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Andhra Pradesh

  • Imax theatre: House panel to go into charge of irregularities
  • Four students drown
  • Singur water release subject to availability: Ponnala
  • CMO looking into appointments issue, says Finance Minister
  • Cough syrups, tablets give them a `high'
  • GTB issue figures in Assembly
  • YSR's call for `Harithandhra Pradesh'
  • Walkout over `neglect' of welfare sector
  • Varavara Rao rules out farewell to arms
  • Rosaiah unfazed by doosra
  • Special package sought for handloom weavers
  • Spat over portfolio
  • Rayalaseema groups join forces
  • `TD trying to stall work on projects'
  • One-time age relaxation for DSC-qualified
  • Four students drowned
  • Cloud-seeding proves effective in two districts
  • Court directive to Health varsity
  • Private banks to be off limits for departments
  • GO on quota for Muslims: 5-judge Bench to hear writs
  • Government keen to end deadlock on land compensation
  • RTC semi-sleepers for Bangalore, Vijayawada
  • Discom engineer trapped
  • Six held on betting charges
  • Stay on Gemini, Vissa legal battle
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • TTD's action draws flak from Peravais
  • Chittoor cooperative dairy to be revived

    Archery

  • Indians confident after recent show

    Badminton

  • Double delight for Thulasi, Anoosha
  • Northern, Western retain titles
  • Senior badminton advanced
  • Dharsini dominates

    Bangalore

  • Long queues at customer service centres
  • BESCOM engineer on `study trip' in Kerala
  • Protest against BMP plan to demolish housing quarters
  • Couple commit suicide
  • Traffic curbs at Ramamurthynagar
  • Anish's parents donate money to school
  • Foreigner electrocuted
  • Youth dies after being attacked
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    Basketball

  • Big win for YMCA

    Belgaum

  • Aided polytechnic staff stir enters 13th day

    Bellary

  • Irregularities in subsidy scheme for farmers

    Bidar

  • Model-making competition in September

    Bijapur

  • Farmers' stir at Alamatti withdrawn

    Billiards & Snooker

  • Rebello beats Pasha

    Bridge

  • Agarwal's team takes honours

    Briefly

  • Workshop on "agri clinic scheme"
  • JCB organises Tow and Show
  • Productivity Council office bearers
  • PNB Housing's plans
  • Vijaya Bank first quarter net up
  • Tata mobile in Udupi, Manipal
  • Inatech to expand India operations
  • Housing finance ticks 29 p.c. growth
  • Eicher signs MoU with Dena Bank
  • Bajaj Auto to augment production
  • Nominated for Quality Inn Choice awards
  • Geojit opens 20 bidding centres
  • New President for Lucent India
  • Additional duty on computers
  • Federal Bank first quarter net up
  • South Indian Bank's net at Rs. 18 crores
  • Tata Motors launches new truck
  • Bancassurance tie-up
  • Philips' new schemes for Onam
  • VisualSoft revenue up 30 p.c.
  • Plumtree Software selects Satyam
  • Plastic water tank prices to go up

    Business

  • `Global Trust depositors will be safeguarded'
  • Gande welcomes RBI's swift move
  • Hutch ties up with Citibank for mobile commerce
  • Oil, refinery stocks in limelight
  • Shareholders meet today
  • Judge declines to hear Birla case
  • Maruti Q1 net up 42 per cent
  • Anil Ambani discloses business interests
  • Downtrend halted in rupee
  • `TCS can compete with MNCs'
  • SAIL draws up expansion plans
  • Patents Act: Supreme Court notice to Centre
  • Wockhardt to go for U.S. listing

    Chennai

  • Groundwater quality dips
  • Eco business plan for city from next year
  • Direct action: Residents detain water tankers
  • 2.24 tonnes of pipe fish recovered
  • `Hormone therapy effective for menopause symptoms'
  • Small savings agents: advantage women
  • Keep fuel, gas and heat apart to avoid fires
  • New method to treat bone tumours
  • Another bomb hoax in school
  • Lift ban on jobs: visually impaired
  • Railway specials
  • Minister visits vaccine laboratory
  • Disc on Bharathi
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Anand maintains narrow lead
  • Samyukta, Ganesh emerge champions
  • Sanjay, Meenu take honours

