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Alappuzha

  • Payipad wins boat race
  • Globalisation destroying sports culture: VS

    • Anantapur

  • Two arrested on kidnap charge

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Students told to tackle issues boldly
  • Stock-taking
  • Health cards to be issued to mothers, children
  • Contract staff to stage dharna tomorrow
  • BC panel happy over quota implementation
  • The aftermath
  • Welcome sight
  • Demand for shelter going up in urban areas: Joint Collector
  • Collector asks department heads to set up women protection cells
  • NFCL holds awareness campaign
  • Sylvan setting
  • Silver setting
  • TDP to celebrate liberation day
  • Kukunoor returns to familiar turf
  • “It's like meeting of two nations”
  • Lively interaction
  • No fun in this game
  • Colourful start
  • LSP launched in Tamil Nadu
  • Fertilizer shortage in districts
  • Rich tributes paid to Joji
  • Rosaiah concerned over spurt in white collar crimes
  • Protest in AU over attack on Andhra teachers in OU
  • KCR demands deadline for lifting of cases
  • Azad autopsy report misinterpreted: DGP
  • Group-I screening test as scheduled
  • Three naxals surrender
  • Syllabus for SSC 11E-Special English paper
  • Polavaram cost enhanced by Rs. 7,000 crore
  • Common master plan for Srisailam, Mahanandi
  • Shelter for shelterless

    • Archery

  • Nikhil, Mamta triumph

    • Athletics

  • Luka clocks career-best time

    • Badminton

  • Lin ends European participation
  • Arun, Malavika are champions
  • Vishal scores upset win
  • Jamuna Rani packs off Meghana
  • Defeat, a lesson for Saina

    • Bangalore

  • Pregnant woman dies of A(H1N1)
  • ‘Purchase power, even if it costs more'
  • Expect more women in KPCC
  • Funds not reaching target group: Lokayukta
  • Defence Pension Adalat tomorrow
  • MLA denies involvement in land regularisation
  • AIDWA to fight for women's reservation Bill in Lok Sabha
  • Mining case adjourned till Friday
  • BBMP to withdraw all projects from KRIDL
  • ‘Cancel tender'
  • Man stabs wife to death
  • Peace returns to Goripalya
  • 11 unauthorised hoardings removed
  • They express patriotism through words and colours
  • Several launches planned on Sir M.V.'s 150th birth anniversary
  • More staff for post offices
  • State Welfare Board to build seven community halls
  • 14 in fray in two constituencies
  • Mahajan report final: KDA
  • Cancer centre, SANA to launch healthcare project
  • ‘Jagan no threat to government'
  • Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion Rates

    • Basketball

  • Modern beats Oxford in a thriller

    • Bellary

  • Rain: toll hits five
  • Centre has succumbed to U.S. pressure, says CPI(M)

    • Bidar

  • Inspection

    • Bihar

  • ‘Saffron terror' comes in handy for Lalu, Paswan

    • Bijapur

  • Bijapur Bulls batsman visits alma mater
  • ABVP demands action against former VC of KSWU
  • Repairs at Shivaji Circle yet to be completed

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Emphatic title triumph for Russell

    • Business

  • Microsoft co-founder sues Internet giants
  • Sify to issue shares worth $86 m to promoter groups
  • Shale gas policy by next year
  • 6 real estate projects get Crisil rating
  • Trade unions gear up to oppose CIL divestment
  • 3PAR says HP's offer ‘superior'
  • Tata Steel gets SA 8000 certification again
  • Loan rating can impact financial discipline: expert

    • Chennai

  • An evening of music and dance
  • Interpol help sought
  • Man, sons drown in lake
  • Two run over
  • Suspect held
  • Make best use of teachers, Maran tells students
  • Anyone can build a robot, says expert
  • Unravelling the mysteries of the “dreaded black box”
  • Jackal rescued in Perambur
  • Virtual employment exchange soon
  • Funfair for physically challenged children
  • Traffic changes in Besant Nagar
  • Children get a hang of policymaking
  • Court orders eight MBBS, BDS seats to be kept vacant
  • Quota sought for women, SC/STs in Legislative Council
  • Letter alleges threat to Jayalalithaa
  • Arasu Cable TV Corporation: Krishnasamy demands probe
  • Second session of farm training on
  • Loyola Chennai Alumni Foundation formed
  • Call to withdraw case against CPI (M) MLA
  • “Water should not be a cause for differences”
  • Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Rucha triumphs

