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Alappuzha

  • Failure to repair spillway may cause floods in Kuttanad

    Anantapur

  • Pamidi attack: TDP for action against Diwakar Reddy
  • Groundnut seed shortage leads to protests

    Andhra Pradesh

  • `Lack of response from naxals is delaying talks'
  • Victims identify five cops for involvement
  • Railmen for constitution of sixth pay panel
  • Tobacco exports register 16 p.c growth
  • CPI seeks 1,000 crores for ryots
  • GO banning re-employment of retired staff issued
  • Congress soft-pedalling Telangana issue: Swamy
  • 8 Collectors among 37 IAS officers shuffled
  • Woman TDP leader's house, properties targeted
  • Srinivas plans surprise visits to districts
  • Six ryots end lives
  • Mid-day meal scheme will continue: Minister
  • NIMS ready to turn over Balakrishna to cops
  • Fast-growing teak clone developed
  • Overseas Telugu channel ties up with TV9
  • New system of paddy cultivation unveiled
  • Pensioners seek raise in medical benefit ceiling
  • Law and order deteriorating: Naidu
  • YSR says `no' to garlands, gifts
  • Suresh discharged amid high drama
  • BJP set to take to the streets
  • Search on for 34 fishermen
  • Kalam likely to address Assembly
  • Yerran admitted to hospital
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Commissioner to inspect theatres
  • Rs. 800 cr. for SC,ST welfare schemes

    Athletics

  • Another disappointing day for India

    Badminton

  • Arun puts out Tarun

    Bangalore

  • Go in for a new house with eyes wide open
  • Woman cheated of gold ornaments worth Rs. 30,000
  • Wheat diversion: officials suspended
  • Voters told to produce ID cards
  • `Suminfra 2004' from Thursday
  • Additional coaches for Bilaspur train
  • Sreenivas Shiva Dixit dead
  • Nagabharana invited to meeting in Athens
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates
  • Stock Market Index

    Belgaum

  • Inland fisheries' potential yet to be fully tapped in Belgaum

    Bidar

  • Filariasis tablets: fewer adverse reactions in Bidar
  • Work on watershed programme begins

    Bihar

  • Seven elected to Bihar Legislative Council

    Bijapur

  • Free cataract operations

    Briefly

  • BSE ED resigns
  • Report on financial conglomerates
  • Snecma Aero to expand
  • Maliban to enter Indian market
  • DRT's special sitting
  • Fire at India Cements' Chilamkur plant
  • Encouraging response to apparel expo
  • Voltas net up 55 per cent
  • Seshasayee paper pays 18 p.c.
  • AirTel's money back guarantee
  • HSE's new scheme for companies
  • Bell Granito's plans
  • Keane India assessed at CMM Level 5
  • Infinite secures $6 m funding
  • Canara Bank invests in NCDEX
  • Seshasayee paper pays 18 p.c.
  • Bharti to surrender licences in 4 circles
  • BenQ forays into Indian market
  • New technology for solar heaters
  • MF awareness programme

    Business

  • Rupee slumps to 45.35/$
  • Slowdown in car sales
  • SEZ status for West Bengal leather complex
  • Flextronics prices open offer at Rs. 548
  • ING Vysya to launch floating rate fund
  • Hutchison to consolidate
  • Sensex down 87 points
  • Assocham for restructuring customs duty rate
  • MTNL to pay 45 p.c.
  • 10 p.c. final from Syndicate Bank
  • Tata Power gets trading licence
  • FIPB may be wound up
  • Ford sells 10,000 Ikons in January-May
  • Indian fiscal decentralisation flawed: World Bank

    Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    Chennai

  • Metrowater yet to take over lakes from PWD
  • Book bank scheme a boon to poor students
  • Fire in two godowns
  • Bio-medical waste disposal discussed
  • Cosmopolitan Club president dead
  • Three held for murder
  • Electronic goods seized from train
  • Man dies in Fort St. George
  • Chain snatched from woman
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Prachura triumphs
  • Siddharth, Sivasankari in sole lead
  • Three share lead
  • Rajasekhar wins title
  • Anand draws with Gelfand

    Coimbatore

  • Overflowing Noyyal brightens hope
  • Residents' ultimatum on garbage dumping
  • Residential centres for rehabilitated child workers
  • Freedom fighters seek hike in pension
  • Villagers block road for restoration of bus service
  • Slash service tax: chamber
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore today

