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  • Isaac: LDF focusses on revenue mobilisation
  • Gouri demands copy of Padmarajan panel report

    • Anantapur

  • Lighting up lives of the poor
  • SFI flays entry to foreign varsities

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Karimnagar villagers tense after cyclone in Oman
  • Muscat-bound Hyderabad flights cancelled
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Landless but hands full
  • Protected water for delta promised
  • Panabaka opposes move to de-reserve Nellore seat
  • Opposition to community hall decried
  • Pulse Polio campaign from June 10
  • All set for The Hindu EPlus videoconference
  • Bandaru sees hidden agenda
  • ASI pulled up by MLA

    • Athletics

  • Asian championships in Beirut called off

    • Badminton

  • Don't get carried away by the numbers

    • Bangalore

  • Legislature panel detects major structures on tank beds
  • State plans legislation against workplace sexual harassment
  • Taking Bharatanatyam to the grassroots
  • Court asks State to conduct special drive to recruit disabled as teachers
  • A big weight is off his chest
  • 50 per cent of posts in farm varsities vacant
  • Definitely, a step towards sensitising people
  • Bangaloreans pay bills and fret
  • Their heart is in the right place
  • Special loan scheme for VTU students
  • ESCOMS seek tariff revision
  • Seat selection process continues for second day
  • `Be India's true knowledge capital'
  • Exhibition of posters
  • More shows at planetarium
  • Puppet show for the child within
  • Validity of bus passes extended
  • BBMP official arrested
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Posing as courier staff, 4-man gang robs woman

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Sugarcane: problem of plenty in State

    • Bellary

  • Row over urs: 14 held in Hampi
  • Heavy rain: Bellary gropes in the dark

    • Bijapur

  • CPI(M) to highlight problems faced by Dalits

    • Briefly

  • Educomp to acquire Singapore firm
  • TV18 group floats E18
  • A. K. Purwar joins Caparo group
  • SEBI suspends registration of 3 cos.
  • Record handling by Kolkata Dock System
  • IBM to modernise CBDT infrastructure
  • Sify ties up with Australian firm
  • IFC to take stake in Lanco Power
  • Sundaram Brake net profit up
  • VIP Industries pays Rs. 2.50 per share

    • Business

  • Cos. allowed access to cable landing stations
  • Signet to set up PV plants
  • ONGC strikes oil, gas
  • Nepal, India hold meeting on power exchange
  • Biotech industry revenue touches Rs. 8,300 cr.
  • GAIL to infuse Rs. 500 cr. in Ratnagiri power project
  • Rupee continues to slide
  • Sensex drops further

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • TASMAC shops offer easy pickings for thieves
  • Co-optex at it again, now with `Magic Design' saris
  • Nagaswaram artiste knocked down at pedestrian crossing near MIT Bridge
  • Painted Snipe sighted at Koonthakulam Bird Sanctuary
  • Two state-of-the-art crash fire tenders for Chennai airport
  • Stress on preserving historical legacy
  • Sewage project work takes a toll on phone, power cables
  • Cellphone anti-theft software launched
  • Online game spoofs Paris Hilton's jail term
  • MTC begins issuing free bus passes to students
  • Take steps for releasing Mettur water on June 12, says NCP
  • Assault on advocate: former judge to `ascertain truth'
  • "Plastic Kadavul" on June 18
  • Metrowater open house meetings tomorrow
  • AIADMK takes to streets
  • Cash, jewels stolen from IAS officer's house
  • Man arrested, jewellery recovered
  • AIADMK demands clarification from CMDA
  • Detained for murdering wife
  • Dhanush pairs up with Nayanthara
  • Anbazhagan's appeal to partymen
  • Release AIADMK activists: Jayalalithaa
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • `Effective microbes solution has helped contain fly menace'
  • Police remove protesting AIADMK cadre
  • Corpse recovered from house
  • Government to revise fee for fancy numbers
  • Fee revision for fancy numbers
  • Police appeal for averting accidents
  • Free vocational training courses for men and women
  • Detained under Goondas Act
  • Jaipur Express rescheduled
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Pollock bats for Ford
  • McGrath may coach NSW
  • ACC meetings in Chennai
  • Asif fashions Asia XI's win
  • Madhukar, Shyam top NCA exam
  • IACA team for UK

