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Andhra Pradesh
Viral fever still a mystery: Naidu
HYDERABAD, JULY 11. The Andhra Pradesh Government remains clueless about the exact nature of the brain fever that has taken a toll of 85 lives till Friday. One more child died in the Karimnagar District Headquarters Hospital while another is ...
Village servant axed to death by naxals
NIZAMABAD, JULY 11. Suspected armed People's War naxals axed to death a village servant and severely assaulted two others alleging them to be police informants in naxal-affected Reddipet village under Machareddy police station limits, about 90 km ...
Other Stories

  • AIDS threat: Rlys. enlists services of NGOs
  • Minister summons warring TDP leaders
  • Schoolgirl dies of mystery fever; 5 of her co-students ill
  • YSR urges CM to sanction revolving fund to DWCRA groups
  • Coop. Bank's relief package for ryots
  • SCR steps to ensure safe travel
  • Heavy rain in different parts of State
  • Govt. to sell stake in eight more units
  • Villager reprimanded at gram sabha commits suicide


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Garbage dump leaves them breathless!
    HYDERABAD, JULY 11. When residents of Nagole, Bandlaguda and Mansurabad venture out for some fresh air early in the morning, all they get is unbearable smell emanating from huge mounds of garbage just behind their colonies. It's a veritable ...
    Mystery fever: three kids die at Niloufer
    HYDERABAD, JULY 11. Three children died due to suspected dengue and mystery viral fever at the Niloufer Hospital here on Friday. Three new cases of viral fever were also reported at city hospitals. According to Niloufer Hospital authorities, ...
    Other Stories

  • Deemed varsity status recommended
  • PAC sore over utilisation of NABARD funds
  • Fitness certificates of 43 trucks cancelled
  • Arrangements for Bonalu reviewed
  • Many apply for ration cards: Minister


    Karnataka
    Reactivate flying school, House panel tells Govt.
    BANGALORE, JULY 11. A subject committee of the State Legislature has told the Government to reactivate the Government Flying School at Yelahanka here which has been "grounded" for the past five years and punish its officials who allowed the ...
    Most cinemas stop screening films
    BANGALORE, JULY 11. Over 70 per cent of cinemas in the Karnataka were forced to stop screening films other than English on Friday following an indefinite bandh call given by the Karnataka Film Producers Association, which is supported by ...
    Look outside Bangalore too, investors told
    BANGALORE, JULY 11. The Minister for Large- and Medium-scale Industries, R.V. Deshpande, has stressed the need for distribution of foreign investment and promotion of industrial activity in all parts of the State to correct the regional ...
    Other Stories

  • Drought relief: Shettar for probe into `irregularities'
  • Jog Falls to be international tourist spot
  • Ministers questioned over prayers for rain
  • Bommai goes on padayatra
  • `State Govt. will be ousted'


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    HAL employee found dead in brother's house
    BANGALORE, JULY 11. An engineer in a leading public sector company was found dead under suspicious circumstances in his brother's house in Jayamahal in J.C. Nagar police station limits on Friday afternoon. Vinod (31), who was employed in the ...
    Thai troupe gives inspiring start to trade fair
    BANGALORE, JULY 11.Thailand Exhibition 2003 got off to a colourful start at the Kanteerava Indoor Stadium here on Friday with an eight-member troupe performing the Sabadachai drum dance. Thailand has absorbed the influences of diverse ...
    Lekakhiyara Sangha to hold convention
    BANGALORE, JUNE 11. It had a humble beginning. "Self-respect'' is the code of its being. Even after 24 years of existence, it is thriving with the meagre funds provided by the Government and its patrons. Its literary achievements are significant, ...
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  • Antyodaya: DCs asked to send beneficiaries' list
  • Shankar Jr. for Hague meet
  • NAB exhibition today
  • `Marriage Needs' directory to be released in August
  • `Emulate China to control population'
  • Parents' quarrels drive girl to suicide
  • Ban orders around CET Cell
  • They took the joy of learning to slums


