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    Andhra Pradesh

  • New job schemes announced
  • Patients develop infection after surgery
  • Academy for youth projects on the anvil
  • Irrigation meeting for monitoring of Tungabhadra flow
  • Review of polytechnic curriculum under way
  • Scholar's account of Adilabad visit rich in detail
  • Chief Minister asks ICRISAT to help farmers
  • Liver transplant gives him fresh lease of life
  • YSR finds transfer requests irksome
  • Crime watch
  • YSR reviews constitution of probe panels
  • Nuclear energy for disposal of waste mooted
  • PW vows to hold on to arms
  • GO 33 to be scrapped
  • Koida records 24 cm in a day
  • `Sweet alternative' impresses YSR
  • IICT to set up exclusive laboratory
  • Volkswagen keen on Vizag: Botsa
  • Vidyasagar flays Government for `ignoring' BJP
  • SCR Pension Adalat on December 15
  • Varavara Rao favours monitoring panel
  • PV's 84th birthday celebrated
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    Badminton

  • Kashyap and Saina corner glory
  • Thomas Kurien claims title
  • Agashe advances
  • Praveenlal wins title

    Bangalore

  • Has BESCOM shot itself in the foot?
  • Residents remove no-parking signboards
  • Health check-up camp from tomorrow
  • `Govt. will defend law on admissions'
  • Around the City
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    Barometer

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    Basketball

  • IOB beats Signals
  • It's St. Patrick's
  • Easy win for SKVC

    Belgaum

  • `Breastfeeding Week'

    Bellary

  • JD(S) asks Andhra Pradesh to release funds

    Bijapur

  • Villagers stage demonstration

    Billiards & Snooker

  • Aditya makes short work of Little
  • Anuja maintains winning streak
  • Preveen posts win

    Boxing

  • Qamar packs a punch

    Briefly

  • PDEXCIL seeks simplified procedures
  • Entrepreneurship development programme
  • Poultry Expo
  • El Forge net profit up
  • Steel majors hike prices
  • Oil crosses $44-mark
  • Interconnect case adjourned
  • Siemens, Aethra forge alliance
  • Multi-use computing
  • Dell launches new workstation
  • Two NRIs in Forbes list

    Business

  • Toyota Kirloskar's gearbox plant on stream
  • Highway projects cost goes up
  • 'Monsoon revival may lead to good farm output'
  • Initial gains not held on BSE
  • Rupee weakens
  • Apple unveils iPod
  • Fall in seafood exports
  • Textiles Ministry to disburse Rs. 4,000 crores
  • Indian team to 'mobilise' SAP's next wave

    Carrom

  • Nirmala triumphs

    Chennai

  • `Fire Services ill-equipped in manpower'
  • `Canal fire' destroys entire row of huts
  • Former collegiate education official chargesheeted
  • `Proportional representation will provide remedy'
  • Without tankers, Chennai would be finished
  • Rs. 2,100 cr. spent, but water yield only 60 MLD
  • Toilet proposal conforms to `agama sastra'
  • Health workshop
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    Chess

  • Krishna makes the right moves
  • Six share lead
  • Nikhilesh in Indian team

    Coimbatore

  • `A boost to underground sewer scheme'
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    Cricket

  • Lee can bowl faster: Lillee
  • Sometimes we try too hard to win: Ganguly
  • Lee to play in Chennai
  • Sivakumar scores century; Vidyut scalps six
  • Vadeyaraj shines
  • Vishwak sparkles
  • Masseur affair: manager too contributed
  • Lack of application caused defeat: Kirmani
  • Vidya Jyothi wins
  • Srikakulam begins well
  • Parle Cup tournament launched
  • Rain plays spoilsport

    Crossword

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    Cuddalore

  • Five Cuddalore villages named for World Bank-aided water project

    Cuddapah

  • TDP men see lack of financial discipline in YSR Government
  • Nurse loses sight in acid attack
  • TDP MLA denies hand in vehicle racket

