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  • CPI stages road blockade focusing ryots' problems

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Parliament go-ahead for A.P. Council Bill
  • Two policemen injured in landmine blast
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Kerosene-run autos add to `choke' factor
  • 24-hour water from summer in Rajahmundry
  • Government `interference' in TTD affairs irks Bharatiya Janata Party
  • HIV/AIDS awareness through trains
  • Life is an eternal struggle for this Lambada woman
  • Fishermen to have permanent houses
  • Focus on awareness during Consumer Week
  • Cyclone heads for Bangladesh
  • TDP protest against price rise

    • Archery

  • Kandir, Reshma triumph

    • Bangalore

  • Power, health, education need immediate attention: S.L. Rao
  • State's appeal against stay on teachers' recruitment dismissed
  • How to talk your way to success
  • `Companies should ensure safety of women staff'
  • Water shortage to be solved on priority
  • BJP accuses Dharam Singh of misusing official machinery
  • Lock-in period for BDA sites reintroduced
  • Make Bangalore safe for women: Karnik
  • `Weapon locating radar in final evaluation stage'
  • Two more pre-paid counters set up for autorickshaws
  • BMTC to run 500 buses for women
  • Court seeks details about permission to nursing homes
  • Record turnout in panchayat polls
  • `Firms must be aware of social responsibility'
  • Man injured in group clash
  • Reunion of the old class
  • Posts of paramedical staff will be filled, says Minister
  • Japanese film festival at Suchitra Film Society from today
  • Cash bag taken away
  • BJP charges refuted
  • Dies in accident
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • They are forced to work for a living
  • Activists avert crisis in Belgaum
  • Kannada activists protest against roadwork

    • Bihar

  • Rabri Devi unlikely to quit bungalow

    • Bijapur

  • Congress facing tough competition from JD(S), BJP
  • `Only Congress has vision for development'

    • Briefly

  • NTPC moves court against RIL
  • Reliance finds oil in KG basin
  • Pfizer launches Viagra in India
  • Rupee drops 21 paise
  • Mastek launches new IT solution for insurance cos.
  • Kisan card from HDFC Bank
  • Bajaj Allianz launches four new products
  • Final USFDA nod for Orchid's Cefprozil tablets
  • Fidelity offers tax advantage fund
  • Karur Vysya Bank selects Odyssey Snorkel-TX
  • Bajaj Auto unveils 112cc Discover
  • Kenexa figures in Software 500

    • Business

  • Prioritise domestic oil find: Ministry
  • ICMR partners MSD
  • DBT seeks Rs. 1,000 cr. package for biotech
  • Spice mobile phones in TN
  • ONGC-CNPC win bid for Syrian oilfields
  • Small paper units moot alternative to TSDF
  • SIB extends core banking facility to rural branches
  • Coir Board asks small producers to drop proposal for strike
  • APK proposes suspension of minimum wage revision
  • Emirates to focus more on Kerala
  • Bharat Overseas Bank suspends 4 managers
  • HCL consolidates bottomline
  • 140 p.c. final from MRF
  • SMPIL hearing posted to Dec. 22
  • Sensex dips on profit booking

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOONSCAPE

    • Chattisgarh

  • Congress demands CBI inquiry into `rice scam'

    • Chennai

  • Cancellation of contract may send a wrong signal
  • Qualifications to teach pre-school? None exist
  • Watch Cho's dramas... sitting at home
  • Back to school after prayers
  • Anticipatory bail for Kanchi Acharya
  • Historic library at Triplicane reopens for readers
  • CPI(M) calls for long-term rehabilitation measures
  • Company Law Board fiat to two Coimbatore firms
  • Competition is in the air
  • Zeroing in on product design
  • Prateeksha, a special baby
  • Intellectual property stamp for "Indian treasures"
  • Crafts from Madhya Pradesh
  • No anticipatory bail for Dr. MGR Deemed University Chancellor
  • Protest against cut in PF rates
  • IAF staff stage protest
  • National conference on taxation
  • DMK to seek court permission to screen party film
  • Power supply position in State satisfactory, says Minister
  • Transfer of Collector an eyewash: PMK
  • Disabled to petition Chief Minister
  • Amrita Math offer on shelters
  • Deputy Mayor's "letter" being verified: Corporation
  • `Chennaiyil Tiruvaiyaru'
  • DMK leader thanks Nature for its gesture
  • On diversity of opinion
  • Clothes donated
  • Free counselling session
  • His liking for Tamil
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Burning garbage - what of health?
  • Infrastructure: unity eludes parties
  • Coach guidance facility at Coimbatore Junction
  • Good potential for embedded computers envisaged
  • Contests conducted for physically challenged
  • Vijaykanth against politicising stampede
  • Computers make quantum physics easy
  • Training programme for retired employees
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Rudolph's knock saves South Africa
  • Joon's century helps Haryana
  • Bengal hangs on for a draw
  • Gujarat pulls off a narrow victory
  • Team selection on Dec. 24
  • Century by Pragat
  • 3-wkt win for Super Star
  • `Stress on pace a prominent feature'
  • BCCI to retain IPR
  • Pakistan's confidence will be high: Chappell
  • Yet another selection imbroglio
  • Musharraf announces reward for cricket team
  • Saurashtra checks Andhra
  • Dravid discharged

