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Anantapur

  • Lepakshi Foundation trains rural youth, farmers

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • 14 dancers from Adilabad take part in SiliconAndhra meet
  • Exotic attraction
  • Normalcy returns to village post-pushkarams
  • New look
  • Four tenant farmers die
  • Back to work
  • Unfortunate
  • Study on millet-based food for children
  • Correction
  • ‘Bollywood has place for all'
  • Taking no chances
  • In grief
  • Jagan writes to Centre on farmers' problems
  • A sight to behold
  • Accident victim dies due to lack of medicare
  • Conservation award for TTD

    • Bangalore

  • New year at a glance
  • Message in a bottle
  • Keep an eye on your drink while dancing
  • Yuva JD(U), AIDSO come out against land allotment
  • Ex-VCs up in arms over decision on land for judges' colony
  • Karuna Award for three
  • Fun at the wheel
  • Retirement age of medical teachers may go up
  • It is jackpot time for entertainers
  • Tourist places receive good bookings
  • Apartment parties, the new trend
  • Generation Next to party hard to usher in New Year
  • 140 site owners in Visvesvaraya Layout of BDA left in the lurch
  • Exhibition
  • Loan recovery agent hacked to death
  • Welder stabbed to death
  • BWSSB writes to BBMP on rules violation by telecom companies
  • Jaipur Foot camp
  • Youth urged to take part in nation-building
  • Bangalore Today

    • Basketball

  • Annamalai wins title
  • Viveks to meet Protek in final
  • Jagdeep Singh to lead

    • Bellary

  • Moderate to brisk polling in Bellary

    • Bidar

  • Moderate polling in Bidar
  • People of Varavatti stage protest in Bidar

    • Bijapur

  • ‘24-hr. power in rural areas in a few years'

    • Boxing

  • Big field for sub-junior National boxing

    • Business

  • More than onions
  • Economy will undergo metamorphic change
  • MAT becomes stiffer
  • Whether charities are entitled to depreciation
  • Approval for deduction for donors under Sec. 80G
  • Economy will undergo metamorphic change

    • Carrom

  • National junior carrom

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • A fest that exceeded expectations
  • Roads ravaged by rain still in shambles
  • Digital short film festival in Chennai
  • Court upholds two circulars of DSE
  • DMK not after power, says Minister
  • V.D. Swami's contributions to noble causes recalled
  • Shop sealed
  • Documentary movie on cyber crime screened
  • “Harris Jeyaraj, a composer who do not hesitate to experiment”
  • Students take FIITJEE Talent Reward Exam
  • Coaching classes inaugurated
  • Unstable prices put consumers in soup
  • Of Tiger, Poochi and Puliodarai
  • Loss to the nation is real and not speculative: Jayalalithaa
  • Magnetic charm
  • Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Two in joint lead
  • Eleven players share lead
  • Tejasvi holds Raghuram
  • Abhijeet beats Naroditsky

    • Coimbatore

  • Workshop
  • Passport adalat on Jan. 8
  • Srikkanth makes reunion memorable for CIT alumni
  • Youth awarded for service
  • Farmers should purchase only BEE star-rated pumpets
  • Reminiscing their ‘silver' memories
  • Windmills generate employment too for village youths
  • Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Pukhraj puts Punjab on top
  • Rajasthan in driver's seat
  • Kiwis ride on Southee's heroics
  • Sanju Samson cracks ton
  • MCG to honour Shane Warne
  • Vignesh, Meheta emerge champions
  • Thiagarajan excels
  • Anderson savours England's special day
  • Ojha and Saxena give MP hope
  • Shreyas leads Railways' desperate fightback
  • Ambattur beats Korattur

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 10035
  • Solution to puzzle 10034

    • Cuddalore

  • Annamalai University to evaluate submergence-tolerance of paddy
  • Special gram sabha meetings on December 29
  • Residents protest NLC action

    • Dindigul

  • Free mortuary van facility shortly
  • Plan to establish stadium for cultural events
  • Folk dance and music festival from today

    • Editorials

  • Closure to an unfortunate episode
  • China’s calibrated balancing act

    • Erode

  • Aasanur gets a fire station
  • People turn to farmers' markets in Erode district
  • Three held for possessing tiger skin

    • Football

  • Mohd. Sporting triumphs
  • Sudheesh fires in three
  • Costa on loan to Vasco de Gama
  • Carlton Cole's double does the trick for West Ham
  • Two EPL games postponed
  • Dimitar Berbatov's double keeps Manchester United on top

