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Andhra Pradesh
Drought dampens festive spirit in Cuddapah
CUDDAPAH, NOV. 3. The severe drought in Andhra Pradesh's Cuddapah district this year has dampened the Deepavali festive spirit, with the sales of crackers, new clothes and gold ornaments plummeting by at least 35 to 40 per cent over the previous ...
Naxals kill Govt. school attender
KARIMNAGAR, NOV.3. Naxalites belonging to the outlawed People's War struck terror in the interior Rudraram village of Tadicherla mandal in the early hours of Sunday killing a Government school attender and injuring a village secretary, branding ...
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  • Alumni's gesture to A.P. Residential Schools
  • Collector visits village
  • Towards educating coalminers
  • NSUI sees bid to scrap EAMCET
  • Clear skies spur brisk business
  • `Police harassing human rights activist'


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Sharp drop in State's farm output: Yechuri
    HYDERABAD, NOV. 3. There has been a steep negative growth in agricultural production in Andhra Pradesh this year to the extent of 17.06 per cent, said Sitaram Yechuri, Politburo member of the CPI (M), at a press conference here on Sunday. This ...
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  • Emirates aims high, goes for fleet expansion
  • Crisil rating vindicates power reforms: TRANSCO chief
  • Govt. should withdraw opposition to raising Alamatti dam height: TRS
  • All-party meet on black jaggery issue urged


    Karnataka
    Veerappan wants Minister as emissary
    BANGALORE, NOV. 3. The forest brigand, Veerappan, who has been keeping the Janata Dal (U) leader and former Minister, H. Nagappa, hostage for the last 70 days, has sent another cassette demanding that the Minister of State for Agro Processing, ...
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  • Anti-plastic campaign losing momentum
  • 11 villages to benefit from water project
  • Aussies keen on collaboration in tourism sector
  • Made Gowda, others released on bail
  • Nage Gowda ends fast, is out on bail
  • Man held, gold ornaments recovered


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Ambitious plan to improve highways
    BANGALORE, NOV. 3. The Public Works Department has drawn up an ambitious action plan for conducting Road Condition Survey on a stretch of 28,000 km. of State highways in the State. The plan is to be implemented before October 2003. The ...
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  • Lynching: Seer seeks judicial probe
  • `No difficulty in complying with SC order'
  • Gowda meets Vajpayee, seeks CRA meeting
  • Channelising charity to the right people


    Kerala
    Govt. protecting kidney racketeers: VS
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, NOV. 3.The Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, V. S. Achuthanandan, today accused the Antony Government of protecting those involved in the kidney racket in the State. ``Months have elapsed since this racket was ...
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  • Lack of facilities at Chengannur bus station
  • `Don't let commercialisation kill Ayurveda's soul'
  • Malabar Coastal Highway to be completed by 2005
  • Call for mass resistance against globalisation
  • Kothamangalam bags over-all championship
  • `Spot trading' in copra begins today
  • Coliform count high in rivers
  • Dispute over `preferential prescription'
  • IMA probe inconclusive: panel


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Stormy UDF meet on the cards
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, NOV. 3.The UDF is meeting at Kovalam on Monday amid mounting pressure for the ouster of the Kerala Congress(B) leader, R. Balakrishna Pillai. Ironically, the UDF conclave has been convened as part of the coalition leaders' ...
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  • Tribal resettlement: Ministers at loggerheads
  • KVIC seeks tax sops for Khadi sector


    Tamil Nadu
    Rules framed for regulating mental asylums
    CHENNAI, NOV. 3. Over a year after tragedy struck Erwadi charring to death 28 mentally ill persons, the State Government has framed rules now to ensure "minimum standards of care" for patients at the psychiatric rehabilitation centres in the ...
    Gangster shot dead after a chase
    CHENNAI, NOV. 3. A fleeing gangster was shot dead on the busy North Usman Road stretch in T.Nagar here today. Earlier in the day, the accused, Stalin of Clive Battery, allegedly led a gang of burglars in a robbery in the house of a former ...
    4 lakh employees yet to get pay
    CHENNAI, NOV. 3.For at least four lakh government employees in Tamil Nadu, who were on strike for eight days, it would be a Deepavali without salary. The strike demanding higher pay and other benefits cost them dearly. Even after calling off ...
    Traffic umbrella damaged in Chennai explosion
    CHENNAI, NOV. 3. A solar-powered traffic police umbrella at the E.V.R. Periyar High Road-E.V.K. Sampath Salai junction here was severely damaged, after explosive substances were thrown into it in the wee hours today. According to the police, ...
    `Maritime education key to shipping industry's growth'
    CHENNAI, NOV. 3. Sea trade is going to increase manifold in the WTO regime and institutions engaged in imparting maritime education have a greater role to play in the development of the shipping industry, the Union Minister of State for Shipping, ...
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  • ASI move to take over Tiruvannamalai temple opposed
  • Five-member gang robs ex-Chennai councillor
  • When usurers take over samathuvapuram
  • `Match unit employed child labour'
  • Mettur inflow drops further
  • Female infants left in Andipatti all-women station `custody'
  • Letter threatens to blast rail station
  • Lifeline of Nanguneri taluk under threat


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    No solution in sight to end Chromepet GH inundation
    CHENNAI, NOV. 3. There might be some respite from the heavy rain that lashed the city in the past few days and stagnated water in low-level areas began to subside, but the premises of the Chromepet General Hospital continued to remain inundated ...
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  • Erratic garbage clearance at GH
  • Two held for Arumbakkam murder
  • Cash reward for honest auto driver
  • Partly cloudy on Deepavali day
  • Steps to prevent water-borne diseases


    Pondicherry
    Lt. Governor, CM greet people
    PONDICHERRY, NOV. 3. The Lt. Governor, K.R. Malkani, and the Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, have extended Deepavali greetings to the people of Pondicherry. In his message, Mr. Malkani wished the people more joy, more happiness and more ...
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  • Get Pondy share of water from TN, says JD(U) leader
  • `AIADMK charge against Khadi board baseless'

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