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Anantapur

  • Compensation for groundnut ryots soon
  • Tiwari’s effigy burnt

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • A.P. denies dearth of funds
  • BJP to launch ‘Jai Andhra’ stir from today
  • Grand finale
  • Electronic book-keeping pilot project launched
  • ATM opened
  • Scribes reminded of their responsibility
  • Serene setting
  • Posters of ‘Bhaja Govindam’ released
  • Adilabad echos with ‘Bhakti Sangeet’
  • Holiday at Salarjung Museum
  • Pilgrims witness float festival at Bhadrachalam
  • Shift rural bus stand
  • Constable shoots himself
  • Show of camaraderie
  • Ayyappa Swamy puja performed
  • 12 people accused in bus burning case arrested
  • Hostels’ wardens warned
  • Khadi did me in, says TDP MLA
  • Vijayashanti’s “return” boosts TRS
  • Palamuru students begin fast for Telangana
  • Correction
  • Hotel opened
  • CPI (M) to stage protest on price rise
  • ‘Bhaja Govindam’
  • Arrested in murder case
  • Lay new road
  • Eye camp organised
  • Power shutdown tomorrow
  • Dazzling show
  • Maoists call for intensified Telangana movement
  • Daring act
  • Book fair to remain open today
  • IPE invites applications
  • NGC Sadhana 2010
  • Ask the Consul
  • Visas will be scrutinised on a case-by-case basis
  • Cleft school inaugurated
  • New assignment
  •  Crime Watch
  • Time to introspect
  • Panel on Telangana

    • Bangalore

  • A politician’s tryst with cartooning
  • A bid to enter hall of fame
  • Music programme next week
  • Man arrested, ivory seized
  • Protest
  • Conference
  • ‘Make use of welfare schemes’
  • Sub-inspector arrested
  • Eventful year for High Court
  • KBA award for Kaavyalaya Prakashana
  • Change management workshop for police
  • Workshop
  • Memorable night for Swift owners
  • We have lots to learn from them
  • Drinking water goes waste here
  • ‘Cities expand, trees disappear’
  • Identity cards for senior citizens
  • ‘National wealth being privatised’
  • Plays at Rangashankara
  • Three CAR police personnel injured
  • Residents volunteer funds for civic amenities Success
  • Run over
  • Unplanned growth makes matters worse here City Ballot Problems
  • Woman done to death
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Basketball

  • Uttarakhand rides on Riyazuddin’s strikes
  • Uttarakhand beats TN

    • Belgaum

  • Puttaraj Gavai’s condition stable

    • Bihar

  • School building blown up in Bihar
  • Paswan slams Sheila Dikshit for ‘anti-Bihari’ remarks
  • Orwell’s house to be a protected site

    • Bijapur

  • ‘Create awareness on right to vote’
  • Krishi Mela
  • ‘Coop. banks plays a vital role in economic development’

    • Business

  • Optimism over growth must be tempered
  • A look back at 5 of the best businesses
  • Permissible deductions under Section 80C

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chattisgarh

  • Kinnow output to be the highest ever
  • Eye banks to be set up in Haryana
  • HUDA to auction 53 sites
  • Political blame game is on
  • No respite from cold in North India

    • Chennai

  • Beautification of bridges
  • Over 1,500 kids take part in ‘Season of Love’
  • Metrowater land encroachers evicted
  • Chennai Book Fair from December 30
  • Stress on clear standards for delivery of eye care
  • Special arrangements for Vaikunta Ekadasi
  • Wide range of products on display at Home Life Expo
  • A day of memories and smiles
  • Karunanidhi returns to Chennai
  • Consumer club opened
  • First complete cadaver transplant at Stanley
  • New radiation equipment launched at Kamakshi Memorial Hospital
  • Policewoman uses pepper spray to nab suspect
  • Over 10,000 take talent reward exam
  • Two days of fun for young and old
  • BSNL Chennai Telephones clocks 10,000 3G mobile connections
  • Movies; trend of paid previews catches on
  • Share auto system too loaded with woes
  • How beneficial is auto permit system? city pulse
  • Black and yellow taxis rev up again
  • Fall into river
  • Truck driver held
  • “Equitable development still seems a distant dream”
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • India ‘A’ men regain gold

