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Andhra Pradesh

  • Maoists gun down lawyer
  • Narrow escape for 65 bus passengers
  • Sania an `Ambassador of girl child'
  • CPI calls for unity among Left parties
  • CPI(M) lukewarm to land distribution drive
  • Change in power policy a relief for Transco
  • Call for formation of `genuine' communist force
  • Congress wants cases booked against TDP chief Condemns arson, violence during bandh
  • Cloud-seeding to continue
  • TDP demands all-party panel
  • TDP sees bid to dilute Paritala murder case
  • Naxals urged to resume talks
  • Foundation soon for muscular dystrophy patients
  • Police enter forest on trail of `errant' naxals
  • Over 2,000 TDP activists held
  • Land distribution a damp squib: BJP
  • Package on the anvil to protect weavers
  • US envoy calls on YSR
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Ryots' seminars to be held

    • Bangalore

  • `Fall in oxygen level led to death of fish'
  • Navigational Street Directory for city soon
  • Villagers killing protected species: environmentalist
  • Power shutdown
  • Congress leader hacked to death
  • Mayor orders engineer's suspension
  • Two arrested, valuables recovered
  • Woman shot dead
  • Dog show on Sunday
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • Madurai Sports Hostel wins
  • St. Xaviers women in final

    • Belgaum

  • Good rainfall boosts khadi sales

    • Bellary

  • Bellary gearing up for gram panchayat polls
  • Officials told to improve tax collection
  • 15 convicts released

    • Bihar

  • Congress warhorse sitting pretty in Kahalgaon

    • Briefly

  • Lupin ties up with Cornerstone
  • Tata Chem's FCCB issue
  • Sutherland ties up with Talisma
  • Concerto's new offerings
  • Vignettee to expand development centre
  • BPO arm picks up space in tech park

    • Business

  • SAIL net leaps, returns to dividend list
  • Dabur buys Balsara businesses for Rs. 143 crores
  • Smart rally in equities lift Sensex
  • American Chamber's plan to boost business cooperation
  • IBM-Lenovo deal faces security risk
  • Bharti's net crosses Rs. 1,000-crore mark
  • LG launches DVD rewriter
  • Mukesh opts out of business delegation
  • A. P. post offices to issue Reliance prepaid vouchers
  • SPIC cuts losses
  • Maruti to set up training schools

    • Carrom

  • Anees-Shanwar final

    • Chennai

  • Lesser-known railway wing crosses a milestone
  • A rare condition, a skilled surgeon
  • Stress `can enhance performance'
  • A sports outing for polio-hit children
  • Renew trade licences before March 31: Corporation
  • AIEEE model test in six centres
  • Scope for U.S. investment in IT, bio-technology
  • Plastic surgeon's services hailed
  • Owner of bag with detonator wires traced in jail
  • Curbing container truck accidents
  • Cultural fest opens at AC Tech
  • Two held for dumping expired chocolates
  • Union leader assaulted
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Wells holds Sasikiran
  • Anand settles for a draw
  • Ashwini in sole lead
  • Sreekumar, Muralidharan in joint lead

    • Coimbatore

  • Consumer body opposes penalty cut
  • SBI installs coin dispenser at railway station
  • Labour Dept. raids 384 firms
  • Last date for payment of phone bills
  • Seminar for manufacturing industry
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • India in driver's seat
  • Tsunami relief match postponed to April
  • Srinath, Balaji to play in charity match
  • Diplomatic manager to accompany Pakistan squad
  • Pakistan security assessment panel meets BCCI officials
  • KRL, Swantons make semifinals
  • Amrish hits 105
  • Khurda Road wins
  • Piyush, Satish shine
  • Six-wicket haul by Md. Osman
  • 5-wkt. win for LBSC

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8202
  • Solution to puzzle 8201

    • Cuddalore

  • Desalinisation plants set up at Cuddalore

    • Cuddapah

  • Cuddapah railway station inaugurated
  • Award for school principal
  • YSR to inaugurate `Cuddapotsavalu'

    • Editorials

  • AN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY
  • A MESSAGE FOR GAYOOM

    • Football

  • Easy for East Bengal
  • Chelsea reaches League Cup final
  • Bangalore DFA in final
  • Kerala Varma beats Narayana Guru
  • TN under-13 football team

