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Alappuzha

  • Municipal chairperson resigns

    Anantapur

  • Muslims lag behind in development: study

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Special court to try faction violence cases
  • Insurance cover to go with education loan
  • Congress associate status for 11 MLAs
  • Maid's death in Doha baffles kin
  • No end to voltage fluctuation for now
  • Reliance mulls power project near Kakinada
  • Housewife's death: enraged kin `kill' husband
  • Decks cleared for Special Economic Zone
  • `Government committed to agriculture'
  • Bill to replace DDRCs with planning panels
  • Top police official reviews security at Tirumala
  • Report of attempt on MLA's life `baseless'
  • Action against Venkaiah Naidu sought
  • Farmer kills kids, self
  • Polls to coop. societies soon
  • Formula 1 project not our priority: Minister
  • TSR for more steps to redress ryots' problems
  • Low pressure area remains stationary
  • Gadar receives threatening letters
  • Alamatti: BJP seeks Centre's intervention
  • Junior doctors protest medical counselling
  • Clarification
  • CPI(M) seeks regularisation of bank staff services
  • `Kidnapped' scribe escapes
  • Conservation of energy through Green Corps
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Call to strengthen justice delivery system
  • Rain breathes life into agricultural activity
  • Banks asked to extend timely loans to farmers
  • Suicide bid by retired bank manager
  • Daily wage worker ends life

    Archery

  • Dola in last eight

    Badminton

  • Lenin overcomes Binoy
  • Sujathamma in semifinals

    Bangalore

  • Dharam Singh orders remodelling of storm water drains
  • Cable operators' protest affects subscribers
  • Girl dies in road accident; parents donate eyes of their only child
  • Chief Minister's secretary to investigate boy's death
  • Computers stolen from shop
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • BULLION RATES

    Bellary

  • Gram panchayat employees stage protest
  • Kuditini villagers stage `rail roko'

    Bidar

  • Bidar to get 1,500 farm ponds

    Briefly

  • Patni ties up with InteQ
  • Elder in pact with Reliance Life
  • US FDA nod for Cadila facility
  • HP India cuts notebook prices
  • TCS issue likely on July 29
  • Bank of India ATM
  • Assistance for NTC units sought
  • Intoto's Chennai centre
  • Birlasoft's feat
  • Amara Raja to expand PitStop
  • Apeejay Surrendra group's new Chairman
  • Capital IQ plans further investment
  • Nagarjuna Construction gets Rs. 240 cr. order
  • Role of IPR
  • HMA awards
  • Sonata Software bags award
  • Godrej Furniture's Noida showroom
  • New Vice President for JB Chem
  • Aviva's cover for CanFin customers
  • Two banks to share ATMs
  • BoB hands over dividend cheque
  • SMGB loan for solar lighting
  • Chicken merchants' plea
  • High tech office opened

    Business

  • Warwick University confers doctorate on Venu Srinivasan
  • Impal profit up
  • Enron's Chapter 11 plan cleared
  • `Estate intended for charity': Birla family
  • Textile units need to go upstream, says Vaghela
  • Exporters seek dollar credit
  • GAIL to set up units in South and East
  • Fertilizer units want realistic subsidy

    Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    Chennai

  • Big trees, little shoots
  • A new life for Bushra Amin
  • MTC cites poor patronage, withdraws specials
  • Police pursuing clues: Natarajan
  • Intelligence `key' to effective policing
  • Move to notify park in Anna Arivalayam
  • SI held on assault charge
  • A boon for 27,000 poor students
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Wajih & Bajaj triumph
  • Thej Kumar in lead

    Coimbatore

  • IN coimbatore TODAY
  • CBI to focus on Coimbatore
  • Five arrested for dacoity
  • Fiat on issue of birth certificates
  • Special train to Chennai

    Cricket

  • Ganguly's men mean business
  • Throwing — an emotional and controversial part
  • Tripti shines
  • A tempting offer
  • Nath hits century
  • Anil Kumar slams century
  • Unbeaten 109 by Anil Kumar
  • Mangalore follows on

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8037
  • Solution to puzzle 8036

