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    Alappuzha

  • Ensure safety of tourists in houseboats: MLA

    Anantapur

  • Protest against faculty appointment
  • Breach in Tungabhadra canal

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Officials worried about CRISIL rating
  • Government promises to study PW demands
  • Will lift irrigation scheme on Godavari be feasible?
  • Kin hails `sacrifices' of naxalites
  • Panel to be set up for land distribution
  • Government to examine People's War demands
  • Urban reforms project likely to take off soon
  • Irrigation Advisory Board meet to discuss reopening of KC canal
  • HUDA to shift Autonagar dump yard
  • TRS out to deceive people, says TDP
  • Expert offers `lasting solution' to water woes
  • TRS leaders lash out at critics
  • Muslim quota: hearings begin in HC
  • Stray dog on biting spree
  • Jana in dark on case report
  • Auto driver attempts suicide alleging harassment by cops
  • Venkatswamy, VHR felicitated
  • Unity of Left forces stressed
  • Telecom secretary for focus on cyber security
  • Call to amend Tobacco Board Act
  • Naxals kill comrade
  • YSR for waiver of anti-dumping duty on shrimps
  • State poised to get Alamatti water
  • YSR functioning like Opposition leader: Dattetreya
  • Power hike stir: Victims' kin to get ex gratia
  • Award for AWARE chief
  • One dies, four injured in mishap
  • Low pressure forms
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Council meet approves budget proposals
  • Youth urged to utilise educational facilities
  • School health programme launched
  • Village assistant murdered by wife?
  • Takes over

    Badminton

  • Saina in final
  • It's Thomas Kurien vs Aneesh

    Bangalore

  • Fuel price hike lands vehicle owners in a fix
  • Filmmakers vow to fight censorship
  • Fake notes seized, eight arrested
  • Raids on live-band joints continue, 43 arrested
  • Woman kills daughter, commits suicide
  • Action against touts at passport office
  • Chidambaram to open Toyota facility
  • Water adalat today
  • Varsity offering new courses
  • Mirajuddin recovering
  • Directive to headmasters
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    Basketball

  • Four TN players to attend camp at Kozhikode
  • Sports Hostel's dramatic triumph
  • HAL pips St. Andrews
  • One-sided encounters
  • Tirupur BC, Bharath SC advance
  • Easy for TKM Engg. College

    Belgaum

  • Controversy over nala project continues
  • Belgaum Telecom to withdraw direct dialling facility

    Bellary

  • Training course for gram panchayat members
  • President of Janata Bazaar disqualified

    Billiards & Snooker

  • Chitra shocks Meenal
  • Pankaj Advani has it easy

    Boxing

  • Services flaunts clear edge over Railways

    Briefly

  • Siemens' new chief
  • Two resign from SBI board
  • Corporates to raise $790 m
  • Tea exports to Iran
  • Knitwear exports from Tirupur up
  • TCS offer oversubscribed

    Business

  • New trade policy to cover WTO rules
  • TCS, Wipro remain on top
  • Hectic activity in civil aviation sector
  • SPIC on way to recovery
  • Maruti July sales up
  • Fresh lease of life for Haldia Petro
  • Ashley Transport's new service

    Carrom

  • Double delight for India

    Chennai

  • Emulate Karnataka, simplify procedures: CII
  • A school cries for attention
  • Breast milk `safe option'
  • Mylapore residents raise a stink
  • Falls into manhole, dies
  • Exclusive travel packages for students
  • `Look at political Islam dispassionately'
  • Free textbooks distributed
  • Man held, jewellery seized
  • Philately festival at Port Blair
  • Forged papers
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    Chess

  • Strongest in the world, at the moment
  • Mohanapriya, Laxman win titles
  • Ruthvik posts win
  • Anand pockets Dortmund title
  • Bhavana, Soundaram qualify

    Coimbatore

  • Prepare and plan for success, students told
  • NAAC to make `best practices' part of accreditation process
  • Clarification
  • Confusion over `seconds' knitwear market
  • Avinashilingam varsity to offer Viscom course
  • Drive against violation of MV rules
  • Briefly
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • India's jinx in a final continues
  • A low-key reception
  • Vijay Bharadwaj to lead KSCA XI
  • Goa to host Ranji one-dayers
  • TCS enters final
  • Srikanth slams century
  • The great Indian debate
  • Arun Kumar completes double century
  • More on the masseur issue
  • Saravanan shines
  • Golden Wheel, Marshalls post wins
  • Saiteja scalps five wickets
  • Sangakkara, Chandana and Dilshan fined
  • Giles does West Indies in

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8052
  • Solution to puzzle 8051

    Cuddapah

  • SP stresses on need for vocational training
  • `Watersheds can keep drought at bay'
  • Woman battered to death; husband absconding
  • Office-bearers elected

    Dharwad

  • Hubli-Dharwad to get water once in five days

    Editorials

  • TERRORISM AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS
  • FOR ACCESS TO SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS

    Erode

  • `Pollution Board should take action against dyers'
  • Integrated training for handloom weavers

    Football

  • ADE sneaks past SAI
  • Ramaswamy XI wins title
  • Govt. Arts in final
  • Valerian Grammar triumphs

    Front Page

  • Fresh efforts to end hostage crisis / Captives 'repositioned'
  • CIA mole moved out over 120 files from office
  • '10 conclusions' to strengthen BJP
  • A week full of rain likely
  • Court notice to Centre, States on SYL canal row
  • Soren remanded to custody
  • Sweeping changes in law favoured to prevent criminalisation of politics
  • 'Power to impose total ban on gutkha rests with Centre'
  • Bandh hits life
  • Hostage `shot'
  • Police action
  • `Ramdas, Rehman worked to promote peace agenda'
  • Attack plan

    Generalia

  • New schemes proposed for sports development

    Globescan

  • MIG chief takes over amid row
  • Mugabe plans to curb charities
  • Diana fountain 'abused by public'

    Golf

  • Vijay Singh triumphs
  • Rajagopal-Veluaswamy duo wins
  • India finishes second

    Gulbarga

  • More employment opportunities for women demanded

    Haryana

  • Prohibition panel indicts Bansi Lal
  • State widens family pension scheme

    Hockey

  • Postal makes the grade

    Hyderabad

  • Medicos' death: Police caught in `truck trap'
  • Cops want helmets made compulsory
  • Ten students taken ill
  • Panchayat Raj official in ACB net
  • Abandoned infant dies
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Jana talk!

    International

  • U.S. girds up security at IMF, World Bank
  • Pakistan rules out troops for Iraq
  • Dhaka denies receiving Saudi plan
  • Electric fence around Big Ben?
  • Russia, allies launch war games
  • `Arafat squandered $5-billion aid'

    Karimnagar

  • Minister's assurance on new revenue office
  • TRS criticised for `diluting' Telangana cause

    Karnataka

  • Alamatti sluices opened as reservoir fills up
  • Meet to solve sugarcane growers' problems
  • Govt. considering bus fare hike: Kharge
  • Council adopts resolution on admissions
  • 29,374 tobacco barns to be legalised
  • ABVP threatens agitation
  • `Verdict on regularisation of staff awaited'
  • Krishna attends session
  • Legal action against errant colleges
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Breach in canal damages crops
  • Rahman Khan sees need to overhaul education system
  • Ban sought on overloaded lorries

    Kerala

  • Law against discrimination of HIV/AIDS-affected sought
  • Creative responses to suicides suggested
  • CRZ norms should be location-specific: study
  • Government violating AICTE norms
  • Thomas panel asks Government to clarify
  • CBI to inform court on progress of probe
  • Sudhakaran's resignation raises eyebrows
  • CBI questions employees of security press
  • Appoint observer: Vellappally
  • Former KPCC general secretaries summoned
  • AIADMK unit to press for water release
  • Arrangements for devotees at Erumeli
  • HIV-infected children attend classes
  • Chakiliyas denied caste certificates
  • SBI strike on Aug. 9
  • B.Tech. counselling postponed
  • Briefly

    Khammam

  • Tribals protest against naxal's act

    Kochi

  • Small industries park coming up
  • Council approves draft development plan
  • `Focus on export of ornamental fish'
  • Protest against move to privatise TELK
  • Man drowns
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    Kollam

  • KPEO State conference
  • `Stop construction of wall around Sasthamcotta Lake'
  • Dharna planned
  • SFI sends bloodstained shirts to Antony

    Kurnool

  • Heavy inflows into Alamatti

    Leader Page Articles

  • Targeted food stamps
  • Kerry on the rise

    Letters to the Editor

  • Reservation row
  • Money against merit
  • Ceremonial send-offs
  • Forgotten soldiers
  • To sir with love
  • Voice of the voiceless
  • Kripalani & Menon
  • Inimitable Mehmood

    Madhya Pradesh

  • Speculation over Minister

    Madikeri

  • The forgotten monuments of Kodagu

    Madurai

  • Stress on proper counselling to prevent AIDS
  • Work going on in full swing
  • Medical, eye camps
  • Efforts on to computerise State Information Centre
  • World Bank team lauds self-help groups' performance
  • CPI(M) cadres stage demonstration
  • Cancel conduct rules: advocates
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • Authorities now turn to 2002 report
  • Fake currency: six more arrested
  • Labourer electrocuted
  • Stickers released
  • Book on Kannada to be released tomorrow

    Manipur

  • Skyrocketing prices add to Manipur's woes

    Mysore

  • Mysore Zoo to have more lion-tailed macaques
  • RMC Yard employee stabbed to death
  • Ex-servicemen protest against location of canteen
  • University invites applications for affiliation
  • Corporation demolishes 25 petty shops
  • K.N. Somasundaram dead

