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    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Next round of talks linked to laying of arms: DGP
  • Gas leak in paper mill kills one
  • Government firm on completing irrigation projects: YSR
  • Child's heart-rending tale
  • Ryots express readiness to adopt technology
  • Project to find malarial genome under way
  • Mandatory health insurance for employees mooted
  • Extortionists strike it rich in the name of naxals
  • Second round of peace talks soon: panel
  • Four new power projects by Genco
  • Global funding for projects in full flow: irrigation official
  • 1,701 acres of forest land cleared of trees
  • Vigilance cell to check sale of spurious seed
  • Infant back in tribal mother's lap
  • Central agency to fund Bhupalapalli project
  • Contracts: TDP insists on records
  • AIDS cases among personnel of APSP battalions
  • Couple's death in hospital triggers protest
  • Environment campaign to be held in districts
  • Probe to be held into bids for R&B works
  • A trip down memory lane
  • More mandals may be declared drought-hit
  • Teachers' plea to revive common service rules
  • Teenager stabbed to death
  • Police searching for trio with fake credit cards
  • `Watchman post not for visually challenged'
  • Last date extended
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Teachers divided over trivial issue
  • Reopening of railway gate likely

    • Athletics

  • Soujanya bags honours
  • College Games from today

    • Badminton

  • A cakewalk for Gopi Chand
  • Aparna-Saina pair advances
  • Saumya bags title

    • Bangalore

  • Woman hangs her baby, ends life
  • Shopping complex turning into a dump
  • BDA told to improve facilities for disabled
  • Roerich commemorative stamp released
  • Corporators drop study tour plan
  • More companies likely to participate in IT.Com
  • Last date to file IT returns
  • Telephones to be shifted
  • Power shutdown
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • St. Thomas Central School in final

    • Belgaum

  • Heated arguments at corporation meeting
  • Pant Maharaj's anniversary

    • Bellary

  • Special publicity campaign to be launched

    • Briefly

  • Discovery's new channel
  • Liquidators
  • ABB centre
  • BPCL board meet
  • Payroll software launched
  • Jewellery training programme
  • Electric motor association chief
  • RBS Home's range of products
  • Bajaj Allianz Life gross premium up
  • IVY Comptech's expansion plans
  • Accord Software assessed at level 5
  • Siemens' research centre in Bangalore
  • Seminar on BPO
  • Sharda Pro-Acoustics' plans
  • Coromandel Fertilisers' higher income
  • Kitchen & bath concepts expo
  • First Insurance World's plans
  • Idea teams up with Soccernova Academy
  • Novo Nordisk terminates clinical development of molecule
  • Doxy Chicken to set up stores
  • Sundaram Clayton declares interim

    • Business

  • Investment Commission to facilitate FDI flows
  • NCAER sees sustained upturn in industrial activity
  • NASA unveils fastest supercomputer
  • Federal Bank: Court not to interfere with CLB order
  • LGF-Sundaram Finance swap at 1.52:1
  • Indian Rayon mulls expansion
  • Sensex extends gains
  • Cholamandalam disbursements up 18 p.c.
  • Rupee at new peak
  • Maruti Q2 net up 48 p.c.
  • MRO-TEK profit up
  • Mag alloy wheels for Bajaj bikes
  • Cisco's growth plans
  • ACC net jumps

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOON - I
  • CARTOON - II

    • Chennai

  • Pickpockets beware: Big Brother is watching
  • Jewellery, cash stolen in daylight heist
  • Professional social workers `have big role to play'
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  • Help poor children celebrate Deepavali
  • Fishermen whisked off
  • Pressure to perform
  • Thieves held
  • Auto drivers feed the poor
  • One killed
  • How to break the cycle
  • Around the City
  • IN Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • India crushes Canada
  • Neelotpal wins title
  • Aditya in sole lead

