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Accidents & Calamitie

  • In the Capital Today

    • Alappuzha

  • Flood situation continues to be grim in Alappuzha

    • Anantapur

  • CBI pleads inability to trace Moddu Seenu
  • Minister admits bungling in Backward Classes list
  • New ration cards to be issued by August 10 in Anantapur district

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Death for college student
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Krishna water leaks from Sagar project canal
  • Special teams monitoring agency areas, says Rosaiah
  • Tribals to spearhead movement against bauxite mining
  • Villagers oppose Pulichintala
  • Three women arrested on cheating charge
  • Naidu evades reply on third front

    • Arunachal Pradesh

  • Anti-rat race in Arunachal Pradesh

    • Assam

  • CPI (M) demands ST status for Assam tea tribes

    • Athletics

  • Vikas — big boy who's aiming bigger

    • Bangalore

  • 100 colleges to seek fresh accreditation
  • H.K. Patil's daughter sues college
  • So near, yet so far for BJP in State
  • Four more fire stations to be set up in city
  • Pedestrian-controlled traffic signals at eight more places
  • Thimappa to abide by court verdict
  • Cases of nasal allergies on the rise in city
  • BJP ready to cooperate with JD(S): Shettar
  • Siddaramaiah postpones meet for want of quorum
  • Labourer killed, three injured as portico collapses
  • Time extended
  • Scrapbook memoir on Rajkumar
  • Venues issuing voters' photo identity cards today
  • At Fireflies the earth is the first mother
  • Normal to excess rainfall in State
  • A car rally for the visually challenged
  • A new innings
  • A lesson in marketing tourism
  • Designer rakhis home delivered
  • Pyramid meditation
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • First round of counselling for MCA concludes

    • Bihar

  • Two traders shot dead

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Advani, Sethi begin well

    • Briefly

  • Mauritius-based FII hikes stake in RCL
  • No withdrawal of flood cover: IRDA
  • CLB reserves order on Purnendu petition
  • Ma Foi net revenue at Rs. 14 cr.
  • Paper Products plans new facility
  • Aurobindo Pharma raises $60m
  • Pressman Advertising gets ISO 9001
  • Bajaj Allianz launches MahilaGain
  • SIRC-ICWAI office bearers
  • Nokia launches new handset
  • Hughes' next generation broadband routers
  • Customer service solution from HCL Tech
  • Dubai to host Global Village Festival
  • Canara Bank to focus on rural sector
  • Tally launches new programme
  • Joins Microsoft Development Centre

    • Business

  • SEBI panel moots revised broker fee
  • Sensex closes at new peak of 7797
  • Tata Power plans huge outlay
  • TCS pact with Italian firm
  • French industry to explore investment opportunities
  • Sharp drop in rupee
  • Infy's China investment
  • Singapore, South Korea sign FTA
  • Amtex Systems to expand operations
  • SumTotal to acquire Pathlore Software
  • Kingfisher ties up with ICICI Bank
  • India may invest in gas pipeline project

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • See Amitabh, hear `Nizhalgal' Ravi
  • U.K. for strategic partnerships with Indian universities
  • 1,300 new designs for weavers
  • Child health expo at Valluvar Kottam
  • Autonomy for 18 colleges under study
  • Chennai road projects work on course: Baalu
  • Madras varsity launches a "manhunt"
  • Permanent shelters for tsunami-hit by year-end
  • Anna University gets Tamil Nadu's first satellite interactive terminal
  • Police chief turns to NGOs for help
  • One couple in five childless in the country
  • Kerala to organise business meet in Kochi
  • Golden `Vasakaal' for temple
  • Detention of four persons quashed
  • Wealth case jewellery will move to Bangalore soon
  • IT can bridge rich-poor divide: Vittal
  • A jinxed start for rock festival
  • Chief Minister's `prescience' or reading of history?
  • MetroPlus Theatre Festival opens today
  • Five acquitted in Palani Baba case
  • Gangsters arrested, stolen goods recovered
  • The `G' in private vehicles
  • Essay contest for students
  • `Madras Day'
  • Ilayaraja's daughter gets engaged
  • Summer trains extended
  • Amrutanjan MD dead
  • Modern astrology course
  • Catching 'em young
  • Too young for the load?
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Anil Kumar shocks Deepan
  • Two share lead
  • Indians start well

