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  • 1,400 booths for polio drive

    • Anantapur

  • Pre-paid cards for open jail inmates
  • Pulse polio awareness rallies planned in villages on Jan. 5, 6
  • State reviving rural economy: Speaker

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • `Congress for second States reorganisation commission'
  • Maoist couple surrender in Karimnagar
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Counselling of tribals pays off, says SP
  • Kolleru ryots up in arms against forest officials
  • Week-long port row ends
  • Telemedicine facility sought
  • Jairam Ramesh shoots down IIT plan at Basar
  • 10-year-old run over
  • State critical of ruling on police reforms
  • Uplift tribals above party lines: Minister
  • Rajahmundry doctor's family alienates property to Government
  • ECE students told to motivate children
  • Raghavulu seeks probe
  • `S. Kota RTC depot to stay'

    • Athletics

  • Al Ameen wins men's team title

    • Bangalore

  • Pratibha's mother makes submission before court
  • Minister favours statutory powers for Planning Board
  • Celebrating 100 years of Montessori education
  • City railway station all set for facelift
  • Panchayat resolution allowing planters to use tank water stayed
  • Officials directed to buy water from other States
  • Self-employment scheme for women in distress planned
  • Congress MLA's plea adjourned
  • Second entry to be upgraded
  • Management festival to focus on city's problems
  • Workers seek better deal
  • `No hasty decision on lottery ban'
  • BMP restructures its Engineering Department
  • Annual feast of Infant Jesus Shrine begins
  • KPSC is a den of corruption: Nanaiah
  • Daimler open to making vehicles that run on fuel cell
  • Roping in youngsters
  • Kumaraswamy for Amber Valley
  • Chain snatched
  • Forum's plea
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • Services' long wait is over

    • Bellary

  • Congress leaders do introspection

    • Bidar

  • Bypoll termed a black mark

    • Briefly

  • Ban on sugar export partially lifted
  • FDI proposals worth Rs 2,792 cr. cleared
  • Hindujas interested in Hutch
  • Dabur launches new anti-caner NDDS
  • Mohan Clothing to expand presence in S. India
  • IOB revises FCNR, NRE rates
  • TMB introduces new scheme
  • CUB offers CBS in all its branches
  • SBI Life infuses Rs. 75 crore capital
  • USFDA nod for Aurobindo Pharma's two drugs

    • Business

  • Private parties to operate rail container service
  • Cess on readymade garments goes
  • Sensex loses 143 points
  • Italian Prime Minister to lead business delegation to India
  • Hero Electric two-wheelers launched
  • ABL Biotechnologies sets up R&D facility
  • Corporate effort towards blood donation
  • Supplyco employees told to prepare for competition
  • Government plans joint ventures in dairy sector
  • Rupee recovers against dollar

    • Carrom

  • Quarterfinalists spotted

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Residents, traders halt move to demolish shops, houses
  • University of Madras to go in for digital coding of answer sheets
  • Japanese nod likely for funding Hogenakkal water supply project
  • Driving in Chennai unpleasant: survey
  • A racy start to `Kurukshetra 07'
  • Guiding adoptive parents in the right direction
  • Visit Tiger's Cave for a quiet weekend getaway
  • Institute of Mental Health to become centre of excellence
  • Workshop on software maintenance
  • Turtle rescued near Chennai
  • Motivation for girl students of Chennai Corporation schools
  • A boon for quiz aficionados
  • Plus Two exams to start on March 1
  • Schoolboy commits suicide
  • City police celebrations conjure up memories
  • Cinema ticket rate revision reflects a balancing act
  • "Padi grade separator work to be over only by December"
  • Bringing the Mahatma alive
  • Corporation rapped for failing to execute court order
  • Defence staff oppose privatisation policy
  • A talented display by homemakers
  • Plans to promote Yelagiri Hills on the anvil
  • Retired judge passes away
  • Economist predicts reduction in poverty ratio by 2012
  • Plan to make youth employable
  • Book on early childhood education
  • Court seeks report from pollution control board
  • Power shutdown on Saturday
  • It's all in the name
  • A lot more in store at police celebrations
  • Power theft detected
  • A daredevil attempt
  • Robbers strike at Peerkankaranai
  • Accused escapes from police, nabbed
  • Two children rescued
  • Traffic changes for Kalam's visit
  • DVDs, VCDs released
  • Book Fair has new venue
  • Correction
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Hari Krishna for World rapid cup
  • Padmini beats Aaroshi