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8479
  • Solution to Puzzle 8478

    • Cuddalore

  • Annamalai varsity sets up women IT training centre
  • Irulas, Dalits also to get permanent houses
  • 10-foot-long crocodile captured

    • Dindigul

  • Joint CEO visits Dindigul
  • e-presentation, an emerging trend

    • Editorials

  • Cub versus Tiger
  • An election that resolves little

    • Eluru

  • Tribals backed by CPI(M) on rampage again

    • Equestrian

  • Maj. A.S. Baath triumphs

    • Erode

  • Government grants Rs. 9 cr. for primary schools' development
  • Villagers urge Collector to order closure of quarries
  • Marked rise in production, sale of bedsheets
  • Over Rs. 14 lakhs donated to CM's relief fund
  • In Erode Today

    • Football

  • It's Ronaldinho once more
  • Di Canio suspended

    • Front Page

  • Reservation Bill tabled in Lok Sabha
  • 5 MPs asked to stay away from House
  • DMK councillor held in stampede case
  • "Britishness" test for imams dropped
  • Relief won't be distributed on Sundays: Government
  • BPO firms' views to be sent to Government
  • A record he is not quite proud of
  • One long day of demolitions and defiance in Delhi
  • From a common sight to a rare one
  • Court comes down hard on corporate colleges
  • Emergency landing
  • High Court notice to Devaswom Minister
  • Plane called back
  • Delhi Assembly wants demolitions to stop
  • Talks on Sir Creek held
  • Hogenakkal drinking project likely to take off
  • Government may lose 4,000 seats next year
  • Pakistan tour cleared
  • A `salvaging strategy' for partially damaged crops
  • "Lethargic" attitude of police shocks Bench
  • CITU activists lay siege to Secretariat, collectorates
  • Parliament clears Council Bill
  • Two policemen hurt in landmine explosion
  • Lalu Prasad's nephew arrested

    • Gulbarga

  • Four taluks in Gulbarga are hypersensitive
  • `Nano-technology has revolutionised science'
  • This sculptor's artistic expressions are anything but wooden

    • Guntur

  • `Post-colonial writings have diversity'
  • Varavara Rao produced in Gurazala court
  • Eight-year jail term for attempt to murder

    • Haryana

  • Resignation of Surjewala sought

    • Hockey

  • SCR wins
  • Guru Harkrishan in semifinals
  • Constant chopping and changing have had a disastrous effect

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Government allays fears of onion growers in Hubli
  • An evening of fun and laughter
  • A treat for theatre enthusiasts
  • 75 p.c. polling in Dharwad district
  • Polling allowed till 10 p.m. at two polling booths
  • Yagna concludes

