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Alappuzha

  • Latin Catholic Council assembly
  • Life term for murder

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • A.P. Government keen on animation academy
  • India for tie-ups to develop Medium Combat Aircraft
  • `More investment on classrooms, need of the hour'
  • Natural splendour
  • Sankranti spirit
  • Lord of the fleet
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Dues from civic body: TDP lashes out at Government
  • `Dupatta' becomes a hit among Tibetan pilgrims at Kalachakra
  • Strive for developing nation, says Vivekananda Reddy
  • Tirumala temple nets record revenue on Vaikunta Ekadasi
  • Coastal Paper Mills heading for lockout?
  • Accident helps `abducted' woman go free
  • Sports meet at Puttaparthi

    • Bangalore

  • Prospect of early elections irks legislators of all parties
  • Life sentence on four persons confirmed
  • Sibal favours autonomy for universities
  • Luminaries who presided over the High Court
  • A security solution for BPO employees on the move
  • City less expensive among metros
  • Catering to children with multiple disability
  • Police test 3,000 vehicles for window film opacity
  • Man waylaid, robbed of cash, mobile phone
  • Rapid traffic action plan, help desk in the offing
  • `Gita' can help you tide over exam blues
  • Youth molests minor girl at vacant site
  • It's time for scrabble
  • Central Silk Board sets up laboratory
  • Ministry flayed for IIMB decision
  • BMP's `spot a pothole' contest likely to begin next week
  • From management to martial arts
  • `Gita Fest' begins on January 16
  • Stalemate continues at Toyota Kirloskar
  • Stamp racket: CBI application allowed
  • Testing children's skills in English
  • Bhadra: study on availability of water
  • Two motorcyclists killed in accident
  • `No' to animal slaughter
  • Three constables suspended
  • Curtains down on film festival
  • MLA's lost chain recovered
  • Golden sheaves
  • Condolence
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Pro-Maharashtra forces fighting a losing battle: Patil Puttappa

    • Bellary

  • Six held on charge of murder of former MLA

    • Bidar

  • Bidar residents urged to take in delegates

    • Bijapur

  • Drive to remove encroachments resumes Over 100 structures demolished

    • Briefly

  • SEBI unearths another scam in IDFC IPO
  • Industrial growth dips in Nov.
  • Reliance to begin retail foray in September
  • Sunil Bharti Mittal on Hero Honda board
  • 1:1 bonus from Mastek
  • CUB revises interest on term deposits
  • Telsima begins manufacturing
  • PMC-Sierra sets up new technology centre
  • Magna International to open office
  • Mahindra showcases new variants
  • SITEL India to open centre

    • Business

  • TRAI seeks data on `lifetime' schemes
  • Make use of FTAs, Kamal Nath tells automobile industry
  • Sensex extends losses
  • ICICI Bank forays into Sri Lanka
  • Spencer's mulls new format stores
  • Scope expertise for Scandent arm
  • TCS net up at Rs. 753 cr. in Q3
  • Federal Bank revises interest rates
  • Keltron for a social cause
  • Round-the-clock tyre care centre opened
  • Seminar on aerospace structure
  • UTI MF launches new scheme
  • `Amend Electricity Act to rein in private sector'
  • CSEZ turnover to touch Rs.800 crores
  • Rupee gains 18 paise
  • Rs. 1,567 cr. raised from MUL stake sale

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOONSCAPE

    • Chennai

  • Anger over landfill project boils over
  • "Integrate science with decision-making process"
  • On skates, a youth with a mission
  • Siruseri land deal: Centre seeks action against Singapore firm
  • Ruling party, Opposition switch to election mode
  • Southern States take the lead in forming Information Commissions
  • A male bastion falls to this intrepid lot
  • Breather for unapproved plots outside city
  • Today, the rest of India is watching cricket
  • Row between officials, crew hits MTC services
  • Bhogi campaigns do pay off
  • Monorail for city
  • The National Spelling Bee is here
  • Are you B-school material? Find out
  • `Karadi path' of learning
  • S.M. Krishna is all praise for Triplicane
  • SMS from city police chief
  • `Aravanis' in focus
  • Government schools `should not be allowed to close down'
  • At receiving end
  • Festivals, now star-studded
  • Rs. 5 crore for nanoscience centre
  • Sangeetha is Chennai's Angel
  • Jayalalithaa opens students' hostels
  • Catch me if you can, he says
  • "Do not boycott Governor's address"
  • Karur bridge built on 1996 order: Arcot Veerasamy
  • Symposium on radiation physics
  • S. Ramakrishnan is Chief Information Commissioner
  • Congress to boycott inaugural day of session
  • Detonators found in bus
  • Pots of hope
  • It's humour time
  • Interim Budget on January 20
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Title for Adhiban

