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    Anantapur

  • OTRI - a picture of neglect
  • `Love' results in double murder

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Doctors call off strike
  • 'Mini power plants need no licence'
  • State geared to implement VAT from next fiscal
  • Naxal threat hits road work
  • New `Nakabandi' scheme on the anvil
  • IAS officers shuffled
  • Medico hangs herself
  • Naidu becomes a benchmark
  • `YSR Government has failed on all fronts'
  • BJP slams Congress, TRS on Telangana
  • Fake coin racket busted
  • Pulichintala work to begin on Oct. 15
  • Priest, wife found dead
  • `Indiramma Bhoomi' launch on Nov. 19
  • IA city check-in facility
  • Farm worker electrocuted
  • Dasara vacation for special court
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • ITDA asked to pay more attention to education
  • Novelties on the cards for Brahmotsavams
  • Tribal durbar is back on home turf
  • CCI union to take part in strike on November 19
  • Starvation deaths: officials warned of action

    • Badminton

  • Nagarjuna in semifinals
  • BHEL, Hyderabad in final

    • Bangalore

  • Woman, son found dead; murder says complaint
  • `Nirmala Bangalore' toilets not user friendly: report
  • Air Force engineering college from next year
  • Potholes: engineers told to complete work in next few days
  • Lokayukta to issue notices to officials
  • Three killed in road accident near Kengeri
  • Sentenced
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Bellary

  • Laparoscopic surgery on 15-month-old child successful

    • Bidar

  • A check dam built at a cost of just Rs. 7.5 lakhs
  • Deve Gowda concerned about rise of communalism
  • `He represented each citizen'

    • Bijapur

  • SUCI protests against bad roads

    • Briefly

  • Investors pick top end of NTPC issue
  • Tele density crosses 8 pc mark
  • Tatas seek to transfer unit to ACC
  • Gujarat film finally clears censors
  • Coimbatore to host IT symposium
  • BHEL bags Rs. 550 cr. order
  • Austrian firm bags NHPC order
  • Gujarat NRE Coke's plans
  • LIC South Zone H1 premium income up
  • ICICI OneSource buys ASG

    • Business

  • Media: Reuters outsourcing journalism
  • Apple's thinnest desktop computer
  • Primary market panel for more allocation to retail investors
  • Efforts to make Companies Bill simpler
  • `Priyamvada Will valid even after 1982 Mutual Will'
  • 'Investment should replace subsidy'
  • Equities bounce back
  • Rupee edges down
  • Retailing: India offers investment opportunities
  • Wockhardt U.K. sells Luton plant

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • Amid a sea of colour, students showcase talents
  • Why Indians have to be inventive
  • Pollution Board on the lookout for a waste treatment site
  • Chromepet landowners yet to see any money
  • Drunk drivers could lose licence
  • As easy as pulling a rabbit out of a hat
  • More trains to stop at Tirupur
  • Truant teens tracked down in hours
  • `Serve food with love'
  • LIC promotions, transfers deal urged
  • Interacting with Harvard medical experts
  • Trains diverted
  • Ticket-checking drive yields Rs. 1.25 lakhs
  • Segregating garbage at home
  • City Cinema
  • Judge orders enquiry into missing court fee stamps
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Dzhumaev beats Safin
  • Tejaswi wins Under-12 title
  • Pressure is on Leko

    • Coimbatore

  • Lack of transparency in granting water connections
  • Special camps for service taxpayers
  • Concor restores ICD operations
  • Protest
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Australia well in command
  • Aggression pays in India
  • Clarke is a class act
  • Good start for Australia
  • A promise kept
  • Review petition against BCCI election
  • It's all about numbers
  • Prakash scalps seven
  • Vettori to lead one-day squad
  • Lloyd named Match Referee
  • Hat-trick by Vinil
  • Hemant & Anuj hit centuries

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8109
  • Solution to puzzle 8108

    • Cuddalore

  • 'Rural bazaar' to market self-help groups' products
  • Delta farmers' prospects bleak, says Vivasyigal Sangham
  • Rs. 45 crores for Cuddalore developmental projects

