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Alappuzha

  • Plea to ensure Keralites' release from Iraqi jail

    • Anantapur

  • Maoist arms dumps unearthed
  • CPI to lay siege to PDS stock points in Anantapur
  • Action sought against `killing' of Dalits
  • Plea for Flag Day donations

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Maoist arms dumps unearthed in Andhra Pradesh
  • When luminaries get together
  • In protest mode
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • LPG agencies to be set up
  • Sabarimala pilgrimage through eye of the lens
  • Farmers to stage protest against takeover of land
  • Ex-naxal finds her life totally transformed
  • Hitakarini Samajam centennial from today
  • ICAI new branch inaugurated
  • `Dharma being distorted'
  • Councillor dead
  • Around the City

    • Athletics

  • Tintu — a rare gem
  • Major test ahead of the Olympics

    • Badminton

  • Ajay is champion

    • Bangalore

  • Official apparatus lacking to enforce domestic violence Act in State
  • IT contributing a great deal to the economy: Ramachandra Gowda
  • A treat in store for film buffs this month
  • Palace Grounds: Wadiyar says he will file contempt petition
  • Congress to move no-trust motion against Speaker
  • Creamy layer concept a ploy to deny reservation, says Ramaswamy
  • Open drain puts residents in a spot
  • Set up human rights panel, State told
  • High Court quashes BDA notification
  • Display of budding talent at cultural fete
  • Shivarudrappa to inaugurate Kannada meet
  • Sudden dip in temperature
  • Railways to build budget hotel
  • Proposal sought for two food parks
  • A unique experiment
  • Three killed as scaffolding collapses at building site
  • Court urged to revoke bail
  • A play just for children
  • Policeman run over by train
  • A streak of light in her life
  • Rs.1 lakh fine imposed on restaurant
  • Awareness camps
  • Train to Tatanagar from Friday
  • Against `anti-Dalit policies'
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Full-time MBA course

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Impressive win for Ambedkar SC
  • `Plenty of potential for progress'

    • Belgaum

  • Three killed in Deganalli village

    • Bellary

  • Dispute over land causes tension in Bellary
  • Drinking water project to be completed by March
  • APMC bandh

    • Bidar

  • Several injured in violence in Bidar district
  • Dairy farmers demand higher price for milk

    • Bijapur

  • Call to rebuild Babri Masjid
  • Karjol to convene meeting of sugarcane farmers, factory managements soon
  • Girl escapes from kidnappers
  • Schoolgirl escapes from kidnappers
  • Man dies, encroachment drive stopped

    • Briefly

  • Satyam's new ODC for Sony Europe
  • Rittal opens modification centre
  • Sun Micro selects Accel as regional partner
  • IOB signs MoU with International Tractors
  • LG Shoppe inaugurated in Tirupur
  • Venture investments in Travelguru
  • Direct tax collections up 40 p.c.
  • Heidelberg to move SAT
  • Panacea buys stake in U.K. firm
  • JP Morgan invests Rs. 274 cr.

    • Business

  • Detariffing in general insurance notified
  • Fillip to pure-play health insurance outfits
  • Pension reform brooks no delay: FM
  • Cisco hints at setting up plants
  • Sensex steady
  • Rupee turns weak against dollar after rise in crude prices
  • `No fear over iron ore exports'
  • IOC adopts new technology
  • Kalam favours free bandwidth

