, Vakkom Purushothaman, has said the magistrate who had sought the controversial `fax message' from him had not fully complied with legal procedures. Quoting from `The Criminal Rules of Practice in Kerala' at a ...
    Women disrupt rehabilitation at Marad
    KOZHIKODE, SEPT. 19.The rehabilitation process initiated by the district authorities to facilitate the return of the displaced Muslim families at Marad suffered a major setback today as the cleaning of the wells and the repairing of houses were ...
    Kochi all set to host a million people
    KOCHI, SEPT. 19.A youth rally involving one lakh persons has been cancelled so as not to disturb the city, Brahmachari Abhayamrita Chaithanya, spokesperson of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, told The Hindu today. It was planned as part ...
    Panchayat issues closure notice to cola plant
    PALAKKAD, SEPT. 19. The Perumatty grama panchayat on Friday served a notice of closure on the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited unit at Plachimada in Chittur taluk. The panchayat council meeting held yesterday also decided to file a ...
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  • Collector's directive
  • VS foresees changes after by-poll
  • Camel taken back
  • House panel `seizes' sand lorry
  • Janu moots joint management of forests


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Adoption centre in dire straits
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 19. The increasing number of abandoned babies under its care and shortage of infrastructure were creating problems for the State Council for Child Welfare in managing the affairs of its adoption centre here. The ...
    Parallel services `risky': Natpac
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 19. Tempos, trekkers and other contract carriage vehicles used for the operation of parallel services have been found to be "highly uncomfortable and risky'' and need to be replaced with mini-buses, according to a study ...
    The soap-making route to self-reliance
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 19. The Centre for Gandhian Studies, University of Kerala, is all set to launch a Statewide programme for popularising the concepts of `swadeshi' and `self-reliance' among school-going children. Making and marketing of ...
    Mechanical spinning successful
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 19. The mechanical spinning of the first and second stages of the Urumi small hydel project constructed across the Chaliyar with the technical assistance of China has been successfully completed. The Electricity ...
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  • Norms revised
  • Man stabbed to death
  • Kerala Kala Kendram awards
  • Taking tipplers for a ride


    Tamil Nadu
    Police faux pas gets Gopal bail
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 19. Thanks to a CB-CID faux pas on the type of weapon and ammunition allegedly recovered from R.R. Gopal, editor, Nakkheeran, the Madras High Court today granted him bail in a Prevention of Terrorism Act case. While the ...
    HC scraps 'eyewash' of bus burning trial
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 19.The Madras High Court today described the Dharmapuri bus burning case trial in a Krishnagiri court as a `colossal failure and eyewash', and scrapped the trial conducted so far. Ordering fresh proceedings, Justice V. Kanagaraj ...
    Send perspective plans for engg., AICTE tells States
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 19.Concerned over distortions in manpower development caused by unplanned expansion of B.E/B.Tech programmes, the All-India Council for Technical Education has asked all States to send to it by October 15 their "perspective plans" ...
    Set up high power panel to fix dental college fee: SC
    NEW DELHI, SEPT. 19. The Supreme Court today asked the Tamil Nadu Government to immediately constitute a high-power committee, headed by a retired High Court Judge to determine the fee structure for unaided private medical-dental colleges. A ...
    Response to `H' cards good
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 19.The Government estimates that about seven lakh cardholders have got the `H' stamp on their cards till now. The response to have the cards stamped honorary — indicating that the cardholders will not be allowed to draw ...
    `Govt. motivating farmers to use organic manure'
    KANCHEEPURAM, SEPT. 19. The State Government is motivating farmers to raise agricultural and horticultural crops with organic manure, according to T.S. Sridhar, State Agriculture Secretary and Agricultural Production Commissioner. Presiding ...
    Ganesan remark on atheist rule mischievous: DMK
    VILLUPURAM, SEPT. 19. The DMK executive committee has taken exception to the observation made by the all-India BJP secretary, L. Ganesan, in Chennai yesterday that ``it was unfortunate this was the age in which an atheist had come to ...
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  • Bengal Minister's call to IT sector in T.N.
  • 3 commit suicide
  • Village panels will be in place soon to curb trafficking in women
  • Ban MDMK: Swamy
  • `Nothing wrong in Kannappan speech'


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Jayalalithaa lays stone for Puzhal prison complex
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 19.The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today laid the foundation stone for a new prison complex at Puzhal, near here. To be built by the Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation at a cost of Rs.77.09 crores on a 211-acre site, the ...
    The 'Dalits' of Japan come calling
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 19.They are the Dalits of Japan — the Burakus. And they have come calling on the Dalits of Tamil Nadu. They have come to tell their story of "discrimination" and learn about the tales of discrimination in India. In the ...
    Can a viewer access pay channel of rival MSO, asks CJ
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 18. Raising a practical doubt with regard to functioning of the Conditional Access System, the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, B. Subhashan Reddy, today asked the Centre if it was possible for a viewer served by one ...
    `No dispute over Koyambedu land ownership'
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 19. The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority member secretary, P.R. Shampath, on Friday said there was no dispute over ownership of land at Koyambedu which has been at the centre of controversy recently. Eleven councillors ...
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  • Falling prey to job racketeers
  • Real estate dealer held for forgery


    Pondicherry
    Boost industrialisation in villages: Elumalai
    PONDICHERRY, SEPT. 19. The Local Administration Minister, A. Elumalai, has called upon the National Small Industries Development Corporation to promote industrial growth in rural areas to generate employment. Presiding over the inauguration of ...
    Rs.10.62 cr. for underground drainage facility
    PONDICHERRY, SEPT. 19. A Rs.10.62-crore scheme to provide underground drainage facility for residential areas at Jawahar Nagar, Rainbow nagar, Kamaraj Nagar, Venkata Nagar and Point Caree Street would be implemented soon, said A. M. ...
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  • HDFC office opened in Pondy



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