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Anantapur

  • Two killed, 10 hurt in accident

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • First full-time Governor in Andhra Pradesh after 19 months
  • 3,786 casual workers of APSRTC regularised
  • Pattabhiram session
  • Seminar on taxation laws
  • Not just an ecclesiastical site
  • Touch of glamour
  • Malas oppose panel on categorisation
  • Law and order
  • Power scenario
  • Honour for service
  • Mala Mahanadu poser
  • Lok Satta warning
  • Same old faces, smiles and chatter
  • NGO launched
  • Blood donation
  • Paturi’s statue to be unveiled today
  • Awareness camp
  • Post office needed in Saradanagar
  • Bus pass applications
  • Yoga health camp
  • Help eradicate polio: Mayor
  • 10-hr dance recital
  • Janmashtami contests
  • Coaching centre opened
  • Two feared drowned
  • Construct reservoirs
  • JKC invites applications
  • CRIME WATCH
  • Pranksters have a field day Law and order
  • This hamlet believes in staying ‘dry’
  • CPI (M) gears up people for second phase
  • TRS leader hurls challenge at Kadiam
  • BJP Dalit Morcha opposes quota for ‘converted’ Dalits
  • Caste-wise census sought

    • Archery

  • Indian squads for Asian meet

    • Athletics

  • Kancheepuram triumphs

    • Bangalore

  • Watch your step before you start walking in Bangalore
  • Walkathon in aid of haemophiliacs
  • Greens resent privatisation of lake management
  • Success story of the Indian Space Programme
  • Salsa dancers hold centre stage
  • Yale University attempts to preserve freedom struggle history
  • Repair on pipeline hits traffic
  • The inner world view
  • With the abandon of a jogan
  • Hina Fatima shifted to Victoria Hospital
  • Mobile WiMAX: city all set for a leap
  • Man murdered; woman ends life Crime notes
  • Disconnection drive
  • Jains hold protest meeting
  • New Transport Commissioner
  • Fostering scientific temper
  • Petition on sexual harassment disposed of
  • In Bangalore today

    • Basketball

  • ONGC retains title

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Forced to opt out

    • Bridge

  • Shree Cements bags title

    • Business

  • GDP growth continues to be impressive financial scene
  • Corrective steps help cool markets
  • Is there room for a regional airline?
  • Leave encashment in the hands of legal heirs
  • FBT cannot substitute liability of employees

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Groups clash over sand mining
  • Royapuram residents complain of choking air
  • Srikanth, Vandana patch up
  • Dogs’ day out in city
  • Imparting critical life skills early on
  • Celebrating the good old Madras
  • Medical camp
  • Velachery junction signals traffic woes
  • Directive on certificates
  • Two die in mishap
  • Police chief calls for meeting with bankers
  • Strike balance between culture and technology, students told
  • Step up services to suburbs, CPM tells MTC
  • Students hold mock UN General Assembly
  • Indo-Japanese institute to launch Regenerative Medicine programme
  • Recharge plan
  • Road overbridge for PHC
  • Media’s role in covering natural disasters debated
  • CII welcomes Chief Minister’s request
  • Technical contest for students to come up with real life solutions
  • PT blames police for Tenkasi clash
  • In Chennai today

    • Coimbatore

  • Consumer fair to begin in October
  • Supplementary exams for students with arrears today
  • Grievances meeting
  • National seminar
  • Training programme
  • Campus buzzes with creative fervour
  • MP’s charges baseless: DMK
  • Police step up security measures in the city
  • Impact of a man-made disaster
  • Elgi bags Rs.6-cr. deal
  • In Coimbatore today

    • Cricket

  • Shaibaaz slams century
  • India needs to plug a few weak spots
  • BCCI nets 231.64 crore for current fiscal
  • City wins Manchester derby
  • Ojha picks up five as India ‘A’ posts win
  • Big win for Karaikudi
  • Sutherland GS wins SSI-YSCA Trophy
  • Eight share lead
  • ‘Inzamam has signed up for ICL’
  • Dinesh Karthik awarded contract
  • NZCPA calls for ICL sanction

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8996
  • Solution to puzzle 8995

