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    Andhra Pradesh

  • TDP leader shot at
  • Genco unveils ambitious plan to enhance capacity
  • Only VIPs go upstream a lean Krishna!
  • Registration fee for rig owners slashed
  • Schedule for grounding projects announced
  • Fighting a lone battle for justice
  • Scholarship hike sought
  • Social welfare sadassu in every constituency
  • "Women's empowerment touches health front also"
  • Power consumption at all-time high
  • Government move on free power draws flak
  • Jana Reddy reiterates tough stance
  • Rig owners flay new rules on drilling of borewells
  • Minister threatens to file defamation suit
  • Amendment to MV Act sought
  • IAS officers reshuffled
  • Government may dump free power scheme: BJP
  • Government directed to file counter affidavit
  • Surrenders in court
  • Samskrit Week from today
  • Janashakti condemns `lock-up' death
  • Siddipet, Asifnagar by-elections in October
  • Slain watchman's colleagues questioned
  • Entrance test
  • Medical facility inaugurated
  • Briefly
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    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Farmers gherao Joint Collector
  • Narasimha Swami temple decks up for pushkaram
  • Officials told to complete land acquisition this month
  • New ration cards sanctioned

    Assam

  • 5 killed, 58 injured in serial blasts
  • Top militants of ULFA, NDFB surrender
  • Mahanta stripped of party responsibilities

    Athletics

  • Komal wins 100m event

    Bangalore

  • Two policemen injured giving chase to stolen van
  • Two robbed of valuables
  • Mixed response to bandh call in Bangalore
  • Truckers' strike continues
  • Focus now on hearing in Supreme Court
  • `Bruhat' Lok Adalat tomorrow
  • BU Council resolution
  • Kalam to open meet on rural India
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    Basketball

  • Kerala in semifinals
  • R.S.K takes trophy

    Belgaum

  • Samiti to take steps to popularise Kannada

    Bellary

  • Bandh observed peacefully in Bellary

    Bihar

  • Taslimuddin case adjourned
  • Haj flights from Patna now

    Bijapur

  • Bandh peaceful in Bagalkot

    Briefly

  • Centre raises borrowing limit
  • Berger to merge auto coating unit
  • Indiabulls fixes IPO price band
  • Agri Intex 2004 concludes
  • Management Association office bearers
  • Ashok Leyland not affected by strike
  • Petronet LNG pact with IBP
  • Integrated solutions for pharma units
  • Novedea Systems' job portal

    Business

  • Rising revenue deficit causes concern
  • DoT penalises rogue Internet companies
  • Eveready plans joint venture in China
  • Flextronics takes over FutureSoft
  • Cheapest tractor from SAS Motors
  • Easing oil prices buoy Sensex
  • Rupee stages recovery
  • Hutch cuts pre-paid rates
  • Summons to Ambanis
  • 4:1 swap for Wander-Pearl merger
  • Carborundum to expand business

    Cartoons

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    Chennai

  • Truckers' good humour is intact, but worries mount
  • Meet seeks ways of cost-effective desalination technology
  • Shop employee dies as petrol cans catch fire
  • Hindu Mission Hospital to set up critical care block
  • Pallavaram residents allege water piracy
  • Fake papers doom UK student visa applicants
  • NCC cadets spearhead cancer control message
  • Housewife's murder shocks Chromepet
  • e-registry of student blood donors
  • Worker killed
  • Surprise visitor to Amethyst
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Maheshwaran wins
  • Humpy wins final game
  • Mary Ann stuns Bhagyashree
  • Seven share lead
  • Tejdeep, Kandi Ravi share lead

    Coimbatore

  • Waste-to-manure test project at Mettupalayam
  • New equipment for faster scanning
  • Ex-servicemen seek uniform pension
  • Golden Jubilee alumni meet
  • Corporation functioning reviewed
  • Around the City
  • In CoImbatore Today

    Cricket

  • Sachin still the best
  • 'Keepers are born: Engineer
  • President's XI in semifinals
  • Easy for Masters CC
  • Srinath shines
  • Aditya, Kuldeep shine
  • Match drawn
  • Five-wkt. win for Khalsa
  • Sai Chand, Dinesh and Naveen hit centuries
  • KSCA wrests lead

