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Anantapur

  • TDP, CPI protests against erratic power supply
  • Raw deal for handlooms flayed
  • `Imposed' cultural policy criticised

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • A.P. Opposition stages rallies against power cuts
  • Court seeks details of probe into Margadarsi affairs
  • Giving a helping hand
  • Typical pastoral picture
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Power crisis: stir turns violent
  • TDP, CPI(M) storm substation, caned
  • `Blessed' betrothal at Harijanwada
  • Agitators lay siege to electricity sub-stations
  • TDP takes to the streets
  • IIT at Basar will boost development, says Ramaiah
  • Raghuveera blames TDP
  • All for a small piece of land
  • Power supply: TDP to intensify stir
  • Civic staff draw flak on sanitation
  • Vemana varsity to set up new centre

    • Athletics

  • Parveen sets new record

    • Bangalore

  • Long phone conversation helps police trace boy's kidnappers
  • Cell set up to recover government land
  • 1,500 workers of transport firms facing a bleak future
  • State's farm policy comes under fire
  • Cabinet nod for project to ease traffic congestion
  • Move to privatise management of lakes in Bangalore opposed
  • Legislature session from January 25
  • 23,000 teachers to be recruited by May-end
  • Srinivasan may succeed Sial
  • JD (U) notice to MLAs
  • BDA to build two lakh houses
  • Panel for uniform language policy
  • `JD(S) will contest all seats in local bodies polls'
  • `By Allah's grace, my son is back'
  • Man killed in accident
  • Speed governors made mandatory
  • NGEF employees observe `Black Day'
  • Valuables stolen from house
  • Water supply to be disrupted
  • City police to continue probe into attack on IISc.
  • Dance festival in city
  • Cabinet for rejecting mercy petition
  • Protests planned against silk board Act
  • A highly net-savvy city
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • TN men overcome Karnataka

    • Belgaum

  • Solo painting exhibition in Belgaum gets encouraging response
  • Officials pulled up for negligence
  • VTU's alumni association comes into being
  • Centre urged to add three more districts in NHM

    • Bidar

  • Bidar to be developed as centre for spiritual tourism, says Kashempur
  • Extend `Palace on Wheels' till Bidar, Ministry urged

    • Bihar

  • Be liberal about opening medical colleges in Bihar: Nitish Kumar

    • Briefly

  • Sops to hilly States to stay
  • NTPC to form JV in Sri Lanka
  • Infosys Q3 results on January 11
  • Lenovo opens innovation centre
  • ICICI Bank launches loan disbursement card
  • Surana Industries lists on NSE
  • PNB hikes PLR to 11.75 p.c.
  • Ranbaxy ties up with AEGON
  • ISO 9001:2000 for Campus-Abroad
  • ORB Energy to expand market
  • Chemical Engineer's conference

    • Business

  • RCom to invest Rs. 7,000 crore
  • Tatas, Lanco bag Mundra, Sasan ultra mega power projects
  • Science-to-software training, TCS way
  • In race for Hutch-Essar
  • Tatas pursue expansion in U.S.
  • Sensex edges down
  • Thermax to set up unit in China
  • Premier Magic Cook launched
  • Ajit Associates to inaugurate new office
  • WTO to probe U.S. duties on Indian shrimp
  • Rupee steady

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Silence over project irks Information Commission
  • Multiplex industry put in a fix
  • Open university scheme left to TNOU
  • Protest against privatisation of garbage clearance
  • Freely flows arrack in western suburbs
  • High Court bans slaughter of camels
  • Special cover on Gandhi released
  • Marine discharge of textile effluents, "only solution"
  • Chennai doctor for Amsterdam meeting on asthma
  • Local bodies, agencies asked to sign MoUs
  • Guard held for cash theft at ATM
  • Rajasthan in miniature at Poompuhar showroom
  • Rebels move court against MDMK leadership
  • Bronze Gallery in Museum keeps drawing crowds
  • Pongal bonus for government employees
  • BJP criticised for opposing Manmohan's remark
  • Sanmac making part payments to depositors
  • Sundaram Finance Mylapore Festival from January 4
  • Transport official injured
  • Free coaching for IAS, IPS exams
  • No clue to boy's murder
  • `The Music Messiah' coming
  • Vintage car rally
  • Children's Film Festival ends
  • Welcome New Year, Carnatic style
  • CBI sends reregistered FIR to city court
  • Schoolboy dives into pond and dies
  • Rs.46 crore for tourism promotion
  • Discount on rating fee
  • Free supply of dhotis, saris for Pongal
  • Music, dance and drama from today
  • NABARD considering plans for funding
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Race for title hots up
  • Humpy's appeal to the State Government

