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Anantapur

  • New reservoir in Anantapur district proposed

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • President cancels visit to Hyderabad
  • ‘3 Idiots’ set to pack a punch Film Review
  • Golden dusk
  • Heavenly design
  • FPAI office-bearers
  • BSNL customers’ meet
  • JNTU-K to introduce PG course in clinical research
  • Online registration for foreign visitors
  • College to celebrate diamond jubilee
  • NSS special camp held
  • Impressive show
  • Grand spectacle
  • Graceful Lord
  • Seeking their due
  • ‘Agitations should be peaceful’
  • Governor’s effigy burnt
  • ACB raid
  • Mahabubnagar observes bandh
  • Man commits suicide for Telangana State
  • Miraculous escape
  • Marching ahead
  • Model wedding performed
  • Tourist destination
  • TTD facing VIP heat
  • Cotton trading hit in Adilabad
  • Train detained
  • Fall proves fatal for woman
  • Medak SP warns against violence
  • “No chance for President’s rule”
  • Palamuru University vacation till Jan. 5
  • Poser to NTR
  • ‘Bright prospects for Telangana heroes’
  • Chilling out
  • SCR to run special trains to Hyderabad
  • Reservation system closed
  • CAS screening panel interviews postponed
  • Paying tributes
  • Free medical camp
  • Festivity in the air

    • Badminton

  • Anna varsity runs riot

    • Bangalore

  • Bodies of woman, daughter found in sump
  • BU to set up study centres outside Karnataka
  • Ban orders
  • Dividend
  • Panel to look into farmers’ problems
  • Muniyappa gheraoed
  • Cloud forests suffer from poor rain
  • A(H1N1) vaccine in three months, says Azad
  • State Government’s order welcomed
  • Elected
  • Special trains
  • Man arrested, ivory seized
  • Four-year-old girl dies in accident
  • Minister wields the broom for ‘Zero Garbage’
  • Azad’s proposal on incentive for rural posting of doctors welcomed
  • Rs. 10 crore for growing medicinal plants
  • Bangalore Today

    • Basketball

  • Punjab hopes to spring a surprise

    • Belgaum

  • Rotary International president nominee to visit Belgaum

    • Bellary

  • New bridge planned across the Hagari
  • DCF seeks cancellation of mining leases

    • Bidar

  • Lorry driver, cleaner charred to death

    • Bijapur

  • Resignation accepted

    • Business

  • CIL listing: decision on financial adviser to be modified
  • ‘Exports from MSMEs on the rise’
  • Export duty on iron ore fines, lumps raised
  • Union Bank moderates its growth to 18-20 %

    • Chennai

  • Mega Flower Show opens
  • Two sisters run over by train
  • A peep into J. Krishnamurti’s perspectives
  • Baby swap causes commotion
  • Held after two years
  • Chain snatchers held
  • Held for collecting ‘mamool’
  • L. Suresh elected president of FFI
  • Health camps a boon for the poor
  • New Year security up in hotels
  • Slow progress in post-tsunami rehabilitation programme
  • IB to interrogate kingpin of counterfeit currency
  • Appointment orders issued
  • Newly elected MLAs sworn in
  • “Doctors’ accountability begins at the moment they accept responsibility of treating someone”
  • Judge brings weapons to police station
  • Trend of paid previews catches on
  • Vegetables at ration shops
  • A day of memories and smiles
  • Chennai Book Fair from December 30
  • Wide range of products at Home Life Expo
  • Accent on life of simplicity
  • Room built with Freemasons’ donation
  • Special arrangements for Vaikunta Ekadasi
  • Held on theft charge
  • Beautification of bridges
  • Over 1,500 kids take part in ‘Season of Love’
  • Exotic designs in full splendour at fashion show
  • Metrowater land encroachers evicted
  • Dance is a medium of liberation: Jayant Kastuar
  • Officials stress need for bringing ketamine hydrochloride under NDPS Act
  • “Abul Kalam Azad described Tamil as classical language”
  • Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • India ‘A’ men crush Iran, move into lead
  • Somak takes trophy

