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Andhra Pradesh
Congress MLA from Kadiam arrested
RAJAHMUNDRY, OCT. 14.The Congress MLA from Kadiam, Jakkampudi Ramamohana Rao, and 36 others, including eight corporators of the Rajahmundry Municipal Corporation, were arrested on charges under Sections 353 (preventing a public servant from ...
Attempt on Naidu's life: two identified
HYDERABAD, OCT. 14.The Andhra Pradesh police have identified two of the assailants who have participated in the assassination attempt on the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, based on the description provided by the shopkeeper who sold the ...
B.Ed counselling likely to be delayed
HYDERABAD, OCT. 14. Counselling for filling the existing 31,796 seats in the 283 B.Ed colleges in the State may be delayed by a few more days with the Government deciding to file an affidavit in the High Court tomorrow specifying the norms to be ...
Cops on high alert in Tirupati, Tirumala
TIRUPATI, OCT. 14. Security forces representing various agencies are swarming the temple towns of Tirupati and Tirumala for the October 16 arrival of the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, on a two-day pilgrimage. It has put the entire ...
AP boy restored to mother
KOTTAYAM, OCT. 14. The four-year-old boy from Andhra Pradesh, Manikantan, who was rescued by Kerala police from Kottayam KSRTC bus stand last Tuesday, was restored to his mother today. His mother who arrived along with her brother-in-law by the ...
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  • Maize arrivals picking up in Khammam market yards
  • BJP challenges Rosaiah to open debate
  • Eight `militants' arrested


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    DGP admits failure of mine detector
    HYDERABAD, OCT. 14. The Andhra Pradesh police are trying to figure out why the bomb detection equipment used for `sanitising' the Tirumala ghat road failed to detect the claymore mines, even when the police used it before they unearthed eight ...
    CM won't travel in open top jeep
    HYDERABAD, OCT.14. The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, is visiting Tirumala on October 16 only to perform "puja" to Lord Venkateswara . He will neither participate in any function nor travel in open top jeep during the visit, the Minister ...
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  • Formation of tourism clubs in schools on the anvil


    Karnataka
    Two die of gastro-enteritis, 28 hospitalised
    BANGALORE, OCT. 14. Twenty eight people from Andhra Colony, Vyalikaval, Bangalore, are suffering from gastro-enteritis after drinking contaminated water. Of these, a five-year-old child, admitted to K.C.General Hospital, is down with "suspected'' ...
    Govt. to allow quarrying in forest areas
    MYSORE, OCT. 14. The Minister for Mines and Geology, V. Muniyappa, today said quarrying in forest areas would be allowed in the State, based on certain conditions, and the matter would be placed before the Cabinet shortly for approval. Mr. ...
    Expert team to visit Gomatagiri
    MYSORE, OCT. 14. The Minister for Mines and Geology Minister, V. Muniyappa, today said that a team of experts would be visiting Gomatagiri, near here, to assess the damage caused to the statue of Gomateshwara by quarrying in the vicinity. He ...
    `Many Cong. leaders unhappy with Krishna'
    DAVANGERE, OCT. 14. The statement of the former Union Minister, C.K. Jaffer Sharief, that the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, might not head the Congress Government after the next elections was proof of the serious internal bickering within the ...
    Vaidyanatha panel to go to Kamagere
    BANGALORE, OCT. 14. The R.G. Vaidyanatha Commission of Inquiry, probing the abduction and death of the former Minister, H. Nagappa, will visit his house at Kamagere in Kollegal taluk and inspect the place where his body was found in the Changadi ...
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  • Quarrying in forests to get nod
  • Govt. in grip of lottery, liquor lobbies: BJP
  • Kannada and Culture Dept. in another controversy


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    BJP takes on Cong. over varsity name
    BANGALORE, OCT. 14. The State unit of the BJP has seen in the suggestion to name the proposed university for women to come up in Bijapur after the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, another handle to beat the Government with. It has, instead, ...
    98 more engineering seats on offer
    BANGALORE, OCT. 14. Engineering seat aspirants can now choose from 98 more seats allotted in the Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering by the State Government. These seats will now be offered by the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell through its ...
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  • Health tourism
  • Bangalore to be hub of health tourism


