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    Alappuzha

  • Plea for total ban on mineral sand-mining

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Proddatur civic chief sacked, arrested
  • Six drown during idol immersion
  • Telugus call the shots in Maharashtra constituency
  • Fire safety norms go for a toss
  • State climbs to second spot in HIV-positive cases
  • Clear the air on bids for irrigation projects: TDP
  • Three-day Army gala to ignite young minds
  • Attacks on Dalits: CPI(M) seeks justice
  • Priority for low rainfall areas in Food Assurance Programme
  • Fast-growing timber variety introduced
  • BJP leader attempts suicide over job scam
  • New home for YSR to be ready by January
  • The short-lived freedom from naxals
  • Blood-stained clothes found in Paritala's house
  • It's over to Genco, Singareni
  • Transport, automobile directory released
  • Singareni makes concession to Genco
  • Clue found in murder case
  • AISF to `obstruct' Palle Bata
  • Jakkampudi attends court
  • 15 hurt in balcony collapse
  • ENGAGEMENTS
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Rally against faction killings

    • Athletics

  • Jayaraj pockets a double
  • World half marathon on Oct. 3

    • Badminton

  • Utsav & Varsha bag titles

    • Bangalore

  • Peenya Industrial Township Authority soon
  • Three youths murdered in separate incidents
  • Elderly couple robbed on Ring Road
  • NRI engineer goes missing
  • Farmers block roads protesting against `land grabbing'
  • World Tourism Day celebrated
  • Traders protest demolition
  • `American Corner' to be opened
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Easy win for Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
  • Poonam shines for SECR
  • B Zone Reds emerges winner
  • St Joseph's in final

    • Belgaum

  • Ganesha festivities come to an end

    • Bihar

  • Paswan calls for overthrow of RJD Government
  • Ranjit Don's matriculation result cancelled

    • Bijapur

  • Koraddi elected milk union president

    • Briefly

  • Sony to buy stake in SAB TV
  • IDFC to hit market
  • Michelin tyre plant
  • Ladia new ICMF chairman
  • Restoration of DEPB rates sought
  • SIMA-CDRA office bearers
  • SICA office-bearers
  • Soundara Raj elected to SICA
  • SaharaOne launched
  • IDBI to open two more branches
  • Vijaya Bank to open 18 ATMs
  • Teledata ties up with Singapore Academy
  • CommVault's Hyderabad centre
  • Cypress Semiconductor's expansion plan
  • New copier paper from AP Paper
  • Award for Ananth Technologies
  • bangCorporation Bank's 750th branch
  • PTC in pact with CESE
  • Foreign funding of railway projects
  • Pfizer third quarter net up
  • VSNL America names COO
  • Tea factory goes electronic

    • Business

  • Tata Motors lists at $9.15 on New York Exchange
  • Lakshmi General to merge with Sundaram Finance
  • Stanchart to buy Sumitomo Mitsui Bank's India operations
  • Jet expands low night fare scheme
  • Reliance Infocomm's festive offer
  • RBI policy on October 26
  • L & T replaces MTNL in Sensex
  • Mitsui picks up stake in Murugappa group arm
  • Rupee weakens
  • Oil prices approach $50 a barrel
  • Indoco acquires brand from Solvay Pharma
  • Inspection rules for exports to Sri Lanka
  • MRPL cuts losses
  • Capital markets get over nervousness

    • Carrom

  • Jalaj shocks Sandeep

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • Step aside IIT-M, the real brains are in the suburbs
  • Booths deserted by 3 p.m. as violence flares
  • Adithanar awards for Tamil scholar, poet
  • Ready reckoner for police personnel
  • 63 per cent cast votes
  • Consultation camp
  • Fernandes releases book
  • Train diversion
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Chess