    Coimbatore

  • Career fair a huge draw
  • Tirupur processing units seek aid
  • Stolen property estimated at Rs. 22 lakhs recovered
  • Accident victim with fractures saved
  • BSNL service centre opened
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • Easy win for Pakistan
  • Time for India to pull up its socks
  • Mongia, Agarkar end up on winning side
  • England's brilliant Caribbean form continues
  • Makhija hits century
  • Shoiab Malik's superb knock
  • Six centuries on opening day
  • Injuries have made me stronger: Zoysa
  • Spinners hold the key: Bedi
  • SZ calendar
  • Eleven Bullets CC wins
  • Affan stars in Wipro's triumph
  • Visakhapatnam defends title
  • AP claims title
  • St. Joseph's clinches Cottonian Shield
  • Pankajakasturi CC posts win

    Crossword

  • Hindu crossword No. 8046
  • Solution to puzzle No. 8045

    Cuddalore

  • Options `being thrust upon panchayat staff'

    Cuddapah

  • LIC agents stage dharna
  • AISF demands solution to schools' problems
  • `Inter-caste marriage can help break barriers'

    Cycling

  • Armstrong, a fighter from the start

    Dharmapuri

  • `Surrender bogus driving licence'

    Dindigul

  • `Efforts must to protect Western Ghats' flora, fauna'

    Editorials

  • CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE
  • THE RE-EMERGENCE OF BIRD FLU

    Football

  • Brazil wins Copa America on penalties
  • Iraq in quarterfinals
  • A day of draws
  • Rajesh scores match-winner
  • SN in last four
  • Friends XI wins

    Front Page

  • Iraqi militants extend deadline
  • `Diplomat released'
  • Global Trust Bank to be merged with Oriental Bank of Commerce
  • NDA to stay out of parliamentary committees
  • Order reserved
  • Declines hearing
  • Copter crash
  • Stays trial
  • Oil prices
  • Gujarat clash
  • Plea dismissed

    Gulbarga

  • `Fill vacancies in govt. departments'
  • AIDSO to organise weeklong protest

    Guntur

  • YSR lacks commitment, says Kodela
  • Farmers' bandh evokes good response

    Haryana

  • Krishan Kant remembered
  • Plan to generate power from bio-mass
  • Engineering course fee fixed

    Hassan

  • Row in CMC over sheds in parking area

    Hockey

  • Indians display good form
  • Easy for ASC
  • Easy for Chittoor

    Hyderabad

  • Man vs. rain god!
  • Metro water on call scheme launched
  • Toxic gas in drainage claims three lives
  • Krishna water helps increase supply duration
  • Medicos condemn police action
  • Students' plea to HCU V-C
  • Three from city diemm in UAE mishap
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    International

  • Protest against Gaza withdrawal plan
  • `Massacre violates ceasefire accord'
  • Opinion polls see close race
  • Not yet decided on troops: Pakistan
  • Chechen link in blast feared
  • Interior Ministry official killed in Iraq
  • Karzai to contest poll
  • American cookies and gardening for Saddam
  • Cleared of journalist's death
  • U.S. urged to probe assault case
  • `Israel behind JFK death'

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • Urdu poet's death mourned

    Kancheepuram

  • No consensus on displaying Chief Minister's photo in council hall
  • 60 students taken ill

    Karnataka

  • All-party team to apprise Manmohan on Krishna waters
  • Dharam Singh for legislation to govern admissions
  • 406 children rescued since 1996
  • Poojary hits back at Gowda over probe demand
  • `Quarries causing pollution around Bangalore'
  • All for a pail of water
  • No release of water to A.P., reiterates Govt.
  • Court order on priest's appointment awaited
  • Dinesh Gundu Rao's election challenged
  • Amendment to retain colleges under Bangalore University
  • Rs. 630 crores due from excise contractors
  • ENGAGEMENTS
  • `Govt. will consider CBI probe'
  • Govt. considering Ordinance on admissions
  • UKP funds misused: Yediyurappa
  • Thirualluvar's statue in Bangalore opposed
  • Sangram Singh makes statement
  • Seminar on water conservation
  • Reduce cess on arecanut, Govt. urged
  • No takers for 53 seats at NITK
  • Special trip
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • `Implement Nanjundappa panel report'
  • Goa to restrict number of shacks on beaches
  • Midday meal scheme cooks seek more pay
  • `People yet to realise solar energy potential'
  • Officials told to correct discrepancies in housing schemes
  • Fishermen protest <149>fishing by mechanised boats
  • Furore over defacement of name plaques
  • Traffic hit as road gives way
  • Woman poisons children, ends life

