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    Anantapur

  • Verification of pattadar passbooks evokes good response from farmers

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • YSR to lead delegation to UAE, Israel and Egypt
  • Work apace on Secretariat helipad
  • TDP wants probe against State Adviser
  • `Comprehensive law against corrupt persons on the anvil'
  • Jobs for Tirumala hereditary archakas' children likely
  • Dattatreya begins fast against Babli project
  • Tirupati to get broadband in market next week
  • BJP threatens to intensify agitation on Telangana projects
  • Police reluctance to take complaints irks YSR
  • Custody for Suri extended in Paritala Ravindra murder case
  • Translate Vedas into Telugu, says MSR
  • More water release for Godavari delta
  • Call for new tribunal on Godavari water
  • Maoists back RTC staff strike
  • Boy fatally run over
  • Special drive to check corruption urged
  • AICC announces names of seven DCC chiefs
  • Separate mess to prevent ragging of students
  • Four killed as van overturns
  • Respite for private bus operators
  • Meet to contain naxalism today
  • Bail granted to Virasam members
  • Former naxal killed
  • Differential power tariff ruled out
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • TDP members threaten to walk out of ZP meet
  • Guntur Telugu Desam repeats charge against State Advisor
  • MP flays officials for not using funds in time

    • Badminton

  • Oscar, Ritwika shown the door

    • Bangalore

  • BMP report claims credit for works done earlier
  • Flyovers: BDA identifies contractors
  • Beating the peak hour traffic
  • Shortage of textbooks leaves students worried
  • Youth killed in accident
  • Two from city die in accident near Mulbagal
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Kanaka Kolar prevails

    • Bihar

  • Heat stroke toll 89

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Close contests order of the day

    • Briefly

  • ICICI Bank, HDFC hike home loan rates
  • Ericsson introduces GSM mobile on aircraft
  • Tata Tele launches own brand mobile handset
  • Coffee Day to open more kiosks
  • Paramount Airways may start operations in August
  • Simbhaoli Sugar to export bio-manure to Dubai
  • SBI Life announces reversionary bonus
  • Benchmark launches new scheme
  • eBay India's new initiative
  • Aurobindo Pharma's ARV gets USFDA nod
  • Yes Bank's plans
  • Commercialisation of renewable energy
  • Gayatri Sugars turns around
  • Kinetic launches range of Italian series scooters
  • Canara Bank, Mico-Bosch sign MoU
  • CII team to visit U.K.
  • HP records 35 p.c. growth
  • GrapeCity in pact with Elixir Tech
  • CREDAI's property expo
  • Special interest tours from Hi! Tours

    • Business

  • Cabinet approves IISCO-SAIL merger
  • DBS to pick up 37.5 p.c. stake in CIFCL for Rs. 228 cr.
  • TCS to network 1,300 Central Bank branches
  • TotalFina to expand dealer network
  • Nissan arm begins operations
  • Smart recovery in rupee
  • RIL hogs limelight
  • Synergy with Durgapur Steel to be tapped

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • "Remove irritants in pacts to tap trade potential"
  • An INA veteran lives in penury
  • Suicide a rude shock to family
  • `Sethu project will wreck fishing'
  • Depleted workforce adds to MTC woes
  • CPI(M) moves High Court
  • Focus on containing spread of HIV/AIDS
  • They now go to school
  • Short films on big cats coming
  • Admissions open in government homes for orphan children
  • Rank holders honoured at Law Academy valedictory function
  • Question paper scam: cab drivers interrogated
  • Catamarans donated to fishermen
  • India's role in prevention of AIDS crucial, says Kofi Annan
  • Veerappan's wife challenges freezing of bank deposits
  • Burglars have a field day
  • Life term for murder
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Tania sixth, Eesha ends up last
  • Delhi to host National `B' championship

    • Coimbatore

  • Breakthrough in dacoity case; accused arrested
  • The Hindu to launch supplement on properties
  • Counselling for transfer
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Bangladesh tail wags
  • Ganguly's form a matter of concern, says BCCI chief
  • Three selected for Border-Gavaskar scholarship

