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Andhra Pradesh
Cong. favours lifting of ban on PWG
HYDERABAD, JUNE 6. The APCC(I) president, M.Satyanarayana Rao, has favoured the lifting of the ban on People's War Group (PWG) to pave way for fruitful discussions between the Government and the naxalite outfit. " I personally feel that ...
Cong. workers' houses attacked
CUDDAPAH, JUNE 6.A group of alleged TDP activists, armed with country-made rifles, went berserk, hurled bombs and destroyed the houses of Congressmen, including the Vemula ZPTC member, Raja Reddy, and set ablaze nine houses and 10 haystacks, a ...
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  • 98.22 per cent candidates qualify in ICET
  • PW urged to extend ceasefire deadline


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Caught in the firing line
    HYDERABAD, JUNE 6. He set out from home with a dream, to get himself educated and get ahead in life. But, by a strange twist of misfortune, he landed in hospital. Life has suddenly become gloomy for the tribal teenager, Shivlal, who sustained ...
    Curtains for yet another non-banking financial firm
    HYDERABAD, JUNE 6. Yet another non-banking financial institution, the Kolkata-based Sanchayani Savings and Investments (India) Ltd, downed its shutters, depriving a few hundreds of investors of their hard-earned deposits. Its investments in the ...
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  • Court directive to municipal commissioner
  • Fish medicine tokens to be issued at 20 stalls in city
  • CJ opens fast track court complex


    Karnataka
    Young couple done to death
    BANGALORE, JUNE 6. A young woman and her husband were brutally done to death, allegedly by the woman's brother and his friends at a house in Kodihalli in Jeevanbhimanagar on Wednesday night. The accused, numbering six, also took away the couple's ...
    Vatal sparks another controversy
    BANGALORE, JUNE 6. The elections to the Legislative Council are embroiled in a controversy, with two Janata Dal (Secular) MLAs denying having signed the nomination paper of the Kannada Chaluvali leader, Vatal Nagaraj. Mr. Nagaraj is one of the ...
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  • Authority to develop Brindavan Garden on the anvil
  • Foodgrain production expected to be 104 lakh tonnes
  • Nominations leave many Congmen sore


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    20-month term for mayors likely
    BANGALORE, JUNE 6. The subject of increasing the term of mayors of six cities and standing committees of the corporations to 20 months will come up at the next meeting of the State Cabinet, which is likely to approve the proposal of the Urban ...
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  • 'Dealers capitalised on fuel price hike'


    Kerala
    Prospects of ending toddy crisis brighten
    THRISSUR, JUNE 6.The prospects of finding a solution to the vexed toddy crisis that led to the traumatic violence in Thrissur on Tuesday have brightened with the announcement of the Finance and Excise Minister, K Sankaranarayanan, that the ...
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  • Endosulfan: lifting of ban rakes up controversy
  • Call for uniform adoption laws
  • Violence will not be tolerated: CM
  • Thrissur incidents may be repeated: VS
  • Former MLA arrested


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Vegetable prices shoot up in capital
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 6. The prices of vegetables in the city markets registered a steep rise this week following poor arrivals from Tamil Nadu as well as due to the non-availability of some vegetables from parts of the State. Vegetable ...
    Zoo gets new inmates
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 6.Their home is the incomparable yet unforgiving Australian outback. They journey vast distances a day in search of food at speeds close to 50 kilometres an hour. Next to the ostrich, they are the largest birds that now ...
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  • Kerala's proneness to earthquakes
  • IBM software for engg. colleges
  • Development of Kovalam waterway mooted
  • Printed material destroyed in fire
  • Reprographic centre fire: police suspect sabotage
  • Forest encroachment: Lok Ayukta orders probe


    Tamil Nadu
    Low turnout, no complaint of fraud
    CHENNAI, JUNE 6. The repoll in 58 booths of the Saidapet Assembly constituency went off without any complaint of bogus voting, amid unprecedented security and low turnout, today. Senior police officers, election observers and zonal parties, ...
    EC asserts its authority
    CHENNAI, JUNE 6.As the Election Commission demonstrated its power and resolve during the Saidapet repoll today, both the AIADMK and the DMK exhibited a sense of discipline and restraint. They did not want to violate any rules of the game. The ...
    Deliver or quit, Karunanidhi tells party office-bearers
    CHENNAI, JUNE 6. In a bid to arrest the sagging image of the party and to be seen by its cadre as being `responsive,' the DMK leadership today unveiled two tough measures— an indication it was willing to address some internal problems ...
    Poll holiday ends for govt., at last
    CHENNAI, JUNE 6.Irrespective of victory or defeat in the byelections, the Government, particularly officials, has had its hands tied up with the `model code' remaining in force for an extended period. The period from the third week of April, ...
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  • CM's gesture to Jikki
  • A programme for fishermen headed for closure?
  • Naxalite arrested
  • Defence exam results
  • Centre objects to T.N.'s `palatial' court buildings
  • Weekly editor offers to publish apology
  • Swamy questions citizenship of Dinakaran
  • Gopal pleads for limiting interrogation
  • CB-CID to interrogate Nakkeeran scribe
  • South STD launched
  • Entrance examinations results


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Autorickshaw drivers go on strike
    CHENNAI, JUNE 6. The members of the Auto Workers Association affiliated to the CITU, AITUC, Dr. Ambedkar Auto Sangam and the Autorickshaw wing of the Tamil Maanila Congress today went on a strike condemning the ``unfair hike in prices of petrol ...
    Hike in diesel price adds fuel to MTC financial crisis
    CHENNAI, JUNE 6. The announcement of a hike in oil prices has put the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC), tottering on the brink of a financial crisis, in a greater fix. The Transport Minister, R. Viswanathan told The Hindu, that ...
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  • Rescued child labourers arrive in Chennai
  • Land acquisition for industrial park upheld
  • Two held for attempt to cast bogus votes
  • Wine shop owners-police cold war over `payments'
  • 'Vast scope for expansion of call taxi service'


    Pondicherry
    Reconsider decision on CST, BJP urges Centre
    PONDICHERRY, JUNE 6. A BJP delegation from here will call on the Union Home and Finance Ministers soon and impress upon them the need to scrap the Central Sales Tax, introduced through amendments to the Finance Act, which has affected the revenue ...
    A.P. ryots evince interest, seek details
    PONDICHERRY, JUNE 6. The Andhra Pradesh Federation of Farmers' Associations have sought details of the `uzhavar udhaviyagam', evolved and implemented by the Pondicherry Agriculture Department. The Agriculture Minister, A Namassivayam, told a ...
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  • Videographing of voters from tomorrow
  • 'Compensation for Swadeshi Mill VRS optees under old scheme'
  • Homage paid to ex-Pondy CM
  • Rangasamy to open French festival

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