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8934
  • Solution to Puzzle 8933

    • Dindigul

  • AIADMK cadres held in Virudhunagar, Sivaganga

    • Editorials

  • Deploying reserves imaginatively
  • Dithering over Iraq

    • Erode

  • Class X exams: failures more in science
  • Public money goes waste in shopping complex

    • Football

  • David Beckham is indispensable now
  • India loses out

    • Front Page

  • China our greatest neighbour: Manmohan
  • G8 to call for halving gas emissions by 2050
  • Digambar Kamat is frontrunner in Goa
  • Impressive Ivanovic meets Henin
  • England fritters away the initiative
  • Recharged Ganguly in great spirits
  • Beckham inspires England to easy win
  • John McEnroe receives Chatrier Award
  • Talent, training keeps Negi on course
  • EC orders transfer of head constables
  • Chennai Telephones revises bimonthly billing cycle to suit its subscribers
  • Indian killed in Oman cyclone
  • Mumbai serial blasts: key accused among two sentenced
  • High Court strikes down Mohammed panel order
  • Omission in IT returns is no concealment: court
  • India to import 50 lakh tonnes of wheat
  • Google searches for great minds
  • Forum assists disabled in employment
  • Cyclone in Oman: villagers in Karimnagar district tense
  • Centre to address issue of `early stage funding' for BT industry
  • GVMC soft-pedals VLT collection
  • Massive electrification work on the cards
  • Bench refuses to quash penal provision
  • Teachers' issues: State seeks Centre's help
  • Pre-admission guidance programme today
  • KCBC to go with Church council decision
  • Capital, neighbourhood face hotter days
  • `Create IT-BT infrastructure fund'
  • Hizb modules busted, 14 arrested
  • Rail bogie blocks Jammu-Srinagar highway
  • More deportation
  • Review of ordinance
  • Chopra to head panel

    • Golf

  • Amanjyot makes merry

    • Gulbarga

  • Rain lashes Gulbarga district, lightning claims boy's life
  • Daily wage employees to press for regularisation
  • Engineering students display their talent
  • Action sought

    • Guntur

  • G.O. 610: Speaker yet to accept MLAs' resignations
  • NGOs to come under RTI Act

    • Haryana

  • Rs. 107 crore for Haryana horticulture
  • 14 sentenced for rioting after MLA's murder

    • Hassan

  • Kalam arriving in Hassan today
  • Draft of town planning rules published

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Agitations continue against Sonia's remarks on project
  • Schoolchildren protest hike in bus pass fares
  • UAS staff launch indefinite strike
  • `Sachar report does not offer any solutions'
  • Mutilated body of young girl found in field

    • Hyderabad

  • Piped gas in homes to be a reality soon
  • Ready for narco test, says Sameer
  • RTC lets untrained drivers loose on the roads
  • TDP chronicles YSR's `misrule'
  • Mahila Samakhya for changes to Bill
  • TSR chief wants GO 399 scrapped
  • GHMC officials to seal building for violation of land use pattern
  • Shopping proves fatal for student
  • Man held for illegal sale of drugs at Gandhi Hospital
  • BJP demands dismissal of Mohd. Shabbir Ali
  • Congress ready to clarify doubts on G.O. 399
  • Experts to check stability of hoardings
  • Cyclone: flights for Muscat cancelled
  • Commissioner inspects city localities
  • Lingaiah's fingerprints collected
  • FAPCCI awards today
  • SBH to clear cheques in a day
  • Literacy rate still below 65%, says STFI leader
  • Power shutdown
  • SBI officers to go on strike today
  • Driven to frustration
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Report on Manmohan `visit' denied
  • Quattrocchi trial begins
  • Indian youth delegation in China on upbeat note