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8322
  • Solution to Puzzle No. 8321

    • Cuddapah

  • MP pulls up officials over water scarcity

    • Cycling

  • Australian cyclist suspended

    • Editorials

  • A tsunami and a reality check
  • Bird flu — preparing for the worst

    • Erode

  • Rosemary herb, a money-spinner for tribals
  • 28 dyeing units, tanneries to install treatment plants
  • 15 unauthorised roads closed

    • Football

  • Colombia, Netherlands advance to next round
  • Ballack leads Germany to victory
  • Suraj's strikes sink Goa

    • Front Page

  • Government again defers decision on fuel price hike
  • `Peace process becoming Kashmir-centric'
  • Cabinet nod for facsimile edition of foreign newspapers
  • Cabinet not for Indian editions of foreign dailies
  • Greenpeace to keep off clean-up
  • Greg Chappell focussed on the tough task ahead
  • The new Maradona
  • Attack on Indian writer
  • Hurriyat leaders return
  • Power failure in Mumbai
  • Hostage killed

    • Golf

  • Vikrant hogs limelight
  • Nashir Ali in lead

    • Guntur

  • Panel to monitor prices

    • Haryana

  • Energy varsity gets NOC
  • Centre's nod for Special Economic Zone
  • Haryana incentives for women
  • Haryana Power Utilities chief
  • Dairy body to diversify products
  • Haryana villages face flood threat

    • Hassan

  • Train to Shravanabelagola likely in a few weeks

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Come monsoon, this highway turns into a water body
  • Farmers promised good seeds
  • Water supply schedule for Hubli-Dharwad
  • Deshpande not to decline KPCC President's post
  • Grameena bank to adopt `balawadis'
  • Railway employees' protest

    • Hyderabad

  • It's business beyond religion
  • Water situation takes a turn for the worse
  • Focus on sanitation, water supply
  • NGO appeals for support
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Presidential campaigns target youth
  • Hong Kong: Tsang elected unopposed
  • Acrimonious exchanges at European Union summit
  • Pakistan lifts travel curb on rape victim
  • JVP pulls out of Government
  • Sonia's host is Putin's likely heir
  • End-to-end digital film solution, courtesy Indian brains
  • U.S. rejects G-4 proposal
  • I will go ahead with Srinagar visit: Rashid
  • `Chandrika will present proposal in Parliament'
  • Split in Anglican Church widens
  • Malaysian officials' role probed
  • Landing tyre-less
  • Blood vessels from cells
  • Trotsky murder ice-pick found
  • Bush environment aide joins oil giant
  • Five U.S. Marines killed in Iraq blast
  • Annan has "no plan" to resign over oil scandal

    • Kannur

  • Kannur University to acquire land for headquarters

    • Karnataka

  • Doubts over State starting medical colleges this year
  • ``Don't insist on abandoning metro project''
  • Govt. to close down Sanskrit college
  • Shortage of textbooks leaves students, parents worried
  • Centre to provide funds to ease water shortage in 12 districts
  • Of unregulated construction and green shield in Bangalore
  • Market price valuation of Bangalore Palace grounds upheld
  • Deve Gowda urged not to insist on dumping project
  • Canara High School in Mangalore goes hi-tech
  • Railway station at Porkodi will increase access to Bajpe airport
  • Teachers shocked over patent issue
  • Coming to the aid of children in distress
  • `Innovation vital for growth'
  • State urged to speed up projects
  • Training for women in healthcare services
  • Meet to discuss NGOs' role in road safety
  • Gadag ahead in educational infrastructure
  • Non-Brahmins got a chance to learn Sanskrit
  • Two incidents during APMC elections
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Rs. 200-cr. plan to boost horticulture output
  • Decks cleared for upgrading highway
  • Every effort will be rewarded in Congress, says Dharam Singh
  • Ambarish dares JD(S) to walk out of coalition
  • Girl's death causes tension
  • Residents carry dead python in procession

