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Pondicherry Andhra Pradesh Viral fever claims many lives HYDERABAD, JULY 1. Viral fever continued to take its toll with several deaths being reported from Karimnagar and Nizamabad districts on Tuesday. In Karimnagar the number of fatalities due to the mysterious viral fever rose to 23 though the ... Act fast or face agitation, JAC tells Govt. HYDERABAD, JULY 1.The Joint Action Committee of Employees, Teachers and Workers (JAC) has threatened to launch an agitation programme if the Cabinet sub-committee on services does not settle its pending demands before this month-end. A ... Two TDP leaders killed NALGONDA, JULY 1.Two Telugu Desam Party leaders were axed to death allegedly by Congress activists in broad daylight in Cherukupally village of Kethepally mandal on Tuesday. According to the police, nearly nine persons waylaid Bayya Buchhalu ... CM launches Janmabhoomi, 'one-crore' boons programme MANUGURU (KHAMMAM DIST), JULY 1.The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Tuesday launched the 19th round of Janmabhoomi as well as his `koti Varalu'-- a programme aimed at distribution of sops to one crore people, at Jaggaram near the Heavy ... Other Stories
Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad 
Short supply of ration cards disappoint manyHYDERABAD, JULY 1. Two hundred women, huddled up in the central courtyard of the Round Table School in Filmnagar slum, stood up at once, craned their neck and kept elbowing their way forward the moment the magical word - ration card - boomed on ... 
HCU doesn't forget its heritageHYDERABAD, JULY 1. At a time when heritage structures are biting the dust, University of Hyderabad is showing the way in preserving them. As the spanking new complex for housing the Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts, Performing Arts and ... MCH, standing panel at loggerheads HYDERABAD, JULY 1. The MCH and its Standing Committee appear to be heading for a standoff yet again. This time over the question of allotment of open spaces in layouts. On Tuesday, the Majlis-dominated Standing Committee adopted a tough posture ... Karnataka 
CET medical rank list revisedBANGALORE, JULY 1. Ten major printing errors in the Biology paper of the Common Entrance Test (CET) has forced the CET Cell to cancel the medical rank list announced on June 23 and come out with a fresh rank list for Karnataka and non-Karnataka ... 'Syndicate' defrauds ZPs of Rs. 29.32 cr. BANGALORE, JULY 1. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (Zilla Panchayats) has unearthed a major fraud and misappropriation of Rs. 29.32 crore by a syndicate of officials led by a deputy controller in the State Accounts Department in ... 
Nagappa's death: Minister summonedBANGALORE, JULY 1. The R.G. Vaidyanatha Commission, which is inquiring into the death of the former minister, H. Nagappa, has issued summons to the Minister of State for Agro Processing, Raju Gowda. Nagappa's body was found last year in the ... 
Eight lakh disabled children brought back to schoolBANGALORE, JULY 1. The Commissioner for Public Instruction, V.P. Baligar, said today that there were 11 lakh children with disabilities in the State, of which eight lakh had been brought back to school. Speaking at the inauguration of a ... Other Stories
Karnataka-Bangalore 
BDA denies charge of illegal allotment of siteBANGALORE, JULY 1. The Bhandavya Educational Trust, Basavanagudi, which cares for mentally challenged children, staged a protest here on Tuesday, saying that the BDA did not allot a site to it. According to the trust, the BDA invited ... Lokayukta Police raid sub-treasury, uncover graft BANGALORE, JULY 1. Greed proved to be the undoing of the officials and cashiers in the City sub-treasury when the Lokayukta Police raided it late on Monday afternoon. Following complaints from the public that excess money was being collected ... Green Olympiad 2003 on Sept. 13 BANGALORE, JULY 1. Green Olympiad 2003 will be held on September 13 at various centres across the country on the theme water and related issues. The event, organised by Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) every year since 1999, commemorates ... Two new trains to Chennai on weekends BANGALORE, JULY 1. Two new trains will run between Bangalore and Chennai on weekends. Chennai Central-Bangalore Express (train no. 6021) will leave Chennai Central at 11.20 p.m. on Fridays with effect from July 4 and arrive in Bangalore at 7.35 ... Other Stories
Kerala 
