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    Anantapur

  • Fake passbooks add to crop loan muddle
  • `Cranky' passenger holds bus hostage
  • No kerosene for pink card-holders
  • Widow kills youth trying to rape her

    Andhra Pradesh

  • 'Free power policy will boomerang'
  • In search of mother with an aching heart
  • Banking operations paralysed
  • Government to earn huge revenue through red sander sale
  • Government will safeguard ryots' interests: YSR
  • Minister dares Naidu to prove land-grab charge
  • SCR to run specials between Gulbarga, Raichur
  • Frantic rush on to meet works' deadline
  • CPI warns Congress against toeing TDP line.
  • Tourist spots along Krishna river to get facelift
  • Pushkaram spirit grips Beechupalli
  • Telugu Academy awards presentation tomorrow
  • TDP makes light of all-party meet
  • Lorry strike hits agri business
  • Steps to ensure 8-hour power supply
  • Former naxal held under Arms Act
  • Coalminer killed as roof caves in
  • Tirumala water project in 30 months
  • TDP raps `poor' arrangements
  • Karnataka releases water to State
  • Janashakti cries halt to repression
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    Badminton

  • Good day for AP, Kerala

    Bangalore

  • Series of suicides shocks Bangalore
  • IT capital's dubious distinction
  • Meet on fee structure today
  • Residents protest against ban on parking
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    Barometer

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    Basketball

  • Mizoram on the rampage
  • Campion HSS `A' advances

    Belgaum

  • Ban orders extended

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  • Activists stage dharna against Telugu banners

    Bihar

  • Rabri's resignation sought

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  • TCS listing today
  • VSP slashes product prices
  • L&T bags Rs. 452 crore order
  • Pergo India's plans
  • Ultratech Cemco listed on bourses
  • Sierra Atlantic achieves CMM level 5
  • JAC plans protest
  • BankMuscat invests in Centurion Bank
  • Infinite opens London office
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  • Module for young managers
  • Malabar Institute's gesture
  • FCS focus on gaming to boost e-learning

    Business

  • Kalam calls for reducing power losses
  • Single SIM card for GSM, CDMA networks
  • Address political issues, U.S. tells textile sector
  • 'Birla estates are not HUF property'
  • Sensex recovers 34 points
  • Rupee loses moderate ground
  • NTPC to hit market
  • Gestetner, Ricoh merger
  • Airtel cuts tariffs
  • Indian Hotels ties up with Raffles International

    Chennai

  • Shop blaze kills two Sri Lankan tourists
  • Couple electrocuted
  • Kalpakkam Reactor: All set for first pour of concrete by Manmohan
  • 'Women panchayat chiefs should shed proxy role'
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    Chess

  • Anand clinches title
  • Bhagyashree stays on top
  • Sorokin beats Humpy
  • Harikrishna is joint second
  • Ajit holds Bhantopadyaya
  • Two share lead

    Coimbatore

  • Burglary attempt in school
  • Child workers rescued
  • Freed girl back in slum, rescuers helpless
  • In Coimbatore Today
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    Cricket

  • Australia, Pakistan to meet in last league game
  • Karen Singh shines in Gowlipura's win
  • North Zone schedule
  • Sharath, Suresh prop up TNCA President XI
  • Mangalore gets first innings points
  • Muthuvella tastes success
  • East Godavari triumphs
  • Pot Market XI wins title
  • Murugan CC wins

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8071
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    Cuddapah

  • 29 subjects for local bodies sought

    Dharmapuri

  • Micro studies to assess farm credit

    Editorials

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    Football

  • LG Cup: Vietnam beats India
  • Nabi nets winner
  • Ricky slots two

    Front Page

  • Manmohan promises end to tyranny of 'inspector raj'
  • 'We are living in abnormal times'
  • Uma Bharti headed for Hubli
  • Karnataka police on their toes
  • Maharashtra polls on October 13
  • Stripped of title
  • Weightlifting coaches suspended
  • Kathmandu blockade off
  • Talks with FM only: Truckers
  • SYL row: Plea rejected
  • Rajasthan minister surrenders
  • California Senate passes anti-outsourcing Bill

    Globescan

  • Japan for Security Council seat
  • 'Genghis Khan was a scholar'
  • Plea to resolve Balochistan issue

    Golf

  • Madras Ladies Open from Aug. 31
  • Sonam wins title
  • Padmanabhan, Pawar bag titles
  • Gaganjeet, Himmat share lead

