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Alappuzha

  • NC(I) to launch protests against Chennithala
  • Nehru Trophy Boat Race today

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Narrow escape for 60 school children
  • Rights commission to take up death of accident victim
  • West Bengal Speaker to contest Commonwealth post
  • A neat entertainer from EVV stable
  • Taking stock
  • Seething with anger
  • More regional parties to join TDP-led grouping
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • No plan to privatise RTC, says Minister
  • Rail-cum-road bridge across Godavari re-opens today
  • Lok Satta launches sanitation drive in Karimnagar
  • Beedi workers injured
  • Probe into FFW irregularities

    • Bangalore

  • Bad roads remain despite several schemes
  • Legislature ethics committee on the cards
  • Commissioner told to be present in court
  • Stretch that litre
  • Bomb hoax at High Court, civil courts
  • Armed men attack students, take away cash, jewellery
  • CET seat selection for diploma holders
  • Lokayukta traps health official
  • Excise Department sets target of Rs. 3,025 crores for 2005-06
  • Live band artistes seek alternative livelihood
  • Direct SHOs to file complaints: Lokayukta
  • Drapes of grace and beauty
  • Book released
  • Woman, child killed in road accident
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Shortage of staff plagues city police force

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Central Excise, KSEB triumph
  • Vikramaditya shines

    • Belgaum

  • Low-lying villages may be shifted to higher ground

    • Bellary

  • State to seek Central aid of Rs. 1,510 crores
  • VIMS Director to be appointed soon

    • Bidar

  • Government criticised for lack of development
  • BJP Legislature Party meeting to be held on August 17

    • Bijapur

  • Krishna continues to flow above the danger mark
  • Bijapur, Bagalkot units of Janata Dal (S) rally behind Deve Gowda

    • Briefly

  • BMW among FDI proposals cleared
  • Inflation slides further
  • Santro price raised
  • TCS pays Rs. 3 per share interim
  • M & M's 60th anniversary offer for customers
  • IIT title for R. P. Goenka
  • ICICI Venture invests in Sangam
  • HLL to amalgamate VDL with itself
  • BHEL bags Ethiopian order
  • Gujarat Ind. Power files draft prospectus
  • CSR acquires UbiNetics

    • Business

  • BP, Total eye equity in Bhatinda refinery
  • Private phone cos. outdo PSUs in customer base
  • Toyota plans new projects
  • KVB, Bajaj Allianz launch co-branded product
  • Andhra Bank plans joint venture route for foray into U.S. market
  • Separate package for tiny sector urged
  • Rupee rallies
  • Sensex down 49 points
  • `Steps on to insulate oil consumers'
  • Industrial output up 11.7 p.c.
  • Infosys plans major expansion

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Traffic arrangements for Independence Day
  • Shonali Bose gets award for `Amu'
  • DPA will support cause of Telugu-speaking people: Stalin
  • When lawyers and policemen clash
  • DPA will repeat its winning performance: Vasan
  • Promoting culture through dance
  • Question paper leak: 24 police personnel suspended, court told
  • District forest atlas using GIS ready
  • CPI(M) to continue ties with "friendly parties" for Assembly poll
  • The focus: Pain relief for cancer patients
  • At ICE 2005, an eye-catching array of products to tempt the buyer
  • DMK for panel report `without any dilution'
  • Silk sari makes its way into Guinness Book This is a history-making sari
  • Bringing back the smiles to their faces
  • Forest service officials yet to be posted
  • Media should highlight moral values : Ravishankar
  • Doing comedy is more challenging, says Madhavan
  • State, Centre ignoring workers' problems, alleges CITU
  • Adding pep to Tamil grammar
  • Father trying to trace son missing in the U.S.
  • Con men dupe two women
  • Tanker Foundation awareness drive
  • Burglars strike at two houses
  • Demo on implanting ear devices
  • Learn Spanish, Italian
  • Mad rush
  • Who primed this pump?
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Ramesh assured of regaining title
  • Balasubramanian triumphs

    • Coimbatore

  • `Refund excess EB deposit'
  • Woman swoons on entering police office
  • Case against railway gatekeeper
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • What makes them end their lives?

