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Alappuzha

  • Demand to deepen A-C canal to prevent flooding

    • Anantapur

  • Safety committee clears 5 tmcft storage in PABR
  • Expedite probe against Jagan, court tells CBI
  • Reservation of wards announced

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • SHRC begins probe into `lapses' in arrest of emissary
  • Copter crash: victims' bodies brought to Vizag
  • Vandemataram fete draws many students
  • Fake currency racket
  • Dangerous pastime
  • A forward move

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Government, TDP on collision course over ryot's suicide
  • Tribals sceptical of raising police battalion in State
  • YSR to open BRAOU coordination centre
  • State Government to distribute Murrah buffaloes to women self-help groups
  • Five Janasakthi naxals arrested
  • Farmers' suicide: panel to submit report by year-end
  • Fifty more Social Welfare hostels for East Godavari
  • Judgment on quota flayed
  • 2 die, 8 injured in accidents
  • Land distributed to women
  • Relay fast seeking land for poor
  • SFI enforces closure of colleges
  • Dalits stage protest
  • Teachers' federation leader murdered

    • Athletics

  • Anil Kumar betters National mark
  • Kerala marathon today

    • Badminton

  • Thrissur regains women's title
  • Thrissur regains women's title

    • Bangalore

  • State to use MAAP for reducing road accidents
  • Teachers want coding for answer scripts to go
  • Students pay tribute to India's independence
  • Manipal U launches course for U.S. Medical Licensing Exam
  • Slums in Anjanapura are now free of child labour
  • BEML to rake in big money from proposed metro projects
  • `Green City' scheme fails to bloom for BMP
  • Informal team-building exercises score over traditional strategies
  • `Degree in music is a degree in arts stream'
  • Stay healthy through Swara Yoga
  • For a change, the seat of power in State looked different
  • Policy demanded to fight greenhouse effect
  • Lokayukta police arrest three Sub-Registrars
  • Banks to take up relief works in flood-hit areas
  • Fostering Indo-Japanese ties
  • ZP quota: State to explain difficulties to court
  • A 3D air quality study model for city
  • Worker falls to death from apartment
  • Special events at ISKCON for Krishna Janmashtami
  • BMP to rebuild Ulsoor Lake retaining wall
  • Some more roads made one-way
  • Tourism Minister lashes out at former Deputy Chief Minister
  • `Walk for Vision' today
  • Life term for three rape accused
  • Venue for electoral card
  • 90-year-old building collapses in city
  • Cochlear implantation to overcome hearing defect
  • Singapore Airlines to operate more flights
  • Around The City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Bidar

  • Congress not automatic choice of Dalits: BJP

    • Bijapur

  • Come down on terrorism, Togadia tells Government

    • Briefly

  • Satyam implements Peoplesoft campus solution
  • Birla Sun Life launches single premium plan
  • Incore Tech offers latest imaging application
  • Stanford ATI India entrepreneurship meet
  • Gulf Air returns to Johannesburg
  • Tulsyan NEC announces 12 p.c. dividend
  • UAE Exchange tie-up
  • NumNum plans foray into southern markets
  • McDowell posts 27 p.c. growth
  • CanBank Factors to open more branches
  • Blaupunkt launches the first brand shop
  • Micro Labs inks MoU with LG Life Science
  • Sierra Atlantic opens office in Dubai
  • CII and AP Govt. to set up Green Industrial Park
  • Panasonic launches range of laptops
  • Tata Steel plans plant in Jharkhand
  • TACO to acquire German firm

    • Business

  • Bids for Delhi and Mumbai airports by mid-September
  • No let up in oil firms' investments: Aiyar
  • Bharti joins AXA for life insurance
  • 3 MoU signed with Japan in ICT
  • Omega's space watch
  • Rupee hits 12-week low
  • Iran not keen on CPCL-IOC merger
  • Sensex ends flat
  • TCS sets up dedicated centre
  • High Court dismisses appeal on Birla Corp
  • VAT panel for price monitoring