    Gulbarga

  • Students block road, set fire to Jalappa's effigy

    Guntur

  • Festivities hit a `road'block in Guntur

    Haryana

  • Steps to keep State pollution-free

    Hassan

  • Department releases funds for Gangooru Dalits
  • Officials asked to take up work on classrooms

    Himachal Pradesh

  • Three more cases of 'mysterious fever'

    Hyderabad

  • Parking blues in Old City
  • Prudential depositors stage protest
  • Around the City
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    India & World

  • India, U.K. offer help to Bangladesh
  • Let's not rock the boat, says Pakistan

    International

  • Beginning of the battle, says Al-Sadr aide
  • Abu Ghraib report blames top civilian, military leaders
  • Stop attacks, say Sudanese rebels
  • U.S. pays debt to Vietnam allies
  • Fears over Guantanamo Bay trial standards
  • Bush hails Kerry's war record
  • Plan to undermine democracy: U.S.

    Kancheepuram

  • Fodder farm handed over

    Karnataka

  • Security beefed up
  • Film exhibitors to defy `ban'
  • Gayana Samaja launches centenary celebrations
  • `Govt. examining KIADB, KSSIDC merger'
  • Sindhia seeks investment from manufacturing industries
  • Uma Bharti not to seek bail
  • State renews appeal on Article 371
  • BJP warns Govt. against `misadventure'
  • Petition against destruction of forests
  • Device to collect waste from trains
  • State team calls on Manmohan Singh
  • Truckers to continue stir
  • Accused, though dead
  • Govt. urged to act soon on High Court Bench
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    Karnataka - Others

  • Banks employees criticise policies
  • A bewitching beauty called Dudhsagar
  • Fodder worth Rs. 20 lakhs decaying in Davangere
  • `Prepare list of hospitals that need repair'
  • City student drowns in sea

    Kerala

  • State seeks Rs. 315-crore drought relief
  • Government decision on counselling not justified
  • Row over world's smallest coin takes a new turn
  • Strategic victory for KC(M) in Pala
  • Curbs on farm imports promised: Antony
  • Staff stir hits banking operations
  • Steps to check price rise during Onam
  • Kollam decked up in yellow for Guruvarsham-150
  • Lapse of SC/ST funds criticised
  • Sonia urged to reconsider decision
  • Tension in Alappuzha
  • Bypoll date
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    Kochi

  • Slight shortage at grains market
  • Trade unions against closure of HIL
  • FCI to supply rice, wheat for Onam
  • Ahmed to open ICON 2004
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    Kollam

  • Energy conservation clubs to be formed

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  • Uma Bharti's case
  • Disrupting Parliament
  • Hostage crisis
  • Lawyers' strike
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  • Media to blame
  • Akku Yadav episode

    Madhya Pradesh

  • Gaur says he will ensure honest administration

    Madikeri

  • Leprosy at elimination level in Kodagu
  • MESCOM seeks route map from cable operators

    Madurai

  • Back from the jaws of death, she will go to school again
  • Banking operations hit
  • Truckers' strike has no impact on normal life
  • More arrests yet to be made for Kumbakonam fire: probe officer
  • Coronation of Lord Sundareswarar
  • Government staff want TESMA revoked
  • Airtel to the help of Baskaran
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  • In Madurai Today
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    Maharashtra

  • Maharashtra parties gear up
  • Hazare seeks stay in defamation case

    Mangalore

  • Bank strike total, peaceful
  • Transportation of cattle triggers communal clash
  • Anganwadi workers demand better facilities
  • Power shutdown
  • Woman throws child into well, ends life

    Mysore

  • Stir brings down vegetable prices
  • Delegation to visit slaughterhouse in Hyderabad
  • 8,000 bank employees stay away from work
  • MATF alleges laxity in equipment maintenance
  • Govt. taking steps to distribute ID cards
  • Two held in dacoity case

    National

  • Preparations on for Manmohan, Musharraf meet
  • Strike hits bank operations
  • Communal violence: Need for robust law on genocide
  • Jayalalithaa moves Supreme Court again seeking transfer of cases to Chennai
  • Passing of Finance Bill advanced
  • Chidambaram appeals to truckers
  • Congress intolerant, says NDA
  • High Court refuses to quash cases against VHP leaders
  • Time to move ahead on industrial policy reform: Manmohan
  • SYL canal: Punjab's petition rejected
  • Kalpakkam Reactor: All set for first pour of concrete by Manmohan
  • Left wants UPA to take up workers' issues
  • Parliament adjourned
  • Women, child trafficking: call for community policing

