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Andhra Pradesh

  • World Bank chief denies imposing conditions
  • Safe drinking water for all towns in 3 years:YSR
  • Water scarcity looming large over Tirupati
  • Free-do(o)m
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • India's first Internet village Chiluvuru is one-year-old
  • Velugu `floors' World Bank chief
  • RTC region incurs Rs. 3.26 -crore loss
  • Rs.4 crores sanctioned for Pithapuram development
  • Kadiam nursery is home to rare flower
  • Minister distributes assets to beneficiaries
  • Tourism needs private-public partnership: Geetha Reddy
  • Manmohan's visit: SPG team does a security check
  • Police official suggests one-side parking
  • BJP leader joins TDP

    • Athletics

  • Roshan, Aishwarya shine
  • Pre-departure testing unethical: Randhir

    • Badminton

  • Chennai, Madurai in final

    • Bangalore

  • Admissions: State to file review petition
  • Graft case against him is based on false charges, says IAS officer
  • Colleges to offer 25 p.c. seats to poor
  • New regional transport office opened in city
  • Transport Department draws up 5-point plan
  • KSRTC satellite bus terminal to be opened for use on August 28
  • Three robbed of gold chains, cash
  • Vigilance panels set up at taluk level
  • Biography of the `butcher of Amritsar' released
  • Party leaders to stand by Deve Gowda
  • Nelamangala-Hassan road to be widened
  • Bangalore Art Festival to be a bigger show this time
  • Congress leaders in a quandary
  • Funds for energising pumpsets
  • Venues issuing voter cards
  • City-bound aircraft suffers bird hit but passengers safe
  • Kalam to open silver jubilee of Vijnana Parishat
  • President coming today
  • Training camp inaugurated
  • Mangal Pandey... doing better than Lagaan?
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Bidar

  • ABVP's Vande Mataram Sandesh Yatra comes to Bhalki
  • AHIND activists stage rasta roko

    • Bijapur

  • Bangarappa seeks Central direction on filling of dams
  • No threat to Samajwadi Party from AHIND movement, says Bangarappa
  • Baby handed over to orphanage

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Advani outclasses Obaidly

    • Briefly

  • IDFC quarterly net doubles
  • Greaves Cotton pays Rs. 3 final
  • Glenmark launches drug for osteoporosis
  • Andhra Bank launches deposit utsav month
  • Overseas student travel insurance from Chola MS
  • SSA Global achieves CMMI Level 5
  • Novell introduces enhanced server
  • Payment card fraud down in Asia Pacific
  • Reliance Info offers international roaming
  • Norms may be tightened for QIBs
  • Indigo SX series launched
  • Hyundai introduces Getz variant

    • Business

  • Trade facilitation: India to sign revised pact
  • Sensex touches 7900-mark
  • Intel partners NIIT to train IT professionals
  • PFC signs MoU with banks on consortium
  • Apple unveils product lines
  • Tata Tech to acquire U.K. firm INCAT International
  • Rising oil import bill will gobble up increase in export revenues
  • New fruit drink launched
  • U.S. team arriving today to assess tsunami impact
  • Vehicle accessories showroom starts functioning
  • Kundaly Tea fetches a record Rs. 1,601 per kg
  • Tata Indicom launches Indicom Gem
  • A sweet business on the rise
  • St. Joseph's Press on modernisation path
  • Rupee loses further ground

    • Carrom

  • Easy for AG (AP)

