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Andhra Pradesh
Fervour, piety mark celestial wedding
BHADRACHALAM, APRIL 21.The temple town of Bhadrachalam came alive as the celestial fete of `Sitarama Kalyanam' was performed as a ritual to rejoice with religious fervour on Sunday. A nine-day tourism festival, which culminated on the occasion, ...
Srisailam power unit commissioned
SRISAILAM, APRIL 21.The 150 MW third unit of the Srisailam underground power project (900 MW) was commissioned ahead of the schedule on Sunday. The AP Genco CMD, J. Parthasarathy, and its Director (Hydel), Bh. Satyanarayana Murthy, formalised ...
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  • CPI to intensify stir against power reforms
  • YSR `convinces' Sonia on free power
  • TDP charge refuted
  • Hospital staff blamed for patient's death


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    BIE cracks whip on erring colleges
    HYDERABAD, APRIL 21.The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has served disaffiliation notices on two institutions -- Narayana Junior College and Chaitanya Junior Kalasala -- both located at Kukatpally in the city for admitting students to ...
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  • Govt. to reimburse 3.5 cr. to Haj panel
  • Eight-acre park to be developed behind ESI
  • Seven-year-old boy drowned


    Karnataka
    BC panel plans survey of 2 districts
    BANGALORE, APRIL 21. The Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes is considering whether it can take up with its own finances a survey in a couple of districts to ascertain the social and educational conditions of the backward classes ...
    100 Cong. workers from Kodagu join JD (S)
    BANGALORE, APRIL 21. Over 100 Congress workers of Kodagu District today joined the Janata Dal (Secular) in the presence of the former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, MP. They were led by Shashidhar, a rebel Congress member of the Kodagu Zilla ...
    Other Stories

  • CM's visit to districts yields little
  • Make Konkani official language, Goa Govt. urged
  • Bangarappa shows his strength
  • Gowda pooh-poohs Gujarat Govt. decision


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    KVIB seeks Central Jail premises to hold `Santhe'
    BANGALORE, APRIL 21. Will a Bangalore `Santhe' come up at Central Jail premises? Will the old "place of correction" in the heart of the City, bustle with a `saanthe' (shandy) brimming with art, culture, and artisans, instead? For this to ...
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  • Police hold talks with school principals
  • Twin surgery on heart, kidney saves man
  • Lorry driver arrested for kidnapping girl
  • Baba stresses on Rama Nama
  • Two women murdered in City
  • BMTC to introduce more night services
  • Doctors debate on how to check suicides


    Kerala
    `Nod after reviewing power needs'
    GURUVAYUR, APRIL 21.Contrary to the proclaimed policy of the UDF Government, the Electricity Department is not in favour of encouraging private entry into the power generation and transmission sectors. This was stated here today by the Power ...
    Mani's first major challenge in years
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 21.The Mathikettan encroachment controversy is perhaps the first major administrative challenge that the Kerala Congress(M) leader and Revenue Minister, K M Mani, is facing in his decades-long political career. He has ...
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  • IT@School to revolutionise classrooms
  • Natural justice denied to Women's Commission
  • Govt commitment to conservation under a cloud
  • Five youth killed in mishap


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Journalists thrown out of ADB workshop
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 21.Senior officials of Government on Sunday threw out journalists from the `Strategic Planning Workshop on the Modernising Government Project', which is deliberating on matters connected to the Asian Development Bank ...
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  • Latex's female condoms


    Tamil Nadu
    ''BJP won't lose individuality''
    TIRUNELVELI, APRIL 21. Even as the BJP president, Jana Krishnamurthy, claimed that his party's relationship with the DMK was `good', the State unit said it was `unfortunate' that the DMK decided to snap its ties unilaterally without taking any ...
    Elangovan meets Nallakannu, begins secular front effort
    CHENNAI, APRIL 21In an attempt at forging a ``secular'' front for the coming Assembly byelections, the Tamil Nadu Congress president, E.V.K.S. Elangovan, held discussions with the State CPI secretary, R. Nallakannu, here today. Mr. Elangovan ...
    A village where IT is a way of life
    MADURAI, APRIL 21. Pathinettangudi some 35 km from Madurai, which presents the look of just another underprivileged village. However, a silent IT revolution is brewing in the tiny hamlet where the illiterate farm workers use webcams, voice mail ...
    Orissa, T.N. sign MoU for tourism promotion
    CHENNAI, APRIL 21. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed yesterday for integrated promotion of tourism between Tamil Nadu and Orissa. At a function organised by the Orissa Tourism Department here, the MoU was signed by the Orissa Tourism ...
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  • In-service training may be made mandatory
  • 50 rural sub-registrars' offices to be closed
  • BSNL mobile phone service by May
  • Trade unions merger, a precursor to Cong. unity?
  • Focus on customer satisfaction: Prabhu
  • Cong. seeks `fair probe' into code violation
  • Resignation strikes at grass roots democracy


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Funds refused as TNSCB fails to reach target
    CHENNAI, APRIL 21.About 3,000 women selected from Chennai for the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board's component of the Entrepreneurial Development Programme (EDP) have been left stranded owing to a Rs.20-lakh shortage. They were to be trained in ...
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  • 'Ease traffic congestion at Villivakkam level-crossing'
  • Engineer's house burgled
  • `Wife' claims gangster's body
  • Ramayana has universal appeal: RV
  • Thieves strike at Guduvanchery
  • 'Zero garbage scheme'
  • Relief scheme


    Pondicherry
    French presidential poll in Pondy
    PONDICHERRY, APRIL 21. French nationals who had registered themselves as voters at the French Consulate here went to the first round of French presidential polls today. The poll began at 8 a.m. on the premises of the Consul General office near ...
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  • Reporter's Diary
  • `Accord priority to tapping conventional energy sources'
  • Rape of mentally unsound girl: accused arrested
  • Case filed against hotel builder
  • Bharathidasan remembered

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