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Anantapur

  • Drought hits tax collection in villages
  • Puttaparthi to be developed as tourist centre: Minister
  • Saibaba concern over lack of patience

    Andhra Pradesh

  • 50,000 new power connections for farmers, says Minister
  • Impetus on IT will continue, says Chief Minister
  • BITS admission: petition court if needed, says Naidu
  • Budget: Minister told to quit for `mistakes'
  • Seven farmers commit suicide
  • Soft skills hold the key to success
  • Their decades-long dream for connectivity comes true
  • Prospects aplenty besides MBBS, BDS
  • TDP wants YSR's response on Telangana
  • Rosaiah nails Naidu's taunt
  • Surgery to infuse life into amputated body parts
  • Furore over water release for Warangal
  • Let CBI probe Sri Lakshmi murder, says CPI
  • Panel to probe lapses in teacher selections
  • Government not to close SWC
  • Open agriculture to foreign investment: ex-MP
  • Kalam likely to address House on July 14
  • IT sector not `pampered'
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Plea to allow kin of physically challenged for darshan

    Athletics

  • State meet sans top athletes

    Badminton

  • RSC's play for gold

    Bangalore

  • Priority for upgrading storm-water drains
  • Builders expect budget with continuity
  • Fourth edition of Bangalore Bio from July 11
  • The Hindu pre-counselling guidance programme
  • Queen's Road to be made a one-way stretch
  • Elderly woman dies in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • When the journey home is fraught with risks

    Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    Belgaum

  • File your Central Excise returns online

    Bidar

  • Woman commits suicide

    Bihar

  • Rudy asked to pay for Vajpayee's poll visit
  • No confrontation with RJD: Paswan

    Briefly

  • Marginal fall in inflation
  • SBI invests in MCX
  • Amway to foray into insurance
  • New MD for IBM India
  • Maruti to roll out new-look Esteem
  • Airtel's new roaming scheme
  • SKF India ties up with Texmo
  • TUV Rheinland opens regional office
  • Pulse Pharma's unit in Himachal Pradesh
  • Andhra Bank in pact with ECGC
  • SBH's special educational loan scheme
  • Samkrg Pistons to pay 45 p.c.
  • Corporation Bank raises NRE deposit rates
  • Acer launches two products
  • Bharti in pact with Siemens
  • NCDEX's milestone
  • New CFO for Sify
  • Organon India divests bulk drug facility
  • Atlanta IT Solutions' achievement
  • Califer Polymers celebrates anniversary
  • Andhra Bank launches mediclaim policy
  • Canara Bank-KAMCO scheme

    Business

  • Export growth target raised to 16 p.c. for 2004-05
  • RBI for diversified ownership in private banks
  • Tata Steel to push for social responsibility of businesses
  • Preparing the market for a higher interest rate
  • Rupee extends gains
  • Sensex recovers major part of early losses
  • Principal AMC ties up with 2 banks
  • LG Electronics launches range of TVs
  • 'Continue fiscal incentives for exports'

    Chennai

  • Councillors show proof of bogus building certificates
  • Axe falls on 75-year-old trees on GST Road
  • Mortuary stench has Chromepet residents up in arms
  • Boy rescued, hunt on for abductors
  • Water released from Vaigai dam
  • Nod for new Secretariat
  • Train service extended
  • Mohamed Ali remanded
  • Sweet sorghum, jatropha to replace sugarcane
  • Child workers find abuse too much to take
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Transit point for wildlife trade

    Chess

  • Hungary begins campaign in style
  • Adams wins; Topalov held
  • Emphatic win for Defence

    Cinema

  • `Shrek 2' sets box office record
  • `The Godfather' is no more
  • Brando as Brando

    Coimbatore

  • First session of counselling
  • CPI (M) seeks law to end `compulsory donations'
  • SPCA seizes 100 goats
  • BSNL new tariff plans come into effect
  • Special train to Chennai
  • Activities reviewed
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Getting a case of theft registered