    • Coimbatore

  • Bus stand at Lanka Corner to be renovated
  • Retired, yet relentless
  • On a mission to identify sporting talents
  • Two killed as train hits moped
  • Importance of Tamil stressed
  • Residents complain of sewage overflow
  • Deaf expo from today
  • National prize to university lecturer
  • Sanitary workers being regularised
  • Awards for women self-help groups
  • Campus recruitment
  • Around the City

    • Cricket

  • Karnataka tightens the noose
  • Asia Cup may be postponed again
  • Tejashwi Yadav scores century
  • Ranadeb Bose wrecks Hyderabad
  • Delhi gains lead
  • Let the urn remain in Australia: Botham
  • Huge win for Tiruvallur
  • KEB HS, BMEM HS `A' in semifinals
  • Two records set
  • Seven-wkt. win for SDMCA
  • Murugan CC beats Titanium

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8803
  • Solution to Puzzle 8802

    • Dharmapuri

  • Special mass contact programmes in hilly areas

    • Dindigul

  • Rs.65 cr. allotted for various works

    • Editorials

  • A violation of the mind
  • In need of constant monitoring

    • Erode

  • Stagnant sewage below Vendipalayam railway bridge troubles road-users
  • 72 p.c. of plots regularised

    • Football

  • JCT starts favourite

    • Front Page

  • Special police team to investigate Noida killings
  • Illegal organs trade?
  • Civilian nuclear programme will be independent: Kakodkar
  • Development is about transforming lives, not just economies: Joseph Stiglitz
  • "Use forex reserves for infrastructure"
  • Private parties to operate rail container service
  • Compulsory seminars for doctors soon
  • Court annuls key provisions of professional colleges Act
  • "Police should not fail in their duty"
  • Tour decider heading for an explosive finish
  • `Congress for setting up second SRC'
  • Capital caught in an endless jam
  • Cultivable area in Erode shrinks
  • Passenger train services to resume today
  • University to set up complaint centre
  • Kerala issues will be sorted out: Karat
  • Kumaraswamy to warn MLAs, Ministers
  • Vijayashanti denies move to join TRS
  • Goa Minister resigns
  • Death of 2 boys: parents held
  • Suspected militant killed in IED explosion
  • Security for Nandigram
  • Office ransacked

    • Goa

  • National Games will be a smooth event, says Duggal

    • Gulbarga

  • Yediyurappa promises scheme for 35 taluks
  • Leaders should not only promise, but also deliver, says Yediyurappa
  • Yediyurappa launches Jana Shree scheme

    • Guntur

  • Students urged to acquire soft skills
  • Guntur Mayor hurt in accident
  • Robbers decamp with gold

    • Haryana

  • Gujars affirm support to Hooda

    • Hassan

  • We are committed to banning arrack, says Kumaraswamy
  • Educate people about schemes, doctors told
  • Admissions open to sports school, hostel
  • APMC Act amended at Centre's insistence: Kumaraswamy

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Bonanza for M.P. Govt. employees
  • Congress hits out at BJP Govt. in M.P.

    • Hockey

  • Adam Sinclair stars in Chennai Veerans's win
  • FIH issues tough reminder

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Police penalise violators of traffic regulations in Hubli
  • Take medical services to the villages, says Jagadish Shettar
  • Music show on January 6
  • Injured journalists given compensation

    • Hyderabad

  • Expert favours sex education from class VIII
  • Sex education from class 8 urged
  • ORR: connectivity to Shamshabad airport by year-end
  • AICC stand muffles pro-Telangana voices
  • RTPS out to shower relief for power-starved State
  • Water meters to be installed in distribution reservoirs
  • TDP keeps options open on Telangana
  • Chaos on the road: many policemen, same job
  • `Timeframe for land distribution is key'
  • RTC drivers not at fault: Gone
  • Special buses to clear Sankranti rush
  • Naidu makes light of land surrender
  • Cash chest containing Rs. 3 lakhs stolen
  • Water supply to be delayed
  • Police chiefs replaced
  • WWF camp at Kolluru
  • Cardiological Society 's meet in Hyderabad
  • Digvijay Singh meets MSR
  • Move to switch off streetlights opposed
  • `Water adalat'
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • China Buddhists coming
  • New Delhi, Lisbon to ink Extradition Treaty

