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Andhra Pradesh
Uncertainty over kharif prospects
HYDERABAD, AUG. 5. The projects in Andhra Pradesh based on Krishna basin remain alarmingly empty despite two months of monsoon, causing anxiety to the Government as well as farmers of a massive ayacut of 38 lakh acres. Kharif for this ayacut, ...
Govt. fails on all fronts: YSR
CUDDAPAH, AUG. 5.The Congress Legislature Party leader, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, alleged on Tuesday that the State regressed during the Chandrababu Naidu rule and it ignored farmers' welfare. Addressing the Congress political training classes at ...
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  • GAIL pipeline nearing completion
  • An awe-inspiring communion
  • CM promises to develop `Triveni sangamam'
  • Two Pushkar pilgrims die in mishap
  • Credit cards for artisans: Nellore takes the lead
  • Governor lays stress on medicare to all


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Archakas' row with temple trustees ends
    HYDERABAD, AUG. 5.The row between archakas and members of the Trust Board of Sri Mallikarjuna Swami Devasthanam, Komuravalli (Warangal district), triggered when one of the trustees entering the temple's sanctum sanctorum on July 30 in a drunken ...
    HC notice to EC on TRS poll symbol
    HYDERABAD, AUG. 5.A division Bench of the A.P. High Court, comprising the Chief Justice, Devinder Gupta, and the justice, C.V. Ramulu, on Tuesday issued notices to the Election Commission of India and directed it to respond within four weeks to a ...
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  • Partymen can call up Naidu
  • MSR prepares for `honourable exit'
  • Syndicate Bank cuts lending rates
  • Lathicharge on women condemned
  • TDP for simultaneous polls


    Karnataka
    A.P. should stop work on projects: Patil
    BANGALORE, AUG. 5. The Karnataka Government reiterated in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday its demand that the Centre direct Andhra Pradesh to stop work on Telugu-Ganga, Pulichintala, and Sri Sailam right bank canal projects to create ...
    Lotteries: AIPJD stages walkout in Assembly
    BANGALORE, AUG. 5. The All-India Progressive Janata Dal (AIPJD) members in the Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday, staged a walkout after an unsuccessful attempt to prevail upon the Government to withdraw two notifications under the Lotteries Act. ...
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  • Tribunal may give new twist to Krishna issue
  • Windmills set record in power generation
  • Minority students eligible for education loan
  • Move to make Kankanady main rly. station opposed
  • Cong.-JD(S) tussle over factory affairs
  • MLA calls for construction of barrages
  • Another breach in TLBC hits 4 taluks


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    36 held for bid to stage protest near Vidhana Soudha
    BANGALORE, AUG. 5. The Forum for Social Equality in Education on Tuesday made an attempt to stage a demonstration near the Vidhana Soudha demanding that education be nationalised. As many as 36 persons, including their leaders, ...
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  • Probe into sale of civic amenity sites promised
  • SMS field trials for landlines from Aug. 11
  • Oppn. forces Govt. to amend Bill on election expenditure
  • Special classes for SSLC, PU students
  • Keep toilets in public buildings clean: CM
  • BJP stages dharna over Minister's remark
  • Withdraw notification on online lottery, Govt. urged


    Kerala
    Workers lay siege to FACT division
    KOCHI, AUG. 5. Employees of the Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore (FACT) went on a flash strike and laid a siege to the petrochemicals division of the company at Udyogamandal today in a bid to stop inspection of the facilities by a team of ...
    Rs. 556.46-cr. Govt. subsidy crucial
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, AUG. 5.The State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) is unlikely to allow the current financial year to go without an upward revision in power tariff if the State Government does not give it an undertaking to provide over ...
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  • `Self-financing' to kill organised sector: VS
  • Wagamon: ban on construction
  • Boat race: rally today
  • Passengers hit by diversion of Mangala express
  • Restriction on offerings at Guruvayur
  • KCWC expresses concern over coir sector mechanisation
  • Govt. for more train services
  • BJP hartal in Alappuzha dist. today