    • Coimbatore

  • SIEMA to develop ‘Made in Coimbatore’ brand for pumpsets
  • Micro units’ plea
  • 200 surgeries and more to go
  • Collector reviews arrangements for distribution of free saris and dhotis
  • Innovation in medical science, need of the hour
  • Banks urged to expedite disbursements under PMEGP
  • Valediction of winter course
  • Expedite disbursements under PMEGP, banks told
  • “Centres of Excellence will be promoted in medical colleges”
  • Micro units urged to register with DIC
  • SIMA revives textile park project in Andhra Pradesh
  • Docomo’s ‘Dive in’ store
  • Traffic paralysed
  • Public hearing on NH 47 widening works
  • Innovation, need of the hour
  • Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Lankan players honoured
  • Karamana RC ‘A’ posts win
  • Ram Kumar cracks unbeaten century
  • City Cricketers, SBT in last four
  • Chandran hits century
  • U.P. in command
  • Aussies in strong position
  • Watson to control on-field excitement
  • Ramesh Powar shines for Mumbai
  • Delhi batsmen display character
  • Karnataka gains vital first innings lead
  • Saluting Sri Lanka’s marathon man

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 2564
  • Solution No. 2563

    • Cuddalore

  • New taluk

    • Dharmapuri

  • No nominations filed for Pennagaram Assembly byelection
  • No nominations filed on Saturday

    • Dindigul

  • 20,000 film industry workers to get land in Chennai
  • “Kerala, forerunner in reservation for women”

    • Eluru

  • Ph.D. awarded

    • Equestrian

  • Gursobha triumphs

    • Erode

  • ‘Coimbatore, Erode, Ooty to have 3G service’

    • Football

  • EME Centre enters semifinals
  • Tamil Nadu advances
  • Hindustan Club posts win
  • Bagan and Churchill in semifinals

    • Front Page

  • Tiwari quits in the wake of TV exposé
  • Naidu demands CBI probe
  • Soren likely to be Jharkhand Chief Minister
  • Hooda for reopening case against Rathore
  • Bid to ignite device on U.S. jet
  • Unity eludes Telangana Joint Action Committee
  • Tiwari acted on moral grounds, says Congress
  • BJP defends arrangement with JMM
  • Process on for 3 Corporation schools’ accreditation
  • Charlie Sheen arrested
  • Navy plans to acquire multi-role fighter aircraft
  • No LoC trade from Tuesday, say frustrated businessmen
  • NRI lawyer launches campaign for Sarabjit Singh’s release
  • Rajkhowa remanded
  • Cold wave
  • TRP works expedited to meet deadline, says VS
  • Holiday season brings cheer to tourism sector
  • ICTT to be commissioned by March
  • Held for murder of VHP leader
  • President cancels visit to Hyderabad
  • Two check-dams to be constructed in Ramanathapuram district
  • Naresh Gupta to meet representatives of recognised political parties today
  • Yves Rocher dead
  • Vindu Dara Singh is Bigg Boss 3
  • On plane, sans ticket
  • Very few industries go in for performance rating
  • Condition of three students deteriorates, 1 shifted to hospital
  • Maoists linked to VHP leader’s killing held

    • Golf

  • Double delight for Trishul
  • Rashid to meet Rahul in final

    • Gulbarga

  • Unique project to help enhance agricultural productivity
  • Two hi-tech ambulances join Basaveshwar hospital fleet
  • Jagadeesh is Yadgir DC

    • Guntur

  • Janmabhoomi Express to run via Kazipet on Monday
  • Praja Natya Mandali making waves
  • 1,894 candidates to appear for NET at ANU

    • Hassan

  • City landmark lost in sea of hoardings, banners
  • CPI(M) expresses concern over A.P. situation
  • Farmers’ organisations to remove border stones

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • ADGP visits Central Jail

    • Hyderabad

  • Need to create awareness about organ donation
  • TRS chief warns ‘direct action’
  • SCR restores trains
  • Telangana Ministers for Delhi today
  • Bhatti cautions students
  • Piped water to municipalities by 2010-end
  • Collectors’ meet from January 4
  • No decision on new CS yet
  • Police rule out intervention in Raj Bhavan episode
  • PRC: JAC meet with officials’ panel soon
  • CPI decision on joining JAC today
  • Baggage of Hajis to be distributed
  • Three held on charge of attacking TDP leaders
  • Assistant town planner in ACB net
  • Ministers from Telangana to visit Delhi today
  • Two units at Srisailam begin generation
  • Pelican signals to the rescue of pedestrians soon
  • Employees to discuss Telangana stir
  • Travails of HIV positive children
  • New train between Bolarum and Hyderabad
  • Maternity hospital cries for attention
  • Just a dozen films hit the bull’s eye
  • Students are the hardest hit
  • Tough times as essential supplies go awry
  • Oh...! not another bandh again City Pulse
  • Recession-battered hotel industry in doldrums
  • Two inter-State dacoit gangs busted
  • TRS workers try to disrupt film shooting
  • Violence causes concern as it becomes selective
  • DSP Nalini writes to Sonia
  • Selective violence causes concern
  • RTC officers’ appeal to people
  • SCR to upgrade infrastructure
  • Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • NRO beneficiaries must resign: Sharif
  • Iran for Turkey option
  • World’s fastest rail link in China
  • Bid to ignite device on U.S. jet
  • 100 fishermen repatriated

