http://www.thehindu.com/ The Internet edition of The Hindu, India's national newspaper en-us Copyright 2009 The Hindu Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/hindux.gif http://www.thehindu.com/ 468 50 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153370700.htm THINTHANI (GULBARGA DISTRICT): Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Friday said that Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath has been asked to meet Governor H.R. Bhardwaj and Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde and apprise them of the relief work taken up in the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151280300.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151560300.htm Sirsi: The Government is awaiting a Supreme Court verdict regarding the language policy. “We have appealed to the Supreme Court against a High Court of Karnataka order. It is a Government policy that the children in the State should ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112152410400.htm CHICKABALLAPUR: The Chickaballapur district administration on Friday conducted raids on several fair price shops in the town and surrounding villages and seized around 9,000 litres of kerosene. Official sources told The ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112152440400.htm THINTHANI: Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Friday gave broad indications that the State Government may not seek a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the Karnataka operations of the Obulapuram Mining Company, owned by Tourism ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112152810500.htm Where did the bigwigs of corporate world Mr. Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor of Infosys, Mr. Azim Premji of Wipro and cricketer Anil Kumble buy their first mobile phones? It is at Sangeetha Mobiles. The largest and the leading authorised ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153020600.htm BANGALORE: The Insurance Corporation Employees’ Union, Bangalore Division 1, on Thursday opposed the amendments to the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956,, which is pending in Parliament. Geetha S.K., general secretary, ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153210600.htm CHICKABALLAPUR: Hundreds of Dalit activists and labourers on Friday staged a blockade at the Chickaballapur Zilla Panchayat and the Deputy Commissioner’s offices here to protest against the alleged irregularities in the implementation of ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112155620200.htm Soon, the market will get tomato varieties that will have a shelf life of 30 to 40 days instead of the ones that rot in no time. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157230300.htm Chitradurga: The Janata Dal (Secular) will organise a rally here on Monday in protest against load shedding in the district. Addressing presspersons on Thursday, Janata Dal (S) district unit president S.K. Basavarajan, MLA, said that as part ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157240300.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157260300.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157330300.htm Yeddyurappa lays foundation stone for projects Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157380300.htm Officials taken to task for slow progress in relief work Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157910500.htm Chamarajanagar: The office of the Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Department, Chamarajanagar district, has invited applications from law graduates belonging to minority groups such as Group-1, 2A, 3A and 3B for providing ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157920500.htm CHAMARAJANAGAR: Members of Chamarajanagar district units of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and Hasiru Sene have decided to stage a indefinite dharna in front of the District Offices Complex here on December 7 to protest against the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157930500.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157940500.htm Karwar: Students of the polytechnic college in Dandeli could not attend practical examination on Thursday due to an unscheduled power cut. According to K.S. Patil of the college management, though the college authorities had given a ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157950500.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161420800.htm CHICKABALLAPUR: A 29-year-old man was killed on the spot after a goods vehicle knocked down his motorcycle in Bagepalli taluk of Chickaballapur district on Thursday evening. The police gave the name of the dead as Adinarayanappa of Ivarapalli. ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161430800.htm CHICKABALLAPUR: The Gauribidanur police have arrested three youths on the charge of burglary and recovered mobile phones and accessories worth Rs. 1.50 lakh. The police said the arrested, Prakash and Nagarjuna of Anantapur district and ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161460800.htm Bangalore: Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and several leaders of different political parties have expressed grief at the death of the former Union Minister B. Shankaranand. “In his death we have lost a veteran leader who espoused ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161480800.htm Chief Minister to meet H.R. Bhardwaj to apprise him of steps taken in flood-hit areas Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161490800.htm Says nobody fought for his sake during the recent political crisis Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161500800.htm TUMKUR: Prohibitory orders were clamped in 11 villages in Tumkur district on Friday following tension after members of Stree Shakti Self-Help Groups (SHGs) opposed illegal sand extraction from the Kumudwati river basin. The ban orders ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161510800.htm BANGALORE: The Janata Dal (Secular) has in-principle decided to reciprocate to the Congress’s gesture to field a single candidate in the two-member constituencies in the upcoming elections to the Legislative Council from the local body ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160940400.htm Srimad Bhagavad Gita 4th Chapter: Discourse by Abhaya Chaitanya, Balamuri Sri Siddivinayaka Temple, Sahakaranagar, 6.30 p.m. Characters in Mahabharat: Discourse by Yogeesh, Sree Kuchalamba Samskrutika ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151040300.htm Bangalore: P.H. Krishnappa, a 33-year-old constable attached to the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF), was found strangled to death near a drain off the Nelamangala-Hesaraghatta Road in Nelamangala in Bangalore Rural District Thursday morning. The ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112152390400.htm UAS Bangalore’s Biotechnology Department to develop a variety that stays for a month Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112152400400.htm BANGALORE: In what could turn out to a major relief to students with disabilities, a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court on Friday refused to interfere with a single judge order