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8073
  • Solution to puzzle 8072

    Cuddapah

  • Land development scheme launch in November
  • CPI(M) conducts padayatra against Centre's policies
  • Plea to check environmental pollution
  • Gambling racket busted
  • AITUC meet at Cuddapah

    Dindigul

  • `Cultivate jatropha'

    Editorials

  • MOMENT OF RECKONING
  • NEW HEAVYWEIGHT ON THE BOURSE

    Football

  • Indian Bank in semifinals
  • CFC holds East Bengal
  • Arsenal sets record for unbeaten run

    Front Page

  • Hostages may be released soon
  • Parliament approval for Union Budget
  • Give up confrontationist attitude: Vajpayee
  • Seventh blast in Assam
  • Bobby crashes out
  • Truckers' union chief arrested
  • Blasts kill 5 in Assam
  • Mosque attacked
  • Hutch cuts rates
  • 74 killed in Najaf
  • March peaceful

    Globescan

  • Hypertension pervasive in U.S.
  • Typhoon Aere claims 35 lives
  • MDC to boycott elections

    Goa

  • Sky Bus trial successful

    Gulbarga

  • Violence breaks out in parts of Gulbarga
  • Law on admissions demanded

    Guntur

  • Special trains, 79 coaches for Pushkarams
  • Pushkaram security under a cloud as youth is drowned
  • No political overtones to faction killings, says police official

    Haryana

  • BJP rules out alliance with Bansi Lal's HVP

    Hassan

  • Potato growers hit by truckers' strike
  • Bandh evokes poor response in Hassan

    Hockey

  • Cornelius defends Indian team
  • BCYA blanks Young Stars
  • Campion HSS wins trophy

    Hubli

  • Good response to bandh call in Hubli-Dharwad

    Hyderabad

  • Varsity interview process raises doubts
  • Floored by arrangements for Olympics
  • HUDA exploring steps for water recycling
  • People's protest restores idol to park
  • Raghavendra Aradhana from Aug. 30
  • Our Lady of Health Feast on September 8
  • Japanese team visits school
  • Janashakti plea to people
  • Orientation programme ends
  • Hero Honda Green Olympiad tomorrow
  • Restricted water supply
  • Ailing elephant dies in zoo
  • Withdrawals allowed from Prudential
  • Scholarship offered
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    International

  • Terrorism a possible cause for plane crashes: Russia
  • Najaf standoff: Al-Sistani, Al-Sadr aides hold peace talks
  • A 'ruinous trap' of U.S. making
  • MPs plan to impeach Blair
  • Aziz to face Muslim League leader
  • 'LTTE testing the threshold of tolerance'
  • Abu Ghraib: criminal charges likely
  • Stripped of immunity

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • Shot in the arm for Geelani faction

    Kancheepuram

  • `Make villages self-sustaining to check migration'

    Karimnagar

  • Hostel matron suspended

    Karnataka

  • Partial response to BJP bandh call
  • Uma Bharti to be lodged in university guesthouse
  • Notice to association on A.P. student's plea
  • Probe into `misappropriation' at CAMPCO
  • `TB among Koragas under control'
  • Many PG seats may go unfilled
  • Chandrashekar ridicules BJP's protest
  • Policemen explore shopping avenue
  • Special trains to Prashanti Nilayam
  • Drop case or face protest, Govt. told
  • Women `force' shops to open
  • Japanese team calls on Dharam Singh
  • Kalam to open seminar in Gulbarga
  • PIL filed for withdrawal of cases
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • ABVP calls for bandh
  • Bandh partial in Chamarajanagar
  • Congress worker commits suicide