    Cricket

  • England cruises to victory
  • Straight drive is my favourite stroke: Tendulkar
  • Eight practice wickets for camp
  • McGrath, Gilchrist put Aussies in control
  • Robin, Dinesh and Hemant score centuries
  • Coimbatore, Madurai have it easy
  • Speed criticises Australia's PM for Murali remarks
  • Seshagiri scores century
  • Avanthi Engg. College is champion
  • Four-wkt win for SPK
  • Suhail stars in Sonnet Club's win
  • Rajesh stars in GDC win
  • Unbeaten 100 by Anshul
  • Unbeaten century by Kumar

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8026
  • Solution to puzzle 8025

    Cuddalore

  • Fire in Collectorate
  • Parent-teacher associations `need revamping'

    Cuddapah

  • Enhance crop loan, says MP

    Editorials

  • SADDAM'S TRIAL
  • PREDICTING THE MONSOON

    Erode

  • Rs. 10 crores sought for repairing old houses in Erode
  • Govt. doctors may face the heat
  • CPI for probe into illegal tree felling
  • Solar street lights for hill area

    Football

  • Czech story ends in Greek tragedy
  • Mithun helps Cosmos win
  • Asoka drubs New Venus
  • Vittal Trophy revived

    Front Page

  • 4 Governors dismissed
  • Somnath's efforts to break deadlock make little headway
  • Monsoon may be further delayed in north
  • Marlon Brando is dead
  • Strike in all major airports
  • 7 policemen killed in J&K
  • Troops in position a long Assam-Naga border
  • Firing at rally, 2 killed
  • 'Reject mercy petition'
  • U.S. warning

    Globescan

  • Religious leaders slam Bush move
  • Nepalese Mayor assassinated
  • 'Attacks planned in Bahrain'
  • Nod for polio vaccination

    Golf

  • Royal Challenge to sponsor amateur tour
  • Roberts in the van

    Gulbarga

  • Warm welcome to Dharam Singh, Kharge

    Guntur

  • `Help us in fields, not in marketyards'
  • Media flayed for blowing up suicides

    Haryana

  • Haryana to construct Express Highway
  • Balaram Jakhar caught unawares
  • Shootout in Gurgaon court

    Hassan

  • Deve Gowda tours his constituency

    Hockey

  • Germany trounces India
  • BPCL, HAL post victories
  • THA juniors beat ICF

    Hyderabad

  • Ill-equipped cops for `crack' teams to deal with gangsters
  • Bonalu festivities
  • MIM seeks special package for old city
  • Mystery shrouds death of trader's family
  • BJP asks Minister to clear air on hotel timings
  • Power shutdown
  • Talks tough of police
  • MLA gets anticipatory bail
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • India, Pakistan agree to sustain dialogue process
  • India, Pakistan should prevent arms race: U.S.

    International

  • Saddam trial faces questions over neutrality
  • Musharraf Government is protecting Osama, says Benazir
  • Five killed in Turkey blast
  • Fragments of Homo erectus skull found

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • J&K in financial crisis
  • Defying orders, 2,000 devotees prepare for Amarnath yatra
  • 7 policemen killed in blast

    Kancheepuram

  • Weavers stage road roko

    Karnataka

  • End to anti-naxal operation ruled out
  • JD(U) to go it alone in local bodies' elections
  • Dharam Singh justifies tie-up with JD(S)
  • `Tumkur bandh' called on Monday on varsity issue
  • Transformer scheme puts KPTCL in a fix
  • Sindhia stresses on safe mining
  • Man killed in firing in H.D. Kote forest
  • `Manjunath's decision can't be final'
  • PG dental students challenge colleges' decision
  • Most colleges lack infrastructure: panels
  • Plan favoured on devolution of powers
  • Puttappa takes a swipe at leaders
  • Special trains extended till August 27
  • NSUI favours Ordinance on admissions
  • Railway union leader seeks A-1 status for Bangalore
  • Nadagouda, Srikante Gowda take oath as MLCs
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • People urged to pay property tax
  • Officials blamed for fund lapse
  • Brahmins protest remark on origin
  • Lokayukta optimistic of getting powers
  • Davangere CMC to auction shops
  • Car festival celebrated
  • Around the City

