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    Anantapur

  • `Ministers fail to honour promises made to ryots'
  • Two revolvers recovered from Moddu Sreenu
  • Inter-State gang busted

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Supreme Court extends status quo on Muslim quota
  • On the go in slam-bang isle
  • Lucy Locket loses pocket
  • Momentous occasion
  • Into the House portals
  • Taking to the streets
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Stir against drug policy concludes
  • Reversal of decision on road-widening angers traders
  • The anganwadi worker with right empathy
  • AICC panel reviews preparations for party plenary in Hyderabad
  • Stop Polavaram project, CPI(M) urges Centre
  • No scope for third front, says BJP
  • Campaign launched to collect manuscripts
  • Equipment given to railway hospitals
  • Mystery over death of woman, son
  • Chief Minister to lay stone for bypass road at Chennur
  • Awareness meet on citizen's charter
  • Rice procurement

    • Athletics

  • Niveditha breaks 37-year-old record

    • Bangalore

  • National College dedicates diamond jubilee to founder N. Narasimhaiah
  • Urban planners have overlooked violations
  • Power shutdown in many areas today, tomorrow
  • BMP invites tenders for garbage clearance
  • Government held in breach of model code of conduct
  • 2,000 vehicles hired by BPO firms ply at night in the city
  • `Challenging jobs attract talent'
  • Transforming many lives
  • Singapore introduces `Entrepass' for investors
  • NASSCOM fears shortage of staff for knowledge industry by 2010
  • South African province seeks State's help
  • Cash bag stolen from woman in Basavanagudi
  • A corner for Bengalis
  • Man wanted in many cases hacked to death
  • Prathiba's colleague refused to go with new driver
  • The silk route
  • Shrikanth Nadiger dead
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Yet another honour for Balappa Ajja

    • Bellary

  • Two arrested on the charge of making threatening phone calls

    • Bidar

  • Society set up for preparing, distributing primary textbooks
  • Check-dams change the face of villages in Bidar

    • Bijapur

  • Preparations under way for panchayat polls

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Raj Kumar scores win

    • Briefly

  • HPL announces joint venture with German firm
  • Tata Steel launches Tata Structura
  • Bajaj Auto Finance's preferential offer
  • DuPont receives low carbon leader award
  • UTI-GSF Software declares tax-free dividend
  • Laser Soft to give more thrust on Panacea
  • IBM Daksh opens three new outsourcing centres
  • Action against PAN discrepancy
  • Sanyo, BPL joint venture
  • Cadila forms venture with BSVL
  • Assurance on `C' Form
  • New ombudsman scheme for banks

    • Business

  • TRAI suggests resale of global bandwidth
  • OIL-IOC SPV for overseas projects cleared
  • Prompt action to be taken in Yes Bank fiasco — RBI
  • Hind Lever reshuffles management
  • Intel Capital kick-starts new investments in three cos.
  • Shriram Holdings gets CCEA nod
  • Rupee firms up further
  • Sensex at new closing peak
  • BPO sector to attract more jobs

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chattisgarh

  • Congress demands CBI probe into rice scam

    • Chennai

  • Four urban development projects planned in State
  • Jayalalithaa urges Manmohan to relax relief fund guidelines
  • Chennai International Film Festival
  • HIV positive women face outright discrimination
  • Speed up voter ID card issuance, former CEC tells Government
  • Housing plan for IT professionals on Pallikaranai marsh opposed
  • Meeting healthcare needs of city's slum dwellers
  • New system to decongest roads at Korukkupet
  • Varsity authorities raid hostels for cell phones
  • Swamy criticises "selective" demolition
  • An attempt to create user manual for the brain
  • Kathak festival from Dec. 17
  • Special children begin Xmas celebrations
  • Work to clear dampness in Alandur pedestrian subway
  • Raids on doctors pay dividends
  • Curbs on party film screening: DMK moves court
  • Nokia plumps for Chennai to house solutions centre
  • Carols by candlelight
  • Heroin seizure linked with Madhya Pradesh jail inmate
  • Title conferred on T.N. Krishnan
  • Programme for heads of educational institutions
  • Samsung, United Way to set up school
  • A fond reunion after 40 years
  • Notice to Government on Siruseri land
  • Depression to move towards State
  • Interaction with Vithanage
  • Effective protection
  • Green canopy
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Easy money, but problems aplenty for credit card users