    Kerala

  • LPG shortage may dampen Onam spirit
  • Vallarpadam buoys up industry
  • First phase of Kinfra park ready
  • Grand beginning to Onam celebrations
  • BJP to launch stir against Sooppy
  • Special prayers for local Olympians
  • PCB serves closure notice on 32 companies
  • Supreme Court Bench in southern States sought
  • Green signal sought for LNG terminal in Kochi
  • Cabinet reshuffle soon: Antony
  • Sabarimala temple opened for Onam fete
  • Swati Puraskaram presented
  • Expressway study
  • Central team visits Wayanad; one more farmer commits suicide
  • Briefly

    Kochi

  • Managing change, need of the hour: IDBI chief
  • Robbery attempt foiled
  • Onam camp for children
  • CIAL AGM put off to September 10
  • Three attacked
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kozhikode

  • Crime rate high in hilly areas of Kozhikode

    Leader Page Articles

  • Caution on the Patent Act
  • Ending the regional drift

    Letters to the Editor

  • Manmohan's stance
  • Matter of concern
  • Uma Bharti's issue
  • Disturbing

    Madhya Pradesh

  • Stray incidents during Madhya Pradesh bandh

    Madikeri

  • Uma Bharti's effigy burnt in Somwarpet
  • Four held on kidnapping charge

    Madurai

  • Mayor inaugurates 24-hour maternity hospital
  • Three murder accused not for joint trial
  • Repay EB bill amount to farmer: HC Bench
  • Madurai school children may miss Kalam
  • Mutt undertaking on samprokshanam
  • CPI (M) to conduct meetings from today
  • Lawyers plan meeting
  • Memorial for Mukkiah Thevar
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Maharashtra

  • Humble party worker to the fore in BJP

    Mangalore

  • Bandh total, peaceful in Dakshina Kannada
  • `Poor being denied access to higher education'
  • Fewer Dalit girls join school in Belthangady taluk: report
  • Workshop on storm water drains
  • Quiz competition for nurses

    Manipur

  • Panel ultimatum to Assam Rifles men
  • Army to do DNA tests
  • 18 students arrested in Manipur

    Mysore

  • Bandh disrupts life in Mysore
  • NGOs' appeal puts Mayor in a delicate situation
  • Union Minister to visit Mysore

    Nagapattinam

  • Increase flow of credit to agriculture, bankers told
  • Efforts on to wipe out illicit arrack
  • Vaiko in Nagapattinam

    Nagercoil

  • Rs.4.59 cr. distributed to SHGs in Kanyakumari dt.

    Nalgonda

  • Four of a family die in road accident

    National

  • 5 killed, 58 injured in serial blasts
  • Manmohan gives vent to his anguish
  • Somnath speaks out against `Super-Speakers'
  • A threat to Parliamentary system: Left
  • Uma Bharti to be lodged in university guesthouse
  • Pranab cites chapter and verse on PM-NDA meet
  • Not expected of Manmohan, says TDP
  • Ex-Pondy CM made envoy to Saudi Arabia
  • Three Chief justices elevated to S.C.
  • Plea to allow only national parties to contest Lok Sabha polls
  • LIC agents meet Speaker, Chidambaram for `better deal'
  • Summons to Ambanis
  • India takes up 'turban ban' with France
  • Let us introspect, says Shekhawat
  • On fast for rebuilding mandapam at Tirupati

    Nellore

  • Rs. 20-cr. for land development likely, says Collector

    New Delhi

  • Increased investment, more jobs in the offing
  • INSO seeks more security for women
  • U.N. body finds a meeting ground with UPA policies
  • Five arrested for grabbing land
  • CPI(M) dharna over poverty
  • MCD-Metro dispute over tax out in the open
  • Master Plan draft not even ready, says Sheila
  • Seminar on Granth Sahib off, Akalis smell conspiracy
  • Two held for rape, murder
  • Mulayam's `dinner diplomacy' yields results
  • Motorists claim world record
  • Rs. 11 crores for sanitation in Erode
  • European Commission aid to Haryana
  • Shot in the arm for Uttaranchal Tourism
  • BJP launches stir against Congress
  • Rohini jail to open in November
  • On fast for rebuilding mandapam at Tirupati
  • PAC divers rescue mining workers
  • Iranian team visits RAU
  • New light on firing incident
  • Two held in murder case
  • Around the City
  • In The Capital Today

