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Pondicherry Andhra Pradesh High Court hauls up private medical colleges HYDERABAD, DEC. 26. The High Court on Friday declared the admissions made into medical and dental courses in certain private medical and dental colleges for the academic year 2003-04 under `B' category as illegal and said they were in flagrant ... Weed out bogus voters first, says Congress VIJAYAWADA, DEC. 26.The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president, D. Srinivas, has asked the Election Commission to start the election process in the State only after weeding out bogus names from the voter lists. "What is the use of ... Other Stories
Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad LAW AND ORDER Focus on security in apartments Of late, the number of offences being reported in apartments has been on the rise. This trend has become a cause of concern for the police and brought the existing security measures into sharp focus. As part of prevention of crime, the police ... Other Stories
Karnataka Rs. 15,000 cr. for railway safety each year YADGIR (GULBARGA DISTRICT), DEC. 26. The Union Minister of State for Railways, Basanagouda R. Patil Yatnal, today reiterated the commitment of the Government to accord top priority to railway safety, and said the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, ... Other Stories
Karnataka-Bangalore Law on fisheries products likely BANGALORE, DEC. 26. The Centre was in the process of drafting a legislation to raise the quality of fisheries products, the Union Agriculture Minister, Rajnath Singh, said here today. Inaugurating the Coastal Fisheries Engineering Institute at ... LAW AND ORDER An eventful year for city police THE YEAR 2003, which is coming to an end, was eventful for the Bangalore city police in many ways. Though the police did not achieve much success in cracking the gruesome murders that hit the headlines, they still have reasons to rejoice over the ... Other Stories
Kerala Call for alliance of farm workers, peasants THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DEC. 26.A two-day national seminar on `Agrarian situation in India and alternative policies', organised jointly by the All India Kisan Sabha and the All India Agricultural Workers' Union (AIAWU), got off here today with a call ... Other Stories
Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram 38 villages in district declared drought-hit THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DEC 26. As many as 38 villages covering four taluks in the district have been declared drought-hit areas in a list published by the State Government. With 12 parched villages, the Thiruvananthapuram taluk has the largest area ... LAW AND ORDER Petitions set to go online THE `POLICE Portal for Community Interaction', being launched by the City Police on January 1, is expected to bring in more transparency and accountability into the disposal of complaints and petitions at the police station level. The portal ... Other Stories
Kerala-Kochi Hundreds of women put to hardship KOCHI, DEC. 26. Several hundreds of young women who came down from different parts of the State to the Government Girls Higher Secondary School here today to take part in a study camp returned home humiliated, after they realised that they were ... LAW AND ORDER Reining in goondas Concern over increasing goonda activities in the State has given impetus to the demand for implementing the Goonda Act. But doubts persist whether goonda activities can be curbed just by invoking the Act. There is one line of thought that goonda ... Other Stories
Tamil Nadu DMK begins poll preparations CHENNAI, DEC. 26. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which withdrew from the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance Government (NDA) at the Centre, has started poll preparations following reports that the Lok Sabha elections ... Lack of proper monitoring is cause for worry CHENNAI, DEC. 26. Five years after adoption, polio-affected M.Cynthia was abandoned by her German parents. They sent her back to a friend's house in Chennai in September 2000 because of adjustment problems. The adoption scrutinising agencies had ... 
From cradle babies to Danish girlsSALEM, DEC. 26. Their eyes were wide with excitement. They were hugged and kissed. For the nine-year-old Trina and 14-year-old Teresa, the long trip down to Salem today after a decade, was to trace their ancestral roots. The girls spoke Danish ... Other Stories
Tamil Nadu-Chennai Corporation to entrust operations to private agency CHENNAI, DEC. 26. The Chennai Corporation has decided to re-open three of its four city diagnostic laboratories and hand over operations to a private agency. The laboratories were closed down in July, after the civic body declared them as ... LAW AND ORDER A transit point for illegal trade in animals Smuggling dead and living animals protected by law is becoming a big business and Chennai is fast emerging as a vital transit point. Star tortoises, snake skins, sea horses and birds are being illegally shipped out of India, mostly to South East ... Pondicherry Enquiry will cover all aspects, says Rangasamy PONDICHERRY, DEC. 26. The Pondicherry Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, today said the Joint Secretary to Revenue and Additional District Magistrate, G. Ragesh Chandra, was holding an enquiry into the alleged grabbing of a Rs. 1.75 crore property in ... Task before new Lt. Governor PONDICHERRY, DEC. 26. The appointment of N.N. Jha, who is the Lt. Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, as the Administrator of Pondicherry, has come as a relief to the Council of Ministers and also officials as they could have all policy ... Read Today's supplements: | Life | Metro Plus | Young World | Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
  
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