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Alappuzha

  • Grain quota cut: ration dealers plan agitation

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • New semiconductor policy soon: Maran
  • Rival groups clash in A.P.; police open fire
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • CPI (M) open to contesting with other parties
  • Opposition stages dharnas
  • TDP, BJP protest against petrol hike
  • Fuel price hike: protests continue
  • Private parties to collect property tax in Kadapa
  • New Commissioner takes charge
  • TDP faults new voter list
  • Greenhouse cultivation subsidy
  • Water for delta

    • Archery

  • Indians belie expectations

    • Athletics

  • Top juniors for Nationals

    • Badminton

  • Chetan posts win
  • Himanshu scores upset win

    • Bangalore

  • Biotechnology sector set to witness rapid growth: report
  • PVG to acquire iron ore mines, launch expansion and diversification programme
  • Quota: PG students challenge decision of COMED-K
  • `Gap between training, fieldwork needs to be filled'
  • Focus on problem solving, students told
  • 12,000 sites to be allotted in Arkavathi Layout
  • `Unkindly cut' in election year shocks corporators
  • Norms for police buildings under study
  • How to get more organised at work, and in life too
  • `Excess land' to be reclaimed
  • Alliance offers management diploma
  • Decision on three-language policy this month: Horatti
  • Stress weakens body's immune system
  • Six-lane elevated highway planned on Tumkur Road
  • Making the right choice in a `safe city'
  • Acclaimed films to be screened
  • Man waylaid, robbed near Abbigere
  • Power shutdown
  • BMP's landfill getting ready
  • Court ruling a big relief for remarried women
  • BDA releases list of 13 `defaulter layouts'
  • Voice against price hike
  • Corrections
  • Eye camp
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Official inspects iron plant site

    • Bellary

  • Insurance scheme launched for SHG members
  • Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan to start centre in Bellary

    • Bidar

  • Mock flood rescue operation today
  • Farmers stage protest as seed stock runs out
  • Basavakalyan project to be launched on June 23
  • Residents of Ashraya colony seek facilities

    • Bihar

  • Move to set up nuclear power plant in Bihar

    • Bijapur

  • 37 water schemes to be implemented in Bijapur
  • Funds given for rural water supply
  • Deputy Commissioner denies Lokayukta's charges
  • Samiti warns against delay in broad-gauge work

    • Briefly

  • Gas find in KG basin
  • TRAI directive on credit limit
  • GMR Infrastructure IPO by June-end
  • Anti-dumping duty on saccharin from China
  • Ranbaxy Pharma in pact with Zenotech
  • Lanco group bags Anpara 1,000 MW power project
  • Indiabulls selects Nucleus solution
  • GM Solutions acquires shares of R Systems
  • Aztec Sofwate unveils new brand identity
  • Capgemini to double headcount in India
  • Vijaya Bank revises FCNR (B) deposit rates
  • Canarys Automations introduces new product
  • Infosys partners NorthStar

    • Business

  • Maran supports Nasscom plea to extend STPI scheme
  • Global uncertainty dogs Indian bourses
  • Motorola to focus on sub-$30 handsets
  • CSE members opt for demutualisation
  • BOC to supply gases to JSW Steel
  • New CMD for South Eastern Coalfields
  • SBT MD calls on CM
  • Major initiatives to strengthen rubber sector: Minister
  • Malaysian Govt. to open new visa office in Mumbai
  • CITU seeks ILO intervention on price index issue
  • U.S. consortia await semiconductor policy
  • Indian Bank launches ACU operations
  • L& T recommends 1:1 bonus
  • Indiabulls selects Nucleus solution
  • Rupee drops further against dollar

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Cricket stars to bat for cardiac cause
  • Now more seats, lower cut-off marks for engineering courses
  • Shoot video, win prizes Contest for budding artists
  • Import of 17 used cars, evading customs duty, detected
  • `It was luck that made me an actor'
  • CBSE holds training programme for teachers
  • Wastes rendered useful with a little help from youngsters
  • New system for easy traffic flow
  • No deal with SCV: ESPN STAR Sports
  • Commercials thrive on `pester power'
  • "Bar creamy layer from purview of quota"
  • Satellite towns welcome, but what about existing ones?
  • Spurt in paddy arrival at direct purchase centres
  • Singapore students interact with Surjit Singh Barnala
  • MBA, MCA applications from June 15
  • Metrowater to hand over water tanks to municipality
  • Nurses Day celebrated
  • Correction
  • EB tackling billing problems
  • Induction programme for district judges
  • To improve indoor air quality
  • Youth run over by train