    Kerala

  • Sitting judge to probe girl's suicide
  • No let-up in violence
  • Student's suicide rocks Assembly again
  • State drama awards announced
  • Central team inspects Sabarimala
  • Directive to implement Fishing Act
  • Court to hear petition on private bus service today
  • New cases of unwed mothers in Attappady
  • RBI clarification on education loans
  • Sangh Parivar attack on poetess condemned
  • Talks on PAP pact next month
  • CPI(M) for peaceful stir
  • Continuation of agitation inane, says Hassan
  • CAP: 220 allotted seats
  • Development loan
  • BMW team visits CSEZ
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Birds confiscated from passengers

    Kochi

  • Agitators attack college, ATM
  • Five held on charge of vehicle theft
  • George Eden remembered
  • Congress leaders condemn violence
  • Bangara to take charge tomorrow
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • Criticism against SFI agitation
  • Demand for probe into denial of education loan
  • CPI(M) activist hacked

    Kozhikode

  • Fund-raising scheme for visually challenged
  • Private schools seek aid

    Kurnool

  • Cloud-seeding successful

    Leader Page Articles

  • Drought, flood, seeds and suicides
  • India and Pakistan at SAARC

    Letters to the Editor

  • Soren drama
  • Hostage issue
  • Order on bandh
  • Punjab imbroglio
  • Starvation issue

    Madhya Pradesh

  • `Constitutional machinery may break down in M.P.'

    Madikeri

  • Health staff want order withdrawn
  • Four students stabbed

    Madurai

  • Landings of two houses collapse in Ellis Nagar
  • Training in rural industries
  • `Set up Supreme Court Bench in Chennai'
  • SFI demands steps to end capitation fees
  • Ramana rath reaches city
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • NITK to prepare course material for EDUSAT
  • Depositors throng Global Trust Bank branch
  • Cash stolen from petrol station
  • More area brought under paddy cultivation
  • Rice scam: Remand of officials extended
  • Employers asked to file quarterly returns

    Mysore

  • Big rush for BSNL SIM cards in Mysore
  • Mini sports complex by September end
  • LIC agents protest
  • Koramas list demands to move out

    Nagercoil

  • Fourth inspection at Asaripallam

    National

  • `Energy policy package soon'
  • Narrow price band fixed for petrol, diesel
  • All foreign troops should leave Iraq: Kharazi
  • Nanavati panel tenure extended
  • Left parties seek review of duties
  • India-China talks begin, statement likely today
  • Ministries, monkeys and management
  • Doctor swears by mammography
  • Hostage crisis: India hopeful of early solution
  • Decision to remove Vajpayee's photographs criticised
  • Manmohan calls for meeting on drought
  • Two killed, curfew clamped in Gujarat town
  • NDA's decision unfortunate: Somnath
  • Mufti for early talks with Hurriyat
  • Kerala boatman held after tourist's call to London
  • Soren's son says his father is not evading arrest
  • Geelani delays formation of new party
  • Relief copter falls into floodwater
  • Petition against judges dismissed
  • Orissa Minister resigns
  • Supreme Court stays trial of Bilkis' case till August 2
  • Gujarat riots inquiry panel to hear adjournment plea
  • Scarcity of baby food in Assam
  • Kohli handed over to Punjab police
  • Court declares 250 Agra monuments as `significant'
  • Security-free loan for students
  • Prem Bhatia Award for Sainath
  • Vajpayee visits RSS headquarters