    • Hyderabad

  • Farmers up in arms against Outer Ring Road alignment
  • Hot fare back with bang
  • This `S' does not stand for safe
  • Assembly adjourned sine die
  • Child labourers walk to freedom
  • Congress, TDP accused of wasting time
  • Houses for all in three years: YSR
  • Online enrolment of voters a big hit
  • Corporates urged to tap rural markets in a big way
  • The right vaccine to perfect health
  • Rs. 41 lakhs lost due to `waste' of time: Chief Whip
  • Telugu Desam legislators plan mass contact programme
  • `Safety first' YSR leads from the front
  • `Withdraw film ticket price hike'
  • DNA test helps police solve murder case
  • Regularisation of MLA's land denied
  • Leave us alone, say villagers
  • Record feat by filmmaker
  • Two bills passed without debate in Assembly
  • Sharjah airport zone plans expansion
  • Two youths accused of harassing woman attempt suicide
  • Issue of ration cards from Jan. 2
  • Court disallows toilet near statue
  • DWCRA bazaar registers good sales
  • BSNL woos customers with free broadband connection
  • Time discipline must in House, says Speaker
  • TDP chief for Singapore, Malaysia in Jan. first week
  • Youth `beats' up Inter girl
  • Singapore Airlines revises flight timings
  • Cable operators seek industry status
  • Team to study mass transport in Southeast Asia
  • Proceedings against Bala Saibaba stayed
  • Jamaat women's wing meet
  • Student ends life
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • Formal pact on Lahore-Amritsar bus service today
  • First Sikh officer in Pakistan army

    • International

  • Rajapakse orders probe into violence in northern Jaffna
  • "Britishness" test for imams dropped
  • Relief work best to improve U.S. image: Cheney
  • Doubts over Saddam capture claims
  • Transport strike hits New York
  • U.S. faces a challenge in South America
  • Ban is no music in Teheran
  • Nepal rejects Maoists' offer
  • Uganda asked to pay Congo damages
  • China's stress on a new socialist countryside

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Narcotics trade: Kashmir policemen arrested

    • Kancheepuram

  • Diarrhoeal deaths reported

    • Kannur

  • UDF Government has ruined State: Pinarayi
  • Union flays proposal for autonomy of colleges
  • Railway users' plea
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Recognised schools raise banner of revolt against corporatisation of education
  • Karimnagar college to celebrate golden jubilee in January
  • Award for physically challenged sportsman
  • Arrangements on for Mahasivaratri jatara

    • Karnataka

  • BPO companies' suggestions to be sent to Karnataka Government
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Violation of poll code will be videographed
  • Congress facing stiff competition from Janata Dal (S) in Koppal
  • Government stable, says Dharam Singh
  • `Police not to blame for BPO employees' murder'
  • Two textile mills to be shifted to Andhra Pradesh
  • Chikmagalur records 69.89 per cent polling
  • Special trains on Konkan Railway for Christmas
  • Taj to organise `Cake Fest'
  • Man gets life sentence
  • Good turnout in Uttara Kannada
  • Hut gutted

    • Kerala

  • High Court notice to Minister, Devaswom secretary, Ecosmart
  • 22 pilgrims hurt in accident
  • Desire of building a dream home
  • West Kochi reeling under severe water shortage
  • Foreigners bet on Fort Kochi to start tourism ventures
  • `Poor oral hygiene a risk factor to general health'
  • BSNL Plan 100 scheme receives good response
  • Travancore Rayons revival process gains momentum
  • New Le Mars showroom at Palarivattom
  • HMS demands new wage panel
  • The real loser
  • Taking to the sky
  • All in the name of an animal
  • Exhibition of bamboo products gets under way
  • Tax assistant convicted
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Yuktivadi Sanghom meet
  • Briefly
  • Reader's Mail

    • Kerala - Others

  • State bids adieu to P.M. Sayeed
  • For this group of men and women, service means devotion

    • Khammam

  • Tribals stage protest at Nandigama village
  • MSF stage rally

    • Kochi

  • All set for SNDP Yogam polls today
  • DGP told to file affidavit
  • Venduruthy bridge: move afoot to divert bus services
  • Doctors under IT lens
  • Nod for underwater cruise project in Kochi
  • A novel nativity crib
  • Church firm on equidistance policy: Archbishop
  • Science, language workshop for children
  • Like a phoenix
  • Tributes to tsunami victims
  • Braving the odds of life
  • Diagnostic centre inauguration
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • CITU protest affects functioning of offices
  • Veterinary association voices its protest

    • Kottayam

  • Mannam Jayanthi fete in the spotlight

    • Kozhikode

  • `Pugmarks are jungle cat's, but a canine killed goats'
  • Marad council seeks relief for all families
  • Passport grievance redressal system to be strengthened
  • NDF to step up campaign
  • Passport grievance system

    • Kurnool

  • Nursing school controversy deepens
  • RTC drivers told to conserve fuel

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Party time in Mumbai and Hyderabad

