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Alappuzha

  • Counting blessings from the sea

    • Anantapur

  • CPI for provision to recall Government
  • Free coaching for APPSC exam

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Fake currency racket busted in Andhra Pradesh
  • Five Maoist ‘action team’ members held
  • DD phone-in programme
  • Fenner strives for quality award
  • Blood donation
  • Control onion price
  • Nurses’ quarters inaugurated
  • Anti-ragging panel formed
  • Winners of essay contest
  • Check irregularities, Collector told
  • Check crime
  • 8 members of burglary gangs arrested
  • Demand for cotton set to rise
  • Invalid SC certificates
  • Majestic presence
  • Report on sewerage ready, says MP
  • TDP’s pro-Telangana stance questioned
  • TDP boycotts civic body function
  • Over 4 lakh children work in cotton seed farms
  • Meet at Georgia Tech on October 2 on Indian farmers’ suicides
  • Fellowship council meeting
  • Grant concession to SC, ST students
  • Land stir: CPI(M) faults State
  • Police conduct inspection
  • M. Tech (DSCE) course
  • Cyclist killed
  • Man run over
  • Red tape
  • IPE extends last date
  • Moulding opinion
  • Free entry at Saroornagar Park
  • Training programe
  • World Heart Day
  • Usha Mehra to visit Medak district today
  • Police presence no deterrent to burglars LAw And Order
  • Crime Watch
  • Dattatreya charges Chief Minister with adopting anti-BC stand
  • Five Maoists arrested

    • Athletics

  • Gebrselassie breaks World record

    • Badminton

  • Punjab wins
  • Karnataka and Kerala win titles

    • Bangalore

  • Old boy Sreesanth visits his school
  • Congress puts on a brave face

    • Basketball

  • Nicy shines
  • ONGC pips Punjab Cagers

    • Belgaum

  • MES-backed faction likely to emerge as single largest group
  • Sambhaji Patil trounces More

    • Bellary

  • BJP sweeps Bellary City Corporation
  • Congress worsted in Bellary city

    • Bidar

  • Congress drubbed in Bidar

    • Bijapur

  • BJP short of majority in Bijapur
  • BJP wins 10 civic bodies in Bagalkot

    • Business

  • Positive climate helps attract more FDIs
  • Harnessing regional co-operation to foster global trade financial scene
  • Membership fee for salaried staff
  • Nomination for investments by HUF

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Lectures on mathematics
  • Meditation is his answer to stress
  • Mathematics seminar
  • New telephone service
  • Vaiko’s reaction to stay order
  • “Victory for AIADMK”
  • A.K. Antony’s assurance to Swamy
  • Parties assure support to DPA hunger strike
  • Counselling postponed
  • BJP functionaries meet
  • An innovative challenge for quiz buffs
  • Working towards a safer city
  • Fostering the passion for pure science among students
  • Conjuring up images with a few strokes
  • “1.5 crore jobs will be available in five years”
  • A fine blend of the old and the new
  • Good turnout of candidates with experience at fair
  • Spirit of engineering to fly high at IIT Madras’ ‘Shaastra’
  • Lecture on NSS Scheme
  • Keep body and mind active Health and Lifestyle
  • Closed for Gandhi Jayanthi
  • Recapturing magic and magnificence of ‘Thrissur Pooram’ in Chennai
  • Metrowater’s monsoon plan
  • A day marked by programmes filled with hearty life messages
  • Passing out parade
  • Spurious liquor seized
  • New initiative to fund cardiac surgeries for children
  • Joint research in cognitive sciences
  • Meet focusses on cleft lip rectification
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Websters Media tie-up with EC21
  • Bharti AXA Life launches operations
  • Vodafone’s BlackBerry smart phones
  • Trekking expeditions on October 6
  • Festival
  • Demand for Indian tea in Russia goes up
  • Colleges should strive to achieve high standards, says Minister
  • Competition for schoolstudents
  • Student management games
  • In Coimbatore today

    • Cricket

  • Practice session may be cancelled
  • More money for Sreesanth
  • CSA to ban ICL recruits
  • North Zone ‘A’, South Zone ‘A’ in title clash
  • Contrasting strategies for first Test
  • Ganguly to miss second ODI

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 9032
  • Solution to puzzle 9031

    • Cuddalore

  • Gram sabhas to conduct social audit
  • Security measures in banks reviewed
  • Part-time fair price shop opened

    • Dharmapuri

  • FM service to go on air in Dharmapuri from tomorrow

    • Editorials

  • An unavoidable divorce
  • Judiciary lets Pakistan down

    • Eluru

  • International Day of Non-Violence
  • MP promises fund for NGO home
  • Health camp