    Davanagere

  • Heavy rain in Chennagiri, Honnali

    Dharmapuri

  • Lorry owners' threat

    Dharwad

  • Entries invited

    Dindigul

  • 150 sodium vapour lamps to be installed at Kodaikanal

    Editorials

  • REVIVAL OF DOHA ROUND
  • ATROCITIES IN MANIPUR

    Erode

  • Mani mandapam to be built for Deeran Chinnamalai
  • Over Rs. 1,300 cr. credit plan for Erode

    Football

  • Tamada takes Japan into final
  • National u-16 qualifiers
  • Ahbab holds Uttarakhand

    Front Page

  • Over 70 trapped in cave-in at Tehri dam
  • Talks to release hostages in final stages
  • Internal warnings on mole threat ignored
  • NDA withdraws boycott
  • Bhujbal attends meet
  • Quashed
  • Cultural ties
  • Powerful NRIs
  • Manipur talks
  • Savings scheme
  • Soren's shifting
  • New Russian envoy
  • Voyage to Mercury

    Generalia

  • Visitors put on alert

    Gulbarga

  • Three of five-man gang arrested; cash, arms seized
  • Sangha wants direct train from Gulbarga to Mysore
  • Technology gives the breakthrough

    Guntur

  • Temple renovation behind schedule

    Haryana

  • Transferred

    Himachal Pradesh

  • Portfolios re-allocated
  • `No threat to Nathpa Jhakri project'

    Hockey

  • Indians record two wins
  • Sports School posts two wins
  • BEL draws with ASC `B'

    Hubli

  • Panchayat Raj: NGOs plan non-cooperation movement
  • Speed limit fixed for vehicles in Hubli-Dharwad
  • Man's death causes tension in village

    Hyderabad

  • Convicted drivers stand to lose licence
  • Helmet rule enforcement back in focus
  • Minister inspects slums
  • St. Andrew's celebrates Founder's Day
  • City student dies in Melbourne mishap?
  • BIS specifications
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    India & World

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    International

  • U.S. move may provoke new arms race
  • Japan revamps Foreign Ministry
  • Global appeal for flood aid
  • An artists' squat goes official
  • 50 militants killed in Khost
  • Hearings begin in Abu Ghraib abuse
  • U.S. denies Uribe's drug links
  • Warning over Olympic rip-offs

    Kancheepuram

  • Why truckers prefer the Kancheepuram route
  • He chose the wrong woman

    Karnataka

  • It is counselling all over again
  • Water from Narayanapur Dam flows to Andhra Pradesh
  • Mobile terminals make banking easier
  • Yediyurappa seeks Krishna's statement on ransom charge
  • BJP launches campaign to inform people on Budget
  • Farm sector delivery mechanism termed faulty
  • King cobras released into forest
  • Notice to Govt. over ban on online lotteries
  • Plans to improve drains in Bangalore ready
  • Subsidy for beedi workers doubled
  • CET Cell to fill only Govt.-quota seats
  • T.N. urges State to release water
  • Krishna refutes charges
  • Govt. to regularise 2 lakh irrigation pumpsets
  • Transport operators threaten stir
  • JD(S) legislators demand equal representation
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Banks to lend more money to farmers
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    Kerala

  • Rain, landslips claim three lives
  • Central team to assess drought
  • Special package soon for fishermen
  • Uncertainty over engineering admissions continues
  • CAPE: Government fee to be charged in merit quota
  • `Special package' for fishermen on the anvil
  • PSC to ask Government to clarify stand
  • `Amend University Act'
  • BJYM march turns violent in Kozhikode
  • Children of AIDS victims denied entry into school
  • Industrialist Paul Pothen dead
  • BJP to protest against lathicharge today
  • Central team to assess drought
  • SNDP to expand its financing scheme
  • Plea against rubber import
  • Briefly

