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Alappuzha

  • Action council plans dharna

    • Anantapur

  • `Apparel and textile parks fail to rescue handloom weavers'
  • Profit-making depot closed

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • House panel divided over GO 610
  • YSR surrenders 997 acres more
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Quality of education need of the hour
  • Narsapur village celebrates one year of total prohibition
  • Twist to shipment row
  • New Year jolt for Dubbaka
  • Quality education need of the hour
  • Instilling confidence among HIV patients
  • Plea to implement Sachar panel report
  • Eco-friendly vehicle launched
  • Mayor launches drainage works
  • Village units to disburse pensions
  • Ayyappa temple to be set up
  • YSR's tour programme
  • Dommata MLA resigns
  • S. Kota bandh total, peaceful
  • TDP for constructing diversion scheme

    • Bangalore

  • 36 arrested, 91 cases solved
  • Organic fare delivery on your doorstep
  • Big projects to be put on fast track
  • Government to build walls to keep away elephants
  • Bid to boost security in banking operations
  • `Prove charge on delay in elections to BMP council'
  • Lorry owners to join strike against hike in premium
  • Making out a case for the vultures
  • Gag order against witnesses
  • Dharam Singh, Patil give Srinivasan an earful
  • The car of the future
  • Court urged to stay NGEF liquidation
  • BBMP notification in 15 days: Ashok
  • Mathikere bridge to be ready by November
  • Kalam's message for HAL staff
  • Theatre artistes plan fast
  • Emergency service for pets launched
  • Awards presented
  • Man killed in road accident
  • Governor accepts Minister's resignation
  • `Suvarna Khata' working well: BMP
  • Infant abandoned
  • Entrepreneurship development
  • Pulse Polio
  • Complaint against seer
  • Power shutdown
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • 1,000 candidates short-listed for IIMB admissions this year

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • Railways, Delhi women in title clash

    • Belgaum

  • Website showcasing World Kannada Meet to be launched
  • Lokayukta police trap inspector

    • Bidar

  • Chief Minister's statement on farm loan waiver welcomed
  • Zilla panchayat member assaulted

    • Bijapur

  • 39 projects to be ready by March
  • Peacock park in peril

    • Bridge

  • Bridge tournament

    • Briefly

  • Consumer Price Index
  • ATF price revised upward
  • DLF files prospectus for IPO
  • Export quotas for caviar slashed
  • New India Assurance ties up with Audatex
  • Karnataka Bank raises deposit rates
  • i-flex to buy Capco's Singapore subsidiary
  • Setco acquires U.S. facility of Haldex
  • Panoramic Universal shares on NSE
  • AIG Global's new Chief Investment Officer
  • L&T gets Rs. 418 cr. UAE order

    • Business

  • ONGC likely to come out with huge oil and gas find
  • CST phase-out from April
  • US bidder for Hutch Essar?
  • Panel to study coal distribution
  • Champlast Sanmar's eco-friendly initiative
  • Landmark exits JV with Emami
  • Daewoo-Videocon deal in jeopardy
  • Sundaram Info launches SmartLend Lite
  • Extension of R&D tax benefit sought
  • 250 SEZs languish for want of approval
  • Asianet's broadband offer
  • A mixed year for coconut sector
  • Shortage of emigration staff hits airlines' operations
  • Malabar Cements registers record profit in first eight months
  • Sharp fall in rupee
  • Sensex crosses 14000-mark

