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Cyclone Gaja: Rains continue in southern TN, schools closed

After cyclone Gaja made landfall around midnight, there has been widespread rain in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu. As a precaution,

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A house is damaged due to heavy rain in Thoothukudi on Thursday night.

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Work on water tank, indoor stadium apace

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Work pertaining to the summer storage tank and the indoor stadium are moving at a fast pace in Pulivendula constituency of Kadapa district.Collector

Taking stock: Collector Ch. Hari Kiran reviewing the progress of works at the indoor stadium at Pulivendula of Kadapa district on Thursday.

Thieves cannot be forgiven: CM

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Kumaraswamy hits back after G. Janardhana Reddy terms him a ‘cobra’ out for revenge

Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy addressing presspersons in Bidar on Thursday.

Will take political sanyas if TRS fails to form govt.: KTR

R. Ravikanth Reddy

Asks Opposition if it has the gumption to take his challenge

Minister for Information Technology K.T. Rama Rao at the ‘meet the press’ organised at Press Club in Hyderabad on Thursday.

Cyclone Gaja: Rains continue in southern TN, schools closed

Work on water tank, indoor stadium apace

Thieves cannot be forgiven: CM

Will take political sanyas if TRS fails to form govt.: KTR

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First batch of devotees allowed to Pampa from Nilakkal on Friday morning.

Kerala

Live: Sabarimala turns into fortress as pilgrims start to arrive

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Other States

Sub-Inspector shot dead by criminal in Haryana

Tamil Nadu

A tree is uprooted due to gusty winds at Sathakonvalasai, near Uchapuli in Ramanathapuram district on Friday.

Tamil Nadu

Cyclone Gaja live updates | Nagapattinam bears the brunt; trains, flights diverted

The Hindu Net Desk The severe cyclonic storm made landfall between Nagapattinam and Vedaranyam in the early hours of Friday.

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Tamil Nadu

Cyclone Gaja: Rains continue in southern TN, schools closed

Special Correspondent After cyclone Gaja made landfall around midnight, there has been widespread rain in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu. As a precaution, Collectors in the southern districts have declared holiday for schools and colleges. Exams scheduled by the universities in the region too have been postponed. There was a small landslide over a stretch between Kodaikanal and Palani ghat section. Poles and a couple of trees had been uprooted. Dindigul District Collector T. G. Vinay told The Hindu that rains

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Kerala

Live: Sabarimala turns into fortress as pilgrims start to arrive

The Hindu Net Desk With the Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala set to open at 5 pm on Friday for monthly rituals that marks the beginning of the annual pilgrimage season, the Kerala Police have brought Sabarimala and the pilgrim base camps at Pampa and Nilackal under strict vigil.This has been done in view of the ongoing protests by various Right-wing organisations against the Supreme Court verdict permitting entry for women of all ages to the Ayyappa temple.Gender equality activist Trupti Desai, who landed in Kochi on

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Tripthi Desai at Cochin International Airport on Friday.

Kerala

Kerala BJP gives three-hour ultimatum to resolve Trupti Desai stalemate

M.P. Praveen The Bharatiya Janata Party has given a three-hour ultimatum to the State government to resolve the stalemate over the arrival of gender equality activist Trupti Desai, who had announced of her intention to undertake a pilgrimage to Sabarimala, at the Cochin International Airport Limited.Addressing a large gathering of Ayyappa hymn-chanting protestors gathered in front of the arrival terminal to stop Ms. Desai from leaving the airport, BJP State vice-president A.N. Radhakrishnan said that the

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Karnataka

Thieves cannot be forgiven: CM

Staff Reporter Kumaraswamy hits back after G. Janardhana Reddy terms him a ‘cobra’ out for revenge

Amit Shah, BJP president, at a function to release a handbook on the achievements of MP for Dakshina Kannada Nalin Kumar Kateel in Mangaluru on Thursday.

Karnataka

Amit Shah wants focus on Sabarimala to continue?

Special Correspondent Meets top functionaries in Mangaluru

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Andhra Pradesh

Work on water tank, indoor stadium apace

Special Correspondent Work pertaining to the summer storage tank and the indoor stadium are moving at a fast pace in Pulivendula constituency of Kadapa district.Collector Ch. Hari Kiran, who visited the constituency on Thursday, inspected the works in progress and directed the officials to expedite them. He expressed displeasure over the poorly-planned entry point and the approach road, and directed the municipal authorities and District Sports Officer Basha Mohiddeen to prepare estimates for building a compound

The state-of-the-art lab has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Andhra Pradesh

Tirupati RARS gets hi-tech soil spectroscopy lab

Special Correspondent Second of its kind in country; dependable and fast, say scientists

Telangana

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Hyderabad

Will take political sanyas if TRS fails to form govt.: KTR

R. Ravikanth Reddy Asks Opposition if it has the gumption to take his challenge

Former GHMC mayor Banda Karthika Reddy and PCC secretary Banda Chandra Reddy being shifted to Tughlak Road police station in New Delhi on Thursday.

Hyderabad

Loyalists: Ticket aspirants Congress engulfed in dissidence

Special Correspondent BCs have been ignored, say leaders who were denied ticket

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Other States

Sub-Inspector shot dead by criminal in Haryana

Special Correspondent Accused opens fire at the cop when he was about to get arrested in a murder case.

The tiger MB-2 which was found dead inside Satkosia on Wednesday.

Other States

Tiger re-introduction in Odisha’s Satkosia on hold following tiger’s death

Satyasundar Barik After India’s first interstate trans-located tiger was found dead, the ambitious tiger re-introduction programme to increase big cat population in Odisha’s Satkosia Tiger Reserve (STR) has been put on hold.The tiger MB-2, which was brought from Kanha Tiger Reserve (KTR) in Madhya Pradesh to Satkosia on June 21, was found dead with wounds and maggots in the neck inside Satkosia on Wednesday.Mysterious death“We had received information about the tiger’s death at around 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Till