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Alappuzha

  • Congress has already conceded defeat: Murali
  • Nursing student found dead

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Incessant rain plays havoc in coastal districts
  • "Candidates forced to `hire' crowds for support"
  • Nature's fury
  • Several trains cancelled due to heavy rain in State
  • India-EU Round Table to set up Internet forum
  • Indian diabetes risk score test helps to identify new cases
  • Godavari wreaks havoc
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Nature's fury claims ten lives in Godavari districts
  • Congress upbeat; dull show by Telugu Desam
  • Congress flays Naidu's remark against YSR
  • Naidu's visit enthuses TDP men
  • Parts of Rajahmundry marooned
  • `Stranded' list swells
  • Traffic comes to a halt on highway
  • Failure in pumping from Nalla Channel leads to inundation
  • Intimidation of candidates to the fore
  • Grievance cell meets
  • Joins Congress
  • Four die in accident

    • Assam

  • ULFA militants holed up in National Park

    • Athletics

  • Shiv Kumar sets new National mark

    • Bangalore

  • Plastic waste to be used for asphalting roads
  • Panchayat Raj Department to run PDS
  • Traffic alert display boards to be placed at important points
  • Push-to-talk phones catching on
  • Over 5,000 firms to adopt AIDS policy by year end
  • Lobbying on for post of film academy chairman
  • Second fake stamp paper racket case trial begins today
  • Police can book fair price shop owners: High Court
  • East to meet West at guitar festival
  • Hoysala patrol team recovers stolen vehicle, two arrested
  • Of employees and customers
  • Reservation in cooperative banks, societies quashed
  • Karnataka Nataka Academy told to focus on training actors
  • Man jailed for pushing wife into prostitution
  • Government staff rally today
  • Children paint stories, and how!
  • A taste of Kerala
  • Bomb hoax again at SJR College in city
  • Music from South Africa
  • Teachers may be freed from survey work
  • Student robbed of mobile phone, gold ring
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Bellary

  • Teachers to be felicitated

    • Bidar

  • Tension in Basavakalyan over desecration of Ganesha idol

    • Bijapur

  • Police vigilant about naxal activities: IGP
  • Shiv Sena holds rally in Bagalkot
  • Man wanted in 200 cases and his accomplices arrested

    • Boxing

  • Jai Bhagwan toys with Ajay

    • Briefly

  • Gold rallies to end at 10-month high
  • Newbridge to invest $100m in Shriram group
  • Diploma course in personnel management
  • SBI's finance scheme for Ashok Leyland vehicles
  • IL&FS to assist scheme for Textile Parks
  • Bajaj Allianz's bancassurance tie-up
  • Funskool India pact with Walt Disney Company
  • Flextronics opens software centre in Beijing
  • PNB launches website for farmers
  • CBM recovery project takes off
  • Simbhaoli Sugar to set up plant in Ghaziabad
  • Hindalco to raise up to Rs 2,500 cr.
  • A camera for the masses from Jindal Photo

    • Business

  • Sensex breaches 8500
  • Market needs correction, say industry leaders
  • Sen panel for de-branding of essential drugs
  • Matrix buys stake in Swiss major
  • CII wants penalties for food safety offences watered down
  • Improve quality of tea, planters told
  • A mobile phone that works on penlight cells
  • DHL's new facility
  • 4 nations to co-operate in HVDC transmission facility
  • Rupee recovers against dollar

