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Alappuzha

  • Demand for investigation into financier's death
  • Property, crops destroyed in rain in Alappuzha district
  • Chennithala calls on Vellappally Natesan

    • Anantapur

  • Tungabhadra reservoir likely to overflow today

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Volkswagen says car project is very much on
  • All for workers' welfare
  • Power position turns surplus
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Syndicate calls the shots in illegal quarrying for gems
  • Quarry `mishap' reports send officials into a tizzy
  • Children blossom in flourishing flower trade
  • Change design of Indira Sagar project: CPI(M)
  • Medak Congress plagued by internal squabbles
  • A tactical retreat: Maoists

    • Athletics

  • It's Susmita's day

    • Badminton

  • Ruth Misha claims under-19 title

    • Bangalore

  • Kumaran Children's Home tops SEEK
  • Dharam Singh to survey flood-affected areas today
  • Master Plan 2015 faulty, say experts
  • Dole for unemployed: Opposition stages walkout in Assembly
  • Website to check fiscal frauds launched
  • Education must to tackle population growth: Jain
  • Live telecast of legislature proceedings by Doordarshan likely from next session
  • It's a land of `Many Worlds'
  • Council passes conduct of government business Bill
  • 10 per cent increase in salary for KSRTC drivers, conductors
  • Bangalore techies win business quiz
  • Rs. 20 lakhs seized from Viniv Inc. director's house
  • Several city-Mumbai flights withdrawn
  • A special occasion for Christel House
  • Government accused of neglecting tourism
  • Kalasa-Banduri: all-party team to meet Manmohan
  • Admission for architecture courses today
  • Recognition across the border
  • Businessman robbed of cash
  • Two drowned in quarry pit
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Belgaum

  • Situation worsens in Athani as Maharashtra releases water from Koyna dam

    • Between You and Me

  • Cartoon

    • Bidar

  • Language press facing problems, says MLC
  • Meritorious students felicitated in Bidar
  • Disruption in power supply in Bidar from today

    • Bihar

  • Kang turns down Buta's request

    • Briefly

  • ECB norms relaxed
  • SAIL cuts prices
  • Maruti rolls out new Alto
  • Delphi pact with WorldSpace
  • CLB directive on Pentamedia
  • Acer launches Aspire series PCs
  • Ingram to market HCL Peripherals' products
  • Hero Honda July sales up 12 p.c.
  • BHEL bags Andhra Pradesh order
  • Syntel to open Pune campus
  • HTMT to have full ownership in Philippines arms

    • Business

  • Japan slams punitive duty on U.S. exports
  • Maran unveils low-cost PC
  • Rush to recover insurance claims
  • A heavy toll on pharma cos.
  • L&T unit in China

    • Chattisgarh

  • Maoists to counter Abhiyan strategy in Chhattisgarh

    • Chennai

  • High rankers go for ECE, Computer Sciences
  • I will perform the balancing act, says Babu Rammasami
  • EC instructions on re-verification today
  • Draft electoral rolls released
  • Hoping to take English theatre to a new level
  • State seeks water release into Telugu Ganga canal
  • Petrol consumers happy
  • Mumbai rains set contingency plans in motion in Chennai
  • 7-foot Hoysala-style panchaloka idol cynosure of all eyes
  • Abhishek Bachchan follows in Big B's footsteps
  • 493 dyeing units allowed to reopen
  • Electronic goods shop gutted
  • Murderer caught within hours of crime
  • Award for Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
  • A champion gets back to school
  • Samriddhi scholarship test on August 7
  • Kanchi Acharya issues notice to two officials
  • From brass lamps to idols of gods, the choice is varied
  • CBI prosecutors get an office
  • Medical colleges association plea
  • Assault case: approver to be examined on August 11
  • Yet another classical music album
  • Student loan offer
  • Apply science in daily life, students told
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Chess

