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Alappuzha

  • Emergency session of Alappuzha municipal council today

    • Anantapur

  • Sporadic incidents mar polling in Anantapur district
  • One-sided polling in Anantapur
  • Youth slits girl's throat

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Two killed in A.P. panchayat poll violence
  • Man tries to escape from custody, shot
  • Stooping to conquer
  • Poll spirit?
  • Democracy at the grassroots
  • Clarification
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Re-polling ordered in five booths in East Godavari district
  • Peaceful polling in Medak
  • No cakewalk for TRS-Congress nominee in Navipet ZPTC
  • Clashes mar polls in Kadapa
  • Minor clashes mark polling in Vizianagaram
  • Bodies of eight naxalites killed in encounter shifted to Achampet
  • All set for polling: Collector
  • TDP stages dharna demanding repoll in Kadapa district
  • Tight security for polls: SP

    • Bangalore

  • Notice issued to Goverment, health university
  • 213 vacancies of lecturers will be filled, says Shankaramurthy
  • Threat of vacant seats may haunt colleges
  • 10 children reunited with their parents
  • `Chikungunya under control'
  • `CBI probe into question paper leak soon'
  • Assembly Speaker criticises Government on performance budget reports
  • Sub-Registrar suspended in `undervaluation' case
  • BMP's new by-laws for hoardings from July 1
  • Airport staff seek scanners
  • Judiciary should be made more accountable: Lokayukta
  • ABVP threatens to disrupt counselling at CET Cell
  • Singapore Kannadigas urged to share their success with State
  • We are committed to implementing farm loan scheme: Yediyurappa
  • Ashraya: withdrawal of circular demanded
  • Maharaja's heirs offer land for road widening
  • Bipasha Basu opens Khazana showrooms
  • No reduction of tax on petrol, diesel
  • Land Revenue Bill opposed in Council
  • Youth snatches chain from woman in HSR Layout
  • VC seeks support to protect greenery on varsity campus
  • They have a healthy heart
  • Congress withdraws dharna
  • Bus knocks down woman, set on fire
  • CET Cell bulletin
  • 130 new colleges soon
  • Honour for INTUC leader Adyanthaya
  • Jumbo saved
  • Around the City

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Bellary

  • Children to be immunised against brain fever in Bellary

    • Bidar

  • Government reduces grants to Bidar Zilla Panchayat
  • ZP members displeased over transfer of schemes to gram panchayats

    • Bijapur

  • Survey for irrigation project yet to begin; farmers upset

    • Briefly

  • Dr. Reddy's management reorganised
  • Hitachi opens Application Optimised Storage Lab
  • IGTL launches website
  • Jan Verplancke joins Scandent board
  • CLB order on Priyamvada's shares
  • Aurobindo Pharma gets tentative USFDA nod
  • Mindteck net rises two-fold
  • `Lia' incense introduced
  • Paper on derivative accounting by banks
  • Sonata Software opens office in Chicago
  • BPL launches new range of slim televisions
  • Nokia phones to come with Yahoo applications
  • Doughty Hanson buys stake in Subex Systems
  • Sadbhav Engineering declares 20 p.c.
  • U.K. court rejects Ranbaxy's appeal
  • Tata Teleservices launches `Power of Choice'
  • Volvo Car to start sales in India
  • Xenos security systems for Ford and Hyundai
  • Microsoft Corporate Challenge to be held in Kerala
  • Pratibha pact with Austrian Corporation
  • Srinivasa Shipping signs MoU with Spire Realty
  • Kanishk Steel achieves higher net profit
  • CCS Infotech bags educational institutions' orders

    • Business

  • Address `development challenge' of WTO talks: Kamal Nath
  • GDR norms eased for unlisted cos.
  • Punjab, RIL to sign MoU on July 3
  • Wide fluctuations in share prices
  • Bse/Nse Notes
  • Maran asks Qualcomm to make CDMA more affordable
  • Shriram Transport net up
  • Hitachi launches new Plasma TV
  • Apple's upgraded MacBook
  • Rupee weakens against $