    • Erode

  • Awareness on heart diseases held
  • Delay in supply of LPG refill condemned
  • Sewage, effluents stagnate at Vettukattuvalasu
  • Welfare measures distributed
  • Dog menace on the rise; chairman promises action

    • Football

  • HAL, KSP play a dull draw
  • Army Boys School beats Don Bosco
  • Everton moves to fifth place

    • Front Page

  • Apex court stays Tamil Nadu bandh
  • Karunanidhi, DPA leaders to observe fast today
  • Big gains for Janata Dal (Secular)
  • Six killed in Assam serial blasts
  • Anand is now undisputed World champion
  • India needs to re-work its bowling attack
  • ‘It’s a great victory’
  • Hamilton wins a wet-and-wild race
  • England has a tough job on hand
  • Anand world champion again
  • Gasquet clinches title
  • Some demands of visually challenged conceded
  • Apex court pulls up High Court
  • Power transfer in Karnataka unlikely in the coming week
  • We will wait for outcome of meetings, says Basu
  • Centre precipitating matters, says CPI
  • The borders melt for these bees
  • Homeless of Tokyo using internet cafes
  • Mayawati sacks 7,400 more recruits, suspends 7 IPS officers
  • Fake note racket busted in Suryapet
  • SICA launches website
  • Bogie derails
  • Three killed in building collapse
  • ODI: ticket-seekers’ hopes go for a six
  • VRO murdered in Maheswaram
  • DPA to work against religious fanaticism
  • Road repair yet to begin even as rain recedes
  • Curfew lifted in Siliguri
  • Gangland murders shock city
  • Government doctors’ stir from today

    • Golf

  • Arjun Ranga triumphs
  • Shreepad and Dara qualify

    • Gulbarga

  • Elected to DCC bank
  • Congress suffers a major setback

    • Guntur

  • ‘Yamadonga’ headed for a milestone
  • Minister hits out at TDP chief
  • Three washed away in swollen rivulet
  • Clash over control of church leaves 20 injured

    • Hassan

  • Fractured verdict in Hassan CMC polls

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Funds for midday meals through bank in H.P.
  • “Himachal Pradesh inching towards becoming a knowledge hub”

    • Hockey

  • BPCL regains crown

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • BJP wins four civic bodies in Haveri
  • Thousands swarm UAS campus for results
  • Setback for Congress in Gadag
  • No clear verdict in Dharwad
  • Camp

    • Hyderabad

  • Office-bearers elected
  • TDP releases 100-point questionnaire
  • Sarpanches flay Transco threat
  • Pranahita-Chevella project to be extended up to Pargi
  • Order on distribution of pensions
  • SRSP levels increasing
  • Season of freebies, subsidies
  • Hearing adjourned
  • Pump iron for a lean, mean look
  • ‘Future bright for India in area of core technologies’
  • Telugu book on ‘Jogins’ released
  • Cashing in on the festive season
  • Repair roads: BJP
  • Vanasthalipuram all set to go green
  • Daily water supply by January, says YSR
  • ‘All Indiramma houses must have power’
  • Bringing back the smiles
  • India needs new HR policy: Union Minister
  • Lok Satta to intensify anti-liquor stir
  • Plea to waive APCO loans
  • Constable rescues woman
  • ‘TDP opening pandora’s box’
  • BJP to intensify stir against belt shops
  • ‘Re-draft Broadcasting Services Regulations Bill’
  • Government hoodwinking people: CPI(M)
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • India to ratify U.N. Convention on rights of disabled
  • IIM Global Summit on October 4
  • “India keen on promoting education sector”
  • France to help India at NSG

    • International

  • Media observes “black day”
  • I acted on my conscience: Bhagwandas
  • Rajapaksa reiterates commitment to talks
  • Gayoom blames political rebels for Male blast
  • Accent on reform: Wen
  • Snap polls in November?
  • Gambari meets Suu Kyi

    • Interviews

  • “Japanese energy security is dependent on the Indian Navy”

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Held on kidnapping charge

    • Kadapa

  • Ph.D. awarded
  • ‘Heart diseases account for more deaths’
  • Priority to medicare, says Mayor
  • Mala employees to fight ‘victimisation’

    • Kannur

  • Seminar on Gandhism and globalisation
  • Congress activists told to uphold values

    • Karimnagar

  • Gearing up for Kalam’s visit
  • IKP women demand hike in commission
  • Naidu burdened farmers: Jeevan Reddy

