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Andhra Pradesh
Five killed as factory reactor explodes
AROOR (MEDAK), DEC. 19. Five workers died on the spot and another two were injured when a reactor exploded in a bulk drugs manufacturing company— Everest Organics— here in the early hours of Thursday. Though the reasons for the ...
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  • Computer graduate in fake note racket
  • Political parties want PPAs scrapped
  • 'Chemical engineering at crossroads'
  • CM seeks cooperation of people in tackling drought
  • Priority for curbing graft in bureaucracy: ex-CVC
  • Black Thursday for villagers


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    MCH to ring in the new year with parking passes
    Hyderabad, Dec. 19. The Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad is all set to put the new system of authorised parking in place. Come January 1, 2003, Hyderabadis can look forward to a whole new system, which does away with parking tickets and ushers ...
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  • Ayyappa devotees killed in detonator blast
  • PM to arrive on Dec. 22
  • CM partakes of `Bada Khana'


    Karnataka
    Krishna woos Japanese investors
    BANGALORE, DEC. 19.The Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, has invited Japanese direct investment in Karnataka and the country pointing that India is one of the few countries registering economic growth despite worldwide recession. He was ...
    Japanese firms find graft a problem in India
    BANGALORE, DEC. 19. A majority of Japanese companies which participated in the 31st joint meeting of the Indo-Japan Business Cooperation Committees (IJBCC) here today have rated "corruption among politicians and bureaucrats" as the major problem ...
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  • Rural growth credit put at Rs. 9,729 cr.
  • State STF may have killed Nagappa: BJP
  • 'No decision on amount of water for AP'
  • Pvt. firm allowed to sell power
  • Justify extra charges for Bangalore, Bescom told
  • No STF personnel missing: Kharge


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    A feast to the eyes
    BANGALORE, DEC. 19. Step into a slice of India's history. The exhibition on wheels arranged at the Cantonment Railway Station on Thursday and Friday has more than just the 150 years of Indian Railways. You are taken right back to 1853 when the ...
    Gopalakrishna hopes reforms in BMTC will continue
    BANGALORE, DEC. 19. The future of various commuter-friendly reforms initiated by the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), particularly those related to the proposed Metro Bus Project, hangs in balance with the sudden and premature ...
    Other Stories

  • New block for Hindu Balika Patasala
  • Dictionary on environment released
  • Disconnection drive from today
  • 118 NCC cadets from State to participate in RD parade
  • 45-day deadline to make City pothole free


    Kerala
    PM to inaugurate Vallarpadam project
    NEW DELHI, DEC. 19.The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, is said to have assured the Kerala Chief Minister, A. K. Antony, that the decks for the Vallarpadam International Container Terminal Project— which has been delayed by over four ...
    CPI siege hits work at taluk offices
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DEC. 19. With hundreds of CPI activists, including scores of women, laying siege to taluk offices across the State from early this morning, none of the taluk offices could function for the entire day today. Police resorted ...
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  • New department for consumer affairs
  • Nabard sanctions Rs. 18.05 cr.
  • Antony plea on power projects
  • Credit potential pegged at Rs. 11,603 cr.
  • End to Church row in 3 months: Govt.
  • New services of Postal dept.
  • Knanaya diocese parting ways with Syro-Malabar Church?
  • State opposes BPL survey norms
  • Shipping circles welcome move on Vallarpadam
  • Loan interest will reflect on tariff: Kadavoor


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    New casualty block getting ready
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DEC. 19. The casualty services at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College are being relocated to a centrally-located new block as part of a long-planned scheme to improve emergency patient care. Finishing touches are being ...
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  • Wanted criminal held
  • Curbs on use of loudspeakers during Pongala
  • Music therapy for the mentally challenged


    Tamil Nadu
    HC stays Chennai Mayor poll process
    CHENNAI, DEC. 19. The Madras High Court today directed the State Election Commission not to proceed any further with the conduct of the Chennai Mayoral election for two months. However, rectification of electoral rolls could go on in the interim ...
    Election not possible before April
    CHENNAI, DEC. 19. With the Madras High Court granting a two-month stay of the electoral process, it now appears the Chennai Mayoral election cannot be held before April 2003. Depending on how the case proceeds at the next hearing on February 20 ...
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  • Scepticism over community policing
  • Forum flays SBI for cheating illiterate customer
  • Programme to assess e-trade in India
  • Setback as blast case accused seek counsel change
  • New AICTE norm for approving biotechnology course
  • Ready to face charge, says DMK chief
  • TN law a weapon against conversions: Uma Bharti
  • Jayalalithaa, another Modi: Elangovan
  • No clear signals from Karunanidhi-Vaiko bonhomie
  • Now low-cost salwars, from Pongal


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Chennai Telephones to popularise Centrex
    CHENNAI, DEC. 19. Seeking to survive amid dropping demand for fixed lines and with increasing competition from private operators, Chennai Telephones is laying greater emphasis on strengthening of its network to popularise value-added ...
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  • Approach authorised agents, job seekers told
  • 3 newborn infants found abandoned in KMC


    Pondicherry
    When the 'dead' comes alive
    PONDICHERRY, DEC. 19. For a forty-year old Ravichandran, it is a harrowing experience as residents of Poovam village in Karaikal run away from him and refuse to accept him as alive. They say he is only the spirit of the `dead ...
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  • Take over Kalapet medical college: CPI(M)
  • 12-hour work schedule for PHCs

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