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  • `Non-eligible persons will be removed from BPL list'

    • Anantapur

  • TDP launch non-stop dharna

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Plan to build model villages draws flak in A.P. House
  • Monica's handwriting samples obtained
  • Bridal jewellery getting trendy
  • Ready for pilgrimage
  • Fight against AIDS shows its youthful face
  • Walkout time
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Man on a mission
  • Apex court orders status quo on land for IT park
  • Maoist killed in encounter
  • Support price for sugarcane assured
  • Move to check infant mortality rate
  • Grameena bank transacts Rs. 1,800 cr. business
  • Four held in ivory case
  • One killed, 7 injured in accident
  • Unidentified man's body found

    • Assam

  • Political parties want Assembly elections in Assam before Bihu

    • Badminton

  • Chetan Anand wins Irish Open
  • State-ranking badminton

    • Bangalore

  • `Bengalooru' decision welcomed
  • Two houses burgled, cash and jewellery stolen
  • Chaturvedi launches Karnataka chapter of Buildings Congress
  • Tracking the wild elephants
  • Exhibition marks `Physics Year'
  • These 40 channels entertain round the clock
  • Technology gives beauty care a facelift
  • A day with `messenger of peace'
  • BDA using recycled water for fountains and parks in city
  • Police to crack down on sale of illicit liquor
  • Meet on computation takes off
  • Deve Gowda accused of being an opportunist in politics
  • Notice issued to Director of SC commission quashed
  • `Janata Dal (S) chances bright'
  • Sindhia: Centre's decision may hit ties with States
  • Course in bartending from early next year
  • AIPJD criticises move to amend varsities Act
  • Land meant for bus terminal auctioned, alleges consumer rights organisation
  • Woman ends life at Legislators' Home
  • Fees: orders on petitions of PG students reserved
  • Gang attacks two youths, robs them of mobile phones
  • Engineering college teachers' protest on Thursday
  • Collection of capitation fee not permissible under law: High Court
  • Prepaid autorickshaw stands to be inaugurated
  • Two arrested, mobile phones recovered
  • For a change, it's different
  • T.M. Gopalaswamy passes away
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Many among voters to favour `able' candidates only
  • Sidnal expresses doubts over legislature sessions in Belgaum

    • Bellary

  • Seer's followers to perform `guruvandana' in Hospet
  • `Pourakarmikas' stage protest

    • Bidar

  • Official lauds software for land records
  • `Right to Information Act applies to polls'

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Vinay beats Nagaraj

    • Briefly

  • CDSL reduces demat charges to Rs. 5
  • Industry logs 8.5 p.c. growth in October
  • M&M to acquire stake in Plexion
  • TCS to open centre in Brazil
  • Cos. restrained from using Suzuki name
  • CUMI sets up subsidiary in UAE
  • Satyam enters into alliance with Chinese company
  • Central Bank's contribution to relief fund
  • Aurobindo Pharma drug in WHO list
  • Italian firm to launch weaving machines
  • Natco selected for Patent appreciation award
  • Genesis PR changes hands
  • BOBL to distribute Kotak, Prudential MF products

    • Business

  • Model agreement for road projects
  • `New approach needed to extend global leadership in IT'
  • eSecure to counter data theft
  • Opto Circuits acquires EuroCOR
  • Rupee rallies further
  • Sensex breaches 9,100 mark
  • HP solutions for UCO Bank
  • Allsec buys up B2K Corp.
  • Reliance-China Telecom pact

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Technology does wonders for orthodontic surgery, says specialist
  • Family courts told not to issue summons mechanically
  • Governor urges service bodies to help out during disasters
  • Parents prove they are special too
  • Awards, aid distributed to disabled
  • Former CJI hails NGOs' role in rescuing bonded labour
  • Elusive burglars have police stumped
  • Potholes challenge motorists
  • Hundreds of houses still marooned
  • Film stars, fans celebrate Rajni's birthday
  • Soulful music for a cause
  • Foot care essential for diabetics: expert
  • All but two districts record excess rainfall
  • Learning from peers
  • Sale of Siruseri industrial park land illegal, says DMK
  • Taking `kutcheri' fever across the country
  • Bharathi Award for Shanta
  • Over Rs. 8 crore given to relief fund
  • Indian gets IRS cash award
  • Japanese team visits Chennai
  • Technical supervisors' association demands additional staff to meet increasing workload
  • Motorcyclists killed in accident at Thoraipakkam
  • RPF constable gets artificial legs
  • Disaster warning over phone
  • Title for Thavil maestro
  • DMK Trust donates Rs. 25 lakhs to Chief Minister's relief fund
  • Christmas concert
  • Protest against condom vending
  • `Feeble' trough in Bay
  • Salem Railway Division gets clearance
  • Bank branch shifted
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Dairy

