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Top News Thursday, February 05
• Postal employees call off state-wide strike in Kerala (Manorama) Postal employees in Kerala on Wednesday withdrew with immediate effect their day-old state-wide strike after talks with Chief Postmaster General (CPMG) K.N.K. Karthiayani.
• Govt clears Express Highway project (Deepika) The Kerala Government today decided to go ahead with the Rs 7,000-crore Express Highway project linking Kasaragod in the north with the State capital in the south with a four-lane motorway.
• Usha Krishnakumar to join BJP (Deepika) Ms Usha, wife of former Union Minister S Krishnakumar, told UNI that she would join the BJP in the presence of party President Venkaiah Naidu at the party office in the afternoon.
• KSRTC buses to go off roads from Feb 20 (Asianet Gloabal) The entire trade unions in the state owned Kerala State Road Transport Corporation will launch an indefinte strike from February 20 in support of a host of issues and demands.
• Murali to become Electricity Minister (Kaumudi) Congress high command agreed to give eight seats including Mukundapuram constituency for Padmaja Venugopal, daughter of Karunakaran, in the coming Lok Sabha elections and PP Thankachan the PCC president position.

World of Sports Thursday, February 05
• New soccer club getting ready for kick off (New Indpress)
The name of the new professional football club, its logo and coach have been finalised, but the promoters of club are keeping all these close to their chest.
• Cricket - Desktop Alerts (HeroHonda - Rediff)
• 'VVS has more strokes than other batsmen' (Times of India) Australian Prime Minister John Howard took off his golden spectacles, wiped them, put them back and had a quiet chuckle as he read a banner during the recent Sydney Test. Light on creativity and high on fantasy, the banner screamed: "Laxman as Aussie PM." How adulation keeps spilling beyond the realm of reality.
• India bids for athletics world championships (Times of India) New Delhi is one of eight cites that are bidding for the 2009 athletics world championships, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced on Wednesday.
• Kapil had asked for more (Times of India) Cricket legend Kapil Dev was this week offered a luxury that was denied him almost three decades ago when he was a fledgling young fast bowler - extra helpings of chapatis.
• World Amateur Snooker Champ Advani retains Junior Billiards title World Amateur Snooker Champion Pankaj Advani once again proved that he was no mug in the other version of the game as he retained the Junior National Billiards title at Gwalior on Tuesday.

Features February 2004
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Kerala Polls February 2004
• 91% of the people who took part in our first poll were so annoyed with the politicians that they had stopped reading political news!
• A whopping 95% thinks it will be a good idea to let the army manage the state for an year!
• 61% likes to see Ommen Chandy as the new Chief Minister! See Poll Results