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Andhra Pradesh
A.P. announces B.Ed admission policy
HYDERABAD, JAN. 1. Complying with the Supreme Court judgment relating to aided/unaided and minority institutions, the Andhra Pradesh Government here today came out with a policy covering B.Ed admissions and grant of permission for new B.Ed ...
Majority of encounters fake, alleges APCLC
CUDDAPAH, JAN. 1. The police personnel killed 106 persons in 55 `encounters' and caused 30 custodial deaths in the State as part of the Government's policy making a mockery of lawful rule, alleged the A.P. Civil Liberties Committee leaders on ...
Thin crowds at Tirumala on New Year Day
TIRUPATI, JAN. 1. Contrary to expectations, there was a remarkably scanty crowd at Tirumala, the abode of Lord Venkateswara, for the New Year's day. The day normally used to witness a congregation of about one lakh in the past turning the entire ...


Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
Asia Social Forum begins today
HYDERABAD, JAN. 1. The Asia Social Forum, the six-day open rendezvous for people's movements to come together to challenge imperialist globalisation, communalism and war and come up with a diverse, genuinely democratic and socially just ...
Parking space owners put on notice
HYDERABAD, JAN. 1. The Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) will soon serve notices on people in all private and commercial complexes, asking them to stop collecting parking fee on the ground that they are ``bound to provide parking as per ...
Engine derails, train passengers escape
HYDERABAD, JAN. 1. Passengers on Hyderabad-Purna passenger train had a providential escape when a pair of wheels of the engine came off on Wednesday. None was injured in the accident. According to South Central Railway officials, the accident ...
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  • Transport Dept. to form enforcement cells


    Karnataka
    Krishna hints at Ministry reshuffle
    BANGALORE, JAN. 1. The Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, today said that he might go in for a reshuffle of the Ministry after the new president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) is appointed. Mr. Krishna told presspersons ...
    Mahadayi: State's plans put on hold for now
    HUBLI, JAN. 1. Interlinking of rivers is the latest buzzword, which has caught the imagination of practically every one starting from the Prime Minister down to the last citizen. How far the concept is practicable or feasible apart from the ...
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  • Proposal to shift city, suburban bus stands to J.K.Grounds
  • Meet to discuss operations against brigand


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    `Numbers of large mammals dwindling'
    BANGALORE, JAN. 1. Nagarhole National Park, like most protected areas, is a happy hunting ground for local communities, and six of the nine focal species of large mammals are dwindling in numbers at the heavily hunted site. Poor enforcement ...


    Kerala
    Panel for Keralites returning from UAE
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 1.The Kerala Government would be taking steps to help Keralites forced to return from the United Arab Emirates, the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, announced here on Wednesday. The Chief Minister said that about 40,000 ...
    River course under threat as `sand lords' reign
    PATHANAMTHITTA, JAN. 1.River Pampa is facing a change in its course at Parumala, near Thiruvalla in Pathanamthitta district, due to the official laxity in checking unlawful sand quarrying at Parumala in Kadapra grama panchayat over the past six ...
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  • Two held for attack on bus depot
  • Naxal death: summons issued to ex-officers
  • Major breakthrough likely in Global Investors' Meet


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Footpath vendors evicted
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 1. The City Corporation today evicted dozens of footpath vendors from the Kowdiar-Vellayambalam stretch of the main road even as the first phase of the Litter Free City programme got under way. Corporation sources said ...
    Murali Nair to open unit at film park
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 1.Giving a major fillip to serious cinema, the noted director, Murali Nair, is setting up an editing studio at the Kinfra Film and Video Park at Kazhakuttom. Mr. Nair shot to fame directing, `Marana Simhasanam.' He is ...
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  • Crack detected in rail track
  • Meet on developmental disabilities
  • New chief for Southern Air Command


    Tamil Nadu
    PT moots common anti-AIADMK front
    CHENNAI, JAN. 1. Calling for a united front against the `fascist AIADMK Government', the Puthiya Tamizhagam today initiated efforts at bringing under an umbrella all secular parties, including all constituents of the National Democratic Alliance ...
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  • BJP poll neutrality was to help AIADMK, says Karunanidhi
  • 'No polio virus in goats in Tamil Nadu'


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Fun, chaos on the Marina
    CHENNAI, JAN. 1. Two-wheelers collided, mobile phones were jammed and policemen strained every nerve to keep the trouble-mongers under check. New Year celebrations in the city had its usual share of fun, nuisance and sorrow. The New Year ...
    `Pay OP evening wards' under study
    CHENNAI, JAN. 1. On the heels of its decision to introduce a `pay' ward in the Hospital for Women and Children, Egmore, and replicate the experiment in other government hospitals for speciality procedures, the Government is considering opening ...
    Online quiz By AD Club-Business Line
    CHENNAI, JAN. 1. The Ad Club-Business Line Quiz this year will be conducted online across six cities and 75 cybercafes on January 5. Partnering with Sify, the organisers will hold the preliminary round in the Internet giant's cybercafes, Iway, ...
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  • Gangsters put on ideologue cloak


    Pondicherry
    `Auroville, an achievement and promise'
    PONDICHERY, JAN.1. The Union Human Resource Development Minister, Murli Manohar Joshi, said he was happy the Centre had recognised the institute of educational research in Auroville as an institution of higher learning of all-India ...
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  • Pondy art festival from January 12

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