    • Chess

  • Indians call the shots

    • Coimbatore

  • Setback to Tiruchi Road repair works
  • Generating power from parthenium
  • BSNL invites registration for accountless Internet usage
  • SSA's `inclusive education', a boon to physically challenged children
  • CPI seeks relief for traders too
  • `Annadanam' on December 16
  • Ensnared
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Cricket

  • Match abandoned
  • Shoaib Akhtar destroys England
  • BCCI invites fresh tenders for team sponsorship
  • I was prepared to open: Irfan
  • Delhi earns its first points
  • Crushing win for Railways
  • Flintoff gets BBC award
  • Easy for Combined City

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8472
  • Solution to Puzzle 8471

    • Cuddalore

  • Treat differently-abled children with dignity: NLC chief
  • Declare floods a national disaster, says Dalit Panthers leader

    • Cycling

  • Limei Fang pedals to glory

    • Dharmapuri

  • Two die after consuming food

    • Editorials

  • New challenges in Kashmir
  • A realistic appraisal

    • Erode

  • Bhavani Municipal sewage treatment plant work delayed
  • Relief given to flood-affected
  • Two killed

    • Football

  • Sporting Clube in semifinals
  • United fails to utilise the chances, draws with Everton
  • Everton holds United

    • Front Page

  • 11 MPs accused of taking cash for raising questions
  • Manmohan calls for creation of pan-Asian free trade area
  • Chidambaram claim contested
  • Parliament approval for Disaster Management Bill
  • Inequalities spawn turmoil: Bishop Tutu
  • E-filing regime in courts from June
  • Work no worship for stressed out souls
  • A fashionable city catches up with a nationwide trend
  • `CPI has not forsworn DIC(K)'
  • Indiramma programme draws flak
  • Arrest warrant against Salman Khan
  • Generating power from parthenium
  • `No more arguments'
  • Ramanand Sagar dead
  • Parliament nod for National Honour Bill
  • Supreme Court disposes of BCCI case
  • Now a home for Munshi Premchand at Jamia
  • Genomic commonality between tuberculosis and leprosy: study
  • Supreme Court summons Delhi civic officials
  • Rural school bags award for computer literacy
  • No move to create more IITs: panel chief
  • Trade unions plan protest on EPF rate
  • Intense police combing operation in Nallamala forest ranges
  • National Honour Bill passed
  • Panel to fix final fee structure in a month
  • Kanshi Ram unable to communicate, court told
  • 40 tribal girls taken ill

    • Generalia

  • John Bosco shocks Shankar, wins snooker title
  • Applications invited for sports quota appointments
  • Visakhapatnam men triumph

    • Golf

  • Sanjai Singh wins

    • Gulbarga

  • `No change in decision on new medical colleges'
  • Ensure failure of Hong Kong round of WTO talks, Centre urged
  • `Kuvempu Darshana' on December 18
  • Facilities sought for villagers in Aland taluk

    • Guntur

  • Protest staged with body of slain TDP `activist'
  • Two youths done to death

    • Haryana

  • Reliance signs MoU with Haryana for SEZ
  • Power bill waiver scheme extended
  • 5 held for trying to snatch 3 lakhs

    • Hassan

  • Coalition partners to slug it out in Hassan

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Voters' awareness drive

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Portions of hospital demolished
  • Meal scheme staff plan dharna

