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Andhra Pradesh
CM releases draft budget for debate
HYDERABAD, JAN. 29. Blazing yet another trail in governance and transparency, the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, has unveiled a fiscal framework for next year's budget. The annual fiscal framework (AFF) 2002-03, quite simply the draft ... More


Tension after sarpanch's bid to commit suicide
MAHABUBNAGAR, JAN. 29. Tension prevailed in Bijinapally, a mandal headquarters in the Nagarkurnool Assembly constituency, on Tuesday following a suicide attempt by the Congress sarpanch, Katta Balamma. Mrs. Balamma, who consumed a pesticide in ... More
Other Stories

  • Festival in Tirupati planned
  • Row over quota in SKU
  • PWG warned against outsmarting Govt.
  • Naxal killed in encounter
  • CPI(M) memo to Governor on plight of ryots

    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Stand-off in NIMS continues
    HYDERABAD, JAN. 29. The strike by resident doctors of the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) entered 14th day on Tuesday. Though both resident doctors and NIMS authorities were keen on negotiating the demands, neither of them took any ... More


    Other Stories

  • Drive against smoking on SCR premises
  • `Friends' to the rescue of ICRISAT
  • Joshi calls for developing indigenous technology
  • Deputy Mayor post: Cong., MIM reach accord
  • APIIC, IRDA sign pact
  • Animal welfare fortnight launched

    Karnataka
    Impasse over stamp paper racket continues
    BANGALORE, JAN. 29. For the second day in succession, the Assembly was on Tuesday adjourned before it could take up any official business following noisy scenes with the Opposition sticking to its demand for a CBI inquiry into the fake stamp ... More


    GGV contests Govt. claim on PRIs
    . The Gram Ganarajya Vedike (GGV), the forum of NGOs working for the empowerment of the panchayat raj institutions (PRIs), has contested the claims of the State Government of having transferred 29 subjects to the PRIs. In a letter to the Chief ... More
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  • Centre plans high-level meet on rural development scheme
  • JD(U) committee endorses decision to back Gowda
  • IGP emphasises need to impart training to police
  • Cardiology workshop in Belgaum from Feb. 2
  • Villager seeks NHRC help to trace daughter
  • Phone companies to complete work soon
  • 14-member panel to scrutinise recommendations of LICs
  • Audit of varsity accounts reveals discrepancies

    Karnataka-Bangalore
    'Fake stamp papers still being sold'
    BANGALORE, JAN. 29. The vendors of fake stamp papers are hardly perturbed by the political furore over the racket and have the boldness to sell them to a person making the purchase on behalf of even the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna. The leaders ... More


    Other Stories

  • JD(S), JD(U) to launch bypoll campaign on February 4
  • Raid nets property worth Rs. 1.2 cr. from IAS officer
  • Illegal bus services, a drain on the exchequer
  • Kidnapped boy return home

    Kerala
    Temple at Ayodhya will end secularism: CPI
    PALAKKAD, JAN. 29. The State secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), Veliyam Bhargvan, has said that if the BJP Government at the Centre permits the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Sangh Parivar to construct the Ram temple at the ... More


    CPI(M) report admits to groupism
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 29. The performance report of the State CPI(M) presented to the party State committee meeting here today virtually admits that organisational elections in several districts were marked by factionalism. Pathanamthitta, ... More
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  • Karunakaran men try to clear the confusion
  • Essential services may be exempted
  • Vellappally re-elected S.N. Trust secy.
  • Third group attacks Karunakaran
  • CM's appeal to Govt. employees
  • T.N. pilfering water from Neyyar: MLA
  • Cabinet to meet
  • Plan funds misuse: action taken against officials
  • Panel to mop up compensation funds
  • World Spice Congress begins on Jan. 31

    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    E-governance projects to be scaled down
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 29. Faced with the threat of a prolonged financial crisis, the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation has been forced to scale down an ambitious project for an e-governance system to decentralise administration and improve ... More