    • Coimbatore

  • Cancer screening project to reach out to more people
  • BSNL to clear Bfone waiting list by March end
  • Bhavan's Pongal music festival commences

    • Cricket

  • Zaidi confident of good crowd support
  • Massive win for Baroda
  • Venues chosen for Champions Trophy
  • Gujarat on the verge of victory
  • Chandru shines
  • Bengal snatches slender lead
  • Resolute show by Shabuddin, Varma
  • Playing safe is likely to be the mantra
  • Karnataka enters last four

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8499
  • Solution to Puzzle 8498

    • Cuddalore

  • Congress lawyers' wing slams Tindivanam Ramamurthi

    • Dharmapuri

  • Draft electoral rolls to be released on January 23

    • Dindigul

  • Call to improve rural economy
  • `Social problems must be solved'

    • Editorials

  • Choosing friends carefully
  • Rethink the draft pharma policy

    • Erode

  • All set for Pongal festival
  • Over 1.51 lakh works carried out
  • Residents protest against stagnation of sewage
  • Interview for jobs in private firms today
  • Lottery traders' plea
  • In Erode Today

    • Front Page

  • Over 345 Haj pilgrims killed in Mina stampede
  • Bhardwaj defends opinion on Quattrocchi accounts
  • Courts cautioned against entertaining petitions
  • Egypt halts convoy tugging Clemenceau
  • PMK legislator resigns, crosses over to AIADMK
  • Polavaram project gets tacit consent
  • All accused in sex scandal case acquitted
  • Visakha Utsav ends on grand note
  • From reel heroes hopefully to real heroes
  • Land regularisation: Government to set up four-tier committees
  • Concreting of new runway at Bajpe airport completed
  • Budget session from February 23
  • In troubled waters
  • 10 farmers kidnapped

    • Gulbarga

  • Engineering graduate on fast shifted to hospital
  • His shehnai echoes a tale of dogged perseverance

    • Guntur

  • Best exporter award given to tobacco company

    • Haryana

  • Haryana unveils new labour policy
  • Haryana Speaker quits, may find berth in Cabinet
  • Construction company manager shot

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • CPI(M) refuses to back Congress

    • Hockey

  • Orissa Steelers edge past Chennai Veerans

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Autorickshaw fares revised
  • `Polishers' take away jewellery
  • In Hubli-Dharwad Today

    • Hyderabad

  • Upbeat mood among aspirants at The Hindu Opportunities Fair
  • Woman's suicide bid results in death of son
  • New-look school building brings cheer to students
  • Move to strengthen traffic regulatory mechanism
  • John Kerry lauds free power for farmers
  • Heated verbal duel at all-party meet on Polavaram
  • State Government keen on setting up animation academy
  • Tricksters dupe woman, disappear with Rs. 4 lakhs
  • Minister stresses need for IT applications in farm sector
  • Hyundai gears up to meet growing demand
  • YSR announces Rs. 400-crore boon for Anantapur district
  • Deemed university status for Salar Jung Museum mooted
  • Boy suffers burns while removing kite from high-tension wires
  • BJP rues delay in MCH fund release
  • Pressure group in Congress against TRS
  • Kite-flying: play it safe
  • Visionary outlook must: Nasscom chief
  • Ex-servicemen seek better facilities
  • Mareppa complains against party MLA
  • SITEL to launch centre in city
  • `Sankranti mela' by Sindhis
  • British Trade Office exploring opportunities in city
  • Mother of all meets
  • Panel to probe into hospital affairs
  • Chief Minister okays 6.5 crores for flood water diversion
  • Hospital apathy
  • Vizag-I byelection on February 16
  • Spinning mill on expansion drive
  • Salem to be brought to city
  • Closer to people
  • Dial T for tapping
  • Patriotic pitch
  • YSR's mother still critical
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • India, China engagement positive, says Shyam Saran
  • India, China primed for energy cooperation