    • Cricket

  • Record entries confirmed for Himayala Cup
  • Indoor corporate tournament gets underway
  • Big win for NCA
  • Keeping the umpires on their toes
  • BCCI technical panel to meet today
  • Four-run win for Secunderabad PS

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8371
  • Solution to Puzzle 8370

    • Cuddapah

  • Rare celestial event on August 19
  • CPI(M) flays Naidu's third front plan
  • Auto drivers demand house sites, ration cards

    • Dindigul

  • `Police will redress public grievances too'

    • Editorials

  • Election Commission does it again
  • Concerns over data security

    • Eluru

  • Naidu calls for unity of regional parties

    • Erode

  • 10,000 bags of sunflower seeds auctioned
  • `Cottage will be built for devotees'
  • 61,000 saplings will be planted: Collector

    • Football

  • Fiji shocks India

    • Front Page

  • Kadirgamar assassinated
  • "They can get me anytime"
  • No quota in unaided private colleges
  • Patil holds talks with women MPs on reservation Bill
  • Ganguly named captain again
  • State to press for 50 p.c. Government quota
  • Volkswagen-India official arrested, taken to Hyderabad
  • SHRC to take up Ritika's case
  • Self-financing colleges hail order
  • High Court counsels Karisma, husband to settle dispute
  • Government may lose 24,000 engineering, 1,300 medical seats
  • Mixed reaction to Court order
  • Rs. 300-cr. flood relief package announced
  • ``Need for a better electoral system''
  • NIT Library to turn digital
  • Digging into garbage for a `kick'
  • Supreme Court issues notice to Coca-Cola
  • No going back on Krishna water: Andhra Pradesh
  • Collector orders schools to arrange transport to students
  • Narrow escape for 60 school children
  • Jail term, fine for Euro Lottery `winner'
  • How can Modi continue in office, asks Basu
  • Couple jumps into lake

    • Golf

  • Arjun Atwal has a roller-coaster round

    • Gulbarga

  • Regional seminar on agri-business in Gulbarga on August 28
  • Pejawar swamiji reiterates his stand on AHIND movement
  • Bandh near total in Gulbarga
  • A grand welcome awaits Kharge

    • Guntur

  • Special Officer visits flood-hit
  • Puja performed in SP's office
  • JVV dharna

    • Gymnastics

  • Meet organisers in a fix

    • Haryana

  • Report on Bhakra Nangal project is a biased view, says official
  • Water position comfortable
  • 31 cops transferred

    • Hockey

  • TNSP stages sensational recovery
  • NCE claims title

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Bench: lawyers to boycott stone-laying function
  • Khadi certification: rethink likely on latest proposal
  • Water supply schedule
  • AIDYO to stage rally in Bangalore

    • Hyderabad

  • Foot-overbridge mooted at school
  • Curbs on dosage of medical isotope kick off controversy
  • Women told to unite and fight against domestic violence
  • Emptiness fills their heart
  • Aamir rises, such mouche!
  • An effort at improving civic infrastructure
  • Lesson 1: how to reach home safely
  • Coming to terms with crash horror
  • Infosys plans major expansion
  • Opinions vary on court ruling on quota in private colleges
  • Get Hollywood CDs for a song
  • More cases, fewer men tell upon probe
  • Those were the days...
  • YSR directive to Collector
  • An entertainer from EVV stable
  • Airtel to invest Rs. 250 cr. in State
  • A digital route map
  • Book on smallpox released
  • Vice-Consul of US to hold photo show
  • IA `J Smart Scheme' extended
  • Power consumers want cross-subsidy to stay
  • Special trains by SCR
  • Naval Chief visits CDM
  • Sikhs stage protest
  • Autodriver fired at
  • Quirk of fate
  • Taking stock
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Chaos at Heathrow Airport as British Airways cancels all flights
  • Mars orbiter to gather huge amount of data
  • Tamil couple gunned down in Colombo
  • Pakistan's cruise missile will spur arms race in Asia, says expert
  • Minister drops proposal to "rebrand'' immigrants
  • Now cooking: cultured meat for vegetarians
  • Elvis rocks on in Europe
  • Bird flu vaccine centre
  • A.Q. Khan's kin held over attack on U.K. diplomats
  • British Airways to resume limited flights

    • Kancheepuram

  • Devotees want speedy renovation of Devarajaswamy temple

    • Kannur

  • Industries urged to focus on quality
  • Fight terrorism, youth urged
  • SBT to adopt panchayat

    • Karimnagar

  • Man tied to pole for failing to repay loan
  • Seminar on trends in physics

    • Karnataka

  • Monorail planned along Bangalore-Mysore corridor
  • Patriotic fervour
  • Karnataka to seek Rs. 1,510 crores for flood relief
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Government to develop Belekeri Port with private participation
  • Some Congress leaders express lack of faith in coalition Government
  • Tribal people will not be evicted: Minister
  • Compensation distributed for houses damaged by rain
  • Proposal to repair roads, tanks
  • Oppose arrack shops, women told
  • Eight escape from home for destitutes
  • Breastfeeding Week

    • Kerala

  • Kerala to press for 50 p.c. government quota
  • Peoplespeak - Tiruvananthapuram
  • Briefly
  • In Kollam Today
  • In Palakkad Today
  • In Kannur Today