    National

  • Task force will take care of flood problems: Sonia
  • Monsoon revives; fears of drought recede
  • Rice sowing declines due to deficient rain
  • RSS for "course correction," not leadership change
  • PM reviews drought situation
  • Man's bitter fight for survival against elements on
  • An online training for diplomats
  • Ibobi discusses situation with Manmohan
  • Government wants Golden Temple to be in World Heritage List
  • Court directive to States on MBBS admission
  • Coordination panel to meet tomorrow
  • Shyam Saran takes over as Foreign Secretary
  • `Left for continuation of UPA Government'
  • Congress downplays CPI(M) campaign

    Nellore

  • Collector lays stress on market savvy strategy

    New Delhi

  • DMRC `trains' other State officials
  • Fire safety not high on buildings' priority list
  • Sheila does a U-turn over Statehood issue
  • DPCC still awaits a head
  • Rain and power cuts go hand in hand
  • Mrinal Sen pens his memoirs
  • Cong. flayed for `false promises'
  • Supreme Court stays MCD scheme
  • Garbage privatisation postponed
  • Their hearts beat normally now
  • Gold, silver seized
  • Lockers opened
  • Suicide bid outside Supreme Court
  • Bag causes bomb scare
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • Inside Delhi

    News Analysis

  • The BJP and its middle course

    Nizamabad

  • Collector warns erring Transco contractors

    Pathanamthitta

  • Mechanical wing blamed for bus fire
  • Commuters put to hardship

    Punjab

  • Farmers disrupt rail traffic

    Racing : Motor

  • Sanjay, Lakshmi triumph

    Raichur

  • Special status sought for Hyderabad Karnataka
  • Ex-Minister seeks end to diversion of water

    Rajasthan

  • Uproar over drought relief works

    Ramanathapuram

  • Convene high-level meeting, MP urges PM

    Religion

  • Total surrender

    Shimoga

  • Funds: Shimoga ZP to take team to Dharam Singh
  • Defection figures at meet

    Sports : General

  • Warm send off to Indian contingent
  • Evangelina-Ramadevi duo triumphs
  • Sportspersons honoured
  • SAAP's talent meet for street children

    Table Tennis

  • Sudhanshu, Monika win kids' crowns
  • Balaji, Ranjana bag titles

    Tamil Nadu

  • Revalue 11 questions: High Court
  • 'Improvement candidates can compete with freshers'
  • Medical certificate scam: CBI seeks report from Income Tax department
  • Garbage, hawker menace putting off Mamallapuram tourists
  • Reconsider hike in fuel prices: Vaiko
  • Set up food parks, Minister tells entrepreneurs
  • `Open tender not followed for police tents purchase'
  • `Rs. 1,032.5-crore potential revenue loss'
  • Replacement time extended till month-end
  • Licence cancelled for 118 vendors in Vellore zone
  • Huts razed in Tiruchi fire
  • Special train
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Rs.25 lakhs for improving Avudaiyarkoil
  • Veerapandi Temple car put on trial run
  • Devotees throng Arapaleeswarar temple
  • `No burial of children'

    Tennis

  • Paes and Bhupathi recapture old magic

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Measures to check pollution
  • Two women killed in separate accidents
  • Rights panel intervenes on children's behalf
  • High Court Bench: MP promises swift action
  • Hartal: security stepped up
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    This Day That Age

  • dated August 3, 1954: Homage to Tilak
  • dated August 3, 1954: Blot on China's honour
  • dated August 3, 1954: Medical college for Madurai

    Thrissur

  • Vehicle bandh in district today
  • Two held for attempt to rob banks

    Tiruchi

  • Rs.3.15 crores to construct hostels for SC students
  • Thousands take dip in Cauvery
  • `Acting, a powerful tool'
  • `Spastic children need greater attention'
  • Steps taken for allotment of number to PF subscribers
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirupati

  • Two killed in road mishap
  • Prasar Bharti CEO's nod to rebate on AIR cassettes
  • BJP urges cloud-seeding in Chittoor district
  • B.Ed students on relay fast
  • SBI unions trade charges
  • New Deputy EOs for TTD

    Udhagamandalam

  • Youth Day

    Udupi

  • Slipway works at Malpe port to begin soon

    Vijayawada

  • Woes of women cops go unreported
  • Tension after demolition of compound wall
  • No end to power woes
  • `Dictionary mela' from tomorrow
  • CPI(M) rail roko against petrol price hike
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • `Troublesome' enthusiasm!

    Visakhapatnam

  • Port unions hold out stir threat again
  • State finance corporation mulls interest rate cut
  • CPI(M) against Dandakaranya State
  • VUDA opens field offices
  • Branded diamond jewellery in city
  • Boat operators resent diesel price hike
  • Railway Minister grants Tamil group's plea
  • VMC's donation to King George Hospital
  • Adventure camp concludes
  • Around the City
  • In Viskhakapatnam Today
  • Digging deep into `solo' union

    Warangal

  • House burgled

    Weather

  • Weather

    West Bengal

  • West Bengal bandh spontaneous: Mamata

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