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • You'll pay a little more, but now you get to see the water
  • Surfeit of colleges, surplus of seats
  • Fuel prices impact on auto fares
  • City's surging water demand takes its toll on surrounding villages
  • Recognising dementia crucial to its treatment, say doctors
  • Awards for road safety presented
  • Linking of IT offices by January 1
  • Complaint against chit fund company
  • Maximum additional seats for ECE, ME
  • Murder case: court refuses to discharge 11 persons
  • Biodiversity register to aid greening
  • Writers' group marks Periyar's birthday
  • Autographed bats, just a click away
  • Jailed Nepalese leader's petition withdrawn
  • `Kaya Taran' screened at MCC
  • Livestock meet
  • Luxury liner visits Chennai port
  • IAS Officers and the internet
  • Protest against fuel price hike
  • Bullion traders demand cut in sales tax
  • School celebrates Founder's Day
  • Meditation for world peace, rain
  • "Migrant workers lack awareness on HIV"
  • Records destroyed in fire
  • Rs. 30 lakhs seized from two air passengers
  • Charge sheet submitted in Nakkeeran Gopal case
  • Avoid personal attacks, Congress leaders told
  • Train services disrupted
  • Vocational teachers' demand
  • Online quiz contest
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Opposition on the defensive plank
  • What is the profile of accidents in city?
  • Projects, papers submitted for Confianza-05
  • Residents' protest
  • Workshop on evaluation techniques
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Centuries by Dilshan and Samaraweera
  • Vidyut's effort in vain
  • Selection shake-up by Australia
  • What's the culture of Indian cricket?
  • Inzamam advised to avoid long distance travel
  • Tendulkar's take on Ganguly issue

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8403
  • Solution to Puzzle 8402

    • Cuddalore

  • College education revamp urged

    • Dharmapuri

  • Farmers demand fresh loans from coop. banks
  • Students attack headmistress

    • Dindigul

  • DIG for panel to study accident-prone areas

    • Editorials

  • For a two-track response to naxalism
  • A way out of cable gridlock

    • Eluru

  • All eyes on Eluru polls

    • Erode

  • It is death dance on fields...
  • National bird is farmers' foe
  • 138 physically challenged persons get pension
  • Water scarcity in Ponmudi village
  • National Highway-47 to be made four-lane

    • Football

  • Ronaldinho wins players' award
  • Sun College clinches title

    • Front Page

  • Parleys begin for Bihar polls
  • Evolve consensus on Iran issue: Natwar
  • AICTE nod for 5,690 more engineering seats
  • North Korea's nuclear agreement hits a snag
  • ISRO plans to launch 10 satellites in four years
  • Irfan Pathan has Zimbabwe in a bind
  • Sania clears first hurdle with ease
  • Incessant rain plays havoc in coastal Andhra, Telangana regions; 30 killed
  • AICTE nod for 5,690 more engineering seats
  • Naxal issue: Centre okays use of choppers
  • Additional security for 2,464 booths
  • It is unfair to put blame on Karunakaran alone: Antony
  • NIT to design expansion of Central Bus Stand
  • Winds of change and much more for Class X
  • Funds from three projects to be diverted for relief
  • Residents don't feel at home
  • Barnala bowled over by `Uzhavar Sandhai'
  • Giving trees on IT corridor fresh lease of life
  • Omar for talks with Hizb chief
  • Leap to life
  • EAMCET counselling postponed
  • Giving trees on IT corridor fresh lease of life
  • Shiv Sena pays fine
  • Sensex soars
  • It is celebration time for hotels in Mysore

    • Globescan

  • Power crisis in Ukraine
  • Benazir appears in court
  • Stem cell breakthrough

    • Goa

  • Goa mulls OTC sale of low-alcohol content drinks

    • Golf

  • The Hindu Open begins today

    • Gulbarga

  • Farmers' groups seek White Paper on WTO discussions

    • Guntur

  • Potential mayoral candidate locked in tough battle with TDP nominee
  • Rain claims five lives in Guntur district
  • Congress has kept its promises: MP

    • Hassan

  • Puttaswamy Gowda regrets sidelining of development works
  • Global conference to address coffee growers' problems

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Himachal to launch Rural Health Mission

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • `It is only destruction in the name of development'
  • Water supply in Hubli, Dharwad
  • Farmers urged to benefit from demand for aromatic plants

    • Hyderabad

  • Death in manhole: police yet to fix responsibility
  • Human development report delayed
  • Intelligence reports speak of TJS-Maoist links, says YSR
  • Heavy rain leaves train and bus passengers stranded
  • A friendly turf `encounter,' indeed
  • OU plans to augment seats in engineering stream
  • Befitting honour for two `Bhushans'
  • Fitting tribute to ECIL `jewel' Dr. A.S. Rao
  • India-EU Round Table to set up Internet forum
  • When courage takes wing
  • Parents allege murder of son; case booked
  • SEC wants TDP to come with proof
  • Rain paralyses normal life
  • Monitor free trips of private water tankers: Jawahar Reddy
  • No police role in `Cobras': DGP
  • Hyderabadi elected to medical body
  • Scribe gets threat from `Cobras'
  • Buddha idol desecrated
  • Teacher held for beating up student
  • Bill to protect working women in the offing
  • Naidu's charge `childish', says YSR
  • Space constraint
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • KGB penetrated Indian Embassy, says book
  • Progress in talks with Dhaka on rivers