    • Coimbatore

  • Students from outside the State go in for agricultural courses
  • BJP firm on going it alone in Assembly polls
  • Anbu Illam gets `Fit Institution' status
  • Electoral rolls available in CD format
  • PDS cards at supply offices
  • Way out
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • England off to a blistering start
  • The weak link in Indian attack
  • Same old story for India
  • Limping back from the horrors of the tsunami
  • KSCA XI recovers well
  • I still have some fuel left in the tank: Ganguly
  • Kamaraju to head Ranji Trophy selection panel
  • Pragyan, Bharat bowl well
  • Another twist to the tale

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8364
  • Solution to Puzzle 8363

    • Cuddapah

  • `Farmers need not be Rythu Mitra members to get loans'
  • `It's all within the family'

    • Editorials

  • Pakistan's madrassas in perspective
  • Boost to Turkey's EU bid

    • Erode

  • Odanilai to be made a tourist spot: Minister
  • Water released into LBP canal

    • Front Page

  • Apex court upholds Gilani's acquittal
  • Mamata flings papers, resigns
  • Speaker pulls up Shivraj Patil
  • 60 legislators back Prakash as chief of Janata Dal (S) Legislature Party
  • Report on Nanavati panel to be tabled
  • Jayalalithaa's pat for Dr. Shanta
  • Death for Manohar
  • Dam water level to be kept at 136 ft
  • Sania stuns Petrova
  • Vasan to continue as TNCC chief
  • Angling catching on in city
  • A pleasure watching ageing gladiators
  • Playing five bowlers will benefit India
  • India took a calculated risk: Manmohan
  • CPI(M) has nothing to fear over deal: Paloli
  • Four naxalites killed in encounter
  • Little scope to concede NGOs' demand: YSR
  • One more lion dies in Gir forests
  • Quake in Indonesia
  • Lynched to death
  • Muzaffarnagar tense
  • Emergency landing
  • Court orders cash for catching stray cattle

    • Gulbarga

  • Water level in the Bhima rising
  • Siddaramaiah supporters' protest turns violent
  • Chief Minister promises land for hostel in Gulbarga

    • Guntur

  • Celebrating 100 years of Vande Mataram
  • Six militants surrender

    • Haryana

  • 50 per cent teaching posts for rural candidates: Hooda

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Water supply in Hubli-Dharwad
  • Music festival gets under way
  • Idol makers hope to do well
  • Siddaramaiah supporters protest action against their leader
  • In Hubli-Dharwad Today

    • Hyderabad

  • Majority corporators vote against Greater Hyderabad proposal
  • MIM to fight against Greater Hyderabad
  • Attacks in London, alert in Hyderabad
  • Expectations of engineering aspirants go awry
  • YSR launches fire clearance through eSeva for high-rise buildings
  • KCR remarks against spirit of Constitution, says PJR
  • Busy day ahead for President
  • Tata Indicom launches Telugu voice station
  • Assets worth Rs. 70 lakhs unearthed
  • JAC told to sort out PRC issues with officers
  • NAAC Director stresses on need for good faculty
  • Call for greater bank-MFI synergy
  • Mumbai-bound train to leave on schedule
  • YSR praises Centre for Good Governance
  • Five cyclone shelters for Nellore district
  • Clarification
  • Students in a fix
  • Protest against ban on old vehicles
  • DRDL scientist's body found in quarters
  • Operation pest control
  • Sagar gates to be opened today
  • Case filed against Aarti Agarwal
  • Officials claim 550 deaths in agency
  • Unsafe place for animals
  • Volkswagen set to vroom?
  • Thieves eyeing `bigger' things
  • Security wing constable `reprimanded'
  • Osho event from today
  • RTC bus runs over teenager
  • It's query time
  • Dream come true
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • New Indian law to hit AIDS control
  • Talks with Pakistan on CBMs today
  • Not the right time to invest in Iran gas, says Christina Rocca
  • India, Canada to cooperate in environment issues
  • Indian-origin student gets life term

    • International

  • Shuttle crew preparing for undocking on Saturday
  • One charged over July 21 attacks
  • U.S.-China move on U.N. Council expansion
  • Famine an affliction of the poor
  • Police officer killed in Jaffna
  • Online game banned
  • Cloning questions

    • Interviews

  • "We have set out our stall on promoting higher education"

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Rights violations will not be tolerated: Sayeed

