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    Alappuzha

  • Revival of Alappuzha canals to get a fillip

    • Anantapur

  • BSNL to set up 41 base tower stations

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Underground leaders surface for first time
  • Bypolls: stakes high for main parties
  • People's War asked to press for separate Rayalaseema
  • `Encounter' leaves officials cold
  • Move to set up ship-breaking unit opposed
  • YSR to seek drought relief from Centre
  • Experts see grim water scenario by 2020
  • `Revise G.O. on relief to kin of suicide victims: BJP
  • Children should be taught in local dialects: Ramaiah
  • Focus on quality, aqua farmers told
  • CPI stir stalls work at Collectorate
  • Slew of steps to complete pending projects
  • No alternative to crackdown, says Transco
  • They are in for VIP treatment
  • Tumultuous reception to PW top guns
  • Ponnala stands firm on Pulichintala
  • CPI faults TRS
  • Farmers advised to raise short duration crops
  • Pepsi drops ad
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Looking for a way out

    • Badminton

  • Mixed luck for Annamalai

    • Bangalore

  • Crime rate falling, says Police Commissioner
  • Couple robbed at knife-point
  • Govt. hospitals to be upgraded at Rs. 60 cr.
  • Process on to appoint new KERC Chairman
  • Power shutdown on Oct. 12, 13
  • Response
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Kannur posts win
  • St. Joseph's, Kristu Jyoti triumph

    • Bihar

  • JP institution gasping for breath

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Inter-unit billiards & snooker meet
  • Andrews shocks Savur

    • Briefly

  • Vidya Chhabria in Fortune list
  • Vanishing companies
  • Kotak Life premium income
  • Programme on energy management
  • Session on IT for Indian textiles
  • Auto spare part dealers flays VAT
  • Indian Knit Fair awards
  • Mphasis BFL second quarter net declines
  • CMC first half net up
  • Haier to set up facilities in India
  • E.I.D Parry (India) H1 profit up
  • BenQ India unveils camera phone
  • Blue Star in pact with Singapore firm
  • JCB India launches lubricants
  • Automobile navigation device
  • Seagate teams up with industry leaders
  • SAS India's new head
  • BHEL bags MPSEB order
  • LVL Systems sets up development centre
  • Nagarjuna Fertilisers' improved results
  • HPCL's plans
  • Natco Pharma's unit gets USFDA nod
  • Bahwan Tibbett bags logistics project

    • Business

  • No more duty cuts to check inflation
  • Prize winning theory on government policies
  • Federal Bank holds board meeting
  • IBM launches smallest PC
  • Rupee loses ground
  • Sensex drops 40 points on late selling
  • Xerox ups stake in Indian venture
  • Golden phone from Nokia
  • Tea industry's replantation drive
  • Insurance: Shriram scouting for partners
  • India wins patent case on jute
  • World coffee prices stabilising

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Take this road at your own risk
  • Bringing science alive in the classroom
  • Hot winds fan flames, 500 huts destroyed
  • Four of family consume poison, two die
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Chess

  • Leko keeps lead
  • Muraleedharan triumphs
  • Shyaam lifts title

    • Coimbatore

  • `Overcome division through humanism'
  • Drive stepped up
  • Dacoits strike in Ramanathapuram
  • They have only one agenda: Arjun Singh
  • Course
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • A perfect start to the series
  • A symbiotic relationship
  • India cannot afford another poor start
  • Keith Miller dead
  • Millers don't happen overnight
  • India a better Test side than Pakistan: Imran
  • Match abandoned; Sri Lanka in final
  • When history was repeated
  • Hazare mourns Miller's death
  • Indian top order goes silent
  • Thomas scores century
  • Uncertainty over Tendulkar's return
  • Unbeaten century by Keertana
  • Century by Sridhar
  • Delhi Gymkhana posts win
  • Kollam in last four
  • Good knock by Ravindra Singh
  • No sweat for Tamil Nadu
  • North Zone (I) triumphs
  • Thrissur makes final
  • Close call for St. Mark's

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8112
  • Solution to puzzle 8111