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Turning the spotlight on city transportation
  • 50 women get FM radios
  • Congress waiting for new office-bearers
  • Equity fund planned to start new agro and food processing units: D.P. Singh
  • Third-party sale of power allowed in Tamil Nadu
  • Two youths killed on Chennai bypass
  • An event to test teachers' creativity, oratory skills
  • High Court finds three varsity officials guilty of contempt of court
  • New-look marine aquarium thrown open to public
  • Exnora founder gets Hamsadhwani award
  • Over 100 primary schools in State to be renovated
  • Allow space for reflection, teachers told
  • CII demands amendments to Information Technology Act
  • Counselling for admission to Veterinary Science course begins
  • Obscene books seized, four held
  • Over 15,000 apply for inclusion in electoral rolls
  • Nasser's tips to students on acting
  • A gallery to display artistic talent
  • Enact law to take over deemed varsities: PMK
  • Best of INPUT Festival at ACJ
  • Burglars strike in Kalakshetra colony
  • Anna University campus to have information technology park
  • Preferential trade deal unlikely before year-end: Pretoria envoy
  • Award for Birju Maharaj
  • More IT parks on the anvil
  • Arrest of cooperative bank employees flayed
  • Seminar on psychiatric disorders
  • Villagers want incinerator to go
  • The Little Mermaid on stage
  • Symposium on `Kapital FY 05'
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • After a long wait, stage set for biomedical waste disposal
  • Applications available for SSLC/ OSLC examinations
  • Eye camp
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • ICC's FTP to be restructured
  • Bradman Cup begins today
  • Shinde, Khaleel put Hyderabad in driver's seat
  • Srinivas and Javed's efforts go in vain
  • TV rights deal: BCCI likely to earn Rs. 450 crore
  • Mir Sami Ali, the youngest scorer

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8376
  • Solution to puzzle 8375

    • Cuddapah

  • Compensation to displaced: CPI to stall project works
  • CPI seeks Central initiative to resolve naxal problem

    • Dharmapuri

  • Savings of SHGs in State touch Rs. 635 crores
  • Twins handed over to Cradle Baby Centre

    • Dindigul

  • A success story of self-help society

    • Editorials

  • Thackeray versus Thackeray
  • Tigers don't need company

    • Eluru

  • Self-reliance still a far cry: freedom fighter

    • Erode

  • Dead fish removed from canal
  • First aid training for SHG members
  • `Students need quality education'
  • In Erode Today

    • Football

  • Denmark humiliates England
  • Russia draws with Latvia
  • Bagan beats East Bengal

    • Front Page

  • `Historic' Bill for jobs in rural areas
  • My name was `unnecessarily' dragged: Tytler
  • Award for kin of Tinsukia firing victims
  • POSCO deal: uneven playing field?
  • Emergency extended
  • CRPF jawan kills senior
  • Vice-Chief of Air Staff
  • Central teams visit flood-hit areas in Gulbarga, Belgaum, Bijapur districts
  • 12.94 lakh applications rejected
  • Now charter a whole train from Kalka to Shimla
  • Kala lives to fight another day
  • Court notice on publication of `titillating material'
  • 74 civic bodies reserved in State
  • IT.in 2005 to showcase India as compelling IT destination
  • Veli tourist village to get a facelift
  • Tax sops at military canteens restored
  • Wolfowitz denies imposing conditions
  • Chandy's stand on Brahmapuram deal criticised
  • 80 per cent of SC/ST vacancies to be filled
  • Two militants among six killed in J&K
  • Taliban leader arrested

    • Golf

  • Shiv Kapur joint third

    • Gulbarga

  • AHIND seen as lacking a sense of direction
  • 14 seers pledge support to farmers' agitation

    • Guntur

  • Government seeks additional CRPF forces for Palnadu
  • Development works sans additional taxes: Minister
  • Entries invited for story writing contest

    • Hassan

  • Siddaramaiah to convene meeting on August 21

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • The actors who played a role in the establishment of the Bench
  • Work on Hubli truck terminus begins
  • Programmes to mark Urja Divas

    • Hyderabad

  • BJP leaders, activists held for bid to storm Secretariat
  • Take safety steps or face action, city police chief tells schools
  • Government staff stage protest
  • Zero waste management drive gets fillip
  • Eat right, feel light
  • Giving wings of hope for discriminated children
  • Security heightened for people's representatives
  • Women groups set to gain from HUDA's green programme
  • Government staff stage protest in Hyderabad
  • Municipal polls around third week of September
  • $260 million aid for SHG women
  • Pedalling away to pleasure
  • Narrow escape for over 20 schoolchildren
  • Low-income group women more prone to osteoporosis
  • Policemen asked not to harass common people
  • Parties demand immediate election of civic chiefs
  • Safe drinking water for all towns in three years: YSR
  • Newspapers told to shun sensationalism
  • Seminar on study abroad on August 21
  • Naxalite groups merge
  • On a high
  • Three held on cheating charge
  • Another topic to debate
  • CPI leader passes away
  • Share it all
  • Toddy tappers' body holds demonstration
  • Writ petition adjourned
  • Idea Cellular's offer
  • Writ plea on BC voters adjourned
  • Patni Computers revenue at $326.6 mn
  • Tippapur station halt from today
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • From Dindigul to the world