    • Hyderabad

  • The thrill of life in the fast lane Thrill of life on the fast lane
  • Will AICC session play spoilsport for Balayogi Stadium facilities?
  • `Mega city' tag for Hyderabad soon Hyderabad to be soon declared a `mega city'
  • AICC session may harm synthetic track
  • MCH chalks out ambitious plan for city development
  • TDP blasts State on findings of panel
  • Consensus eludes parties on delimitation exercise
  • Government move on doctors receives support
  • It's more precious now
  • Naidu for steps to check price rise of essential commodities
  • Victims of child marriage fight back
  • Visually-challenged youth killed in road accident
  • CLP flays TDP campaign
  • Toast to Deccani shayari
  • Clash over kite leads to attack on family
  • Air Deccan flights for Pune, Nagpur, Goa
  • Indo-US tie-up planned by oil bodies
  • Celebrating 120 years of education
  • Leaders call for peace and unity
  • States asked to prepare data on gram panchayats
  • Brain Bee Quiz on Dec. 24
  • Rose show selects its royals
  • Nishat Khan performs at Raj Bhavan
  • Never Never Land!
  • Top aerospace scientist dead
  • IAS officers appear in court
  • Court seeks details on Polavaram oustees
  • Patient's death triggers protest
  • Your neighbourhood and you
  • Fire lit for warmth turns `killer'
  • HC directive to Government on petition on CRZ
  • BJP's plea to Jana Reddy
  • Sentry's weapon goes off
  • No power supply
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderebad Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • India & World

  • FDI in retail trade: PM optimistic
  • Varsity for PIOs under study: Manmohan
  • "E.U. must cut farm subsidies"
  • Protest against toxic ship leaving for India

    • International

  • Summit will reinforce ASEAN vision: Malaysia
  • Osama not in control, says U.S. envoy
  • 16 held for racist attacks in Sydney
  • Blaze: Britain faces threat of toxic rain
  • WTO deal still seems a long way off
  • Jury hung in Merck trial

    • Interviews

  • "Sikkim has become an inseparable part of the country"

    • Kannur

  • Call to restructure curriculum
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karnataka

  • A fashionable city, Bangalore finally catches up with a trend
  • Army to acquire 10 Nishant vehicles
  • Preparing for elections
  • In election mode...
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • `New rituals will not be allowed on Datta Jayanti'
  • Shivanahalli Ramesh is Davangere CMC chief
  • Decision on cable-car proposal awaited
  • It's a clash of familiar rivals in Harpanahalli taluk
  • Heads of engineering colleges to attend ISTE convention
  • RBI directive to Karnataka shocking, says Ananth Kumar
  • Samajwadi Party opposes Nagarjuna project
  • Man arrested; mobile phones recovered
  • Stir against Nite Bazaar to be intensified
  • Jetstar to start flights to Bangalore

    • Kerala

  • "Development agenda will impact Kerala policies"
  • Soul-stirring songs keep alive the golden era of Hindi film music
  • Life at sea
  • Braving the rough terrain
  • Jostling for space
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Mock air emergency causes panic
  • Special package for coffee industry sought
  • Medical college to come up in Anjarakkandy
  • AI flight makes emergency landing
  • Coast Guard exercise
  • Around the City

    • Kochi

  • Government introduces P-24 test to screen HIV
  • Renewal of land lease in Munnar, Mankulam stayed
  • Hurdles before their dream
  • Teaching a healthy lifestyle through Kathakali
  • Camel brought to Kochi dead
  • `India needs to be cautious at WTO meet'
  • Kalam to visit State
  • On a mission
  • Strike plan
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Thenmala dam shutters opened
  • Flood-hit causeway linking islands posing a danger
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Sudheeran: ads smack of political corruption

    • Kozhikode

  • Akshaya training programme from Friday
  • Muslim League to expose LDF `doublespeak' on development
  • KSRTC pensioners plan protest
  • Akshaya training programme from Friday
  • Pensioners plan protest
  • CCCI youth wing's plea
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Proposal for Cath lab, MRI scan sent to Government
  • People urged to reject `factionists'
  • Probe ordered

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Asian interests and the myth of `balance'

    • Letters to the Editor

  • A new low
  • Disruption in Parliament
  • The EPF debate
  • Manmohan's call
  • Disturbing
  • Not preserve of Hindus

    • Madikeri

  • Abbi Falls power project: agitation may be stepped up
  • Deve Gowda vows to work for the poor, farmers

