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Andhra Pradesh
30 Cong., TRS men hurt in lathicharge
HYDERABAD, JULY 7. Traffic on the national highway No 7 at Erravalli cross roads on the Gadwal-Alampur road was paralysed for over five hours when Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and Congress activists staged a rasta roko even as 30 Congress and ...
Govt. allays fears over Manjira project
HYDERABAD, JULY 7.In the case of Manjira, a tributary of the Godavari, the State Government has given a clean chit to Karnataka and allayed fears entertained by some quarters that Karnataka is resorting to overdrawals from this river thus ...
Kodela puts blame on doctors
HYDERABAD, JULY 7.The Minister for Health, Kodela Sivaprasada Rao, on Monday admitted that the negligence of the medical authorities concerned had resulted in the outbreak of viral fevers in some districts which claimed the lives of 65 children ...
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  • Over 400 kids affected in Karimnagar
  • ZP chiefs chalk out stir plan
  • KCR accuses Govt. of failure
  • Nizamabad Collector confirms seven viral fever deaths
  • Karnataka, A.P. to join hands on RDS
  • CM rejects free power demand out of hand
  • Two naxals killed in encounter
  • Doctors seek withdrawal of GO


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Elite colony cries for attention
    HYDERABAD, JULY 4.The entry into the colony of Government officials and professionals of multi-national companies lies right beside a wine shop which also functions as the full-time bar. The nuisance created by drunkards there is enough for the ...
    Five criminals nabbed, property recovered
    HYDERABAD, JULY 7. The Sanjiva Reddy Nagar police have created a record of sorts, nabbing five criminals, said to be involved in separate cases, dating from the year 2001. Property worth Rs. 7.5 lakhs in the form of jewellery, autorickshaws and ...
    Seven-seater mishap toll rises to five
    HYDERABAD, JULY 7. The death roll in the tragic case of a seven-seater which got washed away in the Musi from a causeway near Guvvaleti, a hamlet of Chinnaravilala village in Hayatnagar police limits on Sunday, has risen to five. It may be ...


    Karnataka
    Aug. 1 deadline for clearing files
    BANGALORE, JULY 7. The Chief Secretary, B.S. Patil, said here on Monday that the Government had ordered all departments to dispose of files pending for more than a year, before August 1. He told presspersons that 1.3 lakh files were awaiting ...
    `Environment will be protected'
    BANGALORE, JULY 7. The 36th meeting of the State Geological Programming Board will be held here on Tuesday. Apart from a detailed review of the entire gamut of the activities of the Department of Mines and Geology, the meeting will devote time ...
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  • Gowda sees a ploy in Sangh Parivar attack on PM
  • Scholarship: Pvt. colleges waiting for Govt. move
  • Corpn. records set ablaze in Gulbarga
  • Federation defers protest plan
  • Mediclaim premium may come down
  • Somashekar, AIPJD leader in Assembly
  • State has not got its due: Koliwad


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Akshara Dasoha should be continued: Shankar
    BANGALORE, JULY 7. The Akshara Dasoha Scheme to provide free midday meal to government schoolchildren should not be discontinued and the Education Department officials should take measures to set right the anomalies, if any, B.L.Shankar, ...
    A solution to City's parking problems
    BANGALORE, JULY 7. Getting 10 cars parked in a 6' by 12' space may well be the solution to the problem of finding parking space in some of Bangalore's busiest locations. The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Commissioner, M.R.Sreenivasa Murthy, ...
    Other Stories

  • Autorickshaw passenger suffers `bullet injury'
  • Five killed in road mishaps
  • Youth arrested, stolen articles recovered


    Kerala
    Kerala to clarify policy on sandal units
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 7. The Forest Minister, K. Sudhakaran, denied allegations of corruption in the auction of bamboo, raised by the Leader of the Opposition, V.S. Achuthanandan, in the Assembly on Monday. Rejecting the Opposition demand ...
    Rs. 1,200 cr. plan for computerising district courts: Union Minister
    THRISSUR, JULY 7. The Union Minister of State for Law, P.C. Thomas, has said that the Law Ministry will submit a Rs.1,200-crore proposal to the 12th Finance Commission for computerising the district courts in the country. Addressing a ...
    Forests not safe in Sudhakaran's hands: VS
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 7. The Leader of the Opposition, V. S. Achuthanandan, today said "the forests of the State were not safe in the hands of the Forest Minister, K. Sudhakaran'' and went on to accuse him of aiding and abetting the activities ...
    Other Stories

