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Alappuzha

  • Doctors allege anomalies in pay revision

    • Anantapur

  • US-type risk coverage for farming mooted
  • Congress MLA suffers heart attack

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Court quashes poll notification for Panchayati Raj bodies
  • Two company executives kidnapped
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • `I have spent Rs. 50,000 on poll preparations'
  • HC verdict: gloom for some, glee for others
  • Directive shocks parties
  • Flaws in voter list to the fore again
  • Police helpline for women
  • 72 villages identified as diarrhoea prone

    • Assam

  • Rymbai expands Cabinet

    • Bangalore

  • Centre for brain sciences will be established, says Government
  • Rain inundates several areas in city
  • UAS asked to withhold appointment of professor
  • State may amend APMC Act
  • BMP to spend Rs. 270 crore on cleaning city
  • Government will ensure that MCI standards are met, says Acharya
  • BMIC row: legislature proceedings stalled for second day
  • Mercury Computer Systems selects Wind River platform
  • Council adjourned as Congress sticks to its demand
  • Siddaramaiah joining Congress not ruled out
  • Seven persons killed in road accidents
  • No staff, equipment to run casualty block at Bowring hospital
  • Congress criticised for stalling proceedings
  • Upalokayukta orders probe into electrocution of woman
  • BMP officials told to be prepared to tackle emergency situations
  • Achuta Rao is new Police Commissioner
  • List of allottees of sites to be put on BDA website
  • BWSSB repairs manhole at Balekundri Circle
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Daily wage employees to launch `satyagraha' in Bangalore

    • Bellary

  • Insurance firm told to honour claim
  • `Ignorance about HIV affecting women'

    • Bidar

  • Many graduates cast invalid votes

    • Bijapur

  • Farmers seek extension of Indi irrigation scheme

    • Briefly

  • Government allots coal blocks
  • SBI launches multi-city cheque facility
  • IOC commissions PTA plant at Panipat
  • Gas hydrates reserves in KG Basin
  • Arcelor postpones key shareholders' meeting
  • Refex Refrigerants ties up with Godrej and Boyce
  • Usha International net profit up 63 p.c.
  • Financial Technologies' PAT at Rs. 69 cr.
  • Sunham and Bristol get stakes in Minar Intl.
  • Gulf Oil launches Gulf Gold Hungama scheme
  • IDBI portal launches `Trade over Phone'
  • Ashok Leyland gets ISO/TS 16949
  • AppLabs' new CFO
  • Paramount to make garments from bamboo fibre
  • 14 p.c. drop in Oriental Insurance net profit

    • Business

  • EMC Corporation to invest $250m
  • Bharti to invest $13 b in five years
  • 8 global cos. bid for wheat order
  • Cross-strait movement of goods will help improve Taiwan economy: WTO
  • Karnataka State Cabinet set to amend APMC Act
  • Jet still awaits clearance
  • DaimlerChrysler to delist from exchanges
  • IFAC extends Ian Ball's term
  • Royal Sundaram inks pact with ING Vysya
  • Seiko Epson develops A6-size paper
  • BSE NSE NOTES
  • IBM launches System z9 business class mainframe computer
  • GE Healthcare to set up radiopharmacy centre
  • Testing lab for hilsa fish
  • Aditya Birla group raises stake in Idea
  • Citigroup Global picks up stake in VSNL
  • Sensex sheds 175 points
  • Rupee weakens further

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Breaking the ice with neighbouring States
  • Getting insured right at school
  • From MIT engineer to film director
  • Minister to hold talks to resolve airport expansion controversy
  • Irate residents block access to school
  • 11 Sri Lankan refugees shifted to Chengalpattu
  • `Nothing to fear about cancer'
  • Bank institutes awards for small, medium enterprises
  • Court fixes rentals for TNHB flats
  • e-PR is all about building profitable relations on the Internet
  • Barnala sworn in Governor for another term
  • Children take ill after midday meal in school
  • Steps being taken to augment water supply
  • State takes steps to reshape vocational education
  • Rash of road deaths
  • Unfazed by the hurdles of life
  • Kathipara traffic arrangement modified
  • ITDC's one-day trip to Tirupathi welcomed
  • Documentary on Sir C.V. Raman
  • Directive on nurses' appointment stayed
  • Cognizant hires 572 Anna University students
  • Court strikes down Pondy order
  • Children's homes planned in 570 more districts
  • Keep pace with changes, says Venkatachalliah
  • Hospital ties up with Uganda for cardiology programmes
  • Focus on safety in anaesthesiology
  • Dr. Agarwal's in Nungambakkam now
  • Contempt proceedings against former MHAA president
  • Marigold is the colour of the day
  • Student moves court
  • High Court grants bail to Dil Pandian
  • Arya to play lead role in Bala's latest
  • Poet Suradha dead
  • Reliance launches `kavithai sollungal' contest
  • Probe sought into schools' recognition
  • An officer and a gentleman
  • "Ensure return of peace to Sri Lanka"
  • Assembly to meet on July 22
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Shanmuganathan, Pooja triumph
  • Gopal wins title
  • Harikrishna holds Volokitin