  • Dharmaraj upsets Muralikrishna
  • Kramnik, Leko split point

    • Coimbatore

  • Uproar over DMK resolution
  • Six more held, gold worth Rs. 1.75 crores recovered
  • `Public participation vital for success in renewable energy projects'
  • Proposal submitted for reverse osmosis plant
  • `Research projects must benefit community'
  • Probe panel to be formed
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • BCCI seeks clarification from Delhi Police
  • Benaud and Warne: contrasting fortunes
  • Warne and Australia get down to business
  • Mahbub College HS scores big win
  • A chance for hopefuls
  • Big series for India and Australia: Ganguly
  • All about donning the baggy green
  • Innings win for Bangalore
  • Pakistan's India tour likely by February end
  • Big win for SBRR Mahajana
  • Agarkar in Mumbai squad
  • Salwan Boys wins Himalaya Cup
  • Bagga scalps seven
  • City `A' restricts Districts `A'
  • Rain plays spoilsport
  • Bhatt, Bisht shine
  • North Zone-II in control
  • Luck favours Idukki
  • CZ 127 for seven
  • Palakkad wins
  • Saawan excels

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  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8100
  • Solution to puzzle No. 8099

    • Cuddalore

  • Work works, graduates told
  • Deletion complaints plague local body polls
  • Road worsens after it is relaid

    • Cuddapah

  • Forest guards to be provided with arms
  • CITU opposes winding up of MPEO set-up
  • Army recruitment centre coming up in Cuddapah

    • Dindigul

  • Heavy rain in districts

    • Editorials

  • DETENTE AS AN IMPERATIVE

    • Erode

  • Villagers seek relaying of road

    • Football

  • Air Force BBS in final
  • India goes down to Syria
  • Govt. Press holds SAI
  • BAV blanks Cochin Public
  • Big win for East Bengal
  • East Bengal forges ahead
  • MIS in final
  • Anbalagan scores winner
  • Bhavan's Vidya Mandir bags title

    • Front Page

  • Manmohan promises to look into foreign experts issue
  • Talks with Musharraf `very good'
  • Despite pressure, oil prices may not be raised
  • Manmohan makes a reluctant birthday boy
  • Five killed in Dubai airport accident
  • Zee plea for Constitution Bench
  • BCCI's offer
  • Benaud and Warne: contrasting fortunes
  • Kalam for bringing President under Lok Ayukt
  • Bail granted
  • Pilots' skills saved the day: Amarinder
  • Taj festival: U.P. told to get clearances from ASI, security agencies
  • Observers for Nagaland polls
  • Oil worries push down Sensex

    • Globescan

  • India-French network of virtual labs becoming a reality

    • Golf

  • Vijay Singh jumps out of the Woods

    • Guntur

  • Core banking facility introduced
  • 11 convicted in betting case
  • Top leaders boycott TDP meet

    • Hassan

  • Work on sewage treatment plant stopped

    • Hockey

  • India levels series with emphatic win
  • JMC in semifinals

    • Hubli

  • Call for sustained struggle for growth of north Karnataka

    • Hyderabad

  • Peaceful in old city
  • Farmer buys Balapur laddu for 2.01 lakhs
  • DYFI gesture
  • YSR monitors processions
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • On a `high' on dry day

    • India & World

  • Fears over export of `infected' blood to India
  • China for consensus on Council seat for India

    • International

  • Musharraf claims major victory
  • Norway going soft on LTTE: Devananda
  • Chinese party to promote `socialist market economy'
  • Promote Pakistan, Caucus urged
  • `Iraqi polls may be flawed'
  • Tom and Jerry on top of the heap
  • Scientists fear volcano blast
  • Not a bright idea, say astronomers
  • U.S. hand in Guinea coup plot?
  • Major loss for Schroeder's party
  • Debate details finalised
  • Koizumi reshuffles Cabinet

    • Jharkand

  • Cong. responsible for J-K situation: Rajnath
  • BJP should not cross the Rubicon on Hindutva: JD (U)

    • Kancheepuram

  • Focus on studies, Vijaykant tells students

    • Karnataka

  • Six road projects sanctioned
  • `Deletion of names not intentional'
  • Tourism poised to get a boost in Mysore
  • Six road projects sanctioned for State
  • Superstructure over Hosur highway approved
  • Grover, richest candidate in Bidar bypoll
  • Private colleges may agree to uniform fee structure
  • Offer surrendered seats to students, medical colleges told
  • Editor moves court against official's order
  • Committee to end film industry row
  • Congress will respond to criticism from JD(S): Poojary
  • Three farmers end life
  • Combat influence of globalisation: critic
  • SPICMACAY meet at Surathkal
  • Fairs banned
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Bumper maize harvest in Davangere district
  • Sugar factory may be handed over to private sector
  • Soligas protest against Govt. Order
  • Concern over mushrooming of business schools
  • Need to increase literacy rate stressed
  • Umashankar takes over as Deputy Commissioner