    • Chess

  • Final deadlocked

    • Coimbatore

  • Corpn. keen on implementing water scheme
  • Curb on use of `police' stickers
  • Arivoli employees' demand
  • Power shutdown
  • Placement interview begins
  • Water connections demanded
  • Eye Foundation to organise refresher course
  • Residents to take out rally against compost yard today
  • Auction of property
  • Medical representatives go on strike
  • Artificial limbs distributed
  • An invitation
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Kumble set to join 100-Test club
  • Ganguly decision unanimous: Shah
  • Crucial match for Delhi
  • Tamil Nadu will be thirsty for action
  • `Ganguly's presence would have helped'
  • Ntini finds chinks in the Australian armour
  • Crucial tie for Hyderabad
  • Dalmiya's plea to Pawar
  • Kisley Sharma hits century
  • Mangalore zone tournaments

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8476
  • Solution to Puzzle 8475

    • Cuddalore

  • Rs. 797.48 cr. potential linked plan for Cuddalore district
  • Four youths held for murder

    • Cycling

  • India wins two silver medals

    • Dindigul

  • Collector orders possession of defaulters' secured assets

    • Editorials

  • Gold's historic high
  • An unnecessary "army" in Assam

    • Erode

  • Tribals observe fast seeking CBI probe
  • Road works to be taken up in Sathyamangalam
  • Water release to be extended
  • Appoint Registrar on regular basis: AUT

    • Football

  • Sporting Clube starts favourite
  • Seven teams advance

    • Front Page

  • Bomb threat disrupts Parliament
  • Sever ties with U.S., says e-mail
  • Ganguly issue finds echo in Lok Sabha
  • Face the facts
  • Centre announces more aid for Tamil Nadu
  • New constructions add to chaos at Mylapore
  • Safety issues in BPO sector to the fore
  • Delhi faces major demolition drive from today
  • `Stolen Life' is best film, Lu Chuan best director
  • Kuttiadi project commissioned
  • On a fuel saving drive
  • Quota: apex court orders status quo
  • Jagat gives proof of his being part of IYC team
  • Residents to construct fishing harbour on west coast in Kanyakumari district
  • VAT in more States
  • Adhir Chowdhury gets bail in defamation case
  • `This one cannot be misplaced'
  • Furore over pollution by Heritage Foods
  • Mittal richest Indian
  • Increase in yarn price affects textile exporters in Karur district
  • No forum authorised to hold all-India entrance test, says Supreme Court
  • Quota Bill to be moved next week
  • `This one cannot be misplaced'
  • Quota issue: apex court orders status quo
  • Schoolboy run over by bus
  • Court notices for Naidu, 3 others
  • Firms told to ensure employees' safety
  • Punjab, Haryana brave extreme chill
  • Delhi shivers

    • Generalia

  • City to host Asian netball

    • Golf

  • Kapur in seventh place

    • Gulbarga

  • A direct contest between Congress, independent candidates in Nelogi
  • Decision on sugar factory is unilateral, says AIPJD

    • Haryana

  • Haryana Govt. bonanza for ex-servicemen

    • Hassan

  • Congress may improve tally in Hassan district
  • ASI nod for cable-car at Shravanabelagola

    • Hockey

  • Rajinder critical of umpiring
  • FIH chief happy with media coverage

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Corporation ordered to pay Rs. 3.82 crores
  • Campaigning gains momentum

    • Hyderabad

  • Re-run of bus dacoity on city outskirts
  • Ticket prices for big starrers up
  • House panel to probe land sale
  • Hold Assembly session in Andhra region, demands Gorantla
  • It is a question of timing
  • Sur, Tal and Hina!
  • More in style but less in substance
  • 5 districts included under national job scheme
  • BJP sees threat to farmers
  • On the go in slam-bang isle
  • TRS stalls Assembly proceedings
  • Mystery behind murder solved
  • Boyi Bheemanna passes away
  • Bill to amend private medicare act introduced in Assembly
  • Centre still considering plea for relief: Dharmana
  • Nagam's gesticulations incur Speaker's wrath
  • More perks for women's panel members
  • Your neighbourhood and you
  • Stress on a census with a human face
  • Self-help is the best!
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Grand alliance formed at WTO