    • Madurai

  • Waste plastic gives roads longer life
  • Women demand flood relief
  • Braving stigma, they work to spread AIDS awareness
  • Sessions Judge directed to look into complaint
  • Call to retrieve Panchami lands for Dalits
  • Teenagers pledge to shun premarital sex
  • Rebuild houses for flood-hit: CPI (M)
  • Carnatic vocal and violin classes
  • And then my heart with pleasure fills ...
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Mangalore

  • Assembly elections likely early next year: Bangarappa
  • Apprise developing countries of problems in farm sector: vedike
  • Writers told to focus on common man
  • Website of St. Agnes College library ready
  • Special meet for the disabled
  • Six externed for disturbing peace
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Demolition is a collective decision, says MCC
  • Polls: parties talk of rural empowerment
  • Portraying the plight of those caught in the midst of violence
  • `Rise of extremist ideologies a concern'
  • District administration all set for polls
  • `Kala Aparanji' award for Mysore student
  • Three-day strike from Wedensday

    • Nagapattinam

  • Special panel to monitor relief distribution in Nagapattinam district
  • Born on the 26th of December
  • Farmers face fertilizer shortage

    • Nagercoil

  • Flood alert sounded in areas near four dams in Kanyakumari district
  • Multi-purpose market proposed in Kanyakumari
  • Appreciated for meeting target

    • National

  • Parties take action
  • ``It will be casualty of war"
  • RBI directive shocking: Ananthkumar
  • BJP-ruled States to adopt Value Added Tax
  • Create `India brand' for handloom products: Kalam
  • Geelani criticises OIC
  • "Operation Duryodhana" logged over 56 video, 70 audiotapes
  • Top priority to clearing cases quickly: Vijay Shanker
  • Nod for panel on student union elections
  • Liberhan Commission's term extended by three months
  • Aerospace scientist A.K. Rao passes away
  • Tribal woman's hand cut off
  • Abu Salem aide arrested
  • Pitroda calls for overhaul of education system
  • Panel for fine-tuning defence purchase policy
  • Panel wants safeguards under Juvenile Justice Bill
  • Notice issued to Centre on plea against child labour

    • Nellore

  • Special team formed to nab `biscuit thieves'

    • New Delhi

  • Traffic hindrance
  • Move to provide education to Muslim girls
  • BJP MLA seeks regularisation of colonies
  • Former Samsung executives arrested
  • Mayor, MCD Commissioner clash
  • Of cities, their riveting tales and more
  • A classic Christmas gift for Delhiites
  • RWAs to hold protest rally
  • Target tax defaulters to preserve EPF rate at 9.5 per cent: BJP
  • Create `India brand': Kalam
  • Headway in Jessica murder case
  • Importance of BRT system underlined
  • Campaigning in top gear
  • Cycle march
  • Raining cats and dogs
  • Prisoners looking forward to a brighter tomorrow
  • Vajpayee's kin issues notice to Bhandari
  • Health Department to get tough with women smokers
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • A new deal for old cities
  • A myth exposed
  • Taliban exploits drug trade to step up Afghan attacks

    • Ongole

  • Gang behind `panchaloha' idol thefts busted

    • Palakkad

  • DIC(K) not to admit DCC chiefs
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Devotees gearing up for pongala at Chakkulattukavu
  • Services of an educationist-priest hailed
  • 1,006 policemen for Sannidhanam
  • 11 pilgrims injured

    • Pondicherry

  • Dalit group holds protest to press for its demands
  • Ministerial staff go on mass leave

    • Punjab

  • Badal demands ban on Amarinder's Dubai visit

    • Racing : Horse

  • Dama Grande wins main event
  • Galloping Bay claims main event
  • Sixty Seconds impresses
  • Jockey suspended

    • Rajasthan

  • Rajasthan may appoint mid-day meal commissioner
  • Scholar conferred Goswami Smriti Puraskar
  • Workshop on trainer development ends

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Ramanathapuram dt. returning to normality

    • Religion

  • `One clan, one God'

    • Salem

  • Dalits demand land for agriculture, housing

    • Shimoga

  • Gender sensitisation project to be extended to other districts
  • Students exhorted to make culture a part of life

    • Sivaganga

  • Rs.3.42-crore relief disbursed

    • Sport

  • India eases into the driver's seat
  • Something special separates a champion
  • Pathan — still a bowler at heart
  • Punjab pounds Hyderabad
  • Ashutosh Singh defeats Divij Sharan
  • Creativity and craft charm viewers
  • Young umpire looking to make his mark