    • Carrom

  • TN retains title

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • "Music and dance can bring minds together"
  • Four-lane system to be extended
  • Nanganallur-Koyambedu bus service begins
  • "Directors should realise the importance of female comedians"
  • Court restrains State on land conversion
  • More unreserved coaches soon for Egmore-Mangalore Express
  • A different ball game for Nadal
  • "Riddle of the Ridley" book release on Saturday
  • Politics behind many inter-State water disputes: Durai Murugan
  • Red sanders seized, two held
  • Ticket rate revision reflects a balancing act
  • Youth from seven districts take part in army recruitment rally
  • Continuing medical education programme held
  • Sports meet for students of Corporation schools
  • Films to lend colour to city police celebrations
  • Jayalalithaa urges Centre to protect reservoir
  • A talented display by homemakers
  • MDMK general council members to file separate pleas
  • International stone fair inaugurated
  • Course in `Flash Reading and Mind Mapping'
  • "Implement OBC quota from next academic year"
  • Intermediate programme in Mandarin Chinese
  • Chennai Book Fair has new venue
  • Single window system admission over
  • Mylapore Festival from today
  • House burgled
  • Youth questioned
  • Signature campaign launched
  • Law student commits suicide
  • Road safety week observed
  • 282 Haj pilgrims arrive
  • Nobel Laureate's lecture today
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Work on cleaning choked Sanganur Canal begins
  • Defence cites contradictions in depositions by witnesses; `doubts arise on credibility'
  • Police get mobile helpline
  • Demolition move not given up, says Mayor
  • City police get cyber crime cell
  • A network that helps `positive people'
  • Concern over manpower shortage
  • Serve the country first: VC
  • All India dog show to be held on January 7
  • Bharathiar varsity to get new look for silver jubilee
  • Training on quality management systems
  • `Traders will benefit under VAT'
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • Another milestone for Warne
  • ARC scores second win
  • Piyush Chawla appointed captain
  • Andhra in a spot of bother
  • A near-perfect day for Karnataka
  • Hyderabad eyeing innings lead
  • No personal grudge against Akhtar: Inzamam
  • Kumaresan, Murali shine

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8802
  • Solution to Puzzle 8801

    • Dindigul

  • "Make value-added products from coconut"
  • Plea to withdraw Foreign Contribution Bill 2006

    • Editorials

  • Booming, but weaknesses persist
  • Testing times for Somalia

    • Erode

  • DRDA helps villagers make a decent living
  • `Cauvery river is dying'
  • `Open more paddy procurement centres'
  • Over 4,200 to benefit under maternity fund scheme
  • Road Safety Week celebrated at Tiruchengode

    • Football

  • Arsenal drubs Charlton
  • NFL begins on Friday
  • Golden Arrows holds HMC

    • Front Page

  • S&T set to get more funds
  • Manmohan: Third World cannot accept a freeze on global inequity
  • Centre orders probe into Noida killings
  • Police stop rally at Singur
  • IT cases: proceedings against Jayalalithaa, Sasikalaa stayed
  • 38 persons taken ill after dinner
  • Phone-tapping rules to be notified
  • Restrain coercive action: ESPN-Star Sports
  • Smith, Amla lead South African fightback
  • ISRO plans moon rover
  • Six policemen dismissed
  • Joint ventures likely to build houses for the urban poor
  • Victim's father relates tale of all-round apathy
  • House panel divided over GO 610
  • UDF to launch series of agitation
  • Mulayam out to build bridges with masses
  • YSR surrenders yet 997 acres more
  • Doctors' strike hits MCHs
  • Lakhs flock to Ardh Kumbh
  • Police to seek help of Indian Navy
  • Daily flight service to Bangalore
  • 398 cases booked against illegal mining
  • Nine injured in Meghalaya bomb blasts
  • Arrested for filming Saddam

    • Gulbarga

  • Movement that changed their lives
  • Row over disability certificate in MLA's name
  • Traffic disrupted as students block road seeking quota
  • Kannada Sena stages protest
  • Publishing house to celebrate 30th anniversary
  • Journalists take out procession

    • Guntur

  • Student tips for local bodies

    • Haryana

  • "Education essential for women's empowerment"
  • Haryana to improve health centres' functioning

    • Hassan

  • BPL card distribution to be over soon: Minister
  • Be disciplined, drivers told
  • Government is intact, says Revanna
  • Dalits stage dharna
  • No load shedding for now: Revanna

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Himachal Govt. notifies taxi fares

