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Alappuzha

  • Coir Board to help increase availability of mechanised ratts
  • Bowled over by the backwaters
  • 5 killed in separate accidents

    • Anantapur

  • Humiliation drives girl student to commit suicide

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Telangana: Manmohan for new investment?
  • Ship away the blues
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Fresh probe sought into teacher transfers
  • CPI opposes mining unit in Nalgonda district
  • House panel favours credit for artisans on vocation basis
  • Minority wooing entering campuses, says ABVP
  • Rework strategy to achieve separate State, KCR told
  • Separate state: TRS to build pressure on Centre
  • Legislation sought for unorganised workers
  • CITU for region-wise package
  • Kalachakra: 300 visitors report fever
  • Court staff donates for child heart scheme

    • Bangalore

  • Power cut in several areas of city today
  • Revanna announces Rs. 109-crore plan to improve facilities at BMC
  • Unruly incidents at Toyota Kirloskar unit
  • Cyriac Joseph assumes office as Chief Justice
  • BESCOM aims at cutting transmission losses
  • President's Medal given to Home Guards, Fire and Emergency Services personnel
  • Proposals of city police will be cleared: Dharam Singh
  • Mining: Centre, State urged to move apex court
  • Upa Lokayukta not to work with Sudarshan
  • AIPJD ready for a tie-up with Congress
  • Do not burden students with tests, says C.N.R. Rao
  • Two persons die in road accidents
  • Nagarbhavi residents protest bad roads in area
  • JD(S) vote share has increased: Revanna
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Basketball

  • SIT triumphs
  • SIT triumphs

    • Belgaum

  • Minister for private participation in homoeopathy education
  • Six medical colleges next academic year

    • Bidar

  • Forum threatens to observe `Bidar bandh'
  • Ten-year-old boy run over by bus
  • `We are not land grabbers'

    • Bihar

  • RJD leader revolts against party leadership

    • Bijapur

  • Demolition drive begins amid tight security

    • Business

  • Special economic zone for service providers to oil and gas sector
  • Ganesh Bank placed under moratorium
  • Andhra Bank's follow-on public issue
  • SSI board to meet on Jan. 9
  • ITC wins corporate governance award
  • SBI raises deposit rates
  • R-Systems to raise capital
  • TRAI's open house discussion

    • Chennai

  • Student innovations make iTalent a success
  • Religious leaders strengthen resolve to intervene in AIDS prevention
  • Students taking AIEEE on the rise
  • U.S.-based doctors plan health care centres
  • Poor patronage hits omnibus operators
  • Carry out background checks on employees, says Nataraj
  • Book on Subbulakshmi from her daughter's perspective
  • Plan to strengthen industry, school tie-up for vocational education
  • Projects will provide jobs to 7.5 lakh people: Baalu
  • AISF urges Government to clarify stand on entrance test
  • Discovery lab encourages active science learning
  • Science awards presented
  • Tips on celebrity spotting and parking at the Finals
  • The pet obeys the right master Pet obeys the right master
  • 5,011 temple employees to come under PF scheme
  • Channels must pay for film clippings
  • Turtle protection awareness walk on Sunday
  • Dog show begins
  • Doctors give tips on tackling avian flu
  • Shanthaji, Brahma Kumaris director, dead
  • Palar reservoir: Vasan writes to Manmohan, Sonia
  • "Kalaignar" awardees announced
  • Clothed in tradition
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Negi ends 16th
  • Indian GMs hail the youngest master

    • Coimbatore

  • Rotary urged to work for changing society
  • Work for changing society, Rotary told
  • `Combat environmental degradation'
  • Transform society, Rotary told
  • Mill unions to observe fast on January 10
  • Regional abacus competition today
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Keenan Vaz scores century
  • Bolarum FC in final
  • Easy for MUCSC
  • TN downs Hyderabad
  • Mumbai, Punjab in quarterfinals
  • Satyanarayana and Sandeep sizzle
  • Hard work the key: Mithali
  • Panel to supervise DDCA's Sports Committee functioning
  • Ponting retains top spot
  • Sachin carries greater load than Bradman, says Chappell
  • `Nothing wrong with Botha's action'
  • Century CC, Globstar enter final
  • Zimbabwean cricket board suspended
  • TEN Sports ropes in Imran, Boycott
  • Kanchipuram advances
  • Chougule replaces Anil Kumble