    • Coimbatore

  • Education Overseas Academy fair
  • Community radio workshop
  • World Earth Day observed
  • Yeoman services rendered by Subramaniam to nation recalled
  • “Coalition Governments order of the day”
  • Good times ahead for readers
  • ‘Never be a slave of greed'
  • ‘One needs to innovate, find a new way of living'
  • Fete concludes
  • Mere degrees do not make a person employable: CoP
  • TNEB grievance day on Sept. 2
  • Two-day seminar
  • Protest against land acquisition
  • Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Australia begins preparations for India tour
  • Mumbai starts favourite
  • Rahul hits century
  • England in control
  • CL should live up to its lead-up hype

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 2600
  • Solution No. 2599

    • Cycling

  • Bikram Singh to lead Indian challenge

    • Eluru

  • CPI, CPI(M) stay away from commemoration meet for ‘martyrs'
  • Drop in number of urban voters worries parties
  • Rytanga Samakhya team leaves for Delhi

    • Football

  • Arsenal too strong for Blackburn
  • Tamil Nadu XI corners glory

    • Front Page

  • CBI putting pressure on me: Geeta Johri
  • Exchanges not suspended: China
  • Asiya Andrabi arrested
  • Indigo flight suffers bird-hit
  • India evaluating Chinese stand
  • Elections are round the corner, says Karunanidhi
  • India's flood relief through U.N.
  • Sri Lanka proves too hot for India in summit clash
  • Jet pilot, crew suspended
  • Pawar backs Navi Mumbai site for new airport
  • China to fund gallery at Tagore House
  • Railway projects will generate 10 lakh jobs for youth: Mamata
  • USAID chief left Pakistan relief camp following threats
  • Operation clean-up
  • Theme song released
  • Ready to ban all lotteries: Isaac
  • Paris Hilton arrested for possessing cocaine
  • Etched in memory
  • All is not well at Nehru Stadium
  • Heavy rains to continue into September, says weatherman
  • Two Naxals arrested
  • Residences of officials raided
  • Live, Rise, Progress, Win
  • Mercedes-Benz buses on long-distance routes soon
  • Park to come up on OSR land at Guindy

    • Golf

  • Jyoti Randhawa tied 23rd

    • Gulbarga

  • ‘Replicate SBM's new farm loan scheme'
  • Central varsity: Sibal to lay stone
  • Yeddyurappa denies charge
  • Demand for moratorium on iron ore export
  • Congress leaders to work unitedly

    • Guntur

  • ‘Provide drinking water to Indiramma houses'
  • Doctor blamed for infant's death
  • Dispose of atrocity cases expeditiously: Collector
  • J&K autonomy not acceptable:Venkaiah

    • Hockey

  • Women's World Cup from today
  • SAI, Jhansi set up title clash
  • PSA is champion
  • A grim scene
  • Hockey team finalised

    • Hyderabad

  • ‘Congress leaders stashed money in foreign banks'
  • Children voice concern on environment
  • Spurt in fashion awareness, but not enough
  • Passion for rare currency
  • Rewards for eco-friendly Ganesh pandals
  • Godavari project: land acquisition in one month
  • Over 600 illegal hoardings in city
  • Six houses damaged in rain
  • Residents near Durgam Cheruvu cry foul
  • Basheerbagh firing: rich tributes paid to martyrs
  • Power distribution network to be strengthened
  • City home for freemasons since 1870s!
  • Master Plan drafts ambitious proposals
  • Traffic held up for over an hour at Afzalgunj
  • BJP petitions GHMC chief
  • ‘Project may turn focus back on underground mining'
  • OU attack condemned
  • ‘Non-local' lecturers attacked in OU
  • Chain snatched from 60-year-old
  • CISF constable killed as 9mm pistol goes off
  • ACB unearths assets worth over Rs. 89 lakh
  • ‘60,000 CSCs set up'
  • Agni-V will be test-fired soon, says Antony
  • Two more judicial officers suspended
  • Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Visa decision put on hold: Colombo
  • Global effort to rescue miners
  • Hostage crisis
  • Fighting in Mogadishu
  • Al-Qaeda-linked suspects planned to bomb Canadian Parliament
  • China's presence in Gilgit-Baltistan: NYT
  • Ravindra Kelekar cremated

