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Andhra Pradesh

  • Warm welcome to PM at Puttaparthi
  • Two die after consuming toddy
  • Teachers federation for single language system
  • Participatory approach to benefit farmers
  • Decks cleared for Sun Micro centre at CDFD
  • Ticket, talks and desertions
  • CM doubts viability of Congress promise
  • Majlis looks beyond Hyderabad
  • TRS completes scrutiny of applications
  • CITU releases booklet on `World Bank terms'
  • Villagers' fears over setting up of gas terminal allayed
  • A road show
  • New Government by May 15: Lyngdoh
  • NABARD sees credit potential for agriculture
  • Inter practical exam from February 16
  • Stamp scam: Congress alleges cover-up bid
  • WB package to further reform process
  • CPI-ML faction to re-nominate candidate
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • ICFAI varsity welcomes UGC rule
  • CM flays Congress for projecting Sonia for Prime Minister post

    Bangalore

  • Management students slug it out
  • Six die as car, tipper collide
  • Mayor asks for marshals in BMP Council
  • Couple sustain burns
  • Scooterist run over by bus
  • BMP budget on February 19
  • Destitute children now have a home
  • Around The City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Stock Market Index
  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    Belgaum

  • 2,27,336 more voters in Belgaum district this time

    Bellary

  • Officials told to tackle water scarcity
  • Second round of anti-polio drive from February 22
  • Pulse Polio on February 22

    Briefly

  • iSoft to expand India operations
  • Petronet ties up $550 m loan
  • i-flex's feat
  • Nicholas to set up subsidiary in U.S.
  • Western Union ties up with Vijaya Bank
  • Zee plans $100 m bond issue
  • AMP Sanmar's plans
  • Garmentech Bangladesh 2004
  • Pantaloon's pact with Arvind brands
  • SAIL Director (Commercial) assumes charge

    Business

  • Insurance: RBI relaxes norms for NBFCs
  • Futures trading in cardamom takes off
  • Honour for Ratan Tata
  • Bharti gets five more phone licences
  • MRPL allowed to set up petrol stations
  • Chinese demand pushes up copper prices
  • Microsoft participates in Linux meet

    Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    Chattisgarh

  • No truck with Shukla: Bais
  • Jogi may help Cong. as `grassroot worker': Vora

    Chennai

  • Tankers leave a trail of wastage
  • Focus on traffic management, improving road network
  • 8 more EMU pairs soon in Beach-Tiruvanmiyur section
  • Training for teachers in AIDS education
  • School for special children
  • 10 Congress supporters arrested for tearing poster
  • Around The City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Vinuthna, Rajadarshini share lead

    Coimbatore

  • Six get life-term for murder
  • Rain in Siruvani, but little gain
  • Five-day training programme
  • Solatium for victim of elephant attack
  • Subscribers protest phone disconnection
  • Seized
  • Around The City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Developing entrepreneurial skills

    Cricket

  • Mumbai has the last laugh
  • Can England take the cue from Rodney Marsh?
  • BCCI panel happy with security arrangements
  • England `A' hopes to pull one back

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 7904
  • Solution to puzzle 7903

    Cuddalore

  • Direct train from Cuddalore to Coimbatore sought

    Cuddapah

  • MPTC member quits TDP

    Dharwad

  • It is elected functionaries vs. officialdom again
  • ZP members stay away from meeting

    Editorials

  • INDIA'S ECONOMY SURGES AHEAD
  • OPTING FOR ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS

    Football

  • NFL second phase from February 21

    Front Page

  • 47 killed in Baghdad blast
  • Cricketers express concern over security in Pakistan
  • Enough evidence was given to Musharraf: U.S.
  • EC convenes all-party meet on February 20
  • Two injured in Delhi blast
  • Sikkim Assembly dissolved
  • Murdered

