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Alappuzha

  • Sambasivan award for Achuthanandan

    • Anantapur

  • Viral fever traced to mosquitoes
  • Maoists abduct two revenue employees
  • Two Maoist militants surrender

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Andhra Pradesh Cabinet accepts Girglani panel report in toto
  • Dream posts
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Second day of jatara passes off peacefully
  • TDP MLA sits on fast unto death
  • Shopkeepers jack up prices
  • Blasting of fish pond in Kolleru begins
  • Jute workers take out protest rally
  • Free cleft lip treatment camp held
  • `Leave sastras to temple priests'
  • Sri Vijayadurga kalyanam performed
  • Pilgrim dies in Tirumala temple
  • Dharna staged
  • College to withdraw circular

    • Archery

  • Talukdar bags gold in Bangkok

    • Athletics

  • Chennai college takes honours

    • Bangalore

  • Nostalgic homecoming for Kumaraswamy
  • Kumaraswamy holds out hope for poor students
  • Proposal to renovate Sahitya Parishat building continues to hang fire
  • Bosch development centre in Coimbatore
  • Thin attendance as Sania exits from Bangalore Open
  • 12 Padma award-winners from State felicitated
  • The `peacehiker' from Slovenia
  • 100 children given scholarships
  • `It will be a celebration of life'
  • Find the right people for the right tasks, companies told
  • BJP finalises list of ten probable ministers
  • Man with criminal antecedents hacked to death
  • Saving lives on busy highways
  • `Bhagwani Kisan Mela' to be held on March 3, 4
  • CBI arrests bank fraud accused
  • Attending bonfire parties in style
  • Restrictions on lorries on Bellary Road for three days
  • Two youths murdered near Nelamangala
  • `Gold polisher' arrested
  • Kalam to visit city on Sunday
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Golf tournament

    • Belgaum

  • DVDs of lessons beamed through satellite released

    • Bijapur

  • VC refutes allegations

    • Briefly

  • Ranbaxy raises $400 m through FCCBs
  • Orchid in R&D pact with Pfizer
  • Dr. Reddy's to acquire Betapharm
  • Permal launches India fund of hedge funds
  • PERT opens Q&A box on Union Budget
  • Prudential ICICI launches Fusion Fund
  • Henkel India registers all round growth
  • South Indian Bank fixes cut-off price at Rs. 66
  • New corporate identity for MBT
  • Workshop on fashion knowhow

    • Business

  • Indian Iron and Steel merges with SAIL
  • `No review of power tariff policy for now'
  • Sensex touches new intra-day peak
  • SpiceJet gets its own aircraft
  • Fenner plans greenfield projects
  • `IT players must aim to thrive, not just survive'
  • IBM opens HiPODS lab
  • SEBI curbs on erring firms
  • Rupee declines further

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chattisgarh

  • Congress walks out of Assembly over ``parallel'' panchayat bodies

    • Chennai

  • DPA partners are waiting for Vaiko to make up his mind
  • Empower adolescents to exercise responsibilities: Vice-Chancellor
  • Chennai doctors make cardiac breakthrough
  • Minister accuses Stalin of defending tax evaders
  • Efforts on to create India Disaster Knowledge Network
  • 53 stolen cellphones restored to owners
  • CPI (M), CPI to evolve joint poll strategy
  • Bank chief for credit delivery package
  • Railway mazdoor union defers strike plan
  • Working consistently for rehabilitation
  • Programme on comprehensive management of heart failure
  • Tele enquiry system to help access passport information
  • Easy to read, and colourful to boot
  • Bharatanatyam movements for children on DVD
  • Art from the land of the Mahatma
  • Get fundamentals right, engineering students told
  • Jeeva wants to prove himself
  • Rs. 63 lakh Japanese aid for two grassroots projects
  • Cheran all charged up for Mayakkannadi
  • Credit bazaar organised for small entrepreneurs
  • Jewellery snatched from two women
  • CM's chopper replaced
  • A novel fair
  • Time extended for submitting applications
  • 2 hurt in petrol pump fire
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Sasikiran in joint third position