    • Coimbatore

  • Will AIADMK MLAs take up Coimbatore's needs?
  • Rs. 16 crore planned for SHGs' development
  • Manholes making life miserable
  • Coffee samples from State win awards
  • Mobile phone shop burgled
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • We still have the psychological advantage: Lara
  • `You don't play too many Tests like this'
  • We all make mistakes: Lara
  • Fernando, Perera to play in ODIs
  • Collins replaces Edwards
  • Imran XI, Eagle XI register wins

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8624
  • Solution to Puzzle 8623

    • Cuddalore

  • Farmers demand fresh loans for raising kuruvai crop

    • Dharmapuri

  • Four held for killing wild elephant

    • Dindigul

  • GIS-based accident analysis undertaken on Dindigul-Palani road
  • Barn owl rescued and freed

    • Editorials

  • Malaise too deep
  • Montenegro breaks away

    • Eluru

  • Woman's futile battle for justice

    • Erode

  • Residing near a dump yard
  • Erode GH in need of cardiologist
  • Review meeting under new Govt.

    • Football

  • Rooney returns to England for medical scan
  • Tevez: a star in the making

    • Front Page

  • No rollback of oil prices
  • BJP launches agitation across the country
  • State inks pact with Motorola
  • "Fanaa" a big hit in Jamnagar
  • Dissidents want Lapang to go
  • West Indies keeps India at bay
  • World press trends are mixed, Asia tops
  • Police gun down murder accused in Chennai
  • Norms relaxed to encourage biotech entrepreneurs, says Kapil Sibal
  • A new twist to Safdarjung Road drugs mystery
  • New semiconductor policy soon: Maran
  • Admission eligibility for B. Sc. (IT) relaxed
  • Row over Deputy Mayor's status continues
  • Zahira's kin held guilty
  • Pilgrim visas restricted
  • BSF officer remanded
  • Tiruchi police form `anti-burking cell'
  • Rival groups clash; police open fire
  • Chief Minister seeks explanation from Joseph
  • Geelani remanded to judicial custody till June 29
  • Government fee for merit seats in self-financing cooperative colleges

    • Globescan

  • Anti-sea mine exercise

    • Golf

  • Chiragh Kumar takes lead
  • Amanjyot in lead

    • Gujarat

  • "Fanaa" a big hit in Jamnagar

    • Gulbarga

  • Congress to oppose plan to take over BMIC project
  • `Roll back prices of petrol, diesel'
  • Take up projects in northern Karnataka: Patil Puttappa

    • Guntur

  • Kharif agricultural plan for Guntur district released
  • PCOs get new dialling facility
  • Municipal Commissioner's transfer stands cancelled

    • Hassan

  • `BJP is not against backward classes'

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Lorry owners backtrack from commitment

    • Hyderabad

  • Compassionate appointments for Defence personnel revived
  • Power supply improves
  • ORR project: HUDA to go in for partnership concept
  • Impasse between MCH, contractors continues
  • Poll official directive on NBWs
  • Orders likely on price adjustment clause
  • YSR lays stone for EME Sainik Institute
  • SemIndia ties up with BOC
  • HUDA budget up for projects
  • Virasam meet on June 10, 11
  • Kalam coming today
  • BJP flays `fatwa' against singing of `Vandemataram'
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Pawar's concern over suicides by farmers
  • Freedom fighter dead in U.K.

    • International

  • 8 civilians killed in Sri Lanka
  • Colombo hopeful
  • Europe "colluded'' with U.S. on CIA flights
  • World press trends are mixed, Asia tops
  • Now, dinosaurs as island-dwarfs
  • Italy firm on Iraq pullout
  • Nepal Speaker for curtailing King's powers further
  • Fijian army warns against troop cut

    • Kannur

  • Rs.15.68-crore projects for schools
  • Temple staff seek pay parity

    • Karnataka

  • Norms to be relaxed to encourage biotech entrepreneurs: Kapil Sibal

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Rs. 1,72,000 crore to be invested under NHDP
  • Board directed to develop facilities for textile park
  • Malaysian firm offers to set up waste management plant in Goa
  • Search on for attackers
  • Court disposes of writ petition

    • Kerala

  • Government fee for merit quota in cooperative colleges
  • Achuthanandan seeks explanation from Minister
  • All-India MBBS, BDS allotment from June 16
  • A unique show
  • Plan panel team arrives to study farmers' suicides
  • Marad report to be tabled in House within six months
  • Joseph says there is no need to resign
  • Call to revive People's Plan Campaign
  • CPI forms coordination panel, alters secretariat
  • Protect State products from imports: Vandana
  • General strike on June 13
  • Popularising Marathi abhangs
  • SET results published
  • Advocate General
  • Fishkill in Periyar again
  • Next issue
  • Time to celebrate
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Foreigners deported