    Other Stories

  • Book of poems released
  • Plea to rehabilitate arrack workers
  • Stir: CPI(M) asks Govt. not to invoke ESMA
  • Financial aid to coir workers
  • `Tourism can become key engine of development'
  • Continuing Education Centres to be increased
  • Accident victim dies
  • Restore universal rationing system: Karthikeyan

    Tamil Nadu
    Jayalalithaa wary of excessive cadre zeal
    CHENNAI, JAN. 29. The AIADMK chief and former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's warning issued yesterday to her cadres and perhaps even ministers, asking them not to show up in Andipatti unless they are assigned election work, clearly indicates a ... More


    Govt. files contempt plea against Ananda Vikatan, Nettrikkan
    CHENNAI, JAN. 29. After initiating action against Murasoli on January 8 for publishing a series of articles authored by the former Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, the State Government filed contempt applications against three more publications, ... More
    A palatial problem for fund-starved Government
    CHENNAI, JAN. 29. The State Government faces a queer problem as its Rs. 13.67-crore new bungalows built exclusively for Madras High Court judges on the posh Greenways road here has found few takers in the judiciary. Six months after 30 ... More
    Gopal seeks restraint
    CHENNAI, JAN. 29. The Nakheeran editor, Nakheerangopal, has approached the Madras High Court seeking to restrain Tamil Nadu and Karnataka Governments from arresting him or any of his staff members in connection with any pending or prospective ... More
    Other Stories

  • Trace overstaying Pak. nationals, SPs told
  • `Biotechnology is science with human face'
  • `Woman as chief of Wakf Board against Shariat'
  • AAI strengthening runways to facilitate jet operations
  • No more discharge of NCTPS water into Pulicat lake
  • AIADMK cadres know no restraint
  • National Mission for Tech. Education
  • Tea industry crisis will be taken up with Centre: Vaithialingam
  • PMK MLA dead
  • Police drive against ganja continues despite heavy odds

    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    More forest dept. personnel to search for the elusive carnivore
    CHENNAI, JAN. 29. The Forest department is bringing in more personnel from neighbouring districts to track down the elusive carnivore, even as the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur remained closed for the eighth day today. Talking to ... More


    Water supply to be affected in parts of Perambur from Feb. 1
    CHENNAI, JAN. 29. Metrowater proposes to take up interconnection of newly-laid water mains with the existing pipelines at Moorthingar Street and also at the junction of Moorthingar Street and Muthu Mudali Street. The work will commence on ... More
    Talk of the town
    THE VETERAN comedienne, Manorama, was just overwhelmed when several of her colleagues in the film industry came together to greet her on getting the title of Padma Shri. All the major comedians and comediennes, Nagesh, `Vennira Adai' Murthy, ... More
    Other Stories

  • Ambattur sewerage project to begin in two months
  • Bala Vidyalaya to conduct orientation programme for parents
  • Jewellery recovered
  • Wine shop employee murdered, family commits suicide
  • More penalties in the offing for violating PUC norms
  • Perambur councillors promise to pursue flyover issue
  • EPF adalat on Feb. 11
  • Corpn. appointments committee skips issue
  • Fatal fall

    Pondicherry
    Two more to be inducted into Ministry
    PONDICHERRY, JAN. 29. In the second and final expansion of the Pondicherry Ministry, a Congress member and a TMC man will be sworn in by February 3, raising the strength to six, according to sources. A list containing two names, submitted by ... More


    Jawan Bhavan to be commissioned soon: Rajani Rai
    PONDICHERRY, JAN. 29. The Lt. Governor, Rajani Rai, has said there should be priority in re-employment of ex-servicemen and suggested that the Department of Sainik Welfare monitor filling up of quotas, prescribed by the Government. Distributing ... More
    Other Stories

  • Govt. flayed for adopting UST
  • Special phone services
  • Seminar on security

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