    • Cuddalore

  • Petty shop owner beaten to death
  • Shops in Old Town burgled

    • Dharmapuri

  • Manimeghalai awards for SHGs

    • Dindigul

  • Yoga training centre established at district sports complex

    • Editorials

  • Put the nuclear deal on hold

    • Erode

  • Gnanapuram residents want neglected well containing polluted water cleaned up
  • Demonstration
  • Police trace schoolgirl reported missing
  • Birth control for stray dogs
  • Minister distributes free television sets to beneficiaries

    • Football

  • Bangladesh has an onerous job on hand
  • MAM CE in semifinals

    • Front Page

  • UPA leaves it to Sonia, Manmohan
  • Evaluate Hyde Act implications: Left
  • Put the nuclear deal on hold
  • “Left will not save government at the cost of India’s freedom”
  • BJP decides to wait and watch
  • N.D. Tiwari appointed Andhra Pradesh Governor
  • Shortage of polio vaccine in State
  • Guard at ATM kiosk killed, youth held
  • Anand to play Aronian in final
  • Zaheer did the unexpected: Vaughan
  • Rocky takes center stage in Serbian village
  • Toll-free number to protect wildlife
  • Policemen injured
  • A new look for primary health centres
  • 3,786 casual workers of RTC regularised
  • State urges Centre on Tiruchi’s inclusion
  • Traced in Sweden
  • Mid-term poll imminent, says Naidu
  • Death of woman in land struggle takes political turn
  • BMTC to issue 30 crore shares through first-ever such IPO
  • 145 get job offers at Opportunities Fair
  • ‘Coordinated action can help solve problem of climate change’
  • “Education, engineering, enforcement — the three-pronged approach to tackle software piracy”

    • Golf

  • Darshan takes honours

    • Guntur

  • Tips to civil services aspirants
  • TDP demands list of BPL families in Indiramma scheme
  • Workshop on ‘Child Rights and Media’ held
  • Lovers end life

    • Hockey

  • Kerala wins title

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Colourful show at ISKCON fest

    • Hyderabad

  • Bifurcation of PR wing: three parties back staff stir
  • ‘Happy Village’ launched
  • 1,600 MU power generation likely
  • Competitions to mark wildlife week
  • Sadhguru’s discourse tomorrow
  • Metro rail project may gobble up college lands
  • Canine ‘stars’ call the shots
  • Revoke decision on renaming KPHB, says Dattatreya
  • World Photography Day celebrated
  • Inquiry against Uppal SI ordered
  • Casual workers of APSRTC regularised
  • BC associations to protest in Delhi
  • Reforms in water supply opposed
  • Shantha Biotech chief laments official apathy
  • Malas oppose Usha Mehra’s tour
  • Lok Satta slams TDP
  • Tiwari to take charge in 2 days
  • ‘Rajiv Arogya Sri scheme benefits corporates’
  • Lakhs of children administered polio drops
  • CMRF beneficiary calls on Chief Minister
  • Left parties organise meet against ‘anti-people’ policies
  • Narendra to challenge KCR’s presidentship
  • School dropout rate rising: SHRC
  • In Hyderabad today

    • India & World

  • Indian fishermen rescued

    • International

  • Oil giants rush to lay claim to Iraq
  • Tension in U.K.-U.S. ties
  • Musharraf loses to A.Q. Khan in mock poll
  • Smooth polling on Thai charter
  • Lebanese await the inevitable return of war
  • U.N. praise for Indian women police deployed in Liberia
  • Deportation of Sikh refugee stayed
  • Nets halve child deaths from malaria
  • A global network of poachers
  • Flood situation worsens
  • Shuttle leaves ISS a day early

    • Kadapa

  • ‘Nuclear energy agreement imperative’

    • Kannur

  • Engagements - Kannur
  • 200 posts of doctors this year

    • Karimnagar

  • Police to adopt e-challan

    • Karnataka

  • Villagers pin hopes on Kumaraswamy’s visit
  • Gowda hints at mid-term polls
  • It is entertainment guaranteed Film Reviews
  • Gory but stylish
  • SEZs are scams
  • Accident
  • History as rock opera
  • Ayurveda consultation
  • Stamp paper
  • Seminar
  • Workshop
  • ‘Booklet on social welfare schemes soon’
  • Award
  • Ban on arrack sale lauded
  • Exhibition
  • 500 consumer clubs sanctioned for State schools
  • ‘President’s rule not needed’
  • Two jail inmates escape
  • Results announced
  • Training
  • Appointed chairman
  • Snap elections are a possibility: Venkaiah
  • Acharia: Centre’s stand on 123 pact perplexing
  • They pin hopes on Kumaraswamy’s visit
  • Applications invited for scholarships
  • Deve Gowda hints at Assembly polls
  • Effort gone waste?

