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Alappuzha

  • State to seek Central aid for Akshaya CSCs
  • 5,000 litres of toddy seized

    • Anantapur

  • Seva Dal chief hits out at TDP
  • Rallies, meetings banned in Anantapur

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Rift among Congress leaders of Telangana to the fore
  • Sonia urged to spell out stand on Telangana
  • Protest against PRC report
  • Women stage relay hunger strike
  • State fails to rein in timber smugglers
  • No report of ‘migrants’ forced to leave
  • All Saints wins quiz
  • Sky is the limit
  • Sight to behold
  • Taking no chances
  • ETV to showcase the ‘complete woman’ Out of the box
  • More Regional Advertisements: Page 5
  • Training programme for faculty members
  • JAC chalks out programme
  • Bifurcation is no solution
  • Demo classes in Tanjore paintings
  • KU declares holidays
  • Helping hand
  • Fasts continue
  • Singareni Day on December 23
  • Talent test
  • Students worst hit
  • Hailed
  • Electrocuted
  • Medical camp organised
  • Award for city firm
  • Perfect poise
  • TD MP puts Sonia, Manmohan on notice
  • Tackling malnutrition

    • Athletics

  • Double for Keerthi
  • Prashanth emerges fastest

    • Bangalore

  • Children make a difference
  • Slow and steady wins the gaze
  • Budding scientists learn best on their own: expert
  • ‘Government offices should function every day’
  • Repoll held for Council seats
  • ‘Dislodging BJP Government not on our agenda’
  • Recognition
  • A Christmas tree with a difference
  • Impressive passing out parade
  • Policemen open fire at gang, arrest six, rescue 12 women
  • Convention
  • Passengers can have a say in fee fixation process for airports
  • ‘Do not violate human rights’
  • Birdwatchers in a flutter over restaurant at Nandi Hills
  • Pilot’s lack of experience led to Soundarya’s aircraft crash: report
  • Barriers to protect courts from noise during Metro work
  • Security guard was set on fire: police Crime Notes
  • Man stabbed to death
  • Ayahs demand release of arrears
  • Poll panel braces for civic elections
  • Applications invited
  • Bangalore Today

    • Basketball

  • Punjab ready to host Nationals

    • Bihar

  • 24 people injured in accident
  • Body of college employee recovered
  • Golak Bihari Das passes away
  • Nitish disagrees with Pawar; blames UPA policies for price rise
  • Lalu: Railways logged highest growth during my tenure

    • Bijapur

  • Resurvey of damaged houses sought
  • ‘20 tanks will be filled in second phase of project’

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Advani begins in style

    • Bridge

  • It’s Railways ‘A’

    • Business

  • Capital market regulation on an even keel financial scene
  • Maintaining continuity after acquisition, the TVS way
  • Time limit for investments under Section 54EC
  • Can senior citizens savings scheme be extended?
  • SIB plans to sell LIC mutual fund products
  • Control prices : KMPA
  • Service sector has major role in growth: expert

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chattisgarh

  • ASI killed in encounter with Naxals

    • Chennai

  • Events stress on energy conservation
  • First batch passes out of CPAT
  • “No change in plans to quit government”
  • “Difficult to lift 2-hour load shedding”
  • Suspect in train hijack case had driving skills
  • Patent drafting to get a boost
  • Government striving for better marketing of SHG items: Stalin
  • Succumbs to injuries
  • T. Nagar, festival time, déjÀ vu
  • Man arrested
  • Young dreams of eco-friendly world
  • Students urged to focus on fundamentals to succeed in exams
  • Man robbed of Rs. 1.5 lakh
  • December music fever catches on in suburbs too city pulse
  • How disabled-friendly are sabhas?
  • Need to improve LPG delivery service stressed
  • Launch of Ramayana dance drama DVD collection marks art festival
  • Co-operative Department to launch recruitment drive
  • India Tourist and Industrial Fair 2010 from tomorrow
  • EMS hailed as a creative exponent of the media
  • Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • CDCA office-bearers

    • Coimbatore

  • Khadi products exhibition
  • Micro units urged to register with District Industries Centre
  • Cone manufacturers hit
  • Jubilee celebrations of bank employees’ union
  • Tata Teleservices launches Photon TV
  • Pet carnival in Coimbatore
  • Remove advertisements on buses
  • Pet carnival to be held on January 9
  • Training
  • Power shutdown tomorrow
  • Minister calls for completion of water scheme works by February

    • Cricket

  • KCP Siddhartha clinches title
  • Super League devoid of real contests
  • Nepal caught unawares
  • England hangs on for a draw
  • Naveen hits hundred
  • Sangakkara upbeat
  • Vijay to lead
  • Easy for Pachaiyappa