    • Sports : General

  • Visakhapatnam wins hockey title

    • Swimming

  • Karnataka starts favourite

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Manimuthaaru revived
  • Adorn your houses with lamps
  • National disaster
  • Vaigai water
  • Karthigai deepam speaks the language of love
  • And then my heart with pleasure fills ...
  • Pleasant sight
  • Man clubs brother to death near Pallavaram
  • Desalination plant relevance questioned
  • Over Rs. 8 cr. given to relief fund
  • Vaigai dam overflows
  • Family courts should not issue summons mechanically: Court
  • Waste plastic prolongs roads' life
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Sporting yet another feather in the cap
  • SPPs' right to argue case in Pondy challenged
  • Taking the stage by storm with their literary talents
  • Traffic on Vengamedu ROB to resume by April
  • Discharge from Vaigai dam begins
  • Hospital, a den for anti-socials?
  • Rs. 1.15 cr. sanctioned for Education Programme Fund sanctioned for education project
  • Order quashing compulsory retirement stayed
  • "GATS implementation will affect workers"
  • Clash erupts over finalising funeral procession route
  • Training trainers on how to handle disasters
  • Training programme for doctors begins in Salem
  • `Create a district with Tirupur as HQ'
  • Two houses burgled, cash and jewellery stolen
  • Dalit group holds protest to press for its demands
  • Committee inspects lands acquired by SIDCO
  • Medical camp conducted in Pudukottai

    • Tennis

  • Amulya stuns Yathish

    • Thanjavur

  • Five SHGs get cell phones
  • Many crops damaged in Thanjavur

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • `Agenda is in tune with revised party programme'
  • CPI(M) must admit its past mistakes, says Mani
  • Hurdles before their dream
  • Rain havoc: eight relief camps opened in district
  • `Hollywood edges out native films in Brazil'
  • Robberies: 42 detained for questioning
  • Mukundan C. Menon dead
  • Technology to curb crime
  • More aid sought for Maniappan's kin
  • WWF invites applications from schools in State
  • `Lakshadeepam' at Sree Thonnal Devi Temple
  • Marthanda Varma's wife dead
  • Facing nature's wrath
  • In strength
  • `Introspection needed'
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated December 13, 1955: PM's advice to partymen
  • dated December 13, 1955: Indo-Saudi relations
  • dated December 13, 1955: Pakistan protest

    • Thrissur

  • Azhikode threatens indefinite fast

    • Tiruchi

  • Disbursal of flood relief begins
  • A practical exposure to curriculum
  • Plan to accommodate devotees at schools in Srirangam
  • Demonstration
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirupati

  • `Srinivasa gadyam' to usher in New Year

    • Tuticorin

  • Tackle harassment at workplaces, women told
  • Man awarded eight-year jail for murdering wife

    • Udhagamandalam

  • `Improve infrastructure at GH'
  • Increase in Nilgiri Mountain Railway coaches hailed

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Centre trying to nail me down, says Mulayam
  • Cold wave toll 12 in U.P.

    • Uttaranchal

  • Panic over leopard menace

    • Vijayawada

  • Drinking water and underground drainage projects for city soon
  • Row over demolition of AIR station's compound wall
  • Migrant labourers found sending children to work
  • Pinnamaneni Foundation award for C.N.R. Rao
  • Fight against AIDS shows its youthful face
  • Around the city
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • There's a sale... no a resale!

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Backbreaking regimen Sure-fire jail recipes for `crime badshahs'
  • Shirt that weighs just 95 grams
  • Church at Bhimili burgled
  • `Tsunami travel time atlas' prepared
  • Kraistava Parishad completes one year
  • Make most of Right to Information Act, people told
  • Forum seeks declaration of 2006 as Year of Austerity
  • Circars celebrates 66th anniversary
  • Telugu Desam dharna against price rise
  • VPT clarifies on open tender
  • Soaking in the warmth
  • Birthday celebrations
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • `Play it safe' prescription!

    • Volleyball

  • Grand double for Chennai

    • Warangal

  • LIC to host athletic meet

    • Weather

  • Weather

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