    • Karnataka

  • Bridge the information gap, says Kumaraswamy
  • A narrow margin
  • Lorries impounded
  • Child workers rescued
  • Clear majority for JD(S) in Kollegal CMC
  • Independents hold the key in Chitradurga district
  • It’s a mixed bag in Uttara Kannada
  • Congress loses in Davangere
  • A beehive of activity
  • They face the threat of eviction
  • Kolar: MLA blamed for Congress setback
  • Ends life
  • Selected
  • Legal action mulled
  • It’s JD(S) all the way
  • Space Week celebrations to be conducted in colleges
  • Man assaulted
  • Mobile phone obsession

    • Kerala

  • Bad roads cost KSRTC dear
  • Smoking ban in prisons goes
  • Rubco loan: probe ruled out
  • Powers for Collectors in paddy land Bill
  • Peoplespeak
  • Music therapy?
  • Musical offering
  • Setting the tone
  • Din over Plus Two seat shortage
  • NSS Day celebrated at school in Kondotty
  • Concerted effort
  • Bound by belief
  • Walk for your heart
  • Rubco loan default: Sudhakaran rules out probe
  • Extensive powers for District Collectors mooted
  • Draped in grape
  • A day in their life
  • KSRTC bus set afire, driver hurt
  • thiruvananthapuram today

    • Khammam

  • Basheerbagh victim’s wife provided job
  • Firing victim’s wife given job

    • Kochi

  • Teaming up for a healthy heart
  • ‘Lasya’ meets ‘roudhra’ on stage
  • State prisons out of the purview of smoking ban
  • State’s favourite fish may escape duty-free import net
  • Residents plan anti-plastic drive Neighbourhood watch
  • Cleaning programme
  • Corporation looking for body to execute project
  • Judge felicitated
  • In Kochi today
  • Three persons go missing
  • Call to modernise tanker lorry fleet to prevent chemical spillage
  • Three thousand policemen to be deployed for ODI
  • Know your plants

    • Kollam

  • Congress stir to protect monument
  • Engagements: Kollam
  • ‘Put off college polls’

    • Kottayam

  • Fete for special children
  • Panniar: one more body retrieved
  • Meet postponed

    • Kozhikode

  • Poems, straight from the not-so-real world
  • Kozhikode to host children’s festival
  • National anthem contest
  • Social Solidarity Fortnight from tomorrow
  • Waste water tank to be closed
  • Government destroying Supplyco: officers’ forum
  • Holiday for Air India offices
  • Chikungunya cases reported
  • ‘Clean milk’ drive yielding result
  • Ramzan bazaar from today
  • Training facility at Koothali farm
  • For the cognoscenti and others
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Kurnool lad makes State proud
  • Trader, family commit suicide
  • ‘Stem cell therapy will revolutionise medical field’

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Contempt power and some questions

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Turmoil in Myanmar
  • Faith and history

    • Madikeri

  • BJP emerges single largest party in Madikeri CMC
  • JD(S), BJP win five seats each in Virajpet

    • Madurai

  • Boy killed
  • Bus services may be hit
  • To make learning easy
  • Film festival on globalisation
  • Aravind’s eye care system lauded
  • “Choose pension scheme”
  • Bio-diesel plant to be set up in city
  • A leap through laptops
  • Release goods vehicle: Bench
  • Annamalai Chettiar’s birth anniversary celebrated
  • Recruitment drive for B.E. students
  • Tie-up planned for performing heart surgeries
  • In Madurai today

    • Mangalore

  • Congress, BJP share the spoils in Dakshina Kannada
  • Space Week fete to be held in colleges
  • BJP tastes power for the first time in MCC
  • Award given

    • Mysore

  • Fractured verdict in MCC polls
  • The blame game starts
  • Huge crowd near counting centres
  • JD(S) gets majority in three towns of Mysore district
  • Woman electrocuted

    • Nagapattinam

  • Gram sabha meetings tomorrow
  • 8,000 teachers to be appointed

    • Nagercoil

  • Month-long de-addiction camp from October 2
  • Broadband service for waiting list customers in three months

    • Nalgonda

  • Dharna for house sites

    • National

  • Regional human rights court vital for press freedom, says Harymurti
  • Two Hizb militants holed up in Kashmir mosque killed
  • North-east’s trade potential to be displayed at Bangkok summit
  • Panel to probe complaints of corporal punishment
  • NREGA: Minister stresses social audit
  • Disrespect shown to parties’ sentiments: V.P. Singh
  • Deepak Kapoor is the new Army chief
  • Environmentalists seek legal protection for People’s Biodiversity Registers
  • Death toll in floods rises to 51
  • Half-eaten bodies found near mortuary
  • New Advisor takes charge
  • Concern over reduction in power quota
  • Hooda’s challenge to the Opposition
  • Chautalas flay Haryana Govt’s move
  • 11 DSPs transferred
  • Mob sets nursing home ablaze after baby’s death
  • IAF developing Bareilly as major hub for Sukhois
  • IOC official stabbed
  • Reliance Power to go public
  • Mayawati sacks 7,400 more police recruits

