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Alappuzha

  • Javed's son to study in Kerala

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Muslim quota case hearing adjourned
  • Konaseema project: probe ordered
  • Rs. 1,320-crore plan for Polavaram project cleared
  • I&B blocks programmes of `Mana' TV
  • Heated debate over `Big Boss' issue
  • Nothing short of blackmail, says Naidu
  • People's War meeting today
  • CM to lay stone for Sripadasagar project
  • Members concerned over plight of `archakas'
  • Naidu's aerial hops cost a cool 16.81 cr.
  • Scuffle leads to man's death
  • Panels for canal maintenance
  • Ryot electrocuted; wife attempts suicide
  • Plea to restore cancelled medical seats
  • Pension for former MLAs hiked
  • Low pressure area forms
  • Infant's body found
  • Matricide most foul?
  • Police Commissioner stranded!
  • Dacoits nabbed
  • `Protect rights of Godavari delta farmers'
  • Appointed open varsity V-C
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Full-fledged board for HUDA by August 15

    Badminton

  • Nischita stuns Poonam
  • Double for Aparna, Sankar
  • Foreign players to train at PPBA

    Bangalore

  • Angry residents dump garbage on CMC premises
  • BMP to improve roads, drains in Gandhinagar
  • College student kidnapped, murdered
  • Traffic police to use `simputers'
  • `TCS IT Quiz' on August 7
  • SBI opens branch at RBI Layout
  • Awareness camp
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    Basketball

  • Prajit, Vivek star in CIS' win

    Belgaum

  • Focus on north Karnataka: MP
  • Seminar on forests

    Bellary

  • `Bring poultry farming under agriculture'

    Briefly

  • Subex buys Alcatel arm
  • BPL to transfer CTV business
  • Evening trading in commodities
  • Hewlett's new workstations
  • Adidas official joins IMG
  • Special micro finance unit inaugurated
  • Projects received from broiler units
  • Camlin Pharma enters personal care segment
  • OBC bonds under rating watch
  • Allianz Cornhill plans centre in Technopark
  • ICFAI College to offer MBA programme
  • Electrolux to introduce new products
  • Oracle plans unit in Visakhapatnam
  • Visaka Industries net up 23 p.c.
  • Entrepreneurs awareness seminar
  • IOB loan for TCS public offer
  • New Chairman for NIPM Chennai chapter
  • Mangalore Chemicals net up
  • Vibank Housing shifts branch
  • FCG to build software for Witness Systems

    Business

  • No compromise on agriculture, India tells WTO
  • Another claimant for Birla's wealth
  • Foreign investment in mining approved
  • Jet Airways enhances frequent flyer programme
  • Reliance net up 30 p.c. at Rs. 1437 crores
  • Rupee gains further
  • `Merger will be smooth'
  • Sensex drops 42 points on FII selling
  • Dr. Reddy's net dips 78 p.c.
  • Plea for fair deal to Global Trust shareholders
  • SBI first quarter net at Rs. 1058 crores

    Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    Chennai

  • Transport policy: Urban poor left out
  • Rs. 1 crore boats left to rust
  • Certificates sought for re-verification
  • Rs. 177 crores to tackle city water scarcity
  • Consortium can hold MBA, MCA entrance test
  • Autograph for Montreal fest
  • State Bank donation for Cancer Institute
  • Two killed
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Anand in semifinals
  • PSGCAS dominates
  • Varsha outwits Pratima

    Coimbatore

  • IN COIMBATORE TODAY
  • Bharathiar varsity results today
  • BSNL prepaid cards to be issued
  • Students block train
  • Readers' Mail

    Cricket

  • Sehwag, Ganguly come good
  • Bye bye bubbly
  • Atapattu — Sri Lanka's pillar of strength
  • `It will be a learning experience'
  • Niraj Patel hits 206
  • Yogesh scalps six
  • YRTV triumphs
  • Santhosh Gopi shines
  • Good knock by Anil
  • It's Tiruvallur vs Coimbatore
  • TTCB award for Lara
  • Colts takes honours
  • India wins a thriller

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8047
  • Solution to puzzle No. 8046

    Cuddapah

  • SP warns matka organisers of stern action

    Dindigul

  • Drainage work to begin next month

    Editorials

  • KELKAR'S `GRAND BARGAIN'
  • WHALES WIN A REPRIEVE

    Football

  • South Korea tops group
  • East Bengal embarks on an "educational tour"
  • Maheshwaran scores winner
  • Dalip nets three
  • Ramaswamy wins
  • St. Xavier's in final
  • Monteiro nets Bagan's winner

    Front Page

  • All help to flood-hit Bihar: Manmohan
  • Opposition urged to give up boycott plan
  • Centre gears up to tackle drought
  • Negotiations with abductors progressing well: Minister
  • Curfew relaxed
  • WTO: `no compromise'
  • More equity for AI, IA
  • Kohli taken to Punjab
  • Award for 36 children
  • 5 SPOs killed
  • Court directive
  • Ghatate quits