    • Coimbatore

  • Association signs pact with APITCO Limited
  • CNC training centre opened in Coimbatore
  • TACT moots proposal to meet labour shortage
  • Branch opened
  • BSNL expo on Dec. 30
  • ‘Advanced medical technology must reach rural areas’
  • Chamber seeks tax concessions for industries
  • Interim cotton policy sought
  • Increase access to education: Governor
  • Ganga Hospital wins Best Spine Research Award again
  • UNESCO to associate with Tamil meet
  • Collector reviews arrangements
  • Agreement signed
  • A long wait for passengers at junction
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Australian bowlers apply relentless pressure
  • Delhi sets up semifinal clash with Mumbai
  • Narrow win
  • Uttar Pradesh in last four
  • Karnataka makes the grade
  • Vihari cracks ton
  • A hair transplant pitch: Gavaskar
  • Asif to come clean on ‘drug drama’
  • Oxford CC, IPO ‘A’ post wins
  • Match drawn as Mumbai opts for batting practice
  • All gate tickets will be refunded: Jaitley
  • It was no surprise
  • Sehwag batsman of the decade: Pringle
  • Malarvannan shines
  • Test championship mace presented

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 9725
  • Solution to Puzzle 9724

    • Cuddalore

  • TV sets distributed

    • Dindigul

  • Pirated DVDs, CDs seized

    • Editorials

  • The wonder that is Rajarajesvaram
  • Disquieting fall in collections

    • Eluru

  • 2009 sees a spurt in gender crimes
  • MP condemns attacks on ‘settlers’

    • Equestrian

  • Fouad shines

    • Erode

  • Farmers flay land procurement policy
  • Engagements - Erode
  • Farmers oppose LBP lining work

    • Football

  • Shahdara forces a draw
  • East Bengal, Lajong make semifinals
  • Andhra fails to advance
  • Cesc Fabregas’s double strike fires up Arsenal

    • Front Page

  • Good news soon on Telangana: Pranab
  • Pitch unfit, Delhi ODI abandoned
  • Soren to be sworn in on Wednesday
  • Five killed in suicide attack in PoK
  • No further action until consensus: Manmohan assures Buddhadeb
  • Do not set wrong precedent, DMK, Congress urge poll panel
  • JAC calls for Telangana bandh on December 30
  • Police curbs on New Year revelry
  • Japan’s new focus on Asia is good for India
  • Poverty is surely declining, but not fast enough: Manmohan Singh
  • Manmohan strongly defends role of economists
  • India set to retain top spot in milk production
  • Harry Potter “greatest entertainer”
  • Gandhiji foils fake currency designs
  • Relief for expatriates in Saudi Arabia
  • IIM-A to revamp placement system
  • ULFA militant held with RDX near refinery
  • Call for Telangana bandh on Dec. 30
  • Death toll in bridge collapse up to 30
  • Claims for berth in Cabinet grow
  • Rs.56 crore for market intervention
  • Spirit, spurious liquor seized
  • Call for Telangana bandh
  • Alert sounded in three Orissa districts
  • Semi-circle road around Tiruvarur to be laid
  • GJM resumes agitation
  • Stowaway booked under Passport Act
  • Anti-poaching camps to be set up

    • Golf

  • Rashid triumphs

    • Gujarat

  • Unprovoked firing in Kutch

    • Gulbarga

  • Elected
  • Kannada Sene to take out vehicle jatha from January 6
  • Ensure that farmers live with dignity: Shivaraj Patil

    • Guntur

  • Rs. 2 cr for civic works in Guntur
  • Real estate down but not out
  • Eswar College principal gets award
  • Eswar College Principal gets award

    • Hassan

  • White Paper sought on flood relief
  • Two killed in accident

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • ‘Permanent status for Circuit Benches under consideration’

    • Hyderabad

  • Applications invited from artisans for awards
  • Selective violence causes concern
  • Rosaiah for action plan to prevent accidents
  • State denies lack of funds
  • BJP’s ‘Jai Andhra’ movement from today
  • Youth storm Allu Aravind’s office
  • Venkatswamy wants Bill on Telangana
  • Congress leaders divided over status of Hyderabad
  • White paper on allocation of funds sought
  • Rosaiah calls on N.D. Tiwari
  • ‘Mahagarjana’ to press for Telangana
  • State urged to stop police attacks on BCs
  • Students urge V-C to open mess and hostels
  • PR leader regrets State’s losses
  • Real estate ventures turning into liabilities
  • COVA urges students to maintain peace
  • Traffic diversions today
  • Power shutdown utilities
  • IT jobs: market creeping to normalcy
  • Veteran character artiste passes away
  • Jain saint’s centenary celebrations
  • MCEME student officers bag award
  • HMDA to install anti-glare panels on PVNR Expressway
  • Severe power crunch looms large
  • Advocate lodges complaint against Tiwari
  • JAC of Telangana uniformed forces formed
  • Guntur MP asks parties to call off stir
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Restore 131,139 services SCR