    • New Delhi

  • Panel to probe cases of corporal punishment
  • Riding high on success
  • Students meet Arjun Singh
  • Rhino dies at zoo
  • Huge package for East Delhi schools
  • Missing boy recovered after many months
  • Metro awards contracts for airport line
  • Power supply cut
  • Conference on road construction
  • Heritage bicycle ride
  • Women councillors fear for their safety
  • Illegal colonies’ dwellers pitch in for regularisation
  • Heart Day celebrated
  • Ecologists seek protection for People’s Biodiversity Registers
  • World Heart Day celebrated
  • “Three agencies fail to achieve tree plantation targets”
  • Protests against CBI
  • IGNOU scheme for the disabled
  • Dengue hits AIIMS’ doctor
  • World Elder’s Day
  • Protest rally
  • Domestic help steals cash after drugging employer
  • No breakthrough in doctor’s case
  • Security guard robbed
  • Gandhi Jayanti Mela opened
  • Reader's Mail

    • News Analysis

  • Revisiting Punjab’s secret search for peace
  • Lethal injection review may halt executions in U.S.

    • Nizamabad

  • Suspicious death of Inter student
  • IMA seeks role in framing laws on public health

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • In search of youth’s antecedents
  • Painters’ camp
  • Lawyers of south Orissa to boycott courts
  • Exploitation of patients
  • Rally taken out
  • Encroachments turn green
  • Two more mobile patrolling vans
  • All-India Rajbhasha awards for five Oriya writers
  • Crime Branch probe ordered into death of medico
  • Vendors’ protest continues
  • BJP launches economic blockade in Keonjhar

    • Other States

  • Villagers attack school
  • Trekker dies
  • Four die of diarrhoea

    • Palakkad

  • Swaralaya fete begins today
  • Society plea to initiate steps to protect wildlife of Walayar
  • Fraud of Rs.71.8 lakh detected

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Catholicos to open destitute home
  • Award for social worker

    • Puducherry

  • Construction workers seek monthly pension of Rs. 1,000
  • Spurious IMFL unit busted
  • Sethu project: DMK, allies to observe fast today
  • A uniform march towards their life’s dream

    • Punjab

  • SC commission notice to Punjab Govt.

    • Racing : Horse

  • Aquadisiac pleases
  • Enceladus excels
  • Beyond Belief wins main event
  • Auxiliary hard to toss

    • Raichur

  • Congress loses its hold on Raichur
  • JD(S) emerges victorious in Koppal

    • Rajasthan

  • “Progress of projects satisfactory”

    • Readers' Editor : Online

  • Preferences and prejudices

    • Religion

  • Scriptural legacy

    • Salem

  • AUT plea to Government
  • Grama Sabha meeting on Oct. 2
  • New office-bearers elected
  • Founder’s Day celebrated
  • Salem Steel Plant achieves yet another laurel

    • Shimoga

  • BJP captures power in five civic bodies in Shimoga

    • Sport

  • Anand is now undisputed World champion
  • India needs to re-work its bowling attack
  • ‘It’s a great victory’
  • Hamilton wins a wet-and-wild race
  • England has a tough job on hand
  • Gasquet clinches title
  • India ‘A’ pulls off a thrilling one-run win
  • A humble champ

    • Sports : General

  • Sethu FC beats Don Bosco FC
  • Medha’s golden haul on debut
  • Venniskannan clinches title
  • Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare RS wins
  • Zia Mahmood & Co. excel
  • Advani pleads for his due
  • Uttar Pradesh bags honours
  • TSPA grabs day’s honours
  • SRFI office-bearers

    • Srikakulam

  • YSR tenure a golden period: Minister
  • Mobile van to sell essential commodities