    • Coimbatore

  • Singanallur village landowners flay AAI
  • TNAU to work on casuarina clones
  • Transport department fiat against use of LPG as fuel
  • Students strike seeking change in school timings
  • Bharathiar varsity to conduct refresher courses
  • Pensioners stage demonstration
  • Power shutdown tomorrow
  • Co-optex sale touches Rs. 90 lakhs
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Australia in command
  • The truth is simple — India has fallen back, Australia has improved
  • A glimpse of the man's spirit
  • Captains should not comment on pitches: Dungarpur
  • Fleming hits double century
  • Akhtar doubtful for second Test
  • SBCC posts win
  • Sudheer, Prasad score centuries
  • McGrath was outstanding: Buchanan
  • Vinay scalps seven
  • Siva Kumar shines
  • It's probably over for Lehmann
  • Fortune favours Don Bosco HS
  • Shivaram shines
  • Sixes go for a six
  • Rathore scalps seven
  • Swantons makes grade
  • Krishan grabs four wickets
  • Harpreet shines
  • City XI bowled out for 217
  • SCF Blues in semifinals
  • CMRIT posts win
  • City XI in command

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8125
  • Solution to puzzle 8124

    • Cuddapah

  • Son of former policeman held for inter-district offences
  • TDP flays move to snap illegal power connections of ryots
  • Teachers stage dharna

    • Dharwad

  • Officials told to buy onion even after business hours

    • Editorials

  • NOW FOR THE FINAL AWARD
  • A TIMELY INITIATIVE

    • Erode

  • Woman councillor stages walkout

    • Football

  • Of injuries & shirking responsibilities
  • Aston Villa upset
  • BSF, Jalandhar in final round
  • 4-1 win for Baldwins Boys HS
  • Jerry nets winner

    • Front Page

  • Maharashtra: Congress gets Chief Ministership
  • Decision on Lok Pal Bill deferred
  • Ram temple will be a reality, says Advani
  • Left opposes disinvestment in 35 public sector units
  • Australia in command
  • The truth is simple — India has fallen back, Australia has improved
  • Prithvi-III testfired for first time
  • Sharon firm on Gaza pull-out plan
  • Investment Commission to facilitate FDI flows
  • NASA unveils fastest supercomputer
  • Supreme Court to hear BCCI's appeals on November 30
  • Proceedings stayed
  • Thai Prime Minister admits to `mistakes'

    • Guntur

  • YSR playing mischief with coastal farmers: Kodela
  • Cable TV war hots up in Guntur
  • Consumers serve ultimatum

    • Haryana

  • HSIDC to develop more industrial estates
  • Haryana policemen honoured
  • Ground water project
  • Bank advances long-term loans

    • Hassan

  • 40 villages identified under `Nirmala grama' scheme

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Scholars meet to analyse peace

    • Hockey

  • LKSSS in quarterfinals

    • Hubli

  • Congress rebel wins Dharwad ZP chief post
  • Khadi exhibition, sale in Hubli from today

    • Hyderabad

  • Cantonment Board civilian nominee vows to regain post
  • Global meet on vascular diseases from tomorrow
  • Udayabhanu alleges threat from family
  • Aim for 100 per cent result: Collector
  • Judgment reserved on contracts for irrigation works
  • Chandigarh corporators visit MCH
  • Contract workers seek fresh GO
  • Infantry Day celebrated
  • 600 students take part in `Open House'
  • Round-the-clock booking of Indian Airlines tickets
  • A-1 status sought for city
  • Appointed Returning Officer
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Low-key Pakistan reaction
  • U.S., India not strategic partners: Kanwal Sibal

    • International

  • Sharon firm on Gaza pull-out plan
  • `Risky mission'
  • Thai Prime Minister admits to `mistakes'
  • Arafat `not suffering from cancer'
  • Tribal elders killed in Pakistan-Afghan border
  • UK cracks down on forced marriages
  • Signs of an extinct human species
  • Barroso backs down over E.U. vote
  • Mozart's skull?
  • A biotech cat
  • Family survives four-day ordeal
  • Congressional polls also generate heat
  • Mark Thatcher appears in court

    • Karnataka

  • Rajyotsava award winners list approved
  • Seven die in two highway accidents
  • `Indian IT industry can help bridge skills shortage in Europe'
  • Primary schools to tune in to EDUSAT
  • `Nodal department needed to register births and deaths'
  • Govt. must take over Krishna temple, says Vishwanath
  • Savita community's plea to panel
  • Storing stem cells to treat ailments
  • Call to develop short-duration sugarcane varieties
  • Krishna brushes aside ransom talk
  • Infantry Day observed
  • Credit-based grading in women's varsity
  • `Court's verdict on tribunal no setback'
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Bus runs over three, two dead
  • Around the City