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Ruling party, Opposition wage war over welfare schemes
  • Major boost to infrastructure in Guindy engineering college
  • Committee to supervise proposal for improving Chennai city's air quality
  • Polymer gel opens up stem cell therapy possibilities
  • Braille textbooks with revised syllabus yet to materialise
  • Script matters more than directors: Shaam
  • Management students win international acclaim
  • Infrastructure "inadequate" for wind power transmission
  • 10-year validity for passports
  • Forest Department postings
  • State seeks Central nod to prosecute DIG
  • YMCA College enters 85th year
  • Dispensary model for service-minded
  • Teaching memory techniques
  • Awards for vocational excellence presented
  • Vaccine developed for bluetongue disease
  • Pakistani boy treated at Chennai hospital
  • Boy warned for sending obscene SMS
  • Melmaruvathur passenger to run on main line
  • Rajni's new film titled 'Sivaji'
  • Tank renovation
  • Glowing bright
  • Former naval officer held on forgery charge
  • Heralding Janmashtami
  • Sky lights up
  • Around The City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Tania is WGM; IM title for Abhijeet
  • AICF elections: single judge order upheld

    • Coimbatore

  • Successful stem cell transplant in city hospital
  • Four get life imprisonment for abduction, murder
  • Over one lakh bogus voters deleted
  • Narrow escape for Kallukuzhi residents as huge boulder falls on huts
  • Co-op bank staff observe fast
  • Free eye camps
  • Corrected cards to be delivered soon
  • Krishnasamy raises doubts on job guarantee Bill
  • Janmashtami festival
  • Around The City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • TNCA President's XI enters semifinals
  • New Zealand makes the most of the mis-match in opener
  • McGrath's availability in doubt
  • Pradeep hits 142
  • Toss decides matches

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8381
  • Solution to Puzzle 8380

    • Cuddalore

  • Campaign on eye donation
  • Lawyers begin indefinite boycott of court

    • Dharmapuri

  • Man sentenced to life term for murder

    • Editorials

  • Reviving the case against Ms. Mayawati
  • Riddled with contradictions

    • Erode

  • `Action on women-related cases in two days'
  • Not to us, please!
  • `Adequate cattle vaccines available'
  • Adjudged the best panchayat
  • Erode Collector visits tanneries, dyeing units

    • Football

  • Govindarajan appointed RARC Chairman
  • Liverpool advances despite losing

    • Front Page

  • No conflict with court, say MPs
  • NDA favours EC formula on reservation for women
  • Reusable launch vehicle (TD) lift-off in 2008
  • Parliament nod for job Bill
  • A.Q. Khan gave North Korea centrifuges, confirms Musharraf
  • Khel Ratna award for Rathore
  • Maharashtra bans plastic bags; serial offenders may be jailed
  • Jayalalithaa seeks 33 per cent for women, dual member seats
  • Fillip for England
  • Reverse swing looms as the decisive factor
  • Traffic jams: YSR for staggered timings
  • Karisma keeping daughter away from her rightful home: Sanjay
  • No influx of naxalites: Albuquerque
  • Cabinet nod for ten projects
  • SHRC probes into `lapses' in arrest
  • Notify local body elections: Pinarayi
  • Insurance scheme for Dalit SHG members
  • Wreckage of IAF aircraft found after 37 years
  • Centre sympathetic to Telangana demand, says Shivraj Patil
  • Sarabjit can file review petition, says Pakistan envoy
  • Talks with JAC inconclusive
  • Awestruck at women power
  • Anura Bandaranaike coming today
  • Centre, ESPN asked to file replies to Zee plea
  • Tension in Malda

    • Globescan

  • Secret of placebo effect unravelled
  • Wedding sting busts smuggling ring
  • Khodorkovsky on hunger strike

    • Goa

  • Arthroplasty meet in Panaji

    • Golf

  • Mani sizzles

    • Gulbarga

  • Parliament can't overrule apex court judgments: H.K. Patil
  • Host of dignitaries, religious leaders attend Dharam Singh's son's wedding
  • Yediyurappa urges Government not to release water from Alamatti reservoir
  • Chief Minister receives relief material from Adichunchanagiri Mutt
  • Floods: State urged to raise compensation

    • Guntur

  • Guntur base for tribal battalion
  • `The Buddha preached at Dharanikota'

    • Hassan

  • House burgled, woman killed
  • Office complex to be constructed in Hassan

    • Hockey

  • SAI (Madikere) triumphs

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Memorial to Bendre in Dharwad in a shambles
  • Demolition drive: third phase begins in Hubli-Dharwad
  • Water supply schedule
  • Hubli-Dharwad likely to get water once in three days
  • Power shutdown today

