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Andhra Pradesh
Cong. leaders' discord to the fore
KURNOOL, SEPT. 16. The Andhra Pradesh Congress Legislature Party leader, Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, and the APCC president, M. Satyanarayana Rao, seriously differed over reunion of the suspended Congress leader, D. Vishnuvardhan Reddy, with the ...
Five of family commit suicide
NALGONDA, SEPT. 16. In a suicide pact, five members of a businessman's family, including his wife and three daughters, died by consuming pesticide on Monday in Suryapet town of Nalgonda district. A suicide note signed by the five stated that ...
Dalits protest discriminatory treatment in village
TIRUPATI, SEPT. 16. The week-long anti-caste discrimination campaign in Gottipudi village, 30 km from the temple town of Srikalahasti, today culminated in the Dalits raising a banner of revolt against their upper caste oppressors who were having ...
Other Stories

  • Mystery disease leaves 13 dead
  • The ignoble exit of Hyderabad's nobility
  • ONGC, APTDC websites defaced
  • MP promises to stall VSP privatisation
  • Rousing start to Cong. campaign against Govt.
  • Landmines recovered
  • Contempt proceedings against PCC chief, Telugu daily


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    The ignoble exit of Hyderabad's nobility
    GULBARGA, SEPT. 16. It was on this day in 1948 that the last vestige of the Mughal Empire ended in disgrace, with the seventh ruler of the Asaf Jahi Dynasty, Mir Osman Ali Khan, who dreamt of establishing a dominion and the second Muslim state, ...
    Health Dept. admits it's unequal to the task
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 16. In the face of outbreak of viral fever and gastro-enteritis in several districts, a normal phenomena during the monsoon, the Department of Health finds itself in `a sad state of affairs' according to its Director, I. ...
    NICD team arrives
    HYDERABAD, SEPT. 16.The existence of at least eight cases of dengue fever, five in Warangal and three in Hyderabad, has been admitted by the Government even as an official team from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) arrived ...


    Karnataka
    State seeks Rs. 250-cr. Central aid
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 16. Karnataka today sought Central assistance to the tune of Rs.250 crores to conserve and develop the lakes in and around Bangalore from the Union Minister for Environment and Forests, T.R.Baalu. The Minister held a meeting ...
    STF operation suspended
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 16. The Government is contemplating changing the strategy to obtain the safe release of the former Minister, H.Nagappa, kidnapped by the forest brigand, Veerappan, three weeks ago. The Minister for Home, Mallikarjun Kharge, who ...
    Row over Cauvery waters could have been avoided
    MYSORE, SEPT. 16. The trouble over the Cauvery waters between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu could have been averted had the State governments given proper advice to farmers before the onset of summer. Even as the Meteorological Department warned about ...
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  • Normality at Harpanahalli
  • The ignoble exit of Hyderabad's nobility
  • Life hit in Mandya as farmers intensify stir
  • `Krishna failed to attend PM's call'
  • Protestors throw stones at shops, vehicles
  • Several areas inundated as rain lashes Mysore
  • Nagappa followers enter into Kundal forest?


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Inadequate drainage causes floods
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 16. While Sunday afternoon's downpour caught most Bangaloreans by surprise, for residents of several parts of the City it meant trouble. Despite the undulating terrain, which should drain rainwater easily, man-made changes in the ...
    Use of CFCs to stop by 2010 to protect ozone layer
    BANGALORE, SEPT. 16.India's efforts to give itself an environment free from ozone-depleting substances (ODS) are part of steps to reach the targets under the Montreal Protocol, the Union Minister for Environment, T.R. Baalu, has said. He was ...
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  • 7 newly wed couples get minister's gift
  • Farmers will not face water shortage: Patil
  • Traffic management successful in City
  • Train services disrupted
  • All VTU colleges to get .NET tools


    Kerala
    CPI(M) expels State panel member
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 16. The Kerala CPI(M) has expelled the State committee member and former Thiruvananthapuram district secretary, M. Sathyanesan, for having taken grease money from Manichan, the main accused in the Kalluvathukkal liquor ...
    Other Stories

  • Third front: NSS spurns BJP overtures
  • `SNDP not interested'
  • Sandal Ordinance `sabotaged' once again
  • How to fight leptospirosis
  • Sabarimala temple opens


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Leptospirosis toll rises to nine
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 16. The Leptospirosis toll in the district so far this year has risen to nine with the recent death of a youth at the Medical College here being confirmed as due to the rodent-transmitted disease. According to health ...
    Queries from investors pouring in: Kunhalikutty
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 16.A definite indication of changing perceptions about Kerala's industrial climate is presented by the rush of enquiries the State is receiving from entrepreneurs interested in investing here, according to the Industries ...
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  • PDP activists lathicharged
  • Corpn. Mayors' salary revised
  • Free TB treatment at all private hospitals
  • Minor fire at zoo
  • Missing girl: protest against police `inaction'


    Tamil Nadu
    State forced to fight despite SC verdict: CM
    ANDIPATTI, SEPT.16. Dwelling at length on the Cauvery issue, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today expressed her anguish at Tamil Nadu being forced to fight for its share of the river water despite a clear-cut Supreme Court judgment. ``We are ...
    Jayalalithaa lays stone for 300-bed hospital
    THENI, SEPT. 16.The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today inaugurated the 109th all-women police station at Andipatti today. After laying the foundation stone for a 300-bed government hospital for medical college at a function at Melmangalam in ...
    Focus again on Madurai reserved panchayats
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 16. The State Election Commission today announced that polls to the Keeripatti, Pappapati and Nattamangalam reserved panchayats in Madurai district, and the Kottakatchiyendal panchayat in Virudhunagar district (four village ...
    Nagappa followers enter into Kundal forest?
    ERODE, SEPT. 16. Though it has been 22 days since H. Nagappa, former Karnataka Minister, was abducted, there is no information about his health or about the kidnapper, Veerappan's hideout. Frustrated at the delay in rescuing him, it is stated ...
    Other Stories

  • Colleges reopen, students continue stir
  • Baalu hits out at Jayalalithaa
  • Court summons Gopal
  • Coupons won't cut down rice offtake significantly
  • Little or no flow, be it water or information
  • Police probing TLM activists' role in serial murders
  • Elangovan blames CM for mess
  • Tamaraikani acquitted


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Sand bypassing system a solution to pollution
    CHENNAI, SEPT. 16. Even as Chennai administrators struggle to grapple with pollution of the Cooum and Adyar rivers, the Pondicherry experiment offers them the possibility of finding a sustainable solution to the vexatious problem. In the Union ...
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  • `TN has world class healthcare facilities'
  • Police warning
  • Firemen seek better deal
  • Good response to rly. move, says official


    Pondicherry
    Govt., Cong. not shielding anyone, says Narayanasamy
    PONDICHERRY, SEPT. 16. The president of the Pondicherry PCC, V. Narayanasamy, said the AIADMK had presented a memorandum to the Lt. Governor, K.R. Malkani, containing untrue allegations against the government over the vexed breakfast scheme kept ...
    Other Stories

  • No sign yet of breakfast scheme revival
  • TN, Karnataka let down Karaikal: PCC
  • `Amudhasurabi' outlets

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