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    Alappuzha

  • Sandalwood theft: two suspects arrested
  • Minister to open auditorium

    Anantapur

  • A gory `affair'

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Fiat to Congressmen on Telangana
  • Dharam Singh promises Tungabhadra water release
  • Political parties permitted to enrol voters again
  • Rosaiah blames TDP for power sector ills
  • Congress leaders seek resignation of KCR, Narendra
  • Tirumala being decked up for Brahmotsavam
  • Pledge eyes and donate them too: Governor
  • Commission to meet on September 20
  • An apology demand that spelt trouble
  • Single window clearance for borewells
  • PC-cum-television to undergo trials soon
  • Fake note racket busted
  • Power engineers asked to cut losses
  • PW leaders to unveil `martyrs memorial'
  • Transition blues!
  • Two senior CRPF officers held guilty
  • Bank employee on the run; cash missing
  • Transfers banned
  • An appeal for help
  • Bail out youths stranded in Malaysia: Naidu
  • BCs in private, aided collges to get scholarships
  • Paritala's house searched for explosives
  • Woman constable commits suicide
  • Fete a click away
  • YSR leaves for Delhi
  • Gang admits to theft
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Bankers draw flak at review panel meet
  • Police to sponsor a tele-treat for tribals
  • No abhishekams during Brahmotsavams

    Athletics

  • Anju all set for Monaco Grand Prix

    Badminton

  • Triple crown for Bhobora
  • Ravishankar clinches maiden crown
  • Parit clinches title
  • Canara Bank triumphs
  • Inter-school badminton begins today

    Bangalore

  • Citizens see no change in condition of roads
  • Special train to Chennai on Friday
  • Two women foil robbery bid
  • `Salesman's assailant will be arrested soon'
  • Mayor criticises tournament organisers
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    Basketball

  • India struggles to win
  • Lissa puts GV HSS in semifinals
  • Naval PS, Bhavan's Vidya Mandir triumph
  • Niraj PS wins

    Belgaum

  • Inland container depot inauguration today

    Bidar

  • Compensation

    Bihar

  • Kala Azar spreading among Musahars in Bihar

    Bijapur

  • Three injured as dacoits strike at two houses

    Boxing

  • Shilpa advances

    Briefly

  • Companies on Forbes list
  • CRB Mutual Fund repays
  • IBA working group on tourism
  • Tiruppur dyers' appeal
  • Admissions to MBA, MCA programmes
  • ICWAI Coimbatore chapter office bearers
  • Online interactive map portal
  • 24/7 Customer expands operations
  • Net4India calling offer to U.S.
  • No immediate rate hike due to stiffer CRR
  • PNB's customer relations meet
  • Cygnus partners SURE group
  • Sybase's Pune centre
  • Hutch launches mobile shops
  • Metropolis Health buys stake in Sudharma
  • Seagate sets up Tech Forum
  • Online interactive map portal
  • IBS executes project for Emirates
  • i-flex in pact with U.K. bank

    Business

  • Return to stock market, says Chidambaram
  • Tata Indigo Marina launch today
  • Suzuki's new initiatives raise many eyebrows
  • Select shares rally
  • Rupee spurts
  • Price cut likely for levying duty on edible oils
  • Centre's measures sweeten prospects for sugar units
  • Bank mergers to be supported

    Carrom

  • AP `A' retains title

    Chennai

  • Rs. 1 crore bonanza for two city colleges
  • A drama in the offing
  • Ethics is for engineers too: Vittal
  • Senior citizens' homes should have children: Governor
  • Alandur municipality to sink borewells
  • The brakes failed, but the driver didn't
  • Court orders winding up of SIV industries
  • 2 held for selling fake industrial belts
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Gaargeya Kishan wins title
  • Praveen and Teja triumph

    Coimbatore

  • UGD scheme takeoff likely next year
  • Human chain
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Cricket