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Will Bill scrapping CET stand legal scrutiny?
  • I still have a lot to learn about acting, says Sangavi
  • Muslim groups want masjid reconstructed at the same site
  • "Market-driven strategies worsened Dalits' economic situation"
  • Anganwadis as bad as roads, drains in suburbs
  • Special teams to probe K.K. Nagar assault
  • This dog show is serious business
  • Vikram inaugurates CHILDS Trust Hospital's paediatric trauma unit
  • PWD plans improvement works in Porur lake
  • Government urged to frame rules to monitor fertility centres
  • Fusion music concert `Remember Shakti' today
  • Panel asks CMDA to list violations
  • Satyabhama University ties up with ISRO
  • Walkout by CPI(M), MDMK; AIADMK members evicted
  • Assembly passes resolution to introduce Tamil as the High Court language
  • Website on M.S. Viswanathan launched
  • Indian agriculture in crisis, says economist
  • Science research languishing ``for lack of ideas'
  • Police officers summoned
  • First supplementary estimates presented
  • Designated court told to expedite murder trial
  • Efforts to bridge funding gap
  • `Propagate Indian values medicine abroad'
  • Normalisation method to equate marks
  • Music and dance festival from December 8
  • ``Spiritual education vital''
  • Ambedkar remembered
  • Court summons Nilgiris Collector, Highways engineer
  • Karunanidhi assures probe
  • Annual Day celebrated
  • Bill to extend cooperative special officers' term passed
  • Government rethink on airport expansion project
  • `Mobile autograph' service launched
  • Airline official held in cheating case
  • Osteoporosis camp held for women police
  • A day to remember
  • Scholarship eligibility test
  • Woman nabbed at airport
  • A concrete obstacle
  • DVD on dance launched
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Jha joins Shetty in lead
  • Vijayalakshmi starts favourite
  • Ratnakaran triumphs
  • India defeats Mongolia

    • Coimbatore

  • Defence raises doubts about car bomb charge
  • Vellalore Canal water diverted to private farm near Kuniamuthur
  • Now, a `uniform' for students' buses too
  • Veterans lead by example
  • Recruitment drive at BU, affiliated colleges
  • CMCH cheque for underground sewer
  • Move Periyar statue to an appropriate place: Sabha
  • Demonstrations for reconstruction of mosque
  • Orientation programme conducted
  • BSNL slashes Internet tariff
  • For a solution
  • Seminar
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • Dravid confident
  • Madras, Calcutta in semifinals
  • Sri Lanka on familiar ground in first Test
  • Even England fans must admit it was worth staying up for
  • Manish scores century

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8778
  • Solution to Puzzle 8777

    • Dharmapuri

  • Insurance firms to join stir on December 14

    • Editorials

  • Foreigners in Assam
  • Democracy damaged

    • Equestrian

  • ARPA emerges champion

    • Erode

  • Erode sees lopsided development
  • Temple desecrated, villagers seek action against culprits
  • Municipality to install windmills

    • Football

  • Barcelona, Roma advance
  • Vasco SC records win
  • Karavali, KMC register wins

    • Front Page

  • No sanction needed in corruption cases
  • Three-year jail term for Sidhu, associate
  • Devolution proposal in Sri Lanka
  • Sidhu to appeal
  • ``No discussion before Senate passed Bill''
  • Common Entrance Test abolished in Tamil Nadu
  • No drive against hoardings yet
  • Gold for India in kabaddi
  • Vijay Kumar `gifted' shooting bronze
  • Leander-Mahesh to defend gold
  • Detariffing in general insurance notified
  • Reaction to acquittal guarded in Kambalapalli
  • Machine outplays man
  • Better days ahead for Delhi airport
  • Renovation of `1,000-pillar' structure
  • Compensation package for ORR oustees approved
  • Electrified railway section to be commissioned soon
  • KSCB to recover bad loans
  • Man held for selling wife's kidney to meet liquor expenses
  • Prospect of taluk transfer slim
  • `Congress has failed to gauge Telangana sentiment'
  • Periyar Dam issue affects tourist flow to Thekkady
  • 15 injured in grenade attack

    • Goa

  • Goa barge owners threaten stir

    • Gujarat

  • "Godhra conspiracy theory bogus"

    • Gulbarga

  • Ambedkar's contribution recalled

    • Guntur

  • Vijaya Bank ATM inaugurated

    • Haryana

  • More power subsidy for farmers

    • Hassan

  • Dalit human rights group stages dharna

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Dharna against mega power project

    • Hockey

  • Is it a confirmation of degeneration of Indian hockey?
  • Indian women beat Malaysia