    • International

  • A challenge to American dominance in world
  • A signal to U.S.: officials
  • Merkel unveils leadership team
  • Local polls in Pakistan begin
  • U.K. police chief under pressure
  • Bangladesh blasts are a message, say security experts
  • At the heart of the Milky Way
  • Across a magpie bridge
  • Plateau moving north-east
  • Al-Qaeda leader killed
  • LTTE agrees to talks

    • Kannur

  • Society to popularise organic farming
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • CPI team to tour various irrigation projects in State
  • TRS denies activists of TJS indulge in `destructive acts'

    • Karnataka

  • Deve Gowda authorised to take action on Siddaramaiah
  • MLAs to head vigilance panels
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Team to expose fake medicine manufacturers
  • Centre ready to give more aid: Dharam Singh
  • Mahima Patel will join my group, says Siddaramaiah
  • Golden find at Hampi Royal Enclosure
  • Ministry will be expaned soon, says Dharam Singh
  • BJP forces adjournment of Goa Assembly
  • YMCA told to fight poverty
  • A boon for motorists

    • Kerala

  • Tax relief to military canteens to be restored
  • MoU for Smart City project in September
  • Police quell rumours
  • Chief Minister in a hurry
  • Unhealthy stand-off
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • CIAL plans Rs.3,500-crore projects
  • SIFL makes a turnaround; targets higher turnover
  • Supreme Court rejects Maudany's bail petition
  • Calicut University launches EDUSAT link
  • Beautified Kottakkunnu to open on Saturday
  • Gold doorframe dedicated
  • Poor yet to receive benefits of globalisation

    • Khammam

  • Government owes explanation to people on naxal issue: Naidu
  • Euphoria is back

    • Kochi

  • Bid to develop Kalamassery as outer city
  • Sanskrit university to establish Ayurveda centre
  • A new story for Kathakali repertoire; fans upbeat
  • Mangroves to tide over tsunamis
  • Foreigner files another complaint
  • Title deeds for all eligible occupants of `poramboke' land
  • Plaudits for `Camille Claudel'
  • Employment exchange to become data bank
  • Tsunami aid: hearing adjourned
  • Conflict in CPI(M) set to intensify: CPI(ML)
  • Ban on common salt opposed
  • Government criticised
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Infrastructure development tops Kollam MP's fund allocation
  • `Muslims being denied justice'
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • HNL going in for expansion drive
  • MGU plans law college in self-financing stream

    • Kozhikode

  • Farmers turn down settlement offer
  • Array of traditional products at Onam mela
  • Corporation draws flak
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Nandyal, Dhone reserved for BCs in civic poll
  • Minister visits Adoni to follow up on promises
  • CPI advocates literacy among Muslims

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Gross breach of privilege but beneath contempt

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Right decision
  • Court verdict
  • Echoing Gandhi
  • An affront
  • A relief

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • This freedom fighter remains unsung

    • Madikeri

  • BJP demands more money for farmers

    • Madurai

  • Campaign to boost female literacy rate launched
  • Attempt to revive folk arts through education
  • Plan to establish 20,000 rural vision centres
  • A health hazard lying dormant near Mattuthavani bus stand
  • CJ turns court into classroom
  • Woman turns her back to children
  • Promoting blood donation
  • Mobile marketing of education
  • Crowding for a job
  • Academy offers three programmes
  • Awarded for meritorious service
  • Award for teacher
  • Woman relieved of chain
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • `Shift people from farm to service sector'
  • Koragas demand land, healthcare
  • KIADB draws flak for land survey move

