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Alappuzha

  • Nazar likely to head Alappuzha district panchayat

    • Anantapur

  • Three arrested, 21 vehicles worth Rs. 4 lakhs seized in Anantapur

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • `Dwajarohanam' marks start of Brahmotsavam
  • One killed in accident
  • All for a glimpse
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Naidu asked to spell out stand on Pothireddipadu
  • Love for mother lives on
  • Mini leather parks sought in Kadapa
  • Academic excellence centre opened
  • Preraks on warpath

    • Bangalore

  • ISRO to provide GIS data on places vulnerable to floods
  • Funds-starved BMP waits for financial panel grants
  • Employ ex-servicemen, industry urged
  • Fire breaks out at software firm on Residency Road
  • Arkavathy Layout: Bench rejects plea seeking change of judge
  • Drink water before or during exercise
  • Work on metro rail to begin in December
  • Ready to face polls, assert BJP leaders
  • Polls to panchayats will be held, says Dharam Singh
  • Bangalore firm to create an infobase on river linking
  • Another terminal to come up at Cantonment station
  • Media must introspect on its role: H.K. Patil
  • Taking Indian ideas to the West
  • Pedestrians seek a better deal
  • Tributes to a patron saint
  • Panel to look into sand mining
  • Children thriving on expensive gifts
  • Airtel rolls out expansion plan
  • Burglars assault former DRDO director and his wife
  • Four boys from Ramanagaram drown in Arkavathy
  • Form panel to plan development: ex-Mayor
  • Young World painting contest
  • Animation school to be set up
  • Decked up for Dasara
  • Around The City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Hukkeri to take up compensation issue with Chief Minister

    • Bidar

  • Parishat will amend bylaws, says Chandrashekar Patil
  • Marathi daily becoming popular in Bidar

    • Bihar

  • Uma plays down ideological differences with JD(U)
  • JD(U) for reservation to Dalit Muslims

    • Boxing

  • `My aim is to win the Olympic gold'

    • Briefly

  • Repco Bank introduces new deposit scheme
  • SIMA-CDRA office-bearers
  • Havell's board approves acquisition of Greek firm
  • embWise to partner with North American vendor
  • Bannari Amman Spinning to enter capital market
  • primedirectors.com gets overwhelming response
  • DLF to invest Rs. 600 cr. in township
  • Powercap systems gets ISO certification
  • ING Vysya maintains policyholder bonus rates
  • Rajesh Exports to consider fund raising options
  • Godrej & Boyce's franchise showroom
  • Corporation Bank enters gold coin retailing
  • Audatex's online solution for insurance claims
  • Flextronics expands portfolio
  • Samsung's festival offer
  • Microsoft's data protection manager
  • PNB selects Siemon's solution
  • Avaya signs contract with ABN AMRO
  • BIMSTEC plans gas grid
  • Sushma Chawla to hold additional charge in IA
  • SAT rejects brokers' appeal
  • Anil Nanda asks govt to probe EHIRC sale

    • Business

  • India-Australia CECA planned
  • Ban on PMGL, directors from accessing market
  • Indian banks retain high-risk profile: S&P
  • Sensex breaches 8800-mark
  • Engineering exports set to exceed $18 b in 2005-06
  • GAIL awaits cabinet nod for Assam gas cracker project
  • Electrolux Kelvinator may merge with Videocon Ind.
  • Same launches new tractors
  • SBT personality improvement programme for students
  • Kairali Ayurvedic Centre ties up with U.S. firm
  • Subsidy to boost pepper exports
  • Local market channels sustain micro-enterprises

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Railways must reorient market strategy: experts
  • Rival claims over funding of free bicycle scheme
  • Yet another mind-boggler from IIT-Madras
  • BJP may not go it alone in elections
  • CBI for action against eleven I-T officials
  • Phone firm's digging draws flak
  • Women self-help groups' artistic touch on display
  • Ambitious bid to cut maternal mortality
  • Halon phase-out, a success story in India
  • Memorial park in Nagapattinam
  • Standing up for patients' rights
  • Deputy Mayor seeks to put an end to controversy
  • On the fast lane to death
  • An honour he never expected
  • Practical tips for students of engineering
  • PMK, DPI deny moral policing charge
  • Power failures plague city
  • Thieves break into ATM in high-security zone
  • It's micro-thin, but bullet-proof
  • IT parks coming up at Kottivakkam and Semmencheri
  • Polytechnic University representative to meet students
  • Traffic diversions for farmers' conference
  • 41 officers complete training
  • "Make your child a Superkid"
  • Protest against obscenity
  • He wins a free trip to Kuala Lumpur
  • Numismatist's pride
  • A lively interaction
  • Biscuit bandits strike again
  • Joy in park
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Hari books World Cup berth

