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Alappuzha

  • Drive to eradicate mosquitoes planned
  • Plea to implement union chits Act in State

    • Anantapur

  • Residents protest against removal of hutments
  • Projects neglected in backward areas: APRS
  • Changes likely in urban housing
  • CPI meet on ORR today

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Aviation grid on the anvil, says Praful Patel
  • YSR presents silk `vastrams' to Lord at Tirumala
  • CWC suggestion not acceptable: A.P.
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • State promises 7-hour power supply to ryots
  • Aryapuram Cooperative Bank makes history
  • Recovery cell to make defaulters pay
  • Huge turnout expected for Sonia meet
  • FACOR golden jubilee a grand affair
  • Officials called upon to protect consumer rights
  • Collector acts on news report about college
  • Sonia asked to clarify on Muslim quota
  • Campaigns sought to end atrocities against SCs, STs
  • Policy on labour soon, says Collector
  • Wife torches husband?
  • Constable killed in accident

    • Bangalore

  • BU council approves exam reforms
  • State says `no' to World Bank loan
  • Penicillin users put to great hardship
  • IISc. research team detects new species of ant in Bangalore
  • `Direct tax collection up'
  • TKM launches one-hour service
  • BMTC bus stops to have corresponding auto stands
  • BMP's concrete road plan yet to take shape
  • Court adjourns hearing on PepsiCo petition
  • Chetak to help patients in distress
  • Jairaj reviews condition of roads
  • Strive for excellence in life, Cyriac Joseph tells students
  • KBA calls for new book-purchase policy
  • Exploring interest in science, technology
  • New sports complex opened
  • Kannada Book Authority announces best book awards
  • Strive for excellence in life, students told
  • Accommodation: court seeks report
  • An effort aimed at promoting international trade
  • Parks to be made accessible to people with disabilities
  • Deve Gowda lashes out at Congress
  • Special Court to get multi-screen equipment
  • Government staff plea on transfers
  • HAL seeks status of a Navratna
  • `Greater Bangalore' project opposed
  • Around The City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Centre urged to implement Mahajan panel report in full
  • Members condemn MES demand
  • Day One makes Belgaum come alive with processions
  • MES organises convention
  • Fill up posts in government departments, says RPI
  • A day of headgears
  • It was raining flags
  • `Train to become all-round warriors'

    • Bellary

  • Shortage of specialists at VIMS

    • Bihar

  • 23 killed as heavy rains lash Bihar

    • Bijapur

  • Horthi farmers' agitation spreads to other taluks in Bijapur district

    • Briefly

  • UNCTAD places NCDEX at third position
  • Ranbaxy in pact with Gilead of U.S.
  • Trading begins on new Singapore-based comex
  • DCB price band at Rs. 22-26
  • Godrej Agrovet in pact with Malaysian firm
  • BOBL launches tax saver deposit scheme
  • Hanung Toys price band at Rs. 85-95
  • Max New York raises capital base
  • Assumes charge as Consul of Senegal in Chennai
  • New members on First Commodities' board
  • Pen Group to diversify
  • Tata AIG's full service branch at Kottayam
  • Buffalo Inc. of Japan expands its presence
  • AirTel introduces Easy Prepaid bonanza
  • SumTotal's new software platform
  • Virtusa's new global delivery operations head
  • ICSA bags CPDCL order

    • Business

  • Singapore to help India set up SEZs
  • Caparo opens fasteners plant
  • Sensex extends losses
  • Hyundai launches Verna
  • HFCL's pact with Qualcomm to make CDMA handsets
  • Visteon opens technical centre
  • Sun Pharma to de-merge research division
  • CESC set to enter carbon trading market
  • Accel Frontline IPO on Sept. 28
  • Impose cess on iron ore exports: Assocham
  • Rupee ends weak

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Colourful Kollywood tribute to Chief Minister
  • Maldivian Opposition looks to India for help in its struggle
  • The dead denied last rail journey
  • Hoteliers ask Government to reduce luxury tax
  • Jobless form courier service
  • Making maths learning fun
  • More nominations in suburbs for local body polls
  • Kolkata school wins HelpAge India quiz
  • "80 per cent of families have chikungunya"
  • Audience responds spontaneously to performance by special children
  • Experienced candidates in demand at The Hindu Opportunities Fair
  • Importance of cooperative society movement stressed
  • Queen Mary's students union inaugurated
  • Sify Alambana celebrates fifth anniversary
  • Woman tied to lamp-post, thrashed
  • School to launch website
  • Inter-collegiate cultural festival
  • Two more held in boy kidnap case
  • Here comes a treat for nature lovers
  • Contest for teachers
  • "More funds available to women entrepreneurs"
  • Hello FM to be launched on October 2
  • Cauvery expo
  • Goods seized at airport
  • Mounting problem
  • Animal magnetism
  • Around The City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Chess