    • Front Page

  • CAG to appear before PAC today on 2G issue
  • Fog disrupts flights, train services
  • 13 killed as boat capsizes near Ramanathapuram
  • Andhra Pradesh student shot dead in U.S.
  • GSLV failures fuel disappointment and anxiety
  • Left to intensify agitation against telecom scam
  • I want permanent solution, says Bainsla
  • ‘Rajasthan Gujjars should also get ST status'
  • Selflessness is the artery to spiritual journey: Linda Oliveira
  • Air India continues on turnaround path
  • REDD-plus a new mantra, despite divisions
  • In China, one can become High Court judge at 23
  • Chhattisgarh police unable to explain how Guha was arrested
  • Steyn has India hopping and jumping again
  • An atrocious batting display by Australia
  • Olive Ridley nesting at peril
  • 250 would be a good score: Laxman
  • Indian ship detained at Chittagong port over suit
  • China's dams in Xinjiang region trigger concerns in Kazakhstan
  • Yet another ‘honour killing' in Haryana village
  • Two held for transporting firearms
  • Vijayawada youth shot dead in US
  • Kiran's appeal to MLAs, MPs goes in vain
  • Ready to resign en masse, say Telangana Congress leaders
  • 64 p.c. polling in first phase of panchayat elections

    • Golf

  • Karan Vasudeva triumphs

    • Gulbarga

  • ‘We'll generate power with less uranium'
  • ‘Kalburgi Kampu' gets good response
  • Parties step up campaign

    • Guntur

  • Alumni meet held at Hindu College
  • SI commits suicide
  • Top leaders making a beeline for Guntur

    • Hockey

  • Poovanna excels

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Seminar on historian
  • Reaction to charge

    • Hyderabad

  • Naidu advised to continue liquid diet
  • Do not glorify suicides: Kiran
  • Congress ridicules TDP plan to hold Dec. 30 meet
  • TDP criticises Kiran's remarks
  • Freedom fighter ‘YVK' passes away
  • Rededicate yourself, CPI cadres told
  • New mineral water launched
  • State told not to toe WB line
  • Demand to regularise Class IV staff
  • Sardar Kesar Singh felicitated
  • Students run for a worthy cause
  • Hyderabadi with ears of steel
  • These techies feel ‘its time to make a difference'
  • Children showcase their math skills
  • HMDA starts providing plots to ORR-affected families
  • Power shutdown
  • CPDCL temporarily suspends SMS alert service
  • OUTA opposes ‘outsider' as V-C
  • Sharp rise in accidents involving students
  • Telangana stir to peak in February: KCR
  • State to open helplines in flood-hit districts
  • Ensure availability of proper land records: ex-Chief Justice
  • 3 murdered in city
  • Hyderabad to be ‘most liveable city' by 2031
  • ‘No force can suppress Telangana spirit'
  • Foreign liquor seized
  • Amendments to HCA constitution likely
  • Road re-carpeting works begun
  • Hi-tech driving test track soon
  • FCI procures discoloured paddy
  • Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Sikh ‘Gatka' group performs in Singapore

    • International

  • New challenge for Pakistan
  • Cold wave hits Moscow
  • Julian Assange in £1 million book deal
  • Minor quake shakes New Zealand
  • Tributes to tsunami victims
  • Still a playboy
  • Iran warns Pakistan
  • More than onions

    • Kalpetta

  • Accused in job scam surrenders

    • Kannur

  • Cancer detection camp organised at Mokery
  • Auto, taxi strike from Wednesday

    • Karimnagar

  • Telangana activists gear up for intensification of movement
  • Case booked against ex-MLAs, five others

    • Karnataka

  • ALTlab opens admissions
  • Police nod for ‘Sunburn'
  • Officials close down Asnotikar's office
  • Hotegali voters to boycott poll
  • Asnotikar fields his loyalists
  • Ready for a fight
  • Mob manhandles election official in Kolar district
  • ‘It is my duty to vote'
  • Travellers' travails
  • Cherlapally prison to tie up with India Post, ECIL
  • Young at heart
  • Clashes mar polling in Chitradurga
  • Okkoota leader criticises Governor
  • What's your daily diet of lead?
  • Civic apathy
  • It is party time
  • BJP Government's days numbered: JD(S)
  • Marked improvement in cold wave conditions in State
  • Many allegations against BJP candidates
  • ‘India's strength lies in its religious base'
  • One person injured, two booths ransacked in Chickballapur
  • BJP demand does not merit attention,says Kharge
  • Issues plaguing panchayati raj bodies take back seat
  • Puja at polling booth

