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Alappuzha

  • Thiruvananthapuram hogs the limelight at KU youth fete
  • NCP withdraws support to LDF
  • In Malappuram Today

    • Anantapur

  • Congress leaders demand probe into TDP leader's landholdings
  • Rythu Sangham's appeal to parties
  • First test tube baby of Anantapur

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • More facilities for Chenchu tribals in A.P.
  • Denial of entry to Dalits condemned
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • TTD's first step to mass marriage
  • Neighbours use railway wagons
  • EDUSAT project to cover more areas
  • Sundipenta to get panchayat status

    • Archery

  • SPSB, Jharkhand take honours

    • Badminton

  • Ajay, Aditi win

    • Bangalore

  • Centre planning to upgrade trauma centres near highways
  • Huawei keeping fingers crossed on simpler work visa norms for Chinese personnel
  • Deep Purple to perform today
  • Sterilisation, vaccination are solutions to the stray dog menace in Bangalore
  • KHB to allot 4,200 houses, sites
  • Health scheme proposed for teachers in State
  • BMP to set up `corruption helpline'
  • White Paper on farm sector sought
  • HC seeks report on missing former judge
  • BMP to sanction building plan in 72 hours
  • NCC bikers set off on a mission to Andamans
  • A happy reunion
  • Congress threatens stir if BPL cards are not issued by month-end
  • Traffic to be affected today
  • Lokayukta seeks report from Police Commissioner
  • Kumaraswamy throws open road in BTM Layout for traffic
  • Power shutdown today
  • Off on an adventure
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Belgaum

  • Third-party report on flood relief yet to be submitted

    • Bijapur

  • Senior citizens stage `rail roko'

    • Business

  • Incorporating Clause 49 principles in insurance
  • Retailing: tier II cities offer immense potential
  • Cholamandalam DBS gets NBFC-ND status
  • Space Hospitals to spread network in State
  • MPI slashes prices for meat
  • Taj Hotels signs pact with Italian cruise company

    • Chennai

  • Screening of pregnant women for diabetes may be made mandatory
  • AIDS management ecosystem on the cards
  • Hope restored for the corneally blind
  • "Build on cultural legacies for fostering Indo-U.S. ties"
  • Rapid industrialisation threatening Cuddalore's ecology, warns NGO
  • Lorries take over service lanes
  • Chief Minister appeals to Kerala
  • Youth must be professionally trained, says Vice-Chancellor
  • Another animation expert comes calling
  • Thousands of students swarm Madras University job fair
  • He employed `novel method' for stealing mobile phones
  • Children's Park at Guindy in for a facelift
  • "Maddy" charm enlivens Sifymax get-together
  • Gang involved in house break-ins busted
  • Award for carnatic singer
  • Ampa mall to be opened next year
  • Tai Chi master dwells on its health benefits
  • 4 women held, 2,500 kg PDS rice seized
  • Patient-friendly innovations in joint replacement surgeries
  • Youth killed by speeding lorry
  • 14-hour brain surgery
  • Minister launches e-Music project
  • The best practices summit
  • Senior citizens' meeting
  • Special train to New Delhi
  • Art workshop
  • Cash award for medal winners
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Traffic regulations in the city for President's visit
  • Bar Association resolves to fight assault on lawyer legally
  • Photo electoral draft rolls verification
  • Walkout
  • Clearance of passport applications
  • Regulatory orders clamped
  • Know about diabetes
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Presidency in command
  • Baroda ready to test Andhra
  • Tamil Nadu takes on Saurashtra
  • Lanka takes a firm grip
  • Alien conditions for Delhi at home
  • Hyderabad fights back
  • Hyderabad keen to exploit Mumbai's situation
  • Hafeez, Akmal pilot Pakistan to series win

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 2682
  • Solution No. 2681

    • Cuddapah

  • In Kadapa Today

    • Dindigul

  • Minimum support price for cocoons sought

    • Eluru

  • Work on rail bridge in the slow lane

    • Erode

  • Handmade papers manufactured in Erode district go places
  • Govt. sanctions Rs. 40-cr. water supply schemes
  • Security stepped up for President's visit