    • International

  • North Korea's nuclear agreement hits a snag
  • Teheran warns West of harsh response
  • Nazi war criminal hunter Simon Wiesenthal is dead
  • July 7 "bombers'' did a dry run
  • Another giant leap to the moon planned
  • Pope immune from lawsuit, court told
  • Show commitment to peace, LTTE told
  • 50,000 Londoners addicted to crack

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Heritage map of Srinagar launched

    • Jharkand

  • Man `starves' to death in Ranchi

    • Kannur

  • Youth found dead in police station toilet

    • Karimnagar

  • APCC chief silent on TRS ,TJS connection with naxals
  • TJS formed to protect Telangana movement, says KCR
  • Keshava Rao gives a piece of his mind to Naidu

    • Karnataka

  • It is celebration time during Dasara for hotel industry
  • Honouring the Mahatma
  • A special honour
  • Children's Rights Bill to be tabled in next Assembly session
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Survey estimates rain damage at Rs. 49 crores
  • He has humour at his fingertips
  • Hogenekal Falls to be developed as tourist destination
  • Opposition growing for draft Seed Bill
  • Rules for reservation of seats in taluk, zilla panchayats notified
  • Officials told to give priority to public grievances
  • MP demands higher minimum support price for arecanut
  • `Foreign publishers look for opportunities in India'
  • Karanth award for Veerappa Moily
  • Instrumentation workshop from today
  • Villagers lock up official
  • Deve Gowda accused of exploiting quota issue
  • `Fun Tan', `Fadcha' launched
  • MAHE given 15 days to stop releasing sewage at Herga
  • Two die as ash discharge tank bursts

    • Kerala

  • Former Kerala BJP chief echoes views of Advani
  • Aysha, the literacy synonym
  • Enlightening tribal people
  • Of bills and wreckages
  • Mayyazhi without elected municipality
  • An attempt to `decolonise English'
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Arrested PDP activist expelled from party
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Campaign still on a low key in Neyyattinkara

    • Khammam

  • Nine mandals register 30 cm rainfall today
  • Flood situation grim in Khammam

    • Kochi

  • Action plan on crime reduction
  • Awareness programmes planned on Alzheimer's disease
  • No power, no vote
  • Two arrested for selling ganja
  • Voter's dilemma
  • Tough days ahead
  • Technical, cultural festival at college
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • LDF, UDF confident of winning in Kollam
  • Government contractors suspend construction work
  • Man found dead
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Urban-rural bias towards fronts evident in Kottayam
  • CKP echoes Advani's views

    • Kozhikode

  • LDF hopes to retain Vadakara municipality
  • IG visits Beypore
  • Mullassery Raju award presented
  • 4,795 in the fray in Kozhikode district
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • New life poured into poetic drama
  • Rain mars campaign

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Iran and the invention of a nuclear crisis

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Tackling naxalites
  • BJP matters
  • Musharraf vs. women
  • Investigate charge
  • Timely
  • Life term
  • Endless debate

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Time for Congress to unite against BJP

    • Madurai

  • Guru Granth most secular, says Barnala
  • Nine Al-Umma activists acquitted in murder case
  • Governor's clarion call to patronise good drama
  • Throwing light on secret to harmonious living
  • A red flag? Could it be the proverbial red flag?
  • A tete-a-tete with tribals
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Maharashtra

  • Two arrested in Preeti Jain case
  • Private operators edging out sugar cooperatives

    • Mangalore

  • Two boats drift, capsize
  • CAMPCO board accused of mismanaging affairs
  • Bajpe airport: 20 families given compensation
  • Youth leaders steal the show
  • Corporation Bank to adopt online banking in Hindi
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Music