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Many organisations pay tribute to Ambedkar on 50th death anniversary
  • ICICI bank customers cheated of Rs. 1.5 crore
  • Funds for ITIs not released: Minister
  • `Black day' observed
  • In Hubli Today

    • Hyderabad

  • Rice, cotton ryots script success story
  • YSR invites garment exporters to set up factories in State
  • Signs of hope for endangered species
  • Shops eat into colony
  • New head for Niloufer
  • `Black day' peaceful in city
  • Lifetime achievement award for Nobel Laureate
  • Businessman kidnapped?
  • Governor lauds Scouts, Guides
  • Fire accident triggers tension
  • Package to hasten ORR phase II work
  • Move to shift Tobacco Board opposed
  • Melee near Ambedkar statue
  • Exemptions for new hotel
  • Taramati music fete from tomorrow
  • Bypolls: counting today
  • MCH plans more sports complexes
  • Twins' fate uncertain
  • Woman ends life by jumping in front of train
  • TDP campaign decried
  • Shell India's retail station opened
  • Air Force recruitment
  • It's back to tehsildars
  • Star watch
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Fiji coup leader dissolves Parliament
  • Musharraf faces criticism for Kashmir proposal
  • Pakistan sticks to stand
  • Cloud over India's rice crop growth

    • International

  • Baker Commission calls for moving U.S. combat troops out of Iraq
  • Colombo measures to curb terrorism
  • "U.S. not winning the war in Iraq"
  • Fresh protest threat

    • Kannur

  • Janu warns of agitation
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Black day passes off peacefully
  • Notices served on Karimnagar candidates

    • Karnataka

  • What can one man do, asks witness who turned hostile
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Expansion of Hubli Airport: over 155 houses to be acquired
  • Yediyurappa favours judicial probe into Mulky violence
  • 7,000 teachers to be appointed soon
  • Front to fight against Regional Plan 2011
  • Farmers call off indefinite fast

    • Kerala

  • Southern Railway to run Sabari specials to Chennai
  • AI flight returns after snag
  • Bollywood dreams of Rosshan
  • Traditional start
  • On guard
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Unravel mystery over probe: Chandy
  • Vellur school leading in HSS fete

    • Kochi

  • Due recognition sought for Kochi royal family
  • New building norms to be implemented
  • Petition against Rajendran rejected
  • SNMHSS leads in youth fete
  • `Space technology to help State exploit resources'
  • Kottayam-Erumeli rail line: dharna today
  • Inviting Italian investments
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Bid to revive paddy farming at Maranad
  • Pullichira pilgrimage starts today
  • SFI-AISF clash at Punalur
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Wrangle over visit of Italian envoy for lecture
  • HIV-positive children denied education
  • Government urged not to back out from paddy procurement

    • Kozhikode

  • Keralotsavam showcases talents
  • Directive to repay court expenses
  • Arrangements made for counting of votes
  • Nursing students go on strike
  • City gears up for shopping festival
  • Certificate course for SC-ST students
  • Death anniversary observed
  • Certificate course

    • Kurnool

  • Tributes paid to Ambedkar
  • Home guards Raising Day celebrated

    • Leader Page Articles

  • A return to the cold war rhetoric?

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Life term for Soren
  • Welcome verdict
  • The next Rashtrapati

    • Madurai

  • Films for social awareness
  • High Court sets aside selection of 103 lecturers by university
  • Bench sets aside varsity notification
  • Museums have a proactive role
  • Shyness, if ignored, may lead to mental disorder, says expert
  • Madurai Bench comes to the aid of Dalit atrocity victims
  • Mullaperiyar issue: JD (S) against continuing talks with Kerala
  • Babri Masjid demolition: anniversary passes peacefully
  • EB grievance day today
  • Anti-riot squad deployed
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Fishermen's society earns 1.08 cr. profit
  • DSS urges Mayor to install Ambedkar statue in city
  • ZP to order official probe into death of girl student at hostel
  • Blood donation camp
  • Two bank officials promoted
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • AIDS awareness through street plays
  • All eyes on Chamundeshwari Assembly byelection result
  • Tobacco auction to be resumed