    Cuddapah

  • Mysoora calls for united efforts
  • Sentenced to jail

    Dindigul

  • A village in dire need of a school
  • Stress on alternative farming

    Editorials

  • MAKING THE CESS WORK
  • HEADING FOR CHANGE

    Erode

  • Shifting of VAO office opposed

    Football

  • East Bengal to tour England
  • Paraguay upsets Brazil, tops group
  • 2-1 win for Garhwal Diamond
  • Rotary MS in semifinals
  • Satish slots five
  • Hat-trick by Dinesh
  • Tiruvallur squeezes past Tiruchi
  • Nilgiris DFA in last eight

    Front Page

  • Godhra probe issue rocks Parliament
  • When we forgive, we allow wounds to heal: Gladys Staines
  • Centre moves court for direction on SYL canal
  • Hannah's killer held near Indo-Nepal border
  • Officials hopeful of monsoon revival
  • Flood situation
  • SP opposes FDI hike
  • 10 killed in bomb attack
  • Praise for India, but caution against threat from `Hindu groups'

    Generalia

  • Olympic Run on July 25

    Golf

  • Casey, Levet share lead after Els stumbles
  • Lehal in the van

    Gulbarga

  • Bar Association denies consensus on High Court Bench
  • BJP demands CBI probe into ex-police officer's allegations

    Guntur

  • Woman collapses in SP office; hospitalised

    Haryana

  • Nod for new courses in Haryana

    Hassan

  • Talks with naxalites opposed
  • SHGs to handle waste management in Hassan
  • `Jewel of India' award

    Hockey

  • Army triumphs
  • AC Guards keeps SBI at bay
  • Indira Gandhi International Gold Cup revived
  • Belgium pips India
  • ZMHS rallies to win

    Hyderabad

  • Positive feedback for Cyberabad police's vision
  • Streetlighting: MCH moves to avoid another `shock'
  • Wedded to luck, they marry in style
  • Creating awareness through currency
  • MLAs let go of it, cheerfully!
  • Rain shows no mercy to Chief Minister's convoy
  • No power supply
  • Urdu meet to take key decisions
  • Mutt to celebrate Sri Sarada Devi anniversary
  • Health insurance scheme for scribes
  • Global Hospital feat on bone marrow patient
  • City student tops in NCL test
  • NCC cadets to take up tree plantation
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Armitage visit reflects warm ties, says Boucher
  • Sonia in Bangkok to address AIDS meet

    International

  • Iraqi fighters blow up oil pipelines
  • U.S. Senate report `deciphered'
  • Blair accepts responsibility
  • Shootout in Batticaloa prison
  • France to vote on E.U. Constitution
  • Senate rejects move on gay marriages
  • Back from virtual death
  • Row over `rain theft'
  • `I was correctly quoted on terrorist camps issue'
  • Megawati trails in poll
  • Asian workers in Saudi Arabia abused: report

    Kancheepuram

  • NGO sets up tailoring centre to train women

    Karimnagar

  • YSR to visit Karimnagar on July 18

    Karnataka

  • Supreme Court fixes seat-sharing at 50:50
  • Dismissal of magistrate upheld
  • Why officials want nothing to do with food-for-work scheme
  • Higher job quota for minorities favoured
  • Plan to increase intake in govt. medical colleges
  • `Retain colleges under Bangalore University'
  • Disappointment over `raw deal' for Bangalore Division
  • Cabinet expansion before July 30: Dharam Singh
  • Stick to promise, ruling partners urged
  • BESCOM knocks down damaged pole
  • Speed up highway project, Govt. told
  • Women working late may get better facilities
  • `Allegations against STAMPIT baseless'
  • Woes of SSIs will be tackled: Sindhia
  • Telgi bribed doctor: CBI
  • Seshadri Road flyover opposed
  • Law college offers space for Tumkur varsity
  • COMED-K happy
  • Women elected Mayor, Deputy Mayor
  • Power supply to be restricted
  • Farmer commits suicide
  • Briefly
  • From the Districts

