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Alappuzha

  • Rival fronts fielding top leaders for campaign in Alappuzha
  • Vembanad lake project planned

    • Anantapur

  • Leadership crisis in TDP may hit its prospects
  • Paritala case transferred to sessions court

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Counter-offensive against banned Virasam launched
  • A grand reception
  • Clarification
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Learning in local lingo can be fun
  • Congress to change face of the city
  • Congress invites TDP for debate on minorities
  • Eemani music festival
  • Lok Satta comes out with "people's manifesto" for municipal polls
  • YSR makes light of TD roadshows
  • Kapus allege raw deal
  • Do not provoke us, Naidu warns Congress
  • Gundrampally a reminder of sacrifice
  • MP urges Railways to improve amenities
  • Ganesh idol immersion peaceful
  • Narendra hints at post-poll pact with Congress
  • Parties woo Muslim voters
  • Maharashtra CM worships at Tirumala
  • KCR denies party's links with naxals
  • Special package for ryots sought

    • Athletics

  • Star-studded field at Shanghai
  • U.P team named

    • Bangalore

  • Citizens can help BMP prevent flooding
  • Giving colour to the lives of underprivileged children
  • First-time users should tread carefully
  • 15 p.c. of Indian men infertile
  • Production of silk touches all-time high of 900 tonnes
  • Distinction for students scoring 70 p.c. and above
  • Rail link between city and Devanahalli airport planned
  • Enactments should be simple: Chaturvedi
  • Sandalwood thefts rise
  • Unmanned mission to moon is on track, says Madhavan Nair
  • IT forum to support Government initiatives
  • Government announces scheme for pourakarmikas
  • Government told to approve rules for panchayat polls
  • Jothiramalingam tells engineers to be more enthusiastic
  • Man hacked to death by rivals
  • Two CCB teams formed to trace Viniv Inc promoter
  • Sandalwood trees felled
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • India downs Indonesia

    • Belgaum

  • Samajwadi Party leader Tanaji Shintre arrested

    • Bidar

  • UAS to apply for patents for seven transgenic varieties of Bt cotton
  • `Three bullets helped save a village'
  • Nagamarapalli criticised for transfer of officials

    • Bijapur

  • Flood alert sounded along Krishna
  • Yediyurappa condemns remarks against IT sector

    • Briefly

  • FMC to evolve `delivery process'
  • Inflation inches up
  • Court gives go-ahead to RIL panel
  • Clariant cos. merge with Colour-Chem
  • SBI Tiruchi Module business exceeds Rs. 5000 cr.
  • TVS Motor launches three new variants
  • Indusind Bank, LIC to offer group insurance
  • Cranes, MathWorks offer Aerospace Blockset 2
  • CEI achieves CMMI Level 5 assessment
  • BEL pays 112 p.c. including 40 p.c. interim
  • Avestha's venture with Meditab
  • KPIT adopts Magma IC design flow
  • EFI's Fiery colour server
  • Aylus sets up global R&D centre
  • CEI achieves CMMI Level 5 assessment

    • Business

  • Centre smells scam, asks agencies to probe market
  • Visas hinder expansion of trade with Russia
  • Sensex touches new peak
  • Wide range from New Holland
  • Vanilla production to rise by 20 per cent
  • ADMA meet in Delhi from Monday
  • Golden Nica Award presented
  • New branch for brokerage house
  • Shop to market organic agricultural produce opened
  • Telecom sector has generated employment in Kerala
  • Sanmar deal to cost ICL promoters Rs. 192 cr.
  • Turkey to market hazelnuts
  • Move to `modernise' Plantation Labour Act
  • Big potential for Knowledge Process Outsourcing
  • Rupee rises further
  • TRAI directive to phone cos.

