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    Alappuzha

  • CPI(M) leader seeks cancellation of mining permit

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Fall in pilgrim turnout on penultimate day
  • TDP bandh partial in Anantapur
  • The action begins at Krishna
  • State lacks muscle to regulate sinking of borewells
  • Wet spell holds up recarpeting of roads
  • Builders for changes in contracting system
  • Registration Department may have own premises soon
  • Rs. 6 per kg. for Jatropha seed promised
  • TDP decries YSR's stand on killings
  • Spate of robberies in city
  • Indiscipline will not be tolerated: Digvijay
  • TTD invites flower donations for Brahmotsavams
  • Naxals bring murder suspect to book
  • 50 cr. sanctioned to bail out APCO
  • Scholarships: AISF launches relay fast
  • BJP meet to take a view on bypoll
  • Three held for robbery
  • VHR makes light of Naidu's early poll talk
  • Dalits seek speedy disposal of Tsundur case
  • Open varsity course extended
  • Three farmers commit suicide
  • Surplus land handed over to MROs
  • YSR to visit ghats
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Plea to declare 65 mandals in Chittoor drought-hit

    Athletics

  • DK dominates

    Bangalore

  • A negative attitude is a silent killer
  • BMP holds discussion with MLAs, MLCs
  • Officials told to shift school
  • Traffic curbs in and around Shivajinagar today, tomorrow
  • Security tightened for BJP rally
  • No breakthrough in kidnap case
  • Emergency phone numbers
  • Water adalat
  • Hearing today
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    Belgaum

  • Margai puja peaceful

    Bellary

  • Ilkal math to go ahead with anointment programme
  • Swamiji returns without meeting arrested persons

    Bijapur

  • Three more arrested in double murder case

    Boxing

  • Bookies back Australia

    Briefly

  • GIC Housing's rights issue price
  • M&M plans acquisitions
  • German cycle fair
  • Wipro ties up with iBOLT
  • Housing loan camp
  • Bank of India's Foundation Day
  • Ashok Leyland sales up in August
  • Award for Bharti Teletech
  • Sify's remote sales connectivity
  • Alliance declares dividends
  • SBI's off-site ATM
  • Airtel launches Mail Live
  • Lotus Chocolate net at Rs. 2.36 lakhs
  • New director for Satyam Computer
  • SPIC honours dealers
  • PNB opens office in Shanghai
  • TVS Electronics launches thermal printer
  • Lanka IOC postpones IPO
  • Colgate resumes Nepal operations

    Business

  • Philips group companies to merge
  • Higher crude prices force plastic units to cut output
  • Retail loan: private players eating into PSU banks' share
  • Cairn confirms Rajasthan find
  • CCS Infotech's plans
  • Rupee weakens further
  • Select pivotals look up
  • Serena starts India operations
  • Centre initiating package for plantation sector
  • India, Singapore make `progress' on e-commerce talks

    Chennai

  • Diagnosis at your doorstep
  • `Adopt a crocodile' programme launched
  • An Indian summer for city's criminal fraternity
  • Pallavaram `needs more water'
  • Music `a rare gift of God'
  • Small savings agents want their fee now
  • Blind Association gets award
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Ganguly shocks Sutovsky
  • Modern takes lead
  • Mumbai retains title

    Coimbatore

  • National authority coming soon for disaster preparedness
  • CNC park planned in Coimbatore
  • Land acquisition delays doubling work
  • When residents took the initiative
  • Four arrested
  • Elected
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Cricket

  • Kaif and Sehwag — the changing tide
  • Hyderabad cruises into semifinals
  • Patil pleased as punch for Kaarthick
  • Alarming slump in batting fortunes
  • Darren Gough slams critics
  • Madhav bowls well
  • Thrilling win for Maharaja's
  • Nikhil, Anuj bowl well
  • SNC has it easy
  • Aashish Reddy slams century
  • Easy win for Knowledge Infotech

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    Cuddapah

  • ZP chief charged with abuse of power
  • 22 injured in two accidents
  • `Trickster' arrested
  • Irate farmers storm MRO's office
  • Medical representatives stage dharna

