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Pondicherry Andhra Pradesh MBBS counselling begins VIJAYAWADA, SEPT.20.The most awaited counselling-cum-admission process to fill the 2,443 MBBS and dental seats at various medical colleges in the State commenced at NTR University of Health Sciences here today with the EAMCET first- ranker, ... 
New pay scales for judicial officers soon, says CMHYDERABAD, SEPT. 20. The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu , has announced that all judicial officers in the State can now draw the new pay scales as recommended by the First National Judicial Pay Commission. Speaking at the inaugural ... Three naxalites killed in encounter WARANGAL, SEPT. 20.Three naxalites were killed in an encounter with the police near Ramasamudram cheruvu between the Chelpur and Gollapally villages in Mulug Ghanpur mandal in the wee hours of today. The district Superintendent of Police, Nalin ... Decks cleared for acceleratory promotions for cops HYDERABAD, SEPT. 20. The long-awaited acceleratory promotions for police officers and men would be cleared very soon with the legal impediments being cleared after the Supreme Court recently suspending the A.P. High Court order. The Andhra ... Other Stories
Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad Producers, agencies threaten to blank out DD serials HYDERABAD, SEPT. 20. There's bad news for viewers hooked onto the soaps on the regional kendra of Doordarshan. Private producers and marketing agencies of the sponsored serials, both daily and weekly, are on a warpath and are planning to halt the ... Cong. apprehends threat to Krishna Yadav's life HYDERABAD, SEPT. 20. The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president, D. Srinivas, on Saturday described the former Minister and TDP MLA, C Krishna Yadav, presently in the custody of the Special Investigation Team of Maharashtra probing the fake ... Other Stories
Karnataka Alamatti water for A.P.: CMs set tone BANGALORE, SEPT. 20. The Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, N.Chandrababu Naidu and S.M.Krishna, today made a beginning in forging a cordial understanding between the two States, particularly in sharing the waters of the Krishna ... 
HC launches free legal service clinicBANGALORE, SEPT. 20. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, V.N. Khare, today inaugurated a free legal service clinic, a new library, and an e-governance in judiciary facility at the Karnataka High Court premises. After the inaugural function, ... Seat selection process to resume tomorrow BANGALORE, SEPT. 20. The casual vacancy round seat selection process will be held from Monday for the unfilled, surrendered, cancelled, forfeited, and newly added seats in government, university, private aided, and private unaided (minority and ... Coffee growers seek aid from Centre BANGALORE, SEPT. 20. The former Union Minister, D.K. Tara Devi Siddharth, met the Union Finance Minister, Jaswant Singh, earlier this week and urged him to announce a relief package for coffee growers. The Finance Minister is said to have assured ... Other Stories
Karnataka-Bangalore Project on children's safety needs to be hastened BANGALORE, SEPT. 20. Even as the "Safer roads to school" programme of the city traffic police in association with school administrators is yet to pick up pace, careless bus and autorickshaw drivers continue to endanger many innocent young ... Bangalore city station to get bomb detection squad BANGALORE, SEPT. 20. A bomb detection and disposal squad would be set up at the Bangalore City Railway Station as part of a modernisation programme taken up by the Railways, R.N. Aga, General Manager, South Western Railway, announced on ... Bangalore Book Festival ends today BANGALORE, SEPT. 20. The first ever Bangalore Book Festival concludes on Sunday. During the ten days, the event held at Palace Grounds would have seen close to one lakh visitors and at least half of them returned home loaded with books of their ... BMP for private participation in park maintenance BANGALORE, SEPT. 20. The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) will encourage private participation in park maintenance, the Mayor, C.M. Nagaraj, has said. He was speaking after inaugurating the Sambhavamurthy park at Gruhalakshmi layout and the ... KERC fiat on carbon credits BANGALORE, SEPT. 20. Non-conventional energy (NCE) and wind power projects have to share "carbon credit benefits", if any, with the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. (KPTCL), according to an order the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory ... Other Stories
Kerala Campaign ends today amid public apathy KOCHI, SEPT. 20.With a host of senior leaders, including the AICC general secretary, Ahmed Patel, and the Defence Minister, George Fernandes, making it to Ernakulam, the campaigning for the September 23 by-election to the Lok Sabha is expected to ... Decks cleared for action against TTP THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 20.Decks have been cleared for the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) to initiate action against the Travancore Titanium Products (TTP) for the alleged delay in setting up an effluent treatment plant to check ... Speaker laments fall in political values KANNUR, SEPT. 20. The Assembly Speaker, Vakkom Purushothaman, has said that the general decline in political values has gripped all political parties in the pursuit of present political exigencies. "All the parties are identical in their effort ... AICC observers hopeful of solving crisis KOCHI, SEPT. 20.The AICC general secretary, Ahmed Patel, today exuded confidence that the organisational issues in the Congress would be solved by tomorrow. ``I expect some positive developments tomorrow,'' Mr. Patil said after the nearly ... Other Stories
Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram Making a fast buck out of murky linen at MCH THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 20. With the power laundry section at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital (MCH) slowly heading towards obsolescence due to the apathy of officials, outsourcing of murky linen pieces from the MCH and SAT ... LDF sees a favourable wind in by-poll THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 20.The campaign for the September 23 Ernakulam Lok Sabha by-election, which began promising little by way of excitement, appears to be turning into a milestone in Kerala's political history with a series of developments ... Cheshire Home Silver Jubilee fete from Oct. 1 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 20.The Silver Jubilee of the Cheshire Home would be celebrated with a variety of programmes from October 1 to 7. The veteran actress, Aranmula Ponnamma, would inaugurate the celebrations. Playback singer, K. J. ... Other Stories
Tamil Nadu 'Serious lapses dogged trial' COIMBATORE, SEPT. 20. Friday's strictures by the Madras High Court have thrown light on "serious lapses" on the part of the prosecution in the trial of the Dharmapuri bus burning case. The mistakes that began by sheer oversight seem to have ... Case transfer timely: social activists SALEM, SEPT. 20.Legal experts and social activists have hailed yesterday's Madras High Court ruling transferring the Dharmapuri bus burning case from a Krishnagiri court to the Salem sessions court. The order, they point out, is ``timely and ... Veto Anna varsity land alienation: Durai Murugan VILLUPURAM, SEPT. 20. The principal DMK headquarters secretary, Durai Murugan, today appealed to the Governor, Ramamohan Rao, not to accord permission for the government proposal to set up a new Secretariat on the Anna University premises in ... Collective cry against universal oppression CHENNAI, SEPT. 20.They come from different countries and speak in different languages, but theirs are the same voice of the oppressed. The voices of the plantation workers in Sri Lanka, Dalits from Chengalpattu and Burakus of Japan merged into ... Other Stories
Tamil Nadu-Chennai `Prohibit school authorities from calling in police' CHENNAI, SEPT. 20. The Campaign for Custodial Justice and Abolition of Torture (CCJAT) has urged the inclusion of a specific rule in the Education department rules to prohibit school authorities from summoning police inside the premises and also ... Mobile distribution of Yellow Pages CHENNAI, SEPT. 20. Twenty vehicles of GETIT Infomediary will distribute the B2B and B2C Yellow Pages on September 22 and 23. The vehicles will move, between 9.30 a.m. and 6 p.m., on Pondy Bazaar-Usman Road, at Panagal Park, on Arya Gowda ... Probe Koyambedu land ownership, TNCC tells CM CHENNAI, SEPT 20. The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president, S. Balakrishnan, today wrote to the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa urging the government to conduct an enquiry into the alleged corruption in granting layout permits to a private ... 
Strokes of compassionCHENNAI, SEPT. 20.For the cricket legend, Sachin Tendulkar, who has played against different fast and spin bowlers in national and international cricket, today's one-hour session with cancer- afflicted children at a makeshift ground behind the ... Discharge of Advani regrettable: Elangovan CHENNAI, SEPT. 20. The State Congress working president, E.V.K.S. Elangovan, today said it was regrettable that the Rae Bareilly court had discharged the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, from the Babri Masjid demolition case. In a statement ... ELCOT, SETS to work on secure systems CHENNAI, SEPT. 20. The back office of the State Government's information technology initiative, Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), and the Society for Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS), today signed a Memorandum of ... Decision on original licence deferred CHENNAI, SEPT. 20. The city police have deferred `by a few days' implementation of their decision mandating motorists to carry with them original driving licences With the motorists taking exception to the announcement, detailing the problems ... Other Stories
Pondicherry 
BJP-led Govt. saffronising education: Karnataka MinisterPONDICHERRY, SEPT. 20. The Education Minister of Karnataka, B. K. Chandrasekhar, today lauded the Rajiv Gandhi free breakfast scheme being implemented by the Pondicherry Education department in government schools. Mr. Chandrasekhar, who held ... Other Stories
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