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Alappuzha

  • 81 women trained under Khadi project
  • Girl magician to perform daredevilry

    • Anantapur

  • Leakages to Penna reservoir plugged
  • Paritala's widow fears threat to life

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • 40 villages in three A.P. districts inundated
  • Pet puja Fitting repartee to the nagging pest
  • Farewell to arms
  • It's query time

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Computerisation of police stations apace
  • Godavari floodwater level touches 11.45 feet
  • Withdraw GOs on ESI hospitals, says AITUC
  • Protests galore at the Collectorate
  • People told to reject TDP, Congress
  • `TJS has no links with Maoists'
  • Degree student electrocuted in agricultural field
  • Briefly

    • Athletics

  • Gatlin destroys the field

    • Bangalore

  • Budding musicians battle it out for honours
  • Plan to improve Fire Services' response time to emergencies
  • Some Janata Dal (S) Ministers' portfolios likely to be changed
  • Teach yoga in schools, says Jackie Shroff
  • Siddaramaiah's ouster from post defended
  • Over 2,000 policemen trained in giving first aid to accident victims
  • A riot of colours greets visitors at flower show
  • `Congress plotting to get Chaturvedi replaced'
  • Panel formed to monitor flood relief operations
  • Litigant asked to leave court hall
  • Guard murdered after brawl
  • Working for harmony in the community for over a century
  • Court adjourns hearing in centralised counselling case
  • Prisoners stage Kurukshetra
  • Yediyurappa leaves on tour of rain-ravaged areas
  • Riot of colours greets visitors at flower show
  • Notices issued to BEML, Union Government on Tatra deal
  • Two women among four killed in road accidents
  • A play for the young by the young
  • Yediyurappa, Hariprasad meet Siddaramaiah
  • Seat selection for diploma holders concludes
  • Thimmappa meets Minister
  • Siddaramaiah holds talks with expelled leaders
  • Leaders play the `name game'
  • Jet Airways extends `Check Fares'
  • Indian Airlines launches countrywide helpline
  • AHIND stages protests
  • `Fake passport holder has no extremist link'
  • Implementation of MoU discussed
  • For the love of snakes
  • Tributes to a stalwart
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Belgaum

  • Renewed rainfall in Belgaum district
  • Two electrocuted

    • Bellary

  • Bellary youths set an example

    • Bidar

  • An adroit snake catcher at 6
  • Regularisation of land holdings sought

    • Bijapur

  • AHIND members stage protest

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Pankaj Advani enters final

    • Briefly

  • RIL interested in WB chemical hub
  • Oil price nears $64
  • BEML to tap market
  • Nokia shares rise after takeover report
  • Canara Bank opens office in China
  • Mahindra-British Telecom net profit up 63 p.c.
  • Tata Motors vehicle sales up
  • FIEO opens office in Hyderabad
  • Zebra offers support for mySAP business suite
  • Dr. Reddy's, NMIMS partner for MBA programme

    • Business

  • No bubble build-up in stocks: FM
  • Private sector to fuel India-U.S relationship
  • Sensex plunges 148 points
  • Bharti Tele to outsource call centre operations
  • Rupee loses 7 paise against $
  • Riddhi Siddhi buys HLL's biopolymer unit
  • Citibank, others in race to finance Birla deal
  • Texas' single-chip solution
  • Indian Bank net up

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Runaways spell out seven reasons
  • Mess Ramaswamy caters for the stars
  • Tamil Selvan promoted, posted as Inspector-General
  • SIDBI, Indian Bank tie up to finance small units
  • Former MLA, builder held
  • Students get a feel of natural vegetation
  • Salt Satyagraha fete, freedom fighter's kin honoured
  • Clean, green awards for schools
  • Looking to build a garden? Help is at hand
  • Follow routine, judge tells Raghu, Sundaresa Iyer
  • Tsunami relief: Central officials meet NGOs
  • Court upholds women DSPs on general duty
  • Jayalalithaa opens all-women police station in Tambaram
  • Hand over poromboke water bodies to Panchayats: association
  • A digital revolution
  • Customs seize red sanders
  • Bhagyaraj, Dhanush come together for `Asokamithran'
  • Maths with and without abacus
  • Postgraduate programme in e-publishing
  • Enticing locales and offers to beat `corporate' stress
  • Don't forget the honest in public service, says former Chief Election Commissioner
  • Bhagyaraj, Dhanush come together for `Ashokamitran'
  • State submits constables' selection records in court
  • Creating awareness of the Civil Services
  • Oust anti-people Government, says Vasan
  • Breastfed babies are healthier
  • Enhancing company executives skills
  • Poster contest to focus on importance of literacy
  • Boy on excursion dies in Kerala
  • Setting the stage
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Chess