  • Sai Meera scores two tactical wins

    • Coimbatore

  • Arms procurement: evidence `not reliable'
  • Kikani institutions cross another milestone
  • Residents seek early completion of Ondipudur bridgework
  • Wings of Peace contest held for college students
  • Chamber show from September 30
  • Dak Adalat
  • Navarathri Celebrations
  • Air Marshal to visit AFAC
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • Hat-trick by Aiyappa
  • No CEO for BCCI
  • `Inzamam will be made scapegoat'
  • Raiphy to lead
  • A clean sweep for India
  • Five-wkt. haul by Panchapakesan

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8717
  • Solution to Puzzle 8716

    • Dharmapuri

  • 2,154 persons file papers in Dharmapuri district
  • Fund to upgrade anganvadi centres

    • Dindigul

  • 4,037 file papers in Dindigul district
  • Poll code violations to be tackled sternly

    • Editorials

  • Intransigence in Assam
  • Small banks in a competitive era

    • Eluru

  • Make quality education drive successful: AU V-C

    • Erode

  • Blogging - the in-thing in colleges here
  • Cauvery: an epitome of pollution
  • Cotton arrival at market increases eightfold

    • Football

  • Valencia proves a point at Nou Camp
  • Vijayan saves TN the blushes

    • Front Page

  • It's not a plan to hand over wanted people: Pakistan
  • Sealing operations: verdict reserved
  • Supreme Court asks Tamil Nadu, Kerala to sort out Mullaperiyar issue
  • Shaikh, Barmare guilty of abetting in terrorist acts
  • Gogoi hopes ULFA will give up violence, opt for negotiations
  • Death toll in West Bengal floods rises to 39
  • Professionalism is the need of the hour
  • Arjun, Richa are the best
  • Ancic advances with ease
  • Queen of Tamil cinema no more
  • Vajpayee inaugurates Bansagar hydel project
  • 70 Tigers killed in major battle: Navy
  • Singapore to help India set up SEZs
  • Cambridge varsity Business English course in colleges
  • Special legislature session in Belgaum off to a great start
  • A bonanza for Capital's flat owners
  • Entrance test is invalid, says panel
  • ULFA "sergeant major" killed
  • Co-stars, fans bid her tearful adieu
  • YSR may defer Cabinet expansion
  • Rain wreaks havoc in State; one killed
  • Miraculous escape for air passengers
  • Industrial activity booming in Erode
  • No sealing till Saturday, says MCD
  • Fire in South Block
  • Chief Minister presents silk `vastrams'
  • Provide job to widow, court tells bank
  • Two watchmen found murdered at Thuvakudi
  • Challan against 13 in J&K sex scandal
  • Bid to defuse tensions

    • Globescan

  • Woman official killed
  • No survivor in crash

    • Golf

  • Ian Woosnam enjoys a bubbly week at Ryder Cup
  • Atwal finishes tied 21st
  • Jeev stays on top

    • Gulbarga

  • Scheme comes to rescue of farm workers
  • Villagers stage dharna for new survey to issue ration cards
  • Refresher courses for teachers
  • Two-day seminar from Friday
  • SUCI members stage protest

    • Guntur

  • Location of godowns for crackers has officials worried
  • World Blood donation day observed
  • Woman attempts suicide at Collector's office

    • Haryana

  • Chautala asks supporters to `throw out inept Hooda regime'

    • Hassan

  • Shobha Yatra opposed

    • Hockey

  • MEG boys overcome BEML

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Opposition parties told to make best use of legislature session
  • `Do not to indulge in petty politics'
  • Decision to close schools welcomed