    Kerala

  • Cinema bandh called off
  • Bharathapuzha, a dying lifeline
  • Notification on students' concessions in buses upheld
  • No plan to float parallel offices: Karunakaran
  • Cusat mulls over environment management proposal
  • Mixed package for State in railway development
  • Ponkunnam Varkey dead
  • DD studio awaiting green signal from Centre
  • Internal assessment system will be transparent: Minister
  • Not entirely a futile exercise
  • `Kerala ideal location for medicine research centre'
  • Thiruvarppu Boat Club wins race
  • No major changes in Bill on professional colleges
  • Take up Kerala's demands with Centre, MPs told
  • Government firm on Pathrakadavu project
  • Contempt petition against Chief Secretary
  • State to start attesting certificates
  • New Suffragan Metropolitan
  • Death condoled
  • Kadammanitta bags Basheer Award
  • Fr. Augustine made venerable
  • `Special recruitment for OBCs unconstitutional'
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • ITI to start 10 new courses
  • Jumbos take time off for Ayurvedic treatment

    Kochi

  • Tension as newborn dies at General Hospital
  • Attempted break-in at house of Sayeed's daughter
  • Pre-counselling guidance programme today
  • National Waterway III underutilised
  • Bail granted
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Ensuring a better ride

    Kollam

  • Water harvesting project launched
  • NCC sailing expedition returns
  • `No more IMFL outlets'

    Kozhikode

  • Trial trading in coconut from July 5

    Kurnool

  • Postal staff asked to strive hard
  • Meet on separate Rayalaseema on July 11

    Leader Page Articles

  • The U.S. and Azerbaijan
  • Agenda for public services

    Letters to the Editor

  • Saddam's trial
  • `Tainted' Ministers
  • Direct funding
  • Governors' issue
  • Unfortunate
  • Hats off!
  • Dhananjoy's case
  • Reservation row
  • editor-in-Chief on "J'Accuse...!"

    Madikeri

  • Madikeri municipal chief lists achievements
  • Attend to people's problems, officials told
  • Students return to classes

    Madurai

  • Engg. counselling for disabled begins
  • Constable arrested on rape bid charge
  • BSNL employees observe fast
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Stage set for `live' remand of prisoners

    Maharashtra

  • Additional charge for Maharashtra Governor
  • Special court asked to consider Salman Khan's claim

    Mangalore

  • Parvo viral infection hits pet dogs
  • Govt. urged to help vanilla growers
  • Beedi workers threaten dharna over DA
  • Discipline street vendors, say merchants
  • New telecom chief
  • Engagements

    Mysore

  • Devotees offer special prayers on `ashada shukravara'
  • Fee for laboratory tests at K.R. Hospital opposed
  • Farmers seek better price for sugarcane
  • Guru Purnima celebrated

    Nagapattinam

  • Lawyers boycott courts

    Nagercoil

  • Lend more to farmers, bankers told

    National

  • Somnath hopeful of solving impasse
  • Airport staff protest privatisation move
  • CPWD to complete SYL canal
  • `Circumstances do not warrant mercy for Dhananjoy'
  • Newspaper readers want depth but also fizz: Mario Garcia
  • RPF takes up security for trains
  • Sahani questions rationale behind recall
  • Manmohan to attend India-European Union summit
  • Governors issue: Congress, BJP trade charges
  • Mayawati questioned by CBI
  • Not a healthy trend: Parmanand
  • Khurana keeps studied silence
  • Pest management package to control coconut mite
  • Doctor exposed by Tehelka suspended
  • Media lacking purpose: Arundhati Roy
  • Effort to achieve fiscal discipline
  • New assignment
  • Ajit Bhavnani to head Strategic Forces Command
  • Personal Law Board's right to speak for all Muslims questioned
  • Karunanidhi's plea to Natwar
  • 'Negation of democratic propriety'
  • Law soon to deal with printing of foreign newspapers
  • New transfer policy for revenue officers from next year
  • NSAB to meet regularly