  • Shazuli among leaders
  • Sahaj — the new darling of the media

    • Coimbatore

  • Van falls into stream, 10 injured
  • `Develop skills of teamwork'
  • Wetgrinder units look to CGTSI for assistance
  • Draft electoral rolls for public scrutiny
  • Poisonous snake caught at a house
  • Seminar on green energy
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Unbeaten 106 by Bharat Kumar
  • Ganguly's return gives the team experience and flexibility
  • The balance factor must never be overlooked
  • Sri Lanka meets West Indies
  • Comfortable win for NCA

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8361
  • Solution to Puzzle 8360

    • Cuddalore

  • Farmers' plea for augmented release from Mettur dam

    • Cuddapah

  • PG students boycott classes
  • Need for eradication of child labour stressed
  • Cotton bales destroyed in fire accident
  • CITU activists stage dharna

    • Dharmapuri

  • Life imprisonment awarded for two in murder case

    • Dindigul

  • Women are made to run from pillar to post
  • EC team verifies draft electoral rolls

    • Editorials

  • IRA in a reasonable mode
  • Climate change: Gleneagles and after

    • Erode

  • 20 PACBs in Erode district in the red
  • Job seekers crowd grievances meet in Erode Collectorate
  • Dheeran memorial function tomorrow
  • LBP fast filling up

    • Front Page

  • King Fahd is dead, Abdullah is King
  • Magsaysay for Dr. Shanta
  • Rain and pain returns to Mumbai
  • LJP leader's guesthouse blown up
  • Car project is on: Volkswagen
  • Mettur getting copious inflows
  • CBI raids 77 premises: Rs.4,000-crore housing scam
  • Pluralism is India's message: Manmohan
  • JD (S) leadership decides to remove Siddaramaiah as JDLP leader
  • Sania Mirza's ranking up to career-best 59
  • My heart is with F-1: Narain
  • `The Wall' is as cool as ever
  • Flood situation continues to be grim in Bagalkot district
  • Tuticorin district police set to get ISO-9001 certification
  • Siddaramaiah removed as JDLP leader?
  • Junior doctors reprimanded
  • Poll rolls in all post offices soon
  • Centre to challenge Waqf Board's claim
  • CBI raids societies
  • Delhi flight grounded
  • Court query
  • State to submit memo on calamities
  • House panel for fresh probe in rape case
  • Business incubator network to be promoted
  • DDA bends rules for chosen institutions

    • Globescan

  • Dubai bars entry of Pakistan leader
  • Space station gyroscope replaced

    • Golf

  • Singh triumphs

    • Gulbarga

  • People from over 20 villages evacuated to safe ground
  • Protest against `obscene' portrayal of women
  • Over 20 villages evacuated in Gulbarga district

    • Guntur

  • "Mother's milk crucial for infant's health"
  • State toeing World Bank line: PDSO
  • Bankers asked to focus on tenant farmers
  • Three gangs busted in Guntur

    • Haryana

  • Energy conservation plan for state

    • Hassan

  • Water being let out from Hemavathy reservoir

    • Hockey

  • Big win for AS C

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Political parties support Dharwad Bar's stand
  • Good inflow into Malaprabha brings little relief to people
  • Kalasa project: Union Ministry likely to clear hurdles
  • Minister pulls up Hubli Mayor for creating row
  • Water supply schedule
  • Naikar's statue to be installed in Dharwad
  • In Hubli Today