    • Mysore

  • Corporation staff seal buildings not having completion report
  • MATF members vow to continue their work
  • 12th century temple to be renovated
  • Spectrometer opened at CFTRI
  • Girl assaulted

    • Nagapattinam

  • Five held in robbery case
  • `Thamaraikulam' getting a facelift

    • Nagercoil

  • AIDS patients celebrate Independence Day
  • Narcotics seized in train

    • National

  • U.N. seat: no need to despair, says Natwar
  • Jobs Bill will give them what is their right, says Sonia Gandhi
  • No domestic LPG shortage, says Aiyar
  • 80 per cent of SC/ST vacancies to be filled
  • Speaker rejects privilege notice against newspaper
  • Rakshabandhan to be observed as anti-poverty day in U.K.
  • Manmohan to hold talks with Manipur Chief Minister
  • Act prohibiting cigarette advertisements challenged
  • FICCI presents memorandum to I&B Ministry
  • Greenpeace for ban on import of e-waste
  • Scribe beaten up
  • Maharashtra seeks Rs. 8,576-cr. relief
  • Now, a battery running on urine
  • Protest for full-fledged guarantee
  • New Vice-Chief of Air Staff
  • Ram temple work in a year
  • Vajpayee asks Modi foes to meet Advani
  • Fake currency: CBI chief expresses serious concern
  • Notice to Centre, newspapers on titillating material
  • Courier services to be regulated
  • War on terror: U.S. seeks India's help
  • 8 foreign firms debarred
  • $30 million U.S. aid for control of AIDS in India; part of Bush initiative
  • IT award for Sardar Patel University VC
  • Uma Bharti writes to Advani
  • Bill soon for better safeguard of guarantees to minority educational institutions
  • Lalu denies using Railway ads for pre-poll campaign
  • Vajpayee asks Gujarat dissidents to meet Advani
  • Concern over commercialisation of education
  • Head constable shot by CRPF jawan, dies
  • Wickremesinghe acknowledges India's support for peace process in Sri Lanka

    • Nellore

  • Focus on aid to SHGs, Collector tells banks

    • New Delhi

  • Residents deduct hike in power bills
  • Students show the way
  • Jolly plans 25-km protest march
  • A glimpse into IAF's history
  • Bangladeshis' gang smashed
  • Head constable shot by CRPF jawan, dies
  • Seven stray cattle caught under reward scheme, court told
  • Concern over kite injuries to birds
  • Apex court asks Mayor to release files on abattoir
  • High voltage power box posing a threat
  • Report on free education to poor kids draws court ire
  • Govt. held guilty for faulty ad
  • HC summons DDA, MCD chiefs
  • Three held for thefts
  • Death penalty for murders
  • `Slain lawyer may have known his assailants'
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • All in the family
  • Versions the police put out
  • The Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement
  • The second age of globalisation
  • Bulgarian treasure outranks Trojan gold

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • `Kalyanotsavam' today

    • Palakkad

  • Malampuzha dam to celebrate Golden Jubilee
  • UB group using rainwater harvesting facilities
  • Sit-in by MP, municipal chairman in front of Collector's Chamber
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Chalakkayam-Pampa road project nearing completion

    • Pondicherry

  • Replace yellow cards with red ones, Anbalagan demands
  • Pondicherry should seek legislation on quota: MLA
  • Bring in comprehensive legislation on quota: PMK
  • File review plea on quota: Janata Dal (S)

    • Racing : Horse

  • Precious King appeals most
  • Aristotle in great heart
  • Red Key Point impresses
  • Caprese triumphs
  • Supreme Act, Star Strike excel
  • Balma wins August Plate

    • Rajasthan

  • IT sector may face tough challenge
  • Scheme to fill up teachers' posts
  • Pink City I-T's newest hub, says Raje

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Panther skin seized

    • Religion

  • The divine form

    • Sailing

  • National sailing from today

    • Salem

  • Proposed Foreign Contribution Bill raises the hackles of NGOs
  • Police repeater station gets facelift
  • Interview for women
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • Garage owners to stage dharna today

