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Alappuzha

  • Plea to exempt traditional boats from trawling ban
  • Demand for free ration
  • In Alappuzha Today

    • Anantapur

  • Emphasis on education of rural girls in Anantapur

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Opposition ready for onslaught on YSR Govt.
  • Land acquisition: Digvijay lauds A.P. Government
  • For a catch
  • Not a joyride
  • Touch of gaiety
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Loyal canines and leprosy patient look to each other
  • NGOs join relief operations
  • Drastic fall in flow of visitors
  • Groupism in Congress to the fore
  • Submergence issue to be taken up soon: Collector
  • Kits to analyse water in flood-hit areas
  • Pro-Telangana bodies to stage `Halla-Bol'
  • Training for bridge centre volunteers
  • Farmers demand restoration of transformers
  • `Crop insurance issue will be discussed in Assembly'
  • Suspended IAS officer held
  • MLA inaugurates village secretariat building
  • Fervour, gaeity mark festival

    • Athletics

  • Aikines-Aryeetey takes 100m gold
  • Anju ranked joint eighth

    • Badminton

  • Kashyap, Shruthi reigns supreme

    • Bangalore

  • Bariatric surgery for obesity
  • Woman robbed of gold chain
  • Special buses to hospitals introduced
  • Roads: BMP files report in court
  • 1,000 Volvo buses for BMTC, fares to be cut by 30 per cent
  • 100 teachers attend orientation programme
  • National Cadet Corps Air Wing inaugurated at Poornaprajna High School
  • 2,500 persons yet to be traced
  • Somashekar wants Krishna to resign
  • Ananth Kumar too supports review of grade separator plan
  • Rs. 1-crore renovation plan for Gandhi Bhavan
  • AIPJD leaders approve merger with Congress
  • Agara Lake Road made one-way
  • `Sacred Games' released
  • Drawing contest held
  • 500 turn up for VTU placement event
  • Janmashtami celebrated
  • BMP launches drive against unauthorised posters, banners
  • Two students killed in road accident in Nelamangala
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • KSEB no match for ONGC
  • Pushpam College advances

    • Bidar

  • State to hold investors' meet in Hyderabad
  • Proximity to major cities will be exploited: Minister

    • Bijapur

  • Power supply to flood-affected areas to be restored soon

    • Briefly

  • Kumar Mangalam Birla resigns from Tata Steel
  • IFAC exposure draft on IT
  • GMR, Tech Mahindra to list on Aug. 21, 29
  • Norms for schools, houses in SEZs soon
  • Bennett, Coleman takes stake in insurance JV
  • Bharat Yantra Nigam to be closed down
  • Arcelor Mittal makes changes in U.S. division
  • Swaraj Mazda in alliance with Isuzu
  • FireStream acquires TMI Services
  • Strides Arcolab ties up with U.S. firm
  • UTI Mid Cap Fund declares 30 p.c.
  • Ybrant Technologies facility in Hyderabad

    • Business

  • NeST group targets $1-billion enterprise value
  • Tuticorin port's initiative to woo cargo
  • `Buy options to check wheat price'
  • Kelvinator targets 10 per cent market share in State
  • Sensex zooms 135 points on funds buying
  • M&M to make `Ingenio' platform
  • Rupee recovers against dollar
  • IDBI to introduce new deposit scheme
  • Andhra Bank, ICICI Bank lead in NPA cut: study
  • ONGC unit to restart operations
  • Maples ESM plans centre in Japan
  • Amara Raja's expansion plan