    • Hyderabad

  • Realtor's murder: kingpin, 5 others held
  • Bonalu passes off peacefully
  • Six crest gates of Srisailam dam opened
  • They are on a volley roll
  • Diphtheria cases on steady rise in city
  • Residents fume as piled up garbage raises stench
  • Civic polls: BJP to go it alone
  • An ASSET in assessing learning skills
  • Mothers to be educated about importance of breast-feeding
  • 90 doctors to be recruited for tribal areas: official
  • Counter Opposition with facts, YSR tells Ministers
  • Power position turns surplus
  • Golden jubilee of State formation to be celebrated
  • Illegal quarries in RR district face closure
  • Roadshow of sorts
  • Alumni reach out to Gen X
  • Mother's milk: nature's boon for infants
  • Gap narrowing between education, industry needs
  • Never compromised on secularism, says Naidu
  • Medium of instruction: language panel, MCV work out truce
  • RTC strike: court reserves judgment
  • Zoo worker, five others arrested
  • `Jaundice cases under control'
  • Categorisation: TDP wants YSR to lead all-party team
  • CPI threatens to grab land for the poor
  • Clinical research body formed
  • Rag picker dies of food poisoning?
  • Varsity teachers' dharna on August 11
  • Chief Minister tells bankers to be liberal on farm loans
  • BJP charge against constable
  • Track restored
  • Quiz contests
  • NTPC official retires
  • MBA admissions in BRAOU
  • State mourning today in honour of Saudi King
  • Hint at `Third Front'?
  • National youth award
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • Pakistan to seek reduction of forces in Jammu and Kashmir

    • International

  • Fahd hailed as moderniser of desert kingdom
  • Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
  • Probe into bomb suspect's escape
  • China, U.S. hold strategic talks
  • Bush bypasses Senate
  • Man outlives embedded denture
  • To hear, and be heard

    • Interviews

  • "BJP is not the life-breath of the Sangh"

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Ladakhis await re-opening of historic Tibet route

    • Kancheepuram

  • Fires spark tension near Kalpakkam

    • Kannur

  • Delay in development works: MP
  • Pension for beedi workers
  • Damaged
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Arrangements in place for Naidu's visit to Karimnagar

    • Karnataka

  • Dharam Singh to make aerial survey of flood-hit areas
  • Web-enabled
  • Remembering the founder
  • Monsoon fallout
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Cable-stayed bridge at Hampi in limbo
  • Plan unveiled to increase greenery in Chitradurga
  • Agency sees multiple benefits in improving energy efficiency
  • Payment of arrears sought
  • Rain: CMC told to provide relief
  • Flood warning issued in Chamarajanagar district
  • Compensation paid
  • Briefly

    • Kerala

  • Kerala floods: memorandum to be submitted to Centre
  • Making adolescence a truly fascinating phase
  • A helping hand for HIV-infected people
  • In troubled waters
  • In deep water
  • According a warm welcome
  • Chandy allays fears about Mullapperiyar dam
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Merger issue back in the limelight
  • Incessant rain affects life
  • Study congress chalks out plans for development
  • Fresh lease of life for Indian cook

    • Kochi

  • When seamen wowed the children
  • `Refrain from filling up paddy fields'
  • Petition for dredging ban in lake dismissed
  • Roads inundated as rain continues to lash city
  • Lorry strike may hit vegetables, fuel supply
  • Demand for CBI probe into accident
  • Collector records depositions
  • A day to cherish for engineering graduates
  • Custody of accused sought
  • NC(I) to organise Quit India Rally
  • Four of a family found dead
  • Convention postponed
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Cashew stir to begin tomorrow
  • Five held on charges of idol theft
  • Group of depositors lay siege to chit funds office in Kollam
  • Road blockade in protest against clay-mining
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • `Rain to revive after a lull'
  • St. Berchmans' Award for Anil Kumar

    • Kozhikode

  • One hurt as petrol pump collapses in rain
  • Move to curb accidents at Pavangad Junction
  • Truckers' stir total in Kozhikode district
  • Ration dealers' protest against moves to curb distribution of ration
  • BJP to honour freedom fighters of Goa
  • Programme at IIM-K
  • Tourism Week celebrations

    • Kurnool

  • Flood raises kharif hopes in Krishna
  • Man hacked to death in Adoni

    • Leader Page Articles

  • New opportunities for nuclear energy

    • Letters to the Editor

  • BJP's predicament
  • Terror in Kashmir
  • Mumbai woes
  • Rane in Congress
  • Blot on democracy
  • Remembering JRD

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Walkout in M.P. House over Speaker's ruling
  • `Demand for Central pay under consideration'

