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Andhra Pradesh
TRS tirade against TDP, Cong., Left
NALGONDA, APRIL 26.Launching a tirade against the ruling TDP, the Congress-I and the Left parties for the backwardness of Telangana region, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti president, K.Chandrasekhar Rao, reiterated here on Friday his demand for ...
Sonia to visit Anantapur today
HYDERABAD, APRIL 26. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, is arriving in Anantapur on Saturday to meet families of farmers who committed suicide due to extreme distress in the past few years, and offer them relief. Congress (I) leaders ...


Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
Cops flummoxed over credit card scam
WHEN POLICE begin investigation into white collar offences, they start off systematically. With voluminous data being available in many of the white collar offences, the investigators after careful scrutiny of documents can easily work out how a ...
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  • HC permits CBI to go ahead with probe
  • Watchman held on kidnap charge
  • Portraits unveiled
  • Special revision of electoral rolls in Secunderabad zone


    Karnataka
    Sindhia warns against power tariff hike
    BANGALORE, APRIL 26. The Janata Dal(U) leader, P.G.R.Sindhia, told the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) here on Friday that if a petition for a 30.15 per cent increase in tariff by the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation ...
    Panel moots HC Bench in Hubli
    BANGALORE, APRIL 26. The setting up of a permanent Bench of the Karnataka High Court in Hubli and a circuit Bench in Gulbarga is among the highlights of the recommendations of the High Power Committee for Redressal of Regional Imbalances. The ...
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  • `Problems in valuation sorted out'
  • Sonia's visit
  • Ombudsman for PR bodies mooted
  • Laws alone cannot ensure social justice: S. African judge
  • `Bridge to Sri Lanka will help improve trade'
  • RTPS unit shut down again


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Many crime prevention programmes yet to take off
    POLITICIANS ARE often accused of not keeping their promises. And now, the Bangalore City Police seem to have started emulating their political bosses. The various programmes announced by the Commissioner of Police, H.T. Sangliana, in the past ...
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  • Contempt proceedings dropped
  • Expert highlights role of farm edn.
  • Born Free to gift six tigers to BNP


    Kerala
    Mathikettan issue comes up before HC
    KOCHI, APRIL 26. The Additional Advocate General, Rajan Joseph, today gave an undertaking to a Bench of the Kerala High Court that steps would be taken to ensure that the encroachers in the Mathikettan forests were evicted so as to restore the ...
    Farmers' siege hits work at Govt. offices
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 26. Hundreds of farmers and farm workers laid siege to the State Secretariat and district collectorates today demanding immediate measures to remedy the crisis in the farm sector. The siege, called by pro-LDF unions in ...
    Other Stories

  • Ahmed defends statement of foreign nations
  • Antony privy to land grab: VS
  • UDF decision to benefit SNDP, NSS
  • Policy on fisheries development soon
  • HC stays registrar's order on SPCS
  • Women MPs told to support censure motion


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Zoo-based racket in wildlife products?
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 26.The City Zoo is learnt to have emerged as the hub of a clandestine racket in wildlife products, including the sale of cleverly fabricated elephant hair and tiger teeth fakes to visitors and foreign tourists. A ...
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  • Tourism Web site upgraded
  • Graft: RI for health inspector
  • Rlys. asked to pay damages


    Tamil Nadu
    AIADMK to stay neutral on censure motion
    CHENNAI, APRIL 26. In what would come as a big comfort to the ruling BJP at the Centre, the AIADMK has decided to abstain from voting on the censure motion in Parliament against the Vajpayee Government on the Gujarat issue. The 11 AIADMK MPs in ...
    AIADMK to contest all seats in byelections
    CHENNAI, APRIL 26. The AIADMK will contest in all the three Assembly constituencies— Saidapet, Vaniayambadi and Acharapakkam— going to the polls on May 31. The list of candidates will be announced soon, the Chief Minister and AIADMK ...
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  • `Open University PG degree not enough for teacher post'
  • Sengottaiyan acquitted in JJTC case
  • No sympathy for rapist-teacher: HC
  • Fee structure notified for MCA, MBA
  • Gesture to greeting children
  • SC accepts DMK lawyer's plea
  • Ilamvazhuthi suspended for session
  • Cradle baby scheme to be extended to all PHCs
  • Govt. to write to EC
  • Ready to face DMK motion: Speaker
  • Kalimuthu not partisan: BJP
  • Ninth fast breeder reactor to become functional soon
  • Rail crack delays trains


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Largest haul of heroin in Chennai
    CHENNAI, APRIL 26. In the single largest unearthing of heroin smuggling, sleuths of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized nearly 50 kg of the drug at Madhavaram and Kilpauk here on Thursday. Nearly 19 more kg of heroin would have been seized ...
    Are all `encounters' genuine?
    During the last seven years, six `gangsters' have been killed in `shootouts'. Though the police claim that the killings occurred in self-defence, the incidents also show them in a poor light, says S. Shivakumar.
    Call to popularise Ramanujan works
    CHENNAI, APRIL 26. ``Mathematics lovers'' who gathered in the city today called for methods to popularise the subject, especially the theories put forth by the genius Srinivasan Ramanujan. Speaking at a gathering of his descendants and ...
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  • Law likely to prevent mushrooming of hoardings
  • Land lease for hospital dominates Ambattur council meet
  • Training in `filmi style'
  • Venues for photographing voters


    Pondicherry
    Rangasamy announces relief for weavers
    PONDICHERRY, APRIL 26 The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy today announced in the Territorial Assembly that a sum of Rs 1.8 crores loan due from handloom weavers belonging to the `Below Poverty Line` category would be waived with immediate effect. ...
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  • No permission for chemical, steel units: CM
  • A session marked by camaraderie
  • `Invisible speedbreakers cause accidents'

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