    • International

  • Iraqis begin damage control exercise
  • Fiji coup leader reinstates President
  • Fighting may escalate in Sri Lanka
  • U.K. immigrants feel "betrayed"
  • Nod for white farmers
  • Nothing to worry, says Premier
  • Mystery object crashes through the roof
  • For green satellite navigation
  • Troops to fight gangs
  • Copyright dispute

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Right to dissent is essence of democratic structure: Geelani

    • Kancheepuram

  • Use-and-throw plastic products to be banned
  • Bar members observe fast
  • 12 convicted for employing children

    • Kannur

  • 'Strengthen renaissance values'
  • KPO to open up job avenues
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Schools up in arms against State's decision
  • Junior college staff launch mid-day meals
  • Maoist couple surrenders

    • Karnataka

  • Attempt to murder case filed against Pejawar Math swami
  • Rs. 70 crore under JNNURM to help Mysore city retain its `old world charm'
  • Needed: a society for issues concerning ornithology
  • Generating power from municipal waste
  • Task force to be established to promote tourism in Udupi district
  • BWSSB fined for digging roads
  • Official's appeal to women groups

    • Karnataka - Others

  • `Alva's Virasat' to display cultural diversity
  • Decision on BJP-JD(S) poll alliance by January 10
  • Goa Minister resigns over Plan controversy
  • Chikmagalur district gets Rs. 27 crore for road repairs
  • Delegation meets Defence Minister
  • Three killed in road accident in Haveri
  • Experts to discuss Regional Plan 2011

    • Kerala

  • Court annuls key provisions of Kerala professional colleges Act
  • UDF stand vindicated: Chandy
  • Tamil Nadu stops water to Sholayar
  • Go in appeal, says CPI(M)
  • KSRTC to reschedule convoy services
  • KMC doctors continue stir
  • Malabar shopping fete losing its sheen
  • Government colluding with education lobby: BJP
  • `Shortcoming' of an Act
  • Leading from the front
  • When life imitates art
  • Others suspend agitation
  • A station in neglect
  • For better waste disposal
  • SFI plans agitation
  • Coconut gets a boost
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Aluva leading in schools arts fete
  • Stage events begin at youth fete
  • Pulse Polio: efforts on to dispel fears
  • Attempts to sabotage `Notebook' alleged
  • Brilliant show by students at drama fete
  • Fake music CDs seized
  • Apparel park opened

    • Kochi

  • Good demand for KTDC hotels
  • Minister urges change in attitude to curb accidents
  • A thorough North Indian fare
  • Plenary Assembly of CCBI begins
  • 24-hour service at petrol bunk inaugurated
  • Mooring project work to resume on Friday
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kottayam

  • Schools youth fete begins
  • Mani calls for Baby's resignation

    • Kozhikode

  • UNDP-aided project to be implemented in district
  • Self-financing colleges: ABVP takes out protest march
  • Deliver notice of meet to members, says Ombudsman
  • Measures to enforce discipline among road users
  • Directive on grama sabha meeting
  • Dumping of waste: notice to Corporation
  • AISF district meet to begin tomorrow

    • Kurnool

  • Private universities Bill opposed

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Vietnam and India: scaling new heights

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Appalling apathy
  • Army versus police
  • Saddam's execution

    • Madikeri

  • State Government to categorise local cattle breed in Madikeri
  • South Kodagu observe bandh

    • Madurai

  • VAO aspirants quarrel with post office staff
  • Housing Board plans to construct 1.88 lakh houses
  • VAT is a progressive tax system: Chamber
  • DEOs cannot order refund of excess fee collected by private schools: Court
  • Varsity semester results published
  • Malaysian Minister visits university
  • New Year eve spectacle at jail
  • Pilot training course
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Shetty gets `Z' category security
  • A publisher with a vision
  • Solving a problem through visual representation
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Are you ready for a bird count? Here's an opportunity for birdwatchers
  • Domestic workers take out rally in Mysore

