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Andhra Pradesh
Make India a knowledge power, says Kalam
HYDERABAD, MARCH 15.Stressing the need for a knowledge-powered rural development for transforming India into a knowledge power, the President, A.P.J Abdul Kalam, today said that the setting up of a high bandwidth rural connectivity was the ...
Tech approach will work wonders: Kalam
HYDERABAD, MARCH 15. The President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, on Saturday underlined the need for leveraging the country's rich biodiversity and vast traditional knowledge on medicinal plants for developing and exporting value-added products. ...
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  • No forcible collection of crop loans: Minister
  • Police remove fasting MLA to hospital
  • CM takes up IT professionals' issue with Centre
  • Gang drugging train passengers busted
  • PW abducting innocent girls, says DGP
  • Naxals gun down Minister's aide


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    MCH bid to stop SCR in its tracks
    HYDERABAD, MARCH 15. The question of payment of service charges is snowballing into a major controversy between the South Central Railway (SCR) and the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad. The issue has become a bone of contention with the two ...
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  • Expert calls for objective review of economic reforms
  • Youth held for stealing Rs. 1.80-lakh
  • Taking things to heart, literally


    Karnataka
    AIJD unlikely to merge with Janata Party
    BANGALORE, MARCH 15. The All-India Janata Dal (AIJD) is unlikely to merge with the Janata Party headed by Subramanian Swamy in the light of Dr. Swamy's demand that he should be appointed chairman of the political affairs committee of the new ...
    Fight divisive forces, Pranab tells Congmen
    BANGALORE, MARCH 15. The senior Congress leader and former Union Minister of Finance, Pranab Mukherji, has accused the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre of promoting communalism in the country in the name of Hindutva. Addressing a conference ...
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  • Bijapur makes its case for High Court Bench
  • 'Joint efforts needed to end child labour'
  • 'English is also a regional language'
  • Krishna, Naidu to share dais at Telugu Vignana Samithi


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Winners of general knowledge exam.
    BANGALORE, MARCH 15. Prizes for the winners of the Vidya All-India General Knowledge Examination were distributed at a function held at the R.V. Teachers' College here recently. Nearly 560 students from various parts of the country received ...
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  • Syntax ties up with Spider Group
  • Taluks to get blood banks


    Kerala
    Kerala cannot blame Centre: Joshi
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH. 15. The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Murli Manohar Joshi, said at a press conference here today that the Centre should not be blamed for the Kerala Government's inability to honour its promise to the ...
    A.P. team submits memorandum to Antony
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 15. A five-member fact-finding team from Andhra Pradesh, led by a CPI(ML) New Democracy MLA, Gummadi Narasaiah, has submitted a memorandum to the Kerala Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, on the Muthanga incident. The ...
    Other Stories

  • Guidelines soon on management quota: Joshi
  • Cong. leader 'assaults' KSEB engineer
  • 'Inquiry will land LDF Ministers in trouble'
  • KTDC to produce and market tinned toddy
  • Akademi Fellowship for Panicker
  • Budget will impose heavy burden: CPI(M)


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    1,000 dogs to be immunised against rabies in city
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 15. The City Corporation has decided to immunise as many as 1,000 dogs in 81 wards of the City Corporation from March 20, even as the Opposition has pointed out that the targeted number is too small to make any ...
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  • Interact more with patients, doctors told
  • 'Aravindan communicated more through his films'
  • Lack of proper bus shelters adds to commuters' woes


    Tamil Nadu
    Flat rate for unmetered farm connections, huts
    CHENNAI, MARCH 15.The two-decades-old free power supply scheme for 17-lakh agricultural connections in Tamil Nadu has been scrapped. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission, which publicised its first tariff revision order here today, ...
    Begin talks on restructuring, EB told
    CHENNAI, MARCH 15.The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission has directed the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board to initiate discussions with the Government on reforming and restructuring the power utility. "As a first step, the concept of ...
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  • Opposition condemns withdrawal of free power
  • 'Litigation increasing, but no matching growth in courts'
  • Totally unjustified, says SIMA
  • Reforms, subsidy go hand in hand
  • UGC framing rules for foreign varsities
  • CM announces cash support, subsidy


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Rescued circus chimpanzee dies in Vandalur zoo
    CHENNAI, MARCH 15. One of the chimpanzees recently rescued from a circus by animal welfare activists and housed in the quarantine area of the Arignar Anna Zoological Park (AAZP), Vandalur, died early this morning. The male chimpanzee, Shiva ...
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  • No end to chaos at Law College bus terminus
  • Sri Lankan held, heroin seized
  • 'Adopt integrated approach to tackling mosquito menace'


    Pondicherry
    Sell quality goods, traders told
    PONDICHERRY, MARCH 15. The Lieutenant Governor, K. R. Malkani, today presented consumer rights awareness badges to Wesley school students at a programme organised on the occasion of World Consumer Rights Day at the Raj Nivas here. The programme ...
    Keep promise on wage revision: rural organisers
    PONDICHERRY, MARCH 15. The Pondicherry Government Employees Association has expressed anguish over the delay in implementing the Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy's assurance to rural organisers of the Rural Development Department that they would be ...

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