Top stories from the southern states

Top stories from the southern states at 1700 hrs today.

BOM1 TL-GES-IVANKA

Hyderabad: Ivanka Trump, the advisor and daughter of US President Donald Trump, arrives here to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), a senior official of the Telangana government says.

BOM10 TL-PM-METRO

Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the Hyderabad Metro Rail and takes a ride along with Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao in its maiden run.

BOM17 TL-PM-STATES

Hyderabad: The NDA government promotes "competitive cooperative federalism" without discriminating between states on the basis of the party in power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.

MDS1 TN-RAIDS

Chennai: Income Tax sleuths conducted searches at 33 premises related to business groups for suspected tax evasion and links to shell companies in Tamil Nadu, a senior official says.
 

MES2 TN-BYPOLL-OBSERVERS

Chennai: The Election Commission names three officials as the expenditure observers for the December 21 byelection to the RK Nagar assembly constituency here, represented by late chief minister Jayalalithaa twice.