    • Kochi

  • Union Minister calls for massive pepper re-plantation
  • Surveys for road widening to be over by June 15
  • Kudumbasree Mission adds another feather to its cap
  • Strategies for water management
  • IUML deceiving minorities: PDP
  • Left told not to back Centre
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Achuthanandan being made puppet: Sudheeran
  • Steps to improve coconut nursery
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Protest turns violent at MG University

    • Kozhikode

  • Master plan lays emphasis on infrastructure
  • Protest against denial of AIIMS status to medical college
  • Plan panel team arrives to study farmers' suicides
  • `KSO benefit package should be for all staff'
  • Cut sales tax on fuel: BJP
  • Urvashi's take on beauty salons
  • Change in LPG distributorship

    • Kurnool

  • Help at hand for onion farmers

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Sakhalin energy and the Russian roulette

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Fuel price rise
  • BJP & Rahul Mahajan
  • The larger issue
  • Alarming trend

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • "Naxals will not be allowed to misguide the tribals"
  • Bid to export handicrafts

    • Madikeri

  • Cardamom, no more a favoured crop
  • Boy killed, 20 injured in accident

    • Madurai

  • Global Positioning System survey started
  • A drive to spice up farmers' market
  • "Conduct inspections in lower courts"
  • "Reduce sales tax imposed on petrol and diesel"
  • Software contest for schools
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Farmers benefit from project to promote gobar gas units
  • Police get modern equipment for traffic management
  • Dakshina Kannada milk union to cover Uttara Kannada
  • Uniform fishing ban likely
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Officials violating poll norms: Marithibbe Gowda
  • Suttur seer to open trust
  • SUCI activists protest against hike in fuel prices
  • A museum with rare exhibits
  • In Mysore Today

    • National

  • Centre drafting law for resettling the displaced
  • NDA leaders to court arrest in protest against oil price hike
  • `Save Doda campaign' launched
  • Central Tobacco Authority to be set up
  • Manmohan, Koirala discuss aid package
  • Complete rollback sought
  • Zahira's sister, brother found guilty of perjury
  • Bomb terrorist camps in PoK, says Swamy
  • Submit IT returns, court fiat to Mulayam
  • No cover up, says Apollo Hospital
  • Bail for Mahajan's aide
  • "BJP committed to peace process"
  • "Praveen shot Pramod in a fit of rage"
  • India, Malaysia discuss Malacca Straits
  • Swaminathan wants farming made attractive
  • Navy completes talks for stealth frigates
  • Moratorium sought on projects in tribal areas
  • Kalam's sortie in Sukhoi today
  • RSS pracharaks' meet in Pune from July 17

    • Nellore

  • Slum areas top in liquor licence fee

    • New Delhi

  • TTD begins preparations for Brahmotsavams
  • Protest against hike in fuel prices
  • An upcoming pencil artist fighting against all odds
  • Metro work begins on Phase-II
  • MCD Councillors to approach L-G for prime land
  • Biased distribution of drinking water alleged
  • NDPL's drive detects massive power theft
  • Hike in bus, taxi and auto fares in the offing
  • No cover-up, says Apollo Hospital
  • BSES releases its load-shedding schedule
  • Court stays demolition of gurdwara
  • Plan to make non-VVIPs pay for security
  • Jimmy Carter project to build homes for poor
  • Supreme Court asks Mulayam, son to submit IT returns
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • A little paper problem for DU

    • News Analysis

  • For a fulfilling partnership
  • India-China ties and a Buddhist resonance
  • Corrections and clarifications
  • If we understood Ireland, we may not have invaded Iraq
  • U.K. the fall guy for the West's Afghan adventure

    • Nizamabad

  • `Attempt' on Mayor: motive not established

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Students sore over delay in release of scholarships

    • Palakkad

  • New building for Veda Patasala
  • In Palakdad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Call to set up river protection authority

    • Pondicherry

  • Protest against increase in petrol and diesel prices
  • Notifications issued for second phase of polls
  • Hearing in Kanchi case posted to July 19
  • Scheme to benefit standards X, XII students
  • Man held for murder

    • Punjab

  • Retired BSF officer, wife shot dead

    • Racing : Horse

  • Knight Vision fancied
  • Red Eagle, Pride excel
  • Heros Friend claims feature