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Two arrested with Fuki in Kashmir

    • Kadapa

  • Helicopter crash: former Minister sees ‘plot’

    • Kalpetta

  • Carcass of gaur found

    • Kannur

  • Yeddyurappa visits temples in Kannur

    • Karimnagar

  • Additional forces deployed in Karimnagar

    • Karnataka

  • Arvind Limbavali, Oscar Fernandes suggest Karnataka should have IIT
  • No landslip, say authorities
  • Shambhu Hegde’s last Yakshagana on CD now
  • Botanical Garden in Goa beautified with a fountain
  • Hospital to come up in Chickaballapur
  • Telangana stir hits RTPS coal supply
  • ‘Take steps to improve condition of hospital’
  • Going online
  • ‘Use technology in agriculture’

    • Kattappana

  • Tribals preparing for honey collecting season
  • Application invited

    • Kerala

  • A whodunit backed by powerful story Film Review
  • Tales by an ‘informed outsider’
  • ‘No denial of membership’
  • KSTA slams move to amend law
  • Students from varied cultures discover the spirit of unity
  • Arboreal retreat
  • Artist meets critic
  • Market intervention
  • CIAL to set up aircraft museum
  • Gold ornaments on display at a jewellery shop
  • Netting an income
  • Concert marks Christmas celebrations School notes
  • Public scrutiny of RBDCK work
  • Premium bus services from Wednesday
  • Sunday Mart on Pages CL 1 & 2
  • Rs. 81.88-crore revenue at Sabarimala

    • Khammam

  • Villagers fast for Telangana statehood

    • Kochi

  • Appeal to intensify renovation of houses
  • Depicting the touching moments of life
  • No denial of membership, says Oommen Chandy
  • Accused in bus-burning case remanded in judicial custody
  • PSE officers flay taxing of perks
  • A poet moulded by the pain of apartheid
  • Traffic curbs in city for President’s visit
  • MLA seeks sanction for link road
  • Tone up higher education: Chandy
  • New train service
  • Record sales by Supplyco
  • Give more land for power plant, port told

    • Kollam

  • KSEB staff confederation meet
  • Cycling expedition reaches Kollam
  • Tributes paid to tsunami victims
  • Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Mini civil station completed in record time
  • Award for journalist
  • Man found dead

    • Kozhikode

  • Award for young writers
  • A Christmas gesture by school students
  • Attack on shop condemned
  • 50 booked for attack on police team
  • Awards presented
  • Nadapuram to shed its image with mass marriage
  • Rs.3 crore to set up irrigation facilities
  • Symposium on jihad
  • Telephone adalat in January
  • Walk-in interview
  • Farm loans at 1% interest
  • DYFI workers storm airline office

    • Kurnool

  • Decline in crime rate in Kurnool district
  • Free asthma camp

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Army Chief visits Bhopal

    • Madikeri

  • ‘Take steps to mitigate miseries of tribal people’
  • Virajpet town panchayat president resigns

    • Madurai

  • Palmyra products at Tamil conference venue
  • 440 kg of ketamine seized
  • Panel to be set up to review use of grants
  • OBC association seeks caste-based census
  • Plea to set up welfare board
  • “Empower LPA to approve plans”
  • Water level
  • “Use palmyra products at Tamil conference”
  • Stalin to inaugurate ‘samathuvapuram’

    • Malappuram

  • Poets’ meet
  • Orphanage to celebrate jubilee
  • ‘Humanism is the essence of life’

    • Mangalore

  • Arvind Limbavali bats for IIT in State
  • Traffic jams irk people
  • Illegal structures demolished
  • ‘Constitute sixth pay commission’

    • Mumbai

  • Man kills friend over paltry dispute

    • Mysore

  • Two washed away in Varuna canal
  • Teachers, officials responsible for quality of education, says Kageri
  • Tiger found dead
  • Decision on live telecast of meeting withheld
  • Giraffe calf born in zoo

    • Nagapattinam

  • Children line up along shore
  • Children orphaned by tsunami line up along shore