    • Hockey

  • The PHL has got bigger
  • Malaysia sacks team for poor show

    • Hyderabad

  • ORR phase-I works in full swing
  • Underground cabling work gathers pace
  • Three persons found murdered
  • High-level panel to study depot closure
  • Ban on airconditioners in Government offices
  • Medical Council body elected
  • Stage set for APCC meet
  • Target unlikely to be met for zero sewage flow zone plan
  • Restoration of heritage buildings: official summoned
  • `Second SRC should include number of States'
  • Onion prices make a steep climb
  • KCR demands Digvijay's apology
  • Implement G.O. 610, TDP tells State
  • Nine IAS officers transferred
  • YSR asks officials to monitor prices
  • APCO set to notch higher turnover
  • Fee hike: AISF threatens stir
  • Power shutdown today
  • RRB employees plan stir
  • TJP padayatra to expose `progress'
  • Two child workers rescued
  • Dharna by APSRTC employees
  • HMWSSB staffer arrested on graft charge
  • 13 gone, 9 to be set up
  • NIIT branch opened
  • Court directive on water bodies
  • Kadapa tops in Indiramma
  • Two-day seminar
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • International

  • Polls won't be fair: Hasina
  • Co-defendants' execution today?
  • Video: official held
  • Homeless seek right to housing
  • Stop fighting: U.N. tells Colombo, LTTE
  • Iran gets Russian air defence missiles
  • A shopping sabbatical, ringing out the new
  • For a female Beefeater
  • Oprah opens school in South Africa
  • 27 survivors rescued
  • No clues on plane
  • Darfur talks rejected

    • Kancheepuram

  • US citizens' help to rehabilitate the tsunami-affected recalled

    • Kannur

  • DYFI call to enhance job opportunities
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Karimnagar Zilla Parishad schools to get a facelift
  • TDP accused of politicising power crisis
  • Students not in favour of IIT at Basar: legislator

    • Karnataka

  • Joint ventures likely to build houses for the urban poor
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Puffed rice units fail to use modern wood ovens
  • Government planning to ban lottery, arrack
  • Boiler of Bellary Thermal Power Station lit up
  • Thermal plant: State's offer to critics
  • Iron ore seized at Karwar
  • Decision to recognise taxi operators welcomed
  • Project to interlink rivers will destroy ecosystem, says Vice-Chancellor
  • Incentive scheme for differently abled started

    • Kerala

  • UDF plans agitations in Kerala
  • Political engagement with development strategies needed, says Prabhat Patnaik
  • Doctors decide to intensify agitation
  • Reviving a ritual performance
  • ADB loan: Isaac clarifies
  • CB CID team to visit Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu, Kerala teams visit dam site
  • Achuthanandan protecting the corrupt: Chennithala
  • NSS charge against Natesan
  • An interesting tale of a student
  • Craft matters
  • Court reserves orders in Lavalin case
  • Quiz competition
  • Next issue

    • Kerala - Others

  • Rs.450 crore to improve passenger facilities: Velu
  • Schools youth festival fails to enthuse audience
  • Join hands for State's development: Antony
  • MGU wins south zone youth festival
  • District school fete begins
  • Protest against delay in AI service
  • Arts festival begins
  • Cynosure of all eyes
  • MGU, Calicut University top youth fete

    • Kochi

  • Ernakulam to attract job-seekers
  • Dharna for rail development on January 15
  • Development meet
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kottayam

  • Girl dies of burns

    • Kozhikode

  • A fillip to traditional entertainment
  • Plea to reconsider move to shift KURDC office
  • BJYM plans stir against ADB terms
  • Move to sell NMDC land
  • Hand-dyeing unit to be opened on Friday
  • Speaker inaugurates workshop

    • Kurnool

  • Leaders at loggerheads on `Rayalaseema State'
  • Seminar on `Annamacharya Sankeerthans'

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Links between a nation's past and future

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Gruesome killings
  • Saddam's execution