    • Coimbatore

  • All-party meeting fails to get desired response
  • Lawyers told to be pragmatic in their approach
  • Forest department to establish centre for medicinal plants
  • Elephants "guided" back into the jungles
  • Meeting fails to get response
  • Different versions falsify prosecution case, says defence
  • Last minute bid to get sites regularised
  • Need for programme in nanotechnology
  • Workshop highlights repositories
  • Woman found dead
  • House burgled

    • Cricket

  • Railways makes Plate semifinals
  • PCB asked to suspend Akhtar, Asif
  • South African coach furious
  • Ten-wicket win for Saurashtra
  • Ashwin spares Tamil Nadu the blushes
  • `Dravid leads by example'
  • Karnataka salvages a draw
  • Learn from India's success, says Woolmer
  • Will it be Warne or McGrath?
  • Nandakumar's century in vain
  • England team under fire
  • Benson takes ill, Howell stands in
  • Easy for Mangalore Occasionals
  • BCCI seeks update on Munaf

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8797
  • Solution to Puzzle No. 8796

    • Dharmapuri

  • Collector allays fear of small traders over VAT

    • Dindigul

  • "VAT will not affect consumers and traders"
  • Fracture on rail detected

    • Editorials

  • Quick relief, slow rehabilitation
  • Dealing with Hamas

    • Erode

  • Move to increase forest cover in State
  • Street dogs in Erode caught for animal birth control operation
  • Road troubles residents
  • Animal birth control process begins in Erode

    • Front Page

  • Mamata ends indefinite fast
  • Mamata's health deteriorates further
  • Sachar panel report will be implemented in toto: Antulay
  • Defamation proceedings initiated against Vaiko
  • Water supply restored in Mumbai
  • Two `ISI agents' held
  • Himachal Haj Committee chairman removed
  • Somalia's troops enter Mogadishu
  • Eco-tourism plan for Pulicat Lake
  • RCom to invest Rs. 7,000 crore
  • Power failure stops South Africa's progress
  • English batsmen surrender meekly
  • `Stars will be under pressure'
  • Mayawati goes all out to woo BJP's vote bank in U.P.
  • Severe power shortage expected in summer
  • Opposition interrupts Assembly proceedings
  • Agitating CPI (M) activists caned in Sangareddy, Vizag
  • Labour migration hits powerloom industry
  • CAG finds diversion of tsunami funds
  • Opposition holds rallies all over State
  • 5-year rural service must for teachers
  • Madurai city police perform better
  • Tiruchi passport office sets record

    • Goa

  • In Goa, a hamlet up in arms

    • Golf

  • Rashid Khan on course

    • Gulbarga

  • Bankers asked to coordinate with officials for job scheme
  • Decision on red gram, a relief to farmers
  • Growers stage protest

    • Guntur

  • Siberian birds attract visitors at Uppalapadu
  • Auto drivers observe bandh
  • Celebration time for agriculture college

    • Haryana

  • Cold wave claims two lives
  • Special thrust on Kalka constituency
  • Police pick up wrong woman, keep her in jail
  • No cut in water supply to Delhi, says Haryana

    • Hassan

  • Hassan ZP to seek more funds for drinking water schemes
  • Company asked to set right defects in tractors in 15 days
  • `Rice mills in Hassan are in need of upgradation'
  • Corporation Bank starts `agri hub' in Hassan
  • Pulse Polio drive on Jan. 11, February 11
  • Bangarappa to address rally in Hassan

