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Andhra Pradesh
Naxalites loot three houses in famine raid
ANANTAPUR, APRIL 23. In a famine raid, naxalites belonging to the People's War and their sympathisers looted three houses at M. Bandameedipalli of Rapthadu mandal, 25 km from here, in Anantapur district in the wee hours of Wednesday. According to ...
TDP polls: 9 partymen suspended
HYDERABAD, APRIL 23. The Telugu Desam Party president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, suspended nine lower-level party functionaries who disrupted organisational elections to mandal-level committees on Tuesday. Issuing a stern warning, he said the ...
A.P.-Karnataka row over water sharing
HYDERABAD, APRIL 23.Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka appear to be heading for a long legal battle, this time over Paragodu. Andhra Pradesh has cited 11 new violations by Karnataka covering four rivers, the Chitravathi on which Paragodu is being ...
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  • Mandal-level polls pass off peacefully
  • `Adolescent girls can act as agents of change'
  • Don't work at cross-purposes, doctors told
  • NU to hold national seminar on Jainism
  • Former KU V-C alleges raw deal to Telangana
  • DCC padayatras to highlight Govt. `failures'
  • Minister seeks YSR's help on Paragodu project


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Cop charged with vehicle lifting jumps to death
    HYDERABAD, APRIL 23.A constable working in the Yadagirigutta police station in the adjoining Nalgonda district jumped to death from a commercial complex in Secunderabad on Tuesday night. Thirty-six-year-old Narasimha Raju was being brought to ...
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  • `Industrialists eyeing AP with interest'
  • BJP leaders' plea for study on palm trees
  • Collectors empowered to alienate land


    Karnataka
    Software exports record 25 p.c. growth
    BANGALORE, APRIL 23. Despite the slowdown in the global economy, software exports from Karnataka in 2002-03 recorded Rs. 12,350 crores, a growth rate of 25 per cent over the previous year. Bangalore, the fourth largest technology hub in the ...
    Ghorpade to retire from politics
    BANGALORE, APRIL 23. The Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, M.Y. Ghorpade, has decided to retire from active politics after the completion of the five-year term of the Congress Government. ``I am tired and will retire from active ...
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  • `Make medical education affordable'
  • Govt. to build houses for victims of fire mishap
  • Bheema: Discordant talk causes confusion
  • Launch `no tax campaign', Prakash tells weavers
  • Bijapur-Gadag line by 2005: official
  • TDP blocking transfer of Toranagallu-Bellary line?
  • Pressure mounting on VC to resign
  • Proposal on farm varsity gathering dust


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Trucks hit the road as strike is off
    BANGALORE, APRIL 23. Lorries began to ply in the State on Wednesday evening after the 10-day strike by truckers was called off nationwide. Initial reports said that the strike was withdrawn after talks between the All-India Motor Transport ...
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  • KSRTC calls for tenders for bus terminus
  • Dharam Singh warns contractors
  • Ghorpade for activity mapping by local bodies
  • KMDC extends financial aid to 11,000 people
  • 2 with SARS symptoms quarantined
  • Man killed in road mishap


    Kerala
    'Annihilation of rebels not Cong. style'
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 23. ``Annihilation of the enemy (within) is not the style of the Congress,'' the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, said here on Wednesday in reference to the dissidence he was facing in the party. Talking to presspersons ...
    Hike in water charge ruled out
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 23. The Water Resources Minister, T.M. Jacob, has refuted reports about another increase in water charge. He said here today that there was no proposal to increase the charge now and that reports to the contrary were ...
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  • Work on Azhikkal breakwaters to resume soon
  • Sops for sick textile mills sought
  • `Govt.'s liquor policy flawed'
  • Kuttanad reels under water shortage
  • State artefacts to adorn national museum
  • SriLankan Airlines opens Kochi-Colombo route


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    No shortage of vegetables, prices stabilise
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 23. Ten days into the truckers' strike, vegetable prices have more or less stabilised in the market and there is no shortage as such. However, the demand for vegetables, which plummeted in the first few days of the ...
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  • Consumers take up cudgels against VAT
  • CM calls for change in mindset of police force
  • Applications invited
  • Steps sought to protect Karamana river


    Tamil Nadu
    The Hindu reports for privileges panel
    CHENNAI, APRIL 23. The Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker, K. Kalimuthu, today suo motu referred three reports published in the The Hindu to the Privileges Committee, charging that they ``lowered the fame and reputation of the State ...
    No culprit will be spared: Jayalalithaa
    CHENNAI, APRIL 23. With the Opposition demanding stern action against the sand mafia behind Sunday's killing of a revenue inspector at Kancheepuram, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today warned that ``no culprit even if he were God'' would be ...
    `Sand miners dig in with official, villager connivance'
    CHENNAI, APRIL 23. While villagers in Tiruvallur district and real estate contractors in Chennai city allege that the sand quarry mafia is ruling the roost with its muscle power and political clout, those involved in mining say they are only ...
    High Court declines to extend quarrying permits
    CHENNAI, APRIL 23. Putting an end to the controversial issue of indiscriminate sand quarrying on the Palar river basin in Kancheepuram district, the Madras High Court declined to extend quarrying permits to a batch of licensees. Justice V.S. ...
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  • Stalin signs police register in Madurai
  • Cong., CPI won't attend DMK-sponsored meet
  • Centre prohibits demolition without consent, Govt. silent
  • Minorities won't rest until conversion law is gone: Archbishop
  • Anna varsity show-cause notice to 5 colleges
  • Medicos boycott govt. hospitals
  • 8 held for killing revenue inspector
  • Bring quality of arts on par with technical education: Nigavekar
  • Plundering Kuzhithurai river for cross-border lure


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Police intervention help or hindrance?
    CHENNAI, APRIL 22. On whose side are the police? Child rights activists in the city are perturbed by the inconsistent police response to rendering justice to a child and allege that police personnel even go as far as taking the side of the ...
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  • Residents refuse to pay higher charges
  • Vacate Kannappar Thidal, HC asks fish dealers


    Pondicherry
    `Declare Pondy also a drought-hit region'
    PONDICHERRY, APRIL 23. The PCC president, V. Narayanasamy has urged the Government to declare Pondicherry also a drought-hit region. In a statement today he said that already Karaikal lying at the tail end of Cauvery had been declared a ...
    UGC panel to go into complaints against VC
    PONDICHERRY, APRIL 23. A high-level fact finding committee, constituted by the University Grants Commission to look into complaints against the Vice-Chancellor of the Pondicherry University, V. T. Patil, and others, would be on a three day visit ...
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  • `Comprehensive Panchayats Act needs to be passed'
  • French PM gesture to the aged
  • Decline in cooperation movement in Pondy: CAG report
  • `Make education compulsory'
  • Water board for Pondy soon
  • AIADMK demands ban on cabaret dance programmes



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