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Pondicherry Andhra Pradesh Plan outlay fixed at Rs. 10,970 cr. NEW DELHI, JULY 29. Andhra Pradesh's Annual Plan for 2003-04 has been finalised at Rs.10,970.46 crores, which includes a Rs. 50-crore assistance for the Godavari Pushkaram. This year's Plan size is marginally higher than the Rs. 10,100 crores ... Pushkaram begins today HYDERABAD, JULY 29. Millions of pilgrims will take a holy dip in the Godavari at different places in Andhra Pradesh during the 12-day-long Pushkaram beginning on Wednesday. Massive arrangements have been made by the State Government to ... 
For the devout, Pushkaram have already begunRAJAHMUNDRY, JULY 29. Thousands throng to the feet of Mother Godavari, yearning for her warmth, but the maternal river figurine threatens to descend on them all by herself. Such is her fury that several bathing ghats are flooded and some even ... 
Naidu seeks PM's interventionNEW DELHI, JULY 29. Andhra Pradesh today sought the intervention of the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, to restrain Karnataka from "overdrawing" river water. The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, told Mr. Vajpayee that Karnataka was ... 
All set for Godavari 'pushkaram'HYDERABAD, JULY 29. The stage is set for the Godavari pushkarams — the eagerly awaited event of immense religious significance for Hindus — at 12.59 tomorrow. About 30 million people are expected to take a holy dip during the 12-day ... Other Stories
Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad Kalam propels ex-Star Wars man to Care HYDERABAD, JULY 29. In search of partners and technology for the ambitious Stratospheric Airship project, James Abrahamson, Chairman of the US-based StratCom International, visited the Care Hospital here to study the tele-medicine ... Heated debate over Bt Cotton at public hearing HYDERABAD, JULY 29. Farmers whose dreams of striking it rich by raising Bt Cotton faded a way with the failure of the crop, poured out their anger on Mahyco-Monsanto for adopting "devious means'' to promote it and demanded compensation for the ... Other Stories
Karnataka 
Byre Gowda passes awayBANGALORE, JULY 29.C. Byre Gowda, president of the State unit of the All India Progressive Janata Dal (AIPJD) and Vemgal MLA, died of a heart attack early today. He was 69. Mr. Gowda, who briefly attended the session of the Legislative Assembly ... 
Politics was a pastime for Byre GowdaBANGALORE, JULY 29. The death of C. Byre Gowda has come as a shock not only to the AIPJD, the State unit of which he headed, but also the Janata Parivar and other political groups. The death of the Janata Dal leader of repute has come at a ... Other Stories
Karnataka-Bangalore Site for park reeks of animal waste BANGALORE, JULY 29. All that the people of Sri Venkateshwara Krupa (SVK) Layout in Basaveshwaranagar want is a park. Yet, for the past two years, they have not been able to convince the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) to develop a park for ... 
South Block may be ready five months earlyBANGALORE, JULY 29. Work on the prestigious Rs. 100-crore Vidhana Soudha South Block project is making brisk progress. Efforts are being to complete the project by March 2004, five months ahead of schedule. The Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, along ... Other Stories
Kerala Govt. to keep revenue deficit down THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 29.The Kerala Finance Minister, K. Sankaranarayanan, said in the Assembly today that the Government hoped to stabilise revenue deficit this year. Replying to the debate on supplementary demands for grants for the ... HC dismisses plea against phone rent criteria KOCHI, JULY 29.A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today dismissed writ petitions challenging the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's (BSNL) action in ``unscientifically'' classifying rural and urban areas on the basis of the 1991 Census report ... Other Stories
Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram Corpn. to go ahead with renovation project THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 29.Even as the Corporation is exulting over the prospect of the completion of the beautification of the Gandhi Park by the Tourism Department ahead of schedule, the District Congress Committee is threatening to put a ... Medical students to intensify stir THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 29.The State committee of the Kerala Medicos Association has decided to intensify its ongoing stir against the problems in the medical sector in the State. Announcing this at a press conference here today, the president ... Other Stories
Tamil Nadu Basha, 8 others get life term COIMBATORE, JULY 29. S. Murugan, judge, fast track court - III, today sentenced nine Al-Umma men to life imprisonment in the September 5, 1991 case of murder of a Hindu Munnani speaker, Shivakumar alias Veerashiva, here. According to the ... SC to hear reinstatement plea tomorrow NEW DELHI, JULY 29. The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday an application from the DMK MP, C. Kuppusami, for a direction to the Tamil Nadu Government that it take back 31,128 employees, who were refused reinstatement on July 25. A Bench ... 
Flutter in court as Al-Umma men raise anti-Modi slogansCOIMBATORE, JULY 29. Al-Umma undertrials caused a flutter in the district sessions court complex here this afternoon, raising slogans against the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, opposing his proposed Coimbatore visit on August 1. They said ... HC extends deadline for MBBS fee payment CHENNAI, JULY 29. The Madras High Court has extended by a week the last date for candidates selected for MBBS to pay the tuition fee. Justice A. Kulasekaran, hearing a batch of petitions on awarding of marks for a question in the Physical ... Other Stories
Tamil Nadu-Chennai Conservancy workers oppose privatisation in more areas CHENNAI, JULY 29. The Chennai Corporation's staff members affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Adi Andhra and Arunthathiyar Maha Sabha (TAAMS) today opposed plans to hand over more areas of solid waste management in the city to the private sector. At a ... 500 more dismissed staff to rejoin work CHENNAI, JULY 29. The Tamil Nadu Government today permitted another 500 dismissed employees in Chennai to rejoin work as no first information reports were pending against them. With the Government deciding not to take back staff members facing ... Passenger carrying pistol detained at Chennai airport CHENNAI, JULY 29.A New Delhi-bound air passenger, before boarding a scheduled Indian Airlines Airbus flight (IC-440), was detained by an alert Central Industrial Security Force Sub-Inspector, O.P. Yadav, at the Kamaraj Domestic Terminal here this ... Other Stories
Pondicherry 
CM, Speaker pay tribute to Edouard GoubertPONDICHERRY, JULY 29. The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, the Speaker, M.D.R. Ramachandran, the Local Administration Minister, A. Elumalai, and Congress legislators paid floral tributes at the statue of Edouard Goubert, former Chief Minister of ... Govt. to make daily wage workers temporary staff PONDICHERRY, JULY 29. The Local Administration Minister, A. Elumalai, today said daily wage workers in municipalities and commune panchayats in Pondicherry were being accorded temporary status. This would mean that their wages would rise to Rs. ... CM calls on Lt. Governor PONDICHERRY, JULY 29. The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, had a thirty-minute long meeting with the Lt. Governor, K.R. Malkani, at Raj Nivas here today. Although the official sources described the meeting as a routine one, it assumed ... Read Today's supplements: | Life | Metro Plus | Opportunities | Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
  
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