    • National

  • Plan to produce cheaper bio-diesel
  • SEZs should not be an ad hoc exercise
  • Rope youth into farm sector: Swaminathan
  • ``No fresh nod for raising dam height''
  • Beware BJP's new-found communal plank: Karat
  • Tragedy in Doda district
  • SP workers, traders clash
  • INS Shardul dedicated
  • Memorial for K.R. Narayanan on Yamuna banks
  • U.N. award for Ashbindu Singh
  • Legal information centre inaugurated
  • Global investors summit in Gujarat next week
  • Jaish, Harkat leaders killed
  • Form committees to appoint judicial officers: Supreme Court
  • CRPF to replace BSF in Valley by March-end
  • Board to discuss regulatory mechanisms
  • Police reforms committee set up, Centre tells court
  • Do not trust Musharraf, Thackeray tells Manmohan
  • CPI (M) to contest 15 seats in Uttar Pradesh
  • Kalam clears quota bill
  • Science Congress' news bulletin
  • Suspected Trinamool men ransack office
  • Widen tax base rather than hike rates: Yechury
  • Villagers block Nandigram roads
  • Goa Minister resigns over Plan controversy
  • Mann for alliance with Left parties

    • Nellore

  • Kalyanamastu gets cool response
  • Mozo company may not set foot in Nellore

    • New Delhi

  • "No fresh nod for raising Narmada dam height"
  • Members walk out of DDA meeting
  • MCD criticised for `unjustified taxes'
  • New ten-year no-tax regime for tourism industry proposed
  • From Delhi to Shimla
  • Dehra kids to light up the small screen
  • Children hold a protest march in support of Noida victims
  • Court dismisses clerk's plea
  • `Passion and the Other'
  • De-addiction centre for Tihar
  • CBI traps pharmaceutical company director
  • High-tension wires causing concern
  • Man acquitted of charges
  • BJP demands Mulayam's resignation
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • New Delhi - Others

  • Sikhs concerned over Sangh interference in gurdwara polls

    • News Analysis

  • Polish airport at heart of CIA flights row
  • Corrections and Clarifications
  • Iraq now worse than under Saddam
  • Predicting the future

    • Nizamabad

  • TTD chairman tours districts to advocate mass marriages programme
  • State accused of neglecting teachers

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Delay in completion of RoB poses problems
  • Teachers stage dharna

    • Orissa

  • Russian engineer dies in accident
  • BMC all set to collect user fee
  • POSCO launches training for youth
  • The fun way to learn
  • Air Deccan flights for Mumbai
  • Visually challenged to plead for study department in BU
  • Call for optimum use of Vansadhara waters
  • Police bust ghee racket

    • Palakkad

  • Graft in MCL: Industries Minister warns of stern action
  • `We will face Lavalin case politically'
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Youth fete: Konni leading
  • Call to protect environment
  • Aviation company floated at Aranmula

    • Puducherry

  • Drive against anti-social elements will be intensified, says IG
  • `Karaikal carnival' to begin from January 12

    • Punjab

  • E-Sampark Centre opened

    • Racing : Horse

  • Hesperus well prepared
  • Chilly Wind pleases
  • Sovereign Power wins main event

    • Raichur

  • Construction workers seek welfare measures
  • Priority for development work and water supply, says Raichur DC
  • Ashraya houses sought for factory workers
  • People of Merched protest against blasts

    • Rajasthan

  • Akalis seek details of Amarinder's "secret" visit to Rajasthan
  • Rajasthan Govt. launches controversial project

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Congress plea on dam safety

    • Religion

  • Divine Mother's grace

    • Salem

  • Awareness exhibition on fire service
  • Grazing cattle on forest lands banned
  • Exhibition on fire service

    • Shimoga

  • Bank to sell general insurance products in Shimoga
  • The Tunga wears a festive look
  • Workers' union stages dharna

    • Sport

  • Tour decider heading for an explosive finish
  • Australia all set for clean sweep
  • Rastogi impressive in defeat

    • Sports : General

  • Maharashtra wins a thriller
  • AIIES meet: competitions in 21 disciplines
  • Senior national body-building from today
  • Sivagangai advances
  • Santosh's 112 sets up Whirlwind's win
  • Pune posts easy win
  • Major Ports' hockey

