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Andhra Pradesh
TDP drops protest march
HYDERABAD, JUNE 2. The Telugu Desam Party has dropped its move to organise a protest march by farmers and party volunteers at the site of the Paragodu project in Karnataka on June 6. This follows a direction by the TDP president, N. Chandrababu ...
" Sonia can resolve water dispute"
KURNOOL, JUNE 2. The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, has said that the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, alone has the advantage of resolving the inter-state water dispute between Karnataka and AP. Talking to reporters at ...
No Apathbandhu cover for sunstroke victims
HYDERABAD, JUNE 2. The Government today ruled out inclusion of sunstroke deaths in the Apathbandhu scheme for giving a higher ex gratia to the affected families, while the toll reached a high of 1,020. This is the first time that the ...
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  • Majlis MLA dead
  • CM launches fourth phase of Akshara Sankranti
  • BIE Tatkal scheme from June 5


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    EO promises `citizen-friendly' administration in SCB
    HYDERABAD, JUNE 2. A "citizen-friendly and progressive'' administration has been promised by the new Secunderabad Cantonment Board Executive Officer, T. Arockianathan, who formally took charge on Friday last from N. Srinivasa Reddy, redesignated ...
    Cellular war takes new turn
    HYDERABAD, JUNE 2. The hot race to become market leaders in providing limited mobility services kicked off a corporate war on Monday between two private telephone companies -- Reliance and Tata Indicom -- in Andhra Pradesh. The police today ...
    Boost to restoration efforts of colonial building
    HYDERABAD, JUNE 2.The efforts to infuse a fresh lease of life into the majestic but decaying erstwhile British Residency housing the Osmania University College for Women at Koti, got a major fillip. The college has just received the first ...
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  • Rly. court attender stabbed to death
  • Four structures pulled down
  • Pipeline work apace for Krishna water project


    Karnataka
    Rural students ahead in PU exam
    BANGALORE, JUNE 2. Rural candidates have sprung a surprise in this year's 2nd Pre-University examination, recording a pass percentage of 45.91, almost a per cent higher than their urban counterparts. The overall pass percentage stands at 45.19 as ...
    Sangliana waiting for popular demand to enter politics
    BANGALORE, JUNE 2. Will the Director-General of Police (Prisons), H.T. Sangliana, soon join the select band of police officers from the State who have joined politics after retirement? Mr. Sangliana, who is due to retire on June 30, said at a ...


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Nala Road becomes traders' nightmare
    BANGALORE, JUNE 2. Traders on Nala Road in Shivajinagar are a harried lot. Business has fallen, and adding to their worries is the threat of flooding of their shops in the monsoon. All they want now is a bridge on the road. They have been ...
    Voter ID card centres
    BANGALORE, JUNE 2. The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) will issue voter identity cards to eligible voters on Tuesday at the following centres: City limits: St. Aloysius School, Assaye road, Cox Town. Bangalore Urban District: Government ...
    Two burglars nabbed, 10 cases solved
    BANGALORE, JUNE 2. In a major recovery, City police on Sunday arrested two persons and recovered stolen goods, including gold and silver ornaments, and electronic goods worth Rs. 8 lakh from him. According to police, Jayaram, alias Ramu (21) of ...
    Protecting kids from peak-hour traffic
    BANGALORE, JUNE 2. Imagine this situation: about five lakh vehicles, including school buses, transporting 11 lakh schoolchildren, are off the roads during peak hours, starting 8.30 a.m. These are on the roads only during the non-peak hours, in ...
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  • IOC stations run out of stock
  • Power supply hit in southern parts of City
  • Traffic disrupted on busy roads
  • Use theatre to address social problems, students told


    Kerala
    LDF recognises George faction
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 2. Acting with surprising speed, the Opposition LDF has recognised the P. C. George faction of the Kerala Congress (Joseph) as an independent constituent. The LDF State committee, which met here today, appealed to the ...
    Forest mafia behind sandal oil theft: VS
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 2. The Leader of the Opposition, V.S. Achuthanandan, has sought an immediate investigation to fix responsibility for the recurrent sandal oil theft from the strong rooms of the Forest Department. Mr. Achuthanandan told ...
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  • Probe sought into atrocities against children