    • International

  • India, China key in climate change fight: Bush
  • Tomorrow's decision today at G8
  • "Britain bribed Saudi Prince in arms deal"
  • Jobless Tamils evicted from Colombo on grounds of security
  • Poll bill in Nepal Parliament
  • Shift missile shield, Putin tells Bush
  • Pakistan to review TV regulation ordinance
  • Politics does not make them happy
  • "Otzi' bled to death

    • Jharkand

  • Eight killed over land dispute

    • Kannur

  • SBT to organise pre-counselling programme

    • Karimnagar

  • Powerloom weavers intensify stir
  • Heavy rain lashes Karimnagar

    • Karnataka

  • Chidambaram inaugurates Bangalore Bio 2007
  • Separate ward for chikungunya cases
  • Tight security
  • Clarification
  • Kumaraswamy's appeal to Chidambaram

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Minister for action against erring officials
  • Government accused of weakening local bodies
  • Youths successfully trap 6-ft long crocodile
  • 10 lakh tonnes of cane will remain uncrushed this year

    • Kerala

  • Kerala High Court quashes Mohammed panel order
  • Back to school sans rain
  • A different present — and a green message
  • Testing the word power
  • Nature's fury
  • "Excess land": notice issued to Tata Tea
  • Around the city
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Three-day hartal in Munnar
  • Four Endosulfan-related deaths in a month: club
  • Slum development projects planned

    • Kochi

  • Retail competition hots up
  • Musical journey down memory lane
  • Authorities to widen net
  • Structural Plan for Kochi notified
  • Lankan team to visit millers' office
  • Proposed tariff hike opposed
  • Pre-admission guidance programme today
  • Flight services to the Gulf disrupted
  • Retreat centres: KCBC forms inquiry panel
  • Barge crew rescued
  • High Court summons Corporation Secretary
  • Doing away with plastic carry bags
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • `Crisis management system a failure'

    • Kottayam

  • Metropolitan laid to rest
  • Fever cases touch one lakh mark in Kottayam district

    • Kozhikode

  • JBIC project to be implemented in five packages
  • Expo of medical equipment in September
  • VS to open CWRDM laboratories
  • Plea to reduce shortfall in HSE seats
  • `Make full use of passport cell'

    • Kurnool

  • Widespread rain in several districts
  • Stress on resolving land disputes

    • Leader Page Articles

  • A general battles to hold his position

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Governor's decision
  • National shame
  • Review reservation

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Mahila Congress to corner BJP Govt. on its `failures'

    • Madurai

  • Efficiency of plastic roads being tested in southern districts
  • Chithirai streets to get new look soon
  • Recruitment drive for online tutors to be held on June 16
  • Madurai temple streets to sport new look soon
  • "Pollution in city not at alarming level"
  • Appeal against order on helmet rule
  • Bench refuses to quash penal provision against rice smugglers
  • DMDK candidate files papers
  • `Rath yatra' from Kanyakumari to Chennai
  • Art workshop for women, children
  • TNEB to hold grievance day meet on June 19
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • MESCOM to prepare database of assets
  • MLA for sports school in Dakshina Kannada
  • Anniversary of Vishwa Saraswat Sammelan
  • Fee being collected from girls at government schools: federation
  • Mangalore University announces final list of B.Ed rank holders
  • Heavy vehicles banned on highway
  • RTO warns against using cellphones while driving
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Mysore civic body in pursuit of stray animals
  • Officials take governance to doorsteps in cities
  • Saplings planted