    Cricket

  • Thorpe helps England complete whitewash
  • Performance is Parthiv's preferred parameter
  • Kountouri's focus will be on injury prevention
  • Varun slams century
  • West Indies richer by experience: Sarwan
  • Central Zone is champion
  • Opening not a problem: Yuvraj
  • All-round show by Karthikeyan
  • M.O. Srinivasan passes away
  • Accenture defeats Global Exchange
  • Narrow win for Max New York
  • Srihari, Leo in good touch
  • Gautam, Chauhan shine for Jawans

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8010
  • Solution to puzzle No. 8009

    Cuddapah

  • More groundnut seed for Cuddapah in 10 days
  • Ex-Army driver held on charge of duping banks
  • TDP MLA accused in vehicle racket absconding

    Dharmapuri

  • Bio-medical waste causes concern

    Editorials

  • STAR PERFORMER GOES PUBLIC
  • LABOUR PAYS FOR BLAIR

    Erode

  • Petitions computerised in Erode
  • SFI demands arrest of PTA representatives
  • Trade association plea to Centre
  • LBP level increases

    Football

  • Zidane shows Beckham how to bend it
  • Thiagi NGR wins
  • Chennai Customs stuns ICF
  • Greece dared, and won
  • Switzerland manages a draw
  • Delhi Audit makes final
  • Vikram nets winner

    Front Page

  • Modi issue not on agenda of Mumbai meet
  • How the mole-watchers were shackled
  • Consensus on oil price hike
  • 24 abducted
  • 21 policemen killed in Nepal
  • Rail fine up
  • Protest over `Girlfriend'
  • Sensex dips

    Golf

  • David, Viraj clinch top spot

    Gulbarga

  • Contract workers lay siege to corporation office

    Haryana

  • Six independent MLAs join Congress in Haryana

    Hassan

  • Discontent in JD(S) over selection of candidate
  • KPTCL asked to draw up plan for Hassan

    Hockey

  • HJA's gesture towards Vivek Singh
  • ITRC accounts for APSRTC

    Hyderabad

  • The digital temptation
  • Gandhi Hospital begins a new era
  • OU college takes up study on conservation chemistry
  • Traffic goes haywire as schools reopen
  • Berths available in special trains
  • Restricted water supply
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • `Panchsheel, code of conduct for globalised world'
  • `Information Technology is over-hyped'
  • `India keen on closer ties with West Asia'

    International

  • Eight persons with `Al-Qaeda links' held
  • `Charge Saddam or free him'
  • 11 die in Baghdad blast
  • Racism rife in U.K. police
  • Anti-E.U. group steals the thunder
  • Spacecraft reveals Saturn's dark moon
  • Expensive city
  • `Sudan leaders behind executions'

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • J&K promised aid to boost agriculture

    Kancheepuram

  • 17th century antiques on display

    Kannur

  • Raw deal for block panchayats alleged

    Karnataka

  • State not to release Cauvery waters to T.N.
  • Rain in catchment areas; reservoir levels go up
  • Scam generates heat in Assembly
  • Tributes paid to Kalmankar, Venkataramana
  • We have done well, says Kharge
  • Decision on Kharge's status soon
  • Nine officials arrested in rice scandal
  • High school students may not get new history textbooks this year
  • Mayors' petitions referred to Chief Justice
  • PUCL to take up cause of civic workers
  • Do justice to Kannadiga students, Dharam Singh urged
  • Anganwadi workers oppose Govt. move
  • No violation of protocol: Sudarshan
  • Mobile-phone service in two more taluks
  • Seven elected unopposed to Council
  • Karjol is BJP Deputy Leader
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Kannada Chaluvali leaders seek official's suspension
  • MPM staff wages to be revised
  • MLA urges Govt to plan health insurance schemes
  • Insurance scheme for students

    Kerala

  • Silent Valley management plan may go awry
  • Uneasy calm prevails at Shakthikulangara
  • IUML never interfered in Marad probe: Kunhalikutty
  • Government turning anti-Hindu: Rajagopal
  • `Implement recommendations on Sabarimala'
  • Rashtriya Mahasabha condemns cut in lease rent of revenue land
  • BJP for ban on NDF after gathering evidence
  • Kallada project: five former engineers charge-sheeted
  • Chandy warns against bid to create tension at Punnad
  • Murali files defamation cases against Congress leaders
  • Upgradation of schools: writ petition dismissed
  • SAY examination on June 17
  • Governor calls for protection of Silent Valley
  • Forged passports: five passengers held
  • `Money paid to Excise, police personnel'
  • Demand to write off farm loans
  • Sabarimala temple opens
  • Picketing of Coca-Cola plant
  • High command to take decision on changes
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Villagers yet to recover from shock
  • KSEB begins inquiry