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Another exposé
  • WTO deal
  • Wholly avoidable
  • Condemnable
  • Hard choice
  • Fond memories
  • A loss

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Witness turns hostile in Raja Bhaiyya case
  • M.P. to announce IT policy soon
  • Burhanpur to find a place in tourist map

    • Madikeri

  • Tribal people in forest areas to be relocated
  • 63.96 per cent polling in Kodagu district

    • Madurai

  • Freedom fighters hailed for spreading peace
  • Railways facing shortage of loco pilots, says Ministry
  • Tidal wave and judicial move
  • A cultural and linguistic confluence
  • Bidding goodbye to '05 with best books
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Use airport facilities for customs clearance: forum
  • 16 directors elected unopposed to CAMPCO Board; official announcement on Saturday
  • Fishermen oppose import of vessels
  • Karavali Utsav exhibition to open on Thursday
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Amendments to Central legislation opposed
  • On a mission to revive street theatre
  • Re-polling ordered in six booths
  • Scientist examines ailing pelican
  • Former Minister refutes reports of joining Congress
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • `Face disasters without fear'
  • Ryots want paddy procurement norms relaxed
  • Tsunami photo exhibition

    • Nagercoil

  • Fishermen here have to start all over again
  • Stress on export to EU countries

    • Nalgonda

  • TV serials flayed for portraying women in poor light

    • National

  • U.S. non-proliferation group ups the ante with draft separation plan
  • Tearful farewell to Sayeed
  • Sourav Ganguly presents his case
  • Government confident of Bill passage
  • Speaker's initiative to bring MPLADS under scrutiny
  • A record he is not quite proud of
  • Building cultural bridges across oceans
  • Transparency in aircraft purchase plans: Minister
  • Guinea pigs with your future, all for Rs. 3
  • Evolve system to disqualify dubious politicians: Kalam
  • Sangma back in NCP
  • We did not compromise: Kamal Nath
  • Review BCCI Constitution, says T.S. Krishnamurthy
  • Police seize 25 hard disks
  • Shabir Shah for federal solution to Kashmir tangle
  • Tejas maiden flight likely in June
  • Cash-for-query report today
  • Gogoi offers safe passage
  • Ten Sports offers to share feed with DD
  • Livelihoods recovering fast: Oxfam
  • No entry to foreign law firms: Centre
  • CAG pulls up MEA for faulty management of properties
  • Narcotics seized, 4 policemen held
  • Jyoti Basu warns against anti-Left alliance
  • India can check the spread of bird flu
  • IAF assurance to court on Anjali Gupta
  • Hike in cable TV charges stayed
  • Order on Salem's "jail party"

    • New Delhi

  • Stop demolitions, demand worried MLAs
  • Demolition at slow pace
  • Bid to create awareness about AIDS in schools
  • Congress and BJP blamed for the present mess
  • "Need to empower leprosy-cured people''
  • Reigning queen of Bollywood not taking it easy
  • A star-studded Christmas Eve
  • Reddy calls high-level meeting on demolitions
  • `Forcing any law on any community not possible'
  • Stars chip in for SOS children
  • Two Israelis among six held with charas
  • War and peace through the eyes of a woman
  • Ex-servicemen demand Commission
  • Four of a family suffocated to death
  • Youth leader held in murder case
  • Court rules out interviews for kids and their parents
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Education for a livelihood
  • Hundred years of the Andamans Cellular Jail
  • World danger or political infighting?
  • Not libertarian but anti-social
  • Computers can help tease out the origins of life

    • Nizamabad

  • `Decision soon on new varsity in Nizamabad'

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Panel to look into teachers' promotions

    • Palakkad

  • Mass wedding

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Keralotsavom begins tomorrow

    • Perambalur

  • Road roko for flood relief

    • Pondicherry

  • Agitating staff return to work
  • Free umbrellas for one lakh students
  • Five centres to collect property tax

    • Punjab

  • Security forces put on high alert

    • Racing : Horse

  • Ashwaraaj, Cilldara shine
  • Greyhound, Sugar Mine please
  • International Star appeals most
  • King Of The Turf in fine fettle
  • Time To Wyn wins main event
  • Fines and suspensions
  • Major Roberts impresses