    • Coimbatore

  • Railway's money-spinner, but growth derailed
  • Siruthuli drive against water pilferage
  • A visit for cure and learning
  • Poor rail connectivity, bane of Coimbatore
  • New regional office of Syndicate Bank inaugurated
  • Corporate management games today
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • BCCI meeting on Feb. 21
  • Services surprises Punjab as title race intensifies
  • Jayawardene named skipper for Bangldesh tour

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8529
  • Solution to Puzzle 8528

    • Dharmapuri

  • Signs of positive change in naxal-affected villages

    • Dindigul

  • "Evolve strategy to utilise benefits of globalisation"

    • Editorials

  • Muslims and armed forces
  • Iraq faces more instability

    • Erode

  • Modern clock tower to be built in Erode
  • Job mela on Feb. 18, 19
  • In Erode Today

    • Football

  • French quintet out of tune in UEFA Cup

    • Front Page

  • 15-point scheme for minorities: Kalam
  • Manmohan's statement on Iran vote today
  • West Bengal polls: 8 Ministers do not figure in Left Front list
  • India seals series with an emphatic victory
  • Court sets DMK councillor free
  • Man wants to end son's agony
  • Indian Iron and Steel merges with SAIL
  • Sensex touches new intra-day peak
  • Supreme Court orders closure of illegal commercial complexes in the Capital
  • Don't pick and choose in demolitions: High Court
  • Cabinet accepts Girglani panel report
  • Assembly to discuss Lavalin deals
  • Unpaid allowances for staff to be released
  • `Illicit' liquor claims three lives
  • 22 Ministers to be sworn in today
  • Deadlock continues
  • All set for new India-Pak. rail link
  • Sinha sent to jail
  • Rs. 23,000 crores likely to be spent on improving power infrastructure
  • Film actress Aarti Agarwal critical
  • India protests killing of fisherman
  • Bomb scare at Ahmedabad airport
  • Home Ministry seeks report on alleged rape of casual worker
  • Warrants issued against Shahabuddin's kin
  • MoU on FAB City signed

    • Golf

  • Ashok, Mundy ousted

    • Gulbarga

  • Gram panchayats given rights to take up housing projects
  • Many from Gulbarga for berth in new Ministry
  • Job scheme officials lauded

    • Haryana

  • Ban on trading of Central pool power sought
  • Kanya Gurukul to be made university

    • Hassan

  • Release of water to be based on availability

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Truckers' strike called off
  • Chamber wants Govt. to open more ITIs

    • Hockey

  • Pakistan exudes confidence
  • Pakistan exudes confidence

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Agencies blamed for slow pace of work on medians
  • Air pollution will affect the economy too: Heblikar
  • Illicit spirit seized, five held
  • Man hurt while fleeing after theft bid

    • Hyderabad

  • Our advantages help us bag Fab City: YSR
  • State comes out with relief package for weavers
  • House adjourned after TRS protest
  • Hawkers oppose MCH move
  • Fire safety: MCH asked to put 250 high-rises on notice
  • Studies in UK: education expo shows the way
  • MRTS: State to finalise list of BOT developers soon
  • State convenes all-party meet on creamy layer today
  • Investment in stock market just a click away
  • Pushpanjali fire: uncertainty still dogs traders
  • Gujarat delegation impressed with city's civic initiatives
  • `No compromise on Polavaram project'
  • Cabinet nod for new building rules
  • Scribes boycott Nizam engineering college press conference
  • Regional meet of Freemasons
  • DJS activists held for taking out rally
  • TRS flayed for stalling House proceedings
  • Chilkur temple devotees on agitation path
  • What's priority for police?
  • Power shutdown
  • MCH continues demolition drive
  • Poor response to recruitment of doctors
  • Reason to be unhappy
  • ITC Sangeet Sammelan
  • No water supply
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Full trade ties hinge on Kashmir
  • OCI cards for 37 Indian-Americans
  • Impose strict conditions on India, say U.S. nuclear experts
  • French press comes down on President

    • International

  • Pakistan signs MoU for Turkmenistan gas
  • Blair pushes through law against "glorifying terrorism"
  • Karzai satisfied over growing economic ties with Pakistan
  • Hamas team to visit Russia next month
  • Warrant against Zardari
  • Thai court rules out Thaksin probe
  • South Korea, U.S. to hold fresh defence talks
  • New turn to Zuma trial
  • Nepali army copters pound rebel positions
  • Africa's political, humanitarian crises cry out for attention
  • U.S. Congress grills Microsoft, Google
  • Supplements barely help bones, study finds

    • Kancheepuram

  • Rekhla race in Panchayats
  • The volleyball inclusion

    • Kannur

  • Mangattidam sees all-round growth
  • EC meets political leaders of Kannur
  • Tuberculosis awareness programme begins today
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • SRR college golden jubilee on February 19
  • Karimnagar too joins jatara

    • Karnataka

  • Rs. 23,000 cr. likely to be spent on improving power infrastructure
  • On the eve of retirement...