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • What stops schools from plying their own buses or vans?
  • North Chennai residents want civic projects carried out quickly
  • New traffic arrangement at Guindy welcomed
  • A veteran star at a young age
  • Amendments to Right to Information Act opposed
  • Digital knowledge centre inaugurated
  • New campus for Madras University
  • Showcasing scientific heritage of India
  • Plaints of bug swarms from FCI depot
  • Lack of technology hampers probe into cell phone theft
  • High Court orders action against Government doctor, police personnel
  • TNEB contract workers may be regularised, says Veerasamy
  • Counselling for students of classes X and above
  • Maya Venkatesan detained under Goondas Act
  • Co-optex sales to touch Rs. 120 crore
  • Flextronics project on track
  • A general knowledge whiz kid
  • From MCC to MNC
  • Pozhichalur residents present alternative land acquisition proposal
  • Swathi Ratna awarded to T.V. Gopalakrishnan
  • NGO celebrates 25 years of people's empowerment
  • "Allocation for welfare schemes inadequate"
  • A promise of more channels, better quality
  • Book on birds gives useful tips for birdwatchers
  • "CB-CID must probe land grabbing cases"
  • Ex-employee held for robbery
  • Jobs, big salaries on offer for pilots
  • Fake insurance claims: CBI collects documents
  • SEWA efforts lauded
  • Campaign on solid waste management
  • Orphaned elephant calf recuperating well
  • Free career counselling
  • IGNOU MBA, B.Ed entrance test
  • Schoolboy run over
  • Music concert for a cause
  • Packed like sardines
  • Correction
  • Bird's eye view
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Bakre in joint second spot
  • Anand starts favourite

    • Coimbatore

  • An example in disability management
  • Sanganur Canal may cease to be an eyesore
  • Bar associations call for two-day boycott of courts
  • Alagana Kovai: corporate houses to be roped in
  • Fate of some layouts hangs in balance
  • The rivers keep them together
  • Refresher course for teachers in physical science
  • Fate of layouts hangs in balance
  • SZIEF seeks need-based recruitment in LIC
  • Territorial Army recruitment
  • NSIC to help wet grinder manufacturers in marketing
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • McMillan dropped
  • Jagdish stars in Gujarat's win
  • Tri-series in Kuala Lumpur
  • 4-wkt win for Commercial Taxes

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8684
  • Solution to Puzzle 8683

    • Cuddalore

  • Stalin poser to AIADMK on extra Veeranam project expenditure
  • Freedom fighter's `precious' gift for Collector

    • Dharmapuri

  • Action against contractor for delay in works

    • Editorials

  • The LTTE's war trap
  • DDT and malaria control

    • Eluru

  • Rescheduling of farm loans likely

    • Erode

  • Bridge the gap between public and officials, Collector told
  • Police vigil on bootleggers continues in Rayarpalayam
  • Boy dies of viral fever in Erode
  • Villagers stage road roko
  • `Teachers should inculcate patriotism in students'
  • 7,000 bags of cotton arrive at Anthiyur market
  • Erode will soon have mobile toilets

    • Football

  • JJ CET takes the honours
  • Australia qualifies for Asian Cup finals

    • Front Page

  • Manmohan readies for the debate
  • Grenade attack on ISKCON temple complex
  • India yet to decide on continuing in revamped UNIFIL
  • It is like a fatwa, says Taslima
  • Lalu now wants to wield the willow
  • South Africa pulls out of tri-series
  • England set to continue its merry ride
  • Taking a lesson in sporting awe
  • "LTTE, Colombo must observe restraint"
  • Six idle airports to be activated
  • Water release from Kandaleru stepped up
  • Forum on MSM and HIV launched
  • Solar system count now set to swell to 12 planets
  • Global meet emphasises new approaches to HIV prevention
  • Opposition onslaught on the cards
  • Laptop battery recall may affect makers other than Dell too
  • Woman drowns, flood toll up to six
  • Bangalore to get one more medical college
  • Cabinet orders judicial probe into custodial deaths
  • 5 killed in Imphal blast
  • Maoists release kidnapped Indian tourists
  • Five suspected SIMI activists held at Aluva
  • Stay declined
  • Passport seekers on the rise in Coimbatore
  • London-Washington flight diverted
  • Digvijay endorses Government stand on ORR
  • To sue TV channel
  • Value addition at BPCL fuel stations
  • Rally planned in support of Natwar Singh
  • "Explosives" found
  • Indefinite curfew imposed in Moreh

    • Globescan

  • Election row escalates
  • Typhoon toll rises to 319

    • Golf

  • Crowne Plaza Open from today

    • Gulbarga

  • Government trying to silence Opposition: Dharam Singh
  • State indifferent to flood-hit people, says Dharam Singh
  • Expert to visit Kattisangavi bridge in Gulbarga district
  • Yediyurappa to tour flood-hit areas today
  • CPI(M) demands allotment of houses, sites for poor
  • Call to re-start computer programme
  • Six arrested, five vehicles seized