    • Coimbatore

  • Indo-American conservation project spells green success
  • Unapproved layouts main issue in local body polls
  • Bioinformatics poised for rapid development: VC
  • Keeping pathogens off stored food
  • All about caring for the heart
  • Handwriting contest
  • Firm to buy vanilla from Oct. 8
  • Overview
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Irani Cup for Railways
  • Aussies will look to prove a point
  • A seductive series
  • Back to where he belongs
  • MSK Prasad hits century
  • The Kangaroos play to win at any cost
  • St. John's Church JC clinches title

    • Crossword

  • Solution to Puzzle 8414
  • The Hindu Crossword 8415

    • Dharmapuri

  • Government clearing files immediately: Minister
  • Training in jewel appraising

    • Editorials

  • Chief Justice Roberts takes charge
  • Growth with equity

    • Eluru

  • Permanent solution to floods urged

    • Erode

  • Govt. grants Rs. 1.53 cr. for adi dravida students

    • Football

  • KFA picks 41 players for Santosh Trophy camp
  • KFA picks 41 players for Santosh Trophy camp

    • Front Page

  • India, Pakistan take a step forward on Siachen
  • Musharraf's assurance on Sarabjit Singh issue
  • Manmohan for enough relief to riot victims
  • Court declines to prevent farmers' meet at stadium
  • KGB links: no need for probe, says Centre
  • Sangma to quit as MP in protest against firing
  • Two Americans, German share Nobel physics prize
  • Separation of twins possible
  • YSR presents `vastrams' at temple
  • KSEB's revenue doubles in four years
  • Varsity extends insurance scheme
  • One killed in factory accident, 3 suffer burns
  • Baragur seeks `secular' Dasara
  • "We love ice-cream, adore Salman Khan"
  • Tension near Kannur after murder
  • Turning waste to wealth
  • Dial Ramnad police for blood
  • Pact on Mysore airport tomorrow
  • Mufti calls on Manmohan Singh
  • University Act quashed
  • Talks with ULFA
  • 10 convicted
  • Preeti Jain gets bail

    • Golf

  • Hee-won Han pockets Office Depot title

    • Gujarat

  • Grand plans to hardsell Gujarat

    • Gulbarga

  • Regularisation of `bagair hukum' lands starts
  • Samiti threatens agitation over project delay
  • Protest against `atrocities' committed by upper caste

    • Guntur

  • ANU students boycott classes
  • LAWCET admissions begin
  • Kalachakra: Dharmasala team reviews arrangements
  • `Colleges delay scholarship proposals for BC students'
  • State blamed for cut in medical seats

    • Haryana

  • `Haryana will be a model State: Hooda

    • Hassan

  • `Largest allocation' for road projects in Hassan district

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Professional tax rolled back in Himachal

    • Hockey

  • India Dark Blues outplays Youngsters
  • India takes on New Zealand

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule in Hubli, Dharwad
  • Congress, Janata Dal (S) to slug it out in elections to zilla, taluk panchayats in State
  • AIC team to settle insurance claims
  • Special trains to and from Mysore for Dasara
  • Teachers asked to encourage girl students
  • Six held, pornographic material seized