    Gulbarga

  • Zilla panchayat meeting sees high drama
  • Inquiry sought into `substandard work'

    Guntur

  • Cops plan awareness campaign
  • Bandh in Bapatla

    Hassan

  • Hassan CMC to privatise disposal system
  • Three officials suspended
  • Water supply improves in Hassan

    Hockey

  • Chitoor's good run continues
  • Hat-trick by Ramesh

    Hyderabad

  • Water board mulls flat rates in notified slums
  • Dutch team's visit to schools
  • Traffic diversions
  • BCs seek house sites
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Talks on Wullar Barrage rescheduled

    International

  • Deuba for consensus on dialogue with Maoists
  • Ukraine drops bid to join E.U., NATO
  • Pakistan seeks hostages' release
  • Deadlock over agenda for Sri Lanka peace talks continues
  • The pampered pets and questions of priority
  • `Blair gagging war critics'
  • Journalists, rights activist held
  • Test-tube twins back in Britain
  • Exiled tycoon faces murder charge
  • Exempt from U.K. law
  • Guerillas target supply lines
  • Clinton fires up Democrats

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • No end to troubles of Kargil refugees

    Kancheepuram

  • 101 road works for Kancheepuram district

    Karnataka

  • Legislature resolves to enact law on admissions
  • Narasimha Rao's book on Babri Masjid ready
  • Members endorse resolution on seat sharing
  • Legislature to enact law on admissions
  • Power projects under 10th Plan on track
  • `Nirmala Karnataka' a failure: Minister
  • 15 tonnes of rice seized in Gulbarga
  • Housing loan recovery less than 10 p.c.: Prakash
  • Four more medical colleges
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Bandh observed in Bagalkot
  • Protest for repair of road
  • Farmer attempts suicide at tahsildar's office
  • Encourage self-employment, banks told
  • Dilshad Munir is Hosadurga panchayat president

    Kerala

  • Government declares holiday for schools, colleges
  • Court directive on bus services
  • CPI(M) warns of intensifying stir
  • Sankaran denies graft charges
  • Medicos foil bid to sell cadavers
  • Steps to increase tax revenue from gold sale
  • Cooperative sector to be involved in tourism development
  • `Absence of laws on houseboat operations hits tourism'
  • Suicide prevention: directive to Government
  • BMW team visits Kochi port
  • Self-financing colleges: case hearing tomorrow
  • Inquiry on into defalcation of incentives
  • Ministers' stock answer
  • KSEB justifies installation of electronic meters
  • `Rein in violent elements'
  • Award for Yesudasan, Aryadan Mohammed
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • `Save Halcyon Castle' march turns violent
  • Sayeed blames State for delay in power projects

    Kochi

  • GCDA tries to woo shop-owners
  • Cusat announces B.Tech. results
  • Road-widening unscientific, says police report
  • Sanskrit university postpones examinations
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • Students' union State meet in Kollam
  • March peaceful

    Kozhikode

  • Children's film festival

    Kurnool

  • Regional imbalances should go: ex-MLA
  • Distribution of seed farm land to poor urged
  • Barnala to interact with farmers

    Leader Page Articles

  • Sea Tigers — threat to Indian security
  • The poor have no candidate

    Letters to the Editor

  • Bank fiasco
  • NDA's decision
  • Soren drama
  • Closing ranks
  • Quota for Muslims
  • Malnutrition
  • Death penalty

    Madikeri

  • Kodagu heritage centre getting ready
  • Rainfall in Kodagu

    Madurai

  • Turn system of irrigation in Cumbum valley from today
  • HC Bench stays trial in triple murder case
  • MoU signed
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • Bottlenecks on national highways
  • Kenyan arrested for overstaying
  • ABVP takes out protest march
  • In Mangalore Today

    Mysore

  • Ancient temple in need of attention
  • Forum's `dormancy' hits IT prospects of Mysore
  • Professional courses should be affordable: Ananthamurthy
  • AIDS awareness programme to cover 16 lakh students
  • Huge turnout for pre-paid SIM cards

    Nagapattinam

  • Rs.339.46-cr. ACP for Nagapattinam

    Nagercoil

  • Squad formed to prevent illegal sand mining

    National

  • Congress, CPI(M) condemn BJP's boycott decision
  • `Unheard of, uncalled for'
  • Toward better economic ties with neighbours
  • Transfer of schemes next year, says Chidambaram
  • Commission rejects Gujarat Government's plea
  • NCP too calls for coordination panel
  • `Peace process on track in Jammu and Kashmir '
  • Uneasy calm in Veraval
  • `India should tap dairy markets in Pakistan, Sri Lanka'
  • Linking rivers can check floods, says Advani
  • Manipur varsity students to intensify stir
  • An optical phenomenon
  • `China-India border talks constructive'
  • British tourists leave India
  • CPI delegation to study FDI in China
  • Kalam meets Supreme Court judges
  • The making of a cannon park
  • Order for routing donations through Bharat Shiksha Kosh to go
  • All seats under management quota: issue for larger Bench
  • Kohli to be produced in Punjab court
  • `Re-look' at tax on leased aircraft
  • `Congress should introspect'
  • A Durga for Dallas
  • MoU signed for development of Myanmar Railways
  • Awards for children
  • `Women should unite to fight for their rights in CMP'
  • Will West Bengal be renamed Bangla?
  • Court seeks Centre's affidavit on NHRC appointment
  • Drought looming large over Rajasthan
  • CRPF camp attacked