    • Hockey

  • TN, Karnataka, Andhra in semifinals

    • Hyderabad

  • Police operations against Maoists a huge success
  • Traffic police to step up vigil for New Year
  • MCH seeks time for landfills
  • Power: hard times ahead
  • Year of ups and downs for police
  • Court seeks details of probe into Margadarsi
  • Identification number for mutual fund investors
  • Three Ministers may lose their constituencies
  • CAG indicts water board
  • Be on guard, APCC chief tells cadre
  • New blocks at Gandhi to be ready by January
  • Ensure 9-hour supply: CPI
  • A very hard fall indeed
  • Gas agencies draw flak
  • MoU on Bt cottonseed signed
  • Keshava Rao faults PJR, Sashidhar
  • Car-borne men snatch chains
  • Hotels, resorts line up events to usher in New Year
  • Speaker releases poster of bank meet
  • New flyover to be ready by March 15: Jaju
  • Row over IIT
  • Website launched
  • Role reversal
  • Fire-fighting, first aid courses from January
  • YSR to launch tank restoration programme
  • Police officer transferred
  • Preserve bodies, rules court
  • Clarification
  • Visu to organise student interviews
  • No power
  • Standing tall
  • UGC course postponed
  • Correction
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Somalia's troops enter Mogadishu
  • Iraqi group to target U.S. interests
  • New worries haunt Bangladesh
  • Put demerger on hold, says TULF
  • Hunt for "second Earth" begins
  • Vatican warns bishop
  • Six-party talks "a must"
  • 3 NRIs found dead in storage container

    • Kannur

  • Road safety drive from January 1
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karnataka

  • Kendriya Vidyalaya facing closure in Mangalore
  • New security division formed in Karnataka
  • Discussion
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Youth can help strengthen the country: seer
  • Anti-liquor stir ends in chaos
  • Karavali utsav will begin in Karwar on January 26

    • Kerala

  • Opposition disrupts Kerala Assembly proceedings
  • New pension norm soon in Kerala
  • Aviation academy planned in Kochi
  • Mangrove cover still eludes Kochi
  • Award for E. Sreedharan
  • `Appoint High Court judge as women's panel head'
  • Shortage of lucky draw coupons
  • Dissolution riddle
  • Wooing visitors
  • Onslaught on nature
  • Pathanamthitta
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Call for more awareness on AIDS
  • Around the City

    • Kochi

  • Drowning exposes poor rescue systems
  • User's fee issue raised at annual general meeting
  • CIAL moots development projects
  • Court moved for pension parity
  • Pilot project to prevent rabies
  • Living life to the full
  • Ring in the New Year at Kumbalanghi
  • Arrested on cheating charge
  • promo 2 with pic isaac
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • `Raise staff strength in Motor Vehicles Department'

    • Kozhikode

  • Designing success on the Net
  • Industrial estate to be inaugurated tomorrow
  • Food fete to start on January 13
  • Career counselling camp begins
  • `Party secretariat discussed ADB loan'
  • Islamic meet cautions against religious militancy
  • Mata to visit Kozhikode
  • `Appoint High Court judge as women's panel head'
  • Award for `letter to editor'

    • Kurnool

  • ORR proposed for Kurnool
  • DCC celebrates party's founding day

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Sri Lanka: uncertainty as de-merger nears

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Singur stalemate
  • Political verdict
  • Time to take plunge
  • Make New Year happy

    • Madikeri

  • Work on hockey turf gets underway
  • All-round growth awaits Madikeri
  • Serving as monuments to bravery

    • Madurai

  • Encroachers drive pedestrians to roads
  • Mosquito menace rocks council meeting
  • Madurai Mayor makes a turnaround
  • Plus-Two teachers flay Government
  • Official fined for not disbursing pension
  • Plea to regulate private institutions
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Steps taken to fill vacancies in Police Department
  • Bankers lauded for performance
  • Udupi stands first in rescue of child labour
  • Electoral rolls to be revised
  • Call for effective use of LNG in State market
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Winged beauties descend on lakes in Mysore