Student stir turns violent in KeralaTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 1. The State-wide stir called by pro-Opposition student organisations today to protest against `commercialisation of education' by the Antony Government turned violent in Thriuvananthapuram, Kannur, Kasaragod, Kottayam ... Govt. to set up labour reforms panel THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 1. The Labour Minister, Babu Diwakaran, said in the Assembly on Tuesday that the Government would appoint a commission to give its recommendations on labour reforms. Replying to the debate on the demand for grants on ... Marad: Crime Branch to question CDA chairman KOZHIKODE, JULY 1. The Crime Branch Special Investigation Team (SIT) has decided to interrogate the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader and Calicut Development Authority (CDA), chairman, M.C. Mayin Haji, in connection with the Marad massacre ... Marad — an expose of Govt. inefficacy? KOZHIKODE JULY 1. The Government has not been able to win the confidence and trust of the grief-stricken families in Marad. This is the message emanating on a close examination of the circumstances that led to the abandonment of the ... Other Stories
Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram 
29 student activists heldTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 1. The city police today lobbed 14 tear-gas shells and directed the water-cannon, `Varun', into the University College after a protest march by left student unions against the fee hike in self-financing colleges took a ... Airport development: eviction notice to residents THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 1. The district administration has served notice on some 50-odd families staying on three acres of land near the Chakkai bridge, identified for the first phase of the development of the international airport, to vacate ... Fever: 200 doctors to be appointed on contract THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 1. The Government has decided to appoint 200 doctors on contract basis in various hospitals in the State to combat the epidemic threat, the Minister for Local Self-Governments, Cherkalam Abdulla, has said. Presiding over ... Other Stories
Tamil Nadu 
Strike begins at SecretariatCHENNAI, JULY 1.Within hours of the midnight arrest of key government staff union leaders in Tamil Nadu, several employees at the Secretariat and other government complexes walked out of their offices and plunged into a protest. 
Release union leaders, hold talks: OppositionCHENNAI, JULY 1.Opposition leaders and government employees unions today condemned the arrest of over 20 functionaries of the JACTTEO-GEO and COTA-GEO, under the Essential Services Maintenance Act, as they had called an indefinite strike for ... New initiative to control child deaths CHENNAI, JULY 1.A new national-level initiative to control child deaths was discussed in detail at a meeting here today with the release of a training module for medical practitioners and health workers who will be implementing the programme in ... 
Jagmohan, Kanchi Acharya discuss development of KancheepuramKANCHEEPURAM, JULY 1. "I did not discuss anything on the Ayodhya issue with the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswati. We discussed only the tourism development of the temple town of Kancheepuram," the Union Minister for Tourism and ... 
Advisory council on industry to be set upCHENNAI, JULY 1. The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today appealed to industrialists to take advantage of the return of the ``feel good factor'' and the ``meaningful development plan'' finalised by her Government after it took to ``far-reaching ... Rly. police step up vigil as ultras surface again CHENNAI, JULY 1. Despite the ban on ultra outfits, extremist activities seem to have surfaced once again, giving anxious moments to the railway police. Following detection of removal of four fishplates and partial dislocation of another on the ... Other Stories
Tamil Nadu-Chennai New line may suffer poor patronage CHENNAI, JULY 1. A railway line from Villivakkam to Anna Nagar is likely to be available for EMU traffic before the end of the current year as the work is progressing at a fast pace, in contrast to the slow movement on the MRTS Phase II ... Pay Metrowater, TNEB & Corpn. bills under one roof CHENNAI, JULY 1. In a bid to simplify payment of bills, government agencies have joined hands to facilitate payment of TNEB, Metrowater and Chennai Corporation dues under one roof in 10 places. According to a Metrowater release here, payment ... DYFI, residents protest encroachment on park CHENNAI, JULY 1. Nearly 100 persons including members of the Democratic Youth Federation of India and local residents observed a day-long fast to protest the illegal occupation of a park and the silence of revenue officials to take action against ... Other Stories
Pondicherry 
Protest swells against attack on Municipal CommissionerPONDICHERRY, JULY 1. The former Pondicherry Home Minister and AICC member, P. Kannan, has criticised the Rangasamy-led government for yesterday's incident, in which the Oulgaret Municipal Commissioner was assaulted by a group of persons at his ... Moorthy to visit today PONDICHERRY, JULY 1. The Union Minister of State for Railways, A. K. Moorthy, will inspect the work on gauge conversion between Villupuram and Pondicherry tomorrow. He is scheduled to have a meeting with the Chief Minister, N. ... Read Today's supplements: | Life | Metro Plus | Opportunities | Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
  
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