  • I have not lost self-belief: Badani
  • Sri Lanka downs Zimbabwe
  • Harbhajan is on song
  • Uppal stadium work on course
  • Wesley enters final
  • Raghavendra scores century
  • Tendulkar responding well to treatment
  • MRF inches closer to win
  • South Zone takes lead
  • BCCI workshop concludes
  • Gurukedarnath, Ashwin excel
  • Pakistan-Kenya match washed out
  • Tyagi claims five wickets
  • Four-wkt. win for Teri

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8089
  • Solution to puzzle 8088

    Cuddalore

  • 6 students hurt as classroom ceiling plaster gives way
  • LPG use in vehicles `illegal'
  • BSNL slashes landline, cell rates
  • Youth's body found

    Cuddapah

  • Solve students' problems: AISF
  • Rs. 1 cr. for school building repairs in Cuddapah

    Editorials

  • PLAY WITH SEMANTICS
  • ART OF THE DEAL

    Erode

  • Start PTA in schools: Minister

    Football

  • AFC Cup: East Bengal clashes with Al Jaish
  • Lop-sided wins for Delhi Public, Holy Heart
  • Ever-Ready ambushes Tollygunge Agragami
  • TN drubs Pondicherry
  • Satish nets winner

    Front Page

  • Manmohan plans `policy blitzkrieg'
  • Law and order in U.P. not satisfactory: Sonia
  • "Don't waste money"
  • Zee not to go in for fresh bids
  • Naga youth shot dead
  • Punjab justifies law on water-sharing
  • Car bomb kills 47 in Baghdad
  • Sugar quota
  • Hurricane threatens U.S. oil installations
  • Restored
  • Verdict reserved

    Golf

  • The Hindu Open begins today

    Gulbarga

  • Lawyers leave for Bangalore
  • Teacher felicitated
  • Indira Bai dead

    Hassan

  • Rs. 100-crore milk plant to be set up
  • Efforts on to start two more colleges in Hassan

    Hockey

  • FIH to restructure major events
  • Australia doubtful for Champions Trophy
  • Jothi SC emerges winner

    Hyderabad

  • Make health care affordable for poor: Barnala
  • Disquiet in TRS over KCR's remarks
  • Dharam, YSR do a swap, all for studies!
  • YSR reviews Ganesh immersion arrangements
  • Meter-readers to collect water bills
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Kalam in South Africa
  • Water talks

    International

  • Surge in Iraq violence
  • Blair not to apologise over Iraq
  • Russia hikes funding for anti-terror security
  • Buckingham Palace security under review
  • Hurricane threatens U.S. oil installations
  • Private prisons boom in Bush's America
  • Israel approves compensation for settlers
  • Old beer, teen tactics
  • Afghan situation still volatile
  • Outcry over Turkey's plan to ban adultery
  • Attacker on a wheelchair
  • A bonanza from Winfrey
  • Three Gorges security tightened
  • Party ``closes door'' on Anwar
  • Fears spread along with bird flu

    Kancheepuram

  • The downside of alternative crops

    Karimnagar

  • Madhya Pradesh official team studies child labour project

    Karnataka

  • World Bank asks Government to expedite power sector reforms
  • Karnataka to participate in Cauvery Tribunal proceedings
  • Order promoting two court officers set aside
  • Sindhia defends decision to hold talks with naxals
  • Govt. tightens vehicle emission norms
  • `Power sector deficit, biggest challenge'
  • KRRS, DSS to launch alternative political outfit
  • Hearing on students' plea today
  • Steps planned to streamline admissions
  • Spice announces new tariff
  • VTU-EDUSAT pilot project from today
  • Lobbying on for Kolar CMC posts
  • Man arrested on murder charge
  • Four killed in road accidents
  • Sangha reiterates demand for use of Kannada
  • Seat matrix released
  • Panel visits KGF college
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Lack of progress under Central schemes disappoints official
  • Non-BJP parties put up common candidate