    • Rajasthan

  • Water meet in `dacoit' land

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Mangoes seized from godowns

    • Religion

  • Practice of Bhakti

    • Salem

  • Procession held to stress importance of education
  • Tusks seized, two poachers arrested
  • Awareness rallies held to stress importance of education
  • Salem declares war against child labour
  • Bill against forcible conversion hailed
  • City registers a brief spell of rain

    • Shimoga

  • Official takes charge as administrator of DVS
  • Centre approves sports project
  • Postal workers stage protest

    • Sivaganga

  • Efforts for a turnaround of Sivaganga hospitals

    • Sport

  • West Indies keeps India at bay
  • Consistency is the key
  • Can any team beat Brazil?
  • Germany: a pale shadow of its former self

    • Sports : General

  • Hyderabad drubs Karimnagar
  • CGF meeting: Delhi's preparation under fire
  • It's Rajesh day out
  • North posts a huge total
  • Sandeep to lead
  • A.P. girls stun M.P.
  • Rathore's gun traced

    • Srikakulam

  • TDP ropes in other parties for stir against fuel price hike

    • Table Tennis

  • Indian Bank stops Rajath's sponsorship

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Towards creating 'exceptional' students
  • Is de-reservation a solution to Pappapatti?
  • `Work relentlessly to restore Congress rule in State'
  • Dindigul college offers two new courses
  • Fuel cells might become dominant power source
  • BSNL to embark on people-friendly scheme to take on competition
  • Canadian, U.S. citizens undergo surgery in Coimbatore hospital
  • Varsity launches tree adoption plan
  • Photo rolls programme will be completed by middle of October
  • Job fair at college
  • AIADMK, allies plan stir against fuel price hike
  • DVDs seized at airport
  • Hearing in Kanchi case posted to July 19
  • Petition seeks to reschedule Mahe municipal council poll
  • Quotas for OBCs `for first time since Independence'
  • Rs.150 crore Central aid sought for tanneries
  • Stalin inspects Thaamaraikulam
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • It's biriyani season
  • Demand for Flower Auction Centre
  • Rs.10 crore for desilting irrigation channels
  • Medical teams deputed to affected villages
  • Lt. Governor inspects development works
  • Control room for monsoon set up
  • The Da Vinci Code banned in Pondicherry

    • Tennis

  • It's AP vs Maharashtra
  • Nadal, Ljubicic in last four

    • Thanjavur

  • `Priority to crop loans for farmers'

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Government to provide land for aircraft unit soon
  • Attack on bank employee: four held
  • Builders protest against cement price hike
  • Add-on courses at University College
  • Water conservation scheme planned
  • TDB for quality education
  • Tripartite agreement on water supply signed
  • ABVP submits charter of rights
  • Action plan to control stray dog menace
  • Senior citizens' plea
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated June 8, 1956: Advisory Board for films
  • dated June 8, 1956: Singapore Govt. resigns
  • dated June 8, 1956: Gas find in Baroda

    • Thrissur

  • Murali: people losing faith in LDF Government

    • Tiruchi

  • `Thrust will be on development of infrastructure in NCC'
  • Passion to perform takes him to great heights
  • Last date for giving applications
  • Oil price increase fuels BJP demonstration
  • June 10 last date for submitting applications
  • Collector inspects GH
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • It is a season for shady trades too
  • Withdraw money through postman

    • Tirupati

  • TUDA's eco-tourism plans draw flak
  • Specified Authority to replace TTD Trust Board?
  • `Multi-pronged approach for rural areas'
  • In Tirupati Today

    • Tuticorin

  • Tuticorin to get modern boxing ring and squash court shortly
  • Land scam: CPI(M) demands action

    • Udupi

  • Withdraw permission for power project, MP tells Government

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Protest continues over fuel price hike
  • Lanco ahead in bid for Anpara C power project
  • Man climbs tower in protest

    • Vijayawada

  • Traffic goes haywire in busy areas of the city
  • Permanent system of door numbers suggested
  • Tangy Thai food on offer in city
  • Rs.16.9-crore short payment of tax detected
  • Mango season ends on a disappointing note
  • Durga temple buses for RTC suggested
  • Woman dies under mysterious circumstances
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • The Hindu Education plus workshop inaugurated in Visakhapatnam
  • Naidu admits to groupism in party
  • Bauxite mining will spell doom: Naidu
  • 1 feared dead, 8 injured in building collapse
  • TDP chief for joint protest against price hike
  • Miraculous escape for policemen
  • Sale of notebooks
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

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