    • Kerala

  • Draft on land utilisation policy ready in Kerala
  • Vested interests tarnishing LDF image: Pinarayi
  • Draft Land Utilisation Policy ready
  • NIE programme begins SCHOOL NOTES
  • Celebrating rain
  • The king and his subjects
  • Picture of neglect
  • Against the drug menace
  • IUML takes out march
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Code of conduct for home nurses mooted
  • School education improvement scheme
  • Making children aware of their rights
  • Eco-friendly alternative to plastic carry-bags
  • All in the family
  • CAMPUS NOTES
  • Waste disposal
  • Shopping time

    • Khammam

  • Manipulation of musters in job scheme
  • Two boys die in ST welfare hostel

    • Kochi

  • Bus stir plan withdrawn
  • Best driver contest
  • Many take giant leap at Opportunities Fair
  • Suvarna Varsham from today
  • Meet on renewable energy
  • Presentation on leadership
  • Two bodies recovered
  • Exhibition of jewellery
  • CPI(M) to organise dharna
  • Shortage of boats hits West Kochiites, tourists
  • Oil sector officers’ strike from August 21
  • ASI team visit
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • People take the lead in road repair
  • Cascade from heaven
  • Arrack seized

    • Kottayam

  • Bid to tarnish image of CPI(M): Pinarayi

    • Kozhikode

  • Walk-in interview on Friday
  • Coaching programme
  • Youth hostel in bad times
  • Plea to protect soap industry
  • Helmet, seat-belt rule to be strictly enforced
  • Quiz for schoolchildren
  • Camp for students
  • NRHM rolled out in Kozhikode district
  • Polytechnics to teach Kalam’s book
  • In Kozhikode today

    • Kurnool

  • Two farmers commit suicide
  • Mareppa finds fault with Kotla

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Why the CPI(M) and the Left oppose the nuclear deal

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Debate the issue
  • Uncalled for
  • India’s apartheid

    • Madurai

  • Software training centre to be inaugurated today
  • 200-ml buttermilk sachet for Rs. 2
  • On why science courses are losing charm
  • Crusade against bribery focuses on students
  • Attempt at grooming students in style
  • Chamber thanks Government
  • More security personnel needed, says hospital
  • No plastic litter on premises, says Government hospital
  • “200 match units evading tax”
  • SBI offers new scheme
  • Breather for noon meal organiser
  • Madurai holds promise in solar energy generation

    • Mangalore

  • NSS volunteers clean Mangala Stadium
  • Government urged to recruit college teachers
  • State to seek more funds from Centre for relief
  • Police seize antlers, three arrested

    • Mysore

  • Nanjangud guesthouse out of bounds

    • Nagapattinam

  • A role model PHC

    • National

  • “No truck with a pro-imperialist party like BJP”
  • Achuthanandan defends CPI(M) stand
  • Congress ready for polls: Digvijay
  • “It’s up to the Congress”
  • Not good for the country: Brinda
  • Double standard, says Mamata Banerjee
  • Death penalty for six persons
  • President condoles loss of lives in Peru
  • Common man will benefit from ‘rural tourism’: Ambika Soni
  • Four places identified as shopping tourism destinations: Ambika Soni
  • Brahmin activists clash with police
  • Solve problems outside legal framework, tribals told
  • Deportation stayed
  • Shankaran spotted in Sweden
  • Ibobi Singh summoned to Delhi
  • Worst agreement, says Sharad Yadav
  • Fresh violence in Singur
  • “Deal jeopardises nation’s interest”
  • Maldivians vote for presidential system
  • Two parties yet to file contribution reports
  • Chief Election Commissioner for multi-purpose national ID card
  • IAF pilots create record
  • Sankara Nethralaya branch in Kolkata
  • Documents on probe into Purulia arms drop can’t be given: CIC