    • Guntur

  • UPF to celebrate William Carey's birth anniversary
  • Caution sounded along Krishna right bank
  • 13 injured as tractor overturns

    • Haryana

  • Govt. to celebrate Rajiv birth anniversary

    • Hassan

  • St. Joseph's to celebrate golden jubilee
  • Work on Gundia project to begin in April
  • District officials accused of violating protocol

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Deshpande takes potshots at Government

    • Hyderabad

  • YSR reiterates promise on housing for the poor
  • SCR restriction on RTC buses leads to chaos
  • Poor inflows affect two main water sources
  • `Pulling strings' for survival
  • Congress leader `abducted' by colleague
  • Opposition parties seek probe into land acquisition tangle
  • TDP to take up six issues in Assembly
  • World record set in marathon typing
  • The Hindu photographers bag nine prizes
  • Regularisation of MCH quarters' sought
  • Speciality homeopathic clinic inaugurated
  • Workshop on Aug. 19, 20 to help Dalits set up industries
  • Legislators displeased with State Government's decisions
  • CPI-CPI(M) at loggerheads again
  • YSR unveils Anjaiah's statue at Lumbini Park
  • Flood victims received no aid: study teams
  • Huge turnout at meeting creates traffic hurdles
  • Grocery store owner robbed in Chikkadpally
  • Hiroshima Nagasaki Day at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
  • City student killed in Australia
  • Plea to auction properties of major Prudential borrowers
  • Man robbed by van driver, cleaner
  • FACA appeal
  • Power cut
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Pakistan cites cooperation with U.S., Britain
  • Indian Muslims in U.K. "shocked"
  • Sri Lankan forces not to withdraw from Jaffna
  • Forum on MSM and HIV launched
  • Solar system count now set to swell to 12 planets
  • Guenter Grass faces flak over his World War role
  • Global meet emphasises new approaches to HIV prevention
  • Russian guards kill Japanese fisherman
  • Bomb blast kills 8 in Baghdad

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Army jawan shoots himself dead

    • Kannur

  • Well-deserved award for Kannur tourism council
  • K. Venu to go on fast in Thiruvananthapuram
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Declare September 17 as State holiday :TRS

    • Karnataka

  • Bangalore to get one more medical college
  • Woman drowns, toll mounts to six
  • Airport at Sogane
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • DCC bank told to give loans to farmers at four per cent interest
  • Rs. 1 crore released for tackling drought and flood damage
  • Plan for development of Chamarajanagar soon
  • `Decision on Datta Peeta after studying documents, court orders'
  • MAHE to offer Dual Master's programme

    • Kerala

  • Five suspected SIMI activists held at Aluva
  • Cabinet panel vets draft accord for Smart City
  • `Judicial probe a victory for Congress'
  • When love is an antidote to communal hatred
  • Atonement rituals only after consulting senior tantri: Rajeevaru
  • Order on plea challenging bail reserved
  • Reminiscences of football movies
  • `Bofors 2' waiting to explode: Fernandes
  • All-party team to press for Vizhinjam project
  • Dinakar assumes charge as SHRC chief
  • New office, new role
  • Governor's greetings
  • New CIAL chief
  • Sari matters
  • Woes of road-users
  • Upside down
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Forest Department to take back encroached land
  • Pension, PF adalat starts today
  • Bank donates furniture to school

    • Khammam

  • Khammam set for third phase of polling

    • Kochi

  • Delightful experience for shoppers
  • Instant rice in the offing
  • Animation offers a good career
  • Supplyco gears up to open Onam mini-fairs
  • Viral fever outbreak in Vadakekara
  • Demand to reinstate officers
  • Plea to end agitation at Sanskrit University
  • Life Style Show begins today
  • Next issue
  • Islanders' woes
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • A historical building floored
  • Fines only as DD in Kollam

    • Kozhikode

  • Development projects to mark Kozhikode Corporation anniversary
  • Tourism project for Thiruvambadi
  • Jamaat-e-Islami office raided
  • Priest dead
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Rs. 1 crore to be spent on Rayalaseema cultural centre
  • Tungabhadra on the decline
  • Minister inaugurates new classrooms