    Karnataka - Others

  • Man electrocuted
  • Around the City

    Kerala

  • LDF plans stir over farmers' debt
  • Police `abetting' sand smuggling
  • Directive to grant Plus Two to school
  • Policy on quota in private sector soon
  • Akshara, Ananthu get admission
  • NSS firm on its demand
  • Government not to allow wetland reclamation
  • KSRTC to cut staff strength
  • Narendran panel: IUML warns Government
  • Electronic meters: KSEB directed to file affidavit
  • Private bus stir from July 26
  • ESI scheme for labourers in unorganised sectors
  • One more farmer commits suicide
  • LDF to study report
  • Hindustan Newsprint disinvestment to be reviewed
  • Aiyar's assurance to Lakshadweep panchayats
  • Hotel project: Minister denies irregularities
  • Medical assistance for the poor slashed
  • Sabarimala temple opened
  • Strike, marches by SFI workers
  • At Sabarimala today
  • New KFC chief
  • Man held on charges of killing baby
  • Naval Chief coming
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Growth will be visible in a year: CM

    Kochi

  • Probe ordered into allegations
  • District panchayat approves draft plan
  • Protest march to DIG's office
  • `Kozhikode coast turning into a hub of arms smuggling'
  • 25 cases settled in adalat
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • Youth terrorises Kollam city
  • NGO Union threatens to intensify stir
  • Demand to shift liquor shop
  • Hacked to death

    Kozhikode

  • Department of Posts launches `Onakkodi 04'

    Leader Page Articles

  • Terror in schools
  • A foreign policy for the East

    Letters to the Editor

  • Hasty action
  • Godhra probe
  • Fernandes issue
  • Triple talaq
  • Historic address
  • Budget 2004-05

    Madikeri

  • `Educate rural people on population explosion'
  • Monsoon active in Kodagu

    Madurai

  • `Restore excise duty on viscose filament yarn to 12 per cent'
  • Rs.1.5-cr. worth facilities for varsity
  • Inspector held on charge of murder
  • 38 stone quarries leased
  • Kamaraj remembered
  • Training
  • Students clean railway premises
  • Holds discussions
  • Water level
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • Rice scam: ZP officials reluctant to carry out works
  • Pandemonium over Koragas' stir
  • Member stages dharna over irregularities
  • Street vendors oppose eviction
  • Corporation team raids hotels
  • House burgled, gold stolen
  • Engagements

    Mysore

  • Vishwanath facing opposition in Congress
  • AITUC to take up problems of Mysore workers
  • Sowing gains momentum

    Nagapattinam

  • Drinking water arrangements for `Khanduri' festival

    National

  • `My support for POTA was a serious mistake'
  • Fresh probe into Godhra illegal: BJP
  • An ill-conceived conspiracy, says Gujarat Government
  • President must intervene: Jayalalithaa
  • Landslips claim 12 lives in Assam
  • 30 die as boat capsizes in Bihar
  • Larger Bench to hear quotas, common entrance test issues
  • Hearing adjourned
  • Brock Gold Medal for Kasturirangan
  • Two killed in grenade attack in Poonch
  • Arrested Commercial Tax official dies
  • Hearing in Dara Singh case adjourned
  • Tribunal grants tax relief to Lalu
  • Floodwaters recede in some areas of Bengal
  • Scanty rainfall causes concern for kharif sowing
  • First batch of pilgrims leaves for Amarnath shrine
  • Rajya Sabha: Vayalar Ravi, a front-runner for post
  • LeT claim wrong: Ishrat's mother
  • Pilgrims leave for Amarnath
  • `Police have no right to kill people'
  • Don't take us for granted: Yechuri

    Nellore

  • Farmer ends life?

    New Delhi

  • Excessive motorisation a threat to Delhi: CSE
  • Arrested for kidnap, murder
  • Chargesheet filed against former DDA vice-chairman
  • Drive to promote safai workers' safety launched
  • Three MCD engineers suspended
  • A night bazaar for Delhi
  • No stopping water to Rajasthan: Raje
  • Water, power crises continue
  • Lovely to discipline errant schools
  • Mechanics to intensify stir
  • Notorious inter-State gang busted
  • Registration of marriage mandatory in Himachal
  • A python in the backyard
  • CBI allowed appeal in anti-Sikh riots case
  • We will move court: Chautala
  • Petition dismissed
  • Sent back to parent cadre
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    Pathanamthitta