    • Raichur

  • Seven killed, eight injured in accident

    • Rajasthan

  • Big cats come alive on canvas with a message

    • Religion

  • Discharge duties

    • Salem

  • Retain the aesthetics of Sugavaneshwarar Temple: citizens
  • `Guide entrepreneurs to obtain loans'

    • Shimoga

  • SP leaders seek repoll in Hosnagar booths
  • `Technology has made an impact on banking sector'
  • High voter turnout in Shimoga

    • Sivaganga

  • Ryots told to opt for alternative crops

    • Sport

  • Indians have a vice-like grip on the Lankans
  • Turbanator is back
  • Big victory for Maharashtra
  • Boys should start thinking ahead: Nayeemuddin
  • Rohan Bopanna too good for Karan Rastogi
  • Wang, Guo triumph

    • Sports : General

  • Wins for SBT, Punjab Police
  • Centuries by Asif, Anshulare the highlights
  • Samjad wins title

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Cooperative bank completes 100 years
  • Now, Santa Claus comes in a motorcycle
  • Beauty lies in the eyes of the donor
  • A rally with a message to tackle a `positive' problem
  • Declare tsunami national disaster, says federation
  • Deming Prize-2005 winners felicitated
  • Pre-project work started for six power units: NPCIL official
  • IAF's role during calamities hailed
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Bangalore beats metros in consumer confidence
  • Cakes with a difference
  • Two mathematicians get SASTRA-Ramanujan Award
  • Villupuram-Tiruchi electrification proposal awaiting clearance of Planning Commission
  • Tamil Nadu members stage walkout in Lok Sabha
  • Own moral responsibility for stampede deaths, says ryots leader
  • Sports complex to have more facilities
  • Arthanareeshwarar Hill to be made tourist spot
  • Bedsheets distributed to Sri Lankan refugees

    • Thanjavur

  • Need to discover flood-resistant crops: farmers

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Chargesheet filed in spirit seizure case
  • LDF will probe sex racket case: RSP leader
  • Passport grievance redressal forum
  • Admission to MDS course
  • Priest attacked
  • District plan panel: election process begins
  • Shiv Sena's demand
  • Around the City
  • Reader's Mail
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated December 21, 1955: Lignite from Neiveli
  • dated December 21, 1955: Sudan to be independent
  • dated December 21, 1955: A concession to MPs

    • Thrissur

  • Three hog deer shifted to Mysore
  • Found dead
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • A constructive effort to repair ravaged houses
  • Free legal aid camp for flood-hit people
  • Plea to regularise services of vocational teaches
  • Banking on a `twin benefit concept'
  • ``Infuse values among youths''
  • Student dies in freak accident
  • Traders in `troubled waters'
  • Warming up with a wonderful tea
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Amla gardens to be established on 1,000 hectares in Tirunelveli
  • Youth gets seven-year jail for rape

    • Tirupati

  • Mysterious fever grips village
  • Effigies of tainted MPs burnt
  • Honour for scientist

    • Tuticorin

  • Vaccination of animals on
  • Women trained in converting shell wastes

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Farming community told to convert challenges into opportunities

    • Udupi

  • People seek action against officials
  • Vedike calls for proper treatment of fishermen

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • BJP threat to intensify stir
  • Murders rock U.P.

    • Uttaranchal

  • Dharna over leopard menace

    • Vellore

  • 3 win the Vellore Bazaar lucky draw
  • Illegal sale of kerosene: two suspended

    • Vijayawada

  • An event that combined fun and learning
  • Nehru's remarks irk Congressmen
  • Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
  • Additional ambulances under `108'
  • Chairpersons elected to VMC committees
  • BSNL to hold dharna
  • Silver jubilee of Bhavani Deeksha
  • Mail your views
  • Catch them napping!
  • Man arrested, three motorcycles seized
  • Exhibition Society new office bearers elected
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Farmers hit by low paddy, sugarcane yields
  • RTC to run special services for Visakha Utsav
  • Groupism in Congress to fore
  • INTACH drive on to create awareness about heritage
  • Two-day management meet from tomorrow
  • Interaction with VUDA vice-chief
  • Steps afoot for fast clearance of greetings
  • Volvo service for Chennai, one more to Hyderabad
  • Screening of `Mala pilla'
  • NTPC holds seminar
  • Rain likely
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • Vicky Batta wins 56kg title

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