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Alappuzha

  • Skydivers thrill crowds
  • `Boat races need to be marketed properly'

    • Anantapur

  • SP names 39 most wanted, sets deadline for surrender
  • Report on work to plug leakage in PABR sought

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • On campaign trail
  • Women empowerment
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • UNCTAD Director's pat for Indian software surge
  • BJP leader criticises TDP, Congress' stand on quota
  • Falling for the `bhutta'
  • TRS wants State to mark Telangana Liberation Day
  • Land distribution on Aug. 21
  • Mike Connor new British Deputy High Commissioner
  • Modern fish stalls to be set up at Chirala, Kandukur
  • Naxalite surrenders
  • Another jaundice death

    • Athletics

  • Madison takes gold; Anju finishes fifth

    • Badminton

  • Professional managers needed, says Padukone

    • Bangalore

  • Policing has improved: Dharam Singh
  • Stretch of Chord Road underpass thrown open for vehicular traffic
  • Voter card drive intensified
  • Dharam Singh promises special committee to study problems of nomadic tribes
  • H.K. Patil demands better deal for cooperative banks from Centre, RBI
  • BPO firms do not offer casual jobs
  • Decision to oust Siddaramaiah was autocratic: M.C. Nanaiah
  • Media criticised for overlooking good work
  • An institution in memory of Quit India Movement set up
  • Mathematical geniuses
  • Seat selection for medical, dental courses put off
  • Siddaramaiah, others rebuffed by Janata Dal (S)
  • Remembering heroes
  • Venues issuing voter cards today
  • 24 students permitted to write exam
  • Thomas panel to meet today
  • Man murdered
  • Running for a noble cause
  • BE results
  • Running for a noble cause
  • ONGC gets Dhruv
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Belgaum

  • Floods are nobody's fault: Deve Gowda

    • Bellary

  • Bellary trade unions' meet on Sunday

    • Boxing

  • Indian women win

    • Briefly

  • VAT panel to meet on Aug 24
  • CII delegation to visit Australia
  • Coca Cola names India head
  • Kamdhenu group ties up with Belgian firm
  • Aurobindo Pharma raises $60m
  • Allahabad Bank ties up with small farmers
  • Netandhost's new storage service
  • L&T consolidates Gulf business
  • Tata Teleservices launches new handsets
  • Peninsular opens two branches in Tamil Nadu
  • Apere to set up centre in Hyderabad
  • ITC launches Sunfeast variants
  • NMDC hands over dividend cheque
  • NMDC hands over dividend cheque
  • SEBI nod for Talbros' equity offer

    • Business

  • MPs panel for compulsory SSI registration
  • Blaupunkt plans to open 20 branded outlets
  • Sensex scales new peak
  • Parryware plans for East India
  • Sula Wines in talks with private equity group
  • Upset price for SML assets raised

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Jayalalithaa's call to bankers to expedite credit linkage to SHGs
  • Veeranam pollution within limits, says official
  • Approver deposes in Acharya case
  • Is Chennai ready for the monsoon?
  • Students go by colleges rather than courses as engineering counselling continues
  • A mathematics teacher with a following
  • Space Hospitals will take medicine to the hinterland
  • Kavi Bharathi Vidyalaya students showcase their talents
  • 1,300 temporary shelters for tsunami victims
  • Software firms have openings for non-IT graduates
  • Rights panel directs policeman to pay compensation to sex worker
  • Doing comedy is more challenging, says Madhavan
  • Students `map' their way to success
  • Vision science, optometry meet
  • Lions Club organises eye camps in city
  • City girl attempts to create record
  • CPI(M) seeks enhanced minimum price for tea leaf
  • Ideas with a touch of colour
  • Tytler better than insensitive persons, says Karunanidhi
  • NGO project for tsunami-hit in Cuddalore
  • Operation of TASMAC shop stayed
  • TNSC Bank staff strike work
  • Solution books published for physics, maths
  • Cash stolen from passenger
  • GRT's slogan contest
  • Musical performance on August 20
  • Constable's house burgled
  • Plea to lower sewer charges
  • Essay contest for teachers
  • For a pot of water
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Anand starts with white against Grischuk; Hari wins three rounds
  • Quick draws help Ramesh retain lead
  • Sasikiran in joint lead