    • International

  • Push for reforms in Maldives
  • U.K. drops move to shut down mosques
  • America's Right rallies to protect Christmas
  • Clash on Afghan border
  • Pamuk case puts Turkey on trial
  • White House backtracks on torture legislation
  • Cloning pioneer in new row

    • Kancheepuram

  • Work to start on Wallajabad-Kancheepuram road soon
  • Lead MP team to Delhi, Jayalalithaa urged
  • Protest against industrial estate project

    • Kannur

  • New bridge inaugurated
  • FCI warned against privatisation move
  • Achuthanandan to open KGSNA meet
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Adventure sports for NCC cadets mooted

    • Karnataka

  • Safety questions in BPO sector to the fore
  • `Congress committed to panchayats'
  • A rare occasion
  • 2,000 vehicles hired by BPO firms ply at night
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Coalition Government has belied people's hopes: Ananth Kumar
  • Rs. 3,000 cr. for irrigation annually
  • Congress, JD(S) making contradictory statements
  • Mixed response for Chikmagalur bandh
  • Association told to approach High Court
  • Bureaucracy blamed for tardy development works
  • Goa likely to privatise tourism
  • Mixed response to bandh call

    • Kerala

  • Kuttiadi power project commissioned
  • Need for strict enforcement, awareness campaigns -- Rope in the public
  • Drive against illicit liquor intensified
  • Next issue
  • Dog menace at tourist resort
  • Cause for concern
  • Mobilising crowds
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Edassery birth centenary fete
  • Passengers protest against airline's neglect
  • Around the City

    • Khammam

  • Stage set for golden jubilee fete of court

    • Kochi

  • Council dissolution will defeat Statute principles: court
  • Kochi ready to receive President Kalam
  • President to interact with schoolchildren
  • Builders told to make full use of technology
  • Celebrating a milestone
  • Nautica calls at Kochi port
  • Ban on import of elephants upheld
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Maudany's health condition bad: JAC
  • Making Christmas lively
  • KGOU seeks implementation of wage revision
  • Plea to clear pension dues of cashew workers
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • `Vijayan occupies a unique place in Malayalam literature'
  • Focus on legal rights of doctors

    • Kozhikode

  • Pension for dairy farmers soon
  • Milma scripts a success story of dairy cooperatives
  • Sex scandal: in-camera trial gets under way
  • Chamber of Commerce calls for stir
  • Bid to restore peace at KMC
  • Muneer kicks off e-literacy campaign
  • Chandy launches cultural centre
  • Gouri non-committal on future plans
  • `Core banking facilities in Union Bank popular'
  • Chandy inaugurates cultural centre

    • Kurnool

  • Separate juvenile police unit mooted
  • Lok Ayukta to submit report against MLA
  • Minor girl raped, murdered

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Legislation: who needs Westminster?

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Bush's statement
  • Set her free
  • Mounting frustration
  • Not right
  • Sound decision
  • Wake-up call

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Chauhan for speeding up industrial growth

    • Madikeri

  • Congress, BJP to slug it out in Kodagu
  • Ex-MLA predicts BJP victory in Kodagu

    • Madurai

  • High Court Bench comes to the rescue of bus conductor
  • EB mulls over introducing computer billing facility
  • Chain-snatching on the rise again
  • `Micro insurance system can provide social security to people'
  • Their three-minute chat with Bill Gates and the CM
  • TN tops in number of packaged drinking water manufacturers
  • Power shutdown
  • EDUSAT project cleared for Madurai Kendriya Vidyalaya
  • 23,000 students to take higher secondary exams
  • Award conferred
  • Workshop on livestock
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Task force to fight pollution in Dakshina Kannada
  • 18 selected for Souraba annual awards
  • BJP will win, says MP
  • Congress confident of victory
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • `Stand on coalition will be announced after poll outcome'
  • Artisan card being popularised
  • Historical arch to get a new look New look for heritage arch
  • Physics is core for most science streams, says Vice-Chancellor
  • Bird deaths at Kukkarahalli lake causing concern
  • Corporation seeks public opinion regarding market demolition
  • Bharathanatya performance