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOONSCAPE

    • Chennai

  • Projected shortage of engineering manpower rings alarm bells
  • Jury is still out on this programme
  • Wanted: Sensitive volunteers to lend a sympathetic ear
  • Prabhu Deva: From his father's shadow to the limelight
  • Container operations hit due to strike
  • 300 years on, Ziegenbalg set to get his due
  • This historic railway station could soon be just history
  • Many Kalyanapuram school students refuse noon meal
  • Police continue crackdown on vehicles using dazzling headlights
  • DMK Government will not last long, says Jayalalithaa
  • No headway made in sandalwood theft case
  • Paramount Airways to increase flights out of Chennai
  • Da Vinci ban 'not justified'
  • Focus on domestic violence
  • Plus Two topper secures first rank in medical entrance examination
  • Award for music director
  • SI attacked, one held
  • Class of '81 of MMC plans reunion
  • Skill training programme for youth
  • Newrite inventor hands over prizes
  • Film directors' date with CM
  • Shadow play
  • Stunt master dead
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Aditya Vikas emerges surprise leader
  • Four associations admitted to AICF
  • Swapnil stuns Ratnakaran, grabs lead

    • Coimbatore

  • Uplift poor farmers to ensure farm development, says Verghese Kurien
  • Capsule endoscopy has improved detection of problems
  • Coimbatore waits for shuttle train services
  • Collector directs banks to ensure transparency
  • There is money in it
  • Around the world, on bicycle
  • Karunya varsity plans bio-diesel project
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Screening camp to detect diabetes
  • Around the City
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • Sabina Park pitch will ensure a result: groundsman Charlie
  • Jerling — an ignominious debut
  • Umrigar hospitalised
  • Prasanna performs a double hat-trick
  • A chance for promising youngsters
  • Visakhapatnam retains trophy
  • Jayawardene scores century
  • Ponting Ceat World Cricketer of the Year
  • Tendulkar out of top 20
  • Close call for GMCC
  • Easy for Yankees

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8642
  • Solution to Puzzle 8641

    • Dindigul

  • Growth of self-help group in Dindigul amazing
  • `Priority to be given for maintenance of law and order'

    • Editorials

  • What Balasingham should understand
  • Football's golden oldies

    • Erode

  • Give loans to farmers
  • Be liberal in giving education loans, banks in Erode told
  • Heavy rush at Government hospital in district
  • Rs. 65 lakh for trauma care ward
  • Former Minister given chargesheet
  • In Erode Today

    • Football

  • Zidane not finished yet, and as so often in the past delivers at the crunch
  • Missed the action? log on for replays
  • Targetting Argentina, with a bow and arrow
  • Goal-by-goal account of Ronaldo's record
  • Nesta ruled out of quarterfinals
  • Rooney's quick return surprises Ferdinand
  • Robinho might play against France
  • Thai killed in Italy-Australia penalty brawl

    • Front Page

  • Nuclear deal: `major hurdle' crossed
  • "If you want to be treated like India, be like India"
  • We did not own up to killing: LTTE
  • BSF, BDR exchange fire
  • Les Bleus well and truly back; watch out Brazil
  • Sharapova gives Smashnova no chance
  • MBBS cut off marks drop by 12 points
  • Dhanapalan nominated to committee for identifying next Vice-Chancellor
  • CBI seeks documents on "kickbacks" in wheat deal
  • Wide fluctuations in share prices
  • Pawar to accompany Prime Minister to Vidarbha
  • Violence mars polling; two killed
  • CoD to seek Interpol help to unravel data theft scam
  • V. P. Singh's claim laughable: Vajpayee
  • 20 per cent tax for air-conditioners
  • `Refugees trained in self-defence by LTTE'
  • A list gets ready for Stalin
  • 12 point drop in MBBS cut-off mark
  • `Withdraw decision on minority status'
  • Police get vital clues in Tiruchi jewellery shop dacoity case
  • Siddaramaiah holds talks with Sonia Gandhi
  • Man makes bid to escape from custody, shot
  • BrahMos inducted into Navy
  • Air Sahara rejoinder
  • Sex case: status report submitted

    • Goa

  • Goa to set up coastal security police force

    • Gulbarga

  • Four houses demolished during anti-encroachment drive
  • ABVP protests against increase in fee in professional colleges

