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Andhra Pradesh
Youth Congress groups clash
HYDERABAD, AUG. 2. The observers deputed by the Indian Youth Congress to verify the complaints against the Andhra Pradesh Youth Congress president, T. Venkata Rao, had a taste of the bitter dissident activity in it when rival groups staged noisy ...
Row over uranium mine project near sanctuary
HYDERABAD, AUG. 2. The Uranium Corporation of India Limited's fresh proposal for a uranium mine in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh, close to the Rajiv Gandhi Tiger Sanctuary has triggered a contoversy. Wildlife enthusiasts have contended ...
Still ready to meet Sonia, says Naidu
HYDERABAD, AUG. 2. The Telugu Desam president, N. Chandababu Naidu, criticised AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, on Saturday for the latter's "unhelpful attitude" towards Andhra Pradesh over the alleged violation of inter-state agreements by ...
TDP reiterates stand on Ayodhya
HYDERABAD, AUG. 2. The Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, has reiterated his party's stand that the Ayodhya dispute should be resolved by the Supreme Court. Asked by presspersons for his ...
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  • Family of three commits suicide
  • Four Pushkaram pilgrims killed
  • e-package for Pushkaram ritual for the dead
  • Three MNCs shortlisted for cloud-seeding
  • Teachers plan 'resentment day'


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Discord between civic agencies over drains
    HYDERABAD, AUG. 2. A storm in the nala? Yes. It is brewing ever since the Chief Minister asked the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) to take over the cleaning and maintenance of storm water drains in the city. The ...
    Cyberabad cops show the way
    HYDERABAD, AUG. 2. A Station House Officer (SHO) shaking hands with constables as he enters the police station was never unheard of. But this is a reality in some of the police stations under the Cyberabad Commissionerate, thanks to the ...
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  • MCH to plant 2.5 lakh saplings
  • Four-year-old undergoes rare heart surgery
  • A gesture straight from the heart


    Karnataka
    Criminal cases filed against Togadia
    BIJAPUR, AUG. 2. The Bijapur Police have registered criminal cases against Praveen Togadia, international secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), and Pramod Muthalik, convenor of Bajrang Dal, south India, on charges of ``hurting the ...
    No new films to be screened from Friday
    BANGALORE, AUG. 2. An emergency meeting convened by the Karnataka Chalana Chitra Pradarshakara Mahamandala on the outskirts of Bangalore on Saturday decided not to screen new films in any language from August 8 in the State. The meeting, in ...
    State working out strategy for CMC meet
    BANGALORE, AUG. 2. The State Government is believed to have decided to focus attention on the water shortage arising out of the poor rainfall in the Cauvery catchment areas at the next meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) scheduled ...
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  • VISL blast toll rises to eight; report in a week


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Wildlife poaching thriving on City's outskirts?
    BANGALORE, AUG. 2. Wildlife poaching is thriving in forest areas on the outskirts of Bangalore. In the sixth such case in the past six months, wildlife groups, INCERT and Green Cross, recently stumbled a well-executed plan that killed a pregnant ...
    Stanford alumni meet on Aug. 6
    BANGALORE, AUG. 2. Azim Premji, Mukesh Ambani, Naushad Forves, Jyotiraditya Scindia, and Nadir Godrej do not need an introduction. Other than being successful in their respective domains, they are among the more than one thousand strong ...
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  • 'Biotech can solve problems in farm sector'
  • Honda rolls out two new models
  • Lesotho PM arriving today
  • Training for BU teachers


    Kerala
    Pakistan turns away man ordered deported by Kerala court
    KOZHIKODE, AUG. 2.C. Ibrahim claims that he is an Indian who holds a Pakistan passport, but he has today fallen between two stools. Taken to the India-Pakistan border this past week on the orders of a court in northern Kerala after he was ...
    Bill only after SC verdict: Hassan
    KOCHI, AUG. 2.The Parliamentary Affairs Minister, M. M. Hassan, has said that a Bill pertaining to the fee structure in self-financing colleges would be introduced only after the disposal of the related case in the Supreme Court. Addressing a ...
    Changes in KPT Act may trigger looting of forest
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, AUG. 2. The amendment being brought to the Kerala Preservation of Trees (KPT) Act of 1986 through a Bill now before the State Legislature has the potential to facilitate large-scale looting of the forest wealth of the ...
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  • Sreedharan Pillai is State BJP chief
  • Rank lists based on vacancies, says PSC
  • Call for interim White Paper on State finances


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    Cases likely against Corpn. officials
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, AUG. 2. The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) is likely to register cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) against seven Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation officials and owners of two commercial ...
    1,200 litres of spirit seized
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, AUG. 2. The Rural police today seized 700 litres of spirit while it was being smuggled into the city in a private car at Bhagavathiyanvila on the National Highway in the Parassala police station limits. One Padmakumar alias ...


    Tamil Nadu
    Exam performance tells on engg. admissions
    CHENNAI, AUG. 2.More than 20 unaided engineering colleges in the State are facing serious problems — they have found very few takers for seats in this year's admissions and achieved very poor pass percentage in the recent semester ...
    PM must clarify statement, allay fears: Karunanidhi
    CHENNAI, AUG. 2.The DMK president, M. Karunanidhi, today said the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, should clarify his statement on the Ayodhya tangle and that his utterances astonished the country. "Like a tiger which has just woken up in ...
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  • Another record for Tiruchi BHEL
  • 'Dumping' of wheat from north worries millowners
  • Union Minister, Nagercoil MLA lock horns
  • Previous enmity led to Natrampalli murder?
  • Std. X supplementary exam schedule
  • DVAC raids in Theni
  • `Saaral Vizha' at Courtallam


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Municipality to assist less affluent sections
    CHENNAI, AUG. 2. The Avadi Municipality has decided to assist the less affluent sections to instal rainwater harvesting structures through sponsorships, loans from cooperative banks and through self-help groups. At a council meeting held on ...
    Epilepsy care centre at VHS
    CHENNAI, AUG. 2. The VHS Medical Centre at Taramani will now have a comprehensive epilepsy care centre, and assist the family in bringing the patient back into the mainstream. The centre will focus on the lower and the middle income groups, ...
    New telephone directory released
    CHENNAI, AUG. 2. The Chennai Telephones today released the new telephone directory `Chennai Phone Book 2002' and said it would start distributing the "updated data bank" of telephone numbers from 10 a.m. on August 4. The `white page' directory ...
    MTC to call fresh tenders for installing FM radio sets
    CHENNAI, AUG. 2. The Metropolitan Transport Corporation is planning to invite fresh tenders for installation of FM radio sets in its buses and at bus stands, as response to the first exercise was poor, according to sources. Officials of the ...
    All set for trial in cyberporn case
    CHENNAI, AUG. 2. The "cyberporn crime case", in which a city orthopaedic surgeon and a few others have been cited as accused, is all set to be committed to sessions for trial. Copies of the charge sheet have been given to the accused. A defence ...
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  • Heavy rain brings relief but inundates roads
  • Biscuit bandits at it, again


    Pondicherry
    PWD launches clean city programme
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 2. The Public Works Department has taken up a programme for keeping Pondicherry garbage-free, clean and beautiful. The programme, launched under a banner `shramdhan', was aimed at removing the garbage, mounds of sand and other ...



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