    • Coimbatore

  • Garbage set on fire at compost yard
  • Farmers display their wares at fair
  • Meet at PSG tech tomorrow
  • Meet on IT tools
  • SBI lodges police complaint against textile firm
  • How to go about it... .
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • KSCA-MRF Trophy gets underway
  • Dravid, Pathan out of Afro-Asian Cup
  • Mohammad Sami and Dhoni confirm participation
  • Nikhil sparkles
  • Sri Lanka closes in on Australia

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8370
  • Solution to Puzzle 8369

    • Cuddapah

  • Left parties reach pact on civic polls

    • Editorials

  • Wavering on political morality
  • Medical negligence and prosecution

    • Eluru

  • We are committed to secular values, says Chandrababu
  • Clarify stance on minorities, says Naidu

    • Erode

  • Inculcate reading habit, parents told
  • `The young sacrificed for Kargil victory'
  • Gram Sabha meetings to focus on poverty removal
  • Discharge from Orathupalayam reduced
  • Wasteland to be developed

    • Football

  • Liverpool, Inter have it easy

    • Front Page

  • Manmohan: I bow my head in shame
  • Centre doing its best on oil front: Aiyar
  • Ordinance to regulate SEZs comes into force
  • New lease of life for Iraqi toddler
  • Pakistan test-fires cruise missile, joins select group
  • IOC seeks decision on oil price issue
  • Disaster Management Bill in next Assembly session
  • Shane Warne carves out a niche of his own
  • Another night, another nightmare of a gang-rape
  • Selectors have a tough task on hand
  • Work completed on all six power generation units at Alamatti Dam
  • All-party team seeks amendment to scheduled castes categorisation
  • Job-working spinning mills catching up
  • Mission for growth, poverty alleviation
  • Ordinance to regulate SEZs comes into force
  • Van fatally knocks down schoolgirl
  • 13 killed in road accidents in Andhra Pradesh
  • Sonia Gandhi to tour flood-hit districts
  • Subhashan Reddy is SHRC chief
  • `Look into compensation for anti-Sikh riot victims'

    • Gulbarga

  • Hike compensation to be paid to farmers, says Yediyurappa
  • Recovery component key to solid waste management: study
  • Writing is a passion for man of many talents
  • Was death by an `evil spell' a murder?
  • Express highway between Humnabad and Hyderabad
  • Convention of industrial workers tomorrow

    • Guntur

  • Congress fails to put up a united front
  • Highway robber gang busted
  • BSNL to upgrade technology
  • Flood official injured in accident

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Himachal House witnesses an unusual protest

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Administrator pulls up officials at meeting
  • Hubli lawyers boycott court proceedings, stage protest
  • Water supply schedule for Dharwad and Hubli
  • New pipeline will ease water crisis: Honnali
  • `Teachers can help detect eye disorders in children'

    • Hyderabad

  • Move to extend ban to autorickshaws also
  • `Nandanavanam' brings students closer to nature
  • Land distribution: four documents to be given to beneficiaries
  • Enterprising trio's "one minute" to fame
  • MCH to cover manholes within next two days
  • City police chief seeks DCP's suspension
  • Sluggish pace of work on storm water drains blocks commuters
  • NIFT students to showcase lifestyle accessories
  • MP's gesture to tribal girls
  • SBI `loan mahotsav' from tomorrow
  • Christians demand quota on par with Muslims
  • ECIL employee's family robbed at knifepoint
  • Singapore beckons tourists
  • State to organise crop loan melas
  • Trains to halt at Tippapur
  • Assets to be given to 2.8 lakh poor families
  • New postings for 21 DSPs
  • GET Lionel India begins operations in city
  • The row continues
  • No power supply in some parts today
  • Police Commissioner seeks DCP's suspension
  • Transfer of RTA official likely
  • Slash power tariff: TDP
  • Destination Sagar
  • Who is responsible?
  • Revenue Inspector in ACB net
  • Infosys chief calls on YSR
  • Victim of road rage
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Edict on women in elections an offence
  • Malaysia for talks with Indonesia over haze
  • Eliot's letters to come under the hammer
  • Rushdie on Man Booker Prize list
  • Arms consignment from Iran seized at Iraq border
  • Radical Muslim cleric detained in Britain
  • Nobel physicist faces prison term
  • UAE decision on sponsorship of expatriates
  • Pakistan hints at supporting Japan on U.N. seat
  • Britain to ease nuclear sanctions against India