    • Kadapa

  • Two-day literary conference inaugurated
  • SFI members launch hunger strike
  • CITU pickets panchayat office
  • Two houses burgled
  • TDP demands loans for farmers
  • ABVP burns effigy of T-SJAC

    • Kalpetta

  • VS' statement on land issue hailed
  • Sanctuary becomes a waste bin

    • Kannur

  • Meet on movement disorder on
  • Land acquisition to be speeded up
  • Mundassery award for school teacher

    • Karimnagar

  • C.V.Raman's statue unveiled
  • Woman ‘strangulated' by in-laws

    • Karnataka

  • A series of moments designed to make you cry
  • Compensation disbursed
  • Taking the lid off a bizarre practice
  • The common man in the Maximum City
  • A lesson in the Bollywood book of cliches
  • ‘Our padayatra was not a gimmick'
  • Women farmers to be sent on foreign tours
  • Asnotikar unhappy about quality of bricks used in Asare houses
  • Distribution of pattas today
  • Muthulakshmi acquitted
  • Youth effort
  • Tapping talent
  • Karunakara Reddy's ouster sought
  • Catholics face social boycott in village
  • KGF CMC election takes ugly turn
  • Masti award
  • NoC to be mandatory for ships used for iron ore exports
  • ‘Dedicate a few five-year Plans to poverty alleviation'

    • Kattappana

  • Notice served on Kanan Devan firm

    • Kerala

  • Music and bonds
  • Of the curd supply chain
  • Splendid show
  • Importance of business ethics stressed
  • Not-so-hearty welcome
  • Fog in Kollam
  • On media ethics
  • The last hurdle
  • Kalari for Commonwealth ceremonies
  • Colourful end to Onam fete

    • Khammam

  • College celebrates freshers day
  • Viral fever toll up

    • Kochi

  • Assault on teacher: one more arrested
  • New teacher posts augur well for students
  • Ballet artiste in city to train youngsters
  • Coconut-based enterprises to get assistance
  • Appeal to protect public sector units
  • 42 panchayats in district to have women presidents
  • Queen's Baton relay to be accorded rousing reception today
  • Panel calls for steps to repair roads
  • Commonwealth Express comes calling in city
  • Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Chattambi Swami Jayanti
  • Pilgrim centre at Alancheri
  • Woman held on charge of cheating, imposture

    • Kottayam

  • Rubber import duty cut becomes a poll issue

    • Kozhikode

  • Big catch awaits inland fishermen
  • List of reserved posts announced
  • Probe sought into CFL ‘irregularities'
  • One arrested on theft charge
  • Cruelty to woman: husband arrested
  • Health insurance for five lakh more families

    • Kurnool

  • It's vegetarian fare at Muslim weddings
  • Collector visits hospital
  • Collector briefs NDRF on flood situation

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • ‘Police killed Kargil hero in fake encounter'

    • Madikeri

  • Varsity PG centre in Kodagu in three years
  • BKS demands proper implementation of ST Act
  • Teachers told to ensure quality education in schools
  • CNC to celebrate Kail Pold festival
  • ‘Bring methanol control under Excise Department'

    • Madurai

  • “Waterways better than inter-linking of rivers”
  • Set up munsif court at Thovalai: petitioner
  • “Sinking of borewells needs to be regulated”
  • Fix fees for using skating rink, says Bench
  • A welcome change
  • Forum plans stir
  • A fair that has books for everyone
  • Hassle for road users
  • 11 community colleges coming up
  • Heralding Krishna Jayanthi
  • Bench not to prevent church construction
  • A rare gesture from court
  • 11,431 differently-abled persons receive benefits
  • Madurai Today

    • Malappuram

  • Swalat Nagar prayer meeting to be held on September 6

    • Mangalore

  • Minimum autorickshaw fare fixed at Rs. 15
  • Auto licences: Ponnuraj promises action
  • Hindustani music, dance programmes
  • Realty Expo begins
  • Parents told to have a positive attitude

    • Mysore

  • Women Entrepreneur Awards presented
  • Officers get training on crowd control
  • A pair of Asiatic lions to get a new home in Mysore zoo
  • Two more cricketers sign up to adopt animals
  • Vijaya Vittala college students excel