    • Madikeri

  • Rainfall throws life out of gear in Kodagu

    • Madurai

  • Coop. bank staff stage demo
  • Corpn. Council decides to reduce vacant site tax rate
  • Tenting at vital points to tap the market
  • They blow up, as tempers run high
  • Draft electoral rolls released
  • Plea to give women's panel civil court powers
  • Bench summons Tirunelveli SP
  • Train cancelled
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Teachers to put in extra effort to popularise physics
  • Anti-tobacco cell essential for city
  • His untiring efforts bore fruit
  • Live up to community's image, Bunt youth told
  • `41 died of AIDS in five months'
  • Rains revive hopes of farmers on kharif crop
  • Show of support
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Manipur

  • Manipur students begin stir against Centre's "apathy"

    • Mysore

  • Bird sanctuary at Ranganathittu inundated as KRS outflow rises
  • Demolition of illegal structures resumed
  • Water, water everywhere...
  • Breast-feeding awareness campaign begins in city
  • A dance-drama treat for Mysoreans from Sunday
  • Fuel stations directed to follow rules
  • Police to take action against ragging
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Farmers ready to raise samba crop
  • Tsunami-hit children exhibit innate talents
  • Nagai Collector inspects construction of houses

    • Nalgonda

  • `English is the passport to success in globalisation era'
  • Legal luminary S.T.P. Chary passes away
  • Maoist bandh passes of peacefully

    • National

  • NGOs, locals focus on slums
  • Bihar: nod for extension of President's rule
  • Recall Buta Singh, NDA urges Kalam
  • Floods: Sonia in touch with Deshmukh
  • India's largest police mobile network launched in U.P.
  • Konkan faces monsoon fury
  • Supreme Court rejects CBI petition
  • Chanting hymns, Kawarias trek to temples
  • Supreme Court seeks details of judge's promotion
  • Recognition for Cancer Institute, says Shanta
  • PM's prerogative not amenable to judicial review, says Banerjee
  • Mourning today for King Fahd
  • A friend of the poor: Prince of Arcot
  • AMU sets up student information system
  • Navy to probe information leakage

    • New Delhi

  • New menu for Delhi school children
  • Bon appetit: French films for you to savour
  • Water issue reaches Sonia
  • Hunt on for young heroes
  • Harry Potter pirated; 3 held
  • Mumbai trains cancelled, flights grounded
  • Threat to cut VAT on bullion
  • Capturing the essence of international cuisine
  • Widow moves High Court
  • Power crisis grips Capital
  • Home Ministry official summoned
  • DUSU elections on September 2
  • Seeing is believing
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Police drive against tinted glasses

    • News Analysis

  • The succession in the House of Saud
  • The power of holy places
  • Life in famine-hit Niger

    • Nizamabad

  • JAC of employees threatens stir against PRC recommendations
  • 12,000 houses for beedi workers sanctioned

    • Ongole

  • No `influence' on PRC report: Chief Minister

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Flood situation continues to be grim in Pathanamthitta district
  • 1,702 people shifted to eight relief camps

    • Pondicherry

  • Fish vendors to get Rs. 3,000 each as tsunami relief
  • CET held for management quota engineering seats
  • CPI bandh postponed

    • Punjab

  • Milkfed takes major strides

    • Raichur

  • Japanese firm may fund repair of Tungabhadra canal
  • Sangha draws attention to farmers' problems
  • Additional schoolrooms approved

    • Rajasthan

  • Enhance kerosene allocation, Centre told

    • Religion

  • Grace redeems man

    • Sailing

  • New prize categories for National Laser

    • Salem

  • Draft rolls for Salem Assembly constituencies released
  • Agriculture Dept. advice to farmers
  • Unloading affected
  • Trade unions call for fight against "economic slavery"
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • Samajwadi Party not to have electoral alliance in State
  • BJP to protest against lack of amenities
  • Books on health released

    • Sport

  • Sania Mirza's ranking up to career-best 59
  • My heart is with F-1: Narain
  • `The Wall' is as cool as ever