    • Kannur

  • `Mobilise public opinion against FDI in media'
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • MSR visits tiffin box explosion site
  • Youth arrested on charge of causing girl's death; student groups protest
  • State obstructing bomb blast probe: BJP

    • Karnataka

  • Work ends on all Alamatti power generation units
  • 15 per cent of crops in Bidar damaged by rains
  • What a welcome!
  • Mobilising public opinion
  • Sonia Gandhi to tour flood-hit regions
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Gadag APMC breaking new ground
  • Siddaramaiah: I am victim of Deve Gowda's attitude
  • Expedite food-for-work programme, implementing agencies directed
  • Rally on seed rights to continue
  • Cooperative bodies told to adopt business schemes
  • BJP leader draws attention to encroachments
  • AHIND workers to continue agitation
  • Police thwart dacoity in Davangere

    • Kerala

  • Kerala engineers at Mullaperiyar dam site
  • Hunger for learning
  • Precaution against thefts
  • Drivers beware, camera ahead
  • Crowded buses
  • No gondola this
  • Seeking blessings of the god
  • V. C. Kabeer resigns as MLA, to join Congress
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • KSRTC comes to people's aid

    • Kochi

  • Directive to prevent unauthorised construction
  • GCDA ready to take up bus terminal project at Vyttila
  • Strike throws life out of gear
  • Cut in BSNL rate evokes customer interest
  • Anytime Condom machine starts functioning at Kaloor
  • High Court upholds takeover of 10 cashew factories
  • When the police and citizens get together
  • Answer a question and win a calf !
  • Union Minister to inaugurate water transport terminal today
  • `Faith deters suicidal instinct'
  • Laudable effort
  • Chennithala asked to apologise for remarks against Karunakaran
  • Foundation stone laid for Friendship Home
  • Of rotting food
  • Lawyers' protest
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Debate over advantages of new parking system in Kollam city
  • Government staff stage dharna
  • Wage panel for cashew industry demanded
  • Protest against clay mine company

    • Kottayam

  • Eco-friendly technology in rubber sector stressed

    • Kozhikode

  • Pets evolve into status symbols
  • Slaughterhouses directed to apply for PCB permit
  • Rights panel to look into Vineeta Kottai issue
  • NC(I) leader given additional power

    • Kurnool

  • Julakanti cannot escape, says YSR

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Moral indifference as the form of modern evil

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Tytler quits
  • Inconclusive findings

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • CII to focus on sustainability with jobs

    • Madikeri

  • Janata Dal (S) leader allays fears over Siddaramaiah's exit from Ministry
  • Insurance employees to take out rally
  • Officials told to complete works on time
  • `Intensify drive against child labour'

    • Madurai

  • Printing of family cards at Madurai mooted
  • CAT guards staff against railway order
  • `Instil confidence among rescued child labourers'
  • Jeweller relieved of diamonds
  • Healthy competition
  • Minister inspects TNCSC godown
  • Dalmia Cements ordered to give compensation
  • Forum's gripe on delimitation panel
  • Too small for the main roads
  • Never short of sorrows
  • Plan to block Sethu works
  • Slithering nuisance
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • NRIs to create consortium for expansion of airport
  • Chaotic vehicular traffic a threat to people in city
  • Bus owners to crack down on errant conductors
  • NFF keen to rope in fishermen from Goa
  • Thieves take away jewellery
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Deve Gowda wants Prasad in Dharam Singh team?
  • Fear of faulty relief package haunts Mandakalli farmers
  • CFTRI develops sugarcane de-skinning machine
  • Clearance for airport hailed
  • Ganesha idols inspired by politics
  • Dengue alert issued in Mysore district
  • Geoinformatics centre to be opened tomorrow