    Editorials

  • POVERTY OF APPROACH
  • REEL TROUBLE

    Erode

  • `Create awareness on eye donation'
  • Theft at TNEB office

    Football

  • India meets confident Japan
  • HAL rallies well
  • IAF (Palam) in final
  • Brace by Dipen
  • Emphatic win for KSEB

    Front Page

  • Andhra farmers lose crores in insurance
  • Peace should continue at all costs: Kasuri
  • Free visas for Pakistani journalists
  • Kashmir the real issue: Shaukat Aziz
  • BJP reiterates demand on `tainted' Ministers
  • Mayawati's threat
  • Stir to go on
  • Remanded
  • Clash kills 34
  • $20 m. paid
  • Deuba coming today
  • Bombs hurled
  • Manipur stir
  • Samajwadi Party behind MP attack: Mayawati

    Golf

  • Vijay Singh ends Woods' supremacy
  • Ramaswamy prevails
  • Mukesh Kumar in sole lead

    Gulbarga

  • Special package sought for backward regions

    Guntur

  • Life sentence for dowry harassment
  • Cable TV users strike back

    Haryana

  • Chautala announces house tax relief
  • Scan old age pension recipients, officials told

    Hassan

  • Success for literacy campaign
  • Four boys drowned in tank
  • Bank employees boycott work

    Hockey

  • SAI `C' wins again

    Hubli

  • Colourful Janmashtami in Hubli

    Hyderabad

  • Proposed flyovers promise a smoother ride
  • Picture on cornea transplants remains hazy
  • Transaction blues at RTA office
  • Meagre inflows into reservoirs
  • Hoteliers' plea dismissed
  • Facts on eye donation
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Is India's new prosperity a myth?
  • China for early resolution of border issue

    International

  • U.S. provoking attacks: Al-Sadr
  • `Maskhadov ordered siege'
  • Salem Chalabi off Saddam tribunal
  • The Maldives in transition — II
  • Campaign begins for Afghan presidential polls
  • Court to review Anwar graft case
  • Schroeder faces mid-term crisis
  • Qurei warns Israel of retaliation
  • Looking for million-dollar solutions
  • 'Mix-up' in fertility hospital
  • Once more in Swaziland
  • Repeal emergency, says European Union

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • Pilgrims progress to Vaishno Devi

    Karnataka

  • Cauvery tribunal: Dharam Singh to decide on State's stand
  • `Will of the people is paramount'
  • Uma Bharti for rekindling spirit of nationalism
  • Fresh CET counselling to begin on Friday
  • Bench: Yediyurappa sees no need for meeting Chief Justice
  • `Govt. will claim Kasaragod'
  • Bar associations to fight for Statehood to north Karnataka
  • Petition against police notification
  • Govt. urged to pursue Uma Bharti case
  • Adivasis reject draft national policy
  • Policy to protect weavers sought
  • Vyasaraja Math seer names successor
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • AITUC blames Goa Govt. for `flight of capital'
  • Parrikar hits out at Congress
  • Establish good rapport with students, teachers told
  • Fishermen on war path
  • `Producers' demand will help film industry'
  • Chikmagalur lawyers continue court boycott

    Kerala

  • New action plan spelt out
  • Congress has hijacked UDF: Balakrishna Pillai
  • Sandalwood theft: CBI told to complete probe
  • Jacob sees conspiracy behind his ouster
  • DFO told to stop tree felling at Jeerakappara
  • Industrial units to seek legal opinion
  • Stray dogs
  • Palmolein case: VS flays Chandy's stand
  • VS visits Jeerakappara
  • `SBI in the fast lane of growth'
  • Karnataka will reclaim Kasaragod: Dharam Singh
  • Murder of priest: one held
  • Boat tragedy: last body found
  • Public distribution system will be improved: Minister
  • CAP: 850 allotted seats
  • KSHB to continue auction