    • Squash

  • Good day for Indian boys

    • Srikakulam

  • Technical expo

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Women's prisons have facilities as per law: State
  • Confusion at Science Congress as students protest against denial of chance to meet Kalam
  • BJP plans 1,000 meetings
  • Awarded for services to business incubation
  • Scholarship test
  • Triumphs again
  • Travel trade peeved at delay in commissioning runway
  • "Sivaganga needs industry-specific intervention"
  • "Understanding kritis right tribute to Thyagaraja"
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • State promises comprehensive law on police reforms in 6 months
  • Workers begin to leave Tirupur as stir enters day four
  • Pollution-hit farmers' plea to government
  • Welfare schemes launched
  • Software engineer stabbed, robbed of mobile phone
  • Applications invited from SC/ST youth
  • New passenger train services from Tiruchi to Erode soon
  • Bharatiyar Day Games inaugurated
  • Karaikal carnival to begin on January 12

    • Tennis

  • Molik for Bangalore Open
  • Kartik, Kaushik in title clash
  • Rastogi is India's future; Prakash has to cut out his flashiness
  • Kunitsyn stuns Hewitt
  • Spain ends India's chances
  • Prajnesh upsets top-seeded Rifat
  • Henin-Hardenne out of Australian Open
  • Mahesh Bhupathi hails Sania, Bopanna
  • Calicut prevails

    • Thanjavur

  • New system of payment for ryots
  • All under one roof

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Kalamandalam awards announced
  • City headed for garbage crisis
  • In-patient service for pets launched
  • `Youth festivals should be venues to discover talents'
  • Karunakaran criticises Achuthanandan
  • Unique calendar on Carnatic music
  • Armed gang attack: man injured
  • Central aid for Kallada project
  • Swathi music fete begins tomorrow
  • Workshop on enriching engineering education
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated January 5, 1957: Ceiling on income
  • dated January 5, 1957: Govt. offer rejected
  • dated January 5, 1957: Commercial broadcasting

    • Thrissur

  • Irinjalakuda leads in youth fete

    • Tiruchi

  • A move to catch them young
  • Panel to submit report on common syllabus next month
  • 2000 attend army recruitment rally
  • Lorries not to be allowed on Cauvery bridge
  • Abdul Kalam arrives in Rock City
  • It's just beyond the ramp
  • 82,000 children to get polio drops
  • Burst in mains hits water supply
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • 6.13 lakh children to be immunised in Tirunelveli
  • Intricate wooden works are in great demand in the U.S.
  • This handbook comes in handy
  • Eight get life term for murder

    • Tirupati

  • CD on Vengamamba's compositions proposed
  • TTD lists dos and don'ts for priests
  • College girl's body found
  • Tributes paid to Louis Braille
  • NIMH opens Tirupati centre at RASS complex
  • Six child labourers rescued
  • Thousands witness `Arudra Darshanam'
  • Pylon to immortalise `Chola-Pallava battle'
  • RTC employees stage dharna

    • Tuticorin

  • "Consume 150 mg of iodine a day"

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Teachers observe fast

    • Udupi

  • 89,631 children to get Pulse Polio on Sunday
  • E-beat system for Udupi police
  • Seven compensated for giving up land for road

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • SP observes `black day' in U.P.

    • Uttaranchal

  • Congress hopes to romp home in elections

    • Vijayawada

  • Let's work together, Congress tells TDP
  • Railways moving up the technology track
  • Giving a lesson in self-belief
  • All wings join to help farm sector
  • Free training management
  • `Improve infrastructure in Vijayawada'
  • Cash missing
  • Around the City

    • Visakhapatnam

  • VPT to take up cargo berth mechanisation
  • Passport pangs set to ease from January 26
  • AU ripples with tech-talks
  • TDP sides with CPI(M)
  • `Green fuels are best'
  • YSR coming tomorrow
  • Concede the demand of poor: TUs
  • Playlet festival
  • `Congress will win poll'
  • All-weather airport soon
  • Confluence 2007 ends
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Paving way for a better and brighter future
  • Speaker to lay stone for KMC alumni building

    • Weather

  • Weather

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