  • Ramesh takes sole lead
  • Rahul maintains winning streak

    • Coimbatore

  • No privatisation, say agitated conservancy workers
  • Pocket-sized Bible for your comfort
  • Significant breakthrough in chain snatching cases
  • Seminar on horticulture
  • No power supply
  • Draft electoral rolls for public scrutiny
  • Renewable energy meet
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Cricket

  • Zee bags telecast rights for Afro-Asian Cup
  • No change in England squad
  • Sehwag is best when carefree
  • New Zealand crushes a hapless Zimbabwe

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8367
  • Solution to Puzzle 8366

    • Cuddapah

  • Anganwadi workers picket collectorate

    • Dharmapuri

  • Rs. 132 crores for building BC hostels

    • Dindigul

  • Gandhigram Trust exports `curative textiles' to treat Japanese patients
  • Non-hazardous and user-friendly cosmetic items developed
  • Govt. schools go the green way

    • Editorials

  • Crisis management in Karnataka
  • Regional blocs and multilateral trade

    • Erode

  • Book festival in Erode
  • Officials from AP, Karnataka visit fields
  • Heavy rush for house site pattas at grievances meet
  • Special buses for temple festival
  • Cycle rally taken out

    • Football

  • Bangalore, Mandya post wins
  • Pradeep goes on the rampage

    • Front Page

  • Credible evidence against Tytler: Nanavati
  • Jharkhand police seek help to arrest IG
  • Bihar House dissolution issue for Statute Bench
  • State says Maharashtra's flood problems are of its own making
  • Green light for plastic roads
  • `Delhi Police probably instigated attacks'
  • England won a battle with themselves
  • Still haunted by the ghost of 1984
  • Polls possible in September: SEC
  • Krishna in spate: no cause for alarm, say district officials
  • Young World Quiz 2005 set to roll
  • Jolarpet-Hosur rail link a non-starter yet
  • Tiruchi has a `Tidel Park' potential
  • College turns `call centre' for BPO
  • Paritala follower bombed to death
  • Download any film from anywhere
  • Civic polls: quota for Muslims may not be possible: YSR
  • Tamil Nadu accused of not clearing spillway
  • Blast in Guwahati
  • Move to arrest trend of poor condition
  • Early poll ruled out
  • No agreement on telecast

    • Golf

  • Atwal's distinction

    • Gulbarga

  • Planning helped officials execute relief measures
  • Flood situation alarming in Gulbarga district
  • Flood leaves many farmers in distress
  • Man washed away in the Kagina

    • Guntur

  • Steal deals await buyers at APCO's clearance sale
  • One washed away, four others reported missing in floods

    • Haryana

  • Gurgaon boy rescued, kidnappers shot dead

    • Hassan

  • Hassan legislators to meet Dharam Singh over compensation to farmers

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Virbhadra's assurance on finance companies

    • Hockey

  • Hat-trick by Jitender

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • A project for supplying water 24 hours a day
  • Hubli-Dharwad water supply schedule
  • Another honour for north Karnataka
  • Vande Matharam relevant even now: freedom fighter
  • Hubli Health Centre plans `freedom run'
  • Three held; stolen goods recovered
  • Loan for farmers to buy tractors
  • Management study favoured in law curriculum

