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Alappuzha

  • Man killed in rain-related incident

    • Anantapur

  • Chikungunya crisis in Anantapur

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Centre ready to give air support to A.P. police
  • MP announces resignation
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Congress retains hold on Kurnool
  • Alliance is a boon for TRS and bane for Congress: MSR
  • Congress leading in TRS stronghold
  • Cloudy sky cheers up Medak ryots
  • Telugu Desam wins majority MPTCs in East Godavari agency
  • LIC to launch `Master Plus' pension scheme today
  • Tricky situation catapults Congress to top
  • Swollen rivers may maroon many villages
  • Floods deal a severe blow to poor villagers
  • Medical programme conducted
  • Tributes paid to Vivekananda
  • Freedom fighter's kin get aid

    • Badminton

  • India makes an early exit
  • India makes an early exit

    • Bangalore

  • Tata Coffee looking to expand market share
  • Siddaramaiah, Ibrahim to finalise understanding with Congress
  • Bail applications of two accused of rape rejected
  • Condition of roads in BTM Layout worsens despite Chief Minister's visit
  • Speaker reserves ruling on privilege move on plea filed in Supreme Court
  • TC cannot be withheld for not declaring caste, says Horatti
  • Providing eye care to the poor in rural areas
  • Kitchen appliances damaged owing to voltage fluctuation
  • Speedy relief measures on in rain-hit areas
  • A tale of houses past their glory
  • Helmets to be must for children too
  • Football for all, though it was only on a screen
  • BWSSB may restrict size of water storage sumps
  • `Steps taken to contain chikungunya'
  • Probe sought against officials for `creating documents'
  • State to file petition in Supreme Court
  • BDA to acquire land to widen road at Airport Road flyover
  • Rs. 8 crore for organic farming
  • Scientific toys for children on exhibition
  • Traffic diversions
  • Process to develop bamboo skin boards for doors
  • Of Superman and the `desi' version
  • A veteran's words
  • Students lauded
  • Around The City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Kumaraswamy's remark on splitting Belgaum irks panel
  • `Three more Kannada schools in Belgaum soon'

    • Bellary

  • Plea to appoint administrator in Bellary municipal corporation

    • Bidar

  • Medical college in Bidar unlikely before 2008

    • Briefly

  • Godrej Consumer eyes South African brand
  • GM India sales up 53 p.c. in June
  • Hero Honda registers 23 p.c. growth in June
  • TMB raises NRE, FCNR-B deposit rates
  • Polaris Retail solution for Delhi store
  • Wyeth launches vaccine for infants
  • CPCL gets new Director (Technical)
  • New Chief Executive for DBS Cholamandalam
  • Govt. extends ban on export of pulses
  • TDSAT rejects petition
  • Tulip gets LoI for NLD, ILD licence
  • IAASB Chairman reappointed
  • Dr. Reddy's launches Alfoo
  • FDA approval for Aurobindo Pharma drug
  • Reliance, Intel announce tie-up
  • MOIL signs MoU with Samancor
  • Satyam services for Project Hope in China
  • Zen Technologies wins ISMS
  • Electro Investment hikes stake in BPL to 43 p.c.
  • Enzen Global sets up second facility
  • Indian edition of PC World from IDG Media
  • BEL gets new Director (Other Units)
  • Karnataka Bank hikes FCNR (B) rates
  • GoAir offers discount to Govt. staff, senior citizens
  • Air Sahara announces low economy class fare

    • Business

  • Honda launches the Civic model
  • Cognizant to focus on media space
  • Hotels in Northeast to get 'industry' status
  • LIC launches unit linked pension plan
  • UTI Mutual Fund's micro-pension initiative
  • LIC collects Rs.101 crores through sale of ULIPs
  • Canara Bank hikes interest on NRE, FCNR deposits
  • `Make natural vanillin mandatory in ice-creams'
  • Rupee recovers
  • Early gains not held on BSE