    • Coimbatore

  • Discord over varying fares among call taxis
  • Childline distributes free study materials
  • Genpact plans to establish office to hire, train recruits
  • AUT stages demonstration
  • Grievances day meeting
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Chappell impressed with players' resilience
  • Vamsi bats well
  • Vartik Tihara shines
  • Lashings CC delighted to have Sachin
  • Two wins for NMDC
  • Fine spell by Kuldeep Rawat

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8635
  • Solution to Puzzle 8634

    • Cuddalore

  • Shift chemical units to safer places: forum

    • Dindigul

  • Rs.60-crore water scheme within a year

    • Editorials

  • Speeding with the mobile
  • Navigating the difficult road ahead

    • Eluru

  • Face to face with problems of police families

    • Erode

  • Garbage piles up in Periya Agraharam special panchayat
  • It's back to school for exporters in Erode
  • Textile processors seek 150 acres in SIPCOT
  • Admission to orphanage
  • In Erode Today

    • Football

  • Money at stake for the Serbians

    • Front Page

  • India-China border talks next week
  • New Delhi concerned over situation in Sri Lanka
  • Bus service a step forward: Sonia Gandhi
  • Germany outplays Ecuador, tops group
  • Spaniards keep winning
  • Putting the bonito back in Brazil
  • Encourage V.R.V. Singh, says Bishop
  • Sri Lanka sets daunting target
  • Sex scam: two former J&K Ministers held
  • Feral dogs maul 7 spotted deer to death
  • Sorry if my remarks hurt women: Army Vice-Chief
  • Court quashes poll notification for local bodies
  • Tourism, IT may be exempted from hartals
  • Focus on containing failures in Class XII and X examinations
  • Two company executives kidnapped
  • Revanna, M.P. Prakash to join Kumaraswamy team today
  • Colleges, State Government reach agreement on fee structure, seats
  • Opposition walkout over lathi-charge
  • Drive to weed out bogus ration cards
  • Feral dogs maul seven spotted deer to death
  • Rs.60-cr. water scheme for Dindigul
  • Foreign militant of Lashkar killed in Kashmir
  • Waiver of TDS for senior citizens likely
  • Naxals kill seven
  • Kanishka probe
  • Longest day today
  • Emergency landing

    • Gulbarga

  • 24-hour drinking water supply in 11 wards of Gulbarga soon
  • Dalit students stage protest seeking scholarship
  • Heavy rain in Gulbarga district

    • Guntur

  • TDP faults GMC for tardy progress in works
  • TCS selects 56 students of Guntur college

    • Haryana

  • INLD demands scrapping of Reliance deal

    • Hockey

  • Battling Pakistan holds New Zealand

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • District administration told to hold `Jana Sampark' at hobli-level
  • English from standard 3 favoured
  • People in Hubli-Dharwad `duped' by real estate firm
  • Additional coach for Udyan Express
  • In Hubli-Dharwad Today

    • Hyderabad

  • State poll panel to challenge the verdict
  • Road safety cell proposed
  • It's victory for democracy: Naidu
  • BJP for immediate rollback of hike in petro price
  • Haj panel likely to be reconstituted
  • City likely to have fourth railway terminal
  • It is puzzling, says YSR
  • `Small businesses should invest in IT'
  • APSRTC on the recovery path
  • CCTV helps nab con gang leader
  • `Mediator' pays with life
  • WWF-Canon to organise photography contest
  • Minister denies asking for BC certificate
  • Court stalls bauxite mining
  • Hoax bomb call to GE Capital
  • Offers of help pour in for poor girl
  • Court voices concern over handling of atrocity cases
  • Crowns stolen in temple theft
  • Retired staff seek sites
  • Two constables suspended
  • More firms to sell Bt cottonseed
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • Not the destination, says PoK leader
  • Mumbai rudest city in world: survey

    • International

  • Japan to withdraw all soldiers from Iraq
  • Russia calls for release of diplomats
  • U.S. soldiers found dead in Iraq
  • Colombo, LTTE trade charges
  • A seed bank to safeguard food supplies
  • Poverty rates persist despite growth: U.N. report
  • Taylor heads for The Hague
  • Call for U.S. soldier's indictment in Italy
  • Row over woman Bishop
  • Kidman to wed Urban
  • "Siege" turns violent