    • Cuddapah

  • `Implement schemes, generate jobs'
  • Taking up `alms' for pattas

    • Dharwad

  • Banks to look into complaints on crop insurance scheme
  • Purchase of onions from October 11

    • Editorials

  • OUT OF ORDER
  • MAKE THEM SERVICE CENTRES

    • Erode

  • 20 salesmen suspended

    • Football

  • Kozhikode, Malappuram enter semifinals
  • Myanmar team in final
  • Goa stuns Meghalaya
  • Myanmar FRC in final
  • PPS posts two wins
  • KIT emerges overall champion
  • KSP beats CIL
  • Mangalore on top

    • Front Page

  • Circumstances not ripe for signing NPT: Manmohan
  • Election Commission pulls up Centre
  • Justice Saharya resigns
  • Polling peaceful in Arunachal
  • Rockets hit hotel
  • Literature Nobel for Jelinek
  • Five killed, lakhs marooned as rains lash Bengal
  • Order reserved in Telgi case
  • Taj Mahal: SC defers permission
  • Airlines plan fare hike
  • Oil prices cross $52
  • 39 dead in Pak blast

    • Globescan

  • King Sihanouk abdicates
  • Submarine sailor dies

    • Goa

  • Tourist police to help fight child abuse

    • Golf

  • Ashok joins in lead

    • Gulbarga

  • JD(S) protests against murder of policeman

    • Guntur

  • Pratibha Rani's in-laws' house searched
  • New nursing school opened

    • Hassan

  • Woolly aphid pest attacks sugarcane crop in Hassan
  • Protest against `atrocity' on Dalits

    • Hockey

  • Indian hockey at a crossroads
  • Hat-tricks galore
  • Philomena's FGC triumphs
  • Easy for MICO SC
  • Fatima retains title

    • Hyderabad

  • Flyover to ease traffic on MJ Market road
  • Counselling for NTR varsity seats
  • Stampede at Balakrishna's function
  • Gandhi Hospital back to normal
  • NRI aid for ailing children
  • D.V.R. College apologises
  • Bypoll: Naidu to campaign
  • Rally in support of Nagender
  • BSNL rental waiver scheme
  • Lepakshi expo
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • 'We will go forward on reform path'

    • International

  • Multan Blast: An act of `sectarian militants'
  • U.S. taking no chances with Afghan Presidential polls
  • Report discounts Bush's WMD claims
  • Tank shells Gaza homes
  • Themes of feminist struggle
  • 'Release Suu Kyi'
  • Cheney scores an own goal

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Pakistani journalists hear divergent views on Kashmir

    • Karnataka

  • Persons 'ignorant of law' blamed for palace row
  • Naxalites abduct constable, seize weapon
  • Advocate held guilty of contempt of court
  • Plan to tackle trafficking in women, children
  • Vishwanath terms seer's claim wrong
  • High Court sets aside CAT order on pension
  • Airavatha service to Mumbai inaugurated
  • Increase credit to agricultural sector, bankers told
  • Parties feel caste is a trump card
  • Shiroor Math swamiji begins fast
  • No development in palace takeover: Siddaramaiah
  • Bagalur road will be rebuilt: Sangliana
  • More funds for research on organic farming likely
  • Panchayat members' protest
  • `Outcome of bypoll will affect Govt.'s stability'
  • Villagers protest seeking justice
  • Kuvempu photo stirs up a hornet's nest
  • `Probe move to take over palace'
  • Kharge predicts victory for Congress
  • Briefly
  • From the Districts

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Officials directed to complete unfinished works
  • Deputy Commissioner urges citizens to help eradicate polio
  • Canara Bank to double farm lending
  • Programme of recharging borewells inaugurated
  • `Routine immunisation must for polio eradication'