    • Front Page

  • National Investment Fund to be set up
  • Entire Congress cannot be blamed for anti-Sikh riots: Commission
  • Maoists kidnap over 1,000 students, teachers in Nepal
  • J&K Minister escapes bid
  • Bihar schoolgirl kidnapped
  • Peace talks
  • Safin ends Federer's winning streak
  • Can Inzamam's form save his neck?
  • Aftershocks
  • Anupam Kher resigns
  • World marks Auschwitz's liberation
  • No issues discussed in BCCI AGM
  • Businessman of the Year
  • Contributions to The Hindu Relief Fund

    • Gulbarga

  • Conference on mental health next month

    • Guntur

  • Road widening need of the hour

    • Haryana

  • Advani soft on Chautala, hard on Congress
  • `BJP committed to SYL'

    • Hassan

  • No takers for sites formed on Hassan's outskirts

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Himachal vegetable output on the rise
  • Padma awards for IIAS Chairman, former Director

    • Hockey

  • Sultans downs Hi-Fliers

    • Hyderabad

  • YSR takes tough line on polluting units
  • Unique museum to showcase Urdu literature
  • Abrupt closure of coop. bank presses panic button
  • HC directs Transco not to cut power supply to theatre
  • Metro buses to be introduced on new route
  • Competitions for children
  • MCH standing panel chief clarifies
  • No power supply
  • Nifty patterns!
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Kumaratunga thanks India
  • New aviation tie-ups with Singapore, China `possible'

    • International

  • Former Bangladesh Finance Minister killed in blast
  • Shaukat Aziz arouses interest in Europe
  • Rice sworn in
  • A warning from history
  • Mad cow spurs new farm practices
  • Islamists killed in Russian raid
  • Geocaching catching on
  • Polling stations blasted in Iraq
  • Cosmos roaming
  • Home sweet home
  • It's aid or debt relief, says U.S.
  • Prize for short fiction
  • U.S. Democrats rethink over abortion
  • CNN founder attacks Fox News
  • Germany ends free education
  • 11 die in commuter train crash

    • Jharkand

  • Despite naxal warnings, parties gear up for campaigning

    • Karnataka

  • Ramesh Pai cremated, many pay tributes
  • Airport financial closure next month
  • STF to be deployed to deal with naxalites
  • Attack: Dharam Singh to seek report
  • NHRC takes up boy's death
  • Improve science teaching, universities told
  • File counter-affidavit on status of hospitals, Govt. told
  • VAT will substantially increase revenue: Moily
  • Suspension of JD(S) leaders to be revoked if they apologise
  • Law to curb drilling of borewells sought
  • Develop attitudes that help society, youth told
  • Petition against S.M. Krishna disposed of
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Journalists' union protests attack on scribe
  • Minister lists achievements of Dharam Singh Govt.
  • Samaja offers to look after 15 women from Nagappattinam
  • Cong. candidates elected to ZP posts

    • Kerala

  • State to have authority for disaster management
  • Farmers sore over cut in paddy price
  • Government to have online interface
  • Address lacks sense of realism: LDF
  • Power supply to be made disruption-free
  • High Court order on NRI medical seats stayed
  • `Interests of farmers will be protected'
  • Tharakan brings glory to Palakkad
  • Decision to ban lotteries challenged
  • `I' group to boycott debate on Address
  • Pay revision panel to be set up
  • Welfare scheme for workers proposed
  • Lottery ticket vendor found dead
  • Policy proposals welcomed: Thiruvanchoor
  • Briefly

    • Kochi

  • Studies to assess impact of tsunami
  • Lottery agents, vendors take out protest rally
  • Mangalavanam: activists to take protection pledge
  • Panel identifies effluent outlet
  • CUSAT to sign MoU for civil engineering course
  • Students join relief work at Alappad
  • Video conferencing for Lakshadweep schools
  • KSEB to get land for sub-stations
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kottayam

  • `Mahasamrajya Pattabhishekom' begins

    • Kozhikode

  • STED project director fails to get extension

    • Kurnool

  • New power policy may affect 14,600 farm connections
  • Paritala shooting: injured undergoing treatment
  • Reduction in number of holidays sought