    • Hyderabad

  • Arjuna award spurs Andhra trio
  • Decision on `manic' one-way rule in next three days, says Jana
  • Global tenders invited for MRTS first phase
  • Talks with JAC remain inconclusive
  • 2 key ISI modules checkmated, say police sources
  • Cattle keep the wolf away
  • YSR for rationalisation of property tax
  • New project proposed to conserve floodwater
  • Krishna water phase-II in a year, says YSR
  • Sri Krishna Janmashtami celebrations from tomorrow
  • YSR's "change of mind" puzzles many
  • Umesh Kumar romps home in IPS `battle'
  • Huge shortage of HIV testing centres
  • Translations getting their due, says former Vice-Chancellor
  • Five IAS, three senior officers transferred
  • SCR to run weekend specials
  • One killed, two injured as RTC bus hits autorickshaw in Secunderabad
  • Six persons held on charge of cheating
  • Jain brought to hospital for check-up
  • Not one inch space of mosques for road-widening: Majlis floor leader
  • Chief Minister `on the move' results in traffic snarls
  • MIDC completes seven years of operation
  • Declare Sept. 17 Hyderabad Liberation Day, says BJP
  • No tie-up for civic poll, says BJP
  • `Move on Greater Hyderabad after court ruling'
  • One-stop shop for home furniture
  • Eye donation fortnight from today
  • New hope in the air
  • Around The City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Kashmir will be focus of my talks: Musharraf
  • West Bengal Chief Minister woos investors in Singapore

    • International

  • Europe reels under floods
  • Evangelist calls for Chavez assassination
  • A.Q. Khan gave North Korea centrifuges, confirms Musharraf
  • U.S. soldiers' terms lenient, feels Kabul
  • A prison and a call centre
  • Scooters gain ground in U.S. as prices pinch

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • All J&K regions to have a say in solving issue

    • Jharkand

  • Jharkhand bandh call evokes mixed response

    • Karimnagar

  • Tight security for YSR's Nagara Baata
  • Fertilizer shortage is artificial, says BJP
  • Computer-lifting gang busted
  • Stop killing innocent people: SP to naxals

    • Karnataka

  • No influx of naxalites into Karnataka: Albuquerque
  • Rs. 5-crore insurance scheme for Dalits
  • Making an appearance

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Hold grievance meetings regularly, officials told
  • Prakash criticises Opposition for not cooperating in implementation of relief works
  • Policymakers, press accused of ignoring agricultural sector
  • AHIND meets haven't rattled us, says JD(S)
  • Soligas take out protest march
  • Drought-hit tag to be sought for Chamarajanagar district
  • Woman killed, husband held

    • Kerala

  • Southern Railway to strengthen safety measures
  • Living on the edge
  • Primer in crime fighting
  • Following tradition
  • Development agenda
  • Cultural extravaganza
  • Standing by the people
  • Brush with imagination

    • Kerala - Others

  • NC(I) should modify name: EC
  • Cardiac unit at hospital
  • Probe ordered
  • DCC member found dead
  • Around The City
  • Campus Notes

    • Khammam

  • Maoists blast house of Congress leader

    • Kochi

  • 4,000 litres of spirit seized
  • Reforms in school youth festivals on the cards
  • Foot-overbridge at Ernakulam South station inaugurated
  • KSRTC pays Rs.5 crores to IOC
  • Railways to step up safety measures
  • Introduction to theatre
  • Orthodox faction to stay away from talks
  • An alternative therapy
  • Orissa crafts bazaar on
  • Employment guidance and counselling centre opened
  • Doctors to strike work on Friday
  • Around The City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • 595 litres of spirit seized in Kollam
  • Metal detectors installed at math
  • Cashew workers' wages to be revised
  • Total sanitation programme launched
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Rs.25 crores spent on development works

    • Kozhikode

  • Rs.33-crore package prepared for pilgrim tourism in State
  • Stage is set for quiz
  • PDS: dealers oppose changes
  • New section offices for KSEB
  • Removal of hoardings, arches ordered
  • Ban on naxalite movements condemned
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Projects to eliminate child labour proposed
  • CPI(M) justifies employees' demands