    • Madikeri

  • Man arrested on charge of attacking MLA's house

    • Madurai

  • IG seeks cooperation of public in crime prevention
  • Life at market complex not a bed of roses for flower traders
  • Sangeetha Samajam keen on propagating traditional music
  • Students awaiting their tryst with the President
  • "Sri Sathguru Sangeetha Samajam keen on propagating traditional music"
  • Plan to establish science park for children in Madurai: Minister
  • Move to secure Presidential nod for Bill scrapping CET
  • School students awaiting their tryst with first citizen
  • Madurai to get four flyovers
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Pilot training programme at Bajpe airport from Sunday
  • Psychiatric ward inaugurated at Wenlock Hospital
  • Regional Commissioner to hold election for post of ZP president
  • Pedestrian dies of injuries
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Will Mysore go the Bangalore way?
  • City to get `carpet coverage' of broadband services
  • Gita Hariharan for redefining of women's literature
  • Protest against irregular drinking water supply
  • Gender inequality fading away: VC
  • Zilla panchayat resolves to take over water management
  • Writer unhappy with academy's action
  • Preparations on for Pulse Polio
  • Man succumbs to injuries in hospital
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Over 4,000 houses for tsunami victims this month

    • National

  • Distraught father relates his tale of woe
  • Refer case to CBI: Congress
  • Apex court rejects plea
  • "Ignoring basic science is dangerous"
  • Biotech management centre coming
  • Bhan to hold additional charge of CSIR
  • Not averse to CBI probe: Mulayam
  • Sedition case against Geelani
  • Kalam: fix targets to end child labour
  • Villagers lynch British tourist in Maharashtra
  • Nothing but violation of the tribunal award: NBA
  • Karat for nation-wide scientific land-use policy
  • Rise of Left will reshape world politics: M.A. Baby
  • Bardhan counsels caution
  • Chandumajra returns to Badal fold
  • Organ trade is not motive, say police

    • New Delhi

  • Court may examine Bharti Yadav's sister
  • Fog hits rail, air services for the 4th day in a row
  • Representing women in Greek tragedy....
  • Capital's sewerage system to be overhauled
  • A long journey spanning three long decades
  • DDA holds largest ever draw of lots for flats
  • Sealing drive resumed
  • Held for cheating
  • Metro running on time despite fog
  • "UPSC trying to delay implementing order"
  • `Congress may defer polls'
  • Sports complex for C.R. Park
  • First case under Domestic Violence Act decided
  • Court summons Katara case file
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • New Year begins on quiet note in academic circles

    • News Analysis

  • Corrections and Clarifications
  • Revisiting the Raj, warts and all
  • Why did the Arab world remain silent?
  • Celebrities' unscientific comments debunked

    • Nizamabad

  • Inter-State criminal gang busted
  • Reforms to streamline traffic in Nizamabad
  • Enmity leads to murder of two

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Drought-hit status for all Ongole mandals demanded
  • Tiger rescued after fall in well
  • Imprisonment for murder

    • Orissa

  • Dakhina Orissa natak mahotsav begins
  • Road safety campaign for students
  • Pracheen Kala Kendra centre in Puri
  • Filigree artisans at crossroads
  • CPI sarpanch attacked
  • Bamboo cutters demand increase in daily wages
  • `Dalits, tribals launguishing in jails'
  • Three of a family die in accident
  • Rise in backlog cases a cause for concern
  • Couple held on child sacrifice charge
  • Boy's death at yoga camp triggers row

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Sabarimala: security strengthened
  • Aranmula temple festival from January 11
  • Pathanamthitta schools youth festival begins

    • Perambalur

  • Rs. 13 crore for Perambalur district

    • Puducherry

  • Catheterisation lab to go on stream by month-end
  • S. M. Krishna visits Puducherry
  • Assistance to proficient Muslim students
  • Indonesian fishing vessels violate Indian laws

    • Punjab

  • Chandumajra returns to Badal group
  • Greater emphasis on research, says PGI director

    • Racing : Horse

  • It's Sovereign Power vs. Premier Star
  • Quest For Cash catches the eye
  • The Chieftain wins Gulburga Plate

    • Raichur

  • Deve Gowda for policy on land acquisition

    • Rajasthan

  • Lignite-based power plant at Barmer likely
  • Call to review mineral policy

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Police seek help of Indian embassies in Malaysia, Gulf nations