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Singapore polytechnics can be model for State
  • Jayalalithaa inspects new-look Chennai
  • Rs. 645-crore debt relief package for farmers
  • Those red lights can invite trouble
  • Combined skill display marks OTA cadets, senior officers show
  • Sri Ramachandra Medical College to soon launch Rs. 102-crore cancer care centre
  • Iraqi nephrologist in India to learn peritoneal dialysis
  • We want to present an alternative, says Venkaiah Naidu
  • Corporate `ragpicker' finds market for garbage
  • Assault case committed to Sessions Court
  • Sound man who's been with John Lennon
  • DMK has betrayed ryots, alleges Swamy
  • Movie mahurats galore in Chennai
  • Burglars strike at Irumbuliyur house
  • Government permitted to file charge sheet against R.R. Gopal
  • Reject food offered on trains
  • Man held for killing father, stepmother
  • Handicrafts and handloom fair
  • Aspire test series
  • Bank managers held for `fraud'
  • Advocates for speedy filling of judges' posts
  • 500 airmen inducted
  • Conman robs woman of jewellery
  • Man loses eye as electric post falls on him
  • 6 more States ready to set up biodiversity boards
  • Dog squad training centre at Vepery soon
  • Vaiko vows to protect Tamils and their identity
  • New health drink for women launched
  • Chennai telephones to add 272 towers
  • Prince Jewellery's designs go global
  • Courses on offer
  • Bank's offer to depositors
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Improve productivity, recovery of sugar cane, says Sharad Pawar
  • Hall tickets for HSS exams
  • Trial run of vehicle successful
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Super Series: Inzamam sounded out
  • India to tour the Caribbean
  • Two men with differing philosophies
  • Chemplast is the champion
  • Yuvaraj shines
  • Ganguly all praise for Pathan
  • Lara hopeful of Windies regaining glory

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8400
  • Solution to Puzzle 8399

    • Cuddalore

  • NLC plans Rs.45-cr. desilting project

    • Dindigul

  • Rs.2.40 crores allocated for wasteland development

    • Editorials

  • Pressing on with détente
  • Beware of what you wear!

    • Eluru

  • Congress, Telugu Desam to slug it out
  • Keshava Rao pops the charisma angle

    • Erode

  • Scanning centres warned of action
  • `Start desilting work soon'
  • In Erode Today

    • Football

  • Everton's dreams thrashed
  • Everton loses
  • Hat-trick by Behera

    • Front Page

  • Manmohan: I will remain engaged with Musharraf
  • Advani lashes out at UPA, Left
  • Ganguly must be backed or sacked
  • Questions for Vajpayee
  • High Court restrains Assembly
  • If forced, India will vote with U.S. on Iran in IAEA
  • New Veeranam supply verified
  • Voice not Salman Khan's: forensic probe
  • Mumbai bar dancer held
  • Flights, trains, road traffic, power supply hit hard
  • Kharif output this year expected to be `fairly good'
  • Tax flaws to the advantage of mobile sellers
  • VTU's second television channel to cover all affiliated colleges
  • Counter-offensive against Virasam
  • Greens allowed to implead in case
  • Notice to Lalu on model code violation
  • More lapses in land allotment come to light
  • A judge and a gentleman
  • Pay damages first, court tells parties
  • Raw vegetables fuel his `engine'
  • Held on spying charge
  • Security posts planned around Secretariat
  • `Political parties holding society to ransom'
  • Photo Identity cards to all voters: CEC

    • Gulbarga

  • State to increase subsidies to mulberry growers, silk units
  • Plan to reform legal system formulated
  • Humnabad-Hattigudur Road upgraded to highway standards
  • Workshop on human rights from October 8
  • `Santa Samavesha' in November
  • Senior artist to boycott painting camp
  • `Too much importance to science and technology is a threat to literature'

    • Guntur

  • Elect candidates with clean record: Lok Satta
  • Boy dies in accident, 5 hurt

    • Haryana

  • Hooda's prestige at stake
  • `New technology has opened doors for new crimes'
  • Workshop

    • Hassan

  • Police foil escape attempt
  • BSP to hold rally in Bangalore

    • Hockey

  • Anjum pilots India to victory
  • It's Qalandars vs Cavaliers

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Kalasa-Banduri: leaders say people are getting restive
  • First phase of idol immersion concludes
  • State often at the receiving end in inter-State river water disputes
  • Water supply schedule today
  • `Only quality products, services will help industries prosper'
  • Takes charge as NWKRTC Managing Director
  • In Hubli-Dharwad Today

