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Alappuzha

  • Plan panel gives Rs.15.68 crores for Alappuzha

    • Anantapur

  • Virasam leaders bail plea postponed

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Police ready for anti-naxal drive
  • Housing Finance - Made easy
  • Festive mood
  • Raring to go
  • Explosives recovered from farm
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Ex-Minister seeks 4 flood flow canals
  • MLAs express concern over dry conditions under Yeleru project ayacut
  • Ramakrishna Mission to develop Kadapa centre
  • 131 wards reserved in Adilabad
  • Indian handloom products in great demand overseas: NIFT
  • Land dispute between Muslims, Dalits resolved
  • Protesting Mala Mahanadu students lathicharged
  • Tribals demand action against school official
  • 30 TDP men held
  • Jain monk stresses on vegetarianism

    • Athletics

  • Shyam Sunder leaps to new mark

    • Badminton

  • Ernakulam beats Thiruvananthapuram to retain title
  • Easy for Aditya, Hamsika

    • Bangalore

  • Man accused in theft case dies in custody
  • 10-metre stretch of Sankey Tank retaining wall collapses
  • Bringing light into their lives
  • A thoughtful decision that saved a girl
  • Don't blame State, Maharashtra told
  • Manjunath sees no need for State law on admissions
  • Of lifting weights and fitness levels
  • BMP told to provide facilities in slum
  • Man murdered; youth arrested
  • Man with 31 criminal cases arrested
  • These computer hard drives work even on Mt. Everest
  • Young World quiz on Monday
  • Convention of self-help groups in Bangalore next month
  • BJP seeks Rs. 1,000-crore Central aid for flood relief
  • MCI norms: Students allowed to attend classes
  • Special screening for the stars
  • Two men snatch woman's chain
  • Special screening for special people
  • Police on the alert against possible naxal influx
  • Around The City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • ICF in last eight

    • Bellary

  • Lack of infrastructure affects Kurgodu government hospital
  • Central law sought on admissions

    • Bidar

  • More medical colleges planned: Ansari
  • Criminal Procedure Code will be amended, says Sial
  • Farmers to get Rs. 1,100 per tonne of cane

    • Bijapur

  • 3,000 MW to be added to State grid

    • Briefly

  • Green Home Landscape enters Salem
  • BHPV bags Rs. 47 cr. order from HPCL
  • Bannari Amman Spinning files draft prospectus
  • Grandix Pharma ties up with Italian firm
  • Enercon financial closure for Rs. 500 crore project
  • Dr. Reddy's launches new sunscreen
  • Infotech sets up design centre
  • DLF Universal forays into Hyderabad
  • BHEL wins KREDL award for solar energy products
  • Certification programme for ISVs
  • Acer opens brand store
  • HCL Tech sets up design centre
  • MeritTrac appoints Chief Consultant
  • IAP ties up with Japanese firm
  • Max New York's bancassurance pact
  • IDBI pays dividend to Government
  • New HR head for Convergys
  • Ramco Systems assessed at CMMI Level 5
  • Punjab & Sind Bank gets capital infusion
  • Norms on transfer of securities to NRIs
  • IOC raises $670 m loan
  • Apex court admits Reliance Info's appeal

    • Business

  • Single all-India tariff opposed
  • EU keen on early solution to textile tangle with China
  • Motorola to consider manufacturing in India
  • L&T striving to become an `Indian MNC'
  • Market snaps five-day losing string
  • Google finds its voice
  • Rupee stages modest recovery
  • State's own software companies make a mark in products arena
  • Alukas' offer
  • Kinfra's 500-acre land to get infrastructure facilities
  • Attinad Gold Suk inaugurated
  • Akshara Printers press shifted
  • Centre watching tea prices