    • Table Tennis

  • Neha upstages Shamini for title
  • Kishore, Daniel emerge winners

    • Tamil Nadu

  • A resolution
  • Peace on blazing day
  • Motorists rally for world peace
  • “Reject vulgarity in films”
  • Meet on violence against women
  • Heavy arrival
  • Forest officials rescue deer
  • Call to tone up performance of Government school students
  • Youths donate blood
  • “Industrial policy on the anvil”
  • Brain Chip 2007
  • Battered stretch
  • Best Teacher awardees honoured
  • Turning waste into wealth
  • Education project for SHGs to be launched
  • Deer rescued
  • Import-export customers’ meet held
  • “Technology triggers development”
  • Wheat flour at PDS outlets from today
  • Watch out !
  • Delivery rate improved
  • Kits distributed
  • MLAs want funds for surplus water diversion scheme
  • Plan to build houses for refugees
  • Vasantha Memorial Trust honours Harikatha artist
  • Karunanidhi inspects control room
  • “Right systems can turn natural disasters into opportunities”
  • Remembering Annie Besant
  • Heart of the matter
  • Panel sought
  • High-speed trains
  • ‘Learn Hindi’
  • Hindi fortnight
  • Protest plan
  • English literary association opened
  • Mettur level
  • DYFI cadres clean government school
  • Autorickshaw commuters’ plight
  • Open the road
  • Residents threaten stir on sub-way issue
  • Oratorical competition
  • Blood donated
  • Postal Week observed
  • Residents of Tambaram protest garbage dumping in Sembakkam Lake
  • Collector inaugurates drip irrigation system
  • Work on Karaikal-Nagore line soon
  • Protesters threaten to remove road barricade in Kodanad estate
  • Award for Thiruppampuram S. Shanmugasundaram
  • Pre-feasibility study for high-speed trains planned
  • “Kerala-Tamil Nadu bond umbilical”
  • Encroachers evicted from forest lands
  • Tripartite panel for knitwear units sought
  • Plan to renovate dilapidated temples
  • New pension scheme move opposed
  • Sanskrit scholar’s birth centenary celebrated
  • Government to step up campaign against female foeticide

    • Tennis

  • Tennis talk, the pro’s way
  • Venus toils to win Korean Open
  • Tushar Liberhan pips Vijayant Malik

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Saluting the seniors
  • Get the music of your choice
  • Air Warriors ‘Run for Fun’
  • Isaac indisposed
  • KSEB flayed for ‘insensitivity’
  • Karunakaran hospitalised
  • NABARD refers refinancing issue to head office
  • ‘Drop move to import fish’
  • Coupling failure delays Chennai Mail
  • Commuter run over by train
  • Day’s message: stay fit for a healthy heart
  • Trawlers seized, crew detained at Valiathura
  • BPL list: State to draw up scientific strategy

    • This Day That Age

  • dated October 1, 1957: Land reforms in Kerala
  • dated October 1, 1957: Aid to poor students

    • Tiruchi

  • “Take heart from meditation”
  • Morale-boosting gold medal
  • ‘Transparency, accountability vital in surrogacy’
  • Training fetches jobs for 20
  • Coleroon, Cauvery bunds to be strengthened
  • State vocational institute soon
  • Tiruchi village sets a model for panchayats
  • Medical camp for women held in Tiruchi prison
  • College students from various delta districts participate in competitions
  • Agricultural institute develops new variety of hybrid paddy
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Early elections inevitable, says former Minister
  • Celebrations after SC stays bandh
  • “AIADMK will strive for minorities’ welfare”

    • Tirupati

  • Veterinary pathologists meet
  • Lok Satta meeting in Tirupati
  • TTD decision welcomed
  • Campaign to promote Telugu

    • Tumkur

  • Congress takes Tumkur

    • Tuticorin

  • Self-help group women trained in various skills
  • Project for four per cent growth in farm sector
  • Talent search examination for school students

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Spurt in inflow of tourists to Ooty

    • Udupi

  • Heart day sand sculpture
  • BJP retains Udupi CMC, wins in Kundapur

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Mob sets nursing home afire

    • Vellore

  • New practice at Sripuram temple
  • “TEL rehabilitation plea next week”

    • Vijayawada

  • Young-at-heart have a field day
  • Rice scheme in a couple of months: PCC chief
  • Woman’s body fished out
  • City Congress goes into election mode
  • Trade show gets under way
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • A new word for fashion buffs
  • School’s good show in quiz competition
  • New ED of Visakh Refinery
  • Issue of IIT status for engg. colleges still open
  • CARD to employment
  • AU admission postponed to October 12
  • New apartment for lucky draw winner
  • Securing CARD to employment
  • Wisezen felicitates Rosaiah, Ramalinga Raju
  • People’s aspirations are frustrated, says TDP
  • Fight for your due, girijans told
  • No rise in retirement age: Rosaiah
  • ZPP chairman held up by TDP
  • Making it simpler for child-learners
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Usha Mehra visits Jangaon division
  • Naidu to visit Warangal district on October 10

    • Weather

  • Weather

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