    • Hyderabad

  • City to get German aid under Megacity project
  • 40 villages in 3 districts flooded
  • Drug stores short on cough syrup stocks
  • Engineering student loses leg after fall from train
  • Shinde gets a memo, vanload of petitions from Naidu
  • Malaria deaths: Congress demands apology from Chandrababu Naidu
  • Say cheese with nanodentistry
  • Focus on atrocities at women's panel meet
  • Naidu submits memo to Governor
  • Call for virtual varsities
  • New traffic signals to be set up at 10 places
  • Gas leak detection kit developed
  • Crime Watch
  • MLA accused of threatening members of NCW
  • Madiga students staging dharna arrested
  • Civic polls: minister allays fears of BCs over quota
  • Hides of tigers, leopard seized
  • Three arrested in murder case
  • Three held on cheating charge
  • Four Janashakti cadres arrested
  • TDP, BJP ally in Greater Hyderabad case
  • Special trains for Vizag, Tirupati
  • New colleges: Court admits SLP
  • Janashakti to hold memorial meetings
  • Beat the deluge
  • Tata launches new version of Safari
  • ERA national meet on September 2
  • Students asked to refrain from ragging
  • Prime Minister for seminar in Hyderabad on August 21
  • Bag containing 1.77 lakhs snatched
  • French classes
  • New buses
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Reporter's Diary: Passing the buck?

    • India & World

  • Pakistan rejects allegations of cross-border infiltration

    • International

  • Koizumi plank is reforms
  • Iran defies U.S., E.U. on nuclear plan
  • U.K. suspects charged
  • Sharon undertakes damage control exercise
  • Anchor Jennings is dead
  • Race to save miners
  • Oil-for-food chief resigns on eve of probe report
  • U.S. to pull out 30,000 troops from Iraq

    • Kannur

  • Media not countering gender bias: Ajitha
  • Award for ad on Endosulfan
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karnataka

  • Maharashtra's flood problem is of its own making: Karnataka
  • Change of guard
  • Leaving by the hordes

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Meet approves irrigation scheme to use Tungabhadra waters
  • No threat to my Government, says Dharam Singh
  • Two more Jamkhandi taluk villages flooded
  • Scheme sought for growth of border villages
  • AHIND members stage protest
  • Siddaramaiah supporters observe bandh in Kadur
  • Suresh Dixit passes away
  • Rain havoc in Sringeri, Koppa
  • Briefly

    • Kerala

  • Tamil Nadu accused of not clearing up the spillway
  • When the roaring falls beckon
  • Preparing to go to polls
  • Show of strength
  • For enthusiastic spectators

    • Kerala - Others

  • MLAs resolve to be proactive in ensuring vibrant Panchayati Raj
  • `Beedi workers in dire straits'
  • Seminar at SB college
  • Around the City
  • Briefly

    • Kochi

  • Life on the track in Ladies special
  • Centre, State told to alleviate coconut farmers' problems
  • `Protect coastal people's livelihood'
  • District panchayat plan to upgrade ayurveda hospital
  • High Court sets aside Puthussery's election to Assembly from Kallooppara
  • Work on hanging bridge in Muvattupuzha to begin by October
  • Women's initiative to ensure clean food
  • In search of soul of Ayurveda
  • Vallarpadam-Kalamassery road alignment fixed
  • Cusat invites applications for research fellows
  • High Court sets aside case on abetment of suicide
  • Adoor Prakash must quit office: IFDP
  • Vathuruthy tanks: report sought from CPT
  • Bridge opened
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • NYC(I) rally to be a show of strength
  • KLCA meet to decide on election stand
  • Pre-Naval Sainik Camp begins
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kozhikode

  • Unfilled posts, poor equipment have hit MCH functioning: survey report
  • City to be declared litter-free
  • A walk down memory lane for the first batch of medicos
  • Rs.25 lakhs for Tourism Week celebrations
  • Government, IMA sign pact
  • BJP plans `yatra'
  • Anthrax: public cautioned

    • Kurnool

  • TDP launches campaign for civic polls in Kurnool
  • Veterinary doctors denounce `remarks' in PRC report
  • Alumni donates medical equipment in Kurnool

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Science policy: lacking a collective strategy

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Geelani's acquittal
  • Welcome
  • Mamata's tantrums
  • Think about this

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Management conference on `intelligent decision making'