    • Nellore

  • Venkaiah Swamy Aradhana from today

    • New Delhi

  • Flood situation grim
  • Woman set on fire over property dispute
  • Vaishno Devi shrine a boon to Katra’s economy
  • Charges baseless, says Shivraj Singh Chauhan
  • Brahmin activists clash with cops
  • Doing the balancing act
  • Maken meets RWA officials of illegal colonies
  • Woman allegedly strangled to death
  • Focus on plight of Kashmiri Pandits
  • Special I-Day celebration
  • DUSU candidates to give an account of money spent
  • Under the table
  • Designer’s case
  • To our readers
  • Standing up against corruption
  • Retired cop gets life term
  • Rising onion prices may add to Government’s headache
  • New Delhi railway station to resemble Connaught Place

    • News Analysis

  • Deal breather, not deal breaker
  • More than a “little extra precaution”
  • Cluster bomb makers face U.K. boycott

    • Ongole

  • Belt shops: Lok Satta puts State on notice
  • Lok Satta chief talks tough on belt shops
  • State told to close belt shops

    • Orissa

  • Digicams edge out photo studios

    • Palakkad

  • Greens criticise Jairam Ramesh
  • Sericulture to be extended to more areas
  • Shoranur-Nilambur special train

    • Perambalur

  • Interview for plot allotment on August 22

    • Puducherry

  • Games people played
  • Girl dies of rat bite
  • PMK appoints executive members
  • SSA to launch activity-based learning in primary schools
  • Left parties flay Rangasamy’s remark on dole for jobless

    • Racing : Horse

  • Annot may make amends
  • Golden Edition triumphs
  • Lancashire bags main event

    • Racing : Motor

  • INRC: Gaurav Gill wins third leg
  • Aditya, Vishnu make merry
  • Vishwanath, Rajini set the track ablaze

    • Rajahmundry

  • Sonia Gandhi to inaugurate Rajiv Gruhakalpa on September 1
  • An effort at counselling SSC students
  • New temple trust board chief
  • ‘Drop box’ yields results

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Efforts on to weed out bogus ration cards

    • Religion

  • Descent of grace religion

    • Salem

  • Design contest for engineering students
  • Official suspended
  • ‘Agencies delaying delivery of LPG cylinders to Thammampatti residents’
  • Separate department for town planning in Salem demanded
  • Five arrested for selling ganja
  • Suspended
  • Pig menace continues in Salem Corporation area
  • Kotak Mahindra tie-up

    • Sport

  • Anand to play Aronian in final
  • Zaheer did the unexpected: Vaughan

    • Sports : General

  • Shankar beats Hemanth for title
  • National coach for State champions
  • Agnishwar and Gulnaz corner glory
  • Evergreat HC clinches a thriller
  • Telecast schedule