    • Football

  • All set for Federation Cup

    • Front Page

  • Musharraf's plan welcome: Manmohan
  • India in commanding position
  • India gives South Africa a taste of its own medicine
  • Gilchrist plays a great hitting innings
  • All powers for Prime Minister of Nepal
  • No room for complacency in Jammu and Kashmir: Antony
  • Dalmiya expelled for life, removed from all posts
  • CPI(M) hits out at RSS-BJP campaign
  • Pakistan clarifies on curbs on diplomats
  • Believe in your dreams, Sunita Williams tells Indians
  • Mulayam questions Mayawati's remarks
  • Periyar statue unveiled
  • Activists demand immediate release of Narayanaswamy
  • NCP to sit as separate block in Assembly
  • A bonsai PC — works like normal desktop
  • Drunkenness no excuse: Supreme Court
  • Spinning a wireless web around you, `desi' style
  • State mulls fixing deadline for surrender of assigned lands
  • Antenna for tracking Chandrayaan
  • More facilities for Chenchu tribals
  • `Stakeholders must turn guardians'
  • Bhutan King steps down in favour of son
  • Twin-tube tunnel in the making
  • "Coastal laws not enforced"
  • Stone crushers belch misery on villages
  • Malegaon blasts: one more arrested
  • Metro rail to be extended by 5.5 km
  • Sadananda Gowda unanimously elected State BJP president
  • Pension: "Marriage no bar for disabled"
  • Four greenfield airports to be developed
  • DK to install 128 Periyar statues
  • Nitish orders probe into Dubey case
  • Inside Kashmir

    • Globescan

  • UAE goes to the polls

    • Golf

  • Jeev in joint sixth spot

    • Gulbarga

  • MSP for red gram fixed at Rs. 1,800 a quintal
  • All set for extravaganza
  • Buffer storage for tail end farmers proposed
  • A troupe that dances to its own tunes
  • Gulbarga team leaves for art fair

    • Guntur

  • Maoist arms dump unearthed

    • Haryana

  • Solar heaters mandatory

    • Hassan

  • Rs. 400-crore tourism plan on the anvil
  • `Seek early treatment for contagious diseases'
  • Kumaraswamy to visit Hassan
  • Disabled students seek bus passes, financial assistance

    • Hockey

  • MCC-Murugappa tournament begins today
  • SAI (Kollam) scores a win

    • Hyderabad

  • Concern over lack of minorities' support for Communist parties
  • 20,000 attend CARD programme
  • APSP role model for police of naxal-hit States: YSR
  • Real estate boom to continue
  • Car sales zoom in top gear in Hyderabad
  • Cloud-seeding operation yields `positive' results
  • A brave directorial debut
  • TD leader, kin charged with land grabbing
  • Negative marking for Civil Services examination
  • CPI calls for voluntary surrender of assigned lands
  • Place files on YSR's land before Governor, says BJP
  • Stock market stable: SEBI
  • TD asks YSR to pay compensation
  • Collector inspects transit homes
  • Aditya Park bags energy conservation award
  • State Government to provide basic amenities
  • `No entry' to Dalits at Puri temple condemned
  • Biotech firm to set up new lab
  • Autos to go off roads
  • APCC criticises Nagam, KCR
  • Bus shelters to get a facelift
  • Man stabbed to death
  • Warning to political parties
  • Teachers' stir on Dec. 19
  • Power shutdown
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Pakistan clarifies on curbs on diplomats
  • China assures India it will work for ensuring energy security
  • India to seek details on U.S. military aircraft

    • International

  • U.N. appeals for an end to hostilities in Sri Lanka
  • N. Korea wants to keep nuclear weapons as "deterrence"
  • 5 die in Russian air crashes
  • Iran ready to share nuclear technology with neighbours

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • `Rights violations on the decline'

    • Kancheepuram

  • Man gets life sentence

    • Kannur

  • BJP calls for review petition against acquittal
  • Kunnathurpadi festival begins tomorrow
  • Acquitted CPI(M) workers released

    • Karimnagar

  • KCR to undertake thanksgiving tour
  • Training for Muslim women

    • Karnataka

  • Four greenfield airports to be developed in Karnataka
  • Sadananda Gowda elected Karnataka unit BJP president
  • It's a lame supernatural thriller
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Midday meal workers to be trained in hygiene, safety measures
  • Iron ore seized from reserve forest area in Sandur taluk
  • `Regional plan should be amended'
  • Gadi Nadu Utsav gets under way
  • Minister's directive on power supply
  • `Efforts on for speedy disposal of cases'
  • Iron ore seized in Sandur taluk