    • India & World

  • Evicted Muslims will be resettled in north: Rajapaksa
  • Murder probe into death of Indian businessman in London

    • International

  • Boost to renewable energy in China
  • Zardari vows to foil ‘plot’ against democracy
  • Protests mark Gaza invasion anniversary
  • Nigerian charged with plane blow-up bid
  • Eight die as Iran witnesses huge protests
  • Five killed in suicide attack in PoK

    • Kadapa

  • Jagan disburses housing subsidy

    • Kalpetta

  • Cricket tournament
  • Stop illegal quarrying, says Collector

    • Kannur

  • Call to renovate Pazhassi barrage

    • Karimnagar

  • Varsity holidays
  • MLC, Manakondur MLA express solidarity with fasting students

    • Karnataka

  • ‘Vidhana Soudha Chalo’ rally tomorrow
  • NIT (Karnataka) signs memorandum with Japanese university
  • Action sought
  • Hebbani GP shows the way
  • ‘Fight against hunger’
  • For his contribution
  • ‘Conflicts within BJP has affected its image’
  • ‘No steel being used in Bhadra canal works’
  • DCC criticised over statue location
  • Renukacharya felicitated
  • After a spell...
  • Protest against encroachment
  • Tank-filling project in Haliyal approved
  • Panic in Ankola
  • Condemned
  • Award for best publisher
  • Ayurvedic consultation
  • Vaikunta Ekadasi celebrations
  • When it lasted…
  • States seek Jungle Lodges’ help to develop eco-tourism
  • Pioneer in small family norm gets Shankar Vaidyashree Award
  • Narrow escape for Minister
  • Anti-poaching camps for Bannerghatta park
  • Sammelan president
  • Trek to Mekedatu

    • Kattappana

  • Labour shortage affecting pepper harvest
  • Seminar

    • Kerala

  • Bus-burning case: Kodiyeri objects to parallel NIA probe
  • Pratibha Patil arrives in Kochi on 2-day visit
  • Skill in traditional martial arts
  • Congress’ anniversary fete
  • Literature fighting injustice
  • Award for Madhavan Nair
  • Rural arts
  • Campus Notes
  • Alumni meet at MCC
  • Another feather in the cap
  • Snapshots of life
  • CRIP work
  • Campus notes

    • Kochi

  • Rail reservation centre at Munnar
  • Access for differently abled
  • Rare treat for Koodiyattom fans
  • Dalit literature, an uprising against social injustice: Limbale
  • NIA to begin probe in a week
  • Challenging times for CSL
  • Rs. 30-crore Broadway renovation project planned
  • Minister flags off Ernakulam-Goa train
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kottayam

  • VS cancels programmes
  • New buildings for 500 village offices
  • Award
  • Panchayat declared computer literate

    • Kozhikode

  • Keen contest at dog show
  • 28 couples walk down the aisle of peace
  • Aid given away
  • Youth league rally from February 10
  • Collector asks local bodies to submit projects by March 15
  • Workers’ meet
  • Seven-day palliative care camp concludes
  • An ode to love, on classical guitars
  • Coast Guard to acquire land for base station

    • Kurnool

  • Six killed, 10 hurt in road accident
  • College teachers demand revised UGC scales
  • Kammas’ gesture to flood victims

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Exhuming the truth on Shopian

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Criminals in khaki
  • On paid news

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • ‘Assembly needs to pass Telangana resolution’

    • Madurai

  • Stamp on music exponent released
  • Over 2,000 turn up at job fair
  • Traffic diversion
  • Fake automobile spare parts seized from shop
  • Meet reviews implementation of official language in offices
  • Water level
  • Entrance test on February 28
  • In Madurai Today

    • Malappuram

  • Crafts fair drawing crowds

    • Mangalore

  • CPI(M) to protest against Swarup Committee report
  • Government approves new solid waste management proposal

    • Mysore

  • Annual children’s Census in January
  • Association condemns arrest of farmers
  • Year-end is boom time for tourism industry
  • Meeting discusses preparations needed for Kumbha Mela
  • Build Stupas for spread of Buddhism: MLA
  • 25,000 visit Mysore palace on Saturday
  • Foundation Day
  • Celebrations

