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Alappuzha

  • Call for incorporating timely changes in trade union activities
  • Police make vital progress in `fake' accident case
  • RSP to take out march to CTO

    • Anantapur

  • Revenue dues mount in gram panchayats
  • State to launch drive against spurious seed

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • `Help harness river waters'
  • Permission for liquor shop near church flayed
  • Operation pest control
  • Leading from the front
  • In the dock?
  • Building hopes
  • Seeking a better deal
  • Civic polls: TRS may have tie-up with Congress
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Rs. 750-crore DFID aid for State
  • VW deal: Keshava Rao refutes TDP charge
  • I have nothing against employees, says Naidu
  • State justifies irrigation projects in Krishna basin
  • Water to be released to irrigate 62 lakh acres in State for kharif
  • New tobacco variety for export suggested
  • Environmentalist finds fault with Pulichintala public hearing
  • NGOs stage dharna
  • Price-monitoring fund proposed to help ryots
  • Twenty injured in clash at Kendrapara

    • Assam

  • BJP fanning communal passions, alleges Tarun Gogoi
  • ISI network busted in Assam

    • Athletics

  • Anju confident
  • Three-year waiting period for nationality switches

    • Badminton

  • A title double for Ruth Misha
  • Double for Kozhikode

    • Bangalore

  • Industries may be asked to adopt `safe roads to office'
  • Fiscal position on the right track: Siddaramaiah
  • Cinema academy may come up in two months
  • BE admission for diploma holders begins today
  • Man kills wife, ends life
  • Government urged to re-think on nominations
  • JD(S) leaders call on Dharam Singh
  • Special trains extended
  • VAT Bill gets Assembly nod
  • Official arrested; assets seized
  • Metro: Malaysian firm clarifies
  • Dhruv, Chetak cause ripples in High Court
  • Electoral card centres for today
  • Siddaramaiah's supporters stage demonstration
  • Vice-Chancellor will be consulted, says Minister
  • High court quashes varsity appointment
  • `Report crime quickly'
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • 10 rescued by IAF
  • Counselling for MCA held

    • Bellary

  • Man arrested for stealing suitcases

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Srinivasa downs Bala Sunder

    • Briefly

  • IRDA directive to insurers
  • Karnataka Bank net profit at Rs. 42 cr.
  • Seagate's achievement
  • Quantum introduces new platform
  • LG Electronics' Onam offer
  • Chennai to host textile trade show
  • SIMA welcomes decision to abolish cess
  • HT Media fixes price band at Rs. 445-530
  • Praxair in pact with Hospet Steels
  • MRO-TEK gets Centre's nod for R&D facility
  • Oil prices hit historic high
  • Hero group hives off BPO division
  • First Global calls off acquisition of W2W
  • Extend service tax deadline: chamber
  • Time Warner move on shareholder lawsuit

    • Business

  • Centre to contain fiscal deficit
  • Reliance to double refining capacity
  • VSNL refutes USTR's charges on pricing of bandwidth
  • ADA Enterprises floats two new cos.
  • Sensex ends flat after hitting 7844
  • 17 sick Central PSUs identified for revival and rehabilitation
  • Tata launches Safari with CRDi
  • Mighty Mouse sports some `touching' new technologies
  • Air Deccan to tie up with Reliance Web World
  • Easun Reyrolle to consolidate
  • Mumbai rains cast shadow on exports
  • Orchid's generic drug gets FDA nod
  • Rupee recovers smartly against $

    • Carrom

  • Nirmala stuns Appoorwa

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Satellite to help improve teacher education standards to be set up
  • Shelters for tsunami-affected coming up
  • Ration card distribution almost complete
  • "Militant training schools pose problems for U.S."
  • Loyola students spearhead helmet drive
  • Phone bill payment to be made easier
  • BSNL comes up with two new schemes
  • Taj Mahal green crusader gets Swaminathan award
  • Hindu Higher Secondary School celebrates 150th anniversary
  • Call to reduce toxic pollution of environment
  • Groundwater in four blocks in State "over-exploited"
  • A new lease of life for folk artiste
  • SBI donation for eye research
  • A musical melange for connoisseurs
  • Counselling for supplementary exam candidates
  • Chief Minister's `prescience' or reading of history?
  • Police drive against air horns
  • Nigerians held for overstaying their visas
  • Ilayaraja's daughter gets engaged
  • Three more fall victim to biscuit bandits
  • New General Hospital ward is operational
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Ramesh and Deepan begin well
  • Balasubramaniam stops Krishnan

    • Coimbatore

  • British Council online resources for Coimbatore
  • `Popularise coconut products'
  • Municipality begins efforts for new water scheme
  • BSNL extends offer
  • GO on display boards gathers dust
  • More weaving parks planned
  • IA flight grounded
  • SISI programmes
  • 7 tonnes of rice seized
  • Planting hope
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • India's itinerary
  • Sridhar scalps six
  • Can England turn the tables?
  • Passion drives the game in Lanka
  • Ganguly's omission was a unanimous decision, says Majid Khan
  • Ganguly joins 10,000-club
  • Baskar shines