    • Leader Page Articles

  • We will not discriminate against LTTE-held areas: Kadirgamar
  • EU's indecision over Kosovo

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Make TDP pay
  • Avoidable tragedy
  • Horrifying
  • A great relief
  • Don't blame them
  • Tsunami coverage
  • Think again
  • The Auschwitz horror

    • Madurai

  • `Placement programme helps to bring industries to rural colleges'
  • Stay on university appointments vacated
  • 19 p.c. increase in railway passenger earnings
  • Initiative to improve teaching quality
  • Syndicate meet today
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • A golden glow for Filmfare

    • Mangalore

  • Three-phase power supply for nine hours only
  • Corporators want another vented dam, officials say no
  • Bangalore-Mangalore highway to be made four-lane soon
  • Beedi workers demand minimum wages
  • `Synergy-2005' attracts 24 teams
  • Elected to sangeeth sabha
  • `Nature walk' for children
  • Village adopted
  • In Mangalore Today
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Sports meet for the mentally challenged
  • Nepalese team seeks tie-ups in floriculture
  • Revision of property value comes under attack

    • Nagercoil

  • Illusionist concludes his `Vande Mataram' journey
  • Body found at burial ground

    • National

  • India-China differences do not hamper ties: Natwar
  • ''I accept awards only from academic institutions''
  • Left, Congress should be equally tolerant, says Jyoti Basu
  • CPI(M) opposed to Patents Bill in present form: Karat
  • Eight held for hoisting `Sikh flag' on Republic Day
  • NHRC notice on junior Acharya's arrest stayed
  • Temporary shelters for Andamans' tsunami-hit before onset of monsoon
  • Congress expels rebel candidates in Haryana
  • Goa: MLA merges party with BJP
  • SP leader arrested
  • Assam Government transfers two police officials
  • Shikohabad incident: jawans handed over to Army
  • Meeting on Darjeeling Council today
  • Prosecution of legislators: verdict reserved
  • Digha in peril
  • Wildlife activists for court direction to protect tigers
  • Cabinet nod for project to restore water bodies
  • International status for Srinagar airport
  • Screening of `Black Friday' stayed
  • JMM's charge against Congress
  • `Congress, LJP creating confusion in Bihar'
  • Uttam Yudh Seva Medal for Lt. Gen. Hari Prasad
  • Rains have to reduce salinity in tsunami-hit areas
  • Bail plea rejected
  • ISI conspiracy case: charge sheet filed
  • Court directive to Gaya SP
  • Flag hoisting row claims 2 lives
  • Lalu hits out at Vajpayee
  • Kadalundi native stakes claim for Guinness record
  • Maharashtra to handle child deaths in `mission mode'
  • TERI launches World Sustainable Development Forum
  • Largest-ever experiment predicts rise in global temperatures

    • Nellore

  • Flamingo festival from today
  • MLA demands action against TDP activists
  • Pirated CDs seized
  • Man crushed to death

    • New Delhi

  • Delhi Govt. gearing up to host Commonwealth Games 2010
  • `Fighting fear is the real battle'
  • MCD offers special rebate to house tax payees
  • Some new guidelines for zoo vets
  • `PNDT Law Monitoring Day' mooted
  • Illicit liquor seized
  • Running the `Last Mile' against leprosy
  • Bank staffer held for cheating passenger
  • Arrested for making fake adhesives
  • Yusuf prevents auto strike
  • Fair to showcase interiors, furniture
  • Manmohan lauds NCC
  • A new twist to Katara case
  • Water supply to be hit
  • JNU debate on Nestle outlet not over yet
  • Man murdered in Gurgaon shop
  • Erratic power supply plagues Delhi
  • ITBP men honoured
  • President's medal for CISF personnel
  • Speed up judges' appointment, Bar urges Lahoti
  • Congress pins hopes on Sonia visit to Jharkhand
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today
  • In The Capital Today

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Eco awareness programme on January 29
  • No political ambitions, says Vellappally
  • Plea to clear contractors' dues

    • Perambalur

  • `Take action against illegal sand quarrying'