    • Nagapattinam

  • 2,000 tsunami-hit families to get houses
  • Static desalination plant commissioned

    • Nagercoil

  • SP assumes office

    • National

  • Security plan in place for Parliament
  • Keep fast breeder reactor out of IAEA inspections: U.S. expert
  • CPI(M): Pension Bill not acceptable
  • Rs. 13,600-cr. package for rural cooperatives
  • Colleges: quota Bill next week
  • "Financing window" for Bharat Nirman planned
  • Dropping Ganguly an insult to all, says Buddhadeb
  • Work on national war memorial will begin soon, says Pranab
  • 6 States to switch to VAT from April
  • Steps to make bureaucracy efficient, transparent
  • 27 billionaires in India
  • Internet browsing centres in Palayamkottai raided
  • Elders press for Women's Bill
  • Quotes Oliver Goldsmith
  • Court caution on entrance exam
  • Approval for seven GSLV flights
  • No forum authorised to hold all-India entrance test: apex court
  • Mahinda Rajapakse to visit India
  • Nod for bus services
  • Scheme for CSIR approved
  • Indian, Airbus sign deal for new aircraft
  • Ethics panel summons Lodha
  • I didn't authorise Jagat's Iraq trip: Surjewala
  • Panda agrees to pay estranged wife
  • Jail officials apathetic to burns victim: NHRC
  • Heavy water: new methods being evolved
  • India, Bangladesh plan naval exercises
  • World Bank offers aid to Jammu and Kashmir

    • Nellore

  • DYFI activists stage dharna

    • New Delhi

  • Gauging public satisfaction a challenge before police
  • CLP meeting may generate fireworks
  • The Kapoors make a comeback
  • Plan to interlink all police stations in Capital
  • A celebration of landscape
  • Shams elected president of Jamia students' union
  • High Court pulls up Centre
  • BJP criticises seven years of Sheila's rule
  • Auto-lifters arrested
  • Courts online
  • Mobile cancer unit launched
  • Supreme Court sets aside High Court order
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Privatising airports: questions remain
  • A reality show that's elaborately fake
  • Record high temperatures threaten Arctic wildlife

    • Nizamabad

  • Appajosyula Foundation fete from January 5
  • Power consumers told to approach forum for redressal of grievances

    • Ongole

  • Voter lists: minors apply for enrolment
  • Special officer to sort out teachers' transfer issue

    • Palakkad

  • `Populist programmes a ploy'
  • Chandy's plea on Instrumentations
  • In Plakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • TDB makes arrangements for Mandala puja
  • Arrangements under way for Bhagavatha Sathram
  • Naari puja at Chakkulathukavu temple

    • Pondicherry

  • Focus on quality infrastructure, says Lakhera
  • PMK leader wants memorials for Pondy tsunami victims
  • Vijay Diwas
  • Anti-filariasis drive launched
  • Demand for protective wall
  • Parties seek Rs. 500 cr. flood relief
  • Village core panel formed in Pondy, Karaikal

    • Punjab

  • Call for new pest control methods

    • Racing : Horse

  • Star Crush, Republic Day please
  • Stilton and Jersey Pride impress
  • Randsberg for feature
  • Formal Invitation in fine nick
  • Holding Court catches the eye
  • Trainer and jockey fined

    • Raichur

  • 58 taluks to get fire stations
  • RTPS 8th unit to get clearance by next month

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Link Cauvery with Vaigai to divert flood water: ryots

    • Religion

  • Panacea for misery

    • Salem

  • Tapioca farmers seek damages for crop loss
  • 977 cycles distributed to students
  • Land offered for cultivation

    • Shimoga

  • Dharam Singh to seek Centre's help to set up medical college
  • Panel to implead itself in KIOCL review petition
  • Campaigning peaceful