    Kerala - Others

  • Balaramapuram handlooms set for comeback
  • 40 injured in bus accident

    Kochi

  • GCDA ratifies revised rent at Kaloor market
  • Website row: former DFO denies charges
  • Road work to be over by September 10
  • Preparations on for Mata's visit
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • Railways convenes meet as protests mount
  • Part-time classes to resume today

    Kottayam

  • KC(M) protests against policy on rubber
  • Ten convicted for murder

    Leader Page Articles

  • The new foreign trade policy
  • India and Nepal's insurgency

    Letters to the Editor

  • Uma Bharti's release
  • Sense of history
  • Taslimuddin issue
  • Welcome
  • Unacceptable
  • Savarkar row
  • India-Pakistan talks
  • Beslan siege
  • Tricolour issue

    Madikeri

  • MLA objects to curbs on tree felling

    Madurai

  • Rajapalayam-Tenkasi section likely to be opened on Sept. 20
  • All Govt. schools to get phone facility soon
  • Adequate allocation sought for water scheme maintenance
  • GOs on school buildings: court directive to Govt. counsel
  • Measures planned to promote sports
  • Punishment for police driver stayed
  • `Repeal POTA'
  • `Police failed to provide security'
  • Grievance day meeting tomorrow
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • City heading for water shortage
  • Mangalore University all set to celebrate jubilee
  • The case of an `improper' caste certificate
  • Reaching for elusive the pot
  • Appoorva adjudged `Muddu Krishna'
  • Five injured in road accidents
  • Painting contest for children
  • BSNL extends internet service
  • In Mangalore Today

    Mysore

  • Dealers deny selling sub-standard fertilizers

    Nagapattinam

  • Lakhs witness chariot procession

    National

  • Sonia not to meet Kasuri
  • India, Nepal ties to be reviewed
  • Move to involve watchdog agencies in arms procurement
  • Inflation worst form of taxation: Jaswant
  • Showcause notice to police on lawyer's arrest
  • Height of devotion at Janmashtami
  • Cricket telecast: court asks BCCI to produce file
  • `Tehelka cases could be reopened'
  • Raj Thackeray not averse to becoming Chief Minister
  • Summons to Amar Singh in defamation case
  • Kites and a message
  • Search on for IAS officer
  • Child abuse accused remanded to custody
  • Landslip cuts off Goa from hinterland
  • Kashmiri Pandits celebrate Janmashtami after 15 years
  • Soren fails to give passport number, not released
  • Miners demand wage benefits, threaten strike
  • Fresh debate over death sentence
  • Malacca Straits security: role seen for Indian Navy
  • Panikkar, Karnad on Planning Commission committee
  • Kamtapur Liberation Organisation nearly decimated: police
  • How really fast is your Internet connection?
  • Parthasarathi Shome, adviser to Chidambaram
  • Shinde denies rift with NCP
  • Taj safe, reclamation effect minor: report
  • Mayawati lashes out at Hindi daily
  • Sonia, Pawar to campaign together
  • Police probing alleged rape in Army camp
  • Demand for JPC to look into Electricity Act
  • Lok Janshakti Party favours reservation in private sector
  • Manmohan chairs meeting on India-Pakistan talks
  • Appointment of multilateral agencies on Planning Commission panels opposed

    Nellore

  • TDP, BJP asked to refrain from criticising YSR
  • MLAs apprise YSR of water crisis
  • Camphor burnt in student's hands as punishment?
  • Party workers turn restive

    New Delhi

  • World Bank to focus on poor States
  • Operators on the warpath over new parking tax
  • Sheila Government hits roadblocks
  • Eight arrested in robbery case
  • Lack of drains upsets Walia
  • Fake admission racket busted
  • Police clueless in murder case
  • A new lease of life for an ancient legacy
  • MCD to target coolers in fight against dengue
  • Size of meat shops to be reduced
  • Contract killers nabbed
  • CINEMA
  • Best teacher award
  • DUTA calls `university bandh'
  • Post-mortem indicates suicide
  • Charred to death
  • Currency racket smashed
  • Soli Sorabjee felicitated
  • Manmohan criticised for remark against academics
  • Srinivaspuri flyover to be ready next month
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    Pathanamthitta