    • Leader Page Articles

  • ICDS — The entitlement of every Indian child

    • Letters to the Editor

  • `India will not kneel'
  • The human story
  • Unwise move

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Rain, floods toll 69

    • Madikeri

  • `Check encroachments in Madikeri'
  • Codava council to stage satyagraha

    • Madurai

  • Special status for industrial estates sought
  • Centre urged to implement 27 pc reservation for Backward Classes
  • Bench may dispose of more cases
  • Vasan flays AIADMK MLAs
  • Three horses die in Madurai
  • Descending standards
  • Around The City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Crimes against women on the rise
  • Transfer of parkland to MRPL opposed
  • Coast Guard rescues eight stranded fishermen
  • Janmashtami celebrated modestly in Mangalore
  • Excise Commissioner bereaved
  • Contests for children
  • Waiting for the right moment
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • A nursery at home Demand for potted ornamental plants on the rise in Mysore
  • Tribal people to stage dharna tomorrow
  • Karnataka in danger of becoming a `failed State,' says Veerappa Moily
  • Agitating sugarcane farmers take out procession, stage play
  • Protest against move to amend Right to Information Act

    • Nagapattinam

  • Farmers raise kuruvai crop on 34,000 hectares

    • Nalgonda

  • Subrahmanyam's death condoled

    • National

  • `Mismanagement of dams led to floods'
  • Reflect concern of House: Yechury
  • Everyone jumps on the `Govinda bandwagon'
  • V.P. Singh to defy order, address rally
  • BJP for sense of House resolution
  • Agni missile failure: report in two weeks
  • Case against TV crew
  • Campus violence: Left Front demands probe
  • Funds shortage may hit C-DAC projects
  • Soft drinks pass tests in West Bengal
  • "Sangh cadres were told to save every Hindu in 1947"
  • Fernandes invited for JD(U) national executive
  • CRPF denies news channel report
  • Bismillah Khan to be shifted to hospital

    • New Delhi

  • Students' outfits planning new ways to attract voters
  • A peek into `the great Indian wedding'
  • New Master Plan for Delhi to focus on densification
  • Demand to demolish illegal Vasant Kunj office, malls
  • Research on art history comes of age
  • Unscheduled power cuts back in the Capital
  • Increase in cases of cholera and gastroenteritis
  • Move to check entry of overloaded heavy vehicles
  • Tight security for Janmashtami
  • Mukhi criticises power cuts in the Capital
  • Car of Deputy Press Secretary to President stolen
  • Court notice to Centre on PIL
  • Court allows girl to live with husband
  • Janmashtami is here
  • Kites lead to tripping of Metro system
  • DD launches Urdu channel
  • Special course for 50 commandos
  • Talks on Broadcasting Bill
  • PM fails to inspire confidence on foreign policy: CPI(M)
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • The Mumbai death cells
  • On the highway to prosperity
  • Corrections and clarifications
  • Genes, ancestry, and where we came from
  • Massive environmental damage in Lebanon

    • Nizamabad

  • Youth clubs to mobilise relief

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Revenue staff on the warpath

    • Palakkad

  • Deficit rainfall, poor conservation do not augur well for summer: expert
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Priest dies in accident

    • Perambalur

  • Computers donated to physically disabled persons

    • Pondicherry

  • Rangasamy greets freedom fighters on Liberation Day
  • Unemployed teachers seek direct recruitment
  • Car festival
  • Technical teachers' demands
  • M. Tech course in Information Security
  • Comprehensive insurance scheme sought for conservancy workers

    • Punjab

  • Kalam to interact with V-Cs
  • Govt.to recruit 10,000 teachers

    • Racing : Horse

  • Mystical works well
  • Escravos shows out
  • Running Fantasy may score
  • Aleksei wins main event

    • Racing : Motor

  • JK Tyre National racing

    • Rajasthan

  • Brother takes Natwar to court over land dispute

    • Religion

  • Essence of the Vedas

    • Salem

  • Salem to have underground cables for power transmission
  • Cultivate reading habit, Minister tells students
  • Where passengers fear to tread
  • Plan on to increase mulberry

    • Shimoga

  • Yediyurappa seeks aid to tackle floods, drought
  • Miraculous escape for tourists
  • `Adi Krittike' Utsav at Guddekal
  • Subsidised price for arecanut likely