    • Kerala

  • Efforts on to track hawala accused
  • V.V. Raghavan dead
  • Marathi girl reunited with family
  • Government clueless on use of hawala money: Chandy
  • Lata Nair has `no cardiac problem'
  • Land value exemption for the poor
  • A man of simple ways
  • VC manhandled
  • No Government support for Pariyaram: director
  • Capital city to host global eco meet
  • Minister lauds changes in SSLC evaluation system
  • Advocates to boycott High Court functions
  • Hawala racket: two arrested
  • Talks on river water on November 4
  • `VS has no clear answer'
  • Bus workers to go on strike
  • Task force for biotech. investment
  • Body to be taken in procession
  • Processions planned
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Air Deccan may begin services from Kochi by December

    • Kochi

  • Vyapara Bhavan pulled down
  • Surgery workshop begins today
  • Call to ensure quality of clinical labs
  • Painting contest for students
  • Task force for SSIs mooted
  • Wedding bells for poor home inmate
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Relief given to rape victims
  • Anti-video piracy cell launched

    • Kottayam

  • Medical exhibition begins on Saturday
  • Mankulam once again shows the way

    • Kurnool

  • Minister seeks details of Nandyal water project
  • APCC chief urged to reward workers
  • CPI demands remunerative prices for farmers
  • AIR announcer felicitated

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Assassination of the Mahatma
  • Iran at the crossroads

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Kashmir issue
  • Maharashtra scene
  • Apex court bench
  • Peace talks
  • Veerappan killing
  • English & Hindi
  • Welcome move

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Human rights panel steps in to lighten school bags

    • Madikeri

  • Lokayukta admonishes officials for lapses
  • Krishika Samaja vows to protect farmers' interests

    • Madurai

  • `Bhoomi puja' to reconstruct Ellis Nagar road overbridge
  • Seventh State conference of TNGEA from tomorrow
  • The Hindu-Young World quiz today
  • Stamp release hailed
  • Construction of community hall ordered
  • Law banning religious conversion sought
  • Results published
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • KCCI delegation meets Moily on SEZ
  • Bangarappa to inaugurate Billava meet
  • Kavi Subrahmanya Temple to be renovated
  • Murder attempt: accused arrested
  • Man killed in lorry-car collision
  • Power cut
  • Engagements

    • Mysore

  • `Farmers were caned without provocation'
  • Wildlife tourism to get a new lease of life
  • Stop mining around Gomatagiri, Government urged
  • Governor to present crafts awards
  • Talent hunt from November 3

    • Nalgonda

  • Government accused of neglecting teachers' woes

    • National

  • UPA allies want to be consulted on gubernatorial postings
  • A tried and tested leadership: Vajpayee
  • More posts created in BJP
  • Four killed during farmers' stir
  • Follow `Kamaraj Plan' Manmohan tells partymen
  • French Minister declines comment on controversy
  • All airports on fresh terrorist alert
  • Centre to retain Illegal Migrants Act
  • Standards for pesticide residue in soft drinks in two months
  • `North-East attacks point to ISI involvement'
  • FDA directive
  • AGP's allegations against Minister
  • New portraits, new icons
  • Rakesh Mohan is Secretary, DEA
  • CCEA defers decision on oil pricing
  • Girl trips on escalator, saved by CISF constable
  • Jamnalal Bajaj awards announced
  • Apunba Lup threatens to pull out of talks
  • The unemployed elephants
  • NHRC notice on harassment of Haryana couple
  • Migratory birds change course
  • Daughter of kidnapped NRI appeals for his release
  • Nanavati panel tenure extended
  • TV journalist appears in court
  • `Veerappan could not have been caught alive'
  • Show cause notice to Gujarat school
  • Best Bakery employee deposes

    • Nellore

  • `Operation Demolition' begins

    • New Delhi

  • Tough days ahead for Govt.
  • Khurana `outclassed', Maken wins the day for Congress
  • Assault accused identified
  • Metro making cash out of ash
  • A close call likely at JNU
  • A guide to curb domestic violence
  • Tax date extension demanded
  • Court directive on protected status to Jama Masjid
  • Jilted lover attacks woman
  • Two killed in accidents
  • Sheila suggests panel to engage RWAs
  • Negligence cases: second post-mortem conducted
  • Arrested
  • `Bring caste panchayats under legal framework'
  • Music enhances productivity: Kalam
  • Centre convenes meet to review BPL family estimates
  • New focus on Kashmir handicrafts
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Campus Jotting