    • Cuddalore

  • Privatisation opposed
  • Rotary Clubs to donate computers to schools

    • Cuddapah

  • TDP welcomes G.O. on Srisailam level
  • Rs. 78-lakh grant for civic body
  • 10 country-made bombs seized
  • One dies in road mishap

    • Dharmapuri

  • Minister inspects developmental works

    • Dharwad

  • Malaprabha Grameena Bank posts Rs. 19.53-cr. profit
  • Water supply schedule

    • Editorials

  • MINORITIES AND BACKWARDNESS
  • CONGRESS COMEBACK IN ARUNACHAL

    • Erode

  • 28 forest committees formed in Thalawady
  • BSNL to install 67 towers in Erode district
  • Rs. 55 crores for uplift of sanitary workers

    • Football

  • West Bengal is the favourite
  • Big win for Madras
  • Title for 7 Aces
  • Mar Thoma pips Toc-H `B'

    • Front Page

  • Supreme Court stays order appointing BCCI administrator
  • PW leaders come overground for talks
  • Beware of communal forces: Sonia
  • A perfect start to the series
  • CLP meet tomorrow to elect Arunachal Chief Minister
  • Gogoi visits flood-hit areas
  • 'Superman' passes away
  • Keith Miller dead
  • Cancellation of 297 petrol pump allotments recommended
  • Lucky escape

    • Hassan

  • Deficient rainfall in Hassan
  • SBI offers festival schemes

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Snow, rain lash North

    • Hockey

  • The frontline needs reshaping and recasting
  • Australia pulls out of Champions Trophy
  • Hat-trick by Bipin

    • Hubli

  • CME on ophthalmology draws 170 participants

    • Hyderabad

  • Restrictions on traffic movement
  • Asifnagar bypoll: voting in 190 stations
  • Police on alert: R.P. Singh
  • Naidu trains `opportunist' gun on Nagender
  • Bomb hoax at place of worship
  • No power today
  • Arounnd the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • TDP `poster boy'!

    • India & World

  • No precondition for talks: Pakistan

    • International

  • Sharon unrelenting on Gaza offensive
  • Blair wants to honour Iraq war officials
  • Al-Sadr fighters surrender arms
  • Musharraf announces package for Northern Areas
  • Swraj Paul's son weds
  • Somalia leaders elect President
  • Cambodia set to choose King
  • Scientists 'switch off' cancer gene
  • Bush coached during debate?

    • Kancheepuram

  • Anbumani hints at legal steps to check migration of doctors
  • Drive against unauthorised vehicles

    • Kannur

  • BSNL plans high-speed data delivery service

    • Karnataka

  • State's software exports to go up by 32 p.c.
  • Naxalite injured as police open fire
  • Backward classes panel hearings begin
  • Unite under JD(U), Bommai tells groups
  • Campaigning for Bidar Lok Sabha bypoll ends
  • Raitha sangha plea admitted
  • Advocates' Association decides against farewell to Jain
  • Udupi math plans Kanaka study centre
  • Voters not surprised by fighting partners
  • Changes in textbook defended
  • State-level Kannada meet from Sunday
  • Centre has no clarity on policies: Modi
  • National workshop for artists
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Campaigning ends for Goa bypoll
  • Sangha launches `crying campaign'
  • Women stage demonstration for yellow cards

    • Kerala

  • I have no secret agenda, says Kunhalikkutty
  • Commission seeks police cell
  • Panel visiting Kochi today
  • Vayalar shows the way in coconut farming
  • Postal Department to launch new services
  • Kunhalikutty has his agenda: Sudheeran
  • Staff association seeks merger of insurance firms
  • Directive to enforce order on Mamamkam relics
  • Sand mafia out to shift Collector?
  • Congress dilemma delays convening of UDF meet
  • Allianz Cornhill expands operations in State
  • Members of hazardous wastes panel in Kochi today
  • CMP priorities to feature in State Plan
  • Chandy's mass contact programmes from Thursday
  • Chandy under shadow of doubt: Pinarayi
  • MP calls off hunger strike
  • Thangal asks CPI(M) to restrain its cadres
  • NCP leader predicts easy win for DF
  • Land for railway projects by year-end
  • Cardamom auction fetches Rs.4 lakhs
  • `KPCC does not subscribe to Sudheeran's view'
  • Major accident averted in Kollam city
  • Reliance mobile goes 10-digit
  • Women's panel for police cell to tackle harassment cases
  • Briefly