    Kerala
    LDF meet decides to target Speaker
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 14. The Opposition Left Democratic Front (LDF) has decided to go ahead with its plans to target the Speaker, Vakkom Purushothaman, even while holding fire on the internal squabbles in the Congress. Leaders of the LDF ...
    `Probe into vote sale a futile exercise'
    KOLLAM, OCT. 14.The former BJP State vice-president, Xavier Paul, has said that if the party State unit constitutes an inquiry commission to probe the vote-selling allegation against the party in the Ernakulam by-poll, it would only serve to ...
    Marad: `political parties created confusion'
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 14.Excessive political interference has complicated the Marad issue, the Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi president, P. Gopinathan Nair, has said. Participating in a discussion on `The lessons from Marad' organised by the Kerala ...
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  • Contempt plea against Govt. admitted
  • Police blamed for Killi incidents
  • Land acquisition at Guruvayur: contempt petition against Govt.
  • Chandy hits out at `I' group


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    By-polls to local bodies on Nov. 27
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 14. By-elections will be conducted in 28 local body wards in the State on November 27. The following are the local bodies where new ward councillors will be elected: Thiruvananthapuram district: Athiyannur, ...
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  • Sudhakaran's remarks on Karunakaran criticised


    Tamil Nadu
    `CM challenging MP at function a blot on politics'
    CHENNAI, OCT. 14. The DMK and Left parties have condemned the attack on the Congress MP, Mani Shankar Aiyar, near Karaikal, when he was returning from a government function addressed by the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, at Nagapattinam ...
    `Transfer wealth case against Jayalalithaa outside TN'
    NEW DELHI, OCT. 14. The DMK today made a plea in the Supreme Court for transfer of the two disproportionate wealth cases against the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, and four others pending before a special court in Chennai to a court ...
    Varadarajan appears in court in defamation case
    CHENNAI, OCT. 14. The CPI(M) State secretary, N. Varadarajan, today appeared before the principal sessions judge here in connection with a defamation complaint lodged against him on behalf of the Chief Minister. In his complaint, the city ...
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  • Venkatesan `aide' held
  • Spell stand clearly on Ayodhya, DK tells NDA partners
  • Jayalalithaa greets Kalam
  • Summons to Swamy in SPIC disinvestment case


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    All set for IOC petroproduct pipeline
    CHENNAI, OCT. 14. The Indian Oil Corporation has begun the groundwork for the Chennai-Tiruchi-Madurai petroproduct pipeline, which it will start laying by early next year. The company, which decided to go ahead with the project on its own by ...
    Disciplinary action against sub-inspector, 3 constables
    CHENNAI, OCT. 14. The familiar "yellow circle" warning sign with `304 A' marking has come up at the accident site on Nelson Manickam Road, Choolaimedu, where a lorry fatally ran over a government employee and injured three others on Monday. ...
    PWD to open additional points to distribute sand
    CHENNAI, OCT. 14. The PWD and Revenue Minister, O. Panneerselvam, has said at least half a dozen additional points near Chennai would be opened by PWD to distribute construction sand to meet the city's daily requirements. The Minister gave ...
    `New schemes needed for economic empowerment of women'
    CHENNAI, OCT. 14. The joint secretary of Health and Family Welfare, Supriya Sahu, has called upon social service organisations to take an active part in formulating new training programmes for economic empowerment of women. Speaking at a ...
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  • Reservation centre opened


    Pondicherry
    On-line booking of tickets in Pondy from today
    PONDICHERRY, OCT.14.The Union Territory of Pondicherry will have the facility of booking of rail tickets through Internet from tomorrow. The Public Relations Officer of the Tiruch division of Southern Railways, C. K. Sivaraj said over phone ...
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  • Regulatory order in Pondy



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