    Guntur

  • `Janda panduga' a non-event in Palnadu
  • Stone laid for DRM office complex

    Haryana

  • Elections as scheduled: Chautala
  • It is advantage INLD in Haryana

    Hassan

  • Govt. slammed for move to cut aid
  • Libraries being starved of funds, says MP
  • Increase in number of columnists welcomed

    Himachal Pradesh

  • Rs.40 cr. to be spent on new bus-stands

    Hyderabad

  • A traffic bottleneck in the making?
  • Trouble at village: Minister sees TRS hand
  • Stone laid for Paryatak Bhavan
  • Businessman robbed of Rs. 12 lakhs
  • No power supply
  • `Rakshaka Mitra' award for nine cops
  • Bajrang Dal plea
  • Official apathy compounds misery of MIG-2 residents
  • Around The City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Religious freedom: U.S. panel lists India among `violators'

    International

  • Russian presidential candidate resurfaces
  • French MPs back ban on religious symbols
  • Kerry wins in Virginia, Tennessee
  • Chandrika sacks 39 Ministers

    Kannur

  • DGP to inaugurate exhibition on February 16

    Karimnagar

  • SHGs on path of prosperity
  • SCCL contests

    Karnataka

  • Many students injured in lathi-charge
  • Assembly dissolution any time now: Poojary
  • Legislative Council adopts Bill to protect depositors
  • HKDB not to be abolished?
  • Grills enhance beauty of Vidhana Soudha, says Krishna
  • Many students hurt in lathi-charge
  • Action on the basis of narco-analysis ruled out
  • Urs's daughter for quashing of notice
  • `Centre urged to set up IIT in Bangalore'
  • Tinaikar to contest Lok Sabha poll
  • Govt. employees' to join strike
  • Bill to bifurcate university passed
  • Krishna rebuts charge on panchayat raj meet
  • Police team for Kerala
  • Bangalore city not hit by power cut
  • IT Corridor Authority Bill introduced
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Man dies as bus rams lorry
  • Centre to fund desilting of Don

    Kerala

  • Muraleedharan sworn in Minister
  • Murali gets Electricity
  • Notice issued to Education Minister
  • SLPEs continue to drain the exchequer
  • Motor transport workers drop strike plan
  • Afforestation clause may delay land for tribals
  • Seat-sharing: CMP treads a different path
  • `Orthodox faction torpedoing peace initiative'
  • Stage set for flower show
  • Maramon convention from February 15
  • Akshaya scheme to be extended to all districts
  • 4 Keralites among those killed in plane crash
  • Plachimada: expert panel files reports
  • CPI(M), CPI panels meet
  • Marad: plan to resume stir to press for CBI probe
  • Cine actress held on charges of cheating
  • New KPCC chief soon: Patel
  • NSS stays away from swearing-in
  • Halt for train
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Locals join hands to protect Meenmutty
  • `Political leadership should focus on development'

    Kochi

  • Corporation, Ombudsman headed for confrontation
  • Portfolio change: concern over fate of tourism projects
  • Disappointment over change in Thomas' portfolio
  • Flower show gets under way
  • Cardamom futures trading inaugurated
  • FACT emergency meeting on February 27
  • `Illegal' recruitment: travel agency operator held
  • Employees' plea to revive company
  • Protest against Government decision
  • Voltage improvement
  • Around The City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Spotlight on child labour

    Kollam

  • Conference on DNA

    Kottayam

  • Awards for DC Books

    Kozhikode

  • Decline in number of voters in Vadakara, Kozhikode

    Kurnool

  • CPI(M) seeks water for standing crops
  • Assets distributed

    Leader Page Articles

  • Responding to Pakistan's proliferation
  • Sharon's plans for Gaza

    Letters to the Editor

  • A relief
  • One-sided
  • A different ballgame
  • A lesson for politicians
  • BJP strategy
  • Bofors case
  • IIM fees
  • Mature response
  • Charge against Rudy
  • Sky bus metro