    Kerala

  • New police unit to tackle terrorism-linked crimes
  • Speaker post: LDF to field Balan
  • Award for K. K. Warrier
  • Expressway not viable now
  • Lok Ayukta order stayed
  • VS seeks Central probe into Kovalam hotel deal
  • SFI begins stir from today
  • Search for murder suspect
  • Civic chief seeks expulsion of councillors from party
  • 69 applicants for post of head priest
  • Bardhan for change in foreign trade policy
  • Stick to UDF manifesto: Jacob
  • Survey of Muslim places of worship soon
  • Political imbroglio at Chemnad panchayat
  • Lalithakala Puraskaram for K.K. Warrier
  • Special Reservation Allotment of seats
  • Infam seeks aid for rubber farmers
  • Alleged tree felling: KSSP warns of stir
  • Plantation strike: Chandy urged to intervene
  • NCC Director General's visit
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Dutch chartered flights to miss tourist season

    Khammam

  • Drilling of new borewells banned

    Kochi

  • Kerala Travel Mart from September 30
  • India told to promote trade ties with Poland
  • Draft voters' list to be published today
  • Lottery agency raided
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • AKBF plea to Government
  • NDF accuses BJP of communalising Census report
  • BYS State meet ends
  • District panchayat demand
  • Two held on charges of vehicle theft

    Kurnool

  • Telugu Ganga project being speeded up

    Leader Page Articles

  • Remembering Anna
  • North Korea: in from the cold

    Letters to the Editor

  • Manmohan's caution
  • Congress-TRS row
  • `Tainted' Ministers
  • Census follies
  • He is right
  • Suitable candidate
  • Uncharitable
  • Unwarranted
  • A great soul

    Madurai

  • Youth cheated in Saudi Arabia, wants to return home
  • Krishnasamy seeks transfer of case
  • Two file nominations
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Mangalore

  • Residents to plant saplings on road
  • Two commit suicide
  • Power shutdown today, tomorrow
  • Diwakar Shetty group wins milk union poll

    Mysore

  • Expert calls for treating sewage as resource
  • Statues get a new lease of life
  • Teachers urged to update knowledge

    Nalgonda

  • Private doctors resent `attacks'

    National

  • Should our lenders run our house, asks Abani Roy
  • AIMPLB differs on small family norm
  • Implementation of foreign policy weak: Saran
  • I want my job back: Soren
  • Tarapur 4 to go critical in December
  • Ahamed to visit Palestine
  • Allegations baseless: BJP
  • Centre needs to do a lot more: CPI leader
  • Geelani not averse to Pandits' return
  • V.P. Singh criticises `faulty' Census figures
  • Special Court judge may take charge today
  • `Two-child norm discriminates against the poor'
  • `Un-Islamic'
  • Review meet
  • Ruling today
  • Logistics problems for Maharashtra BJP
  • We will watch the Government for 100 more days: Forward Bloc
  • Verdict in Niyogi case reserved
  • Goa plans to check inflow of migrant labour
  • Developments disturbing: Fernandes
  • Karbi militants call for strike
  • French assurance on turban issue
  • Navy website hacked
  • Fighting drugs, across Asia
  • Fashion designer joins BJP
  • Service tax likely on goods transport agencies by Nov.
  • `Web cast' of Tirumala Brahmotsavam
  • Alzheimer's Day theme
  • Secular vote should not be divided: Yechury
  • `Missing' man returns after 12 years
  • Indian indelible ink for Afghan elections
  • Lalu backs Soren
  • Patil briefed on Kashmir
  • Martyrs' Day observed
  • Appan Menon Award

    Nellore

  • Set up industries in villages, Union Minister tells youth
  • House burgled, 20 lakhs property lost
  • Ailing train passenger dies

    New Delhi

  • Towards gender sensitive governance
  • Farmhouse murder accused tried to dispose of body
  • Haryana session on Sept. 29
  • Three held for cheating through the Net
  • Dismal education conditions for disabled students
  • Don't exploit sentiments, Chautala told
  • Kidnapped girls ending up in flesh trade?
  • Councillors look for `Clean Delhi' tips in Mumbai, Goa
  • Two suicide cases reported
  • High Court poser to Delhi government on Bharti Yadav
  • `Deportation issue will be taken up with PM'
  • `Detractors of Islam ignorant of its contribution'
  • Congress demands CBI probe in Morena firing
  • DDA celebrates Hindi fortnight
  • Major reshuffle in Delhi police
  • CINEMA
  • Massive power cuts in NCR cities
  • PM urged to regularise small industries
  • NGO claims prisoners still tortured in Tihar Jail
  • Kidnapped girl rescued after five years
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    News Analysis