    • Sivaganga

  • Banks should bring in new customers under their network: Chidambaram

    • Sport

  • South Africa pulls out of tri-series
  • England set to continue its merry ride
  • Taking a lesson in sporting awe
  • Gagan Ajit fashions India Seniors' victory
  • Indians dominate in badminton
  • Al Qahtani's hat-trick does India in

    • Sports : General

  • Gagan the shutterbug
  • Chennai retains team titles
  • Rated players at the receiving end
  • Indian kabaddi teams for South Asian Games

    • Tamil Nadu

  • `Designer vaccine,' a boon to students
  • Students excel in competitions
  • Students get enlightened on Vellore Mutiny
  • President's medal for policemen
  • Neglected
  • Sickening spectacle
  • Visually vivacious
  • Stanley Hospital to get new block
  • Doordarshan to institute `Podhigai Awards'
  • MoU signed to combat oil pollution
  • Ravi Shankar to visit Nagapattinam
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Take care of common assets, villagers told
  • Stress on health, quality education at gram sabhas
  • A family reunion after 13 years
  • Power tariff cut will "hit NLC's revenue"
  • "Pondy has made rapid progress on all fronts"
  • Stalemate continues in wage talks
  • Businessman robbed of cash and jewellery
  • Directive to evacuate encroached land

    • Tennis

  • Federer gets past Srichaphan
  • Shokeen bows out
  • Navratilova, Budge to be honoured at U.S. Open

    • Thanjavur

  • Vinayaka idols getting ready

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Kerala adopts patients' charter for TB care
  • MP commissions renovated foot overbridge
  • A different reason for celebrations
  • Vehicle theft: one arrested
  • Renovated foot over-bridge opened
  • Man held for fraud
  • Independence Day celebrated
  • Book on plant diversity to be released
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 17, 1956: "A stroke of genius"
  • dated August 17, 1956: Impressive parade

    • Thrissur

  • Achutha Menon remembered
  • Water storage tanks inaugurated
  • Pension scheme for percussion artistes

    • Tiruchi

  • `Groupism' in Congress comes to the fore
  • Plan to increase wagon production capacity
  • Arts and science colleges keep their fingers crossed
  • Centre should not extend military support to Sri Lanka: Vaiko
  • Delay in constitution of sixth pay panel resented
  • Expo of Ganapathy idols
  • I-Day celebrated
  • Poor cover-up
  • Around The City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Water pipeline in forest removed
  • Sand mining, road across river worry villagers
  • Rainfall in catchment areas

    • Tirupati

  • Janmashtami celebrated in Tirupati
  • Leaders decry `raw deal'
  • Tight schedule awaits Chief Minister on August 19

    • Tuticorin

  • Fencing their way to fame

    • Udhagamandalam

  • AIADMK demonstrates against poor condition of highway
  • Work apace on preparing BPL list

    • Udupi

  • `Competitive exams ideal for rural students'

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Bismillah refuses hospital treatment
  • Many Morcha alliance supporters rounded up
  • Govt. launches tree plantation drive

    • Vellore

  • State-level study on child labour urged
  • Rs.66-lakh farm technology project proposed
  • Ranipet BHEL to cross Rs.1,000-crore turnover

    • Vijayawada

  • UK-based NGO's education project for schoolchildren
  • Efforts on to bring SCs together: Mallu Ravi
  • Chaos at Chittinagar
  • Water level hovering around danger mark
  • Fire-fighting equipment within reach of theatre owners: official
  • Free implant of heart devices by NRI Hospital
  • Ryot leader joins issue with Manmohan
  • Indian Bank to focus on farm and industrial credit
  • UGD system for Moghalrajapuram
  • Boy drowned in floodwater
  • Janmashtami fete
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Youth's death in hospital triggers row
  • Little Krishnas hog the limelight
  • HPCL comes forward to take care of big cats
  • A peek into interactive world
  • Indian Bank to open two more branches in city
  • Elocution contest to be held on RTI
  • AU Pharmacy College inaugurated
  • BSP meet to review poll performance
  • Photographer passes away
  • Body found in train compartment
  • Music to ears
  • Tamil drama festival
  • Venue shifted
  • Around the City
  • In Viskhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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