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 9719
  • Solution No. 9718

    • Cuddalore

  • Veeranam tank to be deepened
  • Jewellery shop owner shot at

    • Dharmapuri

  • Attempt to rob bank fails

    • Editorials

  • Far from inspiring
  • Narrow vision

    • Erode

  • House burgled
  • Efforts on for tie-up between SHGs and exporters
  • Power cut schedule
  • Toddy Movement’s call to protect palm

    • Football

  • Goa gets past J & K
  • Facile win for Arsenal
  • Northeast Frontier posts win
  • Harvinder nets winner
  • Federation Cup from today
  • Real Madrid drubs Real Zaragoza
  • West Ham holds Chelsea

    • Front Page

  • India clueless on top al-Qaeda leader’s visit
  • Nepal bandh turns violent
  • States should take price rise seriously, says Pawar
  • Trying to catch up with lost time: Gill
  • Jairam to make statement on Copenhagen accord today
  • MNCs will eat up small States, warns Karat
  • Include criminal charges in Babri cases: AIMPLB
  • “Congress, Rao will not be forgiven”
  • Press for deep cuts by developed countries: CPI (M)
  • Germany keen on closer defence, civil nuclear ties
  • China slams Copenhagen critics
  • Doing research with open source tools
  • Indians entering U.K. on illegal student visas: report
  • All set for another interesting tussle
  • Australia completes the formalities
  • 3.75 kg of gold ornaments seized
  • Four arrested for soldier’s murder
  • Beautified Marina to become more tourist-friendly
  • Piracy bid foiled
  • Pakistan denies visa to Mehbooba
  • University is against any ‘financial obligation’: VC
  • Head-count ratio of people below poverty line higher in State: Tendulkar committee
  • Cent per cent literacy planned for Perambalur
  • State plans urban job scheme
  • London faces terror strike: Scotland Yard
  • Lagadapati ‘vanishes’ from hospital in Vijayawada
  • Crucial tripartite talks in Darjeeling today
  • Fissures in Telangana Congress camp
  • Direct chemical treatment unscientific: people’s panel

    • Golf

  • Shiv lying sixth
  • Eastern India golf from today

    • Gujarat

  • Gujarat Assembly adopts two important Bills

    • Gulbarga

  • Appeal to Dalai Lama
  • We should adopt the good from other religions: Dalai
  • ‘RTI Act is an important tool’
  • Appointed

    • Guntur

  • Badminton tourney gets under way
  • Telangana no solution to backwardness: Chiru

    • Haryana

  • Haryana to implement child health scheme

    • Hassan

  • Objectives of Nali-Kali programme not achieved’
  • Dowry harassment case registered
  • Barmy Army Colts beat Hassan Hawks
  • Weavers urged to sink differences within community

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Time to teach the teachers
  • Special allowance: AISBOF to wait till December 31
  • Rs. 11 crore for research in science
  • Special trains to Kacheguda
  • Tiger pelt seized

    • Hyderabad

  • TDP asks Sonia to break silence on bifurcation
  • ‘Only NMU can get a good deal for RTC staff’
  • Youth ends life
  • Traders warned against jacking up prices
  • TDP Telangana leaders meet
  • Telangana: KCR gives time to Centre
  • Teachers to join JAC agitation
  • BJP slams move to scrap ‘laddu’ scheme
  • Power units told to prepare data on operations
  • Treasure hunt and carnival held
  • Shujaat Khan to perform at Chowmahalla
  • ‘See Paris for me’ launched in city
  • ‘Leader’ gets U certificate
  • Art workshop with a difference
  • Be a part of CDD on Dec. 31
  • Power short circuit at B.K. Guda
  • 90 bus shelters serve no purpose
  • Faculty orientation programme held
  • Lodge owner murdered in city
  • Woman commits suicide
  • Professor missing
  • ‘Innovative designs keep handloom sector going’
  • ‘No logic in seeking united AP’
  • Seminar to promote Unani medicine in January
  • ‘Chiru ignorant’
  • Hyderabad Today
  • Don’t prolong Telangana issue

    • International

  • China slams Copenhagen critics
  • Indians entering U.K. on illegal student visas: report
  • Iran’s leading dissident cleric dead
  • Volcano eruption feared in Philippines
  • Highway curbs lifted in Colombo
  • Mehbooba fails to get visa to Pakistan

    • Kadapa

  • Kadapa tense as mob goes on rampage
  • ‘Sonia statement on crisis today’
  • Four of family die as roof caves in