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Sleep disorders "need to be treated promptly"
  • Plea to consider only CET marks for MBBS/BDS admission
  • Withdraw NLC disinvestment proposal, CPI urges Centre
  • Groundwater table shows a rise in suburbs
  • Pain management clinics necessary, say experts
  • How technology enhanced narrative in Pudhupettai
  • Unearthing a 300-year-old treasure
  • Consumer forum rules against mobile operator
  • Government to revive Chennai metro rail project
  • Delta farmers all perked up
  • State to revamp transport sector
  • Rights panel seeks report on treatment to Maudhany
  • Bhutanese election officials hold talks with Naresh Gupta
  • NLC divestment: Jayalalithaa sees "ulterior motive"
  • Plus Two students get revised marks
  • IT case: Jayalalithaa challenges Economic Offences court order
  • Garbage disposal still a problem
  • Killer lorry traced, driver arrested
  • Students travel package from Parry Travels
  • Bus shelter opened
  • Centre gives nod to new CA curriculum
  • More people seek AIDS helpline
  • Shreya is hot property now
  • Is the Corporation being used to settle political scores?
  • Child run over by tanker
  • Jawahar Bal Bhavan has shifted
  • Team for informatics olympiad ready
  • Rough sea
  • Sun TV serial Penn touches 100-episode mark
  • Kumbabhishekam
  • Children will be children
  • `Gnana ratham' organised
  • Around The City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • National sub-junior chess from July 6
  • Sivasankari, Nabeela in lead
  • Chanda, Ganguly set up clash

    • Coimbatore

  • Parties demand hygiene, development in city
  • Coimbatore sits pretty as dams are full
  • Training in meditation for judicial officers
  • HMS slams NLC divestment move
  • Murder: search on for culprits
  • All are equal before law
  • Bald is beautiful
  • Monsoon beauty
  • Around The City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Sri Lanka smashes World record
  • `One-day series loss was a blessing in disguise'
  • India slips to fourth in Test rankings
  • Lara should have led by example

    • Crossword

  • Solution to Puzzle 8646
  • The Hindu Crossword 8647

    • Cuddalore

  • Engine drivers hurt in mishap

    • Dharmapuri

  • 1,049 with chikungunya in Dharmapuri district
  • Retrenched census employees asked to contact Collector's PA

    • Dindigul

  • Once-in-a-decade festival under way at Dindigul temple

    • Editorials

  • Salvaging the Doha round
  • A time for measured celebration

    • Eluru

  • CI, his jeep driver stoned

    • Erode

  • Textile processors seek land at SIPCOT park
  • Nursing English skills
  • Permanent venue for handloom exhibition at Mahabalipuram
  • Doctor afflicted with chikungunya

    • Football

  • Semifinal and family divide

    • Front Page

  • Revive talks, India tells Sri Lanka
  • U.K. ban will hit recruitment of nurses from India
  • Henin-Hardenne overcomes stiff challenge from Bremond
  • Les Bleus up against wily Scolari
  • Pressures, challenges spur him on
  • Share allotment plan does not meet NLC staff's demand: Karunanidhi
  • Zidane comes to the rescue of average Cup
  • Left to launch movement against price rise
  • NLC trade unions go on indefinite strike
  • Airlines announce fare hike
  • File returns or face taxmen, says FM
  • Neurosurgeons to examine Shahabuddin in Siwan jail
  • Delhi varsity third cut-off list offers a slim chance
  • State for amicable settlement of disputes
  • `No fair trial in sex racket case'
  • Proposal to raise retirement age for Central university teachers
  • Delhi endures powerless days, sleepless nights
  • 16 ZPs for Congress, good show by TDP
  • Supply of ethanol-mixed petrol to retail outlets soon
  • Four children and two women buried alive in Kodagu district
  • Flood-alert sounded along Krishna
  • He proves he can do this way too
  • Adilabad MP announces resignation
  • It's endorsement of our policies, says YSR
  • George Fernandes hospitalised
  • Koirala improving

    • Gulbarga

  • `Revert to traditional lifestyle to prevent onset of diabetes'
  • Literary festival to begin on July 9
  • Two get Kayaka Sanmana award

    • Guntur

  • `Bauxite mining helps in tree growth'
  • Tribal youth being trained in mining

    • Haryana

  • INLD take on power situation motivated: Minister
  • Gulzarilal Nanda peace institute inaugurated
  • Haryana records improved sex ratio

    • Hassan

  • Rain in Hassan; holiday for educational institutions

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Ex-Governor passes away

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Samiti to hold meeting on Kalasa-Banduri project
  • Train timings revised
  • Electronic interlocking system inaugurated at Kyarkop station
  • Students protest against fee structure
  • Assume charge