    • Haryana

  • 12 IAS officers transferred

    • Hassan

  • 20 wild elephants to be translocated

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Protest against `apathy' of textile company in Sattur
  • Rs. 7.42 lakh collected as fine
  • Power supply disruption

    • Hyderabad

  • Defunct surveillance camera puts Lake Police in a spot
  • Concern over rise in chikungunya cases
  • Ground work for ORR project Phase I begins
  • Lonesome existence for exotic monkeys at zoo
  • A blessing in disguise for the hearing impaired
  • Spurious drugs worth over Rs. 1 crore seized
  • CPI(M)-backed candidates to contest Cantonment Board elections
  • TDP wants re-poll in three districts
  • Draw of lots for Haj pilgrims
  • Express highway to be named after PV
  • YSR confident ZP seats in all 11 districts will go to Congress
  • Panel upset over paltry rents on leased lands
  • Maize at Rs. 450 a quintal for poultry farmers
  • PV's contribution to land reforms recalled
  • BRAOU to issue application forms
  • Call for steps to check breeding of mosquitoes
  • Environment award for Singareni
  • MUL launches driving school
  • Polling by and large peaceful, says DGP
  • NOC must to open new school, says A.K. Khan
  • Boy's plight moves Chief Minister
  • Mini buses introduced
  • 82 candidates from State make it to Air Force
  • Power shutdown in some areas today
  • Two cars of Krushi Bank sold
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Endorsement followed intense debate on nuclear deal
  • Research: India, U.K. scientists to team up
  • We won't accept discriminatory treatment: Pakistan

    • International

  • Palestinians flee as Israeli troops enter Gaza Strip
  • 17 die as Navy, LTTE clash
  • Putin slams U.S.
  • More troops for war on terror: Pakistan
  • Pressure on E.U. members to own up renditions
  • Speculation rife about Pakistan's nominee
  • 22 die in coalmine blast
  • Jail for Egyptian Editor

    • Kancheepuram

  • 11 touts arrested in separate incidents
  • Two killed in road accident

    • Kannur

  • Private college teachers slam pro-Left unions
  • NMRUF submits master plan
  • Cultural body formed

    • Karimnagar

  • Polling marked by minor incidents

    • Karnataka

  • Interpol help sought in data theft scam
  • Siddaramaiah holds talks with Sonia Gandhi
  • All set to go back home
  • Reunited
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Illegal arrack shops in Chennagiri taluk to be closed
  • LPG cylinders stolen from schools
  • Work of RSS and its branches to be reviewed

    • Kerala

  • 20 per cent tax for air-conditioners
  • New post offer to M.V. Pylee
  • Art meet promises more dreamscapes
  • Education Minister meets college managements; differences persist
  • Congress plans a makeover
  • Bid to destroy `thoopum padalam': tension on the banks of Ashtamudi Lake
  • Legislation to prevent reclamation of paddy fields
  • As melodies regale the Malabar air
  • No cut in allocations for MLA fund, says Achuthanandan
  • Rs.521-crore scheme for Wayanad submitted to Centre
  • Fishing boat workers to get free ration
  • CISF survey to evaluate manpower
  • NSS questions TDB contention on reservation
  • TDB to start puja study centre
  • Court notice to Government, Minister
  • No pond this
  • One for the album
  • New Bishop for Vijayapuram Diocese
  • Propitiating the deity
  • Dampening spirits
  • ATTENTION NE Page-3 correction
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Violation of civil aviation security norms alleged
  • Malappuram boy tops AFMC entrance test

    • Khammam

  • Keshava Rao flays CPI(M)
  • APCC chief hurt as dais gives way

    • Kochi

  • Thrikkakara tries to push its clean image further
  • Cashing in on book-buying rage
  • Wind farms for clean energy
  • Celebrating the mysteries of the rosary
  • Interview schedule for PG courses in Sanskrit university
  • Project on rare plants and herbs inaugurated
  • M.V. Pylee offered position of National Research Professor
  • Cusat withdraws suspension of employees
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Body of taxi driver found in forest