    • Hyderabad

  • His extreme act flummoxes kin
  • Traffic police as investigators?
  • A bone-rattling ride in Sainikpuri
  • ASI serves notices on `encroachers'in the vicinity of Golconda Fort
  • BIE may make second language optional
  • Auto travel becomes costlier!
  • Raw vegetables fuel his `engine'
  • Routine fare from KRR stable
  • Tight security for Ganesh idol immersion procession
  • Call for quality education in engineering colleges
  • Technology to read minds?
  • Big B... er... the silent hunk is on
  • Committee meets on children's film fete
  • Fresh lease of life for `angry' doctor
  • No focus on real issues, says CPI(M) leader
  • `Volvo Corner' inaugurated at Imliban
  • Awards for OU scholars
  • TRS puts up only 696 candidates
  • CLP's posers to Naidu
  • Ten-day book fair begins at YMCA
  • `0123 True Paid' plan from Tata Indicom
  • NAFED asked to purchase cotton in view of high yield
  • Screening of films on girl-child from today
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • No crisis in ties with Washington over Teheran, says Manmohan
  • Iran issue: India and Russia for consultation
  • "Consensus holds the key"
  • A casual remark, says Manmohan

    • International

  • Chandrika for curbs on terror groups
  • Intellectuals urge Blair to pull out of Iraq
  • Assassination clause causes concern
  • Taliban calls for boycott
  • After brilliant success, impostor finally unmasked
  • Politicians, least trusted people
  • Hu advocates four-point plan

    • Kannur

  • Fronts in a fierce battle in Kannur, Thalassery
  • SFI's all-India education bandh on September 29
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • People will teach Telugu Desam a lesson: KCR
  • KCR's flop show in Jagtial

    • Karnataka

  • VTU's second channel to cover all affiliated colleges
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Row over issuing of fitness certificate to vehicles
  • Bandh affects life in Gangavathi
  • Society formed to promote IT in Davangere
  • Idol immersion procession peaceful
  • Harassment complaint
  • Appeal to people

    • Kerala

  • Supreme Court allows plea by environmentalists' body
  • Class X examinations: need for a well-thoughtout decision
  • Next issue
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • LDF trying to regain control of Chavakkad
  • UDF faces tough fight in Paravur municipality
  • New panchayat for Malappuram in October
  • Uncertainty over IA service to Agatti

    • Khammam

  • Congress men stage dharna

    • Kochi

  • Election campaigning yet to pick in rural areas
  • `Extremist activities under control'
  • Desalination plant: GCDA to wait till polls are over
  • Observer Course officers pass out of INS Garuda
  • Youth killed
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Sumptuous Onam feast for monkeys
  • Jungle cat gets trapped in house at Eravipuram
  • Reviving a sinking tradition
  • Plea to operate all counters at Kollam railway station

    • Kottayam

  • Mani questions LDF claims on decentralisation
  • Kottayam boat race on Sunday

    • Kozhikode

  • Campaigning in full swing in Kozhikode
  • Mayor: fronts not to project candidates
  • Post of mayor: fronts not keen on projecting candidates
  • Science Centre to have 3-D theatre
  • Cultural extravaganza draws to a close
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • CPI(M) to agitate for more powers to local bodies
  • Suravaram calls for defeat of TDP, BJP

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Japan emerging as a more normal democracy

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Unnecessary
  • Avoidable references
  • Reservation for women
  • Welcome changes
  • Unwanted fuss
  • Annadurai's mission

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Rain hits life in M.P.