    • Nagapattinam

  • Consultative meet held

    • Nagercoil

  • Seashell workers seek welfare board
  • Free TV sets distributed
  • Killed in road accident

    • Nalgonda

  • State kabaddi teams storm into semi-finals

    • National

  • CPI(M) Polit Bureau attacks Centre’s ‘pro-U.S. policies’
  • Narasimhan to look after Andhra Pradesh
  • Two more bodies found at Kota bridge site
  • ‘Rectification process will start from the top’
  • Dankuni rail projects will generate 1 lakh jobs: Mamata Banerjee
  • Molestation victim’s father for reopening case against Rathore
  • Surge in swine flu cases
  • Revisiting the case for restoring justice
  • Bomb scare
  • RJD, LJP to take on NDA, Congress
  • GJM resumes agitation
  • Spectators go berserk at Kotla
  • Tharoor tweets another row
  • CPI leaders Bardhan, Raja meet Deve Gowda
  • RTE still remains on paper
  • Former CEC advocates compulsory voting
  • Stowaway remanded to ten days’ police custody

    • New Delhi

  • New crop likely to ease onion prices
  • Free cardiac screening camp
  • New IGNOU city centre set up
  • ‘DDCA responsible for match abandonment’
  • New traffic circulation plan for CP
  • “Terminal 3 will be operational in July next year”
  • Mobile vans to sell train tickets
  • NCERT director gets another extension
  • Vintage beauties
  • Court dismisses appeal in gold seizure case
  • Enjoying Delhi’s winter
  • Crafts Bazaar to focus on sustainable livelihood
  • On a comeback trail....
  • Elderly feeling socially marginalised: Survey
  • Robbers decamp with cash, jewellery
  • Ten injured in DTC low-floor bus mishap
  • Jeweller shot dead
  • Helper killed in freak incident
  • Hoax bomb call
  • Accused identified in Dwarka assault case
  • Windshield of AI plane damaged
  • Tharoor tweets another row, this time on visa rules
  • Rivals join hands on merging UP villages into Uttarakhand
  • In the Capital Today
  • Plea for justice

    • News Analysis

  • Let the benefits of the Act reach the oppressed
  • Groundwater mining: American experience
  • Father, teenager, son — searching for real Tiger Woods
  • Mortgage brokers tested on proficiency

    • Nizamabad

  • Plea to students to protest in peaceful manner

    • Orissa

  • Words of wisdom
  • Industrial houses hold twenty20
  • Bank officers oppose merger proposal
  • Old students go down memory lane
  • CPI (M) alleges lapses in paddy procurement
  • Manmohan wants more focus on science
  • Give chance to others also
  • One killed in accident
  • Efforts on to attract private investment: Naveen

    • Other States

  • Industrial package extension sought
  • 1,500 cases solved in mega Lok Adalat
  • Two killed, 20 injured in fog related mishaps

    • Palakkad

  • Minister to flag off trains
  • Pet show held
  • Totally electrified constituency
  • Award presented to T.K.A. Nair
  • Land to all tribals by next year: Minister

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Cleaning drive begins at Sabarimala
  • Venugopala Varma Raja to escort Thiruvabharanam

    • Puducherry

  • International yoga festival in January
  • Music programme held
  • Engagements - Puducherry
  • Pawn shop burgled
  • Banking scenario in Puducherry reviewed
  • Fake IMFL unit busted
  • Tourists make a beeline for Chunnambar in Puducherry

    • Racing : Horse

  • Kings Cruise in fine nick
  • Star Warrior wins feature
  • Iaepetus claims main event
  • It’s Flashing Star vs. Royal Falcon

    • Racing : Motor

  • Harry Sylvester and Karthick win

    • Raichur

  • NEKRTC suspends bus service to Telangana region

    • Rajahmundry

  • ‘Jai Andhra’ backers discuss strategy

    • Rajasthan

  • Stress on non-toxic agents in cancer management

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Focus on polio eradication
  • Hundreds of devotees throng temple

    • Religion

  • Garuda’s readiness to serve

    • Salem

  • Scouting Centenary Express arrives in Salem
  • Pillion riders exempted from wearing helmet
  • Woman fatally knocked down
  • Exhibition on wheels arrives in Salem

    • Shimoga

  • 30,000 answer scripts of degree exams go up in flames
  • Provide education to children, Eshwarappa tells Muslims

