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Andhra Pradesh
Globalise rural sector: Krishan Kant
HYDERABAD, MAY 18.The Vice-President, Krishan Kant, has called for concerted effort to integrate India's rural sector, farm as well as non-farm, with the global economy. "China has shown us the way. Vast quantities of items such as toys, ...
Path-breaking cardiac intervention technique comes to India
HYDERABAD, MAY 18. In a pathbreaking catheter-based intervention, a cardiologist in Apollo Hospital here has used a drug elutent stent (sirolimus), called cypher stent, on a 57-year-old patient suffering from critical lesions in two arteries, ...
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  • Police station `reopened' on request of villagers
  • `Cyber eye' helps cops breathe easy
  • Naidu's claims on farm sector hollow, says MSR


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    CM wants MCH, HUDA to join hands
    HYDERABAD, MAY 18. The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, directed the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad and the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority to come up with a joint action plan to develop the 170-odd lakes in and around the twin ...
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  • Hopes for breathe-easy days
  • City set to become sports capital, says Naidu
  • Idea Cellular co. clarifies
  • MCH engineers to go on study tour
  • Speaker mourns former MLA
  • Boy killed in wall collapse


    Karnataka
    `Realignment of NDA parties unlikely'
    GULBARGA, MAY 18.The BJP does not foresee any major realignment of political parties in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the near future. Addressing a press conference here today, the BJP President, Jana Krishnamurthy, said there might ...
    Bt. cotton seeds to be distributed in 12 districts
    BANGALORE, MAY 18. With the Union Government giving the green signal to Mahyco-Monsanto to distribute Bt. cotton seeds for commercial cultivation, the company has selected 12 districts in the State for distribution of the same. Disclosing this ...
    `Lokayukta's observations demoralising doctors'
    SHIMOGA, MAY 18. The Minister for Health and Family Welfare, A.B. Maalakaraddy, said here on Saturday that the Lokayukta's observations on the doctors in government hospitals had shown the Health Department in a bad light. At the 20th ...
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  • Rs. 15 cr. sought for literacy programme
  • Hospital staff protest `assault' by SI
  • Govt.'s poor response to SC directive worries villagers
  • NCC to enrol 1 lakh more cadets, expand activities
  • New generation of farmers at the crossroads
  • Few takers for plea to elect Hegde President
  • `Change in lifestyle will help contain diabetes'


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    BMP to intensify desilting of drains
    BANGALORE, MAY 18. The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) is known to being caught unawares every monsoon. Despite the Rs 100-crore desilting project launched two years ago to reduce flood damage, inundation of low-lying areas in the City ...
    Other Stories

  • Vijayasimha Rao passes away
  • Effort on to make English `easy' for PU students
  • Nine-year-old girl found murdered
  • Slip proves fatal for man
  • VIPS to set up Dept. of Pharmacy Practice at KIMS
  • Effort on to make English `easy' for PU students
  • Raw deal for elementary edn. regretted


    Kerala
    Govt. not taking Oppn. into confidence: VS
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 18.The Leader of the Opposition, V.S. Achuthanandan, has accused the Government of not taking the Opposition into confidence on major policy issues and told the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, that he need not expect the ...
    Plan to revive Agasthyavanam park project
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 18.The Government is planning to revive the controversial Agasthyavanam Biological Park project. This was stated in an official release issued by the Forest Minister, K. Sudhakaran, in connection with the first ...
    Gloom among rubber farmers
    KOCHI, MAY 18. This is the story of a tree. A tree that has, after arriving in Kerala a century, shaped up a way of life, changed the face of Kerala's agriculture and, in the process, drove out other trees from large tracts of land. Hit by ...
    Other Stories

  • Centre short-circuiting Panchayat Raj: Buddhadeb
  • Free software: Karnataka move an eye-opener
  • IA flight lands with tyre burst
  • Will SSLC results be out on time?
  • Crime graph of Kochi shoots up
  • New bridge unlikely to smoothen traffic
  • Kadannappally was harassed: Kabeer


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Action plan to reduce traffic accidents
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 18. The Government proposes to draw up an action plan to reduce traffic accidents, the Chief Minister, A. K. Antony, said here on Saturday. Addressing a press conference after a meeting of the Road Safety Council, the ...
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  • Call for withdrawal of airfare hike
  • Yet another ivory haul by Forest dept.


    Tamil Nadu
    Jayalalithaa woos Vaniyambadi voters
    VANIYAMBADI, May 18. Laying stress on the Annadhanam scheme in temples in Hindu-majority areas, and highlighting the grants given to the Wakf Board in Muslim-majority areas, the Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary, Jayalalithaa, today ...
    DVAC seeks go-ahead for probe against Muthukaruppan
    CHENNAI, MAY 18. After the inquiry ordered against the former Director-General of Police, A. Ravindranath, State vigilance sleuths have now recommended a probe against five senior police officers including the controversial former Chennai ...
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  • Making IIT campus safer for deer
  • 12th century inscription found
  • Confusion in TMC over Coimbatore exodus
  • Women's forum to launch crusade against dowry
  • Panic reaction gives the game away in Tiruchi RTO office
  • DMK defections make AIADMK job easy for Tirunelveli Mayor
  • Music cassette, CD released
  • `Commission will help fire service meet challenges'
  • Fluctuations in Saidapet electoral rolls since 1996


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    State Govt. seeks extension of deadline
    CHENNAI, MAY 18. If the new deadline of June end for having a new number plate scheme is to be taken seriously then about 22,000 vehicles must have their number plates changed in Chennai everyday, starting Sunday. Meanwhile, the State ...
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  • Businessman's house burgled
  • Student fatally hit by lorry
  • A raw deal awaits cable TV subscribers?
  • ASI `discoveries' on display at Fort museum
  • Nursing candidates protest, demanding return of passports


    Pondicherry
    Ex-Pondy Minister held for disrupting Sanskrit class
    PONDICHERRY, MAY 18.Eleven persons including the former Pondicherry Agriculture Minister and member of the CPI national council, R Viswanathan, were arrested today following a complaint from the organiser of a Sanskrit teaching programme ...
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  • Insurance staff criticise management for not accepting premium

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