    • Jharkand

  • CPI(ML) calls road blockade

    • Kancheepuram

  • District drive to prevent chikungunya

    • Kannur

  • Doctors to intensify stir
  • Guinness certificate to mridangam artiste
  • Workshop on sports injuries
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karnataka

  • Revanna, Prakash to join Kumaraswamy team
  • BMIC row: legislature proceedings stalled again
  • Panchayati Raj meet held
  • Coalition partners

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Goa Government all set to revive State lottery

    • Kerala

  • Bid to evolve consensus to exempt tourism, IT sectors from hartals
  • Financing Education
  • Tryst with poetry
  • Serials give way to soccer
  • Next issue
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Garbage plant to come up in Varkala
  • Telephone adalat in Malappuram

    • Khammam

  • `Court order comes at a crucial time'

    • Kochi

  • City police intensify drive against begging
  • Rare hawk's nest spotted in Wayanad
  • When dreams take wings
  • Renovation of collectorate nearing completion
  • Winged visitors
  • Doctors continue non-cooperaion
  • Unusable dumper placers: three suspended
  • Awareness programmes on Fulbright fellowships
  • Special police team to investigate Cusat admission scam
  • Panel to determine container charges
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kottayam

  • Doctors to step up agitation

    • Kozhikode

  • Government doctors want `anomalies' in revised pay scales rectified
  • Counselling at NIT-C from June 28
  • Steps sought to end reclamation of paddy fields
  • CIESCO Golden Jubilee fete
  • Jalanidhi project to be expedited

    • Kurnool

  • Rock formation under threat

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Reclaiming the public imagination

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Saddam Hussein's trial
  • Nepal's march
  • Women in the army
  • On discrimination
  • Unwarranted
  • On rainforests

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Book on M.P. released

    • Madikeri

  • Solution yet to be found to attacks by elephants
  • Panel set up to ascertain causes of trouble in college in Kodagu

    • Madurai

  • Spurt in heavy seizures of smuggled ration rice
  • CB-CID hopeful of tracing "suspicious" currency notes
  • Small traders welcome value added tax, says Chamber
  • Bank opens unit for housing loans
  • Special occasion to celebrate their service
  • Serina, two others seek anticipatory bail
  • A farmer-friendly bullock cart
  • Call to fill posts with qualified surgeons
  • "Fill posts with qualified surgeons"
  • Timely decision
  • Train timings revised
  • Arrest warrants issued
  • Free notebooks distributed
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Draft statute on college autonomy awaits approval
  • Prime Minister to lay foundation stone for petrochemical complex
  • Speeding vans jeopardise schoolchildren's safety
  • LPG connections given to 110 anganwadis
  • Programme on detection of fake currency notes
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Nagercoil

  • Farmers move court on laying four-lane road through wetlands

    • National

  • Mines Ministry for ploughing back divestment proceeds from NALCO
  • Support price should cover all crops: panel
  • Rashtrapati Bhavan opens Kitchen Museum
  • A dream come true for beedi workers of Solapur
  • Expedite peace process: students
  • 11th Plan to focus on reforming labour laws
  • Centre to restructure 20-point programme
  • Fanaa:man who immolated dies
  • Realistic hike in fees favoured
  • Veteran journalist Kakoti dead
  • Delhi police question Apollo doctors
  • Centre keen to fund project in Rae Bareli
  • Indian officials return from China through Nathula
  • Convene AIIMS general body: BJP
  • China backs Asian for U.N. Secretary-General
  • BJP: minorities panel targeting our governments

    • New Delhi

  • Cellar darshan tickets set to go hi-tech
  • Multiple authorities hindering governance in Delhi: Sheila
  • Rashtrapati Bhavan opens Kitchen Museum
  • Sheila reviews flood control measures
  • "Hand over DDA colonies to MCD immediately"
  • Dance laced with message of life
  • Baichung Bhutia targets new goal posts
  • Congress convention for party cadres
  • No approval required for repairing houses
  • Showcasing big brands at furniture fair
  • Man arrested for abduction-murder
  • Around the City
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Will an Indian be the next U.N. chief?
  • Who gets to vote?
  • The election procedure
  • Focus on life in the urban sprawl
  • Omega 3 case is made but there is just not enough
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • Child marriage averted

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Jubilation at TD camp

    • Palakkad

  • No breakthrough in jewellery shop burglary
  • Workshop on prevention of trafficking, AIDS
  • One killed in accident

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Devaswom Board to consult Vasthu expert

    • Pondicherry

  • Situation calm but for refugee influx, say Coast Guard
  • Four killed, 56 injured as boat capsizes
  • BJP to support Independent candidate
  • Independent candidates a majority in panchayat polls
  • NJP to support Congress, DMK in civic polls
  • Rain lashes Pondicherry

    • Punjab

  • Lobbying begins for Panjab varsity V-C post
  • Malls to come up in a big way in Punjab

    • Raichur

  • Tungabhadra water release by July 15?