    • Nalgonda

  • Every poor family to have house and tap connection
  • Public hearing on Godavari LI today
  • Chief Minister gives an `earful' to protesting TDP activists

    • National

  • Opposition seeks `immediate prosecution' of those named
  • Sajjan Kumar quits as Rural Development Board chief
  • Stop sending militants here, Mehbooba tells Pakistan
  • Protracted probe itself a punishment
  • Order today on admission norms
  • Cell to check female foeticide on the cards
  • Parliament attack: call for probe to determine truth
  • Shortcomings found in DRDO purchases
  • After rains, Mumbai faces epidemic situation
  • Centre mobilises medical aid for Maharashtra
  • Truckers refuse to take NH 39
  • Sibal clarifies on calendric dates
  • Locate underground flows of Bhagirathi: court
  • Blogging through mobile phones
  • World's tallest topiary cries for sustenance
  • Buddhadeb bereaved
  • More Haj pilgrims in 2006
  • Bedlam in Orissa Assembly
  • ``Kohli delaying extradition''
  • Cabinet nod for rural jobs Bill
  • 13 killed in road accidents
  • Amendment to SC categorisation sought
  • Aiyar `cheers' up Opposition
  • 1984 riots: two panels for compensation
  • Rajnath's remark creates flutter
  • All States to delete absconders from voter lists
  • BJP hails Election Commission order
  • NDA allies demand Modi's resignation
  • Lalu apologises twice to Speaker
  • Vaishno Devi shrine fortified, pen bomb recovered
  • RSS leader Seshadri's condition critical
  • `Tax Benches' in High Courts recommended
  • A flood of patients and overworked doctors
  • Approval for Dabhol revival
  • Second class fare down by Re. 1
  • CBI raids

    • New Delhi

  • Cong. MLAs fear power shocks
  • Need to balance individual freedom, state authority
  • Court notices to GTB Hospital, Delhi Govt.
  • BJP bats for industries in residential areas
  • How celebrity activism gets going
  • More power for Maneka's show
  • High Court disallows take over of school
  • Health tips through health kites
  • Stay on construction of banquet hall
  • Retired major held on forgery charges
  • Tracing a relationship through letters
  • Senior citizen held in sex racket
  • Campaign for `barrier-free' India to be launched
  • Doctorate for Sreedharan
  • Crowning glory
  • A Chief Minister's offering
  • Junk food gets popular among teenagers
  • Citizens' forum criticises ruling striking down IMDT Act
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • "Identifying a civilian nuclear facility is India's decision"
  • Seeking multilateral regional cooperation
  • Incorrect reading of religious texts
  • Tourism falters in drug town

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Niraputhari rituals at Sabarimala temple
  • Teak logs seized from Konni
  • Private bus strike hits normal life
  • Minister opens bridge

    • Pondicherry

  • 30 injured as crackers catch fire at temple festival
  • Shanmugham vows to make Pondicherry a model State
  • Rangasamy announces waiver of loan dues

    • Racing : Horse

  • Royal Award and Carradale shine
  • Frida Kahlo and Some Time excel

    • Racing : Motor

  • `Karun cannot represent India at A1 GP'
  • I want to be on the podium more than once: Narain

    • Rajasthan

  • Raje for hi-tech farm practices
  • Gecis Global to expand centre with more jobs
  • No monkey business in bird paradise

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Ryots disprove a popular notion, raise second crop
  • Motorcyclist fatally knocked down

    • Religion

  • Impermanence of life

    • Salem

  • Demand to pass Bill on forest rights
  • North Eastern handicrafts exhibition draws crowd
  • Training programme for Municipal Commissioners