    • Hyderabad

  • Solution lies in `Integrated Contract Management'
  • Frequent blackouts become a regular feature
  • Relief package announced for flood-affected
  • Welfare associations told to be part of civic drive
  • `Inspection' or wild goose chase?
  • Newly-elected board to look into hospital proposal
  • Water tariff hike soon?
  • Crackdown on cars with tinted glasses soon
  • Water board asked to prepare master plan
  • APCC president makes light of TDP gains
  • Liver expert calls for more `live donors'
  • Timeless classics gone to seed
  • Woman gets husband `killed'
  • A fitting reply by people, says Chandrababu Naidu
  • Muslims resent move on simultaneous namaz
  • `Ahimsa' silk gets patent this year
  • MCH to develop shopping complexes
  • Meeting of archaka welfare board sought
  • Police arrest NRI for `dowry harassment'
  • Free camp to mark World Zoonosis Day
  • Police fire in air to dispel irate mob
  • Trains rescheduled, cancelled due to rain in Mumbai
  • NIMS entrance exam on July 9
  • Conversion: court hears writ petition by jail inmates
  • State receives widespread rain
  • Congress ditched us, says Narendra
  • Teachers seek changes in draft education bill
  • Pension distribution from today
  • Grocery store owner kidnapped
  • Medical check-up for Krushi Bank chief
  • HC directive on sarpanch seat
  • Ryots body for instant relief to flood-hit
  • Power shutdown
  • Roads to ruins
  • Around The City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • F-16s a legitimate requirement: Islamabad
  • Soldier's life may not be in danger
  • European Union grant for the displaced persons in Sri Lanka
  • Putin warns of clash of civilisations
  • Nepal's plea to U.N.
  • Novel study on food
  • Elected Lord Speaker

    • Interviews

  • "Science is one field the Europeans can learn quite a bit from Indians"

    • Kancheepuram

  • Diversion of sand-laden lorries triggers protest from residents

    • Kannur

  • Hartal affects life in Kannur

    • Karimnagar

  • Congress all set to bag ZP chief post in Karimnagar

    • Karnataka

  • Four children, two women buried alive in Kodagu
  • Rain effect
  • Flood alert sounded along Krishna
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Waterlogging, a perennial problem in Magal village
  • CPI calls for bandh in Davangere on July 7
  • Goa awaiting police report to take action on dubious land deals by foreigners
  • H.S. Ballal named MAHE Pro-Chancellor
  • Linemen electrocuted
  • K. Diwakar dead

    • Kerala

  • Kerala favours amicable settlement of water disputes
  • No step yet to streamline CUSAT admission system
  • Plan funds to be restored to local bodies
  • Victims of football fever
  • Good Samaritan
  • Conference on snakebite in Kochi
  • Change, teachers told
  • Help at hand for conservation of power
  • Next issue
  • Nature's splendour
  • Danger zone
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Missing Adivasi schoolgirls found
  • `Chief Minister adopting double standard'
  • Rain: flight services affected
  • Protest against IMA move

    • Khammam

  • A photo-finish in Khammam?

    • Kochi

  • City police to fight misuse of pre-paid mobile phone connections
  • Engineering cluster to seek Government aid
  • Bloggers to meet in Kochi
  • Water scheme to be completed this month
  • Government to monitor working of scan centres
  • An endless wait
  • Rain makes for a bumpy ride
  • RSS stages protest march
  • Question of priority
  • One-day film festival
  • Around The City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • `Act will fulfil dreams of students'
  • Marooned fishermen rescued off Paravur coast
  • Two persons arrested on murder charge
  • Teachers' workshop on July 8, 9

    • Kozhikode

  • `Ensure safe disposal of biomedical waste'
  • Release of grants for madrassas sought

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Finding new rhythms of coordination

    • Letters to the Editor

  • NLC disinvestment
  • Relief for farmers
  • Urban slums
  • Sri Lankan issue
  • Unfair
  • Football trinity

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Malnourishment level high in three M.P. districts

    • Madikeri

  • Kodagu officials told be on alert

    • Madurai

  • Strength in each standard to be basis for teacher-student ratio
  • Activity-based learning started in primary schools
  • Govt. urged to provide information free of cost
  • Move to give land on lease opposed
  • From bench to the field
  • Programme on physics for students
  • Yoga classes on weekends
  • Around The City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Crop insurance offered to paddy growers in Dakshina Kannada
  • Cashew industry seeks incentives
  • Rima Laibow to deliver lecture in Mangalore
  • Knee replacement surgery offered at reduced cost
  • Two children injured in road accident
  • Turnover of banks crosses Rs. 12,300 cr.
  • MCF response team conducts rescue drill during `accident'
  • Corporation Bank opens ATM at Kuthethoor
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Corporation sets July 31 deadline for reducing the number of hoardings
  • Work on BMIC project will begin in Mysore on Friday, says NICE
  • Pothole-free roads identified
  • Road blockade by farmers hits traffic
  • ABVP protests against fee structure