  • Nafisa Ali for `reinventing' children's films

    • Mysore

  • Gynaecologist, private hospital charged with `deficiency in service'
  • Wrestlers getting ready for Dasara championships
  • Enthusiasm at tent school for children of labourers
  • Police produce seven murder accused in court
  • BJP activists seek ban on single, double digit lotteries

    • Nagapattinam

  • Six new courses introduced in Nagapattinam college

    • Nagercoil

  • Plan to improve the lot of Kani tribals

    • Nalgonda

  • Rain throws life out of gear

    • National

  • Governor wanted RJD or President's rule: Sorabjee
  • ``Solution to Naga issue not now''
  • I had not commented on joint task forces in respect of other States: Jayalalithaa
  • UTI liable for postal lapse: court
  • Make affidavits available for scrutiny: panel
  • ``I want to become the President''
  • Not enough done for farmers: M.S. Swaminathan
  • New medical curriculum planned
  • A friend of Kashmiris: Farooq Abdullah
  • Take corrective action in time, Kalam tells auditors
  • Conference on publishing in South Asia from today
  • Order on IRMA executive set aside
  • ICAR identifies seven new varieties of wheat for release
  • Remains of ancient temple found
  • Brazilian jet inducted into Indian Air Force
  • Mirwaiz spells out Hurriyat agenda
  • U.S. Embassy announces new visa system
  • Charitable trust to focus on education
  • Hearing deferred

    • New Delhi

  • Another crisis in Congress
  • Short Assembly session cause for concern, says Speaker
  • Congress MLAs oppose electronic meters
  • Opening up new vistas in education
  • DDA's draw under Rohini scheme today
  • Sheila weathers the storm; tackles rebels
  • Dengue alarm in Capital
  • After "Filhaal'' it's now "Honeymoon''
  • Conference on publishing in South Asia from today
  • Medicos up in arms over capitation fee
  • Court summons Municipal Commissioner again
  • Couple found dead in hotel
  • Major drug haul in city
  • DRI deputy director's role under probe
  • DUTA told to submit ballot papers to court
  • New additions to Delhi Zoo
  • A date with the President
  • Yawning, not yelling
  • Currency racket smashed, four held
  • Verdict reserved in murder case
  • Safdarjung case handed over to Crime Branch
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • China, Japan, and a new vision of the U.N.
  • Some uncomfortable questions
  • A Prime Minister's road trip and after
  • Freedom of speech non-negotiable
  • Is the U.K. Government the obstacle?

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • TDP, Congress go all out to protect their bastions
  • Rain bails out Prakasam district

    • Palakkad

  • Renovation of rock garden offered
  • Action against erring private Haj operators
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • LDF promises exhaustive development of district
  • Chennithala flays CPI(M) for aligning with DIC(K)
  • BJP general secretary to address meet

    • Pondicherry

  • Vasundhara Raje for joint efforts to promote tourism
  • Kannan criticises Chief Minister

    • Punjab

  • From soil erosion and floods to profitable crops
  • `Bhatinda nowhere in tourism map of Punjab'

    • Racing : Horse

  • Phooljhari claims feature event
  • Arturo and Aspinalls excel
  • Yes Es Yes Ses catches the eye
  • Flashing Star pleases
  • Primaticcio fancied

    • Rajasthan

  • Trouble brewing in `team Raje'

    • Ramanathapuram

  • High-level team checks sites for Sethu facilities
  • Thevar guru puja may hit Deepavali sales in south

    • Religion

  • The world, a snare

    • Salem

  • Sivadapuram residents lack basic amenities
  • `Form Engineers Commission'

    • Shimoga

  • `Cultural associations should be forums for budding talent'
  • Tension prevails over alleged `burning' of saffron flags
  • Lecture series on Mahabharata

    • Shooting

  • Rathore happy with government decision

    • Sport

  • Irfan Pathan has Zimbabwe in a bind
  • Sania clears first hurdle with ease

    • Sports : General

  • BCCI poll: plea for neutral observer
  • Anju rues lack of infrastructure
  • South Asian championship from September 24

    • Srikakulam

  • Electioneering moves into high gear
  • Telugu Desam Party releases election manifesto for Srikakulam Municipality