    Kerala
    IUML to discuss Antony's remark
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 11. Bowing to the pressures of its rank and file, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the second largest constituent in the UDF, is on the warpath against the Kerala Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, for his observations on ...
    Kerala plantation workers on the warpath
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 11. Plantation workers owing allegiance to the CITU have decided to resort to direct action to press an 11-point charter of demands. They will go on a token strike on August 16 and launch an indefinite strike on ...
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  • Doctors cry foul over postings
  • Growing support for CBI probe demand
  • CM's statement a political strategy: BJP
  • Govt. opposes bail to Marad accused
  • KVVES factions fight over office
  • Thrikkakara panchayat to set up waste processing units
  • Corpn. to reassess building tax


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Student unions to intensify stir
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 11. The Joint Action Council of Student unions has decided to intensify its ongoing stir against the private self financing medical colleges as well as against what it termed as the "commercialisation of education'' in ...
    Dengue: MCH blood bank under strain
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 11. The Blood Bank at the Medical College Hospital here is hard put to provide adequate units of blood platelets to the scores of dengue fever patients being admitted over the past one month. There has been a steady ...
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  • Five held
  • Affiliation based on UGC norms
  • Fever claims one more life
  • KSEB to be converted into State-owned firms
  • Karakonam college to abide by Govt. decision
  • IT@School meeting postponed


    Tamil Nadu
    Verdict disappointing: employees
    CHENNAI, JULY 11.It was an anxious wait all through the day for lakhs of State government employees and teachers. They had to wait till late in the evening for the First Bench of the Madras High Court to deliver the verdict in the case of mass ...
    MDMK accuses Centre of double standards
    CHENNAI, JULY 11.At a meeting here to mark one year of detention of the MDMK general secretary, Vaiko, under the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, MDMK and DMK leaders condemned the misuse of the Act by the State Government and the inaction on ...
    `Private sector may take the cue from Govt.'
    MADURAI, JULY 11. Even as the tussle between the State Government and its employees persists following mass `dismissal' of staff members, the Joint Action Committee of Unorganised Workers, Tamil Nadu, has demanded that the `right to employment' ...
    Panel will provide framework for innovation
    CHENNAI, JULY 11. The high-level committee for revising matriculation education curriculum will seek to provide a broadbased framework which can help in innovation and diversity, the chairman, A. Gnanam, said here today. Chairing the first ...
    Other Stories

  • Women are victims, say mother lobbyists
  • SP convicted in assault case
  • Vishnu Prasad is new youth Cong. president
  • Vacancy position
  • 16 freedom fighters honoured
  • Roles reversed in dowry case
  • International expo on printing, publishing
  • 2 more held in Kiruttinan murder case
  • Another defamation case against The Hindu


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Illegal phone exchange unearthed, 3 held
    CHENNAI, JULY 11. Four Sri Lanka-based men broke into satellite codes to facilitate residents of the city to make international calls at local call rates. This high-tech crime has even baffled BSNL engineers who after three days were unable to ...
    WDF project to train doctors in diabetes treatment
    CHENNAI, JULY 11. Doctors and paramedics at district headquarters and taluk level hospitals in the State will soon undergo training in detection and treatment of diabetes. A memorandum of understanding was signed today by the World Diabetes ...
    Four held, stolen copper wires seized
    CHENNAI, JULY 11. The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel arrested four persons who allegedly stole copper wires from the MRTS railway station at Taramani. The RPF personnel were able to recover the entire quantity of the stolen copper ...


    Pondicherry
    We keep govt. staff in good humour: Rangasamy
    PONDICHERRY, JULY 11. The Pondicherry Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, has said "his Government has always been keeping the government staff and officers in good humour as only when they have full satisfaction will they be able to concentrate on ...
    Scholarship for sports students
    PONDICHERRY, JULY 11. Forty students, found proficient in various sports at the State-level, would be sanctioned a scholarship of Rs. 5,400 each and Rs. 7,200 for one of the students who stood first at the national level. The Education ...
    Youth held, stolen property recovered
    PONDICHERRY, JULY 11. A 24-year old youth from Pudhu Nagar at Kombakkampet near here was arrested today and two motorcycles were recovered from him. The Superintendent of Police, V.J. Chandran, told newsmen that a team, led by Inspector, ...



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