    • Kerala

  • NCP to sit as separate block in Kerala House
  • Kerala bans spitting in public places
  • Need for proper planning, implementation of rules Radical solution
  • Congress opposes ties with NCP in local bodies
  • Koilandy
  • FACT Chairman quits
  • Strategy to enhance agriculture production
  • Remembering Rappai, the champion eater
  • A psychological thriller
  • Spitting banned in public places
  • A silent campaign against war
  • KSEB union defers plan for strike
  • Sketches steal the show
  • Heavy rush at Sabarimala
  • `KSFE services to be expanded'
  • Sunset hues
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Robots to share and care
  • State to move apex court against security panel
  • Thalassery to be made heritage town
  • 10th standard equivalency exam
  • Website on Vizhinjam project

    • Kochi

  • A special get-together at Maharaja's college
  • Video shop owners complain against raid
  • Women's forum to adopt labour rooms
  • Closure orders
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Vacancies at District Hospital to be filled, says Achuthanandan
  • Bid to hold DMO hostage

    • Kottayam

  • MVD official attacked

    • Kozhikode

  • PSU appointments through PSC soon
  • Minister visits ailing students
  • Sreemathy should quit: Chennithala
  • KMC acquires systems for blood culture
  • Nod for training in respiratory medicine
  • Mandakini dead

    • Madurai

  • Infrastructure, low land prices key to southern districts' development
  • "Believe in self to fight against battles of life"
  • A fad becoming indispensable
  • They add colour to `Margazhi'
  • "Intelligence, core asset of business"
  • "Explain delay in challenging order on Periyar statue"
  • ASI to join panel to study Meenakshi Temple cracks
  • Prisoner's mother seeks judicial probe into jail clashes
  • ESI scheme extended
  • Read Sportstar
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Trade unions start gathering data on workers
  • Varsity plans course in `detective sciences'
  • `Samarasya rally' held
  • Murder case: two more arrested
  • `Task force needed for development'
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • MUDA to adopt new norms to acquire land
  • Total Sanitation Campaign to cover 235 gram panchayats
  • Mysore to get Rs. 1,834 cr. under JNNURM
  • Protest against Railway Board's directive
  • Writers protest directive on name boards
  • Mega sports meet for special children today
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Ryots expect good samba yield

    • Nagercoil

  • Demonstration on disaster preparedness

    • National

  • `Make development environment-inclusive'
  • Sen: politically motivated
  • Asia Pacific meet adopts `Delhi Declaration'
  • Most students vacate hostels of Lucknow varsity
  • Gas found in basin of Krishna-Godavari
  • U.S. embassy to expand facilities in Chennai
  • Mamata's suggestion to end impasse
  • Four held in professor's murder case
  • "Take a fresh look at privileges"
  • Air pollution threatening quality of life in Asia: U.N.
  • A world around the traffic signal
  • Review deal, says V.P. Singh
  • A precious life may be lost: Fernandes
  • Rogue elephant killed in Assam
  • "Turning away project will be a tragedy"
  • New technique to check menorrhagia
  • Jaipur-Bangalore direct flight launched
  • More BSF forces in J&K to withdraw
  • Nepal Maoists' decision rejected
  • Shinde lays foundation for dam in Imphal
  • 1 lakh hectares for rubber plantation in Tripura
  • Ministry files appeal
  • Temple issue: Minister asks Orissa to ensure social justice
  • Sonia Gandhi lauds veterans of 1971 war
  • Cutting of trees in forests an industrial activity: apex court
  • We missed a chance in 1972: Advani
  • Bill to check cyber crimes introduced

    • Nellore

  • Foreigner held on cheating charge
  • Literary tribute to Malgudi's maker

    • New Delhi

  • Stress on research in police functioning `Research improves functioning'
  • Drastic drop in power losses: DERC
  • More medicos join hunger strike
  • A world around the traffic signal
  • New technique to check menorrhagia
  • Private airlines for changing policies
  • Develop more parking slots: BJP
  • A greater say for consumers
  • Antique idol seized from doctor
  • Metro begins awareness drive
  • Nine years' jail for assault
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • New Delhi - Others

  • Around the City

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • State urged to take a relook at land reforms
  • Tremors felt in parts of Ongole