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Council meeting marred by row over audit report
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 2. UDF Opposition members raised slogans and tried to disrupt the proceedings of the City Corporation Council today to protest against the Mayor's refusal to permit a debate on the audit of the local body. The council ...
    Walkway to be opened this month
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 2. The Shankhumukhom beach, one of the major tourist spots of the State capital, would get a facelift with the 250-metre-long and two-metre-wide walkway built by augmenting the existing boundary wall to be commissioned ...


    Tamil Nadu
    Stalin made deputy general secretary
    CHENNAI, JUNE 2. The DMK today formalised the standing of the president, M. Karunanidhi's son, M. K. Stalin, in the party, elevating him one of the three deputy general secretaries. Of the three posts, one is reserved for a member from Scheduled ...
    Thalavai Sundaram, Pandurangan back in team
    CHENNAI, JUNE 2. The much-talked about ministerial reshuffle was effected today with the dropping of three Ministers and induction of five. A notable aspect of this exercise, 11th since the AIADMK was voted back to power in May 2001, is the ...
    No automatic tie-up with BJP for LS elections: DMK
    CHENNAI, JUNE 2. Ruling out an automatic tie-up with the BJP in the next Lok Sabha elections, the DMK president, M. Karunanidhi, today said a high level policy committee of the party would discuss the question of alliances. The panel ...
    2-day police custody for Azhagiri
    MADURAI, JUNE 2. M. K. Azhagiri, elder son of the former Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, was remanded to police custody for two days by a Madurai court today. When the petition filed by the investigation officer, S. Murugesan, seeking custodial ...
    All women police stations soon for 40 more sub-divisions
    CHENNAI, JUNE 2.All-women police stations will be started in 40 more police sub-divisions in the State soon, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, said today. Commissioning a company of women police commandos in the force, after their completion of ...
    Conditioning an elephant calf
    POLLACHI, JUNE 2.After two hours of efforts, an 18-month-old calf was weaned from its mother last week to "condition" its behaviour and to make it compatible at the elephant camp. The Wildlife Warden of the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, V. ...
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  • Sivaganga set for a 'paperless Collectorate'
  • Centre releases 78, 315 tonnes of rice
  • Madurai, Tiruchi Police Commissioners replaced
  • Hold talks with Antony, Chidambaram urges Jayalalithaa
  • No basis for anti-TN bias charge, says Radhakrishnan
  • What about the third letter, asks Karunanidhi


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    CMDA will ask promoters to produce stability certificate
    CHENNAI, JUNE 2. The vanishing top four floors of a multi-storeyed building at CIT Colony, Mylapore, since this Saturday have given rise to plenty of questions over whose responsibility it really is to ensure the safety of high-rise structures in ...
    59 more hospitalised at Ambattur
    CHENNAI, JUNE 2. A day after 30 women employees of a private garment factory were hospitalised for inhaling toxic fumes, 59 of their colleagues were today admitted to hospital and kept under observation after some of them fainted and ...
    RPF Inspector manhandles lensmen
    CHENNAI, JUNE 2.Press photographers were `virtually' manhandled by an RPF Inspector at the Integral Coach Factory workshop here this afternoon when they attempted to take shots of the newly-designed diesel EMU coaches. Pressmen and ...
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  • Kilpauk fire guts huts, chars cattle
  • Competition-scared TV operators hold out threats
  • Decentralised rainwater harvesting is the key


    Pondicherry
    Rangasamy to seek higher allocation of funds
    PONDICHERRY, JUNE 2. The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, said here today that he would meet the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission in New Delhi on June 5 and seek higher funds for development activities in Pondicherry. Mr. Rangasamy said ...
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  • 'Fill vacant teacher posts in rural schools'
  • Free coaching classes
  • Kalatheeswarar temple Kumbabishekam on June 11



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