    • National

  • “A.P. police stonewalling investigation”
  • Right to Food legislation soon: Pranab
  • RJD, LJP capitalise on Chidambaram's remarks
  • A mastermind of Kashmir protests
  • Now, open source hardware
  • Indian hardware market abuzz with tablet PCs
  • Parliament approves Bill to regulate foreign funds
  • In memory of a legend
  • Maoists held
  • I will consider plea for OBCs panel: Manmohan
  • 10 MPs want torture Bill referred to panel
  • Special trains to Shirdi
  • Ordnance Factory Board to go in for e-procurement
  • Promote creativity in learning: Kalam
  • Kharif sowing higher in all crops
  • Boat fiesta
  • Oil spill: Chitra's representative in Mumbai
  • ‘Non-local' lecturers attacked on Osmania campus
  • Sibal: We'll consider raising cap on faculty for innovation varsities
  • It will be the best-ever Games: Sheila
  • Corporatisation to blame for paid news: G.N. Ray
  • NAC meet tomorrow to discuss draft of food security bill
  • Pawar rules out free foodgrains
  • Rahul's first rally in Kolkata in September
  • Slams right-wing parties
  • Indian fishermen's papers being readied
  • Deve Gowda wants task force to check illegal mining
  • Separate routes for baton relay, Ganesh procession
  • ‘Additional crew member saw fire on left engine'
  • Jobs round the year mooted in Naxal areas
  • Lineman electrocuted
  • Chiru takes up TTD staffer's suicide issue
  • TDP leader fears threat to life
  • BJP's Iftar party
  • Heavy rains will continue into September, forecasts IMD

    • New Delhi

  • ‘Vacate stay against Sajjan Kumar'
  • Samples sent for testing
  • Uneasy flows the Yamuna
  • Three-fold salary hike for MPs approved
  • ‘Land mafia cheating Delhiites'
  • Dengue at its worst in five years; 741 cases in Capital
  • Supreme Court verdict in bus burning case tomorrow
  • Jindal Power's project faces tough questions
  • Bid to tap potential of Yamuna floodplains as source of water
  • Need to improve conditions in lower courts: CJI
  • Demand to create Indian Agriculture Service
  • “We want Cooch Behar”
  • Jail officer told to explain Babloo's late-coming
  • Selection of lecturers stayed
  • Over 100 villages flooded
  • Little gems from the depth of life and some everyday nothings
  • In the Capital Today

    • Nizamabad

  • Policemen to beat stress with yoga
  • NSP: four flood gates lifted

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Pavitrotsavam at Srigiri
  • Panchayat workers held
  • Growers may end up with 10 million kg unsold tobacco

    • Orissa

  • Catching them young!
  • Barsha Utsav concludes
  • Dance festival from September 10
  • Make the most of financial market: Khurshid
  • Yi's launches Akshara for underprivileged children
  • Concern over influence of criminal elements in politics
  • V-C's damage control move fails to deter striking students
  • PPL to spend Rs. 500 crores for expansion
  • Dacoits gun down security guard, loot cash
  • ECoR to run Puja specials to Bangalore and Tirupati
  • State mulling legal clinics in schools

    • Puducherry

  • No regional quota in private medical colleges
  • Narayanasamy flays Opposition claim
  • “More technology communicators needed”

    • Punjab

  • Nine women electrocuted
  • Badals to meet PM over threat to Sikhs in Kashmir

    • Racing : Horse

  • It's Sun Elegance vs. Couleur Rouge

    • Racing : Motor

  • Saran Vikram steals the show
  • Webber claims pole

    • Rajasthan

  • Jaipur gets North India's first St. Xavier's College
  • Gehlot bereaved

    • Salem

  • ‘Issues chartered accountants face need to be discussed'
  • Skill development programme

    • Shimoga

  • Students of Junior Abacus Centre win laurels
  • Hostel facilities to be improved
  • ‘Protect environment'

    • Shooting

  • Lajja shoots past Rekha

    • Sport

  • Sri Lanka proves too hot for India in summit clash
  • Thomas demands sacking of Isaac

    • Sports : General

  • Chennai Cheetahs wins a thriller
  • Chakraborty dead
  • 10 named for ECL scholarship
  • YOG medallists feted
  • Satosker, Mustafa take lead
  • India ends trip with a draw
  • JSAC clinches crown
  • Castelino cruises into semifinals
  • Senthil-Praveen duo takes tennis title
  • Chennai Marathon today
  • Selected as CWG officials
  • Naveen, Sumanth crack centuries
  • Richa, Sejwal adjudged best; Maharashtra on top