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Kannada versions of three volumes of Jain texts ready
  • Kannada is my identity, says Ananthamurthy
  • Suicide: bodies to be handed over to relatives
  • Man-made disasters more dangerous: Mata
  • `It is too early to comment on new Government'
  • `BJP infighting will lead to fall of Government'
  • Devotees have darshan of Mata
  • KIOCL workers to call off dharna
  • Ugandan national arrested

    • Kerala

  • Kerala Assembly to debate Lavalin row, Kuttiadi deal
  • Burglary scare takes a new turn in city
  • Kochi stock market rolling out investor dreams
  • Fear grips Vennala residents
  • Kuzhikandam Creek to get a new lease of life
  • Good response to family health insurance scheme
  • Tipper lorry menace
  • Violence hits CUSAT functioning
  • NSS volunteers complete assets survey
  • Sonia to address rally on March 4
  • A creditable performance against all odds
  • Plea to return documents seized from explosives dealers
  • Australian education fair tomorrow
  • VFPCK steps up seed production
  • Pangs of separation
  • Councillor booked
  • Garbage plant: land price to be hiked
  • Japanese team arrives today
  • Bank staff stage demonstration
  • Move to install weighbridge welcomed
  • Art of Living fete

    • Kerala - Others

  • On bicycles, to know real India
  • Writers choose to assert their regional identity
  • Guruvayur Devaswom orders inquiry into graft charges

    • Kochi

  • KPCC to pursue SNC Lavalin issue
  • RTO reforms to make autos, private buses accountable
  • The search for the real address
  • `Implementation of Narendran panel report a victory for IUML'
  • Only promises, not results
  • Need to discipline bus workers
  • Awards for Federal Bank
  • School to provide drinking water
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Touch-screen facility at Kollam railway station
  • Tight vigil for murder-suspect
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Technology fair begins today

    • Kozhikode

  • Drop catering policy: IRCA
  • Rs.90-crore kickback paid for deal: BJP
  • Medical laboratory specialists pick holes in proposed Bill
  • Panel moots Human Rights Court
  • Collective effort won the trophy for Nadapuram
  • Chitranjali arts fete from tomorrow
  • Call for awareness campaigns against suicide
  • Handicrafts exhibition
  • EC visit
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Hundri-Neeva water sought for Kurnool mandals
  • Call to upgrade PG centre into university
  • Lokayukta takes up cases in camp court

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Excellence in education: the Chinese way

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Clemenceau issue
  • Survey on numbers
  • Commendable
  • Valentine's Day

    • Madikeri

  • Observance of Tuberculosis Control Week begins in Kodagu district
  • 436 works under rain damage relief completed

    • Madurai

  • Establish special courts for child abuse cases: Chief Justice
  • ``Goal is to set Madurai on the path to industrial development''
  • University to protect local animal breeds
  • `Minnale' girl lights up Madurai sky in style
  • Multimedia campaign, a crowd-puller
  • Yes, it's `Smart material'
  • Precise postures
  • Rare surgery performed on man from West Bengal
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Eyewitness in Salman case fails to appear

    • Mangalore

  • Sandesha Foundation Awards announced
  • Existing facilities to be used for customs clearance at Bajpe airport
  • Goods trains to run on new railway line soon
  • Six arrested on charge of ransacking hotel
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • D.T. Jayakumar released on bail
  • Pilgrims, tourists flocking to Shravanabelagola
  • Norway keen on tie-up with Indian research institutions
  • Printing unit staff continue dharna
  • Jayakumar surrenders, released on bail
  • Workshop on human rights
  • Ayurveda camp
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagercoil