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8363
  • Solution to Puzzle 8362

    • Cuddalore

  • Contingency plan to tackle floods put in place
  • Irulas demand community certificates

    • Cuddapah

  • YSR promises shelter for landless poor in Cuddapah

    • Dharmapuri

  • Rs. 1.5 crores for tourism development in Hogenakkal

    • Dindigul

  • Coconut farmers join hands for a better yield
  • `Minorities run short of burial sites'

    • Editorials

  • Playing fair in Bihar
  • Honouring a leader in the cancer field

    • Erode

  • Electricity resumed to 15 dyeing units
  • 20 PACBs in the red in Erode district
  • Lakhs throng Kooduthurai
  • In Erode Today

    • Football

  • Big money should come in: Brahmanand
  • Zidane says he will return

    • Front Page

  • No secret agreement with U.S.: Manmohan
  • Astronaut fixes shuttle problem
  • Rs. 500 crores more for relief
  • MPs resent `judicial trespass'
  • Gohar Ayub Khan's claim baseless , says: Pranab
  • State pins hopes on growth initiative
  • Jayawardene comes good
  • A tightrope walk
  • VIPs dot discom's online defaulter list
  • England can't afford to hold back
  • Heavy rain has claimed 87 lives in State
  • Truck strike off; but bus stir from August 8
  • More land identified for IT firms
  • Groups set up to analyse issues
  • ISI network busted
  • Nanavati report in current session
  • Parliament attack case verdict today
  • Sri Lanka wins
  • Godhra: one arrested
  • YSR asks political parties to help fully harness river waters
  • M.P. Prakash to be formally elected legislature party leader today
  • Lots of dreams, lots of determination
  • Provogue owner in police custody
  • Violence in Orissa

    • Gulbarga

  • Bhima water-level reaching danger mark, bridges facing submersion
  • Permission withdrawn for musical event

    • Guntur

  • Music school to have own premises
  • A modest beginning
  • Cricket betting racket busted in Guntur

    • Haryana

  • Gurgaon DC, SP transferred

    • Hassan

  • Heavy rainfall damages potato crop in Hassan
  • Siddaramaiah's removal angers backward classes
  • Projects in Cauvery basin will be completed soon: Shivaram

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Himachal session from August 5

    • Hockey

  • MEG makes second phase

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Water supply in Hubli, Dharwad
  • Intermittent rain causes more damage
  • Help implement semester system, managements told
  • Education Experts' Day observed
  • In Hubli-Dharwad Today

    • Hyderabad

  • Nothing to savour... their toil leaves a bitter taste
  • PCC executive announced
  • TDP comes out with `proof'
  • State-wide protest by JAC
  • 10 more sub-stations in pipeline for city
  • TRS-Congress tie-up likely for municipal elections
  • Steering committee to meet Japanese delegation today
  • Boycott poll meets: Maoists
  • Man commits robbery to raise money for sister's wedding
  • APSRTC bus stolen, traced
  • Traffic curbs for President Kalam's visit today
  • Sikh body to establish university of its own
  • Scheme to regularise unauthorised water supply connections launched
  • No problem till summer: water board
  • Expedition to Mount Rudugaira in October
  • Contract sweeper kills son?
  • Fact-finding team faults police, Maoists
  • Varsity freshers' day tomorrow
  • Stepping into the zone of watery woes?
  • Lorry bandh
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • Iran willing to go ahead with pipeline project
  • Parties' concern over Nepal situation

    • International

  • Crew hailed for swift rescue
  • 14 U.S. Marines killed in Iraq
  • Jews rally over Gaza evacuation plan
  • Talks useful, says Zoellick
  • Apology to Anwar
  • Pakistan offers cellular roaming facility to Indian companies
  • Urgent food appeal for Niger
  • Not right time to invest in Iran gas, says Rocca

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Call for demilitarisation on both sides of LoC

    • Jharkand

  • Case filed against suspended IG

    • Kancheepuram

  • Addressing adolescence

    • Kannur

  • 4,000 litres of spirit seized

    • Karnataka

  • Karnataka urged to compensate deficit in water release
  • M.P. Prakash to be elected legislature party leader today
  • CLIKTRONIKA 2005: The annual hardware event
  • VXL Instruments
  • Siricom Technology
  • Accurex Solutions
  • Discussing strategy
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Naxalism is a socio-economic problem, says Home Secretary
  • All-time high discharge from Alamatti dam
  • Bangarappa draws flak for opposing Bhadra project
  • KSRTC crew honoured