    • Hyderabad

  • Dasara festivities begin in city
  • Traffic police to get tough with erring motorists
  • MCH decides against setting up sanitary landfill at Adibatla
  • GO 170: TDP and TRS join hands
  • Biodiversity action plan released
  • Mecca masjid in need of chemical wash
  • `Tobacco ryots get a raw deal'
  • City-based engineer could be highest winner on KBC-2
  • `All help to tribals keen on pursuing higher studies'
  • Guntur Congress leaders bicker over Dy. Mayor post
  • The best of Discovery channel
  • BJP satisfied over show in civic polls
  • An exhibition for print, packaging industries
  • VAMBAY houses handed over to Sikhs
  • Award for 25 college teachers
  • Uproar over contract
  • CPI stakes claim for Mayor's post
  • IDL workers shocked
  • Plan to energise 1.50 lakh pumpsets
  • Thota withdraws resignation
  • 24-hour TV channel on health soon in State
  • Girl knocked down by military truck?
  • Steps to promote tier-II IT centres
  • Locals panicked over `filmi' bomb explosion at Yousufguda
  • Charminar bus station to be shifted
  • Business hours of post offices extended
  • Water problem eases in Sainagar
  • IIMC Alumni to host quiz on October 7
  • Students' talent exhibition held
  • Woman falls into manhole, rescued
  • DGP's directive on noise pollution
  • Information centre opens today
  • Nonagenarian's appeal to YSR
  • Delloitte wins FACT quiz
  • Regency College bags CAAP trophy
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • "Committed to gas pipeline project"

    • International

  • U.S. launches another offensive in Iraq
  • Deadlock broken in E.U.-Turkey talks
  • Iran may figure in Russia, E.U. talks
  • A million-dollar book deal
  • Award for immigrant tale
  • Storm to hit Mexico's Gulf coast
  • Toll in China typhoon rises to 50
  • U.K. raises arrests with Libya
  • Muslim Congress to support Ranil
  • Warlords, women faring well in Afghanistan poll
  • Halt child recruitment, LTTE told

    • Kancheepuram

  • Walajahbad road relaying

    • Kannur

  • Model Parliament witnesses heated debate among students
  • District UDF committee refutes LDF charge
  • `Panchayati Raj Act a far cry from Gandhian concept'
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Handloom expo a big draw
  • Reaching dizzy heights
  • Good turnout for Metpally Municipal Council

    • Karnataka

  • Mysore airport: pact tomorrow
  • Setting the tone for a `secular' Dasara
  • Bonhomie among space scientists
  • Chaos spills over to road
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Davangere to host Scouts and Guides meet in January
  • Minister threatens to take over Goa Dairy over quality of milk
  • Rally opposes eviction of tribal people from forests
  • `Antony satisfied with progress of social welfare projects'
  • MLA denies he wants change of Chief Minister
  • Poor quality pesticide destroys crops
  • `Extend last date for loan repayment
  • RPI's offer to Siddaramaiah

    • Kerala

  • An exciting date with Theyyam
  • Opinion divided
  • The question of punctuality
  • A memorable evening for ghazal lovers
  • Celestial delight
  • Contrasting styles
  • Month of holiness
  • Street scene
  • Festive spirit
  • Time to rejoice
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Prof. Rajasekharan Pillai in the race for UGC chairmanship
  • Jumbos parade their might
  • Government not to divert Devaswom funds
  • Microbiology studies vital for India: VC
  • Fire is lit for Amba Yaga
  • JD(S) leader dead

    • Khammam

  • Receding water only adds to farmers' woes
  • Polavaram: plea to put off public debate

    • Kochi

  • Civic bodies: picture still hazy in district
  • Court dismisses PSC plea against interim order
  • Congress to field candidate for Kochi Mayor's post
  • Smart City: officials meet to give final shape to document
  • Eroor Bhavan's is regional winner of quiz contest
  • UDF likely to rule Perumbavoor
  • Drama awards announced
  • Cultivating the spirit of adventure
  • An unhealthy trend
  • When a world of villains is after him
  • Custodial death: rights panel calls for report
  • IMA honours blood donors
  • CPI(M) `deserters' to meet tomorrow
  • Maritime city links
  • IGTL deploys new technology
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • LKG admission
  • Around The City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Yearning for peace in Kashmir
  • Devaki to be Kollam panchayat president
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Wrangling over sharing of power in Kottayam

    • Kozhikode

  • Beypore blast: forensic experts yet to give report
  • Beypore blast: probe centres on 2 aspects
  • Campaign for compulsory registration of marriage
  • SFI wins college polls
  • Plea to council on disposal of garbage
  • Stress on wildlife conservation
  • Muslim League leader dead
  • Mamu Koya elected Congress council party leader
  • SFI sweeps college polls
  • Management seminar
  • Alumni get-together

    • Kurnool

  • Revision of electoral rolls

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Power regulation: remedy worse than the malady?