  • Hydroelectric generator set up for Kani tribals

    • Nalgonda

  • `Discovery' of blue film CDs in computer lab creates flutter

    • National

  • Tiger conservation authority planned, says President Kalam
  • MPLADS is constitutionally valid, court told
  • China hopes India will maintain stand on Taiwan
  • India, France "close" to nuclear deal, says Chirac
  • Mulayam must quit, says Congress
  • Nuclear scientist fails to get U.S. visa
  • Three services to have BrahMos missiles
  • Jaitley says payments were for furniture bought
  • Chandrababu for third alternative
  • EC orders action against 19 West Bengal officials
  • BJP to raise survey issue in Parliament
  • Home Ministry seeks report on alleged rape of casual worker
  • Greenpeace hails recall of Clemenceau
  • Gauhati varsity returns Chancellor's directive for grace marks
  • 4 centres abroad for NRIs
  • Chirac visit to witness many pacts
  • "U.S. worried about flight of brain power"
  • Sanjay Dutt exempted from appearing in TADA court
  • India protests shooting of fisherman
  • 2007 will see 150th year of 3 universities
  • Violence against Pandits condemned
  • Somnath congratulates Team India
  • Nine golden langurs die mysteriously
  • Clashes mar Naigaum polling
  • Variava's mobile phone not tapped, says Government
  • Bastar scholars write to Manmohan on violence
  • Central Ministries asked to join AIDS campaign

    • New Delhi

  • Appeal to form Apartment Owners' Association
  • High-power committee notified; terms of reference issued
  • Need to develop use of technology to deal with terrorist activities
  • Delhi Government recommends demolition in Lal Dora areas
  • Supreme Court's order on illegal shops welcomed
  • A peep into V.P. Singh's life
  • Sixth Pay Commission reference a big relief: Maken
  • A film with a message
  • DUTA extends support to striking teachers of Shraddhanand College
  • Airtel achieves new landmark
  • Bank accounts of more Delhi University colleges sealed
  • Festival with a difference
  • Curtailment in water supply is temporary, says Jal Board
  • Broadcasting awards for DD, NDTV
  • Select Committee rejects NDMC Amendment Bill
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • New Delhi - Others

  • Around the City

    • News Analysis

  • Vidharbha: the `forced privatisation' of cotton
  • India must quickly `light up' for science
  • Hole in ozone layer expected to increase
  • The Basra video should lay to rest a lie

    • Nizamabad

  • 5,000 students examined under `Arogya Baata' programme
  • Collector for better results in SSC

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Three inter-state dacoits held; gold recovered
  • SFI seeks law on quota for poor in private colleges
  • Lorry loaded with crackers catches fire

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Church to expand its activities in education, health care
  • Kalabhabhishekom performed
  • Colourful procession marks PRDS fete

    • Pondicherry

  • Ministerial staff resume mass leave protest, court arrest
  • Integrated water development project launched
  • Ex legislator joins Congress
  • Expenditure review
  • CONFED workers launch relay fast

    • Racing : Horse

  • Diabolical excels
  • One Tough Guy impresses
  • Cedros shines
  • Jockeys fined
  • Heritage Estates to sponsor Eclipse Stakes of India
  • Sharp N Smart well prepared
  • One O One wins Elusive Pimpernel Trophy
  • International Star claims South India St. Leger

    • Raichur

  • `Naxalite' sentenced to five years in jail
  • ZP engineer suspended

    • Rajasthan

  • Hi-tech marketing of plots

    • Religion

  • Divine intercession

    • Rowing

  • Andaman, TN in finals

    • Sailing

  • State sailing championship

    • Salem

  • `State will soon attain status of energy independence'
  • Students gherao welfare official
  • Boy killed in accident
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • Budget will lay emphasis on rural development : Yediyurappa
  • Kumar Bangarappa looking forward to DCC revamping
  • A.J. Bhaskar Rao passes away

    • Sport

  • India seals series with an emphatic victory
  • Dravid all praise for his bowlers
  • Karnataka comes up trumps
  • Strauss gearing up for the great challenge
  • Isha Lakhani goes down fighting
  • India too good for Singapore
  • `Bowl-out' decides match in Kiwis' favour