    New Delhi

  • Sincere efforts lacking to curb human trafficking
  • More funds likely for rural development board
  • Power scenario critical
  • Major bureaucratic reshuffle on the cards
  • Govt. apathy disappoints Amrita Pritam
  • Major power crisis grips Delhi
  • Shops to open seven days a week
  • Councillors to get laptops
  • Doctors send SOS to Govt.
  • Disabled plea to Chidambaram
  • Robbers' gang smashed; six held
  • Cable operators' threat to double charges
  • Children scientists awards presented
  • MCD to rationalise parking rates
  • 'Capital faces mercury poisoning threat'
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today
  • This fall remains a mystery

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Olympic Games

  • North, South Korea to parade together at Olympics

    Pondicherry

  • Pondicherry's own Hyde Park?
  • Government school bags national awards
  • Jha's resignation `should not be accepted'
  • Biomass gasifier power plant inaugurated
  • Education loan mela
  • ICF rolls out new diesel units
  • Government drivers go on strike
  • Save us from heavy interest burden: borrowers

    Punjab

  • Badal sets `Panthic agenda' for SGPC polls
  • Akali factions clash at SGPC election rally
  • Punjab air link to Los Angeles

    Racing : Motor

  • Barrichello fastest in practice

    Rajasthan

  • Relief for Saharia tribe

    Religion

  • Devotional mystic

    Sivaganga

  • The hours of anxiety culminate in peace

    Swimming

  • Eleven more records sink

    Table Tennis

  • Puneet, Poojitha clinch titles

    Tamil Nadu

  • Engineering counselling put off to July 8
  • Sweet sorghum, jatropha to replace sugarcane
  • Look at alternatives: expert
  • Mohamed Ali remanded
  • Employees observe strike anniversary
  • Students `enlightened' at pre-counselling session
  • `DMK against Centre usurping rights of State'
  • Kumbhabishekams for 16 temples as per revised schedule
  • 7 engineering colleges barred from admitting students this year
  • Air India Package
  • Guidelines for counselling
  • Decision at an auspicious time: Vijaykant
  • Tourism corporation goes online
  • Make procurement price uniform: milk producers
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • School for scarcity
  • 2700 ha of wasteland to be developed
  • Issues of organic farming analysed
  • Turn system likely
  • Forest personnel conduct raid, seize ganja
  • Mass contact programme
  • ATM inaugurated in Karur
  • Avail of assistance under horticultural schemes, ryots told
  • Collector promises action on unauthorised prawn farms

    Tennis

  • Federer's charge to the final halted by rain
  • Second-leg of Nutrine Naturo tennis tournament from July 5
  • Sugiyama clinches Masters title

    Thanjavur

  • Toppers honoured
  • Drainage work inspected
  • `Take care of pregnant women'
  • Power shutdown
  • Surprise check in fair price shop

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Revenue records disprove hotel's claim
  • TDB gearing up for `Vavu Bali'
  • LIC theft: several persons questioned
  • Lecturer hurt in armed attack on polytechnic
  • Armed attack: five held
  • Narendraprasad Foundation
  • Ganja seized from train
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes
  • Negligence abetting crimes

    This Day That Age

  • dated July 3, 1954: China's U.N. membership
  • dated July 3, 1954: Rly. centenary exhibition
  • dated July 3, 1954: TV unit for India

    Tiruchi

  • Plea to set up regional research institute for Siddha
  • Tiruchi college to offer M.Sc. in Photonics
  • Develop entrepreneurial, communication skills: VC
  • HC Bench purview issue: dharna on July 7
  • Engg. admission counselling for disabled
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • Man, daughter held for murder of kin

    Udupi

  • Govt. taking steps to speed up Varahi work
  • Brahmavar Sugar Factory staff laid off
  • Land survey at Nandikur stopped
  • Three suspected cholera cases in Udupi district

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Mulayam retains RLD Ministers

    Vijayawada

  • Students get tips on the `right institution'
  • `Big salaries' in veterinary field
  • Jobs galore in pharma
  • Prospects bright for civil engineers
  • Delay in water release irks TDP
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Hospital directed to compensate for negligence
  • Pulse polio drive reviewed
  • VMC plan to develop old jail land
  • Beware, `dickey' gang on the prowl
  • Privatisation opposed
  • Plea to end AU agitation
  • New NSTL Director
  • VMC abandons school building
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Weather

  • Weather

    West Bengal

  • Attack on lensmen: CM seeks report

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