    • Kerala

  • IUML to lodge protest with UDF liaison panel
  • Rift among farmers overshadows real issue
  • Postal services going online
  • Work on Mahe water supply scheme to start soon
  • State to be made disease-free zone for animals
  • Sudheeran trains guns on Kunhalikutty
  • Sex scandal: High Court concerned over slow probe
  • Kavalam clarifies on Sonal Mansingh episode
  • Temple for Bharathamuni to be set up in Chennai
  • IUML to lodge protest with UDF panel
  • Court allows Federal Bank to hold meeting
  • Call to project blend of lasya and tandava
  • Protest against move to relax jail term
  • BJP MP finds no evidence of conversion
  • Luxury liner calls at Kochi port
  • Balakrishna Pillai hits out at Chandy
  • Nalini Netto case: two more examined
  • `BSNL pensioners denied benefits'
  • Drop move on capitation fee, says Pinarayi
  • Mid-term conference
  • Qatar Airways plans two daily flights from Kochi
  • `Change power pricing policy'
  • Welfare of common man main concern: Aryadan
  • Attack on nuns: seven more held
  • NAAC team to visit Nirmalagiri College
  • `Reports misleading'
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Coconut farmers bag excellence award
  • Women's savings society launched
  • Five passengers detained

    • Kochi

  • No songs for these birds
  • Focus on eco, pilgrim tourism: Minister
  • Polio immunisation drive on Sunday
  • IT raids at hospitals, doctors' houses
  • Driver's arrest sparks bus strike
  • Award for social work
  • Court unhappy over probe
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kottayam

  • `Depression is major challenge in South Asia'
  • Sex racket: probe `not satisfactory'

    • Kozhikode

  • Minister inaugurates power connections at Dalit colony
  • Self-employment schemes started

    • Leader Page Articles

  • No military solution for Assam
  • Sharing water resources

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Dangerous sop
  • End hostility
  • Gross interference
  • Tehelka probe

    • Madikeri

  • Kodagu gets 732 quintals of sugar for PDS

    • Madurai

  • Dispute over temple festival resolved
  • Talks between TN and Kerala on Periyar dam issue sought
  • Warder challenges suspension
  • Bench signal for idol immersion
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Sena's new tone surprises Mumbai's North Indians
  • Mumbai's poor will decide the outcome
  • The 'elephant' may cause anxious moments here
  • Voters clamour for basic amenities

    • Mangalore

  • Officer to probe irregularities in CAMPCO changed
  • Pilikula Nisargadhama to be promoted as tourist centre
  • Administration to support KCCI
  • Mayor warns of laying off work<149>
  • Children told to retain creativity
  • KMC Hospital to offer course on life-support measures
  • Panel to study use of HDP pipes
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Siddaramaiah accused of `conspiring' to take over palace
  • Alternative route to Mysore may draw flak
  • Glorification of crime on TV is not good for society: Kempaiah
  • Hospital offers specialised treatment at subsidised cost
  • `Give prominence to Kannada'

    • Nagercoil

  • Two lorries seized

    • National

  • India, Pakistan discuss dates for meetings
  • Supreme Court defers permission for night viewing of Taj Mahal
  • E.U. ready for greater role in global affairs: Schroeder
  • Cabinet to decide on Press Note 18
  • Ela Bhatt presented Lal Bahadur Shastri award
  • 65 per cent polling in Arunachal Pradesh
  • Mumbai's poor will decide the outcome
  • Vajpayee, Thackeray to address joint rally
  • Normal northeast monsoon forecast
  • Nair to continue as Kalam's Secretary
  • Phukan joins issue with PM
  • Winding up of Phukan panel criticised
  • Congress membership drive to focus on youth
  • Census report released when Banthia was on extension
  • Rajiv a moderniser: Sonia
  • National mission on rural health soon
  • Judge orders enquiry into missing court fee stamps
  • Congress expels 20 more rebels in Maharashtra
  • Montek to visit States for mid-term appraisals
  • 'Rajiv was an internationalist'
  • A continuing remedy: Saharya
  • 'Writers create a lasting bond between people'

    • Nellore

  • RTC traffic to take new route in Nellore
  • Deer o' deer, what a menu!