    • International

  • Eight sailors killed in mine attack
  • Russia edges closer to west on Iran
  • Hamza had a "terror manual''
  • Man who shot at Pope John Paul freed
  • U.S. army is racist, claims British officer
  • Hamas drops call for Israel's destruction

    • Kannur

  • Payyannur, Kannur North in close race in school fete
  • ChinTech Fest to begin on January 26
  • BSNL staff launch stir

    • Karimnagar

  • Inclusion of human rights in school curriculum favoured

    • Karnataka

  • Karnataka panels on land regularisation
  • New runway at Bajpe airport ready
  • Karnataka plans big jump in annual plan size
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Venkaiah Naidu calls for fresh Assembly elections in State
  • Jain Mutt launches waste management project
  • Recruitment rules ready for panchayats: Horatti
  • MP hauls up doctors for `inefficiency'
  • Recruitment rules ready, says Horatti
  • Meet on laws governing tobacco use in Mumbai
  • Meter system for taxis in Goa
  • `Rane Government has no right to rule'

    • Kerala

  • All accused in Kerala sex scandal case acquitted
  • A celebration of water
  • Line uninterrupted
  • Remembering an academic
  • Ego management at Kannur Mahotsavam
  • Next issue
  • Protest against the Government
  • Time to rejoice
  • At Sabarimala today
  • End of a trial
  • Lending rhythm to life
  • In Kannur Today
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Heavy rush at Sabarimala
  • Pinarayi Vijayan warns against `mini-front' in LDF
  • Jacobite Church plans prayer meet
  • Siamese twins dead

    • Kochi

  • Paswan promises all help for the revival of HOCL
  • Opposition to cell phone towers mounting
  • Naval museum project in Kochi shelved
  • Plan to develop children's park
  • City Corporation up in arms against Government move
  • Delay in conducting examinations costs students dear
  • Dream space for artists
  • Lecture to focus on giving a humane face to market economy
  • Paediatric urology workshop at AIMS
  • Study indicates unhealthy air quality
  • Drug companies exploiting patent regime: Ekbal
  • CSEZ to set up hostel for working women
  • BSF unit proposed in Kunnukara
  • Academy-industry interaction planned
  • And the fan club is growing...
  • SFI holds protest march on CUSAT campus
  • Death during childbirth: move to sue doctors flayed
  • Week-long show of paintings
  • A season of yatras
  • Women forums' march today
  • Plea for peace on campus
  • Quality checks at petrol bunks
  • Just a step away from danger
  • Campaign against ADB aid
  • Dwindling fortunes
  • AKPCTA deplores dilution of criterion
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • No bird flu case in State
  • Vellappally to continue campaign
  • BSNL taking up an expansion programme in Kollam district
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Building a strong and secular tradition
  • Robbery attempt by students foiled

    • Kozhikode

  • Lalit Kala Akademi offers help to set up art gallery
  • IIM-K financial seminar begins tomorrow
  • Financial seminar begins at IIM-K tomorrow
  • Sex scandal case verdict: march to be taken out
  • MIMS workshop focusses on emergency care
  • Government failed on all fronts: KC(S)
  • District HSS Kalotsavam begins
  • Art fete begins tomorrow
  • AIEEE application date extended
  • Thikkodian award for O.N.V. Kurup
  • Attack case: accused convicted
  • Workshop focusses on critical care
  • Art festival

    • Kurnool

  • Partnership farming a viable alternative
  • Valmikis' meeting passes off peacefully

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Trading charges in the midst of drift

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Strange stance
  • Phone tapping
  • Disturbing
  • Unfortunate
  • Readers' Editor
  • Loss to theatre

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Rs.70 lakhs sanctioned for holy towns

    • Madikeri

  • Opposition to power project gaining momentum
  • `Sports can overcome caste barriers'

    • Madurai

  • BSNL to launch IVRS for providing meter reading
  • Army for mobile-based disaster alerts in Andaman Islands
  • Madurai students make it big at NASA
  • 24 Tamil refugees reach Rameswaram coast
  • `Plan of action' submitted
  • Like how they do in the countryside
  • Case against building power sub-station
  • Pongal merriment with a purpose
  • Special trains
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Pareeksha Bhavan, tie-up with institutes priorities of new VC
  • Elaborate arrangements in place for three-day `Beach festival' in Mangalore
  • MCC approves dam design
  • Road Safety Week concludes
  • Minimum invasive procedure to treat heart ailment
  • Beary writers to meet
  • Cultural festival from Saturday
  • Trade fair
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Karnataka praised for providing jobs to persons with disabilities
  • Commissioner speaking like a politician: Mayor
  • A peep into the world of animals
  • Two arrested on theft charge
  • Rehabilitation centre to be offered to AIISH
  • Convocation
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Minister visit Direct Purchase Centres