    • Kerala

  • Surge in micro-hydel projects in Idukki
  • Call for law to protect women social workers
  • Nalini Netto case: 3 witnesses cross-examined
  • `Orthodox faction a breakaway group'
  • Amalgamation of seafood units mooted
  • Mata's service highly valuable: Chandy
  • Takeover of castle challenged
  • Federal Bank announces 70 per cent dividend
  • State to seek Central aid to check sea erosion
  • Library Council awards announced
  • 122 students leave for China for medical studies
  • Move to create communal divide: MP
  • Search for assailants continues
  • `Government action will hit NRI investment'
  • RSS takes out protest march
  • Sexual abuse: one held
  • KSSP, VS cross swords
  • Private bus workers in Kochi plan stir
  • Centre not informed of assault, says Ahamed
  • Priest's murder: Chandy ready for CBI probe
  • Chandy lauds officer
  • Train cancelled
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • BEFI call to employees
  • IA flight cancelled

    • Kochi

  • Mayor joins issue with Ombudsman
  • PCB may put on hold decision to expand eco-panel
  • New appointments in police force soon
  • Food Plaza opened
  • Cadaver-based liver transplant performed
  • Directive to Corporation on canal works
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Reporter's Diary
  • Campus Notes

    • Kollam

  • Achuthanandan visits KMML
  • Reception committee office

    • Kozhikode

  • IMA condemns attack on doctor
  • Protest against attack on nuns mounting
  • OP at Thalakkulathur CHC to resume today

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Succession war in the BJP
  • Ramanna & the nuclear programme

    • Letters to the Editor

  • India-Pakistan ties
  • Playing spoilsport
  • Flawed
  • Atrocious
  • Laudable
  • Pawar's stand
  • Parliament & Judiciary
  • Savarkar row

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • M.P. to become `tourism State'

    • Madikeri

  • Rs. 10 lakhs for road repair in Madikeri
  • Stamp exhibition from Saturday

    • Madurai

  • Stone-throwing mars bypoll
  • Many irrigation tanks full in Periyar-Vaigai irrigation system
  • Professor shows black flag to Vice-Chancellor
  • Bank deposits go up
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Man dies in accident
  • Petty shops coming up by the side of roads
  • Heart care institutes told to adopt a humane approach
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Pleasant surprise for tourists

    • Nagapattinam

  • Heavy rain in delta districts

    • Nagercoil

  • Byelections peaceful
  • Two held with rectified sprit

    • National

  • Efforts to patch up Naidu-Bharti differences
  • Punjab Cricket Association to nominate Pawar
  • `All steps to protect Sikh shrines'
  • India may take up insurgency issue with Bangladesh
  • Aliens in their own land
  • `Neoconservatives, an elite pressure group'
  • Health Ministry denies reports
  • `BJP has broken convention'
  • SGPC condemns attack
  • We will prove Sky Bus system is infallible: Rajaram
  • Idols immersion peaceful in Gujarat
  • BJP creating tension in Maharashtra, says Congress
  • Court rejects plea to refer Article 370 issue to larger Bench
  • Outwitting Net baddies
  • Policy on tribals not yet finalised: Ministry
  • `Thumri Queen' Shobha Gurtu passes away
  • Big bucks, not kicks drive the hackers
  • Panel set up to celebrate Shastri's birth centenary

    • Nellore

  • Over 30,000 rice pensions alloted
  • Chief Minister to visit Nellore
  • YSR awaited with high hopes

