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Andhra Pradesh
Robbery attempt at Birla Mandir
HYDERABAD, JAN. 16. An attempt to rob jewellery from the famous Venkateswara temple (Birla Mandir) this morning was foiled by alert priests who closed doors of the sanctum sanctorum on seeing two approaching robbers. After desperately trying to ...
Naidu's brother meets TRS chief
HYDERABAD, JAN. 16. Nara Ramamurthy Naidu caused a flutter in political circles today by calling on K. Chandrasekhar Rao, president of Telangana Rashtra Samithi, and bete noir of his brother, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, at the latter's ...
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  • APCC issues show-cause notice to Mrutyunjayam
  • JVV splits over funds issue
  • Special package for naxal-hit areas announced
  • Singhal's 'ultimatum'on Ram temple
  • Modern tobacco convention centre soon
  • District police bust two robber gangs
  • 'Dead' girl comes alive!
  • PW naxals set bus ablaze


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    Students cry foul over shortage of forms
    HYDERABAD, JAN. 16. Utter confusion, and exploitation and flouting of rules marked the submission of applications for admission into minority colleges on Thursday, the last day for their filing. Students and their parents had a harrowing time ...
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  • Hyderabad to host national art show
  • TD MPs, ryots ask Naidu for canal lining
  • Harrowing time for minority college applicants
  • TCLF leaders in a quandary
  • Enhanced tax on school buses slashed
  • 111 more mandals declared 'drought-hit'
  • RTC fares likely to be increased
  • Exercise on draft budget proposals begins
  • New norms in railway tenders


    Karnataka
    15-hour power supply for Karnataka ryots
    BANGALORE, JAN. 16. From January 20, the KPTCL will implement a roster, giving farmers 15 hours of power supply. K.N.Srivastava, Managing Director of KPTCL, told presspersons here today that farmers would get three-phase power supply for ...
    4 hurt as elephants stray into village
    BANGALORE, JAN. 16. A herd of elephants wreaked havoc on a village in Bannerghatta Police Station limits today. Four persons, including two presspersons, were injured when the mammals trampled upon them. According to eyewitnesses, a herd ...
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  • Gowda vows to fight policies of NDA, Cong.
  • Sea Bird evacuees withdraw dharna
  • Kodava-speaking people seek one identity
  • Pursue creative hobbies, people told
  • 'Survey on linking of rivers soon'
  • New STD codes for Bijapur Telecom District
  • 25 colleges to get aid for infrastructure
  • Brainwave 2003 on Sunday
  • Laughter Club to release souvenir


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Civil judges' appointment may be cleared soon
    BANGALORE, JAN. 16. The 49 candidates who were selected to the post of Civil Judge (Junior Division) last April can heave a sigh of relief as their appointment is likely to be cleared shortly. The appointment will also help the judiciary, which ...
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  • 'Sujala' aims at ending poverty: Koujalgi
  • Many dignitaries for meet on human values
  • Centre grants Rs. 9 cr. to ease water shortage


    Kerala
    Kerala: Empowered panel to be recast
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 16. The Empowered Committee of Government secretaries, headed by the Chief Secretary, would be recast and given more teeth in clearing project proposals that are posed at the Global Investor Meet. This was stated by the ...
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  • Govt. should support Akademi: Kavalam
  • Tea auctions: dealers to continue boycott
  • Action Plan to check typhoid
  • Seminar on new buildings' lease Act
  • Govt. urged to probe `missing funds'


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    National Youth Festival concludes
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 16. Curtains came down on the five-day long 8th National Youth Festival in the city today with the Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Vikram Verma, urging the youth to stand united for strengthening the bond of ...
    Cooper harbours no ill-will
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 16. The 67-year-old American missionary, Joseph Cooper, bears no ill-ill against the youth who waylaid and attacked him while returning from a Protestant Convention at Puliyam, near Koppam, in Kilimanoor police station ...
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  • Thrissur and Ernakulam neck and neck
  • Rs. 2,500 cr. education projects for GIM
  • Results of National Youth Festival
  • GE, Microsoft proposals may hog limelight


    Tamil Nadu
    Alternate day supply from tomorrow
    CHENNAI, JAN. 16. Let down by rains, city water managers have taken the expected but drastic step of resorting to ``alternate day supply'' to residents. The new arrangement will begin on Saturday (January 18), which means drinking water will ...
    An exercise in gauging future of alliance
    CHENNAI, JAN. 16. Sattankulam appears set for a four-cornered contest with the AIADMK, the DMK, the Congress and the BJP entering the fray. Both the AIADMK and the Congress have already announced their decision to contest the Assembly byelection, ...
    It's war on indigenous people, say fishermen
    CHENNAI, JAN. 16. The Tamil Nadu Government decision to improve the Marina beachfront in Chennai with Malaysia expertise, for building accommodation for multinationals and embassies and to `relocate' local fisherfolk, has been opposed by the ...
    Lukewarm response to meal scheme in delta
    THANJAVUR, JAN.16. The noon meal scheme for farmers and farm labourers, launched formally in Thanjavur and Tiruvarur on Pongal day, evoked a lukewarm response. While in most of the villages only 50 per cent or less of the beneficiaries to whom ...
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  • ICU for AIDS patients at VHS hospital from today
  • 'Clandestine' visit to test Sri Lanka waters?
  • Withdrawal of sanction to prosecute Shampath challenged
  • Frustration mounting in southern districts
  • 'Give ryots PDS rice, not meal'


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    The test for motorists is on the road
    CHENNAI, JAN. 16. Lack of a proper testing ground to examine the skills of those seeking driving licence in an era of modernisation shows the Transport department in poor light. Central to this issue is that hundreds of young motorists who get ...
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  • One killed in balcony collapse
  • Action sought for West Velachery arson
  • Museum official robbed
  • Metrowater camps for sewage connection
  • Drive for source segregation of garbage at Choolaimedu
  • 'Early diagnosis will help in treating mental disorders'
  • Another chimpanzee rescued


    Pondicherry
    'Italy keen on promoting tourism'
    PONDICHERRY, JAN. 16.The Italian Ambassador in India, Benedetto Amari said here today that his country was eager to cooperate with the Pondicherry Government in promoting tourism and the archaeologically significant site at Arikamedu here. ...
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  • President may visit Pondy next month
  • 33 p.c. quota sought for women in promotion

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