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Alappuzha

  • Make public aware of existing laws: Gouri
  • Steps to tackle water shortage

    Anantapur

  • 40,000 mandays to be created in all mandals

    Andhra Pradesh

  • New garb to exploitation of child brides
  • Police open fire on mob at Salur; two killed
  • Parents of medicos seek end to strike
  • Molestation case against two naxals
  • Independent ministry for food processing mooted
  • Lok Satta forms panel with ex-SC judge
  • Finance panel suggests steps to better farmers' lot
  • NDA support has paved way for State's growth: BJP
  • Election Commission allots TRS common symbol
  • `Feel-good factor' non-existent, says Congress
  • Voter strength down by 8.76 per cent in Anantapur
  • Regulatory system to check diversion of funds mooted
  • Central team to assess cyclone damage
  • IIT alumni to back Government efforts
  • CPI leader stabbed to death
  • Carnival for special people
  • Medicos' stir: police remove hunger strike camp
  • Officials foresee no poll notification before March 23
  • OPDR alleges violation of labour laws
  • TDP to chalk out code of conduct
  • Suspect in murder case ends life
  • Medicos resent Kodela's `remark'
  • Ash pond develops breach
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Parents of medicos seek end to strike
  • Proposal to declare 16 mandals drought-hit
  • Medical camp held

    Badminton

  • PSPB in both finals

    Bangalore

  • Television showroom, scientist's house burgled
  • Byrasandra Lake to be developed
  • A Sankranthi gift for schoolchildren
  • State promoting khadi industry: Minister
  • `Challenge polluters of environment'
  • Panel to select names for Kempe Gowda Award
  • Lorry driver ends life
  • Prostheses donated
  • Satyanarayana Shastry dead
  • Guard held in Shoppers' Stop theft case
  • Entry fee to Lalbagh may be raised
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Belgaum

  • Malaprabha project works to be completed by April

    Bijapur

  • Two arrested; firearms seized in Bijapur

    Business

  • Big push to retailing
  • DCIL to divest
  • Regency Ceramics' plans
  • Indian Bank plans IPO next fiscal
  • IOB bonds
  • Forex reserves at new peak
  • Technopark achieves CMMI level 4
  • CAMPCO to export arecanut to Afghanistan

    Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    Chennai

  • Youth sets old woman on fire at West Mambalam
  • Chennaiites throng places of entertainment
  • Fire at cineplex sparks tension
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Meenakshi becomes WGM

    Coimbatore

  • BSNL to offer SMS in landline phones
  • `Exploit indigenous resources'
  • `Scrap affiliation system in higher education'
  • Consumer fora await filling of vacancies
  • Plastic mat weaving unit at Aliyar
  • `Ban tree felling in Valparai'
  • Coimbatore Aavin declares dividend
  • No power
  • Funds for water supply works
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • Nehra shoulders a heavy responsibility
  • Tough climb to the top — the Aussie way

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 2540
  • Solution No. 2539

    Cuddapah

  • One killed, another hurt in accident
  • 19 held for taking part in cockfights

    Dharwad

  • Girls bag 43 gold medals in Karnatak University
  • Seer refuses to accept honorary doctorate

    Eluru

  • Official in ACB net

    Front Page

  • DMK team calls on Sonia
  • Musharraf calls for 'jehad' against extremism
  • Parliament to meet on January 29
  • Gorshkov deal cleared
  • Do turkeys enjoy thanksgiving?
  • Tough climb to the top — the Aussie way
  • Situation under control
  • Violence in Noida

    Golf

  • Atwal makes the cut

    Gulbarga

  • `Bring Kolis under Scheduled Tribe list'

    Guntur

  • School to celebrate centenary
  • `Art of Living' guru invited to Pakistan

    Hassan

  • Preparations on for Hoysala Utsav
  • Children's film festival from tomorrow

    Hockey

  • Pointers favour Australia

    Hyderabad

  • MCH to come up with prizes for taxpayers
  • Traffic curbs for President's visit
  • Rs. 8 crores to be spent on development of parks
  • Need to impart moral values among youth stressed
  • Police forced me to confess, accused tells judge
  • Old City school gears up for Kalam's visit
  • Auto driver beaten up, vehicle stolen
  • Woman murdered
  • CM orders probe into firing
  • Fake sales tax forms seized
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    International

  • 3 U.S. soldiers, two Iraqis die in blast
  • Bremer for adherence to self-rule plan
  • Russia to join U.S. in Mars mission
  • French Muslims rally against 'scarf ban'
  • China sends list of wanted terrorists to Pakistan?
  • SLFP to ally with JVP based on principles