    • Nagapattinam

  • 1.44 lakh identified for rural job scheme
  • Samba paddy in good condition

    • Nagercoil

  • Vattakottai to be given a facelift

    • Nalgonda

  • Home guards celebrate 43rd Raising Day
  • Tamil Nadu police `inspect' Nalgonda explosives factory

    • National

  • Both Houses disrupted over masjid demolition
  • CEC for proportional representative system
  • Thousands visit Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur
  • Sonia: Mulayam regime retards development
  • "Sonia should back Manmohan"
  • United Jihad Council attacks Musharraf peace offer
  • EPFO to meet today on interest rate
  • Health check-up for Government officers
  • Sena, BJP MLAs suspended
  • No-trust move against Maharashtra Speaker
  • 6 die in avalanches
  • Taxing air passengers
  • Air India receives first lot of Boeing 737-800
  • Air Deccan's `credit card masking system'
  • India-Israel trade set to rise
  • Statue damaged in Allahabad
  • "Keep tainted candidates out of polls"
  • Menon: India, Japan key anchors
  • BJP manipulating evidence, says Dasmunsi
  • Babri panel should submit report: CPI(M)

    • Nellore

  • Cancer treatment to become more affordable

    • New Delhi

  • Delhi Govt., monitoring panel on collision course
  • "Human dignity quintessence of human rights"
  • `Cong. making false promises'
  • A special tribute to an artist of note....
  • `Corruption preventing action'
  • Of music and mysticism
  • High Court summons officials over monkey menace
  • Coins recovered
  • `More young Indians prone to stroke'
  • Vikas Yadav bail plea to be heard today
  • Homage paid to Ambedkar
  • Water supply to be affected over weekend
  • `Rebuild Babri Masjid'
  • Road caves in
  • It's all about sharing
  • Missile system yet to be perfected
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Varsities lack funds for more seats

    • News Analysis

  • Devolution proposal in Sri Lanka
  • Corrections and Clarifications
  • Inclusiveness in higher education
  • Horrors of a closet civil war
  • Richest one per cent owns 40 per cent of world's wealth

    • Nizamabad

  • Department will implement G.O. 610: DGP

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Rain-hit families stage dharna demanding compensation
  • `Revive glory of State schools'

    • Orissa

  • Survey shows rise in urban poor population
  • Delay in road construction work adds to chaos
  • Automobile parts manufacturing unit to come up at Choudwar
  • New technique to reconstruct deformed ear
  • Glimmer of hope for folk arts

    • Palakkad

  • Elderly couple found murdered near Palakkad
  • Winter bird survey in Silent Valley
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Adoor stresses role of film fete
  • Forest Minister to inaugurate Interpretation Centre in Pampa
  • Intelligence gathering up in Sabarimala
  • Management fest begins on Friday

    • Polo

  • Martin sparkles

    • Puducherry

  • Dr. Ambedkar remembered
  • Hearing on January 3
  • PMK petitions Lt. Governor
  • Panchayat presidents put off stir plan

    • Racing : Horse

  • Stark Contrast impresses
  • Crown Court may make amends
  • Sharp N Smart triumphs
  • Natural Blitz claims South India 1000 Guineas

    • Raichur

  • Work on rail line between Raichur, Gadwal suspended

    • Rajasthan

  • Sangh Parivar's U-turn on land deal

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Seized rocket to be sent to Naval Armament Depot
  • Muslim oufits stage demonstration

    • Religion

  • Divine will is supreme

    • Sailing

  • India bags double sculls bronze

    • Salem

  • Bonded labourer rescued 10 bonded labourers rescued
  • Aid for taking up research in `Siddhar Padalgal'
  • Tirunelveli Corporation officials in Salem
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • Preparations for Sahitya Sammelan under way
  • Farmers want paddy centres opened

    • Sport

  • India's reign continues in kabaddi
  • Vijay Kumar `gifted' shooting bronze
  • Leander-Mahesh to defend gold
  • Machine outplays man

