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Andhra Pradesh
'Waiver of crop loan interest sought'
LAKKIREDDIPALLE, MARCH 7. The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, asserted on Friday that he had asked the Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee, to announce total waiver of interest on crop loans as farmers were in distress due to the ...
EAMCET forms available till March 15
HYDERABAD, MARCH 7. EAMCET-2003 application forms will be available for sale in all the Head Post Offices of the State and also in eSeva counters of twin cities up to March 15. Candidates can send their filled-in applications to the convenor ...
Delimitation fear grips top politicos
HYDERABAD, MARCH 7. Several top politicians belonging to all parties will have to begin searching for new constituencies from where to contest in the 2004 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections once the Delimitation Commission's working paper is ...
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  • Coping with drought, the e-way
  • CM urges DWCRA women to take on factionists
  • Nellore dt. to be named after Potti Sreeramulu


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Three-member panel to oversee urban bank affairs
    HYDERABAD, MARCH 7. The State Government on Friday constituted a three-member committee to manage the affairs of the Vasavi Cooperative Urban Bank. The committee comprises an IAS officer, G. Srinivas, the retired Chief General Manager of the ...
    Cops clueless about double-murders
    THOUGH THE number of unresolved cases is not a performance indicator for the law enforcers, it becomes a cause of concern for them if such cases pile up. It may sound strange, but no breakthrough has been achieved in the four sensational ...
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  • AIDWA activists lay siege to Civil Supplies godowns
  • `Browsing Home' released
  • Water levels drop further in reservoirs


    Karnataka
    'Belgaum is inseparable from Karnataka'
    BELGAUM, MARCH 7.Karnataka is prepared to reply to anybody on any platform on the issue of Belgaum, the Chief Minister, S. M. Krishna, said here on Friday. He reiterated that Belgaum was an inseparable part of Karnataka. "It will be wrong if ...
    Border dispute not under SC's purview: Puttappa
    DR. SHIVABASAVASWAMY MANTAP (BELGAUM), MARCH 7. The President of the 70th Akhil Bharat Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, Patil Puttappa, has said that though the Maharashtra Government has stated that it will take the border dispute to the Supreme Court ...
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  • Under duress, they gave up their precious childhood
  • Centre delaying tribunal to favour Andhra Pradesh?
  • Private participation helps boost road development
  • A feast of mangoes at farmers' cost


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    New institute in tie-up for malaria vaccine
    BANGALORE, MARCH 7. The Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), at the International Technology Park Ltd. here, will collaborate with the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, U.S., to find proteins that could be potential candidates for ...
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  • A perfect plank for cultural experiments
  • Sharp launches LCD products
  • Warning against sale of spurious drugs
  • Heart health campaign for women today


    Kerala
    Licence fee hiked for toddy shops
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH. 7. The UDF High Power Committee today decided to continue the licensing system for toddy shops during 2003, but recommended a 15 to 50 per cent hike in licence fee subject to certain conditions. The HPC also ...
    BJP's central team to visit Muthanga
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH. 7. The BJP central leadership will be sending a delegation of senior leaders of the party to Kerala for an on-the-spot assessment of the police action against tribals at Muthanga in Wayanad district and related ...
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  • Women's rights: looking back in anger
  • NCC to help AIDS-affected children
  • Pillai to be sworn in on Monday
  • Fire at Moozhiyar power house: one killed
  • Remand of Janu, others extended
  • Rights panel probe is enough: UDF
  • NHRC probe would not suffice to bring out truth: BJP
  • VS doubts efficacy of NHRC probe


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    LDF gives notice for special council
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 7. Two days after the violent incidents, which rocked the City Corporation headquarters, both the ruling LDF and the Opposition UDF seem to be in a conciliatory mood. On Friday, there seemed to be a marked decline in the ...
    AI increases flights from capital to U.A.E
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 7.Introduction of direct flights from Thiruvananthapuram to Alain in the United Arab Emirates for the first time, four Jumbo weekly flights to Riyadh, flights between Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram and increasing the ...
    Study moots better management of headload workers
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 7.A recent case study of headload workers in Chalai market, conducted by the Public Affairs Forum, has concluded that Government intervention is needed to better manage the working of the headload workers and for proper ...
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  • Film industry crisis solved
  • Programmes for women's welfare
  • Report raises doubts about vagrant woman's claim over Chinnu
  • KU nod to tie-up with Belgian varsity


    Tamil Nadu
    Navy, Coast Guard to step up vigil
    CHENNAI, MARCH 7. Even as members of fishermen's associations today called a dawn-to-dusk bandh at Rameswaram, seeking an early solution to their problem, the Indian Navy and Coast Guard got ready to step up their vigil on the seas to prevent ...
    T.N. doctors shun AIDS patients
    CHENNAI, MARCH 7.Despite Tamil Nadu's claims to high AIDS awareness, it is still one of the most regressive States, with more than 90 per cent doctors refusing to treat people with HIV/AIDS. A fact that forces these patients to go to the ...
    AIADMK Govt. set right financial mess: Jayalalithaa
    DINDIGUL, MARCH 7.The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today claimed that her Government had set right the financial mess in the State, which was marching ahead on the path of progress. "Tamil Nadu is now marching on the road of development with ...
    Turn trials into triumph, CM tells women
    CHENNAI, MARCH 7. On the eve of the International Women's Day, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, has exhorted women to take a vow to turn tribulations into triumph and create a new society with a new awakening. In her message of courage to ...
    Delayed admission process worries para-medical colleges
    CHENNAI, MARCH 7. Colleges in Tamil Nadu offering nursing, pharmacy and physiotherapy and other para-medical courses are eagerly awaiting announcements by the Central and State Governments on streamlining of the admission process. The recent ...
    Online registration begins
    CHENNAI, MARCH 7.Online registration and online issue of hall tickets to candidates appearing for the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination 2003, began throughout the State on Friday. The online registration is being done at 52 ...
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  • Poor harvest, low yield in delta
  • Release 2000 cusecs from Mettur dam: ryots
  • Rs. 154-cr. schemes for Sattankulam
  • J.M. Miakhan dead
  • Elangovan flays Govt. spending for functions
  • New US visa application forms


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Amenities still a far cry at suburban stations
    CHENNAI, MARCH 7. The state of a shelter at the Pattabiram railway station (at the Pattabiram Military Siding platform) that was inaugurated by the Minister of the State for Railways, A.K. Moorthy, two months ago puts in to perspective the ...
    Might is still right during night
    White line fever rules the highways at night. Tamil Nadu's infamous record of road deaths and large number of people left maimed, makes news everyday, but evokes little sustained response from the Government. If it was the terrible vision of a ...
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  • Online centre accepts only Kancheepuram TNPCEE forms
  • Gang held
  • Connectivity to BSNL network `restored'
  • Dy. Mayor, Commissioner should resign on moral grounds: Cong. leader


    Pondicherry
    Budget session likely from March 27
    PONDICHERRY, MARCH 7. Though a formal official communication is awaited, the budget session of the Pondicherry Assembly is likely to begin on March 27. The Lt. Governor K. R. Malkani would present the customary address and this would be the first ...
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  • CPI (M) plans fast to seek justice for affected workers
  • Hotel Pondicherry Ashok offers discount

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