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Andhra Pradesh
Naidu rules out House panel probe
HYDERABAD, MARCH 27. The Government has offered to place before the Speaker of the Assembly all the files relating to the controversy over the assignment of lands by C. Arjuna Rao, former Chief Commissioner, Land Administration, and Satish ...
14,000 Vidya Volunteers to be appointed
HYDERABAD, MARCH 27.The State Government will give appointment orders to about 14,000 untrained teachers as Special Vidya Volunteers to take up teaching in Government schools in the next two academic years before they are inducted as regular ...
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  • Archakas, Potu workers threaten direct action
  • Noisy scenes over IAS officers' row
  • Unexpected setback hits PW in Nizamabad dt.
  • Damage to crops: walkout over refusal to order probe
  • Naidu longest serving CM


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Nothing prudent about Prudential cooperative bank
    HYDERABAD, MARCH 27. What actually went wrong with Prudential Cooperative Urban Bank? This question is being discussed widely by people even as a majority of the bank's employees assert that all the loans extended are 100 per cent `secured' and ...
    Sharp rise in chicken pox cases
    HYDERABAD, MARCH 27. There has been a sharp rise in the incidence of chicken pox in the city during last three months with more than 250 cases being reported at Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases. Doctors, however, ...
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  • Vasavi ex-directors' plea dismissed
  • Murder mystery solved; 3 held
  • Rs. 95 lakhs assets unearthed in ACB raids
  • Sprawling Kukatpally thirsts for drops of water


    Karnataka
    Contempt case hearing adjourned to April 10
    BANGALORE, MARCH 27. A full Bench of the Karnataka High Court, which is conducting the criminal contempt-of-court proceedings with regard to the "Mysore resort episode" against 11 publications, on Thursday, adjourned the proceedings to April 10. ...
    Cong. rally calls for end to war
    BANGALORE, MARCH 27. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), led by its president, B. Janardhana Poojary, organised a ``massive rally" here today to protest against the killing of women and children in the U.S.-led war against ...
    Drugs scam: BJP demands judicial probe
    BANGALORE, MARCH 27. The pre-lunch session of the Legislative Assembly today witnessed a dharna by the main Opposition party, the BJP, which indulged in slogan-shouting after the Government rejected its demand for a judicial inquiry to expose ...
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  • Govt. not taking loans without need: CM
  • Rs.1.41 cr. surplus budget for MCC


    Kerala
    Muthanga: women's panel for 'thorough probe'
    NEW DELHI, MARCH 27.The National Commission for Women (NCW) has demanded a `thorough probe' into the `high-handedness' of forest officials and the district administration in connection with the police firing on the tribals in the Muthanga range ...
    DA hike for staff in coop. sector
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 27. The State Government has announced a hike in the Dearness Allowance (DA) for employees in the cooperative sector in tune with the two DA instalments announced for its employees. Addressing a press conference here ...
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  • MBBS admission: CEE to accept complaints
  • Antony for amendment to Forest Act
  • HPCL, BPCL staff strike continues
  • HC moved against hartals


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Call to integrate suburbs with city
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 27. Participants in a stakeholders' workshop on the development of the capital here today stressed the need for a long- term plan integrating regional development needs with infrastructural requirements of the city. The ...
    Top priority to Palayam development scheme
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 27. Widening of nine prime roads in the city, relocation of the KSRTC and private bus stands at East Fort, creation of a land bank, construction of commercial complexes, truck terminal and parking plaza along the M.G. ...
    Web sites on Iraq go offline
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 27.Several Web sites carrying reports critical of the war against Iraq are facing denial of service attacks or other problems. The Web site of the Qatar-based television channel, Al Jazeera, remains inaccessible for ...
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  • Singers raise voice against war
  • Procedural delays hit adoptions


    Tamil Nadu
    Day-long fast to protest Vaiko arrest
    CHENNAI, MARCH 27. Marking a convergence of views on yet another issue, leaders of major Opposition parties, barring the CPI (M), the Congress and the BJP, will come together again on March 29, to take part in a day-long fast here to protest the ...
    Opposition blames Govt., Treasury Benches counter claim
    CHENNAI, MARCH 27. The Government came under fire in the Assembly yet again on the question of provision of free rice to drought-hit farmers with Opposition members claiming that the benefits did not reach the neediest. But the Treasury Benches ...
    6.6 lakh students take SSLC exams
    CHENNAI, MARCH 27. A total of 6,66,315 students, including 3,31,406 girls, began writing the SSLC examinations in 2,032 centres across the State today. For the matriculation examinations, 859 students are appearing, and for the Anglo-Indian ...
    HC won't quash sedition case against Nedumaran
    CHENNAI, MARCH 27.The Madras High Court today dismissed a plea by the Tamilar Desiya Iyakkam leader, P. Nedumaran, to quash trial proceedings in a 1992 case registered against him by the Sempatti police in Dindigul district. Mr. Nedumaran has ...
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  • Another derailment
  • Jayalalithaa justifies withdrawal of benefits


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    CB-CID team collects samples near pillars
    CHENNAI, MARCH 27. An on-site inspection of three flyovers constructed during the earlier DMK regime was conducted by the CB-CID personnel today. The personnel dug deep pits adjacent the pillars of the flyovers to facilitate the technical team ...
    10-year-old girl saved from torturing nurse
    CHENNAI, MARCH 27. Triple crimes — trafficking, child abuse and bonded labour — perpetrated on a 10- year old child by a staff nurse attached to the Stanley Medical College came to light early this week, as Child Line volunteers acted ...
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  • Girl wants to marry prisoner-fiancee
  • Free psychiatric camp
  • Tiruvottiyur murder case solved
  • Cattle packed in 2 mini-lorries rescued
  • Sewer connection charges high: residents
  • `Register cases against police for militants' death'


    Pondicherry
    Power reforms with social justice: Malkani
    PONDICHERRY, MARCH 27. The Lt. Governor, K. R. Malkani, said his government was committed to power reforms without losing sight of social justice and needs of the poor and the less privileged. Presenting his customary address to the Territorial ...
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  • Rural organisers made daily wage staff
  • DMK betrayed the interests of people: Narayanasamy



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