    • Kerala

  • Road development project for Sabarimala hillock
  • Krishnaswami may work out a compromise formula
  • Good prospects for seaweed cultivation
  • The sea has usurped their land
  • Zonal exemption order under a cloud
  • Petition against IT examinations in schools dismissed
  • Petrol dealers' stir from July 18
  • Khadi Board plans to set up carry bag unit
  • `Sonia failed to lead Congress to victory'
  • CPI flays move to recognise unaided schools
  • Murder of Congress leader: five held
  • KUTA's plea
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • New design centre to help weavers compete in market
  • Good response to bank deposit drive
  • Sri Lankan couple detained at airport
  • Passengers stranded as IA cancels flight

    • Kochi

  • Welfare scheme for coir workers on the anvil
  • Sea erosion threatens livelihood of fishermen
  • Turmoil continues at St. Albert's College
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Police urged to trace `missing' BSF jawan
  • Cocaine seized
  • KVVES plea on parking

    • Kottayam

  • `No effective resistance to policies of Bush'

    • Kozhikode

  • Fishermen threaten to defy ban
  • Aided schools attract more students in district

    • Kurnool

  • Cotton seed processing units raided

    • Leader Page Articles

  • The continuing power crisis in India
  • Differing EU and U.S. interests
  • The thrills without the frills
  • Fat versus fiction
  • Flying the leader, protocol and propriety
  • Surviving the monsoon

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Governors as watchdogs
  • An opportunity lost
  • English & Tamil

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Panchayat Raj Ordinance cleared

    • Madurai

  • Velu flags off link train to Chennai
  • Police unable to trace missing constable
  • `Reserve seats for Tamil medium students'
  • Advocates boycott courts
  • Keeping tabs on wards on phone
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • MCC resumes tax collection
  • ZP approves Rs. 83-cr. plan
  • Many aspirants in the race for Mayor's post
  • Funds promised for roadwork
  • BSNL launches broadband service
  • Around the City
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Moratorium on drilling borewells in State sought
  • Lobbying for Mayor's post intensifies in Mysore
  • Repair works at Devaraja Market yet to begin
  • Centre's assistance sought for setting up milk chillers

    • Nagapattinam

  • Meeting on measures to face natural disasters

    • Nagercoil

  • 24 acres of land allotted for construction of 500 houses

    • National

  • "Our talks definitely helped"
  • Funding scheme extended to new IITs, IIMs
  • It should not be a repeat of 1991 experience: ULFA
  • Investigating officer deposes in Bakery case
  • Court orders registration of cases against five
  • Nod for amending Citizenship Act
  • Drug authority on U.S. model
  • Protest against Patna power scarcity
  • IAF rescues diplomat, family
  • TCS tops the list again
  • Training camps on this side of LoC to fight militants and bring peace
  • Health Ministry to hold meeting on bird flu
  • ``Gains against poverty in Asia''
  • Pandits hesitant despite urge to return
  • "Early rescue of miners remote"
  • Farmers may have to reschedule kharif sowing
  • Helmet use deferred in Gujarat
  • Shekawat's call to Governors
  • Monsoon in north-east
  • Protest against misuse of image
  • ``Put IT potential in defence to use'
  • Pejawar Swami opposes VHP resolution
  • Martyrdom day of Guru Arjun Dev observed
  • Dues, salaries of 16 PSU staff cleared
  • University probe report almost ready
  • Environment clearance for housing project
  • Central staff can take LTC to visit Andamans
  • Rs. 184-crore plan for JIPMER facilities
  • Rashid has not applied for travel by bus
  • He is not welcome, says Congress

    • Nellore

  • Teachers warned against defying orders

    • New Delhi

  • DDA's bid to 'free' corrupt officials
  • DU classical music courses still popular
  • Ministers fail to perform again
  • Man acquitted in kidnap, rape case
  • U.P. downs barrier on Delhi autos, taxis
  • New angioplasty procedure
  • Kidnapped girl's father commits suicide
  • Six `gangsters' held
  • CNG locomotive all set to roll
  • Floral tributes paid to Brahm Perkash
  • IIT-JEE results
  • Doctor found dead in hospital
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • Nizamabad

