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Naxals kill TDP man HYDERABAD, April 15 (PTI) Close on the heels of the killing of former Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker and senior Congress leader D. Sripada Rao in Karimnagar, Naxalites have shot dead a ruling Telugu Desam activist in Anantapur district. Two Naxals of the CPI (ML) Sudershan group came on a motor cycle and accosted TDP worker Chinna Appaiah yesterday. 5 die in gang war PATNA, April 15 (PTI) At least five persons were killed in a gang war in Bihars Patna district today, the police said. Armed members of a gang exploded bombs and fired indiscriminately at Fatua village, killing one Sanjay Prasad Yadav on the spot. Friday prayers BASTI, April 15 (PTI) Sant Kabir Nagar District Magistrate R.K. Singh today issued interim orders directing the Muslim community not to offer Friday prayers at Kotwali campus mosque in Khalilabad town until a final decision was taken in this regard. The order followed tension in the area recently in the wake of objections by BJP workers. Heat wave kills 14 BHUBANESWAR, April 15 (PTI) The Orissa Government has directed all district collectors to take adequate precautionary measures against the current heat wave sweeping several parts of the state. The state headquarters here said 14 sunstroke deaths had been reported so far from eight districts. Three deaths each were reported from Dhenkanal and Jajpur districts, two each from Cuttack and Jagatsinghpur and one each in Samballpur, Bhadrak, Angul and Kendrapara districts. Wheat storage NEW DELHI, April 15
(PTI) The government today abolished stock limits
on storage of wheat and wheat products by traders and
roller flour mills following comfortable stock position
in the central pool and prospects of a bumper wheat crop.
The state governments have been advised to amend their
control orders suitably to remove existing restrictions
on stock limits which were imposed in 1996-97. |
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