    • Nalgonda

  • Kabaddi players disappointed
  • Protests continue in Nalgonda

    • National

  • Brinda Karat seeks independent inquiry
  • Survey of India probe an intrusion into Parliament powers, says forum
  • Bardhan asks Gowda to lead farmers at national level
  • Bardhan’s call to Gowda
  • CPI(M): start consultation
  • A smart Adam to chart new territory
  • Thunderbird 3 comes up with new search interface
  • Rajkhowa, Barua sent to jail
  • Karnataka lawyers implead themselves in petition
  • At a time of scarcity
  • BSF men injured in blast
  • Bhim Singh demands all-party meet on Working Group report
  • West Bengal in talks with Tatas on return of land
  • CAG faults implementation of maternity benefit scheme
  • Lalgarh situation improving, says Chief Secretary
  • Man with progeria dies in Bihar
  • Family of tennis player seeks monetary compensation
  • Bridge collapse toll 28; cases registered against Hyundai, Gammon officials
  • Progeria patient dies in Bihar
  • Sonia holds another round of talks on Telangana
  • Russian girls harassed in Goa, one held
  • Arabinda Rajkhowa, Raju Barua sent to jail
  • Unprovoked firing in Kutch
  • Pune girl conquers yet another peak
  • Where child labour, migration are a way of life
  • Don’t deny anticipatory bail on technical grounds: Supreme Court

    • Nellore

  • Ranganatha Swamy temple decked up for Mukkoti Ekadasi
  • Marine police recruitments

    • New Delhi

  • Capital gets a feel of season’s coldest day
  • Entering wedlock
  • Knowing the spirit of adolescence better
  • And the coolest punch of the year is .... Cinema
  • Burnt body of young man found; one arrested
  • Woman allegedly assaulted
  • Three arrested for auto-theft
  • Charge-sheet filed against alleged LeT operative
  • Delhi High Court sets aside conviction in murder case
  • Minor fire at Delhi airport
  • DERC asks NDMC to install electronic meters
  • Now get rid of traffic blues
  • Two more flu deaths
  • Reservoir opened
  • weather
  • Students honoured
  • Panun Kashmir annual convention
  • Cyclists ask Delhi Govt. for a better deal
  • LJP demands dismissal of Nitish Govt.
  • Rafi remembered
  • Seamless travel in NCR still a distant dream

    • Nizamabad

  • PCC chief asked to quit for Telangana

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • Badminton player’s triumphs over disability
  • Stage set for Barabati dance fest
  • Traders organisation celebrates centenary
  • CAMPA fund utilisation may not be achieved
  • Tight security for PM’s visit
  • Four naxals nabbed
  • BJD celebrates Foundation Day
  • Bahinipati quits BJP, returns to Congress
  • Villagers, CPI(M) hold demonstration against mining
  • Former MLA’s murderer sentenced to life
  • BJP activists stage protest

    • Other States

  • All in a day’s work
  • In protest mode
  • Tight security
  • Prize giving ceremony
  • Dies of swine flu
  • An exercise
  • Cold wave intensifies
  • ‘Probe nexus between Chautala and Rathore’
  • Haryana to bring uniformity in minimum area norms
  • Trader shot dead in Raipur
  • Robbers kill train passenger in Bihar
  • Man succumbs to swine flu
  • Ammunition, grenades recovered in Poonch
  • Low immunization levels in U.P. causing concern: Unicef
  • Social service

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Paloli to launch housing scheme
  • Minister promises better facilities at Sabarimala
  • 12 arrested on charges of gambling
  • Mandalapuja held at Sabarimala

    • Puducherry

  • Sewer line repair work at airport under way
  • Major changes among officials
  • Calendars usher in New Year
  • Work on bridge across Ariankuppam backwater to resume soon
  • Beaches quiver with waves of memories

    • Racing : Horse

  • Iaepetus expected to score

    • Rajahmundry

  • Protsaham to encourage poor students: Collector

    • Rajasthan

  • Bid to improve cooperative credit

    • Salem

  • Hasthampatti Uzhavar Santhai inspected
  • Fast observed
  • Doctors observe fast
  • Motorcycle rally to create awareness
  • Weavers begin indefinite strike
  • Jewellery stolen from house
  • Rally to create awareness
  • Handloom weavers begin indefinite strike

    • Shimoga

  • Students become lawmakers for a day
  • ‘Make SSLC mandatory for seekers of driving licence’
  • Yagna

    • Sivaganga

  • Plan to build memorial for Kanianpoonkundranar
  • Training camp

    • Sport

  • Dhoni determined to end the year with a flourish
  • Waxing eloquent on the youngsters