    • Nizamabad

  • Sarpanches warned against misuse of rice

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Repair works: TDB invites tenders at eleventh hour

    • Perambalur

  • DRDA to implement low-cost housing techniques
  • `Annabishekam' performed

    • Polo

  • Jindals and Royal Kashmir on top

    • Pondicherry

  • Kalam address
  • Grant B-2 status, urges Ramadass
  • Delimitation panel to hear suggestions

    • Punjab

  • Pension for Tohra's kin approved

    • Rajasthan

  • Mulford keen on expanding Indo-U.S. ties
  • Environmentalists reject draft policy

    • Religion

  • Adhere to moral codes

    • Shooting

  • Amit clinches title
  • Sushma Rana finishes eighth

    • Sports : General

  • No early hearing in sight for Pratima
  • Chennai, Salem win
  • North Zone I in command
  • Cavalry/RVC posts win

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Significant drop in infant mortality rate
  • Chennai water supply still inadequate
  • A storehouse of database
  • Encouraging research
  • STF cannot lower guard, for now
  • Chennai airport gets automated pilot-friendly facility
  • Chengalpattu campus, an apology for law college
  • Green groups say `no' to landfills plan
  • Encounter fake, say rights groups
  • Preparing for crucial test
  • Red carpet welcome awaits STF personnel
  • Address gaps in education system: N. Ram
  • Prabha back in Cuddalore school
  • Why this concern for Governor, asks Ramadoss
  • Chief Secretary partisan, says Congress
  • Safety commissioner inspects new track
  • Chandy to meet Jayalalithaa on November 4
  • Cash prizes for policemen
  • EPF vigilance cell
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Fake family cards detected
  • 36 prohibition offenders arrested

    • Tennis

  • Dent, Srichaphan exit
  • Vandana ousted

    • Thanjavur

  • Rs.770-cr. credit plan for Thanjavur district

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Council takes on employees' unions
  • Anti-retroviral therapy for HIV-infected launched
  • A unique book exhibition
  • Writer expresses concern over sex scandals
  • International Film Festival to be held in December
  • Woman killed
  • Counterfeit currency seized
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated October 28, 1954: Closer ties with China
  • dated October 28, 1954: Progress of Tibet
  • dated October 28, 1954: Nasser shot at

    • Thrissur

  • Rare centenary monument at veterinary hospital
  • Boy killed in road accident
  • Use of `electric baton' criticised
  • Seminar on Kerala history

    • Tiruchi

  • Take benefits of IT to rural areas: Orissa Governor
  • Plea to select Tiruchi for `food-for-work' scheme
  • Widespread rain in Pudukottai, Perambalur
  • Corpn. to crack down on illegal constructions
  • `Include skill orientation in curriculum'
  • Gold appraiser training programme
  • Around the city
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Rs. 906.53-cr. credit plan for Tirunelveli district
  • Good rain in catchment areas
  • Handloom products exhibition opened

    • Tirupati

  • DGP(Prisons) inspects sub-jail
  • Air Deccan winter schedule

    • Tuticorin

  • Inadequate infrastructure comes to fore in Tuticorin

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Reappearance of water hyacinth causes concern in Ooty

    • Udupi

  • Overloaded lorries' issue resolved amicably

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Mainpuri polls a challenge: Mulayam

    • Uttaranchal

  • Governor fetes the brave ones

    • Vijayawada

  • Occupation of land by naxals flayed
  • Kidnap episode: schools allay parents' fears
  • LIC agent assaulted?
  • Revolving fund for women entrepreneurs announced
  • Fashion designers' novel concept
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Encroachers must pay, says Estimates Committee
  • Muslims need to improve literacy rate: Minister
  • Collector's action: panel cancels meet
  • Call to set up national commission for children
  • Residential schools promised for minorities
  • Keyhole surgery workshop in city on November 6
  • All-India NCC Nau Sainik camp begins
  • BSNL's festive offers
  • `Create awareness on dental problems'
  • Milk vendor found dead
  • Railmen's meet
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Best High School triumphs
  • AP beats HP
  • Jayanagar downs BEML
  • JMC triumphs
  • KRL, St. Xavier's clinch titles

    • Weather

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