    • Nagapattinam

  • `Information campaign beneficial to the poor'

    • Nagercoil

  • Heavy rain in Kanyakumari

    • Nalgonda

  • Congress set to retain Nalgonda ZP

    • National

  • Sonia calls meeting of Congress CMs on price escalation
  • Rain brings Mumbai to a halt, rescue teams deployed
  • GSLV ready for lift-off on July 10
  • Gerhard Fischer passes away
  • Vidharbha package a lollipop: BJP
  • Lalu inks MoU in Italy
  • Hizb-ul-Mujahideen divisional commander arrested
  • Plea on Patiala self-immolation dismissed
  • Reservation will not lower academic standards: Arjun
  • Nuns, priests cannot enrol as advocates: Bar Council
  • Geelani refuses to accept Jamat-e-Islami's order
  • Supreme Court orders status quo on perks for disqualified BSP MLAs
  • Move to raise retirement age
  • Krishna Collectorate gets ISO-9001 certification
  • Clock ticking for old Windows
  • Five held in NRI murder case
  • Outsourcing: bank staff plan strike
  • Steel structure at Ayodhya opposed
  • Congress leader killed by naxals
  • AIIMS bodies' meeting today
  • Birlas file criminal case against Lodha
  • No deviation from CMP: Ambika Soni
  • A.N. Banerjee dead
  • All Central ads will have to go through DAVP
  • Geelani under house arrest
  • Antony to head AICC panel
  • BJP seeks meeting of all Chief Ministers

    • New Delhi

  • Residents term public hearings by pollution control panel "farce''
  • Delhi Government against hike in power charges this year
  • Proposal to further reduce stamp duty
  • Pathology labs flourishing in absence of Government regulation
  • Comments on Bt brinjal trials to be received till July 15
  • DMRC employees prevented from taking possession of land
  • Boating his way past records
  • Man behind the headlines revealed
  • Medicos Forum criticises Centre
  • CPI protests against Israel
  • Appeal to convert plan loans into grant-in-aid
  • AIIMS bodies' meeting today
  • Tihar Superintendent summoned
  • 14 Legislators nominated to MCD
  • BJP protest
  • Busy day
  • Guruvayur: apex court rejects Kerala appeal
  • Rains hit air, rail traffic from Delhi
  • Plan to ban tuitions to check teacher absenteeism
  • Fallen heroes of 1947-48 war with Pakistan to be honoured
  • Plea on Patiala self-immolation dismissed
  • Around The City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Half-baked reforms at RAW
  • For an alternative
  • Corrections and clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • A Congress show in Nizamabad
  • Telugu Desam Party demands recounting
  • Congress establishes dominance in Nizamabad MPTCs

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Mallappally, Ranni, Adoor worst hit

    • Perambalur

  • Two employees suspended

    • Pondicherry

  • DPA registers impressive win in civic polls
  • Yanam municipal council to be sworn in today
  • NLC strike unlikely to hit Pondy

    • Punjab

  • Badal offers sops to farmers
  • Bharatiya Janashakti to contest Punjab polls
  • Couple found dead in Ludhiana

    • Racing : Horse

  • Refreshing, Orpendale shine
  • Cannon Hawk, Amazing Conquest and Adams Madame impress
  • The Music Lover runs with a good chance in Anekal Plate

    • Raichur

  • Diploma students resent new method for admission

    • Rajasthan

  • `Jats appreciate Sonia's gesture'
  • `Rewrite history with a positive outlook'
  • Rajasthan to take SATCOM to all villages
  • Call for protecting farmers' interests
  • 29 convicted for murder

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Revised proposal to bring Cauvery water to Ramnad
  • "Give priority to supply of drinking water"
  • Refugees transferred from Mandapam Camp

    • Religion

  • Subtle sense of values

    • Salem

  • Corporation delays majority of road works
  • Govt. offers khadi saris to airhostesses
  • Tirumanimutharu River polluted
  • Salem Steel Plant employees submit charter of demands for wage revision
  • Employment office to organise career meet
  • DEO to organise career meet