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Renewed terror
  • Freedom encroached

    • Madikeri

  • Police outposts in Madikeri for Dasara
  • New tariff for irrigation pumpsets welcomed
  • Silver coins found in Somwarpet

    • Madurai

  • Special trains extended up to Nagercoil
  • Maintenance of law and order has attracted investment: Speaker
  • Bench says `no' to appeal against award
  • Cremation ground workers' conference
  • Krishnasamy seeks court intervention
  • Court direction to GRH Dean
  • Wonderful affair
  • Gearing them up for a safe ride
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Maharashtra

  • NABARD to probe suicides by farmers

    • Mangalore

  • Mangalore all set to celebrate Dasara
  • MCF labour row settled
  • `Blaming truck owners for bad roads is not right'
  • Applications invited
  • Conference on Friday
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • New beginning for Dasara 2005
  • Adventure sports add excitement to Dasara
  • Mysore comes alive as festivities begin
  • A hoary tradition comes alive in colours
  • Trying their hand at Dollu Kunitha

    • Nagercoil

  • Rs.65-cr. plan to improve railway infrastructure

    • National

  • BJP insists on probe into KGB issue
  • Left moves Sonia for national slum law
  • Rabri files papers for Raghopur
  • Rs. 100 coin in memory of Shastri
  • Separation of twins possible, say doctors
  • "We love ice-cream, adore Salman Khan"
  • BSNL re-launches Student Power Scheme
  • A farmer-friendly rubber reservoir comes to India
  • Air Deccan's daily flights to Kolkata
  • India joins select club in particle technology
  • 50 p.c. forests lost: report
  • Growth and social development must move in tandem: Rangarajan
  • Kochi team annexes honours in national finals, Bangalore first runners-up
  • High Court allows plea on telecast rights
  • Plan to computerise judiciary unveiled
  • Preeti Jain gets bail
  • Enough ground to shift trial outside Tamil Nadu, says Fali Nariman
  • Infiltration down but network active
  • CPI(M) retains Asansol seat
  • Manmohan calls on Chandra Shekhar
  • Romania to back India for U.N. seat
  • Partial solution or a step forward?
  • Awareness campaign for prisoners
  • No problem with Rane: Patil
  • Ramzan to begin on October 6

    • New Delhi

  • RWAs give ultimatum to Sheila Dikshit
  • Jal Board fails to put water documents on its website
  • Big heroin consignment seized in Capital, four arrested
  • Doctor gives a new hope to conjoined twins
  • Two brothers murdered in Najafgarh
  • Rape accused, wife commit suicide
  • Metropolitan lifestyle is more prone to disease, says survey
  • High Court seeks details of Pappu Yadav's visitors in Tihar jail
  • Joining hands for the terminally ill
  • AICC delegates' list cleared
  • A festival of plays
  • Nine new dengue cases reported
  • IGI Airport closed for Air Force exercises
  • Sub-Inspector held for graft
  • For world-class infrastructure
  • Final touches to goddess
  • A moving scene
  • India Carpet Expo shifts venue from New Delhi to Varanasi
  • A dedicated cadre for VAT Department sought
  • Student union elections: SC asks for guidelines
  • Around The City
  • Briefly

    • News Analysis

  • The price of democracy
  • Anatomy of the Pakistan-Israel dialogue
  • EU's troubled path to enlargement
  • Right show, right time

    • Nizamabad

  • More State aid sought for public health in rural areas
  • Electoral rolls revision from October 20
  • Nizamabad students excel at technology symposium
  • Youth fete from tomorrow

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • High freight charges put fertilizer firms in a spot
  • Maoists kill villager; brand him informer

    • Palakkad

  • More doctors to be posted in Attappady, says Minister
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Colourful start to Navaratri festival

    • Pondicherry

  • Industrial workers denied rights: AIDWA

    • Racing : Horse

  • Lanark, South Leo excel
  • Onnu Onnu Onnu impresses
  • Havana Goodtime pleases
  • Amrita for main event
  • Paladin wins Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Cup
  • Paladin wins Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Cup