    • Swimming

  • Hackett does it again

    • Table Tennis

  • Ramana, Bhavana triumph

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Dying for a death certificate
  • No bumpy rides!
  • Focus on domestic tourism, says Shaktikanta Das
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Most applications for inclusion of names in rolls fake, says EC
  • Annual biriyani festival a feast for gluttons
  • No end in sight to row over coconut-breaking ritual
  • Draft electoral roll for Hosur released
  • Poverty reduction scheme soon in Theni district
  • Annual biriyani festival a feast for gourmets
  • Gurudwara to be developed
  • Doctors appointment fully transparent, says Health Minister

    • Tennis

  • Bhavani bags title
  • Agassi beats Muller for his fourth title at Los Angeles
  • Siemens Communications clinches team title

    • Thanjavur

  • Sways and swings the joyful Cauvery Good flow returns cheers
  • `MBA students have an edge over entrepreneurs'
  • Collection of care and cure
  • Rare Chola period inscription found

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • The brave new world of the mini-screen
  • Chandy inaugurates Palayam underpass
  • Master plan drawn up for groundwater management
  • VAT exemption for Kudumbasree units' products
  • Idukki reels under the impact of heavy rain
  • LDF walkout over `mafia-police nexus'
  • Government for consensus on President's 10 missions
  • Lorry strike unlikely to hit supply of essentials
  • Special team to probe SNC Lavalin deal
  • State seeks to amend BPL list
  • Graduate engineers on the warpath
  • `Regional channels on the growth path'
  • Coir crisis due to mismanagement, says Gouri
  • Legal opinion to be sought on forest lease
  • Protecting children from terror
  • Animal disease control project kicks off
  • UDF to broaden its base
  • University of Kerala
  • Ex-servicemen's camp begins
  • Legislators to be honoured
  • Plus Two student found hanging
  • Chain snatching: one arrested
  • Lok Ayukta directive
  • A jab for safety
  • Postal adalat
  • Curbs lifted
  • Stopped in their tracks
  • Civil Services exam results
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 2, 1955: Pakistan devalues rupee
  • dated August 2, 1955: India's first elections
  • dated August 2, 1955: Press Registrar

    • Thrissur

  • Kalamandalam draws criticism
  • Heavy rain lashes Thrissur district
  • Tributes paid to former farm university Vice-Chancellor
  • Oduvil to head Bharathan Foundation
  • Fire breaks out in hotel
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Concern over quality of basic science research
  • Charting ways to conserve nature in a creative way
  • Pallavan Express to start from Platform No. 1
  • Makkal Thamizhagam cadres protest denial of Cauvery water to State
  • Air Sahara plans services in Colombo-Tiruchi sector
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • MBBS seat, but no means to pay fees
  • Fake note racket busted, five held
  • Fellowship

    • Tirupati

  • Young minds present mature views on peace
  • No order on milk price hike irks cattle farmers
  • Trade union holds rally against WTO terms

    • Tuticorin

  • Self-employment programme for SC/ST youth in Tuticorin dt.

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Traffic disrupted as boulder falls on Ooty-Mysore road
  • Consumers urged to be vigilant to check adulteration

    • Udupi

  • Be prepared to be evacuated, people on Varahi banks told

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • India's largest police mobile network launched in U.P.
  • Mulayam stirs hornet's nest over LU renaming

    • Vijayawada

  • Let there be tsunamis, cyclones ... it's love all
  • Keep corporates out of education: Ramaiah
  • Hoardings wooing voters back again in Vijayawada
  • VMC to step up cleanliness campaign
  • District milk cooperative union announces lucky dip scheme
  • New VMC Commissioner swings into action
  • Around the City
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Vizag SEZ looking out for more land
  • Arrangements for under-21 volleyball tourney on at a hectic pace in Vizag
  • `Sit-in' by gas agency workers
  • Three Maoists surrender to police
  • Vizag should be declared drought-hit, says CPI(M)
  • Operation pest control
  • UCO Bank to open six more branches in State
  • One feared drowned in sea
  • New DCP for city
  • Honey! It means money
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Warangal

  • Kakatiya University instant exam results out
  • Two maoists killed

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • Mother House and its children

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