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Your victory is my victory, Jayalalithaa tells SHG members
  • Peace without justice not possible, says World Alliance of YMCAs chief
  • Madhuram Narayanan Centre's work lauded
  • Fulfilling a pioneering radiologist's vision
  • The North Chennai learning experience
  • Four killed in accidents
  • Petition seeks transfer of Pallavaram subway land
  • Inter-collegiate quiz contest on Saturday
  • Kennet Lane in a shambles
  • Amend Agriculture Produce Marketing Act: CII
  • 21 turtles born at Crocodile Bank
  • A programme to teach memory techniques, speed-reading
  • Restoration of rice subsidy for Sri Lankan refugees sought
  • Australian scholarships
  • Three men arrested for stealing software
  • `Beauty contest' on rails
  • Short distance passengers to gain from train fare cut
  • Speedmath programme for CAT aspirants
  • Diploma course in garment design
  • Recruitment of seafarers
  • Showers bring mercury down
  • Sarath sings again
  • Two killed in train accidents
  • Weeping woman causes flutter, is consoled by Chief Minister
  • Next edition of `Lights on'
  • Petitions against green tax levy dismissed
  • A service with a difference
  • A doctorate at 58
  • Hotels fined for serving quail without licence
  • Online business quiz
  • Bank's anniversary celebrated
  • Education on wheels
  • An evening of Sinatra
  • Better late than never
  • Around The City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Humpy loses

    • Coimbatore

  • Siruvani dam set to overflow again
  • Farmers unhappy over official apathy
  • National adventure award
  • Broiler chicken price remains high
  • Gynaecology meet
  • KARAM begins next phase of rehabilitation
  • Corpn. to provide new pipelines
  • GATEforum test
  • Around The City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Bangladesh team arrives
  • Women's cricket camp probables
  • BCCI seeks manager's report
  • Gilchrist in 300 club

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8382
  • Solution to Puzzle 8381

    • Dindigul

  • Villagers picket road for water

    • Editorials

  • Maintaining the balance
  • Security for unorganised workers

    • Eluru

  • Vedika opposes `water business'
  • More powers for Lok Ayukta sought

    • Erode

  • Two flyovers to be constructed in Erode
  • Kalingarayan farmers seek compensation

    • Football

  • Inter Milan, Ajax advance
  • Biswas nets Bagan's winner
  • Lampard's brace lifts Chelsea to the top

    • Front Page

  • Agreement on linking of Ken and Betwa rivers signed
  • Chidambaram unveils first-ever `Outcome Budget'
  • Jharkhand dissidents want Munda out
  • Reforms slow moving but durable, says Manmohan
  • Landslips in Guwahati kill 12 persons
  • Afghans get telemedicine lessons
  • Ensure 33 per cent reservation for women first, says Karunanidhi
  • Sehwag vs. Bond, the battle begins
  • England begins well on a rain-interrupted day
  • New rules tough on allrounders
  • Sonia accuses BJP of shifting stand over Women's Bill
  • No plans to shift ITI office to Delhi, says Ministry of Communication
  • Now Indian help for Pakistan temple complex
  • Schoolboy crushed to death
  • Technology park to be ready next month
  • KIMS networked with Corporation
  • Hospitals paralysed as doctors go on strike
  • All set to provide green cover
  • 16 per cent fitment benefit offered
  • Civic polls notification before month-end: SEC
  • Steps to prevent illegal mining of corals
  • Huge dump of explosives recovered
  • Police ready for anti-naxal offensive
  • Political parties' plea
  • Godhra panel term extended
  • Pappu Yadav asked to withdraw charges against AIIMS

    • Generalia

  • Savur elated

    • Globescan

  • Al-Qaeda "threat" to Vatican
  • I didn't mean it, says evangelist
  • Ingushetia Premier wounded in blast

    • Goa

  • Rane regrets lack of police commissionerate

    • Golf

  • Vandana in the van; Rani wins bronze division
  • Atwal top-ranked putter on the Tour

    • Gujarat

  • Anti-terrorist squad summons TV scribe

    • Gulbarga

  • Dharam Singh to lead all-party team to meet Manmohan Singh
  • Students demand Central law on professional college admissions
  • Police may be unaware of the ban: Dharam Singh
  • Regularisation of services of midday meal workers sought
  • D.N. Akki appointed district coordinator
  • Kalam not coming to Gulbarga: Dharam Singh

    • Guntur

  • Guntur Municipal Corporation to have 19 unreserved divisions
  • Nurses criticise MLA's remarks
  • BSNL Plan-140 discontinued

    • Hassan

  • Rs. 27 crores sanctioned for development of Hassan
  • ASI yet to decide on providing cable-car at Shravanabelagola

    • Hockey

  • Inter-collegiate hockey from tomorrow

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Pick-up facility from old bus stand may be withdrawn
  • Demolition drive passes off peacefully
  • Water supply schedule for Dharwad, Hubli
  • MLC seeks steps for revival of bank
  • Man injured during demolition
  • Training camp for girls