    • Leader Page Articles

  • India and Iran: a time for reflection

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Understandable
  • Alarming
  • Thank you

    • Madikeri

  • Meeting explores ways and means to decongest Madikeri
  • Elephants from Kodagu may not take part in Dasara celebrations

    • Madurai

  • She keeps the audience spellbound with her stories
  • Old man and the doctorate
  • Screening camp at Central Prison
  • Showing them the way and a place to stay
  • Policeman averts female infanticide
  • Up in arms
  • Around The City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Maharashtra bans plastic bags; serial offenders may be jailed

    • Mangalore

  • Canara College wins Mangalore round of Young World Quiz
  • Samithi seeks better prices for land to be acquired for IT park
  • ABVP opposed to Bill
  • Varsity office sought in Udupi district
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Manipur

  • Transporters not to operate on NH 39

    • Mysore

  • State plans first-ever district-level human development report
  • Diversion of LPG hits consumers
  • Disruption in water supply
  • Elephant calf dies in Mysore zoo
  • Collective immersion of idols planned
  • Labourer electrocuted
  • Plea to building owners

    • Nagapattinam

  • Work on construction of anganwadis begins
  • Farmers demand opening of more DPCs

    • Nalgonda

  • Counterfeit currency racket busted; 13 held
  • Police, Maoists exchange fire

    • National

  • A path-breaking legislation, says Manmohan Singh
  • Lok Sabha passes Domestic Violence Bill
  • Changes likely in BJP constitution
  • CPI wants Buta Singh to go
  • Sarabjit can file review petition: Aziz Khan
  • Rajya Sabha nod for rural job Bill
  • Policy for maritime sector coming
  • Film fete: CBI probe sought into `financial irregularities'
  • Keshubhai lobbies for Modi's removal
  • Point of no return ground for divorce: court
  • Pawar for reforms in agriculture marketing
  • Camaraderie across the border
  • Alice Thorner dies in Paris
  • Course correction needed in reforms to benefit poor: Left
  • Bill may be introduced in Rajya Sabha
  • Karat for clear initiatives on Kashmir

    • Nellore

  • `Bravura-2005' to be held in Nellore
  • Naidu to tour Nellore district

    • New Delhi

  • Battle lines drawn for DUSU polls
  • Sheila puts water scheme on hold
  • Delhi waste may soon outgrow disposal sites, warns report
  • Bombs triggered in Bangladesh similar to ones used in India
  • Come September, come Viennese Ball
  • DDA lauded for greening Delhi
  • Power plant device crashes
  • Exhibition to showcase jewellery, watches
  • Youth Cong. to spread awareness about work guarantee scheme
  • Harsh Vardhan writes to Anil Ambani
  • Parliament panel slams Ministry
  • High Court rejects clean chit to ACP
  • Gujarat police muzzling Press, says Tehelka
  • Punjab MPs meet PM
  • Saying it with flowers
  • Dinesh Rai new DDA Vice-Chief
  • Around The City
  • In The Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • The Congress' dilemma in Bihar
  • Challenge of Israeli unilateralism
  • Intense contests bring back the crowds
  • The Jack Bauer syndrome
  • Most attention for the eldest

    • Nizamabad

  • HIV victim campaigns against the disease

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Kin of Tanguturi Prakasam fail to get a plot

    • Palakkad

  • Smart City should get Central clearance, says Rajagopal

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Collector sets deadline for relief disbursal to rain-hit
  • Othera `palliyodam' launched
  • Tiff between panchayat chief, KGMOA resolved

    • Pondicherry

  • MoU signed for housing project in tsunami-affected village

    • Punjab

  • Energy Bonus: A test for Amarinder Singh
  • `Khalistan is no longer an issue among Punjabis in Canada'

    • Racing : Horse

  • Essex and Baracudda may fight out the finish
  • Smarty Pants shines
  • Athlone pleases
  • Al Habib excels

    • Raichur

  • Survey of flood-hit areas to be over by Monday
  • Implement relief measures immediately: Papa Reddy

    • Rajasthan

  • Welfare programmes for minorities non-existent in Rajasthan: Panel
  • Dalit family faces persecution, threatens suicide