    • Sports : General

  • Snehal soars high
  • Military Games: officials pleased with infrastructure

    • Srikakulam

  • Largest number of voters in Srikakulam segment

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Doing is learning
  • Efforts on to create India Disaster Knowledge Network
  • Credit bazaar organised for small entrepreneurs
  • Pykara power station a trendsetter
  • Granite waste to be used for groynes
  • Rotary help sought in promoting diabetes research
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Pykara power station a trendsetter
  • Handicrafts from the farthest corners of the country displayed
  • Tindivanam Ramamurthy expelled
  • Apex Court orders Swami's release
  • Tamarind farmers expect bumper harvest
  • PMK to bring out `report to the people'
  • Revise guideline value, organisations urge Govt.
  • 53,700 voters apply for inclusion
  • ID cards for Theni voters
  • Consumer rights meet concludes
  • Gram sabha meeting postponed again
  • Kumbakonam Natyanjali opens on February 25
  • Plan to improve Rani Mangammal Salai
  • Omni bus operators warned
  • Over 57,000 seek inclusion of names in electoral rolls
  • Around the City

    • Tennis

  • Hewitt routs Goldstein at San Jose
  • Vinod Kumar dumps Kamala Kannan

    • Thanjavur

  • Rural sports to be held in all panchayats on Feb. 26, 27
  • Electric crematorium to get a new lease of life in Thanjavur
  • In Thanjavur Today

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Boy's death: unruly scenes at MCH
  • CAG warns State against falling into debt trap
  • KSTP showered undue favours on contractors, says CAG report
  • `Civic bodies can fix meters on public taps'
  • GPS-enabled traffic signals to revolutionise motoring
  • Queen of Bhutan savours State's lush green landscape
  • Kerala should provide leadership in higher education, says Minister
  • Action promised against accused
  • Fake visas: three arrested
  • Date with fruits
  • Two-day vocational job fair from today
  • High Court Bench: dharna planned
  • Meeting on self-financing colleges
  • Thunchan fete begins today
  • Efforts on to reopen Alappuzha Spinning Mills
  • `Farmers pension a good beginning'
  • Chief Engineer suspended
  • Rape: man gets jail term
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Discourse
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated February 17, 1956: Shah of Iran in Delhi
  • dated February 17, 1956: Meghnad Saha dead

    • Thrissur

  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Goldenrock training programme a hit with Sudan railway staff
  • ``India is a potential threat to many countries in trade''
  • Accent on protection of environment
  • Woman, `broker' held at airport
  • Inter-collegiate campus recruitment from Feb. 23
  • Delta district people pin hopes on Lalu's largesse
  • A movement in print for the future generation
  • This is what you call a god-given gift
  • A peek into hinterland
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Collector's appeal to fishermen
  • In Tirunelveli Today

    • Tirupati

  • `Creamy layer to benefit poor'

    • Tuticorin

  • Performance evaluated
  • Life imprisonment for seven persons

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Rs. 3.5 crores spent on developing tourism in the Nilgiris: Minister

    • Udupi

  • Poor traffic management posing problems in Udupi city
  • Scheme to provide electricity launched by students
  • Child killed, woman assaulted

    • Union Territories

  • Son held in Chandigarh triple murder case

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Assembly to decide on `tainted' Ministers, MLAs
  • AMU Women's Cell `active'

    • Uttaranchal

  • Shops closed over killing of BJP leader

    • Vijayawada

  • Sending across right signals
  • Singapore Township designs, cost to be finalised in March
  • Jewel-makers ready to have their ware certified
  • Mayor calls on YSR
  • KLCE targets 90 p.c. placements this year
  • Police move to clear pending cases
  • Killed in accident
  • Month-long training for security guard posts
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Working for tribals' cause
  • Steel plant to focus on energy efficiency
  • BCs oppose creamy layer proposal
  • Congress takes out big rally
  • Judicial probe into illegal mining sought
  • Bypoll: Naidu tries to woo Muslims
  • Naidu takes a dig at YSR, ends campaign
  • Creamy layer: Naidu under attack
  • Guest houses converted into Congress offices, says Yerranaidu
  • HPCL to implement new technology
  • RINL formation day tomorrow
  • A date with Kalam
  • Sniffer dog wins bronze
  • AMC professor bags gold medal
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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