    • New Delhi

  • Double standards of Delhi Government exposed
  • Congress, BJP up the ante for Delhi by-polls
  • Poor collections force DTC to withdraw night service
  • NGOs' team to visit blast workers
  • CBSE asks schools to ensure facilities
  • Encroachers eat up green area in Karol Bagh
  • Sheila upset over slow pace of PWD works
  • New air defence cover for Delhi
  • `Extortionist' gunned down
  • Four alleged criminals held
  • Man booked under false case
  • Protest against POTA
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    • Nizamabad

  • Youth to be roped in to check social evils
  • DCC chief lists priorities
  • Teachers' unions to hold rallies on October 27

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • Hearing on Dara Singh's appeal ends

    • Pondicherry

  • Self-Help Groups key to women's empowerment

    • Racing : Motor

  • Barrichello on a roll
  • Chauhan steals the show

    • Raichur

  • Reports of malaria deaths confirmed
  • Bail plea of officials rejected
  • ABVP asks varsity to start B.Ed. course

    • Religion

  • Lessons in spirituality

    • Salem

  • Boy dies as exhibit explodes

    • Shimoga

  • Official reviews implementation of Act
  • `Task contract' for cleaning operations in Shimoga

    • Shooting

  • Samresh in lead despite modest score

    • Sivaganga

  • Seed distribution for paddy cultivation begins

    • Sports : General

  • Three bag two golds each
  • Kerala, Calicut in pre-quarterfinals
  • South India gymnastics from tomorrow
  • Tamil Nadu team
  • SAI outplays MICO

    • Swimming

  • Another National record by Tanya

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Security plan for Thevar birth anniversary
  • Untargeted subsidies are `a ticking time bomb'
  • Tribunal vacancy derails accident claims
  • Varsity cannot cancel affiliation after AICTE approval: court
  • Rape, kidnap charges in Jayalakshmi case FIR
  • AIADMK bandh near-total in Pondy
  • Panel will be set up soon on languages, PM tells Ramadoss
  • Dead foetus removed
  • No liquor for persons below 21
  • Ration cards for LPG to curb kerosene misuse
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Sore sugarcane growers look up to CM
  • Shandy to market SHG products
  • Society to help women groups
  • Huge police posse posted at Seithur
  • `Foot electricity bills of panchayats'
  • Villagers foil ration rice smuggling
  • Girl found dead

    • Tennis

  • Muller shocks Nalbandian
  • Rastogi tames Liberhan
  • Sania in semifinals

    • Thanjavur

  • `Need to train villagers in use of technologies'

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • GH to rehabilitate homeless patients
  • Scientists baffled by `red tide bloom'
  • Threat to shut down garbage plant
  • Probe on into desecration of Guru idol
  • Castle protection council to implead in case
  • CPI protest
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated October 8, 1954: Ties with Middle East
  • dated October 8, 1954: Dasara in Mysore
  • dated October 8, 1954: Nehru on astrology

    • Thrissur

  • Maestros to be honoured

    • Tiruchi

  • It's a false complaint against teachers: Students
  • Footwear manufacturing employees stage demo
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Banks to give fresh credit to 15,000 farmers
  • Special camps planned

    • Tirupati

  • Sorry sight on last day of stir

    • Tuticorin

  • Steps to solve civic problems in Tuticorin: Commissioner
  • Office-bearers

    • Udupi

  • ZP discusses dissolution of Kunjal gram panchayat
  • Row over ownership of Udupi Sri Krishna temple
  • Three in fray

    • Vijayawada

  • Disconcertingly `engaged'
  • Attempt on TDP leader's life: four held
  • An evening with Tollywood giants
  • Insurance company unions stage protest
  • BSNL introduces new facility
  • TRS demand on Pulichintala flayed
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • `Buy' a public document for Rs. 10
  • Vizag to host national seminar on consumer protection
  • Power supply restored
  • Effigies burnt
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • KSP downs ITI
  • Assumption College triumphs

    • Warangal

  • An appeal for water!

    • Weather

  • Weather

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