    • Madurai

  • Direct Post service launched
  • Ingenuity and creativity are tickets to Bal Shree Awards
  • Sri Lanka to participate in conference
  • Bench ruling on suspension of school teacher
  • Youth acquitted in murder case
  • New pension policy decried
  • `Reservation for tsunami-affected students difficult'
  • School building inaugurated
  • Around the city
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Degree colleges preparing candidates for IT jobs
  • Muslim Youth League wants action against police officials
  • Builders oppose national building code
  • College plans seminar on `outreach activities'
  • Konkan Railway train services resume
  • Forum launches campaign
  • All-member meeting of KDA tomorrow
  • Health awareness campaign from September 12
  • A fight for basic facilities
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Officials fighting against all odds to save the tiger
  • Vokkaligas take out rally in city
  • `Travel as you like' system introduced by KSRTC
  • Applications invited for MUDA sites
  • Chief Minister urged to reconsider ropeway project
  • SBI to open credit-processing cell in city
  • Renewal of affiliation to Mysore university

    • Nagapattinam

  • SHGs taste success, thanks to the efforts of Collector

    • Nagercoil

  • "Mother's milk, the only wholesome food for a baby"

    • Nalgonda

  • Rising water levels in Krishna hits 20 villages
  • Naxals blast guesthouse

    • National

  • Akali Dal, SGPC reject riot report
  • 9 Commissions, 21 years but justice denied: Akali Dal
  • Sharad Yadav, Uma Bharti for quota within quota
  • When Dominique Lapierre's inner voice told him to `do something'
  • "I escaped during Partition but lost everything in Delhi"
  • Evidence sufficient for further enquiry, says Nanavati
  • No more border posts, agree India, Pakistan
  • Pranab to head West Bengal Congress
  • "Police probably instigated attacks"
  • I am innocent, ready to face any inquiry: Tytler
  • Strike hits life in Naga areas
  • Manipur wants FCI depot to store essentials
  • I stand by my decision: Mamata
  • Gavai blames Narasimha Rao
  • Pepsi, Coca Cola move Supreme Court
  • Huge gold offering at Tirumala
  • Highway linking Imphal and Silchar to be strengthened
  • Tribal deaths: Team to visit affected areas
  • Shed negative approach to growth, Chidambaram tells NDA members
  • Authority to monitor television programmes likely to be set up
  • Only highlights for DD viewers
  • Medical seats

    • Nellore

  • Police avert clash between CPI(M) and Congress workers
  • CPI(M) expels senior leader

    • New Delhi

  • Delhi Metro on recruitment spree
  • Now school kids get designer uniform
  • Arrest Sajjan, Tytler: BJP
  • Summons issued to dead man
  • MCD House for CBI probe into Ghazipur abattoir case
  • High Court moved for cycle tracks
  • Deadline set for DPS reply on plea by student
  • Bid to check fast running meters
  • Retired Colonel commits suicide
  • Judges to visit Tihar
  • Matter of faith
  • Riot of colours
  • Growing resentment against Delhi Govt. causing concern
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Inside Delhi

    • News Analysis

  • Politics of forgetting and forgiving
  • Manipur's lifeline remains choked
  • Niger's children doomed to starve

    • Nizamabad

  • Drainage network for Nizamabad in four years
  • Stone for water scheme laid
  • ZPTC member dies in road accident

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Congress, TDP spar over territory for Kandukur Municipality
  • When Rosaiah encountered a `roadblock'

    • Palakkad

  • Coca Cola begins trial run at Plachimada

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Row over cell phone tower in school vicinity
  • Mural art project for temple
  • Awards announced
  • Niraputhari celebrations

    • Pondicherry

  • Work on digitised atlas begins

    • Racing : Horse

  • Thunder On wins feature event
  • Enaksi, Aquilo please

    • Raichur

  • Relief works suspended for a day in Raichur taluk
  • 11 held on gambling charge, stake amount seized

    • Rajasthan

  • Pakistani pilgrims arrive for Urs
  • Teachers to be trained through `Edusat'

    • Religion

  • In proper perspective

    • Salem

  • Farmers welcome decision to install peeling machines
  • Making them learn with fun
  • Judicial magistrate deposes in bus burning case
  • BJP cadres scuffle with police
  • Govt. exhibition in Salem