    • Kerala

  • Techies find car pooling unattractive
  • Talent exam
  • Never a dull moment
  • Annadana-Sadya
  • In police custody
  • To net a good catch
  • Celestial wonders
  • Yajnha, public meeting held amid tight security
  • Centenary fete concludes
  • Anthropological museum to have new additions
  • Beckoning memories with gramophone records
  • Theatre production by school
  • Vanishing ecology
  • From within
  • Lottery case: Centre urged to order probe

    • Khammam

  • Orthopaedic centre celebrates anniversary
  • State government has failed to bail out ryots: TDP, Left parties

    • Kochi

  • Sastra Sadas begins at Sanskrit college
  • Christmas Eve liquor sales plummet
  • Dhanlaxmi Bank inks pact with Doha Bank
  • Gold poised to retain its glitter
  • Andrews award for Puthusserry
  • Band training for students begins
  • Child dead, father injured as car hits bike
  • Interview
  • Parks, open spaces need sprucing up
  • Comprehensive plan for restoration of Kuzhikandam creek soon
  • City roads plunge into darkness after dusk

    • Kollam

  • Bhagawatha Sathram discourse
  • Nod for first priority works of Kollam Canal

    • Kottayam

  • Old students meet of St. Thomas college
  • Session on U.S. immigration

    • Kozhikode

  • Chamber to hold seminar
  • NRI forum to hold mass wedding today
  • Kozhikode in for investments: Karim
  • List of dropouts, illiterates ready

    • Kurnool

  • GPR students shine in campus placements
  • ‘Announce package for ryots'

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Let a thousand heretics bloom

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Verdict against Sen
  • Overreaction?
  • The spice of food
  • Imperilled?
  • Australia's apology
  • State holiday

    • Madikeri

  • Wakf Board chief hails BJP
  • Arabic college meet tomorrow
  • BJP must ensure free and fair atmosphere in CMC: Congress
  • BJP accused of reversing de-centralisation of power
  • BJP rule in State called a burden

    • Madurai

  • Training on millet-based value-added product
  • Snakes and myths surrounding them
  • Probationary staff can be dismissed: High Court
  • Repco Bank offers new deposit scheme to mark anniversary
  • Student-focused life skills to be developed
  • Collector holds meeting with “jallikattu” organisers
  • Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Congressmen in Pune wary of political fallout in the State

    • Malappuram

  • Interpret Koran through Hadith: Salafi scholars
  • Convocation at college
  • Hard to be a rationalist: Srinivasan

    • Mangalore

  • Children tune into lessons
  • A perfect blend of colour, music
  • Tagore Film Festival ends
  • Maths easy, but films were tough for him
  • There is no substitute for hard work, children told
  • Timing of Hindu samajotsavas questioned
  • ‘BJP paying candidates to retire'
  • JD(S) pins hopes on Bangarappa
  • Enumeration work irks women teachers in Mangalore

    • Mysore

  • Yeddyurappa lambasts Opposition parties
  • Scrap shops to be moved to outskirts
  • Battle lines drawn for ZP, TP polls
  • Cattle vaccination to be taken up
  • Classical dance festival to mark centre's jubilee
  • Four held on charge of murdering girl

    • National

  • West Bengal should reply to Chidambaram, says Pranab
  • Singur could not block State's progress: Buddhadeb
  • Onion prices will be under control: Pranab
  • Women PSBJC activists ‘snatch' 2 detenus
  • Apologise to Advani, BJP tells Congress
  • Bill to protect fisherfolk's traditional rights on anvil
  • Maoists, police exchange fire in Khammam forest
  • Another ‘honour killing' in Haryana village
  • Maoists kill CRPF constable
  • Willing to resign en masse, say Telangana Congress MPs, MLAs
  • ‘Congress won't intervene in Kalmadi case'
  • Ammunition seized from ULFA dump
  • Special prayers mark tsunami anniversary in Tamil Nadu
  • Chance of getting UNSC seat bright: Nirupama Rao
  • With South Africa in, it will be BRICS
  • Blanket of fog
  • 77 Passport Seva Kendras next year
  • Spectacular Kuchipudi feat thrills President Pratibha Patil
  • Many trees at botanical gardens reduced to cinders