    • Kalpetta

  • Stars of their labours
  • Man held with rare snake species

    • Kannur

  • Divakaran: split in labour movement a setback
  • Pazhassi barrage breaches
  • Taliparamba limping back to normality

    • Karimnagar

  • Homam for Telangana

    • Karnataka

  • Karnataka still the poorest southern State
  • Wells to be recharged
  • Dempo, Fomento launch GET
  • Christmas shopping
  • Election
  • GTDC launches online hotel reservation
  • From barren land to a lush farm
  • Scholarships
  • Colourful start to anniversary fete at Hampi
  • Workshop on health insurance scheme held
  • Seminar on farmer suicides on December 27
  • Life comes full circle for Sara Aboobacker
  • Sangha not to support demand for separate state
  • Rangayana still without a head
  • Applications invited
  • Festive spirit
  • ‘Ayurveda lacks continuity’
  • Farmers demand Rs. 2,500 as SAP for sugarcane
  • Arrangements in place for counting
  • UBI to expand in southern States
  • Enchanting
  • Tribute to saint-poet
  • Award for ‘Ullanghane’
  • 80,000 abandoned wells to be recharged under Central scheme
  • Dilution of religious values in society criticised
  • ‘State varsities in bad state’
  • Colourful start to anniversary celebrations at Hampi
  • Seven arrested on charge of conversion
  • New traffic rule

    • Kerala

  • In Sufi traditions
  • Clean energy for total electrification
  • Some parties back terror groups: Tanwar
  • Offering a stage for cultural diversity
  • Music rivals drama on stage
  • Anti-terror campaign
  • Plot to kill Nayanar throws light on terror module
  • In her twilight years
  • Fighting for a ban on asbestos
  • Survey for new dam almost complete
  • Aqua stars
  • ‘Improper diet a cause for heart diseases’
  • Twilight zone
  • Work on artificial reef begins
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • KSPCB on why Njunangar stream needs a chemical treatment process
  • Police likely to reinvestigate Kozhikode bus-torching case
  • Lalith posts win

    • Kochi

  • Thiruvananthapuram student wins laurels
  • Labour movement meeting
  • New river-sea regulations a fillip to coastal trade
  • Umbrella tree on an invasion spree
  • Indo-Vietnam festival
  • Christmas programmes
  • A glorious evening of santoor music
  • In search of unique lamps
  • Labelling of electrical equipment
  • Forum seeks action
  • College gets UGC assistance
  • Corporation gets its act together on crematoria
  • ‘GST will help minimise corruption’
  • Medical research needs a fillip: Minister
  • Soofiya taken to hospital
  • Isolate extremists, says Ravi
  • Kochi Today

    • Kolkata

  • 4 killed in separate incidents of violence in West Bengal

    • Kollam

  • Trader hacked to death
  • Azhikode calls for in-depth study of Dalit literature

    • Kozhikode

  • Science tutorials on rails
  • S.M. Street fire: PIL filed for probe
  • Police start re-investigation
  • Kick-off for plan at Kalluthankadavu
  • Chamber seeks Mamata’ intervention
  • Review meet
  • Beypore Fest begins
  • Youth League meet
  • B.Ed. Special Education course
  • Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Lions Clubs hold regional meet
  • T.G. Venkatesh optimistic
  • Carol service
  • Sujatamma shows signs of stress

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Singing the enemy’s song

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Twist in the tale
  • Mercy killing
  • Telangana issue

    • Madikeri

  • Candidates keeping fingers crossed
  • ‘Inculcate rational thinking among students’
  • We are in touch with our counterparts in neighbouring States, says IGP

    • Madurai

  • Cycle rally to Maharashtra for economic equality
  • Ration shops raided
  • Training in bomb detection begins
  • Centre, State not interested in solving Mullaperiyar dam issue: Vaiko
  • Understanding history is vital to deconstruct hegemony: Thirumavalavan
  • Grievance meeting
  • Non-teaching staff should become e-literate: VC
  • Water level
  • Cycle rally to ensure economic equality
  • Seminar held on tax deduction
  • TNEB is taking steps to reduce power loss, says Chief Engineer
  • Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • IUCEE to improve engineering education
  • MSEZ: absence of RTCs makes it difficult for people to get loans

    • Mysore

  • Carols herald in spirit of Christmas
  • ‘Obtain UIN’
  • ‘B’ forms given to highest bidder: MP
  • Council poll results to be out by noon today
  • Four killed, 15 injured in road accident
  • Issue of ropeway for Chamundi Hills raked up once again