    • Kochi

  • Protest against delay in revamping PCB
  • Change in design of flyover sought
  • FACT revival: negotiations yet to make headway
  • Left against FDI hike in insurance sector
  • Kalamassery row takes a new turn
  • Training for women in fish farming begins
  • Scuffle at municipal office
  • Arounnd the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Kollam

  • Gandhi Jayanthi fete concludes
  • Congress leader killed in accident
  • Congress leader killed

    • Kozhikode

  • Students' campaign against suicide
  • Stamps to be on show

    • Kurnool

  • Special care urged for mentally ill

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Rhyme and reason
  • Make or break time in Vidharbha

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Voluntary reservation
  • War criminals?
  • Insensitive
  • Keep off
  • Matter of concern

    • Madurai

  • `They need education and jobs, not sympathy'
  • `Postal employees' honesty appreciable'
  • Plea to equip ESI hospitals with HIV test kits
  • Excise exemption for concentrated milk hailed
  • `Declare Tamil official language of Bench'
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Mangalore to get new court complex
  • Aided schools say no to Akshara Dasoha
  • Registration camps to help taxpayers
  • Talent hunt from October 30
  • DYFI stages dharna against rising unemployment
  • Brahmins' meet in November
  • Doctor held

    • Mysore

  • Royal city set to attract Western Europe
  • Mysore tongas to offer `unique ride' to tourists
  • Postal history, philately exhibition begins

    • Nagercoil

  • Navarathri festival begins in Padmanabapuram Palace

    • National

  • Muslim bodies pledge support to Congress
  • Much at stake for BJP in Maharashtra
  • Be ready for relentless struggle: PW
  • Notice served on Shinde
  • More explosives found abandoned
  • DRDO, IAF differ on LCA schedule?
  • India, U.S. not to disclose details of missile defence talks
  • Free movement of media products across SAARC nations favoured
  • Opposition to float a new front to take on UPA
  • Judicial activism: Buddhadeb seeks panel
  • BSP holds the key: Mayawati
  • Mamata refuses to share dais with Chief Minister
  • Amitabh turns 62
  • Left plans to focus on working of Home Ministry
  • Larger SC Bench to examine disinvestment issues
  • Domestic Violence Bill will be passed soon: Minister
  • Pranab cautions importers
  • They have only one agenda: Arjun Singh
  • Gulshan Rai dead
  • Sexual harassment charge to be probed
  • Congress welcomes Court suggestion
  • Case registered against CMD of public sector bank
  • Row over non-telecast of film
  • Petrol pump attacked
  • I'll not leave BJP: Varun

    • Nellore

  • Make Nellore a model corporation: Collector
  • Venkatagiri's turn next?
  • Collector's stress on utilisation of skills
  • Four die in auto-bus collision
  • Teenager struck dead by lightning

    • New Delhi

  • Arrested airport touts are free again
  • Suspected containers isolated
  • Confusion over status of Speaker's bungalow
  • Congress likely to retain both seats
  • Campaigning ends for Delhi by-elections
  • Couple fleeced by fake TTEs
  • Three held in double murder case
  • Government asked to file affidavit
  • Office-bearers elected
  • Bomb hoax call
  • 'Discrimination' by airline staff
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today
  • Inside Delhi

    • Perambalur

  • Four agro-based projects awaiting clearance

    • Pondicherry

  • Freedom fighter Subbiah ignored: CPI
  • Public service commission `badly needed'
  • Bill collectors call off strike
  • Temporary workers... for 18 years

    • Punjab

  • Allegations fly thick as campaign ends in Punjab
  • Amarinder unhappy over delay in World Bank loans

    • Raichur

  • Health Department to go ahead with work on Raichur hospital

    • Rajasthan

  • RSNM not to support any party

    • Religion

  • Follow dharma unerringly

    • Shimoga

  • Varsity to hold cultural competitions

    • Shooting

  • Shweta Choudhry sets national record

    • Sports : General

  • Govt allots land for Usha School of Athletics
  • Aditya, Vaidehi corner glory
  • Bangalore posts win
  • MGU teams sitting pretty
  • MS University takes title
  • Exciting for HASC
  • Muthu-Xavier duo posts win