    • Nagercoil

  • Additional bridges for safety of fishermen sought

    • National

  • Not against modernisation of airports
  • Court urged to prevent defreezing
  • Does PM approve of law officer's stand? BJP
  • Meet to review steps to combat naxalism
  • Congress alleges breach of protocol by Modi
  • ``Private container service will benefit industry''
  • Salem complains of police torture
  • Venkaiah Naidu calls for fresh Assembly elections in Karnataka
  • SP not withdrawing support, says Mishra
  • "Notification of Cr.PC Act provisions will be flexible"
  • Explain stand on Quattrocchi, CPI(M) tells Government
  • Kerry wants fissile material cut-off included in nuclear deal
  • Indirect tax collection up by 15.73 per cent
  • Gujarat High Court accepts plea on DNA test of bone samples
  • Death of eagles in Ranikhet `not due to bird flu'
  • Ulhasnagar: court raps Maharashtra
  • Cases against homosexuals were fabricated, says report
  • CCEA defers decision on NLC divestment
  • No move to shift venue of joint exercises: IAF
  • CCEA to drop Kottayam, Erumeli railway line
  • Top Army officer to head U.N. troops in Sudan
  • "India a low risk country for investment'
  • Nod for draft investment pact with Saudi Arabia
  • Tribals take out rally
  • Manmohan greets people
  • EGoM on airport revamp seeks more clarifications
  • IIM students' meet on agribusiness begins today
  • Tandon to visit Pondy, Karaikal
  • Sibal criticises Ministry on IIMB
  • Mamata not inclined to accept Congress offer

    • Nellore

  • Revised syllabi for PG courses from next year
  • More WLL connections planned
  • Youth urged to follow ethics
  • Five-year jail for man in girl harassment case

    • New Delhi

  • Demand for measures to improve the lot of shelterless in Delhi
  • Supreme Court concern over denial of clean drinking water
  • Financial aspects of new Metro line yet to be worked out
  • Women can work in bars: High Court
  • Action against erring politicians
  • Excited about `challenging role' in K-serial
  • Bringing alive vibrant colours of Hungary
  • Jaipal Reddy inspects sports complexes
  • A special place for vintage, classic cars
  • Elderly woman allegedly set afire
  • Taking cinema seriously
  • High Court notices to Centre and UPSC
  • Decks cleared for auction of Rachna cinema theatre
  • CCTVs installed in GK-I market
  • New MTNL plan for Dolphin subscribers
  • JNU equivalence chart opposed
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Congress' challenge in Hyderabad
  • Churning in Orissa
  • Sharon: the puzzle of unresolved issues
  • Hail the easy user experience

    • Nizamabad

  • Pastor assaulted in Nizamabad?

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Four crushed to death in accident

    • Palakkad

  • Giant `footmarks' on rocks
  • Conditions impractical, says Coca-Cola
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Higher secondary school Kalotsavom to end today

    • Pondicherry

  • Tandon to visit Pondy, Karaikal on January 16
  • Trade unions stage rally
  • CPI legislator held
  • Camp for senior citizens

    • Punjab

  • `Launch crusade against female foeticide'
  • Amarinder clears SEZ for Amritsar
  • Dharampaji visits `apne' in Phagwara

    • Racing : Horse

  • Forever Elegance well tuned
  • Jersey Pride, Baghzad and Susanita catch the eye
  • Star Perfection wins Thumbelina Plate
  • Romantic Liaison excels
  • Regal Empress in good shape
  • Maximise pleases

    • Raichur

  • Construction of bypass road likely to begin in February, land acquired

    • Rajasthan

  • New BJP chief likely by Jan. 20: Kalraj Misra

    • Religion

  • Code that liberates

    • Salem

  • Youth gets Rs. 60,000; forgoes it!
  • Do not pollute environment: REEDS
  • Steps to train women farmers
  • Annadhanam scheme extended
  • Bomb threat turns out a hoax

    • Shimoga

  • Ambedkar Bhavan in a shambles
  • Take more interest in scientific research, C.N.R. Rao tells students