    • Nellore

  • NAPM on “Jana Jagruthi Yatra”
  • Repairs to Penna barrage soon
  • JP underscores need for independent media

    • New Delhi

  • Four ‘scribes' arrested
  • Rights groups slam conviction of Binayak Sen, seek justice
  • New ‘Silk Route' via Bangladesh to give greater connectivity to North-East
  • IGNOU, Air Force join hands for higher education to airmen
  • Two arrested for rape of woman
  • The wheel of dharma
  • Book fair turns into a Hindi-Chinese event
  • Colours of nature
  • Bhakra dam to be guarded by CISF personnel
  • “Turnaround plan showing results”
  • ‘Script decides the fate of the movie'
  • New guidelines issued for flying in fog
  • Train schedules affected due to fog
  • Man arrested for murder of cousin's wife
  • To our readers
  • Remembering Ghalib
  • Innovative knee joint replacement introduced
  • ‘Night shelters for this year the best-ever'
  • Focus on new avatar of Civil Services examination
  • ‘DDA flats should not be for non-Delhiites'
  • IGNOU to train counsellors
  • Digvijay Singh's kin joins JD (U)
  • Clearance of forest for herbal garden stopped
  • CPI celebrates its 85th foundation Day
  • Train services disrupted in Jharkhand
  • Five die as cold grips North
  • Gangster Act slapped on BSP MLA
  • Elephants go on the rampage in West Midnapore
  • Fog disrupts flights, train services in New Delhi
  • Motivating school children
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • A tough innings at the helm
  • Riding out the wrongs of state power
  • British law spurs scrutiny of excess packaging
  • In rabies vaccines, Nepal set to become self-dependent

    • Nizamabad

  • Stone to be laid for medical college

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Onion price rise: BJP women's wing to launch campaign
  • New Year gift for prisoners

    • Orissa

  • New road connectivity to 1,747 habitations
  • Faithful visitors
  • Crop loss: OKS to hold road blockade on Jan. 4
  • Youth Congress begins show of strength in State
  • Youth ‘ends life' in police custody
  • Christmas card creates tension in Nabrangpur
  • Naveen lashes out at Centre for ‘neglecting farmers'
  • Tension over group clash at agriculture university

    • Palakkad

  • Award to be presented to Nirupama Rao today
  • ‘Mango city' says no to pesticides

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Rousing reception to Thanka Anki
  • Declare holiday on Makaravilakku: TDB

    • Perambalur

  • Ten-day expo to showcase welfare schemes: Minister

    • Puducherry

  • Closure of firm ordered
  • Plans afoot to honour centenarians
  • Homage paid to tsunami victims
  • PIPDIC exploring option to enter micro financing, service sectors

    • Punjab

  • Bansal ticks off Chandigarh Housing Board over unaffordable rates

    • Raichur

  • 51 per cent polling in Raichur

    • Rajahmundry

  • Many witness Hanuman yagnam
  • Package will benefit farmers, says Minister
  • Tenant ryots' suicides on the rise

    • Rajasthan

  • Bid to promote small entrepreneurs in Rajasthan
  • Call for Geographical Indications registration for Kundan Meena

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Pall of gloom descends on Periapattinam village

    • Readers' Editor : Online

  • Universal health care: media push needed

    • Religion

  • Magnetic charm

    • Shimoga

  • Karate children bring laurels
  • Incident-free polling in Shimoga

    • Sport

  • Steyn has India hopping and jumping again
  • An atrocious batting display by Australia
  • 250 would be a good score: Laxman
  • TN sets sights on semifinal spot
  • Dance festival gets under way
  • Two-wheeler parking lot opened at Koyambedu bus terminus

    • Sports : General

  • TN claims men's title
  • Incognito triumphs
  • Zamorin wins Deccan Juvenile Million
  • Don Valentino well prepared