    • Srikakulam

  • ‘Ensure housing quality’
  • Good response to Pulse Polio drive

    • Table Tennis

  • Abishek and Shamini win

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Engagements - Vellore
  • Osteoporosis awareness camp
  • No TNHB houses in Vaniyambadi
  • Seminar
  • Tearful homage
  • For passengers’ convenience
  • Slum Clearance Board to construct apartments in Namakkal town
  • Small-scale industries face manpower shortage
  • Propitiating God
  • Creating more space
  • Junk food, major cause of Crohn’s disease?
  • A pillar-free marvel enters Limca Book
  • Painting contest for students
  • Chidambaram’s call to public sector banks
  • Concern over rising cement prices
  • Cement prices hit construction sector
  • CPI(M) leaders meet Karunanidhi
  • Steps to save historical tree
  • ‘Onavillu’
  • Protest
  • Sub-Inspector dies
  • Killed in accident
  • Documentary films to be screened
  • Mettur level
  • Power shutdown
  • Victim identified
  • Body found on track
  • Vocational Training Course
  • Polyclinic opened
  • Renewable Energy Club inaugurated
  • World Peace Day
  • Inter-college meet
  • Office-bearers
  • Free tuition classes
  • MRTS services to Velachery
  • Pavithrotsavam
  • Fell stroke
  • Three killed
  • Madras week events today
  • Retired officials’ plea
  • Jains’ contribution to exchequer “astounding”
  • Local body chiefs told to monitor works
  • Agriculture modernisation will begin soon
  • Disputes “must be settled through talks”
  • Infrastructure in village panchayats to be improved
  • Conference on climate change
  • Plea to rectify anomaly in pension rates
  • Launch agitation against nuclear deal: Jayalalithaa
  • One-day token fast
  • Vijayakant flays Minister
  • CPI (M) leaders meet Karunanidhi
  • Karunanidhi to visit Congress office
  • “SIPCOT units flouting pollution control norms”
  • Vaikundarajan’s office premises raided
  • Public sector banks urged to set up overseas operations
  • HIV positive woman faces discrimination at hospital
  • To them, all that matters is the blips on the radar
  • Soaring cement prices affect construction boom
  • More diarrhoea cases in Pudukottai

    • Tennis

  • Tara could pose serious challenge
  • Bopanna and Qureshi duo in summit clash

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • A CD full of morals
  • Perfect percussion
  • The maestro and his music
  • Roads better under KSTP, says study
  • Updated CD on local governance released
  • Sarvodaya Mandalam gesture
  • Ban on plastic ban hailed
  • Shoppers told to guard against women chain-snatchers
  • Aviation Safety Week observed
  • Bus stand project hits roadblock
  • Two found hanging
  • Trekking camp
  • Coastal councillors to stage dharna
  • Draft policy for scientific land use ready
  • Water Resources Minister indisposed
  • Thomas’ demand
  • Haritha Supermarkets to be relaunched
  • Rupee appreciation hits NRIs
  • ‘Onavillu’: A spiritual tradition revered through the ages
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 20, 1957 : Law and order in Kerala
  • dated August 20, 1957 : Mangal Pande memorial
  • dated August 20, 1957 : Madras University VC

    • Tiruchi

  • Free televisions given to 17 lakh families: Minister
  • Starry Sunday for Rock City film buffs
  • Expos planned at Srirangam Temple
  • Free yoga classes
  • BSNL offer
  • Khadi Commission to promote ‘margin money scheme’ in villages
  • VC to inaugurate Youth Exnora anniversary
  • In Tiruchi today
  • Drainage work in city to be over by October
  • Water supply to be suspended tomorrow
  • Varsity’s gesture to retired teachers
  • “Give adequate time to revenue officials”
  • Cultural committee formed in Tiruchi Central Prison

    • Tirupati

  • SC panel chief visits Dalitwadas
  • Local bodies ignored: Chakrapani

    • Tumkur

  • Attempt to ‘encroach’ upon CMC property

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Probe demanded
  • Efforts on to help tea factories in distress
  • New lease of life for oak tree

    • Udupi

  • Efforts on to promote Tulu language and culture
  • Garbage dumping to be discarded soon: MLA
  • DSS office inaugurated

    • Vellore

  • Need to develop healthy families stressed
  • Opportunity to get TNHB sale deeds
  • Free coaching classes for TNPSC exams
  • Expedite project of linking rivers, says JD (U)

    • Vijayawada

  • Felicitations mark World Photography Day
  • Time to learn lessons from traffic police
  • ‘Saraswathi Gora a born fighter’
  • Special permits for SC, ST women to drive autos
  • Directive to LPG dealers
  • NMU opposes hiring of buses by RTC
  • N-deal not in India’s interest: Left parties
  • Science Centre to witness a flurry of activity
  • Industrialists to prune Loyola syllabus
  • In Vijayawada today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Celebration time for GIFT students
  • ‘Hillock residents face eviction’
  • Photo exhibition held
  • Cherma’s launch today
  • VUDA urged to cancel auctions
  • ‘Knowledge city’ triggers row
  • Five landmines unearthed
  • Infant dies after being adminstered polio drops
  • Five landmines unearthed on highway
  • In Visakhapatnam today

    • Warangal

  • Gear up for second phase of struggle: Brinda

    • Weather

  • Weather

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