    • Kozhikode

  • Travelling, a tough affair in city
  • Revival package for SCL being considered
  • Convention stresses need to protect wetlands
  • Stress on maintaining quality of physiotherapy
  • Bank staff to stage dharna
  • Retail mart launched

    • Kurnool

  • Telugu Desam registers protest at Koilkonda
  • Re-poll at two places in Kurnool

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Towards the endgame in Nepal

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Doing India proud
  • A frustrated lot
  • Salaam Mumbai

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • M.P. power firm offers sops to farmers

    • Madikeri

  • Panchayats told to finalise sand mining auctions
  • `Kodagu festival will be organised soon'
  • Excise auctions held
  • Two suspected cases of chikungunya in Somwarpet

    • Madurai

  • Teachers of SSA want `transfer to regular schools'
  • The Hindu Metroplus Lifestyle Show from July 7 to 10
  • Price rise stalls work on 59 railway bridges
  • IGNOU opens admission centres in Government schools
  • Airtel plans to cover 800 towns by 2007
  • New DRM takes charge
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Official visits areas prone to erosion
  • A difficult stretch of road
  • `Corporation has failed to check unscrupulous elements'
  • Proposal to give scheme to NGO rejected
  • Girl found dead
  • Bank staff to stage dharna
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • `Wadiyar family ignored in script'
  • Renovated Curzon Park to be ready for inauguration in three weeks
  • ABVP seeks reduction in fee structure
  • Entrance exam postponed
  • State-level quiz contest
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Vigil in delta region against `chikungunya': Collector

    • Nalgonda

  • Over 70 p.c. polling in Nalgonda

    • National

  • Nuclear fuel supplies issue still remains
  • U.S. Bill confirms our fears, says CPI(M)
  • A confession of complicity: Anand Sharma
  • "An attempt to soften India's attitude"
  • An insult to India: Swamy
  • Extend low-interest loans to handloom weavers, says Manmohan Singh
  • Tatas to explore investment avenues in Tamil Nadu
  • Projects cleared
  • India leader in reduction of greenhouse gases
  • A first for St. Xavier's in West Bengal
  • Virus threat to PCs through cell messages
  • Lalu kin shot dead
  • 40 lakh tonnes of free sale sugar released
  • Plan to exempt milk products from BIS certification
  • Kapse's resignation accepted
  • Meet to promote Indian tourism
  • Jet moves Supreme Court
  • Policy is not made to suit individual airlines: Patel
  • `Vote Mumbai' campaign for directly elected Mayor
  • Steps soon to curb infiltration: Duggal
  • Centre to encourage welfare projects for veteran soldiers
  • Judicial custody for Pravin till July 12
  • Pawar to accompany Manmohan
  • Bank staff to go on strike
  • Manmohan: Russia a trusted defence supplier
  • Sonia convenes CWC meet

    • New Delhi

  • Commerce rush at DU
  • DDA members oppose decision to auction flats
  • A rendezvous with quality cinema
  • High Court stays order against two ex-CBI officials
  • DDA clears plans for two zones
  • `Steps soon to curb infiltration'
  • MCD sends a notice to DMRC
  • Gurudas seeks appointment with PM
  • Showcasing retail offering
  • No more lessons!
  • Viswa Bharati V-C appointed
  • Air India shortlists consortia
  • One held for hacking into Airtel systems
  • In the Capital Today

    • New Delhi - Others

  • Around the City

    • News Analysis

  • 21st century — the age of charity
  • Corrections and clarifications
  • The sky is no more the limit
  • Imperial apologists peddle poisonous fairytale

    • Nizamabad

  • Wife takes up the cudgels
  • Nursing saplings as part of social responsibility
  • More trains via Nizamabad soon

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Polling passes off peacefully in Prakasam

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Ministers to open medical facilities

    • Pondicherry

  • Parties intensify campaign for final phase
  • Amendment eases borrowing norms

    • Punjab

  • Delays in mega projects not to be tolerated: Amarinder
  • Punjab Congress opposes pact with Left
  • Hooda wants national Defence university