    • Hyderabad

  • Work on Punjagutta flyover picks up pace
  • ORR `land scam' raises political storm
  • Luxury rolls on Hyderabad roads
  • Haleem days are here again
  • BJP rebuffs TRS overtures for bypoll pact
  • `TRS destined to lose Karimnagar'
  • Lifestyle show to be held from Thursday
  • Videocon offers new festive scheme
  • SCR turns 40 next month
  • TDP president donates 50 lakhs to Ajmer dargah
  • Gold price adds to festival glitter
  • Chess champ's classic move
  • Diamond jewellery worth Rs.12.35 crores recovered
  • CID raids Amway offices, seizes documents
  • Students advised to shape their career
  • General Secretary of APUWJ expelled
  • MCH plans modern bus shelters
  • SCCL bags second prize in world contest
  • More funds for rail passenger amenities
  • Hi-tech gadgets for teachers displayed at ICRISAT
  • Cases against Keshava Rao, YSR closed
  • Workshop on philately
  • RTC posts good profit
  • Five held on charge of stealing vehicles
  • Officer named to probe `manhandling' of lensman
  • Andhra Bank branch shifted
  • Programme on preparing boards
  • Around The City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Typical of their style
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • Indiscretion or publicity coup?
  • Indian student killed in St. Petersburg

    • International

  • 70 Tigers killed in major battle: Navy
  • Not a banana republic, says Musharraf
  • CIA paid Pakistan for Al-Qaeda men
  • Confucius' statue sparks debate
  • Abe allies in top slots

    • Kannur

  • Rail workers' plea to lift ceiling for bonus

    • Karimnagar

  • Gujaratis' Dandiya adds colour to Dasara festivities

    • Karnataka

  • Karnataka special legislature session off to a great start
  • Bharat Gold Mines workers step up stir
  • Fighting deep-grained attitude towards divorced women
  • People's demand
  • Navaratri special
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Coffee growers stage rally
  • Government is giving priority to education, says Minister
  • Ministry accused of neglecting projects
  • Bank earns profit of Rs. 1.51 cr.
  • Government to distribute bullock-carts to farmers
  • Rs. 4 crore released for drought relief
  • Joint suicide bid: man missing from hospital

    • Kerala

  • Kerala keeping its options open on Mullaperiyar dispute
  • Unified Town Planning Act on the anvil: Thomas Isaac
  • House panel moots new dam
  • KPCC assures DIC(K) rebels of a fair deal
  • Opposition walkout over chikungunya epidemic
  • Cola: State to move Supreme Court
  • Tribute to Naushad
  • Sale of leases will invite action: Minister
  • Engineering/medical allotment list published
  • Premachandran expresses relief
  • Chovva coop. bank to celebrate jubilee
  • Jostling for space
  • Takes pain to drive home a message
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Greens to protest against Pollution Control Board
  • Eco-groups to protest against PCB
  • Manmohan to open State jubilee
  • All set for Thunchan Parambu fete
  • Dubai firm postpones ferry service
  • Rail workers' plea to lift ceiling for bonus

    • Kochi

  • Presenting Kerala at its best
  • Bastion Bungalow to be converted into museum
  • Learning Sanskrit
  • Call to conserve bioresources
  • Bail for UDF activists
  • Consultations on Plan paper
  • Fishermen support DIC(K)-NCP merger
  • `Support taxonomists in conservation efforts'
  • Award for Sugathakumari
  • Sandalwood theft: one more held
  • Giving way
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Rain leaves a trail of destruction
  • Ardra Niketan celebrating 10th anniversary
  • Move to shift memorial flayed

    • Kozhikode

  • IUML, extremists cross swords
  • Plea to augment facilities at airport
  • Airport: plea to augment facilities
  • Sale of parrots: one arrested
  • ABVP seeks recounting
  • Punjabi food festival

    • Kurnool

  • Panel to monitor non-State universities soon
  • Plea to upgrade PG centre
  • Traffic curbs for AICC chief's visit

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Centre's move places education at risk

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Musharraf's `solutions'
  • Osama's `death'
  • Police reforms
  • Heed his call
  • Reform them

    • Madikeri

  • Compromise reached on Dasara celebration in Madikeri
  • Mallengada Chengappa is dead

    • Madurai

  • For bringing the media and NGOs together
  • Gandhigram varsity to develop national model for rural development
  • `Provide job to widow'
  • `Extracurricular activities good for students'
  • Entrepreneurs told to be daring
  • Nominations filed in Nattarmangalam and Pappapatti reserved panchayats
  • Around The City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Mangalore

  • Banks told to address credit card grievances
  • Followers to felicitate Gandhian
  • Ration cards: district gets 25,000 complaints
  • Mangalore all set to hold Mayoral elections
  • Improve efficiency and get ready to face newer challenges in life, students told
  • `Banks should not be made to calculate pension'
  • Konkani academy programme at Kumble
  • Business festival
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mumbai