    • Puducherry

  • Rangasamy calls upon youth to develop reading habit
  • Bill to amend District Planning Committee Act introduced
  • Power shutdown
  • Call for collaboration between varsity, colleges

    • Punjab

  • Court rejects Daler plea

    • Racing : Horse

  • Gaea shows out
  • Khaleels Pride in fine fettle
  • Quest For Cash expected to score
  • Classic Sky lifts the Topmost Cup
  • Aperitivo claims main event

    • Raichur

  • Juvenile home buildings crumbling
  • Man dies of burns

    • Rajasthan

  • Air Deccan launches flight from Jaipur
  • Dalits dispute Minister's claim

    • Salem

  • UGC team visits Govt. Arts College
  • Activity-based learning in more schools soon
  • Award presented

    • Shimoga

  • Government staff to contribute Rs. 70 lakh to Kannada meet
  • Complaints about lapses in sammelana preparations
  • Need for legal awareness stressed

    • Shooting

  • Samaresh rallies to pocket gold

    • Sport

  • India gives South Africa a taste of its own medicine
  • Gilchrist plays a great hitting innings
  • A `dream come true'
  • Tania triumphs
  • Sharath's 100th Ranji match

    • Sports : General

  • Double for R.I. Singh in above-55 category
  • Venkataramana, Ramya shine

    • Tamil Nadu

  • He is a champion of public broadcasting
  • BSNL set to surpass target of 25 crore mobile telephone connections
  • High Court deprecates Coimbatore sub-judge
  • Second phase of land distribution today
  • `Sangeetha Kalasikhamani' conferred on Bombay sisters
  • Police hope to get more information on boosters' seizure
  • Panel reviews project proposals
  • Notorious criminal, accomplice held
  • IIT-Madras, Caterpillar Inc. sign pact
  • Female foeticide prevalent among affluent groups
  • Title for T.K. Murthy
  • Mahouts get nostalgic about elephant camp
  • Invoking NSA for statue, idol desecration unwarranted: activists
  • Stage being set for taking over contentious land
  • Briefly
  • In Pudukottai Today

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Collector comes to the rescue of students
  • A Lasik - Zyoptix centre opened
  • U.S. embassy to expand facilities in Chennai
  • "Exercise consumer rights"
  • Around the City

    • Thanjavur

  • 2.67 tonnes of kuruvai paddy procured
  • Move to enforce road safety rules

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • RCC to step up research in liver cancers
  • TCS shortlists seven students
  • `Enhance quality of teachers'
  • Canoes seized
  • Pinarayi condemns murder
  • Evening vignettes
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • Thrissur

  • CPI(M) worker hacked to death
  • `Government share of resources intact'
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Plan to improve school curriculum
  • `Promote bamboo farming'
  • Tamil scholar honoured for his services
  • Remembering a veteran leader
  • Vandalising of Periyar statue a conspiracy, says Veeramani
  • CII embarks on a new venture
  • Philately expo planned
  • Bus shelter opened
  • Mathematics camp
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Varsity Senate meet likely to be stormy

    • Tirupati

  • Stress on study in atmospheric sciences

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Vijay Diwas celebrated in a grand manner

    • Udupi

  • `Rs. 250 cr. allocated for school buildings'

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • IAS officers demand changes in RTI Act
  • Pandya murder: prosecution theory questioned

    • Vellore

  • BHEL wins award
  • Lawyers' boycott
  • Reward for informers
  • Fast by lecturers
  • Preventive measures sought to combat water contamination

    • Vijayawada

  • Glittering start to Srijanootsav
  • Warm welcome to Koneru Humpy
  • Jagapathi Babu steals the show
  • A never-ending ordeal for them
  • I will play coordinator, says Mallika Begum
  • Fire renders 300 families shelterless
  • Centralised oxygen unit at GGH soon
  • Demand for High Court Bench
  • `Deep-frying of non-veg food causes cancer agents'
  • Nature's hues
  • Special counter opened
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Bappi Lahiri makes waves
  • Curb corruption in civic bodies: contractors
  • Global seminar on ceramics
  • 3 candidates from AU qualify for NET
  • Educational institutes warned
  • Vijay Diwas celebrated
  • Submarine completes diving trial
  • Araku beckons
  • Around the City
  • In Vizianagaram Today
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Gurukulams to be developed into campuses
  • `Opposition trying to gain political mileage'

    • Weather

  • Weather

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