    • Sports : General

  • Srinivasan sparkles
  • Easy for Anna, SRM
  • Chhattisgarh in final
  • Double for Johnson

    • Table Tennis

  • Abihishek and Sutirtha bag titles

    • Tamil Nadu

  • For the Lord
  • Two men run over by trains
  • Woman killed
  • 7 policemen injured
  • More Regional Advertisements: Page 6
  • A nightmare
  • Plan to sell textiles worth Rs. 25 lakh at exhibition
  • Trees, not saplings, planted
  • On guard
  • Man kills mother
  • Man held for cheating youth
  • Training institute for fishermen opened at Poompuhar
  • Fishermen from Myanmar drift ashore
  • Exclusive courts to settle commercial disputes soon: SC Judge
  • “Indian scientists’ contribution significant”
  • Different kind of ‘catch’
  • “Reducing infant mortality rate, still a challenge in urban areas”
  • Fun in the air, over the lake
  • Tribal youth cultural exchange programme
  • Getting ready
  • Morning hues
  • Chain snatched
  • Residents themselves start repairing road
  • Mettur level
  • IB to interrogate kingpin of counterfeit currency

    • Tennis

  • Ashutosh and Ankita take honours

    • Thanjavur

  • Health camp organised
  • IUML to support DMK in Pennagaram by-poll
  • “Unanimous move, need of the hour”

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • The sound of music, at Nalekoottam
  • Sivagiri pilgrimage from tomorrow
  • Many milestones in Indo-Russian relationship
  • Plea to reject Ranganath Mishra panel report
  • Special session of Assembly
  • Special train services to clear rush
  • GPF advance
  • Clarification on food grain distribution
  • Twin honour for Matsyafed
  • Campus gets ready for science congress
  • Road work to resume on January 6
  • Scholarship fund likely to be launched in January
  • Pozhiyoor clash: 6 held
  • End back-door postings, says Thankachan
  • Letter-writing competition
  • Flower Show to draw to a close today
  • Alumni meet
  • Man held for resisting arrest
  • Silver jubilee of CET batch
  • Applications invited
  • Public scrutiny of RBDCK works soon
  • Kochi Today
  • Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • Thrissur

  • ‘Conservative viewers bane of Malayalam theatre’
  • In search of the musical heritage of India
  • Oruma beach fete begins
  • Medical camp begins
  • Pakistani troupe performs at theatre festival

    • Tiruchi

  • Woman dies of injuries
  • Exhibition of coins under way
  • Eye donors felicitated
  • Traffic regulations for ‘Vaikunda Ekadasi’ fete
  • Facelift must for Tiruverambur railway station What they say… City Pulse
  • Insurance scheme, a boon: Minister
  • CPI (M) plea to speed up road work
  • Verification of voters begins
  • Minister inspects special medical camp in Tirupainjeeli village
  • Pensioners’ appeal not to delay fixing revised pension
  • NCC camp for girls begins

    • Tirumala

  • Former MLA donates Rs. 5 lakh to TTD

    • Tirunelveli

  • Tsunami victims remembered at many places
  • Collector inspects farm ponds at various places
  • 19 village panchayats selected for Nirmal Gram Puraskar award
  • “Withdraw marriage registration law”
  • Bank donates equipment to hospital

    • Tirupati

  • Industrialist visits SVIMS
  • SVU professor’s book released
  • NAC initiative to empower women

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Three lakh plants will beckon tourists during summer

    • Udupi

  • BJP MLAs warned
  • BJP Government will fall on its own: Moily
  • Science exhibition in Udupi

    • Vijayawada

  • APTDC plans music and masti for New Year
  • Alumni asked to adopt PVP SIT
  • ‘Withdraw cases against MP and students’
  • Ensure quality in civic works, officials told
  • Old students go down memory lane
  • Mobile phones stolen
  • I am not joining Congress: Radhakrishna
  • CPI(M) alleges inertia in VMC development works
  • Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Scientific way to tackle hair loss
  • Diabetic awareness programme from today
  • A musical tribute to Annamayya
  • Special buffet at Green Park
  • Orders on public disclosure rules of urban civic bodies hailed
  • Shramdan
  • Fisherfolk celebrate ‘Gangamma puja’
  • Sankeertana Sobha Yatra held
  • VSEU plea to VSP CMD
  • Russian artistes steal the show
  • GVMC official in ACB net
  • City numismatist for NSI conference
  • CHEMCON-2009 from today
  • Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Two held for financing naxals
  • MLA calls for peaceful agitation
  • People asked not to pay taxes

    • Weather

  • Weather

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