    • Shimoga

  • Environmentalists promised steps to check river pollution
  • Attempt to fell sandalwood trees foiled in Shimoga

    • Sport

  • The big captaincy debate
  • Daniilidou puts out Kuznetsova
  • Indians were outplayed
  • Shane Warne carves out a niche of his own
  • India finishes fifth in its group
  • Selectors have a tough task on hand

    • Sports : General

  • Good spell by Chetan
  • Final loss disappointing: Venugopala Rao
  • Mahendran, Maheswari claim titles
  • C'wealth Games: Grand plans in place
  • Atish and Raju share top spot

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Self-help...
  • Ruggedly slushy
  • Awaiting victims
  • NCC wants allocation of land speeded up
  • University expects 10,000 students to land jobs
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Pudukottai to ask for more Cauvery water from Thanjavur
  • Make the most of govt. schemes, public told
  • Adopt better water management practices, Collector tells farmers
  • `Observers deputed for Gram Sabha meetings'
  • KSG opposes airport proposal
  • Fund sanctioned for schools
  • Poets envisage casteless society
  • Construction workers' conference begins
  • Rs. 2 crores for employment scheme

    • Tennis

  • Sudanwa, Asvarya clinch titles
  • Ankita and Sanaa Bhambri in last eight

    • Thanjavur

  • Improved techniques needed to boost rice production: Collector
  • When they come, can festival be far behind?
  • Exhibition of silk, cotton saris inaugurated

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • V.C. Kabeer resigns as MLA; to join Congress
  • Kerala engineers visit Mullaperiyar reservoir site
  • Panchakarma hospital: CPI(M) to support stir
  • Four-year-old boy drowned
  • A cartel was at work in Civil Supplies Corporation, says Minister
  • Interim relief evokes mixed reaction
  • KSEB to open 41 more trouble call centres
  • In search of her identity
  • Mouse tail in soft drink?
  • Call to enforce High Court ban on rallies
  • Aiming to beat a record in percussion
  • Security at Sabarimala to be strengthened
  • `Delay in moving apex court will benefit cola firm'
  • Plea for probe
  • Cultural festival
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 12, 1955: Goa: PM confers with MPs
  • dated August 12, 1955: Promotion of fine arts
  • dated August 12, 1955: Bezwada station's name

    • Thrissur

  • Seeds Bill is anti-farmer: Suman Sahai
  • MT to inaugurate Drishya Society
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • ASI waits for removal of encroachments to set up museum at Mainguard Gate
  • Orientation programmes on cultivation of herbal plants
  • Former sportsmen, heroes today
  • Centre for Nehru Studies planned
  • Critical need
  • A shelter tidy and grand
  • BSNL to take on competitors
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Charge sheet filed in Aruna case
  • Inter-district school carnival

    • Tirupati

  • A way for Chittoor to get Krishna water
  • YSR looks to NDDB to bail out Chittoor Dairy

    • Tumkur

  • Congress wins APMC posts amid drama
  • Siddaramaiah urges seer to keep off `divisive' politics

    • Tuticorin

  • Tuticorin dt. police office gets `ISO 9001:2000'
  • Officials told to get prepared for northeast monsoon

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Public seek steps for uninterrupted water supply during wet spells
  • Rs. 5-crore horticulture schemes on the anvil
  • `Dispel wrong notions about breastfeeding'

    • Udupi

  • KDA not in favour of introducing English from first standard
  • Survey work sparks protest

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Deadline set for BSP in defection case

    • Vijayawada

  • `Fine' way to rein in motorists
  • `Flood situation to persist'
  • Municipal official inspects relief camps
  • CPI(M) expresses unhappiness over relief measures
  • Naidu's itinerary
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Harvesting the clouds, with common salt
  • Mining project faces rough weather
  • Government claim on new port contested
  • Sanitaryware firm to expand Bibinagar plant
  • How to beat Mumbai type deluge
  • Samsung to open showroom in Vijayawada
  • Special train
  • BJP to focus on civic issues
  • Around the City
  • In Vishakapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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