    • Shimoga

  • Yediyurappa's U-turn stumps BJP workers
  • Kanakapur thanks admirers for support
  • Operators oppose shifting of bus stand
  • Bhadra Reservoir getting filled up
  • `Globalisation creates jobs'

    • Sport

  • England won a battle with themselves
  • Flintoff's Test
  • Can India do the final dance?
  • Form and figures point to Lanka
  • Sania exceeding expectations
  • India crashes to its second defeat

    • Sports : General

  • Reaching an understanding

    • Srikakulam

  • TDP meet identifies nine priority areas
  • Training camp

    • Table Tennis

  • Jais, Meenu triumph

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Replacing pipelines
  • Welcome to Tirunelveli
  • For their quota
  • Take benefits of Information Technology to rural masses, says Governor
  • The Vedic route makes mathematics easy
  • A case for human face to disaster management

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Wedded to liquor, they left behind widows
  • Pomp, piety mark temple car festival
  • Jadugar Anand's jumbo trick thrills children
  • Merits of breastfeeding praised
  • Cashew farmers' meet at Pudukottai
  • Tribals observe hunger strike
  • Applications invited for ITI courses
  • Students injured in accident
  • Around the City
  • Briefly

    • Tennis

  • Roddick, Pierce triumph

    • Thanjavur

  • Own buildings for Govt. hostels
  • Loans disbursed to Narikuravas' SHGs
  • Laksharchana at Tiruvarur temple from Aug. 9 to 12

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • President Kalam's 10-point mission sparks a healthy debate in the State
  • States did not ensure safety of reservoir
  • Pozhiyoor murder: police probing other cases
  • Onus on State poll commission, says UDF convener
  • Government accused of abetting takeover of hotel
  • Dos and don'ts for preventing thefts
  • Colours that portray a tale of human tragedy
  • Sunny days are here again for action hero
  • Country bomb explodes at Krishi Bhavan office
  • Pinarayi alleges bid to sabotage civic polls
  • Hassan denies yatra has links with liquor lobby
  • Government urged to bring in Goonda Act
  • Stock trading outlet at Technopark
  • Call to develop Vizhinjam with public participation
  • Training for bank exam
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 9, 1955: Homi Bhabha's prophecy

    • Thrissur

  • Centre to train dogs planned at police academy
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Five star status for govt. school
  • Discipline and determination shot him to success
  • Campaign needed to defeat communalism: Subhashini Ali
  • Marginal rise in voters of Tiruchi-I and Tiruchi-II
  • ``Fill vacancies in colleges''
  • August turnout of women
  • Will it stand scrutiny?
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchy Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Boat club to be established off Authoor bridge near Tuticorin
  • Two die of burns

    • Tirupati

  • Censor Board warns rural film exhibitors against rule violation
  • V-C denies charges
  • Preparations in full swing for `celestial wedding'

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Autonomy likely for Nilgiris railway

    • Udupi

  • Udupi gets Rs. 7.37 crores for total literacy campaign

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Mulayam wins trust vote
  • Major rivers rising in U.P.
  • Shortage of policemen in Uttar Pradesh: Mulayam
  • Shastri's photo on gutka decried

    • Uttaranchal

  • Mixed response to bandh

    • Vellore

  • Ply short-distance buses from old bus stand: councillors

    • Vijayawada

  • Drawing analogy with a river in spate
  • Flood evacuees in jitters despite no complaints about relief camps
  • Candidates for municipal polls to be put under scanner
  • Affordable PCs launched
  • Raghuveera to launch HPCL `Gruha Rakshak' scheme today
  • Civic Commissioner takes stock of facilities at 10 relief camps
  • 3 held for making fake licenses
  • Prayer to swirling Krishnamma
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Feverish speculation mounts
  • Five Maoists surrender
  • JVV contradicts State's claim on malarial deaths
  • Five new vet polytechnics in State from next month
  • VIP visits hamper relief in agency
  • Tributes paid to Sivalenka
  • JAC threatens direct action over Pay Revision Commission
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Rickshaws on the road to extinction
  • All irrigation tanks, wells to be filled: Ponnala

    • Weather

  • Weather

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