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Andhra Pradesh
Naxals blow up rail engine, theatre in A.P.
KURNOOL, FEB. 11. Extremists of the People's War Group blew up the engine of a goods train and a building of the railway station at Chalama in the interior forest of Nallamala range in Nandyal-Giddalur section around midnight on Sunday night. ... More


Food poisoning: 30 students hospitalised
VISAKHAPATNAM, FEB. 11. About 30 tribal girl students of the AP Residential Girls Junior College at Paderu who were taken ill on Sunday after their breakfast at the hostel have been hospitalised with complaints of fever, vomiting and ... More
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  • Project to popularise Ramadas keerthanas
  • CPI decries move to wind up FCI
  • Draft budget: CM asks Centre to take cue from State

    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Mayor sworn in amidst protests
    HYDERABAD, FEB. 11. Amid noisy scenes, T. Krishna Reddy was sworn in as new Mayor of the City here on Monday even as Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) corporators led by three of their legislators shouted him down while he was taking the ... More


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  • Hole in heart closed through keyhole surgery
  • Project to check air pollution launched
  • No hike in taxes: Mohanty
  • No tax for small dwellings: Mayor
  • Three workers die in factory mishap

    Karnataka
    Massive water supply project launched
    BANGALORE, FEB. 11. The second phase of the World Bank-aided rural water supply and sanitation projects to cover parts of 11 northern districts of the State was launched here on Monday. Called the Jal Nirmal Project or the Karnataka Rural ... More


    Other Stories

  • Writers angry over selection of delegates to literary meet
  • Newspapers no longer adhering to ethics: expert
  • `Gowda working for BJP success'
  • Row over `neera' sale causes tension
  • `Cong. making promises for votes'
  • Private bus operators plan indefinite strike

    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Equal wages for men and women `pourakarmikas'
    Following the agitation by "contract pourakarmikas", the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP), the Labour Department, and private garbage contractors have worked out an equal minimum wage rate of Rs. 1,550 for both men and women workers. On ... More


    Other Stories

  • 30-year-old man hacked to death

    Kerala
    Kerala Govt. to act tough on strikers
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 11. The Cabinet on Monday decided to declare services of Government Secretaries down to the level of under secretaries as essential and direct them to attend office from Tuesday. It also decided to appoint temporary ... More


    Strike total, Govt. refrains from enforcing ESMA
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 11. The strike called by Government employees and teachers was total on the sixth day. Contrary to expectations, the Government refrained from strictly enforcing the Kerala Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA). The ... More
    Other Stories

  • Fishermen warn of indefinite strike
  • Govt. seeking shortcuts to solve crisis'
  • Meet reviews preparations for SSLC exams
  • Working class urged to back stir
  • CPI(M) to strive for a stronger mass base
  • No threat to Ministry: Antony
  • Strike: Mayors call for talks
  • CM's assurance fails to enthuse unions
  • Pinarayi warns against DGP's `threat'
  • Public ire against strike growing
  • Soopy wanted to `manipulate' ranklist: Kannamthanam

    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Corpn. non-committal on Govt. move over garbage removal
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 11. The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation has expressed helplessness to support the Government move to replace sanitary workers with temporary hands for garbage collection from Tuesday. The Government decision was announced ... More

    Tamil Nadu
    Financial crisis chokes panchayats too
    CHENNAI, FEB. 11. Almost all 12,618 village panchayats and 385 panchayat unions in Tamil Nadu are choking without funds as the Government is yet to release annual grants of over Rs.400 crores. Four months after the panchayat elections, over ... More


    Left merger will take time: CPI
    COIMBATORE, FEB. 11. Even as the State CPI (M) conference opened here today with a call for Left unity, the CPI felt that it would take a lot more time for a ``final merger'' of the two Left parties. While the CPI(M) leaders underlined the need ... More
    Other Stories

  • 3 'investigating teams' for poll
  • Stalin popularity graph rising, Azhagiri losing hold
  • Maintain calm, CM tells partymen
  • Rs. 49-cr. relief package for ryots in 4 districts
  • HC dismisses plea against Andipatti election
  • A gruelling task for TN boys in North

    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Tenders for five mini-flyovers likely to be cancelled
    CHENNAI, FEB. 11. The Chennai Corporation is all set to cancel the tenders for at least five mini-flyover proposals, at the council meeting scheduled for Tuesday. The flyovers were planned during the Mayor, M.K. Stalin's first term to decongest ... More


    Other Stories

  • `No toxic substance in imported steel scrap'
  • Two held for extortion
  • 'Police reorganisation to raise detection level'
  • Focus shifts to TMC
  • Former IAS officer's house burgled, pistol stolen
  • Three buses damaged in stone-throwing

    Pondicherry
    Delay in allocation of portfolios criticised
    PONDICHERRY, FEB. 11. Delay in finalising the portfolios for the two Ministers-A. Elumalai and A. Namasivayam-inducted into the Rangasamy-led coalition government on February 6 is a betrayal of the interests of the Scheduled Caste and BCs. This ... More


    Other Stories

  • PT teacher posts in Pondy will be filled soon: Minister
  • Jail warders to stage dharna
  • Students of Treple IT course seek govt. jobs
  • Infrastructure for rural school assured

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