    • Sport

  • Selection dilemmas on Test's eve
  • On Inzamam, Greg and Pakistan winter
  • Rajat Bhatia dashes TN's hopes
  • Seeded players bite the dust

    • Sports : General

  • SBM posts win
  • Armed Police, Chennai, comes up trumps
  • Easy win for AC Guards Welfare Association

    • Swimming

  • Olympic medallist dies in accident

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Experts describe jute as "entrepreneur-friendly"
  • Vasan asks Government to end uncertainty over CET
  • Malaysian Minister hands over Rs. 50 lakh to Jayalalithaa
  • Andhra keen on an animation academy
  • Hard work will yield results, IOB chairman tells students
  • Maths institute gets own campus
  • Jayalalithaa opens students' hostels
  • Karunanidhi to lead `Oust Jayalalithaa' campaign
  • Not barring the way
  • Congress to boycott inaugural day of session
  • Malaysian Minister hands over cheque for Rs. 50 lakh to Jayalalithaa
  • Maths institute gets own campus
  • Experts make out a case for use of jute
  • Office-bearers elected
  • A legend `in her own right'
  • Multi-pronged approach to rural growth stressed
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Stop polluting the environment, cry children
  • Tirupur units score before World Cup kicks off
  • BSNL offers Futurefone
  • Job recruitment drive in Krishnagiri today

    • Tennis

  • Seppi ends Hewitt's run
  • Good show by Sanam, Sanaa
  • Give Mirza some space, says Amritraj
  • Sesil Karatantcheva banned for two years
  • Sania seeded 32nd

    • Thanjavur

  • Efforts to make Thanjavur cleaner
  • Market flooded with sugarcane bundles
  • In Thanjavur Today

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • 14-point scheme for farm sector mooted
  • Local bodies to run Government schools
  • Steps for smooth conduct of Pongala
  • Achuthanandan to move Supreme Court
  • Call for joint effort to seek funds for rail development
  • Information Commission to be expanded soon
  • 4,000 vie for honours in school arts festival
  • Emirates woos them through road shows
  • Action against lecturers mooted
  • Bid to trace family of abused child
  • Box office to bookstand
  • Paintings going on the online block
  • Pact for Smart City to be signed on January 31
  • A ghazal treat
  • Violation of Foreigner's Act: case registered
  • Marine biodiversity
  • Youth killed in accident
  • IG submits report to Chandy
  • Seminar on Koodiyattom
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated January 13, 1956: Expansion of Madras AIR
  • dated January 13, 1956: Malaya-Singapore merger
  • dated January 13, 1956: University centenary

    • Thrissur

  • Thrissur decides to accept ADB aid
  • Demands galore at passengers' meet
  • Medi fete begins
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Dog days are approaching fast, go for cool Khadi
  • VC's call to abolish TNPCEE
  • Value-added banana products a boon for SHGs
  • What words cannot say
  • Tiruchi fencers to take part in Chennai meet
  • Honour: Give so much and get back some
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Private bus on `unauthorised route' sparks row
  • School students take out `Clean Pongal Week' rally
  • In Tirunelveli Today

    • Tirupati

  • Tirupati gears up for Nandi Natakotsavam
  • Farmers urged to grow medicinal plants
  • Row over TTD's stand on direct recruitment
  • Rangoli contests for Sankranti
  • In Tirupati Today

    • Udupi

  • Scholarships for 80 poor students
  • Agitation inevitable to save Kannada: writer

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • U.P. plans final drive against polio
  • Students go on rampage

    • Uttaranchal

  • Police caution against criminals in disguise

    • Vellore

  • Three women held for cheating SHG members
  • Centre likely to hike allocation to health sector

    • Vijayawada

  • A village to pay tributes to NTR
  • City police stations set to get ISO certification by year-end
  • Vehicle users to have 43-foot carriageway on Bandar road
  • TDP to go on padayatra from January 20
  • Killed in accident
  • Four youths arrested on charge of theft
  • A chilling effect
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Proposal to set up IT parks kicks up row
  • Auspicious period ahead
  • Koneru flays Opposition stand on Polavaram
  • Municipalities to outsource jobs
  • Models sporting images of gods decried
  • City hotels out to woo patrons
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Andhra consolidates position

    • Warangal

  • Befitting honour for a worthy contribution

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • Pratima undecided

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