    • Nagapattinam

  • Free TV sets given away at Iyanallur

    • Nagercoil

  • Adi Dravidar Minister lays foundation stone for hostel

    • Nalgonda

  • Stone laid for Rs. 56 crore sewerage system

    • National

  • Kashmiri reported killed in Afghanistan
  • One-fifth of world's workers toil for more than 48 hours a week, says ILO study
  • Civil servants faulted in U.P.
  • No embargo on appellate court reviewing evidence
  • We support democratic movement in Nepal: BJP
  • Centre plans to import 50-lakh tonnes of wheat this year
  • Tug sinks, crew rescued
  • Stress on suicide prevention in expanded mental health scheme
  • Can unqualified doctors be prosecuted for fatal abortion?
  • Budhia moves court against panel's decision
  • Relief soon for garment exporters: Vaghela
  • Leeds varsity honours Praful Patel
  • No patents on yoga asanas, says U.S.
  • Police, Maoists exchange fire
  • Lone opposes `ethnic engineering'
  • BJP lost to money power, says Parrikar
  • Delhi, neighbourhood face hotter days
  • Pawar says his party will back UPA candidate
  • SBI officers defer strike by two weeks

    • Nellore

  • MLA seeks special package for SCs

    • New Delhi

  • Children's trek ends with planting of saplings
  • RWAs oppose Metro link above ground
  • Ramjas College going global
  • Apex court moved on regularisation
  • Doctors oppose annual mixed land use charges
  • Employees' strike hits work in many hospitals
  • Doctor held on dowry charge
  • A journey on canvas, from Italy to India
  • An opportunity for tech-savvy kids
  • Gopal Ansal allowed to travel abroad
  • Power demand goes up to a new high
  • "Regularise temporary passport staff"
  • Make power companies pay relief: Vardhan
  • Tough call
  • Nights at Delhi airport to get comfortable
  • Apex court refuses to hear plea against Dera chief
  • Around the City

    • News Analysis

  • A fusion solution to the energy problem
  • The Venezuela media battle is about race too
  • "Flab in armed forces needs to be reduced"
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • Bandh peaceful at Kamareddy
  • Profits: Nizamabad APSRTC emerges first in the State

    • Orissa

  • Two lions in zoo die
  • British national `dupes' trader in Cuttack
  • High Court moved against ban on walkathon
  • Capital region plan draft submitted to Naveen
  • SEBC quota: 8 MLAs stage dharna
  • Oil palm cultivation to get boost
  • Oriyas in Mumbai a disappointed lot
  • Tribals happy over UNICEF project

    • Palakkad

  • U.S. academic team to study agriculture programmes

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Declare district `grief-stricken': Congress
  • Chief Minister to open Bala Sanghom meet
  • KAP teams plan to launch cleaning drive today

    • Perambalur

  • More land to be acquired for project
  • Get a rude shock after serving many for so long
  • Meet on photo poll rolls

    • Puducherry

  • AIADMK legislators and volunteers court arrest
  • DMK seeks stern action against AIADMK men
  • Kandasamy set to join Cabinet

    • Racing : Horse

  • Classic Sky excels
  • It's Romantic Count vs. Future Fame

    • Raichur

  • Technical team visits airstrip near Raichur
  • Focus will be on basic amenities: official

    • Ramanathapuram

  • He trusts his own hands

    • Religion

  • A devotee's prayer

    • Salem

  • Preliminary exercise to delimit 13,751 local bodies begins
  • Motor pumps seized
  • Corporation measures to control mosquito menace
  • Gas-based power plant in Salem likely

    • Shimoga

  • Joint survey to be taken up to assess extent of encroachment
  • Revenue from five departments up by 20 p.c.
  • Low-lying areas in Shimoga inundated during downpour

    • Sport

  • Impressive Ivanovic meets Henin
  • England fritters away the initiative
  • Recharged Ganguly in great spirits
  • Beckham inspires England to easy win
  • John McEnroe receives Chatrier Award
  • Talent, training keeps Negi on course
  • Ray Mali named acting ICC President
  • Women's hockey team to tour Japan

    • Sports : General

  • Federation Cup junior athletics from July 1
  • Guru Preetam beats Satvik Reddy