    • Kerala

  • Rise in Mullaperiyar reservoir level causes serious concern
  • Treatment for eye scars
  • Seeking support
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Call to popularise coconut products
  • Panel summons students, teacher
  • EMMRC documentaries bag UGC awards
  • Around the City

    • Khammam

  • Banks told to help farmers

    • Kochi

  • Books at affordable price
  • TELK plan to source work from BHEL
  • FIR against CBI officials quashed
  • Girl undergoes bone marrow transplant
  • UGC assistance to give fillip to Sanskrit university programmes
  • Kochi all set to receive cruise liners
  • Demand for removal of fuel storage tanks at Vathuruthy
  • Students participation in water conservation
  • Percussionist to be felicitated
  • Chartered Accountants' meet
  • GIDA repays its loans
  • Next issue
  • Condom vending machines at IOC pumps
  • Waiting for a refill
  • Feeding time
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • When Electricity Board rose to the occasion
  • Chennithala calls on bishop
  • Plea to allow chitty fund to function

    • Kottayam

  • `Seepage at Mullaperiyar within permissible limit'

    • Kozhikode

  • Corporation to clamp down on illegal hoardings
  • Wide-ranging titles on offer at book exhibition
  • Learner-centred English textbooks from this year
  • Stone for office complex to be laid tomorrow
  • NC(I) for inquiry into utilisation of funds
  • Book on Krishna Iyer released
  • Poet dead
  • Landslip disrupts traffic

    • Kurnool

  • CPI men ransack Municipal office

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Nationhood and frequently unasked questions

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Mumbai breakdown
  • Bihar politics
  • Congratulations
  • A hero

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • M.P. Assembly adjourned sine die

    • Madikeri

  • Rain damage put at Rs. 15 cr. in Kodagu

    • Madurai

  • University to set up Pharma Park on campus
  • Icon centre to protect idols
  • Now own `prasadam' stalls
  • `Adi perukku' strikes a chord with Madurai too
  • Interim bail for MP
  • Suspected serial killer nabbed
  • `Mega brands' exhibition from August 5
  • THE POST-GRAZE GRACE
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Air-India flights as scheduled
  • Juhu airport closed

    • Mangalore

  • Rain leaves houses, schools marooned
  • Many stretches on three highways in poor condition
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Manipur

  • Manipur a fit case for President's Rule, says BJP

    • Mysore

  • Supporters of Siddaramaiah continue protest in Mysore
  • All areas to get water daily
  • KRS dam inflow reduces
  • Corporation allays fears of water contamination

    • Nalgonda

  • Sky is no limit for them

    • National

  • Flood-ravaged Maharashtra blames Karnataka
  • `India made a junior partner of the U.S.'
  • Zahira denies lodging complaint
  • Freeze growth, say environmental groups
  • Stupas, inscription indicate Lord Buddha's visit to Kalinga
  • Nanavati report to be tabled in current session
  • `Gurgaon unrest footage confirms role of outsiders'
  • Security will be strengthened for offshore platforms: Aiyar
  • Elders praise Government
  • HAL allows change in test venue
  • "Stranger" enters Rajya Sabha
  • Juhu airport closed

    • Nellore

  • Classification: BCs plan stir
  • Call to fill sectoral gap in lending
  • ACB sleuths raid excise employees' houses

    • New Delhi

  • Academics takes a back seat
  • A watered-down version on water front: Vardhan
  • Steps to tackle faulty meters
  • Reliance told to pay for service unreliability
  • Action promised in housing scam
  • Anger among the citizens
  • "Resonance'' of classical art
  • Yet another deadline set on Jama Masjid encroachments
  • Child prodigy going strong
  • Capital powerless for fourth day in a row
  • BJP alleges scam in Ghazipur abattoir
  • Goel's charges baseless: Yusuf
  • MCD official summoned
  • Tehri water from December likely
  • A unique protest
  • DUSU poll schedule revised
  • An echo of Gurgaon in Delhi
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • The Congress and image building
  • Blue collar workers in the boardroom
  • A severe identity crisis in Britain

    • Nizamabad

  • DIG calls for nurturing sports culture
  • Rs. 100-cr plan for underground drainage in Nizamabad: Minister
  • Anil Kumar posted as Nizamabad SP

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Protest against `raw deal' to Dalits in Prakasam
  • Naxals blast Congress leader's house

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Sand-mining blamed for collapse of embankment of Kaippattoor bridge
  • PWD launches repair work on bridge
  • Elaborate arrangements for Vavu bali
  • In Pathanamthitta Today

    • Pondicherry

  • JIPMER to have separate ward for cancer patients
  • 10,000 free LPG connections for poor
  • Financial assistance given to bereaved families
  • Final electoral rolls published

    • Racing : Horse

  • Hesperus expected to score in Patrons Cup
  • Sea Legend wins main event

    • Racing : Motor

  • Massa in; Barrichello out of Ferrari

    • Raichur

  • Administration braces up to deal with flash floods
  • Tungabhadra dam is full
  • Woman ends life

