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Andhra Pradesh
Six railway employees suspended
HYDERABAD, JAN. 4. The Railways has slapped suspension orders on six employees in the Secunderabad-Manmad Express accident at Ghatnandur railway station in Maharashtra, which claimed 18 lives, while calling the tragedy a `human error.' Those ...
Another accident averted
ANANTAPUR, JAN. 4. A major accident was averted last night on the newly laid Gooty-Pendekal section of South Central Railway, on which Kacheguda-Bangalore Express had derailed a fortnight ago, by timely information about removal of fish plates by ...
Other Stories

  • Students refuse to take meal in schools
  • Rally for Godavari waters on Jan. 10
  • Naidu furious over incorrect data
  • Priority to woes of disabled during Janmabhoomi
  • CPI(M), TD activists clash at gram sabha
  • `CM succumbs to Pulichintala lobby pressure'
  • Ryots told to avoid water-intensive crops
  • Arrangements in place for Pulse Polio


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Bouquets for some brickbats for others
    HYDERABAD, JAN. 4. There were bouquets for the MIM and BJP and brickbats for the Congress on Saturday, the third day of the Janmabhoomi programme, in the city. Though it is supposed to be an apolitical meeting, the Janmabhoomi forum was used by ...
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  • Stage set for Partnership Summit
  • Cable operators set to hike fee
  • BJP sees ISI hand in Bangalore Express mishap


    Karnataka
    Mysore episode: judges grilled
    BANGALORE, JAN. 4. The three-member Committee of Judges constituted by the Supreme Court to inquire into the alleged Mysore episode, questioned the five judges of the Karnataka High Court, who are said to have been involved in the case, for over ...
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  • Kusumakar Desai is dead
  • Rs. 71 cr. spent on rural road development: Salian
  • BSNL opens consumer service centre
  • Delay in recovery of dues affected NBFCs: Ramesh Pai
  • Move to increase cable TV tariff criticised
  • 300 more veterinarians to be recruited soon
  • More teaching hours for PU students
  • Standing crops to get water for 18 days


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Have a dream, a vision, Kalam tells schoolchildren
    BANGALORE, JAN. 4. "After developing India, I want to go to some other planet.'' This was the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's reply to a query by a student on his next vision after having put the country in the forefront through his space and ...
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  • Deadline extended
  • BJP to plan stir at executive meet from Jan. 21
  • 6.65 p.c. hike in bus fares
  • Concern over toxic elements in herbal medicines
  • Four top IAS officers transferred
  • `One lakh MW more needed to overcome power crisis'
  • Govt. to consider suggestions of women's panel
  • A scientist's tribute to two visionaries
  • CM stresses need to harness solar energy


    Kerala
    Opposition parties' poser to Antony
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 4.The leader of the Opposition, V. S. Achuthanandan, has expressed serious reservations about some of the projects included in the Global Investors' Meet (GIM) being organised by the State Government in Kochi on January ...
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  • Rs. 419 cr.-Nabard plan for Pathanamthitta
  • Accident: demand for bus driver's arrest
  • Timber merchants demand unification of Sales Tax
  • LPG shortage likely to continue
  • INS Malvan decommissioned


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Season of domestic tourists
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 4. With foreign tourists keeping away from the famed beaches of Kovalam even during the Christmas and New Year festivities, the trade has been focussing on domestic tourists, especially those from the North and West of ...
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  • Elaborate arrangements for Pulse Polio
  • Encroachment: traders issued ultimatum
  • Talent exam
  • Encroachment: traders issued ultimatum


    Tamil Nadu
    Conversion law causes caste polarisation
    TIRUNELVELI, JAN. 4. Besides creating a wedge among religions, the recently-enacted anti-conversion law has provided succour to another divisive trend — caste polarisation which virtually ruined the peace and prosperity in the southern part ...
    Breakthrough in Coimbatore explosive planting case
    COIMBATORE, JAN. 4.A special team of the Coimbatore city police has made a breakthrough in the December 30 case of planting of an explosive in front of the Press Club here with the arrest of Shabir (24), a "close confidant" of the Kerala-based ...
    Envious caste Hindus take it out on emancipated Dalit
    SIVAGANGA, JAN. 4. A 65-year-old Dalit, who owns seven acres of land at Anthakudi in Sivaganga district, was beaten up by a group of caste Hindus with chappals at an `oor panchayat' (village committee) meeting held recently to decide on sharing ...
    No go except approaching Karnataka, say farmers
    CHENNAI, JAN. 4. It is high time the State Government approached the Prime Minister and the Karnataka Chief Minister for immediate release of Cauvery water to save the standing samba crop, feel farmers' representatives in delta districts. As ...
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  • Centre sanctions 3 more youth hostels
  • Suicide not due to crop loss: Collector
  • Dry spell keeps away Vedanthangal visitors
  • National cost convention inaugurated
  • Ideological battle: Ganesan
  • 40,000 booths for Pulse Polio campaign today
  • State should not abrogate its role in governance
  • 'Cradle baby scheme has saved 653 children'
  • 9 military hospitals get telemedicine facilities
  • Japanese scholarship
  • Two held for kidnapping college girl


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Emergency medicare unit at Chennai Central soon
    CHENNAI, JAN. 4. Close to one lakh persons pass through the terminals of the Chennai Central Station everyday. It is inconceivable that all of them are in the best of health at all times. Which is why Southern Railway decision to start an ...
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  • We are not getting water as promised: Alandur civic body chief
  • Missing child found in Tiruchi orphanage


    Pondicherry
    CPI call to make ryots' bandh a success
    PONDICHERRY, JAN. 4.The CPI State committee called upon all sections of people in the Karaikal region to ensure that the bandh called by the delta farmers in Tamil Nadu to highlight their woes due to non-availability of Cauvery water on January 9 ...
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  • Doctors to be appointed on contract basis
  • 'Sack Minister for leaking Cabinet decision'
  • 'Norms ignored in setting up planning board'
  • Show solidarity with law students, shops told

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