    • Nagapattinam

  • 200 DPCs to be opened in Nagapattinam

    • National

  • An eventful year for the Supreme Court
  • Singur: Medha joins protest
  • Despite assurance to court, Narmada dam height raised
  • Vajpayee leads NDA team to Kalam
  • AIDS control programme to be expanded to tribals
  • Antony for more joint ventures in defence sector
  • Fifty children rescued from zari units
  • Dump BJP, Mayawati asks Vaishyas
  • Thackeray warns party detractors
  • Media reports distorted my comments, says R.C. Lahoti
  • Non-profit model mooted for South Asian University
  • Maoist movement suffers a setback
  • Abu Salem to contest U.P. polls
  • BJP blames Congress for Muslims' plight
  • Amar Singh sees plot to impose Central rule
  • Lucknow varsity expels 19 more students
  • Advani cancels visit to Tawang
  • Couple found dead near Singur
  • `Correct unequal distribution of medical colleges'
  • Special purpose fund for Tea Board rejuvenation
  • Rahul has no leadership qualities: BJP
  • Central assistance released for rural job scheme
  • Changes made in J&K revenue policy
  • Move to ban veiled customers opposed
  • ESIC drive to recover arrears
  • Not enough judges: Balakrishnan
  • Free sale sugar quota announced
  • We should have made strong statement: Natwar
  • Revoke death sentence to Saddam: NCP
  • Naxal activity on the decline, says Home Secretary
  • Congress foundation day celebrated
  • Seema Parihar may contest polls
  • Sanmac making part payments to depositors
  • Riot victims to get immediate compensation
  • Bofors gun outperforms Israeli rival
  • Rs.46 crore for tourism promotion
  • Manmohan's appeal to Mamata

    • Nellore

  • Pothireddypadu in no way affects Telangana, says Anam

    • New Delhi

  • New Year bonanza from MTNL
  • Periodic monitoring system for new Master Plan suggested
  • 60,000 set-top boxes sold
  • Convert DTC depots into malls: ASSOCHAM
  • East Delhi school sealed
  • Remembering an artist of note
  • Medha joins Singur protest
  • CBI files chargesheet against ex-MCD official
  • A remarkable camera, a remarkable artist... .
  • Security beefed up in Capital
  • Delhi BJP opposes new Master Plan
  • 14-year RI for raping two minor girls
  • A show from the Czech Republic
  • Nursery admissions under Govt. scanner
  • "Guard against illegal offers"
  • A festival of theatre
  • Capital gets a break from fog
  • Protest rally
  • "Easycabs"
  • Robbery at Bistro
  • BJP enlists RSS support for Uttaranchal polls
  • New options for CAS users
  • Around the City
  • In the Capital Today

    • New Delhi - Others

  • Briefly

    • News Analysis

  • BJP: return to temple politics
  • Turkmenistan after Niyazov
  • "Turkey must honour commitments"
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • Make best use of your time, Collector tells students
  • Club launches charity work

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Move to close pumping scheme opposed
  • CPI(M) seeks amenities in Indiramma wards

    • Orissa

  • Congress yet to gear up for panchayat polls: J.B
  • 5-day expo to showcase Vanya silk products
  • Plans for adolescence education in schools
  • Bandh observed at Kodala
  • Tribals protest against graft
  • One drowned as boat capsizes
  • Arrangements on for mega yoga camp
  • Odissi dance by US troupe draws flak
  • Naxal outfit seeks support for stir
  • Shrinking space in the media worries dancers
  • Plan to modernise railway station

    • Palakkad

  • Karshaka Sanghom anniversary
  • Seminar to be held
  • BJP State meet
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Intensive cleaning drive begins at Sabarimala
  • Sabarimala: SSS launches intensive cleaning drive
  • Medical officers' meet begins today
  • Transport Minister to open CSI fete

    • Puducherry

  • Trade union leaders observe fast
  • Plan expenses review today
  • Karaikal Struggle Group reiterates plea to Mithi
  • Students felicitated

    • Punjab

  • Cold wave claims two lives
  • Foundation laid

    • Racing : Horse

  • Covenant catches the eye
  • Sarabande well prepared
  • Speed Sachet triumphs

    • Raichur

  • Illegal layouts: Commissioner, sub-registrar get notice

    • Rajasthan

  • Cold wave claims two lives
  • Drinking water project to be over in 18 months

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Camels steal the show

    • Religion

  • The sole refuge

    • Rowing

  • Madras Boat Club wins Hoogly Cup

    • Salem

  • `Landowners not coming forward to regularise their plots'
  • They go home disappointed
  • NMR employees likely to be regularised soon
  • Hairdresser families demand pattas
  • Training programme for JRC volunteers