    • New Delhi

  • MCD panel for more house tax outlets
  • Residents to help clean Sanjay Lake
  • 100 days in office on 169th day
  • Auto strike hits normal life
  • Bharti Yadav's plea to be heard on Oct. 1
  • JNU pays tribute to Mahatma
  • CINEMA
  • Two held on auto thefts charge
  • Cousins stabbed to death
  • Traders agitate
  • Man sentenced to death
  • Robbed of jewellery
  • Noida to have modern IT park
  • Missing sisters, abduction feared
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Inside Delhi

    • Pondicherry

  • No bias in implementing schemes: Rangasamy
  • After the fanfare, complete silence
  • Villagers stage road roko for house sites
  • Senior citizens' health camp
  • Women's commission `needed'
  • Drive against drunken driving
  • Art, crafts village to come up at Murungapakkam
  • Delimitation `will hurt Dalit interests'

    • Racing : Horse

  • Bedi elected DRC president again

    • Racing : Motor

  • Balakrishna hogs the limelight

    • Rajasthan

  • Action sought against `honour killing' accused

    • Religion

  • Purpose of God's postures

    • Salem

  • Polling peaceful

    • Shimoga

  • Idol immersion procession passes off peacefully
  • `Cooperative sector is on the verge of collapse'

    • Sports : General

  • Hamm puts forward his case
  • Robert triumphs

    • Squash

  • Mumbai University takes title

    • Table Tennis

  • Krishna takes honours

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Tough action against video piracy coming
  • 25 injured in clash during ward byelection
  • Problems over, questions remain
  • Present total picture: Jayalalithaa
  • UNESCO delegates conduct spot inspection
  • Employment boom in the offing at Tirupur
  • engagements
  • `Lend personal touch to distance education'
  • Cultural programmes mark tourism day celebrations
  • Judge pulls up public prosecutor in Kiruttinan case
  • No sudden entry into politics: Vijayakant
  • Hindu Munnani to hold `satyagraha'
  • 60% turnout in local body byelections
  • Film industry to hold thanksgiving rally
  • CSIR foundation day celebrated
  • Bodies of 3 students found
  • Court orders BHEL to employ petitioners
  • Korattur lake turns into a pool of sullage
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Horticulture research and training institute at Tali soon
  • Panel inspects development works
  • By-elections pass off peacefully
  • Power shutdown

    • Tennis

  • U.S. completes formalities
  • Anshuman advances
  • Rohit advances
  • Prakash Amritraj crashes out

    • Thanjavur

  • Woes of Housing Board residents
  • Explosion on Thanjavur court campus, watchman hurt

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • School buildings go without fitness tests
  • Red tide: role of industrial effluents ruled out
  • Anti-hooch raid in tribal areas
  • MCH operation theatre ready
  • Expatriates to launch awareness campaign
  • SFI activists held
  • YC activists picket SAT counter
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • This Day That Age

  • dated September 28, 1954: Mao's new status
  • dated September 28, 1954: New Opposition Party
  • dated September 28, 1954: Sringeri Swami passes away
  • dated September 28, 1954: Desika Vinayagam Pillai

    • Thrissur

  • 345 women constables complete training
  • Awards for Prithviraj, Navya

    • Tiruchi

  • Photo lab, video studio set up at college
  • Rain continues in Tiruchi
  • By-election peaceful
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Unruly scenes in council meet

    • Tirupati

  • Pole with live wire crashes onto road
  • 7 held, booty recovered

    • Udupi

  • MLC calls for blueprint to harness tourism potential
  • Three file nominations for CMC bypoll

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Law and order in a shambles: Mayawati
  • Congress to field Phoolan's husband
  • Serial killer on the prowl

    • Vijayawada

  • Our actions will speak, says new CP
  • Indian flag designer's statue to stand in museum
  • Face challenges with dexterity, students told
  • Jana Vignana Vedika's call to be wary of multinationals
  • Bodies of children fished out
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • A hard job to keep things smooth

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Mad scramble for a `treat'
  • Pharma City-displaced seek house-sites
  • Marine policing to become a reality
  • Free zoo entry for children from Oct. 1
  • Star cricket match for a cause
  • `Tribals at the receiving end'
  • World Tourism Day celebrated
  • European Commission official's visit
  • No power supply
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Confusion over flying visit

    • Volleyball

  • China keeps crown

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • WFI temporarily banned

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