    • Rajasthan

  • Rajasthan hottest tourist destination
  • No decision yet on Palace on Wheels issue

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Rs.17.64 cr. for building toilets
  • Campaign on breastfeeding

    • Religion

  • God submits to devotion

    • Salem

  • Govt. school gets two computers
  • Music school inspected
  • Officials raid shops
  • Three officials depose in bus burning case
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • Administration ready to tackle flash floods even as Tunga rises
  • Action against Siddaramaiah condemned

    • Sport

  • Jayawardene comes good
  • A tightrope walk
  • England can't afford to hold back

    • Sports : General

  • Thiagarajar College of Engineering defends title

    • Srikakulam

  • Minister orders suspension of SW hostel wardens
  • Sanction granted for filling 90 doctor posts in agency area

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Empowering students with a sophisticated laboratory
  • Focus on energy sources
  • For a greener college campus
  • I will perform balancing act: Babu Rammasami
  • Versatility is Kushboo's forte
  • Too young for the load?
  • Picking up the note
  • Order retiring magistrate quashed
  • Steps to make flight announcements in Tamil
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Different strokes from different people
  • Wealth case: court decision on discharge petitions on August 10
  • Stanley reservoir receives over one lakh cusecs
  • Remembering a warrior
  • Special grievances day for tribals
  • Camps for SHG members
  • 97 per cent ration cards distributed
  • Chain snatched

    • Tennis

  • Harsh and Bopanna try the big league in vain
  • Sania Mirza enters second round
  • Sudanwa to meet Venkat in final

    • Thanjavur

  • Gaiety marks Aadi Perukku fete
  • Farmers hope the Mettur flow will continue
  • Course in Indian culture
  • Mahaveer statue of Chola era found

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Accused attempts suicide in custody
  • State to seek aid for flood relief
  • Adolescent health plan launched
  • Law to control self-financing colleges to be enforced
  • Bid to resolve traffic gridlock
  • Fresh inquiry likely in Mary Matha case
  • Resurvey for new railway line to begin soon
  • Murder of child: women's panel visits family
  • All set for vavu bali today
  • Quality of milk being tested
  • KPCC to give new lease of life to art forms
  • Kerala AC Airbus starts services
  • Court rejects claim on `poramboke' land
  • Tsunami fund: Chandy refutes charge
  • Trains cancelled
  • Farm workers take out march
  • Perils of pollution
  • Man and the sea
  • Computer training for housewives
  • Coastal area development agency formed
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 4, 1955: 2 satyagrahis shot dead
  • dated August 4, 1955: Changes in election law

    • Thrissur

  • 25,000 to be examined under dental programme
  • 405 houses damaged partially, 2,500 sheltered in relief camps
  • MLAs' meet in Thrissur
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Cauvery flooded with rituals, prayers
  • Only now it's a bus stand
  • TANUVAS to release vaccine for blue tongue
  • Drawing similarities between two educational systems
  • Blue tongue vaccine to be out next month
  • Cute and healthy, they won over the judges' hearts
  • Varsity to offer PG diploma in geomatics
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Special veterinary camps from today
  • AIR and DD staff plan agitation
  • Voters check draft rolls
  • Helping students pursue higher education

    • Tirupati

  • Taking good care of children
  • Sex racket: SVU suspends professor
  • NRI donates TV sets to Tirumala temple

    • Tuticorin

  • PDS kerosene, rice seized
  • 400 Adi Dravidars to get vocational training

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Follow adoption rules strictly: Collector
  • Campaign to promote iodised salt
  • Soil testing facility at UPASI

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • RDX was used in Shramjeevi Express blast: Government

    • Vijayawada

  • New building complex to house Central Government offices ready for inauguration
  • Smiles are back on faces of Krishna delta farmers
  • Heavy demand for pink ration cards
  • VMC preparing plan to evacuate 3,000 families
  • Vandana Luthra inaugurates fitness centre in city
  • Members of JAC organise mass dharna
  • Maris Stella to host Einstein fete
  • Dalit meet to press for quota in private sector
  • RTC driver attacked
  • BPT counselling
  • House burgled
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Olive Ridleys will be first to fall if beach mining begins, say environmentalists
  • Revenue, PR staff intensify agitation against Collector
  • Day to celebrate that special bond
  • Model school in rural nook
  • Indian Airlines expands flight helpline reach
  • TDP flays delay in Godavari water reaching Vizag
  • Section of Muslims left out of quota
  • US team welcomed to city
  • Congress cadre hails Mariyadas' appointment
  • MCV fixes upper price limit for water supplied by tankers
  • Training in event management to be imparted
  • Master CVV birth anniversary today
  • Police, naxals exchange fire
  • Three killed in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

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