    • Karimnagar

  • It's all but a school

    • Karnataka

  • M.P. Prakash chosen leader of Janata Dal(S) Legislature Party
  • Water as far as the eye can see
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Nature's beauty beckons them
  • Alert bank manager foils robbery bid
  • Edakuria facing flood threat

    • Kerala

  • Mullaperiyar water level to be kept at 136 feet
  • Brimming with confidence
  • On a fast track
  • Mission cleanliness
  • Lavalin deal: `CPI(M) has nothing to fear'
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Passengers protest against Air-India
  • INL plans leadership camp
  • Around the City

    • Kochi

  • Rival groups submit list of disputed churches to Cabinet subcommittee
  • Fish varieties vanishing from State's backwaters
  • Waste treatment facility on FACT premises soon
  • PCB fiat to bone processing units
  • Thousands throng Aluva for bali
  • Panel meet on church dispute starts
  • For a delectable rural fare
  • Novel protest demanding seawall
  • Malaysian Government keen on investing in State
  • Meet on e-payment of tax
  • Fishing harbour at Puthuvype demanded
  • Missed opportunity
  • Pineapples for Russia
  • Meet on Panchayati Raj institutions
  • Students seek hike in scholarship
  • Of learning law
  • Mani Shankar Aiyar visiting State from today
  • KPCC chief meets Cardinal
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Annual `bali' performed with religious fervour
  • Chandy to open Akshaya project
  • `Snow' jewellery set to hit Indian market
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kozhikode

  • Infertility clinic set up at MIMS

    • Kurnool

  • `Save Hundri' movement mooted
  • Project to minimise use of pesticides

    • Leader Page Articles

  • It is time for Kumbhakarna to wake up

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Bihar politics
  • The root cause
  • One-sided
  • Judicial trespass
  • Stress free exams
  • Unification of India
  • Nationalism today

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Big farmers behind agitation: Raje

    • Madurai

  • Bench moved to squash order
  • `One union-one industry' policy to be stressed: SRMU
  • With love from Air Sahara
  • Sports scholarships for youngsters
  • Water released from dam for double-crop
  • Call to withdraw `new pension scheme'
  • Power shutdown
  • Winning accolades as always
  • Foreseeing a brimming Vaigai
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Rain sinks Bhiwandi powerlooms
  • Slumdwellers reclaim land
  • MSEB comes in for praise
  • Sena seeks settlement of 50 per cent claim
  • Ganesh idol makers not dampened

    • Mangalore

  • MESCOM to take up infrastructure work
  • More colleges likely to get autonomy
  • Accused sentenced
  • Janata Dal(S) leaders urged to sink differences
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Most varsity English teachers barred from evaluation
  • Federation activists protest ouster of Siddaramaiah
  • Experts favour motor LPG stations in city
  • Workshop on hearing impairment begins today
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagaland

  • Ministers hold talks with Naga students

    • Nagapattinam

  • Thousands take holy bath at Point Calimere, Poompuhar

    • Nagercoil

  • Thousands take holy dip at Triveni Sangamam

    • National

  • India took a calculated risk, says Manmohan Singh
  • It is a blunder, charges NDA
  • All help to Manipur Government, Shivraj Patil assures Lok Sabha
  • Don't politicise terror strikes, UPA tells BJP
  • Karnataka releases water from Alamatti
  • Afzal was key conspirator: court
  • Securities scam: Supreme Court suspends imprisonment of accused
  • Flood cover not being withdrawn: IRDA
  • Geelani opposes sentence to Afzal
  • Knowledge Commission proposals by October: Pitroda
  • Ayodhya: judicial custody for militants
  • Amartya Sen's mother hospitalised
  • Additional Solicitor-General
  • CPI member to head panel
  • New postal policy on the cards, Lok Sabha informed
  • Award for G. Padmanabhan
  • We will study in detail the judgment: police
  • Tiger task force chief briefs Minister
  • PAC points to tax evasion by schools, colleges

    • New Delhi

  • No land, yet DDA offered plots
  • Dissident camp division a relief for Sheila
  • Kidnapped child rescued
  • Power situation in Delhi remains grim
  • Big B out to `lock' you again
  • Sheila gheraoed by crowd in Tilak Vihar
  • A silent tribute to Hiroshima victims
  • South Indian paintings on display
  • High Court warns Centre on non-compliance with order
  • Notices to Centre, police on driver's plea
  • New language textbooks for schools
  • With a farmer's touch
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Judges need to exercise restraint
  • The perennial outsider
  • Resolving disputes over water sharing