    • Shimoga

  • `Deve Gowda has no right to call JD(S) a secular party'
  • Five held; 80 idols recovered

    • Sport

  • Henin-Hardenne overcomes stiff challenge from Bremond
  • Les Bleus up against wily Scolari
  • Pressures, challenges spur him on
  • Andrew Strauss is new Test captain
  • Zidane comes to the rescue of average Cup
  • India has the last laugh

    • Sports : General

  • Shashank and Mithun triumph
  • Easy for Ravinder
  • Thumping win for TVS Lakshmi MHSS

    • Squash

  • Joshna Chinappa makes the main draw
  • Aparajitha wins u-15 title

    • Srikakulam

  • Water level recedes in Nagavali, Vamsadhara
  • It's Congress in Srikakulam

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Students injured in road accident
  • Flow into dam perks up farmers' spirits
  • Kin of Port Trust employees seek jobs
  • Get your learner's licence at college, in 45 minutes
  • Three of family found dead
  • German Ambassador calls on Barnala
  • Car dealer arrested
  • India will see more FDI inflows
  • Social sector policies in the right direction, says expert
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Sustained support for the cause of education Lions Club's commitment to education of students
  • SSA to start residential schools for dropouts in inaccessible areas
  • NTADCL's water tariff cut overwhelms dyers
  • NGOs should help build better society: Barnala
  • New ration shops as per demand: Food Minister
  • Union Minister disburses assistance to 17 SHGs
  • Hundreds of people witness float festival in Tiruvarur
  • Toll-free phone service for AIDS awareness
  • Foreigners told to register names with FROs
  • Free gold with Tanishq jewellery
  • Water rises in Sholayar reservoir
  • Students block road
  • Toppers honoured

    • Tennis

  • Tursunov and his tantrums
  • Tejaswini advances
  • Indonesia pulls out of Fed Cup

    • Thanjavur

  • Heavy wind wrecks infrastructure

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • New garbage collection system on track in the capital
  • Panel to survey `unsafe' trees
  • `Aruvikkara treatment plants need two feeders'
  • KSEB fails to tackle power crisis
  • A departure from tradition
  • `Image' problems?
  • Woman attempts suicide in police custody
  • Traffic police crack down on erring motorists
  • Database of domestic dogs
  • World Cup fever at Central Prison
  • Monsoon treat for tourists
  • Nature's fury
  • Around The City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated July 5, 1956: Rare honour for Nehru

    • Thrissur

  • Centre decimating PDS in Kerala: Divakaran
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Monsoon drawing closer sparks floods of nightmarish memories
  • Where Tamil scholars went wrong
  • After soccer, now the game of squares to rock the city
  • CPI-affiliated farmers' outfit stages demonstration
  • AIADMK plans demo for July 11
  • Serials lose to sports
  • Around The City
  • In Tiruchy Today

    • Tuticorin

  • Horticulture crop cultivation to get a boost in Tuticorin
  • Collector inspects memorials
  • Welfare aid distributed
  • Panchayat office inaugurated
  • 10 fishermen detained by Sri Lankan Navy

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Restoration work up in hill station
  • Citizens' forum issues ultimatum
  • Rise in vehicular traffic criticised

    • Udupi

  • LIC first premium income up by 30 p.c.
  • Dharna against stray dog menace

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Mulayam terms wheat import `anti-farmer'
  • Deposition of ex-DM in Meerut fire deferred

    • Uttaranchal

  • Three women washed away

    • Vellore

  • Research should `promote' betterment of society

    • Vijayawada

  • Counting keeps parties' candidates guessing
  • Congress satisfied with outcome of ZP polls
  • New security plan for industrial units likely
  • Congress bags Krishna ZP, good show by TD
  • Telugu Desam Party, CPI (M) elated
  • State to act tough against erring diagnostic centres
  • Day of reckoning
  • Man electrocuted
  • Around The City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • People have a lively interaction with Information Commissioner
  • Congress retains Vizag ZP
  • BSP ends up biggest loser
  • From pillar to post, she runs for a just cause
  • Good rain brings cheer to farmers
  • Roads turn into danger zones
  • Trains cancelled, diverted
  • Nivita bags first prize in classical dance
  • Panel to review AU programmes
  • Around The City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Congress, Telugu Desam neck-and-neck in Warangal

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • Hospital reports of bone-like formation on patient's skull

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