    • Pondicherry

  • Minister demands action against Collector, official
  • Fish vendors want sustained help
  • NCC strength to be raised
  • Traffic restored on Arasalar bridge
  • Roads using flyash a success
  • French delegation calls on Lakshminarayanan
  • Lakhera pays homage to tsunami victims
  • Military music

    • Punjab

  • Punjab Governor's call to end foeticide
  • Akhand Kirtani Jatha chief

    • Rajasthan

  • Best tableau award
  • A milestone in stone industry

    • Religion

  • Oneness of existence

    • Shimoga

  • Computer dealers protest against `harassment'
  • Four dowry deaths in Shimoga district

    • Sport

  • Safin ends Federer's winning streak
  • Can Inzamam's form save his neck?
  • No issues discussed in BCCI AGM
  • Saurav, Joshna the only bright spots
  • Safety tactics, order of the day

    • Sports : General

  • Kashap, Anusha win gold
  • SBOA MHSS wins hockey title
  • Kerala CM opens women's games

    • Squash

  • Asia House to facilitate players to take part in European leagues

    • Swimming

  • Neethling sets World record

    • Table Tennis

  • PSPB paddlers prevail

    • Tamil Nadu

  • No prima facie case to grant bail to junior Acharya: court
  • 44 chickenpox cases in Pondy villages
  • Tamil Nadu still awaits Centre's relief package
  • In the same boat, they pull together
  • Sri Vijayendra moves High Court for anticipatory bail
  • Veldurai brought to Chennai
  • Residents' welfare associations to be enlisted
  • CEC going beyond his brief: PMK
  • Aram award for DHAN Foundation
  • Property fair opens today
  • `Situation favourable for coalition government'
  • President's police medal winners
  • NHRC seeks action taken report on Veerappan killing
  • Takes over charge
  • 3 killed as car rolls down slope
  • Property fair opens today
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Plea to enhance quota for Ariyalur rail passengers
  • Demolition of public toilet irks residents
  • False complaint lands youth in police net
  • Power shutdown
  • Bag cut open, chain stolen

    • Tennis

  • Upset win for Vigneswaran
  • Sanam Singh ousted
  • Sania looks to make the top 100
  • Arjun Gautam and Vishnuvardhan advance
  • Seshagiri Rao beats Kishore
  • Martina Navratilova to play in Hyderabad?
  • Wayanad wins overall champion
  • Shashwat posts win

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Globalisation unstoppable: Abid Hussain
  • Rights panel stays move to reclaim lake
  • IGP accuses DIG of bungling Marad probe
  • Youth tries to jump from top of theatre
  • Positive criticism need of the hour, says Chandy
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • CAMPUS NOTES

    • This Day That Age

  • dated January 28, 1955: Assurance to Pakistan
  • dated January 28, 1955: Autonomy for varsities

    • Tiruchi

  • Rs.1,440 cr. for four-laning of NH roads
  • Uyyakondan riverbank looks green, thanks to forest programme
  • Bharathidasan University defers dual degree system
  • Revision of poll rolls in Tiruchi district constituencies
  • NIT to host `Pragyan' from tomorrow
  • Farmers busy harvesting samba crop
  • BSNL launches meter reading announcement service
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchy Today
  • In Tiruchy Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • `Punished' girl scared of going back to school

    • Tirupati

  • Stage set for CPI convention
  • RTC to display burnt, damaged buses

    • Tuticorin

  • Allot funds for doubling rly. tracks, says forum
  • BSNL opens public grievance cell
  • Gram Sabha meetings held in 408 places
  • Assault case against three
  • Campaign

    • Udupi

  • Four die as van, tanker collide
  • President's Medal for Ramakishore Rai

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Shia Board denies political link

    • Uttaranchal

  • BJP seeks white paper on tourism fund
  • Museum of rare artefacts planned

    • Vellore

  • Road repairs adds to woes of vehicle users

    • Vijayawada

  • Software park yet to materialise
  • Krishna Eastern main canal closed
  • Science centre nearing completion
  • Violence after Paritala murder: ex-MP, nine others arrested
  • Man saved by fire service personnel
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • VPT does it again, emerges as top port in the country
  • GCC chief promises better price to girijans
  • World-class park to come up on prison land
  • BSNL card on sale
  • RCFL official jailed for graft
  • 200 hawkers evicted
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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