    • Religion

  • Transcending Reality

    • Salem

  • Students block traffic over quota issue
  • Committee to study report on forest area

    • Shimoga

  • Governor to inaugurate college's silver jubilee building
  • 39 cylinders seized in raid
  • Shimoga bus fare goes up

    • Sport

  • Khel Ratna award for Rathore
  • Fillip for England
  • Reverse swing looms as the decisive factor

    • Sports : General

  • Suresh corners day's honours
  • Gogte clinches overall title
  • Easy for Artillery Centre

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Energising themselves for a bright future
  • How valuable books are
  • Focus on energy management
  • Courting danger
  • Wasting no time

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Udumalpet turning into land of wind turbines
  • Software on student management
  • 24 Tamil Nadu fishermen released
  • Wooing more phone users to mobile service
  • Elaborate arrangements for temple kumbabishekam
  • Apex court stays order on erection of city hoardings
  • Rs. 25 crore-scheme to tackle water scarcity
  • School closed after students' stir
  • Rs. 1.85 cr. for economic uplift of Adi-dravidars
  • Work on recycling plant begins
  • Three fined for poaching wild boars

    • Tennis

  • Manu sends Tariq packing
  • No sweat for Davenport
  • Federer, Sharapova get top billing
  • Sania struggling with injury on eve of U.S. Open

    • Thanjavur

  • Call to achieve energy freedom
  • Expo of home appliances

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • `State in a phase of `virtuous' growth'
  • Government and Opposition differ on tsunami fund use
  • Needed... a Pied Piper at city Zoo
  • Accreditation: computer centre seeks exemption
  • Four held for rape
  • Chief Secretary to sign MoU on Smart City
  • Consumers plan march to High Court
  • Chembai Music Festival to conclude today
  • Cellphones for police officers
  • Preparations on for Vinayaka Chathurthi
  • Powered by the people
  • IMA to support doctors' strike
  • Joyous abandon
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 25, 1955: Another steel plant
  • dated August 25, 1955: Goa rally in Peking
  • dated August 25, 1955: New capital for Pakistan

    • Thrissur

  • Stone laid for koothambalam
  • KILA to train legislators

    • Tiruchi

  • Shooting questions back and forth
  • She keeps her audience spellbound with stories
  • Bharathidasan varsity to train school heads in computer
  • Varsity to offer consultancy services on tissue matching
  • 268 works for Manachanallur
  • Agriculture information centres opened
  • Bovine dip amidst luscious foliage
  • Around The City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • `Fulfil people's genuine demands immediately'
  • `Release water to save crop'

    • Tirupati

  • CPI accuses State of toeing World Bank line
  • Minorities getting their due: Minister
  • ABVP welcomes films on freedom struggle

    • Tuticorin

  • Shop gutted, loss put at Rs.25 lakhs

    • Udupi

  • Temple town being spruced up for Krishna Jayanti
  • Funds sought for local bodies
  • Power plant being imposed on people, says Salian
  • Students' union gives bandh call

    • Union Territories

  • Two held for kidnap, murder of schoolboy

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Encephalitis toll rises to 165
  • Protests over opposition to Women's Bill
  • Panchayat polls suspended in Azamgarh due to floods

    • Vellore

  • Heavy rain lashes Vellore

    • Vijayawada

  • The right message for today's youth
  • Villagers hit by tsunami are yet to overcome trauma
  • All set for BJP silver jubilee
  • Row over collections leads to cancellation of YSR visit: TDP
  • Over 700 take part in NCC camp
  • Carpenter, son die of suffocation in sump
  • Water everywhere
  • Stop, look and proceed
  • Around The City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Eye bank signs MoU for cornea retrieval
  • Donating prized possessions for a cause
  • Girijans' resolve to oppose bauxite mining on display
  • Copter crash: victims' bodies brought to Visakhapatnam
  • Three-year-old boy with heart on right side undergoes surgery
  • World Bank scheme at AU reviewed
  • Officials told to speed up land acquisition
  • But seriously...
  • VSP profits increase by 30 per cent
  • New three-star hotel to open tomorrow
  • Nowhere to go
  • Power shutdown
  • Around The City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Food-for-work meet a damp squib
  • TRS MLAs boycott NFFW meet

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • Wimbledon Star appeals on weights

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