    Kochi

  • Syndicate meeting likely to tackle contentious issue
  • Cooking gas leak in city hotel
  • Apollo Tyres moots outsourcing, VRS
  • Delay in doubling work
  • Corporation plans project to protect coastal areas
  • Evolving an activity group
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • Residents' council against electronic meters
  • KGOU demand for wage revision

    Kottayam

  • M.G. University panel to look into campus issue

    Kozhikode

  • Girls bag top ranks in B.Sc. examinations
  • Army recruitment rally in Kozhikode
  • Rainwater storage tanks inaugurated

    Kurnool

  • Pesticide dealers asked to stop over-the-counter sales

    Leader Page Articles

  • Containing States' profligacy
  • Keeping off the GM bandwagon

    Letters to the Editor

  • RAW in crisis
  • BrahMos launch
  • What ails BJP?
  • Lashkar recruitment
  • Pahalgam incident
  • Focus on agriculture
  • Rajya Sabha polls
  • Laudable
  • Reverse the legacy
  • Child labour
  • Cauvery dispute
  • The Olympic flame

    Madhya Pradesh

  • M.P. Cabinet nod for new industrial policy

    Madikeri

  • Aspirants for top CMC posts start lobbying

    Madurai

  • Madurai engineer designs new berth
  • Online tax collection centres opened
  • Ramnad village chosen to study quality of Gulf of Mannar water
  • Lorry driver killed, 7 injured in accidents
  • Couple killed
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • Growers not sure of good price for vanilla
  • Mangalore Mayor anxious as elections are round the corner
  • Nation-building should be based on Shivaji's ideology: MLA
  • Handloom project centre to be set up in Udupi
  • Kashi Math devotees stage protest
  • Areca nut growers asked to support cooperative society
  • Set up passport office in Mangalore: KCCI

    Mysore

  • Rebellion haunts Congress as Council poll nears
  • High bacterial content found in tap water

    Nagapattinam

  • Woes of students in Nagapattinam
  • Box to collect petitions

    Nagercoil

  • Drawal of water from Mukkadal dam draws flak
  • It is overflowing

    National

  • Government nod for contact with Hurriyat
  • PMO apprised of Cauvery panel findings
  • Somnath for early disposal of cases against MPs, MLAs
  • CPI will act as a watchdog, says Bardhan
  • Building nuclear confidence
  • BJP dissidents baffled
  • Minor changes in Goa Cabinet
  • Nag missile test-fired
  • `40 p.c. of resources for schemes must be set apart for women'
  • 247 commercial sex workers leave Goa
  • Call for proper implementation of PDS, noon meal scheme
  • Legal status may be considered
  • Reshuffle in J&K Ministry soon: Azad
  • Held for inter-State car-lifting racket
  • Gustad's police custody extended
  • NCW discusses Baina beach oustees' plight
  • Major strike by NLFT faction
  • `Labour issues must be addressed within ILO framework'
  • Veteran Communist leader dead
  • Pawar for more autonomy to FCI
  • Vaishno Devi yatra resumes
  • Tourists are safe in Kashmir, says Lashkar
  • Rs. 1,385 cr. tax demand slapped on Ketan entities
  • Jet Airways to raise fares
  • `No kin of Akhtar working in DAE units'
  • IIM-I to charge same fee as last year
  • Non-G-5 nations aim at framework farm accord
  • Why Vajpayee about-turn, asks Congress
  • Publication of foreign newspaper: Centre files caveat

    Nellore

  • Ministers censure Medical Department
  • `Cardiac care inaccessible to poor'

    New Delhi

  • DU revises M. Com syllabus
  • Ex-Army major, three others held for fraud
  • Women seek regulatory authority for broadcasting
  • Man shot dead in daring robbery
  • Bid to promote safe blood supply
  • Mukhi demands CAG report on power reforms tabled
  • Burglars caught
  • Lajpat Nagar residents for lower house tax slab
  • Murder accused arrested
  • Auto-thieves arrested
  • Police held responsible for custodial death
  • Sales tax on diesel to go up
  • Book on mysticism released
  • CINEMA
  • L-G visits PHQ
  • Seminar to attract sellers
  • Sowing of Kharif crops in progress
  • Eight students held for impersonation
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Inside Delhi