    • Hyderabad

  • Arjuna award spurs Andhra trio
  • It's blame game after tragedy
  • More facilities for Ganesh utsav: Jana
  • Yen, won, dollar, dinar... you name it, he has it
  • Ration cards for beggars
  • TDLP alleges manhandling of MLA by police officer
  • CPI(M) seeks package for Telangana
  • Autorickshaw driver a frequent rule-violator
  • Decision on crop loans to tenant farmers soon
  • Schoolboy crushed to death
  • BJP sees lapses in voters' list
  • Kanda, Shashidhar Reddy in disaster management body
  • Collector warns school managements
  • Utsav committees oppose move to decentralise processions
  • Novel protest by AISF activists
  • Unions call for general strike
  • Parents donate Suchith's eyes
  • Crores for the Capital
  • 6-children rule from today
  • YSR congratulates Arjuna awardees
  • VUDA told not to sell land meant for high school
  • Court directive to Government
  • Adding to the chaos
  • `Clearance for Polavaram soon'
  • But seriously...
  • Bail for Varavara Rao
  • Interest waiver on property tax arrears extended
  • Farm land purchase rate increased
  • Painting contest
  • Ashok Jain remanded till September 6
  • Razzak brought to city
  • Constable injured as rifle goes off
  • Special trains
  • Around The City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Reforms slow but durable: Manmohan
  • Indigo to be assembled in Russia
  • Aziz Khan gets one-year extension
  • Buddhadeb meets Indonesian leaders

    • International

  • 10 killed in Pakistan poll violence
  • China, Russia pledge to continue cooperation in military field
  • Talks with LTTE "as soon as possible"
  • Uncertainty as Iraq deadline ends
  • Nokia plans global networks operation centre
  • Packing off the pachyderms
  • Swazi girls feel vulnerable to AIDS
  • Menezes' family for public probe
  • Beyond quinine
  • CIL pursuing extracting oil through coal liquefaction
  • German election campaign picks up

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Karat for clear initiatives on J&K

    • Kannur

  • UDF challenges CPI(M) for open debate on delimitation
  • Kannur University denies allegations on graft
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • TDP accused of neglecting core sectors
  • YSR launches civic poll campaign
  • Security causes inconvenience
  • Many sops for Karimnagar
  • Naxalites kidnap contractor's employee

    • Karnataka

  • No plans to shift ITI office to Delhi: Union Ministry
  • A campaign for sight
  • Now private medical colleges can fill NRI seats

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Water harvesting to become mandatory in Mangalore soon
  • `Bayaluseeme bagina' offered to Bhadra river
  • Government reduces fee of Pahani certificate to Rs. 10
  • Chindodi Leela to start theatre in Davangere
  • Bar association calls for bandh
  • Scheme to prevent youth from joining naxalite movement
  • Venues issuing voter cards today
  • Private colleges permitted to fill NRI seats

    • Kerala

  • Containers stolen from ports being used for spirit smuggling
  • Surprise checks blow the cover
  • A family's trauma
  • No one to care for
  • Remembering a social reformer
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Doctors in Kasaragod threaten to launch indefinite stir
  • Yet another `police story'
  • Additional flight
  • Around The City

    • Khammam

  • Coal project to be named after Jalagam: MLA

    • Kochi

  • Water supply projects moving at a snail's pace in Kochi
  • Plea against soft drink majors admitted
  • Police intensify drive against crime
  • Corporation Council lauded for taking up development projects
  • Khadi goes chic
  • Documentary on diabetic foot care
  • Handmade items by women entrepreneurs
  • `Revoke suspension of faculty member'
  • Tryst with history
  • On schedule
  • Plea to resume boat service
  • Protest against ban on salt
  • In Kochi Today
  • Major drug haul in city

    • Kollam

  • Police report says Mata's assailant was a regular visitor to her Math
  • 20 divisions reserved in Kollam
  • Government staff warn of agitation over bonus issue
  • `Mangal Pande was not the first freedom fighter'
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Government told to take up waste management issue with urgency

    • Kozhikode

  • Raziman, Aswin bag top honour
  • Rs.353 crores sanctioned for State, says Muneer
  • Moving bus catches fire; passengers escape unhurt
  • Morcha protests against Smart City project
  • YMCA building to be opened on August 28

    • Kurnool

  • Move to shift Kurnool dumping yard
  • Functioning of welfare hostels reviewed
  • `Raw deal for poor in land distribution'