    • Table Tennis

  • Record entries received for National-ranking tournament

    • Tamil Nadu

  • I had not commented on joint task forces in respect of other States: Jayalalithaa
  • Punctuality, road to success for him
  • Ex-Minister joins Vijaykanth's party
  • Team MKU at theatre fest and debate competitions
  • Gem of a course
  • Training teachers to make toys
  • Home for all?
  • On the brink of faith
  • Giving trees on IT corridor fresh lease of life
  • Remains of ancient temple found
  • Public libraries in a shambles: forum
  • Fill judge posts early: CPI (M)
  • `Only cheques worth over Rs. 4 lakhs bounced'
  • Avoid personal attacks, TNCC leaders urged
  • Recognising early signs of dementia is crucial to treatment, say experts
  • AIDWA's call to women's groups
  • Draining of talent challenge to media planners: Balsara
  • Rallying in support of agitation
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Yercaud Lake to get new ambience
  • Walking the ramp in style
  • BU syndicate approves new guest house

    • Tennis

  • Johansson happy to be back
  • Sania is star of India: Likhovtseva
  • Sun Tiantian meets Serena next
  • Aditya surprises Sunil Kumar

    • Thanjavur

  • Gear up to tackle any disaster, officials told
  • Unreserved ticketing system introduced in Thanjavur station
  • Inspection to check bonded labour system
  • Vice-Chancellor's plea to set up Tamil chairs in varsities abroad

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • There is ambiguity in the quotation, says Vakkom
  • Molestation case: one more accused surrenders
  • Security arrangements put in place for local body elections
  • No confusion in party over Emergency, says Pinarayi
  • Traditional games make a comeback during Onam
  • Sartorial makeover
  • Touching gesture from Japanese students
  • Trains diverted
  • Time management
  • Notice served on Muraleedharan
  • Juvenile welfare board cases to be settled before January
  • Next issue
  • Reallotment list to be published on September 24
  • Cynosure of all eyes
  • Carefree childhood
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated September 21, 1955: Pakistan GG resigns
  • dated September 21, 1955: Soviet ideology
  • dated September 21, 1955: Memorial service for Netaji

    • Thrissur

  • `Centre committing grave mistakes'
  • Campaigning hots up in Thrissur
  • Nothing unusual in receding sea: Collector

    • Tiruchi

  • IT-enabled training for SHGs
  • Creating awareness given a priority now
  • Book Clubs in all colleges suggested
  • Best Engineer Award presented
  • Railway guards stage dharna
  • An effort that did not go waste
  • AIR pays homage to M.S.
  • Catch Anooradha Sriram live in Tiruchi
  • Flying squad conducts surprise inspections on fair price shops
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Tirupati

  • Don't play second fiddle, BCs told

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Sex corridors sprouting across U.P. highways
  • U.P. waterfalls to be developed on lines of the Niagara

    • Uttaranchal

  • Dehra Dun Mayor's election cancelled; BJP upbeat

    • Vellore

  • Rectified spirit seized

    • Vijayawada

  • CPI's veteran brigade has edge over new faces of Telugu Desam Party
  • Woman killed in landslip, boy electrocuted in city
  • Survey to probe status of child labour in Krishna district
  • State open to weavers' panel proposals, says its chairman
  • When it rains, it pours
  • SEC should restrain Congress, says Naidu
  • TDP president sees anti-Congress mood
  • 16 contestants booked
  • First flood warning at Prakasam barrage
  • We will win three-fourth municipalities, says Koneru
  • Railway helplines
  • Trail of destruction
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Orissa fishermen rescued
  • Life limping back to normal in city
  • Daily water supply from today
  • Vote for any party but TDP, says Mala Mahanadu
  • This drain houses tyres and coconut shells
  • RTC services back on road
  • CII initiative for local industrialists
  • Vignan students excel in JNTU exam
  • Lazarus campaigns in Bheemunipatnam
  • Trains cancelled
  • Cobras let loose a witch-hunt
  • Cookery contest
  • Trade union leader dead
  • Our own Katrina
  • Woman ends life?
  • Flights cancelled
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Rain causes havoc, ten feared dead

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • ``Time has come to make CPA pro-active''

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