  • Check conversion of paddy fields: KSKTU
  • Suffragan Metropolitan installed

    Perambalur

  • Onion farmers seek enhanced credit

    Pondicherry

  • Buses, tempos go off the roads
  • Farook to take charge soon
  • Vatican envoy in Pondicherry
  • Top official visits farm centre
  • Farmers stage protest

    Raichur

  • Rain helps revive standing crops

    Rajasthan

  • Water flows to Ghana park; deserted nests may come alive

    Ramanathapuram

  • Uproar at Ramnad council meet

    Religion

  • Pathos in the epic

    Salem

  • DMK-led parties take out procession
  • `Eight patients per student norm needed'

    Shimoga

  • Conserve resources, farmers told
  • BJP activists block train

    Shooting

  • Avtar equals meet record

    Sports : General

  • India stands little chance
  • JIRS emerges champion
  • Loyola, Stella Maris take honours
  • Amar rewrites 100m freestyle record
  • Zee pays first instalment to BCCI
  • J.J. College wins

    Squash

  • Paranjpe sisters in summit clash

    Table Tennis

  • JSS Law College triumphs

    Tamil Nadu

  • DPA MPs to pursue Central schemes
  • Karnataka move will delay tribunal award: Karunanidhi
  • Third judge order today
  • Speed up works
  • Bus service
  • National meet on computer education in schools
  • Apex court to examine contempt plea against retired judge
  • `Tablets no cause for complications in Tiruchi patients'
  • ENGAGEMENTS
  • Plea against change of Bench composition
  • `Statehood imperative for Pondy development'
  • High Court seeks reports on health of fasting POTA detenus
  • The silent killer of the eye
  • The Golden Hour
  • Motherly care
  • Centre planning electronic transfer of funds
  • Public hearing on Sethusamudram project ends abruptly
  • I do not want to enter into any controversy: Vaiko
  • A secular fertility pattern here
  • Struggle committee formed to protect Tamil
  • STF harassing me: Veerappan's sister
  • Charge sheet against Purasawalkam MLA
  • Pharmacy software
  • A secular fertility pattern here
  • Electronic transfer for MPs fund scheme
  • Heroin smuggled by boat from Sri Lanka
  • National authority coming soon for disaster preparedness
  • National meet on computer education in schools
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Horticulture scheme in Kolli Hills
  • `Eradicate child labour menace'
  • Drive against illegal sand quarrying
  • Municipal chairman inspects tanks

    Tennis

  • Petrova dethrones Henin-Hardenne
  • Jaco Mathew ousts Ghouse
  • Jayaraj takes title
  • Paes-Martina pair moves into semifinals
  • Sania advances

    Thanjavur

  • `Protect environment'

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Bureaucracy must be motivated: Chandy
  • Collector directed to probe poor home affairs
  • Advocates' dharna today
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated September 08, 1954: Marriage age for girls
  • dated September 08, 1954: Resignation accepted
  • dated September 08, 1954: Pak still undecided
  • dated September 08, 1954: J & K decision irrevocable

    Thrissur

  • Shifting of Thrissur MCH units to be speeded up

    Tiruchi

  • TNVHA project to combat tobacco menace
  • Bar Assn. to end boycott on Friday
  • Special concession
  • Video conferencing between court and jail
  • Procession
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • Implementation of solid waste management proposed
  • `Handle refugees' issues with due care'

    Tirupati

  • RTC union leader reminds YSR of poll promises

    Udupi

  • Better package for weavers demanded
  • `Gita has answer to all problems'
  • Sri Krishna Jayanti celebrated with pomp
  • Couple killed in road accident

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Bodyguard of slain MLC surrenders

    Vijayawada

  • Minister flays Singhal's remarks on conversions
  • Entrepreneurs asked to set up radio stations
  • AMG to support ryots' children
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada

    Visakhapatnam

  • Jobless youth attempts self-immolation at Collectorate
  • `Yawning' threat on roads
  • Held on assault charge
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • Korea claws back to beat Oman
  • Income Tax in final

    Weather

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