    • Table Tennis

  • Shamika, Navneet bag title

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Rights activist, 15 others arrested
  • State right on millennium target, says Jayalalithaa
  • Early detection of mental disorders provide best results: experts
  • College not entitled to get notice before eviction: High Court
  • Energy saving potential in India: Rs. 10,000 crores
  • No delay in disbursal of crop loans in composite Thanjavur district
  • On this national highway, tree parks on either side
  • In Pattabiram, the wait continues
  • Smuggling of explosives to Sri Lanka still on
  • Action sought against Cuddalore SP
  • Forum orders compensation to bus passenger
  • Accreditation for bus body builders to be made must
  • RPF help line
  • Navarathri exhibition opened
  • Kerala plan to preserve Padmanabhapuram palace
  • `Extend deadline for crop insurance premium'
  • `Set up apex court Bench in Chennai'
  • Pallavaram Municipality to allot money for road repair
  • `Scrapping subsidies not that easy'
  • Postal staff to begin poll rolls revision soon
  • Chennai's traffic is a nightmare
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • KVK to revamp training activities
  • Subway inaugurated in Tirupur
  • Farmers seek water release

    • Tennis

  • Archana fights back
  • Anca Barna advances

    • Thanjavur

  • White Revolution at Thiruvaiyaru

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Bidding for Vizhinjam project extended
  • Water shortage acute in parts of capital city
  • Call to tap benefits of globalisation
  • Emotional reunion at mental hospital
  • Garbage plant closure put off
  • Attack on League office: eight held
  • Corporation cracks down on littering
  • `Convert police stations into relief centres'
  • Hindu leaders observe fast
  • Arounnd the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • This Day That Age

  • dated October 12, 1954: Chou's complaint to U.N.
  • dated October 12, 1954: Homage to Gandhiji
  • dated October 12, 1954: College centenary

    • Thrissur

  • `Clear watercourses of vegetation to prevent flooding'
  • March turns violent at Pananchery
  • Unnayi Warrier awards announced
  • Cannabis seized; three arrested
  • Five held on charge of immoral trafficking

    • Tiruchi

  • Varsity to offer `Bharathanatyam'
  • Varsity to offer `Bharathanatyam' as an off-campus degree programme
  • Minister inspects works in Thottiyam block
  • `Extend train service'
  • Date extended
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • RDO probe into woman's death
  • Tension after eve-teasing

    • Tirupati

  • `No scope for corruption in Army recruitment '

    • Tuticorin

  • Villagers allege harassment by police

    • Udhagamandalam

  • CITU demonstration to revive HPF
  • `Fill up vacancies'

    • Udupi

  • Bridge collapse affects people in two towns
  • Vedike to counter Sangh Parivar on Bababudangiri issue
  • Workers demand better facilities
  • Police deny reports of harassment

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • EC accused of ignoring BJP complaints
  • Fight begins for Milkipur seat
  • Ajit Singh's do-or-die bid in western U.P.
  • Little ambassadors of the `two magic drops'

    • Uttaranchal

  • Campaigning ends for Dwarahat by-poll
  • Shekhawat all for welfare of forest dwellers

    • Vellore

  • Rights panel chief to visit Tiruvannamalai
  • Managements told to report harassment of women
  • Vellore bus stand site finalised

    • Vijayawada

  • `Herbs hold out hope for HIV patients'
  • Transplantation of paddy will be over by Oct. 15: official
  • Stage set for meet chaired by Deputy Mayor
  • Reward for honesty
  • Orientation classes
  • One killed as autos collide
  • Arounnd the City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • Boss matters

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Polio victim's suicide bid at Collectorate
  • Stress on early treatment of eye ailments in children
  • VUDA flower show atop Kailasagiri
  • LIC to launch four new products
  • Building permission process to be made simpler
  • Shopping festival from October 15
  • `Seek counselling to overcome depression'
  • AISF plans postcard campaign
  • Girl consumes tablets, dies
  • House-site handed over
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Out to con the `king'

    • Volleyball

  • ITI drubs Postal

    • Weather

  • Weather

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