    Khammam

  • Streams in spate in Khammam

    Kochi

  • Drinking water problem persists in West Kochi
  • APTDC proposal for solid waste management
  • KRL evinces interest in marketing LNG
  • New Gandhi statue to be installed
  • Guidelines for digging up roads
  • New Venduruthy bridge: proposal submitted
  • Advocate association demand
  • Actress' father killed in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • BJYM march against police action
  • Gold traders' plea to Government
  • Premachandran criticises education policy

    Kottayam

  • KSSP to intensify campaign against Express Highway

    Kozhikode

  • Hartal today in Kozhikode

    Leader Page Articles

  • An astrologer's brew
  • Freedom curbed to save it

    Letters to the Editor

  • Hostage crisis
  • Oil price hike
  • Reservation policy
  • Laudable gesture
  • Deadline on Kashmir
  • Tough for Kerry
  • Correct step
  • A legend
  • Accessing science

    Madhya Pradesh

  • `No power crisis by 2007'

    Madikeri

  • Cauvery in spate in Kodagu

    Madurai

  • Telegram treated as habeas corpus petition
  • Huge loss as TWAD Board passes up excise exemption: audit report
  • Encomiums on Raja Muthiah Chettiar
  • An enclosure for winged visitors
  • Habeas corpus petition
  • Women must protect rights of newborn girls: Vasanthi Devi
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
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    Mangalore

  • Special status sought for cashew processing industry
  • Runway project hits a roadblock
  • Rain havoc in Mangalore
  • Saldanha stresses need to preserve heritage
  • BJP welcomes new WTO framework
  • Accommodate poor students, colleges told

    Mysore

  • Training in transfer of bivoltine technologies begins
  • EDUSAT, a boon for students, teachers
  • Good rain in Mysore
  • Entrance test for M.Sc. course

    Nagapattinam

  • 114 selected for temporary posts left in lurch

    Nalgonda

  • Dog-bite cases expose chinks in hospitals

    National

  • Legislation soon to make education free, compulsory
  • Sidhu new Manipur Governor
  • Hostage crisis: 'talks at a sensitive stage'
  • `Review on-going hydel projects'
  • `Nationalism is another word for Hindutva'
  • Dr. B.C. Roy awards presented
  • Medha on fast as project-affected are yet to be resettled
  • Benny goes places
  • ``I'll never go back in"
  • Somnath expresses happiness
  • Decision today on plea to shift Soren
  • `India managed to ensure acceptance of food security concept at WTO'
  • E-governance programmes should be stabilised, says Maran
  • Rain lashes northern, western regions
  • Pakistan poll chief invited to India
  • Designated post offices to operate senior citizens scheme
  • A boost for books on College Street
  • Lower court order on maintenance quashed
  • Heritage building in Jammu damaged
  • 'Arjun' to roll out on August 7
  • Differences sorted out: Bhujbal

    New Delhi

  • Kendriya Bhandar weekly rates
  • MLAs, Councillors urged to inspect drains
  • Delhi, UP sign a historic bus service agreement
  • MCD sub-committees delaying crucial decisions
  • JNU in a fix over new hostel
  • Another day of waterlogging, traffic jams and power cuts
  • Security beefed up for Independence Day
  • Diabetes check for school kids
  • Demolition in Sainik Farms
  • Wanted criminal held
  • WHO sounds the dengue alarm
  • CISF to make staff more passenger-friendly
  • Ration cards elude the poor
  • Locker owners stake claim
  • cinema
  • College staff holds dharna
  • Cops asked to make senior citizens' list
  • A week full of rain likely
  • Supreme Court stays MCD scheme
  • DU calls off show on Geelani
  • `Supreme Court an active judiciary'
  • `Inter-State water issues should be resolved amicably'
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    Pathanamthitta

  • CPI(ML) takes out march to Pushpagiri college

    Pondicherry

  • Dental college will be upgraded: Valsaraj
  • Youth federation protest
  • Power shutdown
  • Calling foreign students: `Study India'