    • Srikakulam

  • Road works will be taken up on a war-footing
  • Yerran dares Rahul to visit mines in North Andhra

    • Table Tennis

  • Delightful double for Mishal
  • Vedanth wins

    • Tamil Nadu

  • SRM varsity students to study abroad for a semester
  • Photographing for health scheme
  • Grand opening
  • Stress on optimal use of Lok Adalats
  • Session on business in technical textile
  • ‘Do not be confined to ambition of getting jobs alone'
  • 22 sovereigns, cash stolen
  • Boy dies in accident
  • Danger ahead
  • Sringeri Mutt to build tower
  • Fishermen resume activities after two-week strike
  • Women trained to serve as Village Health Volunteers
  • Tamil varsity to publish book on rare Chola paintings
  • It's showtime
  • Transformational designs
  • What they say
  • It's nice
  • Five get life term for murder
  • Meeting to decide on cotton export quantity

    • Tennis

  • Wozniacki in final
  • Ramkumar stuns Mohit

    • Thanjavur

  • Scheme to promote poultry farming among women SHGs
  • Competition on ‘communal harmony and tourism'

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Poet commemorated
  • Grand finale to Onam fete
  • Overbridge work to start soon: Minister
  • Court permits university to conduct B.Ed. course
  • Corporation pact with Matsyafed
  • Tribal bodies urged to call off stir
  • Ward delimitation: final list published
  • Orchid exhibition begins on September 8
  • Award for Azhikode
  • Cardiology OP at medical college to function daily
  • VFPCK to start retail unit
  • Ratnakaran objects to clauses in Biotechnology Bill

    • Thrissur

  • Concern over fall in number of Panchavadyam artistes
  • Queen's Baton relay for Thrissur
  • First instalment of Lalur project funds handed over to KAU
  • Lalur: BJP plans hartal on September 9
  • ‘Expel extremist elements'

    • Tiruchi

  • ‘DTC will reduce tax rates, expand its base'
  • Jawans to embark on seven-day cycle rally
  • Spellbinding show
  • Date extended
  • Delay in relaying of road irks residents
  • Energy day celebrations
  • Rally flagged off
  • Mobile tax collection unit to visit Srirangam
  • Four killed in head-on collision
  • Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Mahotsavam to be performed today
  • Sarvodaya activists demand total prohibition in State
  • One held for killing wild animals

    • Tirupati

  • Varsities told to use land judiciously
  • More sops for Tirupati in pipeline: Chief Minister
  • ‘Attack on Seema-Andhra faculty unfortunate'

    • Tuticorin

  • 900 students take part in competitions
  • Fishermen stir affects many allied activities

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Recruitment drive evokes good response
  • Students urged to protect environment
  • Demonstration
  • Blaring horns removed

    • Udupi

  • Photography competition
  • Tributes paid to Kedlaya

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Food adulteration cases against 62

    • Vellore

  • Incentive increments for vocational teachers
  • Book fair inaugurated

    • Vijayawada

  • Mini national archery tourney off to a colourful start
  • Rally by bodybuilders today
  • Remax launches operations
  • Collector all praise for police
  • User charges: opposition parties stage dharna
  • People cautioned against viral fevers
  • Attack on teachers condemned
  • Siddhartha Academy asked to fulfil lease guidelines
  • Cut wasteful expenditure, temple told
  • Kesineni Cargo Carriers in expansion mode
  • Incentives for entrepreneurs
  • Kota Venkatachalam birth anniversary
  • Loyola literary society launched
  • Congress to observe first death anniversary of YSR

    • Visakhapatnam

  • For palate that craves for variety
  • Experts see bright future for unit-linked insurance plans
  • NSS training programme ends
  • ISKCON gears up for Janmashtami on Sept. 2
  • GITAM's first convocation held
  • Yanamala questions Governor's actions
  • Vizag Auto Fair from Sept. 23
  • Paramedical staff to go on strike on Sept. 7, 8
  • Tributes paid to Basheerbagh firing victims
  • BRTS: Simhachalam corridor racing towards completion
  • ‘Microwave satellite will be launched next year'
  • Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • ‘Be wary of middlemen for conductor posts'
  • Sponsored quota

    • Weather

  • Weather

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