  • Bhansali seeks bail

    • Mysore

  • World-class pool to come up in Mysore shortly
  • Tradition of celebrating doll festival on the decline
  • Plea to conduct cultural programmes inside palace
  • Rich legacy filmed in a documentary
  • `Lack of interest in pure sciences will affect research, development'
  • Land conversion: MUDA draws flak

    • Nalgonda

  • Rain threat looms over Congress meeting
  • Twelve persons injured in bus-lorry collision

    • National

  • Dismantle terror structure first: Rajnath
  • Brajesh says Vajpayee was not humiliated at Agra
  • Dasmunsi: defer UNI meeting
  • No special economic zones on prime farm land: Kamal Nath
  • JD (U) plans stir against SEZs on Oct. 12
  • Historians protest remarks against Tipu
  • Sabharwal case: court notice to CBI, Madhya Pradesh
  • PDP hails self-rule statement
  • Woman constable killed in Srinagar
  • India-U.K. air exercises in Agra, Gwalior
  • Ministry seeks States' support to ban child labour
  • Court stays deportation of PoK resident
  • Facts belie Musharraf's claim, says Army
  • `Rang De Basanti' to be India's entry for Oscar
  • Meiktila battle hero dead
  • ``Amitabh's security cover unchanged''
  • Sarabjit's sister renews threat to end life
  • Our technology is indigenous: DAE
  • ``Pakistan a nursery of global terror''

    • New Delhi

  • Delhi Cabinet nod for new entertainment tax policy
  • An enthralling journey into the realm of the untamed
  • All set to redraw the country's broadcast map
  • `Making waves for seals'
  • Demand to remove ban on cycle rickshaws
  • Auction of hotel plots fails to attract buyers
  • Belgian woman murder accused remanded to judicial custody
  • DU students seek transparency in exam system
  • JNUSU refuses to call off strike
  • Ramlila is here
  • MCD blamed for bungling of plots in Ghogha project
  • Kidnapped boy rescued from U.P.
  • Need for creating more awareness about RTI Act
  • Around The City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today
  • Inside Delhi

    • News Analysis

  • A year after, survivors struggle on
  • Story of a bestseller: fact or fiction?
  • "Intervention aimed at strengthening democracy"
  • Corrections and clarifications
  • After the fighting, a battle for hope

    • Nizamabad

  • Standing Committees to Zilla Parishad elected
  • Red Ribbon movement launched in Nizamabad
  • State encouraging sports, says Minister

    • Ongole

  • MLA seeks probe into storage tank row

    • Palakkad

  • CPI(M) stalled weir work: Jacob
  • Achuth Bhaskar cremated
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Tributes paid to E. John Jacob
  • Tourism project opposed
  • In Pathanamthitta Today

    • Pondicherry

  • "BJP will take up JIPMER crisis at the national level"
  • Autonomy move retrograde, says Karaikal Struggle Group
  • Lt. Governor reviews rehabilitation projects

    • Punjab

  • Paddy procurement begins

    • Racing : Horse

  • Arturo, Psychic Strength please
  • Buddy Brothers bags main event
  • Thousand Stars fancied

    • Religion

  • Act of divine grace

    • Salem

  • `Ensure proper implementation of 27 % reservation to OBCs'
  • Insurance employees assn. oppose outsourcing
  • `Preliminary works for Salem railway division on'
  • Delay in rail overbridge work irks residents
  • Electing persons to local bodies through auctioning punishable: Collector
  • Hospital workers go on strike
  • IMA demands action against quacks

    • Shimoga

  • `More awareness needed on benefits of natural farming'
  • `Restore powers of taluk panchayats'
  • Congress workers told to maintain unity

    • Sport

  • Professionalism is the need of the hour
  • Mega plans for domestic game
  • Arjun, Richa are the best
  • Ancic advances with ease
  • I wish we had TV umpires in all tournaments: Moya
  • IOA has little to show on Code compliance

    • Sports : General

  • PBG-Artillery wins polo title
  • World Military Games in Hyderabad
  • Dasara Games from today
  • Balasubramanian and Laxman among leaders
  • The heat is on DTTA
  • Letters

    • Srikakulam

  • Evacuees' plea Vamsadhara evacuees demand separate package
  • Teachers stage dharna in front of Srikakulam Collectorate