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Ration cards: confusion still

    • Palakkad

  • Probe Brahmapuram diesel plant, SNC Lavalin deals: NC(I)

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Ayroor to get new panchayat chief today

    • Pondicherry

  • Shanmugham's appointment as PCC chief welcomed
  • PMC stages demonstration
  • Rangasamy greeted on birthday
  • CPI (M) seeks court directive on civic polls

    • Punjab

  • Feel a quake, volcanic eruption in Science City

    • Raichur

  • Rs. 50-lakh flood relief released for Raichur district

    • Religion

  • Light on Dharma

    • Salem

  • Water released from Mettur dam
  • `Ayurveda rejuvenates mind and body'
  • Concern over violence against tribals
  • Official identifies accused in bus burning case
  • New bus pass system in Salem soon
  • In Salem Today

    • Sport

  • Sania stuns Petrova
  • A pleasure watching ageing gladiators
  • Playing five bowlers will benefit India

    • Sports : General

  • Car rally for the visually challenged

    • Table Tennis

  • Ramit rallies to beat Aman

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Calling the faithful for prayer
  • Foreseeing a brimming Vaigai
  • Two women killed in explosion at quarry
  • CPI(M) to launch `land, jobs and food' campaign in Villupuram
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Painting with their fingers to enter the Guinness Book
  • Clubbing of cases: court to hear plea today
  • Tirupur dyeing units come alive
  • Aliyar likely to overflow
  • Tourism festival celebrated
  • Stone laid for new school buildings
  • Indian Bank opens ATM in Palani
  • Public grievances meeting with SP

    • Tennis

  • Harsh-Mustafa in quarterfinals
  • Aishwarya, Sudanwa claim top honours
  • Anil Khanna elected ATF chief

    • Thanjavur

  • Educate people about welfare schemes, civic chiefs told
  • `Exhibitions, a window to world of books'
  • Elected Syndicate members

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • `Yatra' to set election ball rolling
  • Non-availability of seats on flights to Gulf
  • LDF to oppose ban on demonstrations
  • Fellowships for research on Kerala history
  • Youth hacked to death
  • Thousands offer `bali'
  • Lok Ayukta directs issue of notices to KSRTC officials
  • Getting ready for elections?
  • Interest cut on loans to be taken up with Centre
  • Call to prioritise growth of city
  • Of guns and cops
  • Water levels in reservoirs increase
  • Laughing away all worries
  • The best of times, yet the worst
  • For love of nature
  • Vaccination: cash prizes for women volunteers
  • Curtains come down on TIFF
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 5, 1955: US concern over Goa
  • dated August 5, 1955: Sino-US talks
  • dated August 5, 1955: UK rejects Singapore plea

    • Thrissur

  • Waste from pig breeding centre the bane of Kainur
  • Suspension of stationmaster draws flak
  • Speaker defends MLA fund
  • `Imbibe Gita's message'
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Three weavers' societies revived
  • Plan to recruit noon meal workers
  • Students eager to learn new things, not so the teachers
  • To empower rural youths
  • Fast and easy designs to make extra money
  • Is it just a change of name?
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirupati

  • BJP vows to fight for dalit rights
  • Record fete by LIC Tirupati centre
  • Tirumala brahmotsavam from October 4
  • In Tirupati Today

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Adulteration blamed for woes of tea growers
  • More funds under SGRY scheme

    • Udupi

  • Funds sought for damage caused by rain in Udupi
  • Power purchase agreement welcomed

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • U.P. power situation critical

    • Uttaranchal

  • Two held for firing in MLAs' hostel

    • Vijayawada

  • Building hopes from tsunami wreck
  • Large-scale misuse of kerosene, says study
  • Women, students stage protest at court complex
  • Thanks and cheers for a genius
  • Congress forms municipal panel for polls

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Special care for spastics emphasised
  • Gangavaram port works hit
  • English medium in primary schools of MCV to go, says Minister
  • Woman found murdered in slum
  • YSR coming; to visit fever-hit areas in Paderu
  • Tension at hospital after woman's death
  • Class IV recruitment at zonal level
  • Wild and beautiful
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • A puzzling format

    • Warangal

  • Four naxalites killed

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • Buddhadeb expresses concern over rising crime against women
  • Mamata's decision `justified'

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