  • India, U.S. close to deal on high-technology transfers
  • Lurking fear about larger neighbour

    Nizamabad

  • NCC to be popularised among rural students
  • Plea to complete Bollarum-Nizamabad rail line work
  • Check water drawal, plead ayacutdars

    Perambalur

  • Rs.2.74 cr. sanctioned under SSA for Perambalur dt.

    Pondicherry

  • Women's education key to development: Lakhera
  • Poor `lack access to higher education'
  • Power shutdown

    Punjab

  • Punjab units to remain shut two days a week

    Religion

  • Ungratefulness is a sin

    Salem

  • Call to regulate share autos

    Shimoga

  • BJP surprised at Govt.'s U-turn

    Sivaganga

  • Suicide pact

    Sports : General

  • SAAP incentives for weightlifting squad
  • Set sights on 2016 Olympics: Rathore
  • Kuwait remains unbeaten
  • Double for Divya
  • Easy for Kongu College

    Table Tennis

  • Shruti Sethi advances

    Tamil Nadu

  • Gopal entitled to documents: court
  • A drama is in store
  • Jayalalithaa to meet Manmohan
  • Lock for phones
  • POTA detenus end fast
  • `Apply discretion while granting bail'
  • Chennai hospital performs risky surgery on Pakistani boy
  • `Design varsity courses for mid-career training'
  • Heated exchanges at Pudukottai hearing
  • `Time for Congress leaders to decide on State's future'
  • I will march into the city: Vaiko
  • It may be yet another dummy byelection
  • Stage set for Mupperum Vizha
  • Supplementary counselling for MBA, MCA
  • We will not allow defiance of law: Chief Minister
  • Lalu Prasad coming
  • 2 policemen seek bail in Jayalakshmi case
  • `Using vehicles inappropriate'
  • Five Al-Umma activists sentenced
  • Post offices to sell UTI mutual fund products
  • Jayalalithaa to meet Manmohan
  • College teachers to be appointed on contract
  • `Consider women's hardship before framing policies'
  • Periyar varsity clearance must for magazine articles
  • Madras University signs tech transfer agreement for AIDS drug
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • 3,450 temples renovated

    Tennis

  • Federer has world playing catch-up
  • Dent makes second round
  • Gurmehar Singh upsets Ajay Ramaswami
  • Easy win for Anshuman Dutta

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Former DGP, eight others chargesheeted
  • Rs. 3-crore Central grant likely
  • Sewage overflows into houses in Jagathy area
  • Probe sought into university union affairs
  • Plea to declare Halcyon Castle a heritage site
  • `Jagratha samithis' in panchayats planned
  • Crackdown on wrong overtaking
  • Life term for murder
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated September 15, 1954: PM on uniform code
  • dated September 15, 1954: Sleeping berths

    Thrissur

  • Difficult to identify various party workers: Ajitha
  • Traditional art is not mere craft: Kanayi
  • Siblings drowned while bathing

    Tiruchi

  • Focus on quality, fabrication units told
  • Electric crematorium commissioned
  • TNEB on vigil against fake notes
  • Two killed in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • 13-year term for murderer
  • Postal employees observe fast

    Tirupati

  • Birth control programme to check rabies

    Tuticorin

  • Traffic diversions coming into force in Tuticorin

    Udupi

  • Minorities panel chief visits prayer hall

    Uttar Pradesh

  • India's `Big Ben' set to chime again

    Vellore

  • Postal employees on fast

    Vijayawada

  • Experts arrive to study vibrations
  • CPI(M) stages dharna
  • Award for Maris Stella College principal
  • ZP chief, Dalit leader cross swords
  • Hindi Day celebrated
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Tax bug biting, unit turns sick
  • When rain becomes a bane
  • Delayed water supply
  • BHPV assets attached
  • No power
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Weather

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