    Madhya Pradesh

  • Uma sees M.P. 'golden State' in 3 years

    Madikeri

  • Officials pulled up for not paying salaries to teachers
  • Codava council threatens to boycott polls

    Madurai

  • Thrust on infrastructure development in villages
  • Rly. station spruced up with granite flooring
  • Students boycott classes
  • Around The City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Students' debate on Abdul Kalam's dream

    Mangalore

  • Electricity cooperative society in rural sector under study
  • Meet to discuss challenges facing shipping industry
  • Lighting up homes in remote villages
  • `Beach Festival' from Saturday
  • `Collect taxes to tide over funds crunch'
  • Temporary dams: GP member writes to MLA
  • People warned against employing children
  • Seminar on `capital markets'
  • Foundation stone laid
  • Lighting up homes in remote villages
  • Engagements

    Mysore

  • Restoration of Gopalakrishna Temple under way
  • Severe water scarcity in Mysore
  • Open university convocation on March 20
  • Attempt to influence scribes condemned
  • All monuments in Mysore to be protected

    Nagapattinam

  • `Deduction of income tax from monthly salary mandatory'

    Nagercoil

  • Congressmen to meet AICC leaders for Nagercoil seat
  • Minister inaugurates work on bypass road project

    Nalgonda

  • Rajakas' State meet begins today
  • TRS seeking `package' from Congress: BJP leader

    National

  • Kalyan Singh to head BJP campaign panel in U.P.
  • No one is feeling good, says Sonia
  • Lok Ayukta case against Digvijay in land scam
  • Hearing deferred on Sharma's petition
  • Phalcon warning system will be delivered in `near future': Shalom
  • Congress complains against NDA ads
  • Signing of defence deals hanging in balance
  • Bleach release questioned
  • Jaitley's poser to Congress on Bofors issue
  • Licences of pilots suspended
  • Concessions for prospective promoters of DPC
  • MNF to join NDA
  • Jail no bar for a smashing good time
  • High-level meet on Narmada dam today
  • Sonia hosts dinner for Editors
  • Anchor turns director
  • Plan to set up 10,000 weather observatories in schools
  • Israel offers satellite pictures of Kashmir
  • Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah held
  • `Critical flaw' warning for Windows users
  • Diesel causes more smog: U.S. study
  • U.K. not to ban outsourcing: British MPs
  • `Pakistan has taken steps to put down terrorism'
  • Shinde announces sops
  • Supreme Court directive on pleas for changing date of birth
  • 'Ensure free and fair polls in West Bengal'

    Nellore

  • Congress afraid of facing election, says BJP leader

    New Delhi

  • Kendriya Bhandar weekly rates
  • High Court vacates stay on Yamuna Pushta demolition
  • Academic Council moves get the nod
  • Congress bigwigs swing into action
  • CRRI to help remove roadblocks
  • Delhi couple found murdered
  • Protest by disabled persons attracts police
  • Mukhi flays proposed House Tax regime
  • DMRC's housing project attracts big names
  • Police bust travel racket
  • Plea to waive tax on glucometers
  • Compartment exams for Class V students
  • New ITBP chief takes over
  • A new drive by police
  • Road rage leads to shootout
  • Protest against UPSC's ways
  • Bid to siphon money from NRI account, 7 held
  • Kids hurt as school bus rams car
  • Around The City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    Nizamabad

  • Plea to extend train to Nizamabad
  • Denial of PF benefit to beedi workers alleged
  • Two die, 22 hurt in road accident

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Pondicherry

  • Public sector undertakings must improve performance: Rangasamy
  • Singaravelar remembered
  • A hectic day for CM
  • Pondicherry interim budget in March
  • Power shutdown