    • Racing : Horse

  • Bold Faith shines
  • Ankole triumphs

    • Raichur

  • RDA to develop housing layout on 32 acres of land

    • Rajasthan

  • Meira Kumar describes Rajasthan as `worst State'
  • Nation facing big challenges: Shekhawat

    • Religion

  • Grace that enlightens

    • Salem

  • Poor sanitary conditions in Salem city assailed
  • Bt. Cotton seed price is Rs. 750 for 450 gm
  • Drinking water going waste
  • Two killed in road accident in Salem

    • Shimoga

  • NABARD urges banks to increase term loan to agricultural sector
  • Overwhelming response to Jadugar Anand's magic show in Shimoga
  • PU students stage protest

    • Sivaganga

  • Rs.639.92-cr. annual credit plan for Sivaganga

    • Sport

  • Les Bleus well and truly back; watch out Brazil
  • Sharapova gives Smashnova no chance

    • Sports : General

  • Rohit Hawaldar betters own meet record
  • Prithvi on song
  • UCAL Rolon National racing
  • Basketball tournament

    • Srikakulam

  • Campaign reaches feverish pitch in Srikakulam

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Helping teachers to avoid monotony in classrooms
  • Strategic thinking key to success
  • Cauvery: State raises objections to assessors' report
  • SAIL clears expansion of Salem Steel Plant
  • "Unaided colleges can follow last year's admission norms"
  • Train services to Rameswaram to be suspended from July 15
  • Accent on afforestation
  • Bumpy ride
  • Multi-crore coastal housing projects
  • Briefly
  • In Pollachi Today

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • SHG women all set for political empowerment
  • PDS outlet salesman placed under suspension
  • `Implement welfare schemes for Adi-dravida, tribals'
  • I-T help centre opened at Pollachi
  • 250 officials drafted for counting of votes
  • Parish Priest assumes office
  • Farmers' market at Chinnamanur soon
  • `Mangani' festival from July 8

    • Tennis

  • Sangwan upsets Verma

    • Thanjavur

  • Freshers throng job fair

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Collector visits soil-mining site
  • Managements wary of Bill provisions
  • Walkout again over minority college issue
  • Rape of minor Dalit girl: 15 persons under investigation
  • FRIENDS centre vandalised
  • Plea to reconstruct Mullaperiyar dam
  • Youth killed in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated June 29, 1956: Commonwealth PMs' meet
  • dated June 29, 1956: Wimbledon upsets

    • Thrissur

  • Founder of Coimbatore Elite Orchestra felicitated
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Self-respect as key to universal brotherhood
  • IOC Tap Off Point ``technically commissioned''
  • Alpha-Cambridge International School launched in Tiruchi
  • ``Knowledge of economics with computer skill will fetch more jobs''
  • A morale booster for Christoffel Blinden Mission
  • 25 ST candidates turn up for AIEEE counselling
  • Applications invited for ``Instant Examination''
  • Essay writing competition
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Rs.2.57-crore subsidy for development of SCs, STs

    • Tirupati

  • Harikrishna heads campaign trail for TDP

    • Tuticorin

  • Deposits decline in cooperative banks, says Tuticorin Collector
  • Three child labourers rescued

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Efforts for tourism plan gain momentum
  • Admission to backward class hostels

    • Udupi

  • Kumaraswamy to inaugurate management institute

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Tension in Meerut, mob ransacks Collector's house

    • Uttaranchal

  • Job quota for women raised

    • Vellore

  • Bus runs over three

    • Vijayawada

  • Stray incidents mark elections in Krishna
  • State's primary schools set to go English-savvy
  • A motorists' nightmare
  • Future belongs to 3D animation: Anjan Cariappa
  • Clash of the titans in Nandigama
  • Oil palm to be cultivated in 1,500 acres
  • Inspector injured in post-poll violence
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • CPI to take up tribals' cause in Parliament
  • IOB to launch deposit mobilisation
  • Indoor kabbadi tourney from today
  • Visually challenged chess players felicitated
  • Road works leave phones dead
  • AU second phase counselling
  • Rare surgery performed
  • Railway official found dead
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Mixed voting pattern in Warangal district

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • Gunasekaran wins title
  • Gunasekaran wins title

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