    • Nagapattinam

  • Hike in MSP for paddy sought

    • Nagercoil

  • Woman ends life

    • Nalgonda

  • Sonia asked to spell out stand
  • Congress blamed for political turmoil

    • National

  • NCP terms decision on Telangana hasty, haphazard
  • Crucial talks in Darjeeling today
  • I can help if asked: Ramakrishnan
  • Dinakaran will have his say, Congress tells Mayawati
  • I feel nervous: Sheila
  • Tarkundi village, a picture of neglect
  • Soofiya shifted to hospital
  • ‘Response to climate challenge faulty’
  • Karat urges Centre, ULFA to sit for talks
  • Three NDFB militants killed
  • Relatives too can accompany Union Ministers on flight
  • 8 women killed in Gujarat stampede
  • ‘India not fulfilling its commitments’
  • Inside Patna
  • Graceful steps
  • Two CPI (M) men killed
  • MoUs to be signed for hydel projects during Bhutan King’s visit
  • Storm havoc
  • Panel opposes direct chemical treatment
  • On home turf
  • Government under flak for conduct of business in Lok Sabha
  • Misra report to be examined
  • Maoists attack Orissa hydel project
  • Chess meet put off by a day

    • Nellore

  • Kurugondla’s indefinite fast enters second day

    • New Delhi

  • Polishing young actors for the show
  • Concern over law and order in Delhi
  • Elevated road project to connect East with South
  • AIIMS introduces a new course in emergency medicine
  • “Delhi Ratna” award for IP varsity V-C
  • Handloom Expo begins today
  • Diabetics and stroke
  • Lawless Delhi
  • Justice knocks 22 years after custodial death
  • Central Secretariat to become an interchange station soon
  • Railways parade today
  • Landlady, tenant found dead
  • Young boy commits suicide
  • Sketches of robbers released
  • MNCs will eat up small States: Karat
  • ‘Centre, ULFA should hold talks with open mind’

    • Ongole

  • Court buildings inaugurated
  • Centre will soon resolve political crisis: Minister
  • Ministers attend ceremony

    • Op-Ed

  • A long and mostly lonely battle for reordering Pakistan
  • No guarantees for work in Melghat
  • An act with teeth, but of no use in protecting the weak
  • Lift forecast as U.S. census bureau hires for 2010

    • Orissa

  • Sahoo emerges new chess champion
  • Supreme Court judge feted
  • Concern over low per capita water storage
  • Statue unveiled
  • New office-bearers
  • Naxal attack on power project exposes chinks in security
  • Age does not deter his spirit
  • ‘Kalinga’ campaign to gather steam
  • Congress, BJP blamed for poverty in State

    • Other States

  • Three dacoits killed in encounter in M.P.
  • Sandhya to be honoured
  • No serious effort to curb corruption
  • Making a point

    • Palakkad

  • Meeting of environmentalists
  • Some parties backing terror groups: Youth Congress chief
  • Bid to join party

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Insurance scheme at community health centres across the State
  • Decision to shift Collector decried

    • Puducherry

  • Stress on need for competency development
  • Rs. 1-lakh fine likely for plastic ban violators

    • Punjab

  • Aamir springs a surprise in Punjab

    • Racing : Horse

  • Copertina may make amends
  • Angels Glory for main event
  • Rapture Of Victory bags main event

    • Racing : Motor

  • Arvind wins

    • Raichur

  • Delay in restoration of bridge causing hardship to people

    • Rajahmundry

  • JAC to disrupt oil, gas production
  • Novelty marks protests
  • Now, packed sugarcane juice!
  • Chiru coming

    • Rajasthan

  • Meet planned
  • Workshop to address issue of sex selection
  • Pilot project under Livelihood Mission inaugurated

    • Religion

  • Fame through his daughter

    • Salem

  • Gujarat Govt ready to assist Salem entrepreneurs
  • Arrested
  • Gujarat Government ready to assist Salem entrepreneurs
  • Home Guards Day celebrated in Salem
  • Road roko
  • Modi offers support to Salem entrepreneurs

    • Shimoga

  • Appreciate Vedas as secular scripts: Bhardwaj

    • Sport

  • All set for another interesting tussle
  • Australia completes the formalities
  • Sehwag’s men need a tactical plan
  • Chetan labours to glory
  • Anand focussed on defending title

    • Sports : General

  • Maharashtra is champion
  • South Zone emerges champion
  • Sujay’s stunning show
  • Soji Mathew, Rameshwari bag titles
  • Jacqueline wins Sobo Central Indian 2000 Guineas
  • Rishab & team wins gold
  • Yusuf wins