    • Swimming

  • Indian swimming team to be named today

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Health policy for IT, BPO employees under consideration
  • Students win prizes in postcard painting competition
  • DMK, allies clinch pact
  • Order on reservation in management quota stayed
  • "Unauthorised" persons boarded President's helicopter
  • Kalimuthu granted anticipatory bail
  • Tiruchendur temple gets two new elephants
  • Raghu had approached Patravakkam engineering unit
  • 16 applications filed
  • Serial blasts: evidence of arms procurement "not reliable"
  • A look at how Kolu's faring in the city
  • Dealing with stress in school, at work
  • EC notice to candidates likely
  • Circular on salary deduction of workmen stayed
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Painting exhibition showcasing different styles
  • Filing of nominations for various posts in local body elections gathers pace
  • Lt. Governor reviews tsunami rehabilitation work
  • Where unity and unanimity mark people's power
  • Nominations filed for Kottakachiyendal panchayat
  • Two killed in accidents

    • Tennis

  • Argentina humiliates Australia
  • Sania climbs to 59th spot
  • Easy for top seeds

    • Thanjavur

  • Poondi college plays key role in educating rural masses, says VC
  • Happy to see progress

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Rain inundates many parts of city
  • Rain wreaks havoc; one killed
  • A saga on the seafront
  • Government to launch sanitation programme
  • 8,000 litres of spirit seized at Vilapilsala
  • Flooding: two task force panels set up
  • Plea to construct fishing harbour at Valiathura
  • Rural products exhibitions and sale
  • Theatre group wins accolades
  • Exhibition
  • Day of the deluge
  • One killed
  • Driving home a message
  • Around The City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated September 26, 1956: Nehru in Saudi Arabia
  • dated September 26, 1956: Support for Egypt
  • dated September 26, 1956: Attlee to visit Madras

    • Thrissur

  • Mullassery panchayat on a mission to save mangroves
  • DYFI activist hacked to death
  • Merger: Jacob warns NCP of trouble
  • Girl found dead
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Rumblings of discontent surface within the DPA
  • When the basics benefited students
  • The long wait finally ends
  • Insurance scheme for university students, staff
  • `Honouring history, one's bounden duty'
  • Veerammal passes away
  • Road over bridge work inspected
  • Impeding movement
  • Correction
  • Around The City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Tirumala

  • Brahmotsavam off to a colourful start
  • YSR presents silk `vastrams' at Tirumala
  • YSR downplays allegations

    • Tirunelveli

  • Collector issues warning against auctioning of local body posts
  • Nellai gets Rs.3.93 crore to execute farm projects
  • Power shutdown
  • `None died of chikungunya'

    • Tirupati

  • Flower show turns a major draw
  • Grand fete planned for Tourism Day

    • Tuticorin

  • Training programme for fishermen begins
  • Tiruchendur temple gets two new elephants

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Steps taken to fence retrieved land
  • Cycling expedition to promote communal harmony
  • Lawyers boycott courts

    • Udupi

  • Sabhapathy sees `rampant corruption' in Udupi municipality
  • Consider toddy tapping as rural industry: Raghupati Bhat
  • Boy drowned in Kaup beach

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • `Cong., Jan Morcha should fight polls together'
  • Neo-Gandhians use novel way to protest
  • U.P. power employees strike work
  • Hearing adjourned
  • "Amitabh's security reduced because of proximity with me"
  • Five jailed for attempt to murder
  • Poll notification puts brakes on Mulayam's rallies

    • Vellore

  • Technical symposium conducted
  • Centre yet to release grant for beedi workers' housing scheme
  • Meet to examine problems of mentally challenged persons

    • Vijayawada

  • I&B Ministry to conduct public information campaign
  • UDA looking to expand operations
  • Land in Vijayawada for IT development mooted
  • Haleem has arrived
  • Disaster management panels soon
  • `Registration of births, deaths mandatory'
  • For a `special meal'
  • Kasi Her abode
  • Around The City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • Balloon game and better half!

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Vizag airport to join big league by 2008
  • A time for festive revelry
  • Aviation grid on the anvil: Minister
  • Record turnover by VSP
  • Workshop on science writing
  • Record of service
  • CID raids chain store warehouses
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Prizes for staying sober

    • Warangal

  • Higher-ups adopt handy ruse to keep mediamen out

    • Weather

  • Weather

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