    New Delhi

  • Majority of MLAs favour MCD trifurcation
  • Accusations mark Day I of DUSU polls run-up
  • Rain exposes civic agencies
  • DUAC not meeting its objective, feel experts
  • DDA takes major policy decisions
  • Retailers make hay as truckers strike
  • Study to help combat trafficking
  • Inter-State gangsters held
  • Six dead in rain-related mishaps
  • Gruelling sessions ahead
  • `Dead' man arrested
  • Japanese team visits Metro
  • Power cuts in many areas
  • Held for fleecing passengers
  • Surprises, disappointments in DUSU lists
  • Constable nabs fleeing criminal
  • Around the City
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  • In The Capital Today

    Olympic Games

  • Indians languish in last place
  • Italy upsets U.S., enters final
  • `Mosquito' heaves to a new high
  • Irini Merleni makes history
  • China, Russia in women's semifinals
  • Officials Hamm it up
  • India plays Pakistan today
  • Russia at its customary best
  • Milen Dobrev lives up to his billing
  • Day of reckoning for Anju
  • Australia downs Japan
  • Weightlifting coaches sacked
  • Ignatyev takes centrestage
  • No sanctions against Australian rowers
  • Khatri beaten

    Pathanamthitta

  • Sandbanks at racecourse being removed
  • Onam celebrations from tomorrow
  • Plea to stop telecast of TV serial

    Pondicherry

  • Educate public on preventive aspects: Lakhera
  • Police warn auto drivers against overloading
  • Praise for pro-active Lakhera
  • Student drowned

    Punjab

  • Many trains behind schedule

    Rajasthan

  • World Bank-aided health scheme launched

    Religion

  • Eternal nature of the Self

    Salem

  • Bank strike hits business

    Shimoga

  • BJP threatens `fitting reply' to Congress
  • Work disrupted in banks

    Sports : General

  • Ostrich-like stance won't help
  • A humble champion

    Tamil Nadu

  • Oppose POTA repeal: Jayalalithaa
  • Lawyers win repeal of controversial code
  • Chennai team meets Lahoti
  • DMK plans movement against BJP disruptions
  • PMK, Dalit Panthers coming together?
  • Strikers planning to woo other transporters
  • Centre committing mistakes: Ganesan
  • Vacancies filled in districts
  • MBA, MCA counselling
  • 3 railmen run over
  • Centre to consider upgrading Tamil Nadu airports
  • Singapore Tourism Board to hold roadshow in Chennai
  • Strike hits banking operations
  • List of documents on wealth case checked
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Demand for upgrading of school gaining momentum
  • More vehicles for Tirupur waste management
  • GH doctors go on strike in Pudukottai
  • Grievances via e-mail
  • Wine shop burgled
  • Ambur residents seek better rail facilities
  • Rs. 25 lakhs for rehabilitating bootleggers

    Tennis

  • Gomes upsets Gursher

    Thanjavur

  • Bank services hit
  • `Torch run' reaches Thanjavur

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • End of the road for district mental health programme?
  • School safety forums to be set up
  • Protest against VC's decision on SDE director
  • Councillor hurt in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated August 25, 1954: Assam town flooded
  • dated August 25, 1954: Haldane breaks fast
  • dated August 25, 1954: Wise people & newspapers

    Thrissur

  • Excitement amidst concern at TIFF
  • 4,000 cases pending before SHRC

    Tiruchi

  • Banking operations disrupted
  • `Chaalion' festival celebrated
  • Two houses, shop gutted
  • '96 per cent favour Tiruchi under Madurai Bench'
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Tirunelveli

  • Compensation for rape victims sought
  • `Begin wage settlement talks'

    Tuticorin

  • Assembly panel pulls up medical college Dean

    Udupi

  • Focus needed on industry, irrigation, tourism
  • Students to observe bandh against bus fare increase

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Madrasa Board set up; Congress, BJP decry move

    Vijayawada

  • Culinary, cultural treats too in store
  • Plaque with Gandhiji's name left to rot
  • Educational institutions closed for Pushkarams
  • Pushkaram fever grips all
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Plan to check traffic jam during VVIP visits
  • Truckers exempt essential services from strike
  • Bank transactions come to a halt
  • No substitute for education: Students Islamic Organisation
  • Mobile vegetable counters make the rounds
  • High-speed train trial on new track
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatanm Today

    Volleyball

  • New College made to sweat

    Weather

  • Weather

    Weightlifting

  • NTR-Delhi bags title

    West Bengal

  • `Dhananjoy syndrome' spreads

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