    • Religion

  • Path of dharma

    • Salem

  • `Create awareness among people on traffic rules'
  • Corporation looks to put an end to pig menace
  • 155 pulse polio camps to be set up on January 7
  • School wall collapses

    • Shimoga

  • Changes to Act unfair: traders
  • Memorable day
  • `State police the most modern'

    • Sport

  • Smith, Amla lead South African fightback
  • England's lasting problems to the fore
  • Moya enters quarterfinals

    • Sports : General

  • Aswini claims a double
  • Salem makes quarterfinals
  • Facile wins for Kerala and Railways
  • State netball teams
  • College cricket

    • Srikakulam

  • TDP sees conspiracy

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Poetry book released
  • International Congress on English grammar
  • Develop life skills, students told
  • Certificate course in ICT research, innovation methods
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Science exhibition inaugurated at Annamalai University
  • No solution in sight as dyers' stir enters the third day
  • Variety of handicrafts on offer at expo
  • Kitchen gardens help them save money
  • Leprosy Home becomes trauma care centre
  • Rs. 440 crore for passenger amenities: Velu
  • 38 persons taken ill after dinner
  • Formulate strategies to prevent failures among students: Minister
  • MLA plea to establish IIT, IT park in Karaikal
  • Emergency service for pets launched
  • Three college students arrested
  • Forum demands new water connections
  • VAO dismissed

    • Tennis

  • `I have reached the highest level I could'
  • Ivanovic eases into last eight
  • India downs Croatia

    • Thanjavur

  • Meet to focus on woes of kuruvai paddy farmers

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • State Higher Secondary Youth Festival begins
  • Doctor attacked, clinic damaged
  • Overbridge at Melarannoor: MLA petitions Lalu Prasad
  • KWA to hold revenue adalat
  • Suspend strike, says KGOA
  • Ramanna fellowship
  • IT fete
  • Man found dead
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated January 4, 1957: Nehru's call to partymen
  • dated January 4, 1957: Foreign exchange

    • Thrissur

  • Youth festival inaugurated

    • Tiruchi

  • Daily flight service from Tiruchi to Bangalore
  • Contents in booklets for slow learners enhanced
  • Exciting all through
  • Jayalakshmi released on bail from Tiruchi prison
  • Kalam to arrive in Tiruchi today; security tightened
  • Modern transport upsets their cart
  • Reflectors affixed on the rear of bullock carts and tri-cycles
  • Do not disturb Thuraiyur taluk status: forum
  • His thinking won him laurels
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchy Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Tirunelveli Corporation buys 10 portable fogging machines
  • Three killed in accident
  • Minister distributes free saris, dhotis

    • Tirupati

  • Popularise Vengamamba: KV
  • Nod for township soon

    • Tuticorin

  • Fatal accidents on the rise in Tuticorin district
  • Increase draught at berths in Tuticorin port: associations
  • Accent on blood donation
  • Illegal quarrying: two held

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Former staff of HPF stage demonstration

    • Udupi

  • `Congress, BJP adopting double standards'

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Cold wave claims four lives in Uttar Pradesh
  • `Polluted' Ganga angers pilgrims
  • Lucknow University reopens
  • Memorial planned

    • Vijayawada

  • `My Indian origin helped me'
  • Polls to ward panel chiefs tomorrow
  • `My Indian origin helped me win'
  • Education Minister chides officials
  • Sydney-based college conducts admission
  • Deputy Mayor election on January 10
  • School wins prizes in youth festival
  • JNNURM works approved
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • CPI (M) to step up stir for sites
  • More of slithering surprise
  • Handloom items beckon
  • Maoists blast MRO office near Orissa border
  • Contract staff strike continues
  • Council polls: workshop held
  • Peace and harmony fest
  • Labour Welfare Fund to provide scholarship
  • `Crisis leads to power-cuts'
  • NMRs in VUDA seek regularisation of service
  • Railway flower show
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Railways reigns

    • Warangal

  • Listening can help sharpen English-speaking skills

    • Weather

  • Weather

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