    New Delhi

  • Parking rates draw traders' ire
  • Wanted gangster killed in encounter
  • Govt. comes under intense pressure
  • Sewage plants lying waste
  • Nuclear waste burial site ruled out
  • A case for Rajasthan's right to Ravi-Beas water
  • `Delhi Assembly fire took place due of negligence'
  • Water crisis persists
  • Decision to remove photographs flayed
  • Petrol dealers call off strike
  • Concern over budget proposals
  • Apollo Hospital ticked off
  • Ministries, monkeys and management
  • Congress questions Uma's absence
  • Autorickshaw driver taken to task
  • Vajpayee visits RSS headquarters
  • CINEMA
  • Convention of Global Compact Society
  • Relief for border farmers sought
  • Wife commits suicide
  • Rather elected NC leader
  • Bhandarkar's bail plea order likely today
  • `250 Agra monuments significant'
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    Pathanamthitta

  • Hartal total in Pathanamthitta
  • Concern over `campaign' against Adoor college

    Pondicherry

  • Probe report to be made available to legislators
  • Government trying to get recruitment ban lifted
  • Second phase of counselling in August
  • Power shutdown

    Religion

  • The path of action

    Shimoga

  • Shimoga telephone directory released
  • Govt. signs pact with Lions Club

    Sports : General

  • Easy for TN Police

    Squash

  • Rushabh advances

    Table Tennis

  • Mouma sets a modest target
  • RSC Open from Aug. 7
  • AFTC in line for title

    Tamil Nadu

  • Franking machines to curb fake stamps
  • Prepare merit list before admissions, Subramani panel tells consortium
  • Park maintenance
  • Litigation continues over Madurai writ
  • Rs. 1,604.10-crore supplementary estimates
  • Despite rain groundwater level has not improved
  • Radical changes in use of stamp papers likely
  • `Changed paradigms a challenge to higher education'
  • Southern Railway passenger earnings keep growing
  • DMK dares Jayalalithaa to file cases for `crime involvement'
  • ENGAGEMENTS
  • Rs.46 lakhs for tourist home at Tiruvannamalai
  • Petition against election of Khader Mohideen
  • New boathouse at Ooty by September
  • Attack won't deter me: Krishnasamy
  • CA students protest against fee hike
  • Decision on water release after review
  • Chief Minister `politicising' a gesture
  • Meet on Asia Urbs in Pondy from today
  • Thanjavur advocates will not press for bail
  • 3 sentenced to 10-year jail for rape
  • Passport applications cleared
  • `Maintenance money can be used to replace thatched roofs'
  • 3 taluk offices linked by computer to sub-registrar offices
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Tirupur ward residents upset
  • Deepam festival
  • Procession taken out

    Tennis

  • Agassi avenges a defeat
  • Navin, Gugan enter boys' u-18 main draw
  • Dumindu wins
  • Easy for Vivek

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Court order on electronic meters
  • Land to be handed over to AAI
  • Protests against banks continue
  • One killed in freak accident
  • Protest march held
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated July 28, 1954: Nehru's call to partymen
  • dated July 28, 1954: Lisbon goes to NATO
  • dated July 28, 1954: Brahmaputra in spate

    Thrissur

  • Paucity of funds hits projects
  • `Original thinking creates a good critic'
  • Dharna staged in front of IOB

    Tiruchi

  • `Adi Perukku' water reaches Tiruchi
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Tirupati

  • Union Finance Ministry blamed for GTB fiasco
  • Red sanders seized, one arrested
  • Shops allotted to displaced persons

    Udupi

  • Govt. staff to be provided quarters

    Uttar Pradesh

  • BJP stalls work in U.P. Assembly
  • BJP MLCs suspended

    Uttaranchal

  • House adjourned amid protest

    Vellore

  • Learn about herbal medicines, girl students told

    Vijayawada

  • Police to open women protection cell
  • BJP lacks policy on river waters, says CPI(M)
  • 11 ZPTC members launch hunger stir
  • Krishna delta's long wait ends
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Naxals gear up for Martyrs' Week
  • Port strike: talks deadlocked
  • Taking the risky ride to school
  • Phone numbers to be shifted
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • Fine day for Hyderabad Mayors
  • Sridharan exudes confidence
  • Wins for VMJHSS

    Weather

  • Weather

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