    • Madikeri

  • 33 new State highways proposed
  • Relief to coffee growers sought

    • Madurai

  • Smooth operators of long-distance buses
  • "Sethu project cost could come down by 10 per cent"
  • Turkish tourists bowled over by Temple City
  • EMRCs heading for a functional revamp
  • Divine strength in numbers
  • Grievance day
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Forest Department issues notification on tree felling
  • Haj operators asked to provide proper facilities to pilgrims
  • Yakshagana festival to be held in Delhi in October
  • Youth urged to resist dowry
  • `Poona Musicale' to play in city
  • Film festival from Monday
  • Man arrested on charges of theft
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Heritage structures get a face-lift for Dasara
  • Zoo veterinarians' conference begins
  • Yuva Dasara to be held from October 6
  • Flood warnings
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagercoil

  • Call to put council agenda on web site

    • Nalgonda

  • Jana declines comment on naxal bandh call

    • National

  • Don't give in to U.S. pressure on Iran: Karat
  • Ask Sonia, Singh to quit, JD(U) tells Rahul
  • Advani may step down by December
  • Nalini Chidambaram: court rejects petition for CBI probe
  • Panel to probe Bombay High fire
  • U.S. experts arrive at Dikom
  • A threat to beach tourism
  • IIT honour for Kakodkar
  • Rahul didn't say it: Congress
  • Iran: India gets a breather
  • Congress postpones session
  • Class X exams in phases?
  • U.S. citizen's charge against Odissi teacher
  • Court refuses to relax noise pollution norms
  • President gives assent to Domestic Violence Act
  • Rural Health Mission fails to achieve target
  • Meet reviews encephalitis epidemic in Uttar Pradesh
  • Poor diet causes 20 p.c. productivity loss: ILO study
  • Panel to examine functioning of CPWD
  • Togadia seeks Bill on building of Ram temple
  • `Monsoon just marginally deficient'
  • RJD MP surrenders

    • Nellore

  • Congress believes in welfare of the poor: MLA

    • New Delhi

  • Delhi-U.P. transport crisis blows over
  • Safdarjung hospital rape case accused in police custody
  • An extraordinary festival of films
  • Delhi High Court quashes framing of charge by Sessions Court
  • Leptospirosis scare in Capital
  • Foundation of new annexe at Karnataka Bhavan laid
  • Duplicate shoes racket smashed
  • DDA freehold conversion camp at Dwarka
  • Special course for staff of trauma centres
  • IAF men honoured
  • Haox bomb call at school
  • Alleged rape by property dealer
  • M.P. highways to be improved
  • ITER fact-finding mission to visit India on nuclear energy project
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Question marks over phone-tapping

    • News Analysis

  • Of chit funds and loan lotteries
  • Inducing consolidation by banks
  • Germany drifting towards a grand coalition?

    • Nizamabad

  • TDP seeks probe into activist's death
  • High drama at funeral

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Farmer's suicide puts officials in spot
  • SP warns rowdy-sheeters against creating trouble

    • Palakkad

  • Municipal elections in Chittur-Thathamangalam become decisive

    • Pondicherry

  • Special Cabinet meet to discuss quota for MBC: Chief Minister
  • Tamil Nadu attracting foreign investors: Minister
  • Government keen on preventing sea erosion, says Minister
  • Power shutdown

    • Racing : Horse

  • Oyster Cove pleases
  • Among Dreams expected to score
  • Amazing Striker catches the eye
  • Integrate impresses
  • Formal Invitation wins Maharaja's Gold Cup
  • Precious King triumphs

    • Rajasthan

  • Shekhawat for recording river water agreements

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Administration plans to evict encroachments in all water bodies in Ramnad
  • College starts seaweed farming course

    • Religion

  • Ambassador of God

    • Salem

  • Villagers demand re-survey
  • Engineers day celebrated
  • Heavy rain in Salem
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • Fears allayed over CAMPCO's finance
  • Deve Gowda's concern for BCs not genuine: BJP
  • Arrangements for Ganesha idol immersion in Shimoga

    • Shooting

  • India wins air rifle gold

    • Sport

  • Ganguly must be backed or sacked
  • India goes 1-0 up
  • Jyoti Randhawa wins Hero Honda Open

    • Sports : General

  • Brothers XI posts win; Aurobindo JC in final
  • CGF keen to have cricket in Delhi Games
  • Dheeraj is individual champion