    • Srikakulam

  • Ministers coming

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Efforts on to refund money to depositors of non-banking financial companies
  • Sudharsan Engg. College
  • Crusade against child labour
  • Over 12,000 AIADMK volunteers arrested across the State
  • Forum demands abolition of `camp labour' scheme
  • "Furnishing inaccurate information attracts no disqualification"
  • "Not advisable to open Mettur dam on June 12"
  • World Bank to fund modernisation of irrigation system
  • Government told to set up SPCA in each district
  • HIV positive people seek representation in Govt. panels
  • SISI study to set up common facility centres
  • Association seeks lecturers' appointment
  • Perfect light
  • Little drops of freshness
  • Court fines bank staff
  • Inspector suffers burns, admitted to hospital
  • "Government according priority for Karaikal"
  • Crusade against cancer a tough job
  • Funds crunch leaves manuscripts preservation project withering
  • 70 applications for live-unrelated transplants cleared
  • Communist leaders meet Karunanidhi
  • Taking the message of organ donation to a larger audience
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Five injured as cadres clash
  • Create awareness among farmers on horticulture
  • Sunildev can recite maths tables backwards and forwards
  • Rush humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka Tamils, Ramadoss urges Centre
  • "Stop production of illegal crackers"
  • TWAD Board to create drinking water facilities in Government schools
  • Measures to ensure water supply to schools
  • Documents for free house sites distributed
  • Hacked to death
  • Around the City

    • Tennis

  • Moya pleased with resurgence
  • Karan Rastogi quells Aditya's challenge

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Bangalore armed robbery: suspects arrested in city
  • Court has reversed its own verdict, says M.A. Baby
  • `POTA in force in different names'
  • Railways planning `bullet trains'
  • Excess land: notice issued to Tata Tea
  • ISRO awards to be presented today
  • Karunakaran inaugurates ICU
  • KSEB signs PPA with Viyyat Power
  • ASI completes Thiruvallam temple renovation project
  • Emerging threat from Styrofoam
  • One Malayali dead in Oman cyclone
  • Taking the stress out of campus life
  • Experience speaks
  • Raising a demand
  • Elusive monsoon
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated June 8, 1957: Menuhin on Indian music
  • dated June 8, 1957: Majority for NC in Kashmir

    • Tiruchi

  • No sign of upgradation of corporation schools
  • There is more to it than just letters and white spaces
  • Portion of Srirangam temple rampart crumbles
  • VC search panel meet inconclusive
  • Mugs, knives and so on
  • More than 700 AIADMK cadres arrested in Tiruchi
  • Railway plans Rs. 52 cr. works
  • Two-day fete at school
  • Shops raided
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • AIADMK cadres stage road roko
  • Permanent house keys given to Collector
  • Papanasam dam water released
  • Planting of saplings commences

    • Tirupati

  • Kuppam `power' row may cause trouble
  • Tirupati doctors secure place in Limca records
  • `Aid scheme for private junior colleges lopsided'
  • Government's decision hailed
  • Chittoor chess players excel

    • Tumkur

  • Officials conduct survey of disputed land in Tumkur

    • Tuticorin

  • Road development works to begin
  • Workers observe fast

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Badaga film songs on CD

    • Udupi

  • MP questions renewal of licence for trawlers

    • Vellore

  • HDR brachytherapy unit opened in CMC Hospital

    • Vijayawada

  • Water level still low in projects
  • `9' drives them crazy
  • Stamps DIG office in Krishna district soon
  • Right moves
  • Call to popularise Vijaya products at the national level
  • EdCET-2007 on June 10
  • Dharna for house sites
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Making maths interesting
  • Mayor gives away cash awards to students
  • Iron ore supply hit by Chhattisgarh blasts
  • `Polio-free world by 2007'
  • Air travellers in celebration mode
  • Held on charge of killing father
  • CPI(M)'s novel protest on vacant land tax
  • New Customs Commissioner
  • Carried by devotion
  • Hot chat!
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • IOB posts win

    • Warangal

  • Kakatiya varsity results released

    • Weather

  • Weather

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