    Karimnagar

  • Hamali contractor attacked

    Karnataka

  • Court orders notice to Health authorities
  • Congress, BJP moves unethical: JD(S)
  • `Blend technology with wisdom, humanity'
  • Moily unhappy with slow progress of railway projects
  • Tejaswi invited to take part in debate
  • Contingency plan to tackle drought
  • Udupi all set to celebrate Paryaya festival
  • Cabinet will finalise farm policies soon, says Patil
  • CPI(M) rules out tie-up with Congress
  • Linking of rivers will boost economy: Prabhu
  • Krishna told to resign
  • Ghorpade's son to re-enter politics
  • `Centre failed to release grain'
  • Mahasatsang in Bidar, Gulbarga
  • Easy ways to save gas and fuel
  • Mattannavar resigns from police force
  • NSUI to protest cut in varsity grants
  • Janata Party for Opposition unity
  • Global music festival begins in Bangalore
  • Power theft detected
  • `State promoting khadi industry'
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Mohan Dharia favours linking of rivers
  • Rural heritage centre to come up at Banavasi
  • Lokayukta irked by poor upkeep of hospital
  • Call to stop migration of people to cities
  • Management campus at Manipal soon
  • `Shanti yatra' for peace at Malebennur
  • Goa Assembly session

    Kerala

  • Move to divert rivers opposed
  • Hartal: mechanism to recover damages
  • `Reconsider supply of waters to Tamil Nadu'
  • `Feel-good factor' a hoax: Swamy
  • Recruitment drive: case registered against firm
  • BJP State executive begins
  • Akademi fellowships announced
  • Entrance exam applications: last date January 31
  • Karunakaran likely to meet Sonia today
  • Panel on agricultural trade constituted
  • Elephant denied food, water
  • Collectors to hear appeals on fair value of land
  • Kanthalot cremated
  • Ramu Kariat award for T.V. Chandran
  • New forum for cable TV operators
  • Date extended
  • Soopy cancels programmes
  • At Sabarimala today
  • Briefly

    Khammam

  • Three firms served legal notices
  • 20 cr. for development of grain banks in State

    Kochi

  • Cusat move to regain CGFNS exam centre status
  • CPT trade unions to support Vallarpadam project
  • Ex-servicemen seek probe into recruitment drive
  • Youth succumbs to injuries
  • Performance of city police reviewed
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • `Focus to be on women's empowerment'
  • Youth Congress march turns violent
  • Graft complaint against Minister's gunman
  • Subramaniam Swamy to inaugurate seminar
  • Lawyer killed in accident

    Kottayam

  • No `feel-good factor': BMS

    Kurnool

  • Left vows to join medicos' stir
  • Velugu officials asked to learn from experience

    Madikeri

  • Disabled people yet to get free sites

    Madurai

  • Cruelty in the name of valour
  • Need to improve customer services stressed
  • Fresh norms on explosives soon
  • Sabarimala pilgrims have a miraculous escape
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • NMP to adhere to BJP's demand on iron ore export
  • CME on `development paediatrics' from January 19
  • Fears about biotechnology, transgenic plants allayed
  • Exhibition on Lakshmibai Kelkar
  • Oil conservation fortnight begins
  • Dialogue on Tulu drama today
  • Two killed in accident

    Mysore

  • Sound-and-light show planned at Mysore Palace
  • Anti-incumbency factor may have an impact: Wadiyar
  • 1,000 activists for Raj Bhavan Chalo
  • Residents oppose setting up of slaughterhouse

    Nagercoil

  • Two knocked to death

    Nalgonda

  • Nod for shadikhanas in three towns

    National

  • Naxalite-affected States to get Central forces free of cost
  • We will go it alone, says Mulayam
  • Surveillance in States bordering Nepal, Bhutan to be stepped up
  • Social security scheme for unorganised sector launched
  • 'Impact of music helps to understand brain-mind link'
  • 'EC for reducing poll process duration'
  • 'WTO must get out of food, farm sectors'
  • 'Globalisation denied women rights to land and water'
  • I have failed Kashmiri Pandits: Sajjad Lone
  • 'They could hear the birds sing again'
  • Hizb slams Mufti, Mehbooba
  • Protests turn violent
  • SIT exceeding its brief: Bhujbal
  • NCW to probe 'gangrape'
  • Sinha calls up Kasuri
  • Rabri lays foundation for massive power projects
  • Historians protest ban on book
  • TTD to do away with 'break darshan'
  • 'Probe attacks on Catholic missions'
  • Liberhan panel to resume final arguments on January 30
  • 'Vested interests trying to derail peace process'
  • CBI questions Ajit Jogi
  • A 'satyagraha' in Pakistan
  • EPW Editor Krishna Raj passes away
  • Inflation could undermine feel-good factor
  • British tourist shot dead
  • Not quitting NCP: Sangma
  • Six killed in rail accident