    • Squash

  • Dipika enters final

    • Srikakulam

  • TDP a one-man show, says Dharmana
  • Senior Congress leaders to oversee poll campaign

    • Table Tennis

  • Prasanna beats Ayesha

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Divine strength in numbers
  • Withdraw fringe benefit tax, says EEPC chairman
  • Southern Railway launches e-system to help suppliers
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Saving the ozone layer, the children way
  • Support Govt. efforts to end child marriages: Collector
  • Implement block-specific cropping pattern, officials told
  • Private college permitted to admit students on basis of CET
  • Tirupur knitwear units busy after lean season
  • Pollachi college gets ISO certification
  • Bar association plea to Law Minister
  • New family cards available at taluk offices
  • Lorry carrying spirit seized
  • In Udumalpet Today

    • Tennis

  • Johansson books a place in semifinals
  • Sania, Rathore, Anju are new `Team India', says Bhupathi
  • Harika-Dutta clinch boys' doubles title

    • Thanjavur

  • Tamil varsity to take up joint research
  • Panchaloha idol installed at Thanjavur Big temple
  • In Thanjavur Today

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • I can feel the change in people's perceptions, says Chandy
  • Fiery contests in key city wards
  • Traffic police kept on their toes
  • Nobody has forgotten Emergency, says Kodiyeri
  • All bonus disputes sorted out before Onam: Minister
  • UDF leads a scattered alliance in Kollam
  • Scheme to tackle juvenile cases
  • Electronic voting machines for municipalities, corporations
  • Chandy misleading people: Gurudasan
  • Mitraniketan's efforts lauded
  • Poll observers appointed
  • Greetings with a difference
  • Around the City

    • This Day That Age

  • dated September 17, 1955: PM on UN Charter
  • dated September 17, 1955: Fresh taxes not likely
  • dated September 17, 1955: Formation of Visalandhra

    • Thrissur

  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Pilot project for eco-san toilets at Musiri
  • Plan to develop reading habit among masses
  • Blind solution to this problem
  • Nuclear Society Excellence Award for BHEL
  • Project sapling planting: A grand success
  • Setting right irrigation channels
  • Touch screen kiosk at railway workshop
  • Arrears disbursed to transport employees
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Work on Golden Quadrilateral to be completed by June 2008: Baalu
  • `Cancel soft drink unit's licence'
  • Woman sets herself ablaze

    • Tirupati

  • Role of Annamayya in Telugu literature recalled
  • `Good job potential in insurance sector'
  • Councillor burns agenda copy, suspended
  • In Tirupati Today

    • Tuticorin

  • Noisy scenes mark ryots' grievance day meet in Tuticorin
  • Panel inspects 240 industrial units to check child labour
  • Assault case

    • Udhagamandalam

  • MP's plea to reopen tea factory
  • Nutrition Week celebrations

    • Union Territories

  • PGI to conduct new course

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Mulayam promises Boeing to his village
  • Request turned down
  • U.P. forms info panel

    • Uttaranchal

  • VAT in Uttaranchal from Oct. 1

    • Vellore

  • Call to set up certifying body for engineers

    • Vijayawada

  • Rebels have nothing to do with Congress, says PCC president
  • Routine fare from veteran's stable
  • Naidu's stance on IMG deal questioned
  • No tie-up with TDP, TRS for Mayor post: CPI
  • A much awaited breather for `angry' doctor
  • Banks told to extend loans liberally to farmers
  • Swords out, lathis ready...
  • Raghavulu for city tomorrow
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Builder told to pay damages
  • CPI(M) warns of agitation over water supply issue
  • Routine fare from KRR
  • Breather for `angry' doctor
  • INTUC accused of toeing managements' line
  • No improvement in reservoir levels
  • Diamond unit workers petition YSR
  • New variety of steel bars launched
  • YSR plays safe on KCR's remarks on support
  • IA `Fortune Safari' lucky draw scheme
  • Subbarami Reddy inaugurates hostel building of college at Gajuwaka
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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