    • Shimoga

  • Illegal transportation of sand criticised at zilla panchayat meeting
  • Students throng science exhibition in Shimoga

    • Sport

  • Power failure stops South Africa's progress
  • English batsmen surrender meekly
  • `Stars will be under pressure'

    • Sports : General

  • Zainab in under-14 final

    • Squash

  • Anna posts win

    • Swimming

  • Madhavi breaks three meet records

    • Tamil Nadu

  • For a cause
  • Health hazard
  • Officials clarify doubts of SSI entrepreneurs on value-added tax
  • Complaints of cheating against couple
  • "Nothing wrong in introducing VAT"
  • Around the city
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Children put on right track
  • "TNPL accords priority to eco conservation"
  • Winged visitors turn this village vibrant
  • `Restructure approach paper to protect interests of farmers'
  • Congress refutes Vaiko's statement in a magazine
  • Eyeing for an entry in record books
  • `Brand building is important for success of enterprises'
  • 245 medical camps planned in Pudukottai
  • Statue unveiled

    • Tennis

  • Rastogi in last four
  • Rachita eyes a triple

    • Thanjavur

  • VAT will reduce traders' burden, says Collector
  • ATM inaugurated at Collectorate

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Collector visits mining sites
  • Opposition walkout over price rise
  • `Bill will mitigate farmers' hardships'
  • Rs.919.96-crore package for city
  • Of the ills of consumerism
  • Time-bound action on pension promised
  • KPCC seeks clarification on ADB loan
  • Three youths arrested
  • Reliving their college days
  • PCB issues notice to factory
  • Designing success
  • City's boulevard
  • Antony to visit Air Command
  • New beginning
  • Handicrafts fair
  • Appointed chairman
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated December 29, 1956: Nehru meets Adenauer
  • dated December 29, 1956: Bombay-Delhi A/c train

    • Thrissur

  • Uproar in Thrissur council
  • Woman killed in accident

    • Tiruchi

  • I want challenges in life too: Actor Pasupathy
  • University meet to focus on three main themes
  • Council defers its decision
  • Tiruchi-Pudukottai section cleared
  • Varsity move to make scout services an extension activity in 50 affiliated colleges
  • "VAT will stabilise economic growth"
  • JCI donates books to library
  • Gift to Carnatic music lovers
  • Keeping pocket pickers at bay
  • A rich and rewarding experience for the railway employees
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirumala

  • `Make Kalyanamastu a success'

    • Tirunelveli

  • Gasifier crematorium to be set up in Tirunelveli
  • No `retirement' for his affinity
  • Student attacked by youth

    • Tirupati

  • CPI flays State on SEZs

    • Tumkur

  • Congress against move to shelve Hemavathy project

    • Tuticorin

  • Secretary examines schemes
  • `Bible festival' begins

    • Udupi

  • Officials are not keen on road repairs: councillors
  • `Documentation of Yakshagana artistes essential'
  • `Doors and windows' to open at art exhibition

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Petrol strike enters third day in Uttar Pradesh
  • Kavita accused surrenders

    • Vellore

  • Farmers to be given ID cards from Friday
  • Plea for inclusion of PURA in 11th Plan

    • Vijayawada

  • Big 2 get cracking
  • SCs still in the race for deputy mayor
  • Trust postal department to serve you better
  • Pulse polio first phase to be held on January 7
  • Notices to vacant plot owners
  • Lok Satta enrolment drive
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • `Land occupation' drive turns violent
  • Good response to CPI(M) call
  • Towards raising the bar in municipal schools
  • Encounter: top Maoist couple identified
  • Quenching tribals' thirst
  • CPI(M) decries leaders' arrest
  • Future belongs to embedded technology
  • Congress celebrates formation day
  • Water work to be inaugurated
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Bad day for fancied teams in men's section

    • Weather

  • Weather

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