    • Kerala - Others

  • Chengottukavu rail overbridge opened
  • Polls on schedule: Chandy
  • Debate on Chamravattom project
  • Congress for talks on State development
  • Chamravattom: aid sought

    • Khammam

  • Action plan to detect malaria

    • Kochi

  • Avoid unhealthy competition in youth fete Participation counts
  • Settle disputes on NW III, Baalu tells Collectors
  • Trial in Moulavi case stayed
  • Create congenial atmosphere for development, says Baalu
  • Mumps outbreak at city school
  • Directive to allay fears on garbage disposal plant
  • Harrowing time for commuters
  • Next issue
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Human rights campaign, rally to press for Maudany's release
  • Legislative set-ups denying women their rights, says AIDWA leader
  • President's Police Medals not yet ready
  • Independence Day parade
  • Ganja plants destroyed at Kunnathur

    • Kozhikode

  • Restraining order mars declaration of Kozhikode city as `litter-free'
  • Commuters hit hard as private bus strike continues
  • Marad panel re-examines police officials
  • IRDP mela from September 9

    • Kurnool

  • Meet to discuss Rayalaseema rights
  • College teachers threaten stir
  • Mercy granted to MLA's husband
  • Flood situation eases

    • Leader Page Articles

  • The myth of harmonious co-existence

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Manmohan's apology
  • Modi should go
  • Well done!

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Tribals threaten nation-wide stir over Bill on forest rights

    • Madurai

  • Printing of family cards at Madurai mooted
  • Govt. quota: Bench stays communiqué to fill seats
  • Eco-friendly diesel launched
  • High alert for I-Day
  • `Instil confidence among rescued child labourers'
  • SHG members go hi-tech
  • Surplus water from Periyar dam stops
  • Forum's gripe on delimitation panel
  • New DIG takes charge
  • Madurai FM from Monday
  • Unwanted greenery
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Better healthcare for ex-servicemen
  • BJP files appeal in High Court against Mayor's election
  • Students boycott classes; seek faster revaluation
  • Besant Women's College to take up cleanliness campaign
  • Mangrove forests favoured to prevent sea erosion
  • Job security sought for BSNL temporary staff
  • Decline in child ratio in Dakshina Kannada
  • Power shutdown
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Varsities urged to rethink college affiliation system
  • In search of knowledge
  • Work on ropeway project put off
  • Move to increase power tariff opposed at KERC hearing
  • Learning Sanskrit made easy
  • University Grants Commission urged to start job-oriented courses
  • Government urged to table Scheduled Tribes Bill
  • National flag to be hoisted at midnight on August 14 in Mysore

    • Nagapattinam

  • Attempt to block dredging for Sethusamudram project foiled
  • 110 self-help groups get Rs.27.50 lakhs as revolving fund

    • Nagercoil

  • Transportation of sand

    • Nalgonda

  • SFI protests against MLA's behaviour

    • National

  • Death, disease stalk the slums of Mumbai
  • Sound strategies put Railways on track
  • Centre asks experts to review security in Ayodhya
  • Unaided college admissions only by entrance test
  • Ashok Jain remanded to three-day judicial custody
  • Centaur hotels sale: probe initiated
  • Cut only for unreserved tickets
  • Cabinet nod for rural jobs Bill
  • Approval for Dabhol revival
  • ASI challenges order on Taj
  • Second class fare down by Re. 1
  • More Haj pilgrims for 2006 season
  • Sikh forums write to Kalam
  • 56 dead in flood-related diseases
  • Six more teams of doctors for Mumbai
  • Supreme Court notice to Coca-Cola
  • How can Modi continue in office, asks Basu
  • Chomp on this `halved' biryani
  • Hospitals put their best foot forward

    • Nellore

  • Shinde for insurance cover to fishermen

    • New Delhi

  • Senior citizen held in sex racket
  • School's fate hangs in a balance
  • Crisis in MCD blows over
  • U.P. Government orders interim relief for negligence
  • High Court directive on Akshardham flyover
  • Tracing the life of Jinnah
  • Bringing alive `desi' art form
  • Constable found murdered
  • A new combat uniform for ITBP
  • Gods and goddesses gilded in golden sheen
  • Signature campaign against power hike
  • Four power projects sanctioned
  • Whither real freedom, asks Mahatma's grand-daughter
  • One more held in gang-rape case
  • A new shade for ITBP combat uniform
  • Need to balance individual freedom, state authority
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Reminder for police reforms

    • New Delhi - Others

  • Around the City

    • News Analysis

  • Lessons from the Volkswagen case
  • End chorus of intolerance

    • Nizamabad

  • Two youths die in accident

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Palakkad

  • Chaitanya Yatra in Palakkad

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Rally taken out to press for removal of phone tower
  • Pathanamthitta gets new Collector