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    V-sat facility for `Onconet'
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, AUG. 5.The telemedicine project, `Onconet', pursued by the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), has got a major fillip with the ISRO offering its V-sat facility for online networking with other nodal centres in the State. A broad ...
    Govt. for revamping B.Ed. centres
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, AUG. 5. The Government would initiate steps to improve the functioning of the B.Ed. centres in the State after holding talks with the universities concerned, the Assembly was informed today. Replying to questions, the ...
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  • KU for study on new medical colleges
  • CM's remark will help party: BJP chief
  • VS plea to end `encroachments' in Wagamon
  • JBIC-aided schemes: work from Aug. 17
  • CPI(M) opposed to varsity Bill: Kodiyeri
  • Antony indulging in duplicity: Pinarayi


    Tamil Nadu
    All but 6,072 employees to be taken back
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 5. Heeding Supreme Court advice, the Tamil Nadu Government today agreed to take back all but 6,072 sacked staff members, who included the arrested and those who indulged in violence and instigated other employees to go on strike ...
    Await final verdict today, says Chief Secretary
    CHENNAI, AUG. 5. After today's hearing in the Supreme Court, the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary, Lakshmi Pranesh, convened a meeting of Department Secretaries here and instructed them not to proceed further on reinstating dismissed employees until it ...
    An alliance-saving clarification
    CHENNAI, AUG. 5. With his prompt explanation and assertion in Parliament on the Ayodhya temple issue, the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has effectively prevented his National Democratic Alliance allies, notably the DMK, from trying to ...
    Student's sketch impresses Kalam
    THANJAVUR, AUG. 5. Getting a pat on his back, that too from the first citizen is an honour for any school student. R. Abdul Rahim, studying in Standard VII in the Sadhasiva Middle School at Kondirajapalayam, Thanjavur, who can draw sketches, ...
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  • Cong. plans blackflag demo during Advani visit
  • SI plea against 10-year RI for rape dismissed
  • Muthiah Chettiar award for S. V. Subramanian
  • Admission sans ATA invalid: Architects Institute
  • IMA suit to restrain telecast on ratings
  • HC reduces life term in Shanmugasundaram assault case
  • DVAC inspects KKSSR ginning factory
  • Mettur inflow rising steadily
  • Centre has accepted proposal to abolish SAT: counsel
  • Rain brings hope in delta but direct sowing only way out


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    `Convert Ambattur tank into massive percolation pond'
    CHENNAI, AUG. 5.Even as the administration has been urging individuals and institutions to put up rainwater harvesting (RWH) structures in their premises, academicians have suggested that the establishment should rehabilitate the Ambattur tank ...
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  • Pollution awareness programme for lorry owners, drivers
  • Two held, fake currency notes seized
  • Scheme to improve neo-natal care services launched


    Pondicherry
    `BSNL cellone scheme enjoying good patronage'
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 5. The General Manager of BSNL, S.M. Kalavathi, has said steps had been taken to expand the infrastructure to provide more cell phone connections in Pondicherry. Addressing an Open House session organised by the BSNL here ...
    SP assaulted, 4 held
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 5. The Senior Superintendent of Police (in charge of law and order), Anand Mohan, was assaulted on the beach road here last night and four youths, including two French nationals of Pondicherry origin, were overpowered and ...
    Advocates protest CJ `criticism', boycott courts
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 5. Members of the Pondicherry Bar Association today abstained from courts and observed a token fast, protesting `criticism' of their sustained boycott of Lok Adalats by the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, B. Subhashan ...
    Child prodigy felicitated
    PONDICHERRY, AUG. 5. A six-year-old standard III student today displayed her talent by recounting chronologically the names of Presidents and the Prime Ministers in the past several decades. R. Sivasangeetha also effortlessly recited ...



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