    • Rajasthan

  • No trace of poacher fled from lock-up
  • Protest against "high-level corruption" in Rajasthan
  • "Gandhi's teaching relevant even today"

    • Religion

  • Hallmark of devotion

    • Salem

  • Corpn. finds it hard to keep the city clean
  • `Ensure government benefits reach Adi-dravida people'
  • Man charred to death in Salem as van catches fire
  • Rehabilitation centre invites applications
  • HCL Tech recruits 26 students

    • Shimoga

  • Experts from Tamil Nadu to visit pest-hit sugarcane fields
  • Children stage unique demonstration
  • Congress wants land for sports complex
  • College principal N.S. Thimme Gowda dead

    • Sport

  • Germany outplays Ecuador, tops group
  • Spaniards keep winning
  • Putting the bonito back in Brazil
  • Encourage V.R.V. Singh, says Bishop
  • Sri Lanka sets daunting target
  • Argentina set to rest key players
  • Bosacki brace gives Poland consolation win
  • Henry hangs on to the memories

    • Sports : General

  • VDCA `B' triumphs
  • Kannan XI beats Hyderabad Munsif, enters quarterfinals
  • Rakesh begins well
  • Indian juniors pick up a bronze

    • Swimming

  • Another gold for Arhatha

    • Table Tennis

  • Sanil and Neha win titles

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Children's homes planned in 570 more districts
  • Shift chemical units to safer places: forum
  • Keep pace with changes, says Venkatachalliah
  • Verify aid given to flood-hit: Ponmudi
  • Work not affected in container terminal
  • Applications for B. Tech. courses
  • Welfare assistance distributed
  • `BPO sector poised for growth'
  • Poor rice quality triggers protests
  • Woman and paramour held for murder
  • Dak Sewa Awards presented
  • PMK advocate dies; four held
  • Private estate owner offers road for tourism development
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Construction works come to a halt
  • Crackdown on illegal sale of sand in Karur
  • NBW executed against 126 criminals
  • Promoting Pondy's heritage in France
  • "Police can probe complaints under Dowry Prohibition Act"
  • Verify aid given to flood-hit: Ponmudi
  • Traditional handicrafts on display
  • Scholarship for BC, MBC students to pursue higher studies
  • "No landholder should be affected"
  • Four killed, 56 injured as bus overturns
  • Day marked by a life-saving gesture
  • Delegation leaves for China
  • UGC grant
  • Delivery assistance
  • Rain lashes Pondicherry

    • Tennis

  • Safina reaches quarterfinals
  • Meghha overcomes Isha

    • Thanjavur

  • Thanjavur farmers take up cultivation of vegetables
  • Utilise new tourism scheme, local bodies told

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Newham team to assess ward-level survey progress
  • Probe by House panel against rules: Thankachan
  • Training programme for CBSE teachers
  • Revised textbooks for Plus Two released
  • Court complex on the anvil
  • Man found dead
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated June 21, 1956: Nehru to fly in Viscount
  • dated June 21, 1956: TTK on production targets

    • Thrissur

  • Youth Congress holds march
  • Accused held
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Stalin's visit raises hopes of re-look on several civic projects
  • Move to construct structure for channellising water
  • Population the potential of India
  • Special place for select leaders
  • University cautions B. Ed aspirants
  • On a difficult track towards a future development
  • Campaign against noise pollution
  • Not a `free and fair' deal
  • CII seminar
  • Flash strike in hospital
  • Grievance day
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Self-help group to maintain neglected sanitary complex

    • Tirupati

  • CITD sets up `advanced learning centre'

    • Tuticorin

  • Irrigation tank coming up at Melapandiapuram

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Lack of parking space irks public
  • Call to strengthen bargaining power

    • Udupi

  • Set up panel to investigate bonded labour: association

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Panel on more jobs for minorities
  • Power at flat rate to U.P. weavers
  • Mulayam Singh hits out at Centre
  • U.P. traders to protest against power cuts
  • Rs.1,800-crore crop loan target for U.P.

    • Vijayawada

  • Overloaded auto-rickshaws threaten road safety
  • Scrap dealer killed in explosion in Vijayawada
  • New Government Order to help curb child marriages
  • Bereaved relatives go berserk at hospital
  • Rama Raju family devastated
  • SBI opens sales force cell
  • Bomb hoax at school
  • Bail for Gudivada MLA
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Helmet rule observed more in breach
  • CPI(M) hails High Court decision on elections
  • Three Maoist sympathisers held
  • Tension at V. Madugula over tribal's death
  • Around the City

    • Weather

  • Weather

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