  • Vigilance raid on all Corporation offices
  • L.P.R. Varma cremated
  • Zoological park for Puthur
  • JBIC-funded project: Jacob denies allegations
  • Truckers' strike from July 15
  • Lab to check purity of gold by Sept.
  • `CIA link' in Plan campaign: UDF partners pitch it high
  • Hassan reiterates demand
  • Govt. to move Centre on rubber import
  • Togadia to visit Marad today


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Sand-mining poses threat to Vellayani lake
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 7. Ravaged by pollution and land reclamation, the Vellayani freshwater lake here is facing a fresh threat to its existence from illegal extraction of sand in the fallow paddy fields along its periphery. Truckloads of ...
    Viral fever deaths mount to 24
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 7. The total number of viral fever-related deaths in the district mounted to 24 with six more patients, including two children, succumbing to acute fever complications at the Medical College and SAT Hospital here ...


    Tamil Nadu
    Massive recruitment drive begins
    CHENNAI, JULY 7. The Tamil Nadu Government today launched a massive drive to recruit staff on a temporary basis across the State for filling up vacancies caused by mass arrests and dismissals of employees and teachers, who participated in the ...
    Midnight arrests a serious violation: HC
    CHENNAI, JULY 7. Even as many unions came to the Madras High Court pleading that the dismissal of nearly a lakh government servants was an `arbitrary State action', the First Bench said midnight arrests were a serious violation of Fundamental ...
    After several years of wait, a govt. job now
    CHENNAI, JULY 7. After decades of long wait for a government job, it was finally a flash of hope for the thousands languishing in the live registers of employment exchanges. It was a hope born out of the despair in nearly one lakh dismissed ...
    `Dismissals cannot be challenged before Administrative Tribunal'
    CHENNAI, JULY 7.The issue of mass, summary dismissal of government servants cannot be challenged before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal, as it has only one member — the Vice-Chairman I. David Christian — as on date, Nalini ...
    Other Stories

  • Gopal's father-in-law commits suicide
  • Faux pas by police at Cuddalore
  • Selection of Senate nominee for VC search panel opposed
  • Approach Cauvery tribunal: ryots
  • Two more defamation cases against The Hindu
  • Get ready for simultaneous poll, says Stalin
  • `End unconstitutional acts of Tamil Nadu Govt.'
  • Bail for 3 employees in Coimbatore


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Mounting garbage adds to woes of motorists
    CHENNAI, JULY 7. While motorists have a tough time driving on what is left of Ennore Expressway, which is pocked by the high tides and faces severe threat of erosion, the Tiruvottriyur, Madhavaram and Kathivakkam municipalities are adding to its ...
    Other Stories

  • PT instructor held for sexually abusing girl
  • Chengai police solve Korattur murder case
  • Big drop in PDS rice offtake
  • CMFRI takes up captive breeding of spiny lobsters
  • Property tax evader clears dues
  • Quarry worker killed in accident
  • Gang murders woman, and set afire body
  • Student found hanging in hostel room
  • Identity slips for staff


    Pondicherry
    Govt. did not respond to reminders: Krishnamoorthy
    PONDICHERRY, JULY 7. Nearly 50 volunteers of the Mahila Congress today courted arrest attempting to picket the office of the Chairperson of the State Social Welfare Advisory Board at Ilango Nagar here to protest the appointment of Madhu Mita ...
    Tree on hospital premises cut
    PONDICHERRY, JULY 7. A twin tree (peepul and `naga maram`) that had grown closely together near the Emergency ward inside the general hospital here was chopped. Hospital authorities pointed out when contacted that the roots had spread hither ...
    Other Stories

  • PIPDIC to grant loan for battery-operated tempos



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