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Andhra Pradesh
Ensure all-round growth: A.P. Governor
HYDERABAD, FEB. 15. The Governor, C. Rangarajan, today emphasised the need to move forward into the second generation of reforms with the sole objective of reducing poverty and ensuring all-round growth. Addressing the Assembly on the opening ...
Engineer, SP shifted
HYDERABAD, FEB. 15. The Government has transferred the Superintendent of Police, Mahabubnagar, Balasubramanyam, and Rama Rao, electrical engineer, R & B, Assembly premises. The SP's transfer is linked to four incidents of police ...
Other Stories

  • Mahabubnagar SP shifted, no word on Dora successor
  • YSR visits tribal's widow, asks Goud to resign
  • Right to information Act to be passed soon
  • Pressing issues ignored: Opposition
  • Grid support charges mandatory for CGPPs


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Seat of power goes without power
    The Assembly plunged into darkness for about a minute following a breakdown in power supply as the Governor, C. Rangarajan, was reading out his customary address on the opening day of the budget session this morning. The interruption put the ...
    Election for Dy. Mayor post on Feb. 26
    HYDERABAD, FEB. 15. The Mayor, T. Krishna Reddy, has given notice that the election to the post of Deputy Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad will be held in the Council Hall on February 26, 2002. He has urged corporators to ...
    Other Stories

  • BAC draws up agenda
  • Camaraderie prevails on first day
  • Speaker hosts breakfast
  • Kishan Reddy takes over as APIDC chief
  • Defence undertaking plans expansion
  • Assumes office
  • Revenue staff stage dharna
  • Cases against erring auto drivers
  • SCR GM calls for enhanced use of steel


    Karnataka
    `Do not sacrifice Karnataka's interests'
    TUMKUR, FEB. 15. The noted writer and Jnanpith award winner, U.R.Ananthamurthy, has said: ``We must not sacrifice the interests of Karnataka to be Indians.'' Presiding over the three-day 69th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, which began ...
    CM warns officials against neglecting Kannada
    The Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, has warned officials of disciplinary action if they fail to implement Kannada in administration. Inaugurating the three-day 69th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelan at the Gubbi Veeranna Vedike on the ...
    Other Stories

  • Baby with congenital heart disease saved
  • HDMC to seek amendment to KMC Act
  • Making policemen humane, sensitive
  • Over 100 shops razed in MCC drive
  • Corpn. may review Pay-and-Park scheme
  • Six JD(U) leaders join Congress
  • Sedam seeks CRPF for security duty
  • KPTCL caught unawares?


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    U.S. can't pressure India: Sushma
    The Union Minister for Information, Sushma Swaraj, today scoffed at the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, for seeking proof from India that the ISI was behind the December 13 terrorist attack on Parliament complex and said he would get the ...
    Other Stories

  • SP dies of asphyxia
  • Excise official owns Rs. 4-cr. worth assets
  • Excise official amasses wealth


    Kerala
    Surjeet call for joint fight against BJP
    KANNUR, FEB. 15. The CPI(M)'s State conference ahead of the 17th Party Congress in Hyderabad got under way here today with its general secretary, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, calling for a joint struggle against the BJP and its policies detrimental ...
    Govt. directed to hold talks before Feb. 20
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 15. In a suo motu action, the State Lok Ayukta has directed the Government to convene a conference of the presidents and secretaries of the service organisations on strike before February 20 for settling the ...
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  • Govt. claims improved attendance
  • CPI(M) admits to groupism in Alappuzha, Thrissur
  • Bail for ESMA detainees
  • No one can split my family: Karunakaran
  • HC upholds imposition of toll at Mattancherry bridge
  • Surjeet targets BJP, goes soft on Congress
  • Stir slows down economic activities
  • AKPCTA flays Govt. education policy
  • Comfort and company to keep them going


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Registration of new vehicles comes to a halt
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 15. Registration of all class of vehicles, renewal of driving licences, fitness tests and other routine work in the Motor Vehicles Department that fetches lakhs of rupees daily to the exchequer has come to a standstill ...
    Hartal in city today
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 15. The RSS-BJP-BMS combine has called for a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the city in protest against the attack on an RSS district functionary, V. Harikumar, by suspected DYFI workers near West Fort on Thursday night. A ...
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  • BJP urges CPI(M) not to create tension
  • Toxicological analysis at MCH being modernised
  • Kerala Cong.(J) district meet on Feb. 20
  • Strike casts shadow on education sector
  • Motor workers not to participate in hartal
  • Job seekers chased away by police
  • Probe reveals irregularities at writers' cooperative


    Tamil Nadu
    Anna varsity tie-up with ISRO
    CHENNAI, FEB. 15. The Anna University will develop a communication micro-satellite in ``about three years'' with support from the Indian Space Research Organisation. It will also examine the suitability of some technology upgradation/validation ...
    Poll boycott won't help to expose AIADMK: DMK
    TIRUCHI, FEB. 15. The DMK president, M. Karunanidhi, today expressed the hope that CPI and Congress leaders, who called upon their party workers to abstain from voting in the Andipatti byelection, would reconsider their decision as they were ...
    Palanichamy new EC
    CHENNAI, FEB. 15. V. Palanichamy, today took over as the new State Election Commissioner. He succeeded P.S. Pandiyan, who superannuated on Thursday. Talking to The Hindu after taking over the new post, Mr. Palanichamy said his primary job would ...
    200 school students taken ill after taking iron tablets
    CHENNAI, FEB. 15. Over 200 students in three districts were rushed to hospital, following consumption of medicines administered under a school health programme, raising serious questions about the functioning of the project, the health department ...
    Other Stories

  • Rare blood group detected in Salem
  • Encroachments removed on Long Bazaar
  • ISRO plans to launch healthsat: Kasturirangan
  • 'Environmental efforts should aid growth'
  • Koodankulam project progress: Russians satisfied
  • Move to end cow slaughter
  • Police hopeful of nabbing Faluludden
  • Private colleges welcome common varsity law
  • 'Furnish papers to Sasikalaa'
  • TNSCB plans 7000 more tenements
  • Rs. 5.80-cr. relief sanctioned for growers
  • Cadres irrepressible, throw caution to the winds
  • Announce sugarcane price immediately, farmers tell Govt.


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Stinking waterways: Will the political tangle be solved ?
    CHENNAI, FEB. 15. Chennai may even acquire the status of `cyber capital' of the South in the foreseeable future. But, a feature of the city that is unlikely to disappear, meantime, will be its stinking waterways. For 40 years, ...
    Other Stories

  • Employee robbed of Rs.50,000
  • Criminal assaults woman SI
  • PCOs lack penetration in city
  • Building firm asked to compensate buyer
  • Lok Adalat for property tax appeals on Feb. 28
  • Students damage college buses


    Pondicherry
    President's assent to Pondy Women's Commission Act
    PONDICHERRY, FEB. 15. The President of India, K.R. Narayanan, has given his assent to the Pondicherry Women's Commission Act, 2001. A communication of the Law Department in the State Gazette said the Act was extended to the whole of the Union ...
    Flower show inaugurated
    PONDICHERRY, FEB. 15. The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, has said that the Union Territory of Pondicherry was registering self- sufficiency in food production. Inaugurating a three-day 23rd annual flower, fruit and vegetable show conducted by ...
    Other Stories

  • Chandirakasu pays surprise visit to hostels
  • Indian Bank staff stage dharna

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