    Nellore

  • Trauma care centre set up on NH

    New Delhi

  • CM seeks clearance of Statehood Bill
  • Infighting haunts BJP, Cong.
  • Architecture competition for new Games Village
  • Four held for selling fake documents
  • Some fun, some adventure
  • Pollution level drops
  • Minor assaulted, killed
  • cinema
  • This bank has more to offer
  • Health plan for victims of calamity
  • MCD finally finds sanitary landfill site
  • New property tax system anti-people: BJP
  • Grievance cell to be set up
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    News Analysis

  • The peace maker

    Nizamabad

  • More funds for lift schemes

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Pathanamthitta

  • Kozhencherry flower show from January 26

    Pondicherry

  • Leaders pay tribute to MGR
  • 'Legion of Mary' acquires 'Senatus' status
  • Training for National Service Scheme volunteers

    Punjab

  • Badal case adjourned to January 31
  • Amarinder to expand Cabinet

    Rajasthan

  • New PCC chief gets a rousing welcome
  • Vyas welcomes selection
  • Khurana for 'moral education' in schools, colleges
  • Hutch-Essar tie up for Rajasthan

    Ramanathapuram

  • `Sandhanakoodu' festival
  • Police search for four persons
  • Killed in accident

    Shimoga

  • Work on Tunga project progressing

    Srikakulam

  • Congress move to forge unity among leaders

    Tamil Nadu

  • Jayalalithaa seeks Rs. 700 cr. from Calamity fund
  • No decision yet on AIADMK alliance
  • Task force being set up to develop human resource
  • INL expresses solidarity with DMK front
  • NAAC will help States set up quality assurance cells
  • Rosy Pelican breeds in captivity in Coimbatore zoo
  • Floral tributes paid to MGR
  • Man gored to death, at Alanganallur jallikattu
  • Muslim League faction to unite caste-based outfits
  • IUML will insist on quota for Muslims
  • 3 AIADMK cadres electrocuted
  • Madras University results
  • Two-day cultural extravaganza in city
  • BJP forms panels for selection, campaign
  • Kamal Hassan reaches out to cable TV operators
  • Vajpayee greets Prince of Arcot
  • 300 government schools to have English language laboratories
  • Fresh deadline set for launch of ethanol-mixed petrol
  • Order on wage rights for Malaysian Airlines staff upheld
  • Ooty tea festival may give a boost to industry
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • `Friends of Police' for all stations in Pudukottai dt.
  • Rs.2.44 cr. for re-laying highway roads in Perambalur district
  • Improve quality of roads: CPI(M)
  • Partymen attack Dinakaran's car
  • Environmental awards

    Tennis

  • Moya sprains ankle, hands title to Hewitt
  • Mahesh pockets doubles title in Auckland
  • Sandy makes it a no contest, claims title

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • For a feel of the real India
  • 3,000 students to take part in KU youth fete
  • Around the City

    Thrissur

  • Preparations on for youth fete
  • Students' parliament

    Tiruchi

  • Aavin to increase production
  • Traffic regulations in and around central bus stand
  • Rs.1.33 lakhs for training SHGs in health care
  • Tributes paid to MGR
  • Vivekananda remembered
  • `Bharat cultural examination'
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • IMFL supervisors, attendants recruitment later this month
  • Varsity invites applications
  • Tension in village

    Tirupati

  • State targets to irrigate 5 lakh acres
  • Sahib Singh Verma visits ESI hospital

    Tuticorin

  • One killed as share-auto overturns

    Udupi

  • `Endowments Act discriminatory'

    Vijayawada

  • Measures afoot to improve conditions
  • Child lifting: vital clues found
  • TTD reviews progress on `Gita Mandirs'
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Authorities told to stop cattle slaughter in residential areas
  • Health `melas' at Araku, Chodavaram soon
  • Tourism Week celebrations from tomorrow
  • Workshop on safety
  • National award for city bank
  • Yagnam begins today
  • Pillion-rider dies in mishap
  • VUDA to convene farmers' meet
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • KSEB women stun S. Railway

    Warangal

  • Indrasena takes Congress leader to task
  • Free beer proves deadly
  • Spurious engine oil seized

    Weather

  • Weather

    Weightlifting

  • Tejinder betters snatch record

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