    • Sport

  • Minefield of a pitch forces calling-off
  • Bengal teams

    • Sports : General

  • Chhattisgarh triumphs
  • Akash Rohit betters his own mark
  • Bowling tournament
  • AOC Centre in final

    • Tamil Nadu

  • International Tea Day observed
  • Winning laurels
  • Electrocuted
  • Accord high priority to disaster prevention and management: Revenue Commissioner
  • In a mess
  • Symposium
  • Kudos to Collector
  • ‘Evolve strategy to end effluent discharge problem in Tirupur’
  • Arani silk producers on strike
  • Residents themselves start repairing road
  • Killed
  • Employment camp
  • Over 1.85 lakh children to be administered polio drops
  • Exotic designs in full splendour at fashion show in Chennai
  • 3 boys drown in sea
  • DMK, Congress urge EC not to “set wrong precedent”
  • Wild elephants destroy crops
  • Picture perfect
  • Sickening
  • One killed, 21 injured in accident
  • Plan to tap toddy on January 21
  • Plan to set up virtual institute for research
  • Surprise check
  • Arrangements
  • What they say
  • CPI (M) stages demonstration
  • Tea Day observed
  • Programme
  • Awareness camp
  • Fatal fall
  • Four killed, 35 injured as bus hits tree near Krishnagiri
  • TNEB move to levy reliability charge evokes mixed response
  • Convention demands national fund for women’s schemes
  • Stalin releases book of poems on “loneliness of metro life”
  • Karunanidhi recalls excerpts of draft on Tamil
  • Jesuits urge society to think ahead of leaders to sustain environment
  • Ramadoss for caste-wise census in State
  • Late arrival of train
  • Circuitous route
  • Parking lots

    • Tennis

  • Easy for Nityesh

    • Thanjavur

  • Confluence of two art forms

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Book fair to conclude today
  • Supermarket programme announced
  • Commissioning of airport terminal to be delayed
  • RYF protest
  • Plea for minimum wages in coir sector
  • Measures for more farm loans
  • Budget might have more welfare steps
  • Train rescheduled
  • Congress to celebrate 125th anniversary
  • Panampilly award for Madhavan Nair
  • Six truckloads of deposits extracted
  • Engagements - Thiruvananthapuram
  • Revenue adalat
  • Wanted man, associate arrested near Kilimanoor

    • This Day That Age

  • dated December 28, 1959: Research work in history
  • dated December 28, 1959: Indus basin waters
  • dated December 28, 1959: Bhilai Plant

    • Thrissur

  • Unveiling horrors of fanaticism
  • Prisoner escapes again
  • Writer to observe fast
  • ‘Talibanisation hits cultural activities’
  • Keep prices of life-saving drugs in check: former judge
  • Science fair on Monday
  • Youths killed

    • Tiruchi

  • Engagements
  • “Tamil Nadu should promote Hindi”
  • Need to tackle threat of global warming at individual level stressed
  • Mettur level
  • Free Veda classes to be held
  • Extension of corporation being examined: Minister
  • 6,068 candidates appear for UGC-NET examination

    • Tirumala

  • Yeddyurappa in Tirumala

    • Tirunelveli

  • Power shutdown
  • New load-shedding schedule from today
  • “Reconsider move to ban sale of plastic products”
  • Case against army majors

    • Tirupati

  • Farmers’ meet receives good response
  • Train passenger amenities improved
  • TUDA chief joins issue with KCR
  • TTD gears up for ‘Vaikunta Ekadasi’

    • Udhagamandalam

  • New houses for landslip-hit victims

    • Udupi

  • SIO to take out procession
  • ‘Artists should keep learning’
  • ‘Government will give all help to Scouts and Guides’

    • Vijayawada

  • Fitness of school buses checked
  • Blood donation camp at Kesineni Bhavan
  • ‘e-city’ turns into gourmet’s delight
  • Musaddilal Jewellers opens showroom
  • Pathapadu dumping pit getting ready
  • Samaikyandhra leaders to ’expose’ BJP
  • AIDWA demands gas connections
  • Andhra on top : Kanna
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Hair transplant institute inaugurated
  • Wholesale entertainment for families at RR Grand
  • Fire in Fishing Harbour creates panic
  • Seminar organised
  • Academic audit system for JNTU(K) begins
  • ‘Legendary Nite’ at Hotel Green Park
  • Stress on biotech to save environment
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • CIL bags title
  • National championship from today

    • Warangal

  • KU teachers’ body
  • Call to preserve crafts and culture

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • Baishya elected IWF president

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