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Andhra Pradesh
Farmers storm Kurnool ZP office
KURNOOL, APRIL 15.Farmers under the Gajuladinne Project canal stormed the Zilla Parishad office here on Monday, demanding release of water beyond the scheduled closure to save the standing crops. The general body meeting of the Zilla Parishad was ...

70 families rendered homeless after fire
WARANGAL, APRIL 15. About 50 huts were burnt and nearly 70 families rendered shelterless in a major fire at a tribal thanda near Ramachandrapuram village of Mulug mandal in the early hours of Monday. There was no loss of human life but over 100 ...

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Jumbo Cong. panel

Cabinet reviews water, power supply position

BJP leader flays Naidu for demanding Modi's sack

Karnataka releases water

APCC training camp at Khammam

Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad

IA flight cancelled

Naidu names market, temple panel chiefs

Privatisation of NSL opposed

Karnataka

Karnataka may get more for biotech sector
BANGALORE, APRIL 15. Bangalore Bio 2002 started on Monday amid glad tidings that the State is likely to get additional investments of Rs. 300 crores over a year in the biotechnology sector. The State has contributed a significant chunk of the ...

State `cradle of biotech. revolution'
BANGALORE, APRIL 15. Karnataka, and Bangalore in particular, had emerged as the "cradle of the biotech revolution". This was inevitable, what with the City being home to a slew of prestigious institutions with well-defined, focussed programmes ...

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Funds released for water-supply

Govt. to announce health policy soon

Bellary violence: Case filed against minister

KPCC chief happy with performance

Yadgir to be HQ of new district?

Panel to frame rules under new Act governing temples

Karnataka-Bangalore
Beware of the Chinese dragon: CM
BANGALORE, APRIL 15. The threat of the Chinese dragon still looms large, and it is only a matter of time before China overtakes India due to its tremendous potential. And even though analysts have scoffed at this opinion, this time around it was ...

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'Politicians playing with religion'

Package tour to Mantralaya

H.K. Patil renominated as Cong. candidate for Council

Kerala
50 heads of U.S. IT firms to visit Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 15. The Indian Foreign Investment Agency (IFIA), a U.S.-based group facilitating foreign investment into the country, will be bringing a contingent of around 50 chief executives of IT companies to Kerala in November this ...

Special plan to develop waterways
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 15. The Government will draw up a special action plan to make waterways in the State serviceable, the Water Resources Minister, T. M. Jacob, has said. The Minister was addressing a high-level conference convened here ...

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Central Film Board to intensify checks

Competition hots up in cellular telephony

Muslim bodies wary of talks with RSS

`PM has submitted to communal ideology'

Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
Poachers targeting migrant birds
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 15.Rampant poaching and pilferage of nests is posing a serious threat to a large population of migrant as well as indigenous birds which flock to paddy fields and wetlands in the city and suburbs during April-May. The ...

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Kannamthanam files libel petition

World Haemophilia Day on April 21

Child welfare council to promote reading habit

Absurd to expect writers to be apolitical: M.V. Devan

Tamil Nadu
CII to focus on competitiveness through `HIT'
CHENNAI, APRIL 15. Competitiveness through `HIT' (human resources, infrastructure and technology) will be the focal theme of the Confederation of Indian Industry-Southern Region for 2002-03, according to its new chairman, T.K. ...

'March towards development has begun'
ANDIPATTI, APRIL 15.The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, inaugurated a series of development projects and laid the foundation stone for various schemes, worth about Rs.140 crores, here today. The Chief Minister, converting the function into a ...

TNCSC taluk godowns stop paddy purchase
CHENNAI, APRIL 15. With the Government firm on closing procurement operation in delta districts, all taluk godowns of the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation stopped purchasing paddy from farmers from this evening. However, officials agreed ...

Take a clear stand, Swamy tells DMK chief
CHENNAI, APRIL 15. The Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, today urged the DMK president, M. Karunanidhi, to take a clear stand on the question of extraditing the LTTE chief, V. Prabakaran. ``If Mr. Karunanidhi truly feels outraged by ...

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Mudumalai sanctuary to reopen today

Supreme Court adjourns hearing of T.N. suit in Cauvery case

Selected for MBA course

Database for bonded labourers being prepared

Govt. committed to e-governance: CM

Reconsider resolution, DK tells Jayalalithaa

`Ex-MD caused loss to JJTC'

Student files contempt petition against Govt.

Tamil Nadu-Chennai
Krishna water for at least 3 months
CHENNAI, APRIL 15. The stepped up daily supply of 400 million litres to the city by Metrowater coincides with the cumulative realisation of Krishna water crossing the one tmcft-mark. This morning, the inflow at the Zero Point on the Tamil ...

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`Lawyer assistance a boon where claims are big'

Study on salinity changes in Indian Ocean

Adiseshiah award for Bina Agarwal

Haphazard parking, speedbreakers add to woes

110 vehicles seized

Railway milestones on show

Monal's body sent to Mumbai

DCE team inspects college admission records

Attachment of TNEB office property ordered

Pondicherry
Pondy House wants Prabakaran extradited
PONDICHERRY, APRIL 15. The Pondicherry Assembly today adopted a resolution urging the Centre to initiate steps to have the LTTE leader, V. Prabakaran, arrested and extradited to India by the Sri Lankan Government. The resolution was supported ...