    • Rajasthan

  • A women's uprising in Rajasthan heartland
  • Jamat flays anti-Iran vote by India

    • Religion

  • Descent of grace

    • Salem

  • Water enters houses in Salem
  • Building owner locks gate; students suffer
  • `Lift ban on deposit collection by PACBs'
  • Heavy rain

    • Shimoga

  • BJP's `Sangarsh Yatra' to `expose' Government
  • Arecanut growers to meet Sharad Pawar in New Delhi

    • Sport

  • The Australians will start as favourites
  • Winning start by Sania
  • Topalov's irrepressible form continues

    • Sports : General

  • Vigneshwaran too good for Kirti Rangan
  • Nobel Academy in semifinals

    • Srikakulam

  • Maoist posters appear in villages

    • Tamil Nadu

  • A fantastic felicitation
  • Yesudas to perform live in Chennai
  • Tug-of-war
  • Shelter with a view
  • In good form
  • Courtesy call
  • Demand for bifurcation of municipality continues
  • Poverty eradication, a challenge: Naresh Gupta
  • Eliminating child labour by 2007 a tough task: CAG
  • Octogenarian animal rights activist to be honoured
  • Setting the tone for a `secular' Dasara
  • Tension at Kannapuram
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • It was all play and no work for them
  • Supreme Court stays Theni Medical College plea
  • Over 1,000 habitations to get Cauvery water
  • Navarathri festival begins in Palani temple
  • Take govt. schemes to people, officials told
  • Government to give awards
  • Rs.89.40 lakhs for Theni dt. to treat the mentally ill
  • 22 villagers admitted to Aranthangi GH
  • Scholarships for students

    • Tennis

  • Aishwarya advances
  • Memorable win for Punna Vishal
  • Amogh downs Sharan

    • Thanjavur

  • Samba transplant at its peak

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Kerala University move to boost entrepreneurial ventures
  • VSSC focus on schoolchildren
  • Custodial death: one more constable suspended
  • 40 hurt as bus rams lorry
  • Documentary fete gets under way
  • Special trains to Chennai
  • An unlikely `brand ambassador' for God's Own Country
  • `Nanotechnology is the future, but human brain will still be supreme'
  • `More stress on maths and science needed'
  • Jalolsavam on October 12
  • Revenue Department's meet with people
  • Navaratri begins
  • Memorable experience
  • Scribes' protest
  • Around The City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated October 5, 1955: Nehru visits Asram
  • dated October 5, 1955: Child returns Nehru's pen
  • dated October 5, 1955: Rain havoc in Punjab

    • Thrissur

  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Promote academic excellence, college principals told
  • BSNL checks `negative growth'
  • `Taking many for a ride'
  • Awareness programmes on mental health planned
  • Villagers desilt irrigation channel on their own
  • Putting them on road to safety
  • Appreciable approach
  • Bridging the gap with the `best of past'
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirupati

  • Chief Minister arrives to a warm welcome in Tirupati
  • Civic official placed under suspension?
  • Farmers' body seeks revised milk price

    • Tuticorin

  • Vaiko lends a helping hand to desilt PWD irrigation tank
  • UTS commissioned at Tuticorin station

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Bid to reduce congestion in Municipal Market

    • Udupi

  • Villagers appeal for police sub-station at Hallihole
  • Actor Shilpa Shetty launches AIDS awareness campaign

    • Vijayawada

  • Cow gives pesticide too!
  • Navaratri fete begins on a colourful note
  • ENT surgeons plan anti-pollution drive
  • Parties struggle to pick Mayor candidates
  • Cultural treat at Loyola College
  • State awards for ANU teachers
  • Man killed in road accident
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • ENC chief allays fears over Sethusamudram project
  • Ding-dong... this is parrot speak!
  • MPEDA for steps to boost seafood exports
  • Cattle menace poses threat to traffic in city
  • Visakha Utsav from December 22
  • Tailor-made packages for Tamil Nadu-bound tourists
  • Vizag's first LPG bunk to open today
  • Senior lawyer dead
  • 11 down but not out?
  • Advice for aspiring professionals
  • Around the City
  • In Viskhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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