    Punjab

  • Troops called out in flood-hit Patiala
  • Call to check child abuse

    Raichur

  • Toddy tappers to take out procession today
  • Three held, articles recovered

    Rajasthan

  • Bhabra's letter evokes strong protests
  • Uproar over bungling in grain distribution
  • Noisy scenes over backlog of ST/SC vacancies

    Ramanathapuram

  • New paddy variety developed
  • Woman arrested

    Religion

  • God is in everything

    Salem

  • Labour department gets uniforms for children

    Shimoga

  • Preparations begin for Brahmin's conference
  • Areca growers welcome Supreme Court ruling

    Sports : General

  • Aussie officials pleased at progress of stadium
  • Youth National Games on

    Table Tennis

  • Infosys in final
  • Varun triumphs

    Tamil Nadu

  • Rs. 217.32-crore package for cooperative credit institutions
  • Reservoirs go dry
  • Many lose marks, ranks in revaluation
  • Contempt action against probe officer
  • Revised medical merit list today
  • Alienated from their own land
  • Apex court strikes down ban on pan masala, gutka
  • `Plea against assent to Bills betrays motive'
  • Emulate Karnataka, simplify procedures: CII
  • Breast milk `safe option'
  • Tindivanam school gets time to renovate buildings
  • New paddy variety developed
  • Mrinal Sen pens his memoirs
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Centre to popularise hand pounded rice
  • Defer Pollution Board proposal: coffee planters
  • Rs. 19.82-lakh subsidies for 996 farmers in Karur
  • Panel formed for relaying of roads
  • Arrangements for `Aadi' festival at Irukkangudi
  • Wild elephant kills woman
  • Fermented wash destroyed
  • Ex-serviceman held

    Tennis

  • Agassi advances
  • Families to lend support for Leander, Mahesh
  • Nandita downs Richa

    Thanjavur

  • `Convene Cauvery River Authority meeting'
  • Bomb hoax

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • University caution against colleges without affiliation
  • Stray incidents of violence in district
  • SAT paediatric neurology wing gets new facilities
  • Police practising double standards, says Rajagopal
  • Recognition for TTIs
  • Autorickshaw theft: four held
  • Elected
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated August 4, 1954: French may quit by Aug. 14
  • dated August 4, 1954: K-2 conquered
  • dated August 4, 1954: Atomic Energy Department

    Thrissur

  • Light and sound show
  • Vehicle bandh affects normal life

    Tiruchi

  • Corpn. web site yet to be updated
  • Lawyers to strive for retaining Madurai Bench jurisdiction
  • Recast pension arrears disbursal: college teachers
  • Last date for submitting applications
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Tirunelveli

  • Thorny seahorse found near Tuticorin
  • Three arrested

    Tirupati

  • TTD scheme saves woman's life
  • Non-slum areas too to get DFID funds
  • Tirupati NCC cadets excel at State meet

    Tuticorin

  • Computer training programme for police

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Vaqar Ahmad joins Cabinet

    Vellore

  • Retired NCC officers honoured
  • Collector threatens to withhold funds

    Vijayawada

  • VMC to strive for ISO certification
  • Island resort to be ready by month-end
  • Civic authorities accused of going back on promise
  • Lucky escape for two in landslide
  • Prakasam Barrage gets 30,000 cusecs
  • Around the City

    Visakhapatnam

  • Green law goes for a toss
  • BJP moving away from TDP?
  • Farm labourers stage dharna
  • Simhadri must go, say CPI(M) MPs
  • `Telecop' to keep burglars at bay
  • Bid to take away court records?
  • CPI(M) flays VPT
  • Around the City
  • In Viskhkapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • Easy for India

    Warangal

  • Agency mandals in grip of dengue, viral fever
  • Science faculty urged to focus on lab work
  • TDP stages protest

    Weather

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