    Pathanamthitta

  • OBCs' plea for more benefits

    Perambalur

  • Plan to develop tourism centres
  • Two new maize varieties to be introduced
  • Perambalur becomes village panchayat
  • Move to introduce contract farming

    Pondicherry

  • B Two status for Pondy in two weeks
  • Yanam to become `hut free' town
  • Concessions sought for Plus-Two supplementary students
  • Red Cross marks blood donors day
  • Pondy mills takeover report in two weeks
  • Specialists to be appointed soon in Govt. hospital: Valsaraj

    Punjab

  • Badal-Amarinder rift over SYL canal issue

    Racing : Motor

  • Schumacher in seventh heaven
  • Zuber `best rider'
  • LSM's Indian leg on June 20

    Raichur

  • Girl commits suicide
  • Suicide

    Rajasthan

  • Raje holds pre-budget discussion

    Ramanathapuram

  • 8 police teams to trace constable
  • Textile owner missing

    Religion

  • Antidote to man's sins

    Shimoga

  • Datta Peetha: Vedike to meet Chief Minister

    Swimming

  • Americans dominate

    Table Tennis

  • Vinod, Bhuvaneswari win titles

    Tamil Nadu

  • CET for medical courses on TNPCEE model
  • 3 windows for professional admissions
  • Let farmers come up with a solution
  • AIADMK nominees file papers
  • Rain boosts storage in Coimbatore reservoirs
  • Order seeking to downgrade town panchayats challenged
  • Yelagiri hills to be promoted as venue for conferences
  • Industrial fair generates Rs. 30-crore business
  • Commission outlines subsidy payment to TNEB
  • New price policy coming
  • Four new flyovers coming
  • Normal life disrupted in Nilgiris
  • Drug development fund to be raised to Rs. 750 crores
  • Students beaten for buying books in market, parents protest
  • Snag delaying arrival of passenger ship
  • Good inflow into Karnataka reservoirs
  • NRIs keen on helping Baskaran
  • Paneerselvam-led team to meet Dharam Singh
  • Pumpset manufacturers object to duty-free imports
  • Pensioners seek settlement of arrears
  • Failed students get counselling
  • Probe sought into accidents at SIPCOT industrial estate
  • Reduction in centage to TWAD Board opposed
  • 42 PMK cadres given charge sheet
  • Villagers seek transfer of sub-inspector
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Illegal constructions drive away workers from Kodaikanal
  • Five agro-based units awaiting clearance
  • Power shutdown

    Tennis

  • Vijay Kannan overcomes Gurmehar
  • Paes-Bhupathi duo gets direct entry to Olympics

    Thanjavur

  • Four of family commit suicide

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Council for action against officials
  • Attack: accused move for anticipatory bail
  • Survey confirms dengue threat
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated June 15,1954: New Govt. for France
  • dated June 15,1954: Civil aviation in India
  • dated June 15,1954: Linguistic States
  • dated June 15,1954: Cosmic ships

    Thrissur

  • Scheme to prevent water-logging

    Tiruchi

  • Kuruvai prospects bleak
  • Thiruvanaikovil coop. bank starts refunding deposits
  • Rs.5.29 crores for constructing women's jail
  • `Improve female literacy rate'
  • Yatra to reach Tiruchi on Aug. 5
  • Around the City

    Tirunelveli

  • Tourists kept away from Main Falls for second day
  • Villagers seek free house site pattas
  • Expo on household articles

    Tirupati

  • TTD likely to go slow on enforcement
  • Press Council chief to visit Tirumala

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Murder puts BJP leadership in a fix

    Vijayawada

  • Lights, camera, action
  • APTDC to induct 12 luxury coaches
  • SCR, RTC gear up for event
  • Pushkarams: VMC to manage with Rs. 10 cr.
  • CPI(M) regional meet from today
  • Admissions open at KV
  • Wall collapse: bodies handed over to kin
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Go private, will benefit
  • Rain increases water levels in reservoirs
  • VMC notice to Round Building owner
  • Corporators head South
  • `Polio cases down to single digits'
  • Schoolgirl fatally run over
  • Inter-faith fete for Jain acharya's birthday
  • New TDP floor leader
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Weather

  • Weather

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