    • Dharmapuri

  • `Adopt new techniques for mulberry cultivation'
  • Water released

    • Dindigul

  • Two high-yielding chewing tobacco varieties launched

    • Erode

  • Farmers will get quality seeds: Minister
  • Science exhibition draws to a close

    • Football

  • NFL kicks off on Jan. 10

    • Front Page

  • Manmohan announces a slew of concessions to overseas Indians
  • Warning wasted in Bangalore
  • Musharraf: withdraw troops from three places in Kashmir for militancy to end
  • 13 sailors feared killed in LTTE attack
  • Centre's decision to hike price of PDS rice anti-poor: Jayalalithaa
  • ``Execute warrant against Mamata''
  • Orissa bandh passes peacefully
  • Madras varsity to publish teachers' works
  • Now welcome aboard buses without barriers
  • Telangana: new investment favoured?
  • MP withdraws funds earmarked for subway
  • Export of roses from Hosur increases
  • Licence for Ayurveda companies a must
  • Police intercept car near LB Nagar amid high drama
  • 3 Indian pilgrims killed
  • Bangalore police seek NBDC help in probing terrorist attack on IISc.
  • Political leadership not focussing on change, says Biocon chief
  • Chennithala, Chandy meet NSS leaders
  • YSR defends Polavaram, seeks Manmohan's help
  • Militant killed in shoot out
  • NUALS dedicated to nation

    • Gulbarga

  • Unemployed engineering graduates to go on fast
  • Protest against `harassment' of hostel inmates by wardens
  • Gulbarga varsity to confer doctorate on Narasanagi

    • Haryana

  • Haryana Govt. exempts VAT on four items
  • Net-based information kiosk for farmers

    • Hassan

  • `Some leaders are indulging in caste politics'
  • Polls to gram panchayats to be postponed

    • Hockey

  • Delhi Dazzlers swamps Imphal Rangers
  • AMU triumphs
  • India, Pakistan Test series

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Horatti warns against poor quality of work under Jala Nirmal Scheme
  • Houses burgled; cash, gold jewellery taken away

    • Hyderabad

  • `Action plan for children, women must'
  • Modi raps State for failing to thwart Pakistan designs
  • Country's largest convention centre thrown open
  • Health assistant posts in MCH to be outsourced
  • CLP wants Opposition to clarify stand on projects
  • Institutional framework to benefit NRIs, India planned
  • Prime Minister urges `pravasis' to buy Hyderabadi pearls
  • Venkaiah Naidu not to hold party post
  • `Swarna' reference raises eyebrows
  • Modi goes all out to woo city Gujaratis
  • Food subsidy cut: BJP to exert pressure on Centre
  • BJYM activists ransack hotel
  • MLA inspects arrangements for prayers at Idgah
  • Woman robbed
  • Shops open today
  • OPDR plea
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Musharraf: withdraw troops from three places in Kashmir for militancy to end
  • I would like to invite Manmohan: Musharraf

    • International

  • String of attacks on Sri Lankan forces
  • Conviction upheld
  • Iraq to cost U.S. more than $2 trillion, says report
  • Woman journalist kidnapped
  • Urinal survives art attack
  • Dinosaur fish pushed to the brink
  • Hostility to U.S. navy presence in Japan rises

    • Kannur

  • Capturing the rich folk tradition of Kerala
  • Musical start to Kannur Mahotsavam
  • `State becoming breeding ground of extremists'
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karnataka

  • IISc attack: National Bomb Data Centre's help sought
  • Crash and burn
  • The message is unclear in `Mandya'
  • `In her shoes' is just scruffed leather
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Move to cut teachers' increment flayed
  • No truck with JD(S), says BJP
  • Youth Congress alleges corruption in housing scheme
  • Five silk factories to be rejuvenated
  • Congress high command decision welcomed

    • Kerala

  • University of legal studies dedicated to the nation
  • Chandy, Chennithala meet NSS leaders
  • She blazed a trail in veterinary profession
  • Airport set to register impressive growth
  • When fine tunes ushered in the New Year in Kochi
  • On the verge of extinction, but a few of them were spotted here
  • Peoplespeak
  • At Sabarimala today
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • State must intervene to keep farm prices stable, says Utsa Patnaik
  • Pinarayi criticises Union, State Governments
  • Calicut University to open Centre for Malabar Studies
  • Go Air Airlines to launch services soon
  • Honorary D.Litt. for Kamala Suraiyya
  • Yaseen Ashraf gets M.M. Ghani Award

