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Andhra Pradesh
Naidu to take up power development charges issue with APERC
KARIMNAGAR, SEPT. 6. The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, today promised steps for waiver of development charges being collected by the AP Transco towards additional loads from low and high tension consumers. Addressing a ...
Eviction of tenants by TTD likely soon
TIRUMALA, SEPT. 6. The TTD appears to have set in motion the process of evicting all the `tenants' residing in the four mada streets around the temple of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala and rehabilitating them at Tirupati, down the hill as part of ...
Unhygienic conditions in civil hospital irk CM
KARIMNAGAR, SEPT. 6. The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, has expressed unhappiness at the poor hygienic conditions in the Government civil hospital and instructed authorities to take necessary measures to maintain cleanliness in the ...
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  • IMA seeks action against quacks
  • YSR trains guns on six more Ministers
  • Civic bodies told to repay loans
  • Cong. for prosecution of former Minister


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Court comes to her rescue
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 6. Hope is not lost for this 28-year-old, HIV positive woman. She lost her husband a few years ago and her six-year-old son five months ago, to the dreaded Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Yet, with failing health, ...
    Mayor pulls up staff for poor sanitation
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 6.Squalor all around was what the Mayor, T. Krishna Reddy, got to see in the Gowliguda area on an overcast Friday morning. Reeking garbage, overflowing nala and a litany of complaints kept the Mayor busy. He warned the MCH ...
    Govt. accused of neglecting urban housing
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 6. The BJP general secretary, K. Laxman, has criticised the State Government for neglecting housing in urban slums in spite of the generous subsidy offered by the Government of India. Talking to reporters here on Friday, he ...
    HC permits CBI to file chargesheet
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 6. A Division Bench of the A.P. High Court comprising two Judges declared that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) can go ahead and the file final report (usually called chargesheet) before the appropriate criminal court, ...
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  • CII to hold IT expo
  • 48 hurt as school bus overturns
  • Signboards to display MCH works


    Karnataka
    Cong. asks Govt. not to release water
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 6.The Congress, which is the ruling party in Karnataka, has criticised the Supreme Court order directing the State to release 1.25 tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu daily and urged the Government against complying with the ...
    Cassette no major relief, says Nagappa's family
    KOLLEGAL, C'Nagar Dt., Sept. 6. Even as the second cassette from the brigand, Veerappan, has reached the Government, the mode in which he has sent it has raised eyebrows here. According to the family of the abducted former Minister, H. ...
    Krishna waters: Ball back in State's court
    HUBLI, SEPT. 6. Is it a case of bungling or a carefully crafted strategy to buy time? This is the question that is being asked following the surprising development in the Supreme Court, where Karnataka has agreed to withdraw its application ...
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  • Wardens for BCM hostels appointed
  • Mysore IT.Com from Oct. 2
  • H.D. Kote has reservoir, no irrigation


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Emission test: Transport Dept. directive to petrol stations
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 6. The Transport Department has asked all petrol stations in Bangalore City to set up computerised emission testing centres on their premises to enable motorists to get their vehicles certified easily. The move comes close on ...
    `Young World' painting competition tomorrow
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 6. The finals of The Hindu Young World painting competition 2002 will be held between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sunday at Goodwill Girls' High School on Promenade Road in Fraser town. As many as 2,000 entries were ...
    Woman robbed in broad daylight
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 6. Four robbers tied the hands and legs of a woman, relieved her of cash and gold jewellery, worth over Rs. 1 lakh, at Manajunathangar in Basaveshwaranagar police limits on Friday morning. Police said that two men entered the ...