directing the State to take steps to reserve seats under ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112152480400.htm BANGALORE: The Computer Society of India (CSI) in association with DRDO will hold a conference on “Next generation IT for next generation Indian Defence” here on November 25 and 26. Chairman of CSI C.R. Chakravarthy told ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112152490400.htm BANGALORE: The Kannada Study Centre of Bangalore University observed the Jnanpith award winner Kannada poet V.K. Gokak’s birth centenary here on Friday. Retired professor of English and Kannada writer L.S. Seshagiri Rao said that ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112152570400.htm Bangalore: The Congress on Friday demanded that the State Government bring out a White Paper on relief and rehabilitation works undertaken in flood-affected areas of north Karnataka. Addressing presspersons here on Friday, Leader of the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153030600.htm Plight of the child grim, 20 years after CRC Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153230600.htm BANGALORE: The Bangalore chapter of the All India Imams Council recently passed a resolution urging the Centre to hand over the historic Babri Masjid site to the Muslim community to rebuild it. The recently elected president of the AIIC ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153240600.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112159600200.htm NLSIU’s annual fest is a fertile ground for talent spotting Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112159750200.htm Bangalore: Mallya Aditi International School and IIM(B) are organising a three-day, ‘The Evolving School — Connections and Resilience’, from December 4 to 6 at IIM-B campus. It will address the use of technology and thinking ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160260300.htm BANGALORE: Several areas of the city will have no power on Saturday, according to Bangalore Electricity Supply Company release. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Sir M.V. Layout, Thindlu, Nanjappa Layout, Venkataswamappa ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160310300.htm BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Friday allowed a criminal petition by Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, the scion of the erstwhile Mysore royal family, and two others and quashed a first information report (FIR) against them by the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160410300.htm BANGALORE: The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is all set to hand over a portion of its land at the Kempe Gowda Bus Station (KBS) in the Majestic area for construction of the underground Metro station even as it will shift ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160540300.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160560300.htm Borewells in Chickpet to be capped during tunnelling operations Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160600300.htm Bangalore: Many areas of the city did not have power supply for several hours on Friday. Sources in Bescom said that power supply had been affected due to an “insulator flashover” at the 220 kV Hoody station. The Hoody station ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160870400.htm Civic body release funds only to demand it back Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160960400.htm BANGALORE: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) sarsangachalak Mohan Bhagwat arrived in Bangalore on Friday night. It is his first visit to the State after taking over as RSS chief in March. Mr. Bhagwat will interact with chiefs of district RSS ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161010400.htm But proper and timely treatment can cure the disease Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161030400.htm Bangalore: Various issues related to corruption will be discussed by Lokayukta police officers and prosecutors during a meeting here on Saturday. The meeting — the first of its kind — is being held in the context of low rate of ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161040400.htm Bangalore: The midnight joyride turned out to be a mugging nightmare for two friends early Friday with one of them being stabbed with a knife. The duo lost their debit cards, a gold chain, a mobile phone and other valuables to the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161050400.htm BANGALORE: The five-day-long protest by students of Bangalore University on Jnanabharathi campus here came to an end on Friday after Vice-Chancellor N. Prabhu Dev promised to replace Director of Students’ Welfare Narendra Kumar and ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Belgaum http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151510300.htm It is to check malpractices, if any, says Controller of Legal Metrology Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Belgaum http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151600300.htm Belgaum: A pall of gloom descended on Club Road, which houses the residence of former Union Minister B. Shankaranand (84), who passed away in a private hospital at about 2 a.m. here on Friday. People from all sections of society came to ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bellary http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157360300.htm BELLARY: Health Minister B. Sriramulu on Friday appealed to the people to donate blood periodically. Speaking after inaugurating a function to mark Blood Donation Day organised by the Department of Health and Vijayanagar Institute of ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bidar http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157250300.htm Procession to be taken out in Bidar on Monday Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bidar http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157280300.htm BIDAR: Thirty-six students were caught copying at various centres where the General Nursing and Mid-Wifery (GNM) diploma examinations were held in Bidar on Friday. The raids were conducted by Assistant Commissioner Zaheera Naseem, tahsildar ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bidar http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157320300.htm BIDAR: A two-day arts and science exhibition will be organised on the premises of Gnyana Sudha Education Society here. It will be inaugurated on Saturday at 9 a.m. Bidar South MLA Bandeppa Kashempur will inaugurate it, according to G. ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bidar http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157350300.htm BIDAR: Union Minister for Labour and Employment Mallikarjun Kharge will visit Bidar on Saturday and inaugurate the second Karnataka Dalit Sahitya Sammelann at 10 a.m. at Ranga Mandir. Mr. Kharge will leave for New Delhi from Hyderabad later, ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bijapur http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157110300.htm Bijapur: Deputy Commissioner R. Shantraju has instructed all officials in the district to prepare themselves for paperless administration (e-administration) and to purchase equipment for the same. In a press release issued here by the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bijapur http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157290300.htm Bijapur: Deputy Commissioner R. Shantraju has instructed the officials concerned to ensure proper supply of fodder to cattle and ration to flood-hit people in the district. Presiding over a meeting on food security here on Friday, he ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Bijapur http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157300300.htm ‘Take action against those having illegal taps’ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Gulbarga http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157100300.htm The objective is to cut expenditure on shifting villages Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Hassan http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157270300.htm ‘KRV will remain as the voice of the people’ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Hassan http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157310300.htm Deve Gowda to attend party meeting in Hassan Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Hassan http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157370300.htm HASSAN: Viji alias Sait (30) of Tattekere village in Hassan taluk died on the spot when a tractor by which he was travelling overturned at Tattekere village on Thursday. The tractor driver fled the scene after the accident. — ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Hubli-Dharwad http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151550300.htm HUBLI: Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadish Shettar was given a rousing welcome by his supporters and well wishers on his first visit to his hometown Hubli on Friday after assuming office as a Minister. Mr. Shettar was ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Hubli-Dharwad http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151580300.htm Karunakara Reddy reviews flood-relief work in Dharwad Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Madikeri http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151520300.htm Madikeri MLA urges owners to defy deadline to convert private vehicles to taxis Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Madikeri http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151650300.htm Banking services have become more people-friendly: ombudsman Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Madikeri http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112155600200.htm Madikeri: Students of the Opportunity Section of Kodagu Vidyalaya staged a brilliant play during their Annual Day celebrations here on Friday. The audience was “taken around” India along with the protagonist Charlie Chaplin. ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112158670200.htm MANGALORE: The Sangeet Bharati Foundation has organised a day-long Hindustani music event dedicated to the ragas Bhairav and Kalyan here on Sunday (November 22). Titled Bhairav-Kalyan Utsav, the day will begin with a vocal rendition by ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112158710200.htm MANGALORE: The Nitte Institute of Physiotherapy and the K.S. Hegde Medical Academy are jointly organising a national-level symposium on ‘Modern Trends in Diabetes Management’ at the K.S. Hegde Hospital in Deralakatte on Saturday. ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112159840300.htm ‘Workers are being told that wages are low’ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112159850300.htm Impediments hampering widening of roads sorted out at a meeting held on Friday Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160610300.htm MANGALORE: The inauguration of the Dakshina Kannada Dharmika Souharda Samiti (DKDSS) at the Town Hall on Friday evening received an overwhelming response from the people. The samiti was formed as a follow up to the Dharmika Souharda Sammelana ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160840300.htm 13 of them have been accommodated in degree sections of the same college Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mangalore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112160850300.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mysore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112155610200.htm MYSORE: An action plan to develop villages as ‘nirmala gramas’ under the Sampoorna Swachatha Andolana (Total Sanitation Campaign) in seven taluks of Mysore district has been prepared by the Mysore Zilla Panchayat. One of the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mysore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157850500.htm Conservationists, officials oppose Central Zoo Authority’s recent order Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mysore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157870500.htm Workshop seek to trigger a positive societal response to rehabilitation of the displaced Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mysore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112157900500.htm MYSORE: The mobile squad of the forest police has arrested a man on the charge of trying to hunt a wild boar in the Mysore wildlife division on Friday. The arrested was identified as Raju. The wild boar, which was injured, has been rescued. ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mysore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112158870300.htm MYSORE: State Bank of Mysore will conduct a short story and poetry writing competition for employees of banks, Life Insurance Corporation of India and public sector units in Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts as part of Rajyotsava ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mysore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112158910300.htm MYSORE: Though the sufferings of victims of natural disasters and those displaced by various development projects of the Government are similar, they are often treated separately. The objective of a two-day workshop being held here is to ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Mysore http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112158920300.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Shimoga http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151620300.htm ‘Come to Bangalore and seek approval for speedy implementation of works’ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Shimoga http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151630300.htm SHIMOGA: Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Hartalu Halappa appealed to farmers here on Friday to sell maize grown by them only at the purchase centres set up at the Agriculture Marketing Produce Committee (APMC) yards under the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Shimoga http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112151640300.htm SHIMOGA: A gang of men broke into the premises of Sankara Math here in the early hours of Thursday and took away with ornaments and an idol of Goddess Sarada worth lakhs of rupees. According to the police, the gang took away gold crown and ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009