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  1. `Dry day’ during monsoon

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    / June 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Monsoon is the season to get wet but authorities in Hyderabad want you to observe a `dry day’ once in a week. Lest you get it wrong, this is an effort to check the mosquito menace and the spread of malaria this monsoon. The state health department wants everyone to...

  2. Jagan to stay in prison till June 25

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    / June 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Jaganmohan Reddy’s judicial custody has been extended till June 25. Which means, when the byelection results come on June 15, he will be inside Hyderabad’s Chanchalguda Central Prison. The CBI, accusing him of not being cooperative during interrogation and giving evasive replies, has sought the court’s permission for conducting narco...

  3. Vaiko wants cartoon removed from NCERT class 12 textbook

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    / June 8, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Now for another cartoon controversy. This time from Tamilnadu. Vaiko has asked Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal to remove a controversial cartoon from NCERT’s class XII book. Vaiko says the cartoon appearing on page no. 153 in the chapter `Politics in India since independence’ in the Science book for Class...

  4. Will Brand Andhra Pradesh be a casualty?

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    / June 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    As another minister in Kiran Kumar Reddy cabinet, Information Technology minister Ponnala Laxmaiah is interrogated by the CBI, uncomfortable questions are being raised about the impact of this on Brand Andhra Pradesh. After all, so many senior ministers being summoned for interrogation and one of them, Excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana,...

  5. Use chilli powder on police, says CPM leader

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    This is taking its fascination for the colour red a bit too far. Kerala CPI(M) state committee member M V Jayarajan asked party workers to store water mixed with chilli powder to counter police if they continued to “harass” them under the pretext of probe. “CPI-M activists should store water...

  6. Jagan wants to `campaign’ from jail

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Even as he is being interrogated in CBI custody, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has moved a petition in the Andhra Pradesh High court seeking permission to be allowed to use print and electronic media for campaigning. The Director General of Prisons has been made a respondent in the case. This...

  7. Chess to be introduced in 32000 TN clubs

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    32000 clubs in Tamilnadu will now play chess on a regular basis. This was one of the announcements made after a meeting between World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand and Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa in Chennai today. The CM had earlier announced an award of 2 crore rupees for Anand....

  8. Monsoon reaches Kerala

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    / June 5, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The pre-monsoon showers have been on in Kerala for the last 2-3 days but the monsoon was not yet official. The Met department was waiting for the 14 designated stations along the west coast, mostly in Kerala (like Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Thrissur) to report 2.5 mm or more rainfall for two...

  9. Chennai’s Music Academy granted Research Centre status

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    / June 4, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The name of Chennai Music Academy has always been synonymous with the city’s art and culture scene. Especially the music and dance season every December-January, which is like pilgrimage for any artist and music and dance lover. It has been the venue of the biggest music and dance concerts in...

  10. Sreesanth is back after surgery

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    / June 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Speedster Sreesanth is back in India after surgery on his toes. Sreesanth tweeted last week, informing that the surgery was successful, thanking the BCCi and Dr James Colder and physio Ashish Kaushik. “It is another two weeks and then six months of rehabilitation @nca Bangalore,” Sreesanth tweeted, asking fans to...

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