    Kerala
    Kerala signs MoUs with Chinese firm
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 6. The Kerala delegation currently touring China today signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with a Chinese company, the International Network Small Hydro Power (INSHP), for the manufacture of equipment for ...
    Investment Bond for NRIs sought
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 6. The Minister for Information and Non-Resident Keralites' Affairs, M.M. Hassan, said here on Friday that discussions were under way with the ICICI Prudential Fund and the State Bank of India about floating an ...
    Power tariff: Govt. yet to evolve alternatives
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 6.The Minister for Information and Parliamentary Affairs, M. M. Hassan, said here on Friday that the Government had not taken any decisions on imposing a power cut in the State. The Minister told presspersons that the ...
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  • UDF societies to boycott Matsyafed poll
  • BJP picks holes in Govt. police policy
  • Kerala youth tops in music contest
  • Taxes modified
  • Cabinet decision: no unanimity, says Gangadharan


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Spurt in two-wheeler mishaps
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 6. Even as the authorities claimed to have intensified the crackdown on erring motorists, there has been a spurt in road mishaps, especially those involving two-wheelers, in the busy stretches of the city in the recent ...
    New enclosure coming up in zoo
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 6. The Public Works Department (PWD) has commenced work on a new primate enclosure in the City Zoo, the third such enclosure being built as part of the ongoing Rs. 5-crore modernisation plan. The new enclosure, ...
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  • NCC, sports quotas


    Tamil Nadu
    Stalin loses Mayorship on quo warranto plea
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 6.The Chennai Mayor, M.K. Stalin, was today stripped of his post by the Madras High Court, not because of the `one-man, one-post law', but because of a quo warranto petition filed last year stating that under the Madras City ...
    Govt. may not agree to Nedumaran mediation
    CHENNAI, SEPT.6. The Tamil Nadu Government is not likely to consider the demand by the bandit, Veerappan, that the Tamilar Desiya Iyakkam leader, P. Nedumaran, be sent to the forests for negotiations, given the legal hurdles and the nature of the ...
    Water released from Mettur dam
    METTUR, SEPT. 6. As per the decision taken by the Tamil Nadu Government, water was released from the Mettur dam this evening for irrigation in the delta region. The Salem District Collector, J. Radhakrishnan, formally released the water in the ...
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  • Power position stable: Minister
  • Damage control under way at NLC
  • No room for political mileage, say students
  • Financial implications of colleges merger move


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Spotted deer, a problem of plenty on MCC campus
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 6. Spotted deer or Chital that are a graceful species to watch nibbling at leaves on IIT Campus, the Guindy Park and at the Madras Christian College scrub jungle have now become a problem of plenty. Conservationists are wondering ...
    GH waits for new building
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 6. The Government General Hospital's biggest problem now is that it has too many patients and too little space. When one of the old hospital buildings was demolished two years ago, this problem became acute as patient inflow kept ...
    Infected cattle still to be deported
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 6. Almost two months since the Agriculture Ministry ordered the deportation of 200 imported heifers in quarantine at its Pallikaranai station near here, the bovines are still at the station awaiting `further orders'. The Ministry ...
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  • Chathurthi rallies on last year's route
  • Mentally-ill woman found abandoned
  • Children hospitalised for food poisoning


    Pondicherry
    Breakfast scheme not implemented properly: PMK
    PONDICHERRY, SEPT. 6. The PMK`s Pondicherry Organising Secretary, N. G. Panneerselvam has alleged in a statement that the setback in the health caused to children who took the milk and bread under the breakfast scheme on Thursday in schools ...
    Unauthorised pigs to be shot down
    PONDICHERRY, SEPT. 6. A decision was taken at a meeting convened today by the Health Minister, E. Valsaraj that unauthorised pigs roaming in residential areas and causing nuisance would be shot down in keeping with the provisions of rules. The ...
    Pondy coop. milk board dissolved
    Pondicherry Sept. 6. The Board of Management of Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Producers Union, has been dissolved with immediate effect. The Registrar of Cooperative Societies, G. Ranganathan, said the dissolution of the board had been done in ...
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  • AIBEA team meets Malkani
  • Ban order in Pondy
  • Top priority for tourism: Lakshminarayanan
  • Protest against police lathicharge on students

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