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Andhra Pradesh
Govt. declines CBI probe into temple blast
HYDERABAD, FEB. 25. The Andhra Pradesh Home Minister, T. Devender Goud, on Tuesday turned down the demand for a CBI probe and a judicial inquiry, made by the Congress and the MIM respectively, into the bomb blast near Saibaba temple at ...
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  • TCLF opposes Pulichintala
  • 2.5-cr. grant for ANGRAU for biotechnology courses
  • VAT may cast heavy burden on State
  • Bank attender stabbed; relieved of Rs. 7 lakhs
  • Sugar unit privatisation process vitiated: court
  • Electrification in full swing in Nellore dt.
  • RTC Cuddapah region notches up distinction
  • Save water campaign launched
  • RTC specials for Sivaratri


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Drought continues to dominate proceedings
    HYDERABAD, FEB. 25.The Opposition criticism of the Government over what it calls "inadequate drought relief measures" continued to dominate the proceedings in the Legislative Assembly even as CPI (M) members supported actively by the Congress ...
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  • `Drought Janmabhoomi' from today
  • Cong. `conclave for unity' soon
  • Videography to check tax evasion by transport vehicles soon
  • Goud defends police lathicharge
  • Govt. pilots bill on building regularisation
  • Noisy scenes over DJS activities


    Karnataka
    Krishna's tough message to bureaucrats
    BANGALORE, FEB. 25.The Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, today warned senior bureaucrats of serious action if they failed to show a sense of involvement in their work. "Transfers alone will not be enough. We need to do something (else)," ...
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  • Expedite Bajpe Airport work, Sorake urges Centre
  • Shankar favours merger of depts.
  • `Proposal on bridge will be considered on priority'
  • `Take up rainwater harvesting to prevent shortage'
  • `Career planning should start early'
  • Concern over Govt. negligence in using bamboo


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Budget session of Legislature begins tomorrow
    BANGALORE, FEB. 25. The Governor, Triloki Nath Chaturvedi, will address the joint session of the Legislature at the Vidhana Soudha at 11 a.m. on Thursday. The Budget session, which will be the sixth session of the 11th Assembly, will sit for 22 ...
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  • Rs. 100 cr. for KSRTC infrastructure
  • 22,000 houses to be built for slum dwellers
  • `Yeshasvini' launch cancelled
  • Frail bodies forced to do hard labour for little pay
  • Govt's. aid policy irks cultural institutions
  • GIS to be used to improve schools


    Kerala
    Opposition MLA goes on fast in House
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 25.The former SC,ST Development Minister, K. Radhakrishnan, began an indefinite fast before the Kerala Assembly hall today as the Opposition LDF upped the ante on its demand for a judicial inquiry into the police action ...
    Eviction of tribals by force in Kerala to be taken up with NHRC
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 25. The issue of tribal land alienation in Kerala and the recent Government action in Muthanga wildlife sanctuary to forcibly remove tribals, resulting in large scale violence, would be brought to the attention of the ...
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  • `Literature under grave attack'
  • `Orthodox church faction being denied prayer facilities'
  • Nayar for drive to oust BJP-led Govt.
  • Stop torturing tribals: Arundhati
  • LDF to stick to its plea for judicial probe:VS
  • Attappady tribals left in the lurch


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Mohankumar panel submits report
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 25.The Justice V. P. Mohankumar Commission, constituted to inquire into the Kalluvathukkal liquor tragedy, submitted its final report to the Chief Minister, A. K. Antony, on Tuesday. The Commission is understood to have ...
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  • Coop. banks to slash interest on farm loans
  • Church council questions Govt. stand
  • Congressmen start lobbying for RS seats


    Tamil Nadu
    All outsiders have left: Collector
    CHENNAI, FEB. 25. The Tuticorin Collector and the Superintendent of Police today confirmed to the Chief Electoral Officer of Tamil Nadu that all outsiders, "particularly political elements and their supporters", had vacated the Sattankulam ...
    Jewels evaluation exaggerated: Sasikalaa
    CHENNAI, FEB. 25. Questioning of the accused in the "Rs. 66.65-crore disproportionate wealth case" against Jayalalithaa, under Section 313 Cr.P.C., began in a special court here today with N. Sasikalaa, cited as the second accused, submitting ...
    `Begin food-for-work at the earliest'
    CHENNAI, FEB. 25. The State Government has directed District Collectors to take up the food-for-work programme at the earliest to provide employment to farm workers, who have been rendered jobless following widespread crop failure. A ...
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  • TNPCB guideline on consent fee collection resented
  • Matriculation schools should pay govt. scales
  • Where Dalit women bank on themselves
  • Rail users count on Moorthy to keep projects going
  • Undertrials object to nicknames
  • Govt. directed to release Bhavani water
  • Azhagiri takes over the reins again


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Businessman robbed of Rs. 10 lakhs at T.Nagar
    CHENNAI, FEB. 25. In a shocking heist in the heart of T.Nagar, a businessman was robbed of Rs. 10 lakhs cash at knifepoint by a four-member gang on Monday night. Kamrudeen of Tiruchi had come to the city for a real estate transaction, when he ...
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  • Treading dangerously on the track
  • Pattabiram bus terminus a non-starter
  • Make Tirukkural national book: Semmalai


    Pondicherry
    Summer is already felt
    PONDICHERRY, FEB. 25. The sale of watermelon and tender coconuts is picking up and the ice cream parlours are doing roaring business as signs of summer being felt already in the Union Territory of Pondicherry. With examinations are round the ...
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  • Pondy flower show from Feb. 28
  • `Revoke POTA'

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