    • Leader Page Articles

  • The dodgy underbelly of India's war on terror

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Reservation for women
  • Lahoti's remarks

    • Madikeri

  • BJP to seek royalty to Kodagu district for share of river waters
  • Council demands separate legal system for Kodavas

    • Madurai

  • Script matters more than directors: Shaam
  • Screening camp at Central Prison in Madurai
  • Kalimuthu reviews work on Vaigai river reclamation project
  • ``Third party sale of power beneficial to industry''
  • Have a heart for these children
  • Bench issues notice to university
  • Showers render Madurai cool
  • EDUSAT facility to be launched at varsity on Sept. 5
  • Educational programmes
  • Having their say with numbers
  • Seminar today
  • Power shutdown
  • Around The City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Pawar assures all aid to Karnataka, Maharashtra
  • 190 held in raids on dance bars
  • Gawli arrested

    • Mangalore

  • Government is deceiving people, says Somashekar
  • More relief for district sought
  • Cabinet clears construction of commercial complex
  • Permission sought to cut trees
  • MLA concerned over condition of roads
  • United they stand
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Manipur

  • Ibobi offers to hold talks in Chandel district

    • Mysore

  • Former Minister's son attempts suicide
  • Giving a free run to their creative instincts
  • 70 students of women's hostel taken ill

    • Nagapattinam

  • Narikurava children join bridge centre

    • National

  • India for `humanitarian' view of Sarabjit case
  • Accord with United States not to halt indigenous nuclear programme
  • Fighting pollution on Siachen Glacier
  • No trade-off on services: India
  • BJP sabotaging Bill: CPI(M)
  • Coal licence cancelled for power utilities
  • We are not seeking concessions in public policy: South Korean steel major
  • GoM to hold final round with Airbus
  • Rajasthan, M.P. agree on interlinking of rivers
  • Half of BSNL's capacity increase for rural areas: Maran
  • Karat in NIC
  • Deliberate misrepresentation, says Somnath
  • No threat to decentralisation, says Sri Lankan Minister
  • JD (U), BJP differ on reservation for Dalit converts
  • Meeting with Secretaries to speed up road projects
  • Company Secretaries exam results
  • Parliamentary committee slams Ministry
  • Mission to Sudan

    • Nellore

  • Congress must be taught a lesson: Naidu

    • New Delhi

  • World Bank rebuts Parivartan's charges
  • Tunda alive in Pakistan
  • `Why so much hue and cry over some money for the poor?'
  • Baba Sehgal comes back in a new avatar
  • `Reach out to the poor, and get them justice'
  • ABVP manifesto full of promises
  • Over now to the new digital age...
  • JNU hunger strike called off
  • Concern over rising crime cases in Krishna Nagar
  • PWD asked to start work on new bus terminus
  • `Employment Bill passage historic'
  • Growth must focus on the poorest, says Manmohan
  • Bar Council of Delhi lodges FIR
  • Art workshop concludes
  • New arrival
  • Around The City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Mainstreaming naxalites and other extremists
  • In the land of Hammurabi
  • He wants to change Latin America's history

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Palakkad

  • RDO orders reversion of reclaimed paddy field
  • 29 reserved wards in Palakkad
  • Call to curb illicit liquor trade

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Call to quash Section 25 of River Bank Act
  • Paddy field conversion: offenders warned

    • Pondicherry

  • Tourist inflow into picks up
  • Krishna Jayanthi celebrations
  • Validity of red colour ration cards extended

    • Racing : Horse

  • Starscape shines
  • Star Crush pleases
  • Fort Knox, Thats The Touch show out
  • Accuser for main event
  • Al Qamar expected to score
  • Essex wins main event
  • Arizona Legion triumphs

    • Racing : Motor

  • JK Tyre National meet: fifth round on Aug. 28

    • Rajasthan

  • Rajasthan facing power crisis
  • CPI(ML) workers injured in police lathi-charge
  • New oil find may be Jatropha plant
  • Excessive E. coli found in soft drinks

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Idols stolen

    • Religion

  • Path to liberation

    • Salem

  • Port to improve infrastructure
  • MLA seeks revival of park

    • Shimoga

  • Governor to inaugurate Rotary Eye Bank today
  • Students told to take part in cultural activities
  • Cooperation sought for peaceful celebrations of Ganesh Chaturthi
  • Two-day job mela from September 17