    • Sport

  • Face the facts
  • Jaffer looks forward to the challenge
  • Ganguly's hunger was scorned
  • It's Netherlands-Australia final
  • No bias against Asian teams: Deo
  • Sanam stamps his class

    • Sports : General

  • Convincing win for EME Centre
  • Mudassir sets new mark

    • Srikakulam

  • SP for all official dealings in Telugu

    • Swimming

  • Veerdhaval Khade wins maiden gold with meet record

    • Table Tennis

  • Wang Hao is the man to watch

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Throws light on poor maintenance
  • Revving earthmovers send students packing
  • `Judicial Commission can prevent interference'
  • Bench to the rescue of handicapped bus conductor
  • 350 airmen pass out of IAF Station
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • From Kandua sarees to lacquer dolls
  • "Display attracts more than taste"
  • `Holding-wise' enumeration to ascertain crop damage under way
  • PMK leader for use of Tamil language in High Court
  • Anxious moments at Sankara Mutt
  • Blue metal price brought down in Tirupur
  • Road rokos staged in Pudukottai and Karur
  • PMK leader wants memorials for Pondy tsunami victims

    • Thanjavur

  • Samba crop on 34,000 ha damaged in Thanjavur

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Illegal liquor sale rampant in district
  • Chennithala flays CPI(M) stand on development
  • DYFI plans march to C-DIT
  • Woman killed in accident
  • Litterateurs concerned over `neglect' of Malayalam language
  • Applications invited for MD ayurveda courses
  • Human rights becoming a privilege of the rich: Sudheeran
  • Call to mobilise youth to protect environment
  • Award for Oommen Chandy
  • Silver Jubilee honour
  • Railways urged to withdraw parking fee hike
  • Recognition for a literary luminary
  • Drop in power consumption
  • At Sabarimala today
  • Sprucing up the city
  • One more held in sexual harassment case
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated December 17, 1955: Nehru on foreign aid
  • dated December 17, 1955: Madame Sun Yat-sen
  • dated December 17, 1955: President's gesture
  • dated December 17, 1955: Purse for C.K. Nayudu

    • Thrissur

  • Now, a sleep detector for drivers
  • `DIC(K) for Left-secular tie-up'
  • Moving farewell to C.I. Paul
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Farmers seek waiver of crop loans, land tax
  • `Include geology as main component in curriculum'
  • Detention of `innocent people' flayed
  • Refresher courses for teachers
  • Special buses to TNPSC Group IV exam. centres
  • Double treat for children
  • Special camps to prevent diseases in livestock
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Girl rescued from mill

    • Tirupati

  • Land distribution: Dalits to picket mandal offices
  • Kottayam girls clinch ball badminton trophy
  • Role of bio-informatics in economic and scientific development emphasised
  • SVU move to tie up with Australian varsities

    • Tuticorin

  • TAHDCO to disburse revolving fund subsidy to SHGs

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Works on repairing roads to begin in January
  • Vijay Diwas celebrated in Wellington

    • Udupi

  • Congress facing tough challenge in Udupi district
  • Programme to focus on coir-based units
  • `Music has curative power'

    • Union Territories

  • Bid to contain communicable diseases
  • INLD condemns lathi-charge

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Cold wave continues unabated
  • People in power ruffled by Amethi, Rae Bareli development: Sonia
  • Cars tax-free! only if you buy it from Mulayam's native village

    • Vellore

  • An IT bazaar in Vellore
  • Adequate stocks of rice, kerosene available in PDS outlets: Collector

    • Vijayawada

  • More fund allocation for research, education urged
  • They are IT whiz kids, thanks to NIIT
  • Correspondent of school admits lapse
  • Swinging time for students
  • RTC unions affiliated to Left to fight together
  • TDP's protest against price rise
  • Mail your views
  • Ghantasala award for P. Suseela
  • BSNL numbers changed
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Cable operators forum plans to strike a deal with Sun network
  • AUTA wants teachers reinstated
  • Glory of Navy's air squadron showcased
  • Expert for appointing psychiatrists in schools, colleges and hospitals
  • Arrangements for Utsav reviewed
  • A common feature
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Row over allotment of houses Controversy dogs allotment of houses
  • US varsity professor's book released

    • Weather

  • Weather

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