    • Sports : General

  • Saina Nehwal advances
  • Indian Bank reigns supreme
  • Seema doping case: stand-off continues
  • Sorry, but that's my name
  • Surya Pavan puts out Sai Teja
  • Results at a glance

    • Swimming

  • Chen sets Asian record

    • Table Tennis

  • UPTTA backs out

    • Tamil Nadu

  • "Villagers need AIDS education"
  • Shouldering the burden
  • To nowhere
  • Equally vociferous
  • Information campaign provides opportunities to rural students
  • Adopted children `should know their status early'
  • Panchayats oppose move to shift jurisdiction
  • VAT Bill welcomed
  • Varsity signs MoU
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Classrooms damaged, students study in temple building
  • Eight villages to have solar lamps
  • Police ministerial staff plea on transfers and promotions
  • Demonstration against Babri Masjid demolition
  • Solar lamps in eight villages
  • Protection ordered for Manalmedu Sankar
  • More than a mobile phone
  • Anjappar celebrates second anniversary
  • India Engineering Meet at Noida in January
  • Periyar: CPI(M) for fruitful dialogue
  • Funds sought for roads, bridges
  • Buses directed to use new bus stand
  • Career meet on December 8
  • Probe begins into threat letter
  • Fire accident: Enquiry on December 28
  • Career meeting on December 8
  • Training programme for SHGs
  • Killed

    • Tennis

  • Ronak enters quarterfinals
  • Treble for Rynold

    • Thanjavur

  • Stolen property recovered, one held

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Chain-snatching on the rise in district
  • Fish vendors protest against eviction
  • Veliyam's charge immature: CPI(M)
  • SIET opens CD showroom
  • `KSEB distorting facts for Athirappilli scheme'
  • Sabari specials to Chennai Central
  • Minister inspects shops in Chala
  • Children's film fete to be held
  • Animal husbandry festival at Chettuva
  • Christmas fete at Christ Nagar HSS
  • 3 held, country bombs seized
  • Man held on charge of impersonation
  • Case against Vakkom dismissed
  • Safety steps on using power for X'mas fete
  • KEEC to oppose move
  • Flight returns after snag
  • Storage falls in reservoirs
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated December 7, 1956: B.R. Ambedkar dead
  • dated December 7, 1956: India XI's triumph

    • Tiruchi

  • Regional office may issue 3 lakh passports this year
  • Training hard matters most here
  • Regional office to issue 3 lakh passports this year
  • Demolition of Babri Masjid condemned
  • Dumping of construction materials mounts problem
  • SETC's ultra-deluxe bus service to Bangalore begins
  • Uniform syllabus move leaves matriculation schools in a fix
  • Their eyes can still see the world
  • History-sheeter arrested
  • AIR special for Rajaji birth anniversary
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirupati

  • Akkineni felicitated at literary meeting
  • Saying it with `Snakes & ladder'

    • Tuticorin

  • Babri Masjid demolition anniversary peaceful
  • Students come out with `satellite controlled train'
  • New building for ICAI to be inaugurated on Dec. 8
  • Lawyers observe fast

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Moundadan Chetties plea to Government
  • Protestors seek to hand over Babri Masjid to Muslims
  • Your Govt. at your doorstep scheme

    • Udupi

  • Inner Wheel Conference to be held

    • Vellore

  • Personality development programme

    • Vijayawada

  • Civic body exchanges land for power sub-stations
  • `Little' guest attracts attention at Raising Day celebrations
  • Total enrollment of students by Jan. 26
  • Babu shifted to NIMS
  • `Prepare voter list with care'
  • LIC athletic meet begins today
  • Exchange of soiled notes
  • Hooked!
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Passengers suggest steps for improved token system
  • Six more crocs brought to zoo
  • Plea to correct Council poll rolls
  • Ambedkar's anniversary observed
  • It's music to the ears, verily
  • Freshers party held at business school
  • Lorry cleaner killed in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Woman `beats' husband to death

    • Weather

  • Weather

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