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Andhra Pradesh
`Simultaneous polls likely in April-May'
HYDERABAD, DEC. 27. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is preparing itself to face early elections to the Lok Sabha, possibly along with Assembly polls. The party has not ruled out simultaneous polls in April-May in which case the vote-on-account ...
Opposition petitions CEC
HYDERABAD, DEC. 27. In a joint move, second of its kind in the last few days, the entire Opposition, including the Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India (CPI), the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the ...
Other Stories

  • Let's work together, KCR tells CPI
  • Lizard in prasadam, four taken ill
  • Record offerings at Tirumala
  • Forest Officers shuffled
  • For whom the tallest man bends?
  • `Free power to ryots at any cost'
  • Frustrate Telugu Desam designs: Srinivas
  • Naidu defends external borrowings
  • Two rag-pickers beaten to death


    Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
    12-hour ordeal for air passengers
    HYDERABAD, DEC. 27. Passengers bound for Chicago and New York via Mumbai on an Air India flight from the city have been literally grounded for the last 12 hours at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, at Begumpet. Last heard, they were still ...
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  • Robbery cases: cops bank on fingerprints
  • eSeva centre sans armed security
  • We are doing a thorough job: Commissioner


    Karnataka
    Govt. to file affidavit before apex court
    GULBARGA, DEC. 27. The Home Minister, Mallikarjun Kharge, said here on Saturday that the State Government would file a detailed affidavit before the Supreme Court on January 5 when the public interest litigation seeking the court's intervention ...
    `There was no compulsion'
    MYSORE, DEC. 27. The Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, said here today that the Cabinet's decision to hand over the investigation of the stamp paper scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation was not taken under any sort of compulsion. He told ...
    Other Stories

  • Deve Gowda urged to take steps for merger
  • No proposal to revamp STF
  • Set up economic zones for Indians abroad: Singhvi
  • CBI probe ordered on Jaswant Singh's suggestion, says Krishna
  • Drop `tainted' Ministers, Govt. told
  • Five AIPJD leaders defend Chief Secretary
  • `Ordinance has helped reduce lotteries'
  • Krishna Bhat walks out of panel hearing
  • Farmers got low rates for land: Deve Gowda


    Karnataka-Bangalore
    Dacoits make off with cash, ornaments from house
    BANGALORE, DEC. 27. A seven-member gang of dacoits struck at a house in Bidadi police station limits in Bangalore Rural district early on Saturday and made away with cash and gold ornaments worth Rs. 50,000 after assaulting the ...
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  • Bullets case: couple innocent
  • Campaign for relief to acid attack victims
  • City to have 52 more `Nirmala' toilets


    Kerala
    Delay in action to cost party dear: Chandy
    THRISSUR, DEC. 27. The UDF convener, Oommen Chandy, today said that the delay on the part of the Congress high command in resolving the crisis in the State unit would cost the party dear. Addressing a press conference here, Mr. Chandy pointed ...
    PSC sees plot to discredit it
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DEC. 27.The Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) has decried what it termed a conspiracy to destroy its credibility through protests and campaigns. The Commission said in a press release here on Saturday that there was no ...
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  • Passport cells in eight more SP offices
  • `Ready to ally with anyone in farm stir'
  • Ekbal's remark kicks up a debate
  • Nagavally R.S.Kurup dead
  • `Secular front to be incomplete without IUML'
  • Stop tree felling at Attappady: AGM
  • Decision to cut posts to be reconsidered
  • Shrine closed after Mandala pooja


    Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
    DPC calls for speedy execution of projects
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DEC. 27. The District Planning Committee (DPC), which met here today, stressed the need for time-bound completion of development projects taken up by various departments. The Thiruvananthapuram North MLA, K. Mohankumar, ...
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  • Move to license foreign trawlers opposed
  • Elaborate arrangements for pulse polio campaign
  • Camp spells magic for them


    Kerala-Kochi
    Feasibility report on Periyar by March
    KOCHI, DEC. 27. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board is likely to come out with a feasibility report on the proposed Periyar action plan by March as part of a National River Conservation Authority (NRCA) scheme to protect important rivers in ...
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  • Cusat Syndicate meeting decisions
  • Alms-free zone mooted
  • Kaloor-Kathrikadavu road work begins tomorrow
  • ITDC camp to be held later


    Tamil Nadu
    Orders on IMFL, sand quarrying cases on Monday
    CHENNAI, DEC. 27. The Madras High Court will deliver on Monday its judgment on two important matters - one pertaining to the ban on sand quarrying and the other relating to the vexed Indian-Made Foreign Liquor vending issue. According to the ...
    Provide social security to fixed-term contract employees: Centre
    CHENNAI, DEC. 27. The Centre wants State Governments to amend their standing orders for hiring personnel on ``fixed-term contracts'' and provide them social security benefits on a par with that for regular staff, the Union Minister for Labour, ...
    Other Stories

  • Vedic conference in Madurai
  • Bharathidasan varsity to introduce paper on environmental studies
  • `Help set up Hindu religious society'
  • Disaster management control rooms soon in hazard-prone districts
  • `DMK decision a turning point'
  • Defamation case against DMK political speaker
  • Clarification
  • `Integrated approach needed to provide facilities for visually impaired'
  • Nitish Kumar to inaugurate broad gauge section
  • Thanjavur-Kumbakonam gauge conversion before Mahamaham
  • CJP will wait and watch
  • TNCC for alliance with secular parties
  • Fight NDA regime's wrong policies, CPI(M) tells DMK
  • Fairs a forum for exchange of ideas: Governor
  • Autonomy for Colleges: Panel to suggest steps to speed up process


    Tamil Nadu-Chennai
    Campaign to clean up Cooum banks at Chetpet
    CHENNAI, DEC. 27. A portion of the banks of the Cooum on Harrington Road, Chetpet, got a facelift today as slum dwellers joined hands with volunteers of Selfless Movement Improving Life Everywhere (SMILE), a social service organisation, to clean ...
    Polio can be eradicated by 2010: paediatricians
    CHENNAI, DEC. 27.The State unit of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics has said it was possible to eradicate polio by 2010. This was "a more realistic timeframe;" not 2005, paediatricians said. "I had predicted that eradicating by 2005 was ...
    Greater interaction stressed between India and Indian Ocean states
    CHENNAI, DEC. 27. Experts and academicians at a conference here have stressed the need for greater interaction between India and other Indian Ocean states. India must put into practice a look East policy early. This will benefit both India and ...


    Pondicherry
    `Alternative School' to reinduct dropouts
    PONDICHERRY, DEC. 27. In an effort to reinduct 4,000-odd school dropouts in Pondicherry into the regular education system, an `Alternative School' will be set up under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) by end of January 2004, according to the ...
    Anbalagan welcomes probe into property grabbing
    PONDICHERRY, DEC. 27. The secretary of the Pondicherry AIADMK, A. Anbalagan, today welcomed a probe by the Additional District Magistrate-cum-Joint Secretary, Revenue, G. Ragesh Chandra, into an alleged grabbing of a piece of property (valued at ...
    Vedas provide solution to all problems: Rangasamy
    PONDICHERRY, DEC. 27. The Pondicherry Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, today said Vedas provided solution to all problems of mankind and their contents were more relevant now as the present day world was ripped through by rancour, intolerance and ...



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