  • Sanitation workers launch indefinite stir
  • TDB to provide base camp facilities at Malayalappuzha

    Perambalur

  • Kamaraj remembered
  • Abandoned infants handed over to NGO

    Pondicherry

  • Publish enquiry report: Vaithilingam
  • CAG report questions fire control measures
  • Tributes paid to Kamaraj
  • Panel finalises fees for professional courses

    Punjab

  • Chandigarh Press Club completes 24 years

    Racing : Horse

  • Impasse continues

    Racing : Motor

  • Mahindra Great Escape rally

    Rajasthan

  • Traders' stir sparks row in Rajasthan House
  • CII opposes cess on power

    Religion

  • Epitome of perfection

    Salem

  • `Save flower vendors from fleecing'

    Shimoga

  • Panchayat Raj staff take out rally
  • Govt. urged to ensure benefits reached differently abled

    Sports : General

  • Winning, the most important thing: Sunil Dutt
  • Armstrong wins ESPY Award

    Table Tennis

  • India set to dominate

    Tamil Nadu

  • `Efforts under way on war-footing for Medical Council recognition'
  • Budget proposal excites managers
  • Direct West-bound link yet to be established
  • Town panchayat staff service conditions will be protected: court
  • Promote biofuel programme, Jayalalithaa urges Manmohan
  • Orders reserved on plea against Presidential notification for Bench
  • Rajapalayam-Tenkasi BG line cleared
  • Dispensing with single-window system challenged
  • Permission denied for 50 additional seats in Tirunelveli College
  • Confusion over admissions unprecedented: Karunanidhi
  • Indian Airlines' fare offer
  • `Ready to shift liquor shops from residential areas'
  • Pay fee at ICICI
  • NGO sets up tailoring centre to train women
  • Municipal chief offers to re-allot land to Sangham
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • An operation which fished out several skeletons

    Tennis

  • Rusedski enters quarterfinals
  • Divya beats Vidushi
  • Rain washes out play

    Thanjavur

  • Traders happy over new roads and improved drainage system
  • Mettur level raises samba hopes for delta farmers

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Robbery: four youth held
  • Call for joint effort to develop capital city
  • Lion, tiger cub die in zoo
  • Efforts on to pump out sewage
  • Applications invited
  • Extension counter
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    This Day That Age

  • dated July 16, 1954: Churchill's caution
  • dated July 16, 1954: More medical colleges
  • dated July 16, 1954: Freedom for Mahe

    Thrissur

  • `Leprosy to be eliminated by end of 2005'
  • NATPAC chief for curbs on bus entry into Swaraj Round
  • Canara Bank to sell mutual fund products

    Tiruchi

  • 911 aspirants may turn up for AIEEE counselling
  • `Hindi important for national integration'
  • `Sensitise women to powers'
  • Plea on DD Tamil programmes
  • Jewellery exhibition
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • Bank distributes educational loans to 260 students
  • Opposition councillors seek equal distribution of funds
  • College admission

    Tirupati

  • SVU decisions arbitrary, say students
  • Faction violence under control: Additional DGP
  • Wild elephants destroy orchards, crops
  • Security adviser inspects TTD installations

    Tuticorin

  • 100 sanitary complexes constructed in Nellai

    Udupi

  • Furore over disbursement of salaries to workers
  • Panchayat Raj staff take out rally
  • Man remanded in judicial custody

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Captive breeding of deer proposed

    Vijayawada

  • Cameras to keep an eye on traffic violators
  • Lawyer defies Bar to defend Manohar
  • UHS trapped in reservation dilemma
  • Kids take to street against vices
  • Case charge-sheet likely tomorrow
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Polavaram most viable project: Haribabu
  • Survey of sick SSI units concludes
  • AIDS awareness campaign not effective: experts
  • Girijan teachers threaten Manyam bandh
  • No water supply in some areas today
  • Employees' union seeks production incentive
  • National seminar on intellectual property rights
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • Indians made to sweat
  • Warangal wins

    Warangal

  • RTC employee commits suicide

    Weather

  • Weather

    World View

  • Torri Edwards tests positive
  • Hayden closing in on Lara, Dravid

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