    • Khammam

  • Meet credit needs of ryots, Collector tells bankers

    • Kochi

  • Study moots need for flyovers, overbridges
  • Ernakulam maintains lead
  • Jyothi-Mahajyothi Sangamam today
  • VHSS youth festival to begin on Wednesday
  • Call to harvest rainwater
  • Meet on BPO industry concludes
  • Gynaecology meet
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Call to do away with harsh methods to train elephants
  • LDF is yet to decide on DIC(K) inclusion: RSP
  • Adventure flying fete begins today
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Government trying to create wealth: Chandy
  • KPCC to take up ration issue

    • Kozhikode

  • NGOs to give free food at hospitals
  • Priority to women empowerment: Ahamed
  • Thangal to inaugurate Samadani's lecture series
  • Hybrid varieties on display at flower show
  • Explosives seizure: sub-agent held
  • Workshop on film, media inaugurated
  • Recruitment by Army on Monday
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Urs celebrations of Hazrath Syed Shah Lateef Laubali
  • Chiru film screened for truck drivers

    • Madikeri

  • Need to educate girl child stressed

    • Madurai

  • Overcrowding in two prisons to be eased
  • Investor-friendly measures of govt. paid dividends: Minister
  • Salary: Ruling on mode of payment
  • Intensive vehicle check under way
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Police personnel to be kept on `standby' for blood donation
  • Bishop lauds contribution of Internet to information age
  • `Physio Week 06' from tomorrow
  • BJP confident of doing well in State
  • Balakrishna Shetty Kadri is dead
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Chennigappa opposes move to amend Seed Act
  • Children's film festival begins
  • Workshop on gender sensitisation held
  • Rajashekaran sure of Kannada getting classical language status
  • Two die in separate fire accidents
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Nagai Collector assures relief to retired officials

    • Nagercoil

  • `Govt. has spent Rs.497 cr. for renovation of 270 hospitals'

    • Nalgonda

  • Missile Man's initiative reduces their burden

    • National

  • New Delhi rejects Musharraf proposal
  • e-remittance gateway launched
  • CPI condemns cut in food subsidy
  • Withdraw decision, says Swamy
  • No withdrawal of support to Patnaik Government: Rajnath
  • Manmohan hands over OCI cards
  • Venkaiah Naidu not to hold party post
  • Chidambaram for early action on rural credit
  • We are not against Ayurveda: Brinda Karat
  • Indian circuits fuel global smart phone solution
  • MoU signed to improve primary health sector
  • Another case against DMK chief
  • BJP criticises move to cut food subsidies
  • All-party meet next month on state funding of polls
  • Need for sound fiscal management: Manmohan
  • What is barred to them
  • Energy policy draft being readied
  • CPI(M): allow FDI in agriculture with conditions
  • ``LTTE attack, a provocation''
  • Centre asked to examine issues on patent to wheat
  • Decide on probe into tiger population: court
  • Five injured in police firing
  • `Communal violence Bill will not disturb federal balance'
  • More compensation sought for the Gujarat riot victims
  • Protest against firing on tribals

    • Nellore

  • State committed to welfare of weaker sections: Minister

    • New Delhi

  • "Acquaintances account for 55 per cent of murders''
  • Fighting to change attitudes and stop child marriages
  • Festival that promises a heady mix
  • 70 per cent of Delhi constructions illegal
  • 10 years' RI to tutor for luring away girl student
  • Litigants throng Rohini courts; Magistrates allocated jurisdiction
  • Bid to promote dairy trade
  • Protest against firing on Orissa tribals
  • Cold winds sweep Delhi, chill to aggravate
  • New plan for road rejected
  • Addiction comes first, teenage later
  • Sheila gets a taste of women's anguish
  • MCD to attach accounts of property tax defaulters; shopping malls among guilty
  • Protest against cut in food subsidies
  • Around the City
  • Briefly

    • Nizamabad

  • LI contractors told to speed up works

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • `Ensure free flow of sewage water'

    • Palakkad

  • 600 sq km buffer zone for Silent Valley mooted
  • Linguistic minorities' welfare
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Konni bags overall championship

    • Pondicherry

  • Electrification work in full swing
  • Integral education must encompass the disabled
  • The alliance will continue, says Narayanasamy
  • Delimitation: CPI criticises Pondicherry Government
  • Lakhera issues orders