    • Sport

  • Sehwag vs. Bond, the battle begins
  • England begins well on a rain-interrupted day
  • New rules tough on allrounders

    • Sports : General

  • Aishwarya sets new meet record
  • Chinnappa repeats 2003 feat
  • Chinese dominate at the Worlds

    • Squash

  • Poncha's selection criticised

    • Srikakulam

  • Contract teachers' trauma continues

    • Tamil Nadu

  • `Sigaram' awards presented
  • Arbitration processes should be faster, says former judge
  • Experts point out perils of urbanisation
  • Seafood - Eat healthy while enjoying variety
  • Defence Ministry yet to respond to AAI plea for land
  • Selecting a Table
  • "More grants needed to spur research"
  • Motorists' nightmare
  • Plea to postpone poll
  • Dismissal of constable upheld
  • Nepalese Maoist leader allowed to engage lawyer
  • Thanjavur-Tiruvarur gauge conversion behind schedule
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Ensuring women their `rightful place'
  • Special ward for mentally ill in Periakulam GH
  • Women's quota: PMK not for additional seats
  • Wooing more phone users to mobile service
  • Panchayats asked to improve their performance
  • Rs. 7 crores for Phase-II of afforestation project
  • Girl commits suicide

    • Tennis

  • Gayatri cruises into semifinals
  • Easy opener for Federer
  • Sania enters quarterfinals
  • Sunfeast Open mascot unveiled
  • Bopanna upsets Pashanski

    • Thanjavur

  • Withdraw turn system, demand farmers
  • Handloom sari expo begins
  • Jail bharo programme on September 21

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Achuthanandan for investigation into `graft' in KMML
  • Nepal may try out zero-waste concept
  • Karunakaran's party not untouchable: CPI
  • Audience steals the show at Young World quiz
  • Bonus to be given from September 6
  • Strike disrupts out-patient services in Government hospitals
  • No alliance with IUML: Murali
  • Dies non invoked against striking doctors
  • `Apex court sent notice to Pillai in Idamalayar case'
  • Bag-snatching: police probe on
  • Eco-toilet pan launched
  • Lok Ayukta directive to Government
  • SEC releases quota list of panchayats
  • Around The City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 26, 1955: SRC report next month
  • dated August 26, 1955: Pak. ties with Portugal
  • dated August 26, 1955: Tragic end of refugees

    • Thrissur

  • Film festival begins today
  • `Start counselling centres in all panchayats'
  • Local bodies to have more autonomy
  • `Ashtami Rohini' at Guruvayur
  • Harassment: man gets jail term
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Bomb hoax in court complex in Tiruchi
  • Narcotic substances burnt
  • Surprise gifts from IA to beat jetlag
  • Coin box phones fit the bill
  • A medical dilemma
  • Special buses to Velankanni
  • Cherubic, He stands out
  • Around The City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • DMK stands isolated in council meet

    • Tirupati

  • Janmashtami festivities to commence today
  • Red sanders seized in Tirupati

    • Tuticorin

  • 44 more towers to be set up in Tuticorin dt
  • Boat damaged

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Doctors posted at 21 PHCs in Nilgiris
  • Training programme

    • Udupi

  • He has no fear of heights

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Violence mars final phase of Panchayat elections, 4 killed
  • Army out in flood-hit Azamgarh
  • 28 more cases of encephalitis

    • Uttaranchal

  • Bandh observed in Uttarkashi

    • Vellore

  • NCC group commander inspects Vellore battalion
  • DMK meet preparations make heads turn

    • Vijayawada

  • YSR to inaugurate model driving centre at Ampapuram tomorrow
  • Soaring prices, non-availability of onion leave a bitter taste
  • Congress not keen on tie-up with Left parties
  • Call for better pest management practices
  • Around The City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • GCC's marketing fetches rich dividends
  • Alternate day drinking water supply in city from today
  • INTUC threatens stir over new pay panel
  • New ISKCON temple to come up in city
  • Workshop satisfying, say participants
  • SC member of national panel visits VSP
  • Four killed in accident
  • Three held on cheating charge
  • Around The City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • India loses to Poland
  • Inter-school volleyball

    • Warangal

  • MLA's "remarks" sparks controversy
  • Fernandes to deliver lecture on political scenario

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • Records tumble again
  • Prameela corners glory

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