    Rajasthan

  • Call to popularise Sanskrit
  • Uphold rights of the poor: Shekhawat

    Ramanathapuram

  • 3,667 schemes inaugurated

    Religion

  • Descent of God's grace

    Shooting

  • Setback for Samresh Jung

    Tamil Nadu

  • Tax-free budget offers Rs. 140-crore concessions
  • Action plan to be evolved to curb child abuse
  • Stamp duty for mortgage deeds, power of attorney cut
  • Fresh scrutiny to update electoral rolls
  • Reinstated employees join duty
  • Transvestites seek dignified jobs
  • `Corrective steps helped Govt. reduce revenue deficit'
  • AICTE guidelines stayed
  • Spare innocent in-laws, judge tells probe authorities
  • Central Excise awareness campaign
  • Don't lower punishment for rape casually: High Court
  • Pakistani returns home hale and hearty
  • No power reforms without men and material: union
  • Relief in ST on computer peripherals, hosiery items
  • Jayalalithaa launches new horticulture mission
  • Demand up for disease-free Indian poultry meat
  • An election budget, says Vasan
  • Agricultural income tax on plantations abolished
  • Sonia meeting Karunanidhi tomorrow
  • Rajnikant calls up Vaiko
  • Malaria vaccine research at `advanced stage'
  • BSNL outbound roaming facility by April
  • Poll petition infructuous: High Court
  • `Defamation complaint against Tirumavalavan filed within time'
  • `Villupuram emerging a hi-tech district'
  • Measures to check spread of cattle disease
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Call to streamline functioning of Mettupalayam GH
  • Rs.49 cr. for road works in Pudukottai
  • Rally for promotion of small savings
  • Training for anganwadi workers

    Tennis

  • Jeevan rallies to down Martin

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Experts call for steps to make buildings quake-resistant
  • Villagers disrupt land survey
  • Youth Congress activists disrupt KAU meet
  • Gold, cash stolen from house
  • Boating park for Muttada
  • DYFI workers held for waving black flags at Soopy
  • Around The City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Varsity library getting a new wing

    This Day That Age

  • dated February 12, 1954: Foreign aid to Asia
  • dated February 12, 1954: Elephants for Canada
  • dated February 12, 1954: BCCI silver jubilee
  • dated February 12, 1954: Improved type of petrol

    Thrissur

  • Call to develop Thrissur as `education destination'
  • Tamil plays to be staged
  • Varsity zonal fete to begin tomorrow
  • Holiday declared
  • Funds for construction workers

    Tiruchi

  • 663 entrepreneurs get SSI certificates
  • Proposal to utilise second entrance
  • BSNL to introduce answering machine service
  • Around The City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Budding managers bag honours

    Tirunelveli

  • Quadrennial assembly
  • Philatelic exhibition from tomorrow

    Tirupati

  • Sonia Gandhi's likely visit to Tirupati fuels political activity
  • RTC to run mini-buses from next month
  • Brahmotsavam begins

    Tuticorin

  • Hamlet coming up for the physically challenged

    Union Territories

  • Mann vs Dhindsa in Sangrur ?

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Mulayam presents deficit budget

    Uttaranchal

  • Bandh in New Tehri

    Vellore

  • Farmers resent sugar department move
  • Jayalalithaa inaugurates development schemes for Vellore
  • Subsidise higher education for the poor: VIT Chancellor

    Vijayawada

  • Upendra's remarks irk Nehru group
  • Mary Mata fete: Vatican Ambassador conducts `Holy Eucharist' service
  • `Vajpayee sandesh yatra' launched
  • Craft bazar from today
  • Around The City
  • It's carnival time

    Visakhapatnam

  • Forest lands: Centre to regularise encroachments
  • Coking coal shortage: team leaves for Australia
  • INTUC-affiliated unions switch to TNTUC
  • Warangal Mayor kicks off BJP campaign
  • Criminal held
  • Notorious criminal nabbed under APCOCA
  • ENC rafting expedition team returns
  • CM to open apparel park
  • Landless occupy wasteland
  • Rs. 100 ceiling for stamp paper
  • Around The City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • No takers for poll ticket from campus

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