    • Racing : Horse

  • Aristotle for Calcutta Derby Stakes
  • Hawaiian Sunrise catches the eye
  • Onnu Onnu Onnu, Atomize please
  • Mystical clinches feature
  • Live Legend, Appreciate impress
  • Friendly Fire wins main event

    • Rajasthan

  • Water recharge structures made mandatory

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Heroin smuggling network busted

    • Sailing

  • INS Ranvijay triumphs
  • INS Ranvijay triumphs

    • Salem

  • Plan on to educate public on hygiene
  • Municipal Commissioner inspects various civic works
  • Leaving notorious ways behind
  • Salem-Mettur Dam rail sector to be re-opened

    • Shimoga

  • Congress to share power with JD(S) in Shimoga Zilla Panchayat
  • Rs. 4.6 crores for developing tourism at Jog Falls
  • `IT weaning students away from sociology'

    • Sport

  • Dravid and Tendulkar get going
  • Bopanna-Amritraj pair in final
  • Aditya Mehta in sizzling form against Faizal Khan
  • Anup Sridhar moves into third round

    • Sports : General

  • Rammalleswara, Tulasi win
  • Govindadas College wins
  • U.S. triumphs

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Striking a chord with language and listeners is her style
  • In perfect tune with language and listeners
  • Committed to freedom of expression
  • Honour for Bombay sisters
  • Concern over increase in cattle smuggling
  • It turned out to be a successful experiment
  • New GPO building to be ready in four months
  • Chennai Book Fair draws good crowd
  • Around the City
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Wheels spin overtime to make enough Pongal pots
  • Traffic snarls a nightmare in Hosur
  • Project to conserve water wins them a national berth
  • `Public stood to gain by toll abolition at Karur bridge'
  • Determination, vital for civil service aspirants
  • CEC to visit Tamil Nadu
  • KSG calls for poll boycott
  • Arrangements made for `Vaikunda Ekadesi' festival
  • Water released from Panchapatti tank
  • Camp at Chinnar concludes

    • Tennis

  • Federer to meet Monfils in Doha; Marion Bartoli is champion
  • Australian Open wild card for Philippoussis

    • Thanjavur

  • Farmers urge Government to solve water disputes

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Geomatics lab ready at university
  • Compulsory training for drivers causing accidents likely
  • Karunakaran's party will spoil LDF image, says CPI
  • `Strengthen Sino-Indian ties'
  • Man found dead
  • Corruption in land deal alleged
  • Tributes paid to Annie Mascrene
  • Notice given for token stir on January 24
  • Panel recommends Chinese consortium offer
  • CPI campaign
  • Rs. 5 crore for floriculture
  • Beat the heat
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • Thrissur

  • Thiruvathira celebrations from Tuesday
  • Edusat to be widely used from July: Minister
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Drivers honoured for good track record
  • Re-exams from January 24
  • Congress conniving with militants, says Manic Sarcar
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • VOC Stadium to be given a facelift

    • Tirupati

  • Temple city gears up for Sankranti festivities
  • 32 troupes to take part in `Nandi Natakotsav'

    • Tuticorin

  • Exhibition to promote stamp collection ends
  • ESI workshop concludes
  • Meet on information systems

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Curtain comes down on elephant rejuvenation camp at Mudumalai
  • Need to live in harmony stressed
  • Traffic regulation

    • Union Territories

  • Cold wave tightens grip on North India

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Mulayam okays implementation of promises made by officials
  • Ten engineers suspended
  • "Bangladeshi migrants adding to population woes"

    • Vellore

  • Singapore Minister visits CMC Hospital

    • Vijayawada

  • Farmers back from the brink
  • Jandhyala award for Tanikella Bharani
  • Reduce burden on students, says Mayor
  • Over 150 houses gutted
  • Road-widening work results in traffic jam
  • Kalam to make night halt in Vijayawada today
  • Concern over shift of LI schemes
  • Refresher course inaugurated
  • Lorry owners organise road safety rallies
  • Businessman found dead
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Visakha Utsav begins today
  • Gas pipeline for city
  • Bauxite mining: Minister on the defensive
  • BrahMos to equip Army with supersonic missile
  • No decision yet on 4-year degree: APSCHE chief
  • Cellphones stolen from shop
  • Minister faults CPI(M) stand on Polavaram project
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • BSNL invites applications from enterprising youth
  • Scribe found dead

    • Weather

  • Weather

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