    • Swimming

  • Akash sets new meet record
  • NSA's membership upheld

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Festival aims at reviving ancient form of dances
  • Colourful
  • Accidents hurt
  • Up for grabs
  • Applications invited
  • ‘Delist wild boar from Wild Life Protection Act'
  • Jumbos return to damage crops near Hosur
  • Free ‘pongal' package for 1.94 crore card-holders, says official
  • Mark of respect
  • Speed test
  • Tragic incident
  • One killed, four injured in accident
  • Work on crucial link road may begin in a few months
  • Valparai tourists warned of jumbos' movement
  • Sarathkumar not for alliance with DMK
  • Taking stock
  • Accused in murder case surrenders
  • Runaway boy from Salem restored to kin
  • Bomb hoax drill at Aliyar dam
  • AIADMK stages demonstration at Valparai
  • What they say
  • A picture of simplicity and humility
  • e-Guru, Guru, and You-Guru
  • Cricket and music, a heady mix
  • Oduvars in need of patronage
  • Proposed CRZ notification to empower fisherfolk habitations
  • Chidambaram writes to Karunanidhi
  • VCK demands autonomy for States
  • Uneasy calm in village after clash

    • Tennis

  • Manoj in last four
  • Fish slams leniency
  • A nostalgic walk down memory lane

    • Thanjavur

  • Thanjavur stadium to be improved
  • Skaters gear up for national meet
  • Congress shying away from forming JPC: Pandian

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Rare visitor to Gandhi Bhavan in State capital
  • ‘Star trees' to add glitter to IBC expo
  • Directive to frame citizen's charter
  • Banks unhappy with Debt Recovery Tribunal
  • State receives good spell of rain
  • Government order a relief to cash-strapped panchayats
  • Project to mechanise dairy farms
  • Garlic prices shoot up
  • A rare poetic confluence
  • Conciliatory meet fails to resolve standoff
  • Work on sewage treatment plant to be expedited
  • Keralotsavam begins today
  • Meeting

    • This Day That Age

  • dated December 27, 1960: Late Feroze Gandhi
  • dated December 27, 1960: Transport system
  • dated December 27, 1960: Calcutta Derby stakes

    • Thrissur

  • Colourful start to ‘Yuvamahotsava'
  • Butoh, body and beyond
  • Re-evaluation of women's role in theatre sought

    • Tiruchi

  • Dogs hold centre stage at multimedia exhibition
  • Marine life comes alive at expo
  • Tickling the funny bone
  • Cell culture-based research advocated
  • Ban on plastic products to be strictly enforced
  • Over 500 write FIITJEE test
  • Chartered accountants updated on tax laws
  • 'Wrong opinion about Hindi must be dispelled'
  • Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • “Build a peaceful India”

    • Tirupati

  • Dharmacharyas' meet on Vedic astrology ends
  • ‘Happy Hugs' campaign on Jan. 1
  • Crafts exhibition draws crowds
  • Seemandhra BC-JAC formed
  • SAPS call to leaders
  • UP Governor visits ISKCON
  • Kapu Nadu plea to Chief Minister on BC status
  • Tirumala to be ‘no-plastic zone'

    • Tumkur

  • 65 per cent polling in Tumkur district

    • Tuticorin

  • Fishermen to get distress alert transmitters

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Construction worker killed
  • Spurt in flow of tourists to Udhagamandalam

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Inter-State arms racket busted, two arrested
  • Six IPS officers transferred in UP

    • Uttaranchal

  • “Anupama refused to separate for the sake of kids”

    • Vellore

  • D.P. Kothari named IEEE Fellow
  • VIT signs MoU with Asian varsities

    • Vijayawada

  • Padmasali body vows to help weavers
  • Math phobia can be overcome: expert
  • Awareness on obesity needed for better health, says expert
  • VMC planning to link two water treatment plants
  • Tributes paid to Ranga
  • Bhavanis set to relinquish ‘deeksha' from today
  • Encroachments come in the way of RoB work
  • Opposition parties lash out at government
  • State relief eludes tenant farmers
  • Opposition protests for political mileage: Minister
  • Cultivate creative abilities, youth told

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Thousands pray to the sea god
  • JCI NATCON from today
  • Andhra University tennis team confident of retaining title
  • Diversion of library funds decried
  • Free dental camp held
  • MLB Trust silver jubilee fete concludes
  • ‘People believe that Jagan alone can deliver the goods'
  • Sreeram Chandra in Hollywood big league
  • HRF condemns lifer for PUCL activist
  • Call to end ‘discrimination' against private libraries
  • State Bank to organise meeting for NRIs
  • Girl succumbs to injuries
  • Sreeram regales music lovers
  • Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Crime against women up in Warangal
  • Heart awareness meet held

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • Six top Maoist leaders arrested

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