    Nizamabad

  • TRS member unanimously elected ZP chief

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Olympic Games

  • Phillips, Moffit make it 1-2 in long jump
  • Hamish takes triathlon gold
  • Holland meets Australia in final
  • Cuba outplays Australia, takes title
  • U.S., Russia in semifinals
  • Lashko has the edge
  • Upset win for Suriya
  • Indian challenge begins today
  • Australia fifth
  • Brazilians crowned champions

    Orissa

  • Fire at Aviation Research Centre
  • Church attacked

    Pathanamthitta

  • Gaiety marks Thiruvalla Pooram
  • Body found

    Pondicherry

  • Rangasamy visits Kollur temple

    Religion

  • The Lord's accessibility

    Shimoga

  • Bandh peaceful in Shimoga; BJP stages protest
  • Teacher bags BOLT Award

    Sports : General

  • Manjunath triumphs
  • Loyola `Whites' enters Super league stage

    Table Tennis

  • St. Francis College wins
  • Ahmed, Suman take titles

    Tamil Nadu

  • Build fire-proof schools: Kalam
  • Stamp on S.S. Vasan released
  • Federation suspends court boycott
  • Vijayalakshmi, Jayaraman new entrants
  • More suspensions imminent in Jayalakshmi case
  • Orders on withdrawal petition in Vaiko case on September 1
  • No route curbs for Chathurthi processions, please: BJP
  • Arrest warrant against MDMK MP
  • Personal assistants of 3 Ministers suspended
  • Prisoners on fast, demand repeal of POTA
  • Vasan demands action against Uma Bharti
  • `Episode erodes faith in police'
  • Third judge adjourns appeals on admissions
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Orathupalayam water scars Karur, Erode
  • Villagers give up agitation
  • Rs.199-crore loan to be disbursed
  • 'Garland Canal Scheme' finds takers again
  • Annamalai university triune celebrations kick off

    Tennis

  • Nithyaesh in last four
  • Srichaphan enters quarterfinals

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Law to check littering on the anvil
  • Stress on advances in telemedicine
  • Aerobatic show by IAF team tomorrow
  • Antony's Onam feast with children
  • Search on for owner of hooch distillery
  • Hunt on for accused in attack on Tamil Nadu police personnel
  • Water supply disrupted
  • Woman dies of burns
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated August 27, 1954: Coexistence only alternative
  • dated August 27, 1954: Flood havoc in Assam
  • dated August 27, 1954: President visits Sringeri

    Thrissur

  • Thrissur film festival concludes

    Tiruchi

  • Usage fee fixed for electric crematorium
  • Tiruchi gateway needs better roads
  • Power shutdown
  • Protect environment, women told
  • Kalam in Tiruchi
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirupati

  • Woman killed in mishap
  • Admission norms relaxed at old-age home
  • Teachers' body clarifies
  • Councillors submit memo to Home Minister
  • Arrangements in full swing for Brahmotsavams: TTD

    Tuticorin

  • Doctor held on cheating charge

    Udupi

  • Bus fares to go up by 12 to 14 p.c. from Sunday
  • `New energy sources yet to be harnessed'

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Congress fears rigging in Assembly by-elections

    Vijayawada

  • Mafia politics resurfaces in Vijayawada?
  • 20,000 cusecs to be released from Sagar
  • Police devise methods to check overcrowding at ghats
  • Parking for Pushkarams
  • Hectic schedule awaits YSR
  • Do's and don'ts for pilgrims
  • New dean for NRI Academy
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • VPT remains on top despite `crude' setback
  • PM keen to strengthen Vizag's industrial base
  • A `cluster' solution for small, medium industries
  • Hectic `Palle Bata' schedule for YSR
  • Staff air `transfer' grievances
  • Prayer meet for missing trawler crew
  • BSNL phones stop ringing
  • Girls succumbs to burns
  • New eSeva services
  • Truckers called for discussion
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • SRKV, Kongu Arts prevail
  • NERTS rallies to beat ERTS

    Weather

  • Weather

    Weightlifting

  • Gangappa lifts gold

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