    Nellore

  • Role of youth in development of society stressed

    New Delhi

  • Customers throng GTB branches
  • 200 new AC buses to join DTC fleet
  • No respite on power, water front
  • Schoolgirl stabbed to death
  • Education Minister has little concern for reforms
  • Punjab seeks increase in power quota
  • Pakistani spy held in Delhi
  • Rajasthan Government can bank on us: Gehlot
  • Furore in Assembly over threat to MLAs
  • Steep increase in NDMC parking rates
  • Dacoits strike at Shakarpur
  • Eradi Tribunal visits more areas
  • Congress seeks Uma's apology
  • Sharma allowed to withdraw bail plea
  • Contract terminated
  • Daylight robbery
  • Lifer for kidnapping minor
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Pathanamthitta

  • Protest marches turn violent; jeep set ablaze

    Perambalur

  • Founded on noble principles
  • Programme to declare Perambalur child labour-free district

    Pondicherry

  • No terrorist group active in Pondy: Rangasamy
  • Appropriation Bill passed
  • Assembly adjourned for want of quorum
  • Probe malpractice in State-owned corporation: AIADMK
  • Magazine report sparks protest

    Racing : Motor

  • Suresh adjudged best

    Rajasthan

  • U.S. funding cancer research

    Religion

  • Act of divine grace

    Salem

  • Tapioca farmers seek removal of cess on tubers
  • Eatery owners allege harassment

    Shimoga

  • Headmaster arrested on molestation charge

    Sports : General

  • Demythologising original Olympics
  • Bangalore blanks YRC, Kolkata
  • Ananda Rao, Surya finish first

    Squash

  • Harish makes main draw

    Swimming

  • Team for Children's Games

    Table Tennis

  • Patel in semifinals

    Tamil Nadu

  • Karunanidhi's comment for privileges panel
  • Appeal against stay on single-window system
  • Madurai Bench will have writ jurisdiction
  • DMK men involved in robbery incidents, says Jayalalithaa
  • Subsidy through direct budgetary grant
  • Fake stamp papers were of smaller denomination
  • Extend rural Net connectivity to all districts: Minister
  • Krishnasamy escapes bomb attack
  • AIADMK reiterates machine tampering charge
  • Cauvery Tribunal members may visit State
  • Database on government employees coming
  • ENGAGEMENTS
  • Talks on Parambikulam project
  • Transfer Subhashan Reddy: Chennai advocates
  • Extend Net connectivity to all districts: Maran
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Environment assessment notification stayed
  • Dies of burns

    Tennis

  • Roddick triumphs
  • Easy win for Pruthvika
  • Sai is champion

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Spate of protests continue in capital
  • Rajani died of multiple injuries, says report
  • `Civil station project needs land'
  • Convict attempts suicide
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today
  • Reporter's Dairy
  • Campus Notes

    This Day That Age

  • dated July 27, 1954: Country's economic progress
  • dated July 27, 1954: Reorganisation of States
  • dated July 27, 1954: China's warning to U.S.

    Thrissur

  • Bus strike total in Thrissur district
  • `Providing education loans a social obligation'
  • Ashtamirohini celebrations at Guruvayur

    Tiruchi

  • Bikshandarkovil-Mannarpuram road to be four-laned
  • Three murdered in Tiruchi gang attack
  • 6,131 women SHGs' savings cross Rs.4-crore mark
  • Course in learning difficulties launched
  • Hearing put off
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • A booming `boozing culture'

    Tirupati

  • Tirupati boasts of car shed-turned DD studio
  • 45 SIs transferred
  • CPI(M) demands Gudimallam land for ryots

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Disruption of Question Hour protested

    Vijayawada

  • Free computer classes for corporation school students
  • Congress joins issue with Dattatreya
  • `Draw inspiration from Gandhi, Gora'
  • Vigilance raid on star hotel
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • Born to die

    Visakhapatnam

  • Heavy withdrawals at GTB branches
  • Workers' strike stalls port operations
  • Drop in number of petitions at Spandana
  • Unit regulations: AU not to hold separate exam
  • Fake naxalite arrested
  • Sales tax dues of HSL waived
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Young brigade takes over

    Weather

  • Weather

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