    • Pondicherry

  • Government will open more libraries, says Rangasamy
  • French honour for Balamuralikrishna

    • Racing : Horse

  • Sizzler excels
  • Integrate catches the eye
  • Ministrel Heights pleases
  • Success Heiress impresses
  • Feraligator wins Dashing Display Plate
  • Rasalas has an edge
  • Six-Flags for main event

    • Racing : Motor

  • K-1000 Rally from today

    • Rajasthan

  • Drive to check food adulteration

    • Religion

  • Expert teacher

    • Salem

  • Plea for separate burial grounds
  • Poor staff strength hits health programme
  • 15 child labourers rescued

    • Shimoga

  • Greater role seen for cryptology in socially relevant areas
  • Hold meet on bus stand issue, official told
  • BJP workers to stage dharna in Bangalore

    • Sport

  • Sourav Ganguly back at the helm
  • Kirdyapkin brooks no challenge
  • Shane Warne — doing it his way
  • Australia finds the going tough
  • Ailing Sharapova in last eight
  • Anand makes a winning start

    • Sports : General

  • Kabaddi meet cancelled
  • Impressive show by Sandhya
  • Geet Sethi to chair Arjuna Awards panel
  • Orissa beats West Bengal

    • Squash

  • Southern India squash championship

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Unwanted greenery
  • Monsoon effect
  • They jostle...
  • Space Hospitals initiative will take medicine to the hinterland
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Move to set up vegetable marketing complex in Hosur
  • Vacancies in GHs to be filled up soon
  • French honour for Balamuralikrishna
  • New buildings for Siddha units
  • Coop. starts special expo

    • Tennis

  • Sanaa Bhambri in semifinals

    • Thanjavur

  • Study on urban land use with Thanjavur as sample

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • More workers to be included in labour welfare fund scheme
  • 29 Bills passed in 12th session
  • Local bodies elections in one go
  • Libraries for tribal people
  • Opposition walkout over mounting thefts
  • No hike in water tariff
  • Accused drowned
  • Railway announces diversion of seven trains
  • Entrance supplementary list published
  • Shake-up in police force
  • Steps for more AI flights to Gulf
  • Compensation for land released
  • In the spirit of Independence
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today
  • Citizens on patrol at night

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 13, 1955: Hartal in Bombay
  • dated August 13, 1955: Coalition Govt. in Pak.
  • dated August 13, 1955: New regime in Indonesia

    • Thrissur

  • Kalamandalam to bring out CD-ROMs on its history

    • Tiruchi

  • Bringing back memories of the days of devastation
  • Passenger care thrown over board?
  • Training in new trades for women SHGs
  • Concern over poor portrayal of women
  • Mayor inspects works
  • Will it be set right?
  • Chilling colossus
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Fast observed against proposed scrapping of Assembly constituencies
  • Student dies in a freak mishap

    • Tirupati

  • No tie-up proposal from Congress: Raghavulu
  • Poornahuthi peformed amid religious fervour at Tirupati
  • Kanchi seer to train archakas
  • `State tackling epidemic in agency areas'
  • TTD, Karnataka hold talks on choultry land

    • Tumkur

  • Many towns in Tumkur observe bandh

    • Tuticorin

  • New SP takes charge

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Construction of resorts in forest areas opposed
  • Demand for chartered accountants likely to go up

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Speaker rejects BSP plea in MLAs' defection case
  • Governor withholds Bill on renaming varsity

    • Uttaranchal

  • New turn to MLAs' tussle with official

    • Vijayawada

  • Aamir Khan rises, such mouche!
  • Naidu appeals to people to reject the Congress
  • An accident-prone area
  • Centralised refreshment room by Dasara
  • The third dimension to television
  • TDP chief alleges corruption in execution of irrigation projects
  • Blue Star company makes cool entry
  • A neat entertainer
  • HelpAge India to organise quiz on August 24
  • Arrears issue: ex-mayor approaches Lok Ayukta
  • A tribute to NTR
  • Beat the deluge
  • Medical camp
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • 4 foreign students floored by sheer Indian hospitality
  • Aamir Khan rises, such mouche!
  • MCV plans to make city `world class'
  • Vandemataram centenary fete to kindle patriotic spirit among students: Yarlagadda
  • A wholesome entertainer
  • Naxalites blast Forest Department buildings
  • Pydah plans to celebrate I-Day in a big way
  • Gala time for junior volleyball players at Green Park
  • Eye camps in tribal area schools
  • Held on murder attempt charge
  • Bhamidipati book on film songs released
  • Awe-struck
  • Driving in the rain
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Forgettable time for India

    • Warangal

  • `Wooing Muslims politically motivated'

    • Weather

  • Weather

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