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Andhra Pradesh
Miners' stir: political leaders held
HYDERABAD, FEB. 3. A silver lining in the strike at the Singareni Collieries, which entered the thirteenth day on Monday, was the willingness of the management and the trade unions to sit and thrash out all demands of lesser importance before ...
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  • CACP favours uniform MSP to farmers


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Move to upgrade hospital infrastructure for cancer cure
    HYDERABAD, FEB. 3. The Government is planning to upgrade hospital infrastructure for cancer cure through a one-time grant and is also working to introduce more super-speciality courses in its medical colleges, informed Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, ...
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  • Naxals' surrender: police strategy pays off
  • RTC details changes in fares
  • CM visits wounded coalminer


    Karnataka
    New engg. colleges to surrender 50 p.c. seats
    BANGALORE, FEB. 3.The new institutions among unaided private engineering colleges have decided to surrender 50 per cent of their seats to the Government to be allotted on merit basis through the Common Entrance Test (CET). The decision, which ...
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  • Two leaders in fray for AIJD chief's post
  • Sonia to inaugurate RTPS unit today
  • 25 parks, gardens to be restored in Mysore
  • Muslim lawmakers' conference on Feb. 6


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Science park to come up near Bangalore
    BANGALORE, FEB. 3. The Minister of State for Science and Technology, and Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy, Nafees Fazal, said today that the Government had acquired 100 acres of land to set up a science park at Taralu, near ...
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  • BEL to showcase its equipment


    Kerala
    CPI (M) takes a hard look at itself
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 3.Meeting against the backdrop of controversies over its omissions and commissions while in power and out of it, the CPI(M) State leadership began a three-day introspective session here today to see where it had gone ...
    Vallarpadam project can kickstart economy
    KOCHI, FEB. 3. Much hope is pinned on the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) project at Vallarpadam, off Kochi coast, which could rev up the sagging economy of the State and bring about a `sea change' in the development ...
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  • Medical seats: Govt. files additional affidavit
  • Restructure plan sets off fears in KILA
  • Efforts to preserve Arnos church take new turn
  • Drug overdose: HC directive to complete probe


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Project to preserve Fort area
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 3.The Archaeology Department is drawing up a plan to preserve the heritage zone in the Fort area and prevent encroachments around the perimeter, even as the first phase renovation of the walls and ramparts is expected to ...
    Attack on missionary was planned: CHRO
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 3. The Confederation of Human Rights Organisation (CHRO), which conducted a fact-finding mission into the attack on the U.S. missionary, Joseph Cooper, and fellow evangelists at Puliyam, near Kilimanoor, on January 13 ...
    Tension at Aruvippuram Madhom
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 3.A tense situation prevailed at the Aruvippuram Madhom of the Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham Trust (SNDST), near Neyyatinkara, on Monday following a dispute between three prominent factions of local people over the ...
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  • TTP heading for a crisis
  • Walkway: VS promises to intervene


    Tamil Nadu
    Samba loss will be around 70 per cent
    CHENNAI, FEB. 3.Even the State's conservative hope of saving 40 per cent of samba may not be realised, going by harvest details coming from delta districts. With reports of widespread crop withering, the total loss in delta districts will be ...
    Opposition parties coming together, thanks to AIADMK
    CHENNAI, FEB. 3.Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu are coming together. And the credit goes not to the principal Opposition group, the DMK, but to the ruling AIADMK. Even as the major opposition outfits are struggling to reconcile their ...
    Common vaccine against dreaded diseases under way?
    MADURAI, FEB. 3.A consortium of six international scientists has come a step closer to finding a common vaccine for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and sleeping sickness. A trial vaccine to prevent these diseases has been tested successfully on ...
    SIT has not changed its lethargic attitude: judge
    COIMBATORE, FEB. 3. The judge of the Special Court for Bomb Blast Cases, R. Sivakumar, today pulled up the Special Investigation Team of the CB-CID for its ``lethargy in serving the summons and in producing the witnesses for trial in the ...
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  • Govt. policy on engg. admission soon
  • Low fee structure in colleges not feasible, says NAAC official
  • Nedumaran ill, admitted to Cuddalore hospital
  • Neelamegavarnam files nomination in Sattankulam
  • Azhagiri leads the Madurai DMK unit, Stalin group takes backseat
  • 5 AIADMK men among 8 held for extorting money
  • Probe ordered into U.S. jet sortie
  • Cong. announces candidate for Sattankulam


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Hefty hike in water charges for bulk clients
    CHENNAI, FEB. 3.Metrowater has hiked water charges for commercial establishments, hospitals and educational institutions. Municipalities and other local bodies have also been administered the "dosage of increase in the charges". The hike ...
    Traps on the track
    CHENNAI, FEB. 3.For those who survive rail accidents, life is never the same again. Tragedy struck V. R. Thirupurasundari, a final year polytechnic student of the SRM College, on July 28, 2000. She suffered serious injuries after being hit by a ...
    Pallavaram councillors at the receiving end
    CHENNAI, FEB. 3. The Pallavaram Municipality took the problem by the horns, but is finding it difficult to come out with a solution. Councillors and members of residents' association, who canvassed for the residents to pay deposit amount for the ...
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  • Medha Patkar calls for political movement
  • `Pollution controlled in 95 p.c. of MTC buses'
  • Take precautions against crime, says Vijay Kumar
  • DMK questions drop in number of voters


    Pondicherry
    `India's contribution to maths creditable'
    PONDICHERRY, FEB. 3. The Lt. Governor, K. R. Malkani, said India was proud of its contributions to the field of mathematics. He was inaugurating a two-week international conference on Discrete Integrable systems sponsored by the International ...
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  • Tributes paid to Annadurai
  • CPI(M) padayatra begins today

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