    • Sivaganga

  • Horticulture farm rings in profits

    • Sport

  • Federer struggles to beat Kiefer
  • Sania Mirza: girl with good attitude
  • India takes gold
  • Korea surprises Netherlands

    • Squash

  • Harinderpal and Ghosal ease into quarterfinals

    • Tamil Nadu

  • A child's driving passion
  • It was a stunning feast for bookworms
  • Rajnikant's pat for Y.G. Mahendra's drama
  • Talent hunt show
  • Australian varsities education fair
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Children's park, boathouse to come up soon at Avadhanpatti Lake
  • JD(S) meet for action against Siddaramaiah
  • Start engineering colleges in each district: BJP
  • Knit Show 2005 begins in Tirupur
  • Karur sub-court orders attachment of railway property Derailed, yet determined to get compensation
  • Physics in the kitchen!
  • `Distribute seeds, fertilizers at appropriate time'
  • Water release for PAP fourth zone from Sunday
  • Around the City

    • Tennis

  • Ashvarya Shrivastava and Allan Gomes claim boys' and girls' titles
  • Sanaa downs Nadja Roma

    • Thanjavur

  • `Knowledge of Islamic banking important'
  • Ring service of town buses inaugurated
  • SHGs to make doors for group houses

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Kerala University publishes post-graduate results
  • Kodiyeri seeks `white paper' on self-financing colleges issue
  • `Jubba' Ramakrishna Pillai passes away
  • LPG supply position improves
  • `Walker chair' gets you on your feet again
  • Smart City: MoU to be signed in September
  • 7 parties ready to cooperate with NC(I): Karunakaran
  • `People' channel on the air
  • Grand fete planned for Sree Krishna Jayanthi
  • A job well done
  • Sheds to go forever
  • Kinfra marketing cell inaugurated
  • BSNL's broadband service a big hit with customers
  • Honour for graphic designer
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Arrack vendor gets jail term

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 19, 1955: President warns Portugal
  • dated August 19, 1955: Chou En-lai's hope
  • dated August 19, 1955: TTD income

    • Thrissur

  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Neglect of science, technology decried
  • Tiruchi railway division's earnings cross Rs.50 crores
  • Swinging into holiday mood
  • This park fails to catch their eye
  • Adequate stocks of seeds moved to extension centres
  • Exhibition
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Now, water issue between districts
  • Puthiya Thamizhagam workers stage demonstration
  • Dry land development programme reviewed
  • PACB employees observe fast

    • Tirupati

  • All set for celestial wedding today
  • Maratha lions find a home in Tirupati zoo
  • TTD staff stir enters second day
  • Singhal chants Ayodhya mantra again
  • Andhra Bank introduces new `AB Freedom Deposit' scheme
  • SVIMS doctors remove tumour from girl's brain
  • SVU to introduce novel `Earn while you learn' scheme

    • Tumkur

  • Benefits for doctors in Pavagada sought

    • Tuticorin

  • Agriculture Production Committee reviews progress of ongoing projects
  • Explosives case: One more held
  • Liquor seized, seven held
  • New bridge inaugurated
  • Bridge inaugurated

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Ooty roads to be improved at a cost of Rs. 4.5 crores
  • Assurance on floor price for tea

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • `Mulayam Govt. failed to tackle encephalitis'
  • TIN for U.P. traders
  • M.P. kids face chronic hunger: Report
  • Muslim intelligentsia divided over `fatwa' on use of veil
  • Tying `rakhis' on WebWorld

    • Uttaranchal

  • IMA expels cadet

    • Vijayawada

  • The Hindu Young World Quiz today
  • Railways move to tap ad potential
  • `Continue Vandemaataram spirit'
  • Municipal Commissioner orders closure of unhygienic chicken, mutton shops
  • Package for crop loss announced
  • YSR to visit city on August 23
  • Directive to revenue officials
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • HPCL plans to establish greenfield refinery near city
  • MCI asked to make rural service a must for medicos
  • Binding brotherly affinity
  • BSF recruitment camp begins
  • Telecom Adalat on August 25
  • Steel unit commissioning
  • Special train cancelled
  • `Gyanavardhan' launched
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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