  • Houses for beedi workers sought under quota
  • Government a spectator to plight of Telangana: BJP

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Palakkad

  • `Parties averse to women's issues'

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Land transfer documents handed over to TDB

    • Pondicherry

  • PMC volunteers held
  • Open PG studies centre: Ramadass
  • `Declare Karaikal a Union Territory'
  • Lakshminarayanan, Cassicadai residents held for staging road roko

    • Punjab

  • Punjab police arrest two Hawara aides

    • Racing : Horse

  • Holding Court and Flashing Star catch the eye
  • Moon Emperor wins Ambur Plate

    • Racing : Motor

  • `Montagny not to replace Narain'

    • Rajasthan

  • Protests against Tonk firing on farmers continue

    • Religion

  • Self must be experienced

    • Sport

  • Greg Chappell focussed on the tough task ahead
  • The new Maradona

    • Sports : General

  • Three new records set on first day

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Framing of charges in Sankararaman murder case on July 12
  • Tea stalls raided in Salem
  • Get approval for Theni college, Jayalalithaa tells DPA Ministers
  • Ramadoss strikes different note
  • Rotary initiative benefits six orphanage girls
  • UGC to scan universities' performance before funding
  • Union territory status sought for Karaikal
  • Karunanidhi's poser to Chief Minister
  • Appu's wife told to pay Rs. 10,000
  • CPI(M) wants food-for-work programme extended
  • Jayalalithaa receives petitions from public
  • PMK flays VHP plan to float party
  • Correction
  • Industrialist dead
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • `Give top priority to schemes for the poor'
  • Doubts over Karnataka starting medical colleges this year
  • Construction work caused balwadi wall collapse?
  • Rajasekhara Reddy to lead delegation to UAE, Israel
  • Minister's gesture to disabled girl
  • DAT president quits

    • Tennis

  • Vinod Sridhar in semifinals
  • Roger Federer plays Mathieu first
  • Shaughnessy and Koukalova move up
  • Gokul, Sindura triumph

    • Thanjavur

  • Collector disburses welfare benefits to 74 persons
  • Traders' chief plans padayatra to Chennai
  • Bank to honour senior customers

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Mushroom poisoning cases on the rise in city
  • Aid sanctioned for family of drowned girls
  • Kalady ward councillor missing
  • "Vigyan Rail" to reach Kollam on June 18
  • Four bitten by dog on MCH campus
  • Water supply to be disrupted
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated June 17, 1955: PM at Tamerlane's tomb
  • dated June 17, 1955: UK rail strike ends
  • dated June 17, 1955: Township for Tirumalai

    • Thrissur

  • Kodungallur magistrate's house stoned

    • Tiruchi

  • Tanners' assn. expedites pipe-laying work
  • Plan to improve solid waste management
  • Collector's appeal to entrepreneurs
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Visit villages, Agriculture Department officials told

    • Tirupati

  • College principal denies charge

    • Tuticorin

  • Artificially ripened mangoes seized

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Power employees defer strike
  • Four more heatstroke deaths in U.P.

    • Vellore

  • Hib vaccine to fight pneumonia
  • `Publish textbooks for free distribution'

    • Vijayawada

  • Students shortlisted for CSI honours
  • Canal network getting the final touches
  • A hurdle he could not overcome
  • Emergency load relief
  • Around the City

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Trade unions oppose FDI in modernisation of ports
  • Congress confident of victory in elections to municipal bodies
  • Protesting CPI activists arrested
  • Srinivas retained City Congress Committee chief
  • New charges for tap connections announced
  • Move on RTC passes criticised
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • `No assurance given to TRS on Telangana'
  • New DCC executive body soon

    • Weather

  • Weather

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