    • Squash

  • Dipika Pallikal in last four
  • Saurav asserts his class; Joshna wins ninth crown

    • Swimming

  • Jaywant , Gulnaz emerge champions

    • Table Tennis

  • Strict action against age cheats

    • Tamil Nadu

  • A golden Christmas
  • “Kerala, TN should solve dam issue”
  • Youths urged to cultivate service attitude
  • Leaning streetlight
  • It’s Christmas
  • Engagements
  • Two arrested
  • 15 digit account number
  • Campus recruitment
  • Stone laid for TNEGA building in Tuticorin
  • “Form separate dam panels”
  • Initial works on oil-fired steam locos begin
  • Discourse
  • Verification of electoral rolls under way
  • Land, sea routes at 52 villages come under watch
  • For a clean village
  • Clash in orphanage, case against 14
  • 14 injured
  • Scan units under scrutiny
  • Caught unawares
  • EVMs sealed and kept in safe custody
  • Call to preserve water tanks in Kanyakumari
  • “Drop ASEAN free trade pact”
  • Kite-playing boy electrocuted
  • Music festival
  • Season of yuletide
  • Advertisement on buses
  • 67 persons identified for health insurance scheme in Palladam
  • Indiscriminate dumping of garbage irks residents
  • What they say
  • Confectionery course
  • Power shutdown
  • Mettur level
  • Plea for free availability of LPG
  • Man dies in accident
  • Farmers urged to utilise funds properly
  • Idol-lifter gang busted
  • Grass turf for football ground soon
  • Constable found hanging
  • Insurance cover for NREG Scheme beneficiaries
  • 15-digit bank account number
  • New post-box needed
  • Group clash in Kodanad
  • Well done

    • Tennis

  • Ranjeet given pride of place
  • Johnson posts win

    • Thanjavur

  • Murder accused found dead

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Problem of plenty for zoo in capital
  • Bank staff union meet
  • Water treatment plant ready for commissioning
  • Strike on February 17
  • Focus on copyright sale
  • Wages revised
  • Survey for new dam across Mullaperiyar almost over
  • Eco-panels at Sabarimala warned
  • Auto, taxi strike from today
  • Electronic media division of PRD

    • This Day That Age

  • dated December 21, 1959: Agriculture in India
  • dated December 21, 1959: Sweden’s contribution
  • dated December 21, 1959: Hindi inscriptions

    • Thrissur

  • Theatre my only religion, says Naseeruddin Shah
  • Druggists’ union flay amendment to Drug Act
  • Prisoner injures himself
  • Prisoner injures himself
  • Painting camp
  • Theatre festival off to an exciting start

    • Tiruchi

  • “Include diabetes in insurance scheme”
  • Carollers thrill audience in Tiruchi
  • “Suspend issue of computerised land patta”
  • Work for manufacturing four new oil-fired steam locos begins
  • Tiruchi gets Rs.6.81 cr. under infrastructure fund
  • Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Distribution of welfare measures
  • Drinking water leak detection van procured by corporation
  • Teacher arrested

    • Tirupati

  • C.K. Babu sits on fast unto death
  • TTD chief’s effigy burnt

    • Tumkur

  • Hemavathy waters reach Madhugiri

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Christmas carol service dedicated to victims of natural calamity
  • Art gallery opened in Kotagiri
  • Art gallery opens in Kotagiri
  • Joy and sorrow mark carol service in Ooty
  • Kotagiri gets art gallery

    • Udupi

  • Rs. 2 crore spent on repair of NH 17: Acharya
  • Inauguration of ‘Navaratna Ratha’ on December 24
  • Kharvi swims to Malpe with hands and legs chained

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Two killed, seven injured in accidents
  • Teenager commits suicide

    • Vijayawada

  • Andhra to remain in Plate division
  • KCP Siddhartha school lifts trophy
  • Congress leaders in a fix at JAC programme
  • Union Ministers and MPs should quit: Chiru
  • Police ‘highhandedness’ decried
  • Centre to blame: Yanamala
  • MP administered IV fluids
  • RTC suffers huge loss in Krishna
  • Cultural troupes attract crowds
  • TDP MLA shifted to hospital
  • Five drown in NTPS canal
  • Vijayawada today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Efforts on for digitalisation of manuscripts
  • Award for HPCL official
  • FBV threatens legal action against Pharma City
  • Advocates plan protest
  • Concern over health of four fasting students
  • Naval official arrives on 2-day visit
  • Unity rally lights up city’s beach
  • Bio summit organised
  • TDP asks Manmohan, Sonia to break silence
  • Visakhapatnam Today
  • Spare transport

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Wrestling

  • Indians reign

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