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Anantapur

  • TDP leader's aides held
  • Dacoit gang busted

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Earning a living by collecting waste
  • Jana makes major concessions to PW `RK' taken off wanted list
  • Aspirants lobby for top job in Urdu Academy
  • Expert gives tips on quality to weavers
  • 300-crore NABARD aid for rural roads
  • `Cane-happy' teacher breaks the backs of students
  • Water shortage tells on NIT schedule
  • All set for cloud-seeding exercise
  • Uproar over Dalit's suicide
  • When Government is on the mat
  • Minister admits encroachment by Reliance
  • TDP poser: helpline or helpless line?
  • Revival of Rural Indebtedness Act sought
  • Student's suicide bid turns controversial
  • Decision on contract paramedical staff soon: YSR
  • Woman attempts suicide
  • MCH contract staff demand hike in salary
  • Trader `set ablaze'
  • Counselling for minority candidates on July 22
  • Rape case booked against student
  • CMEY scheme Rajiv Yuva Shakti now
  • Ban renewal unlikely
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Debt-ridden farmer beaten up, hunt on for culprits
  • Historical villages await YSR's visit
  • Importance of research stressed
  • Pushkarams from August 28
  • Cop dies in mishap

    Athletics

  • It's Soma Biswas' day

    Badminton

  • Maiden title for Arun George
  • Siddarth bags double
  • Kanetkar qualifies for Athens Olympics
  • Kochi to host junior badminton

    Bangalore

  • Seat selection may begin by month-end
  • Ten killed, five injured in accidents
  • Seat selection process to begin by month-end
  • BMA jubilee to coincide with convention
  • Adopt a flexible approach, Govt., colleges told
  • Landowners seek review of BMIC project
  • Rare technique to ease breathing
  • Students' interest will be protected, says Minister
  • Programme on varicose veins
  • Goods transporters oppose service tax
  • German team visits BDA
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    Belgaum

  • `People-Friendly Police' launched
  • `Kalsa-Banduri Nala project ignored'

    Billiards & Snooker

  • Kolkata to host selection trials
  • Hitesh overcomes Srinivas

    Briefly

  • BPCL's $107.5 m syndicated loan
  • Avesthagen pact with Finland firm
  • Hitachi plans subsidiary
  • Grasim's Italian suiting range
  • Sony-BMG merger gets EU nod
  • Special counters for filing IT returns
  • Special financial package sought
  • L&T wins $53 m UAE contract
  • M&M forays into Kuwait
  • IOB bond issue subscribed
  • Orient Fans's export effort
  • AirTel's offer in U.P. (W), Uttaranchal
  • Indo Asian Fusegear eyes Britain
  • Automobile dealers seek lower excise
  • New scooterette from Bajaj stable
  • Sudhakar Plastics' new range of pipes
  • Online railway ticket booking facility
  • Talent programme for school kids
  • Award for woman entrepreneur
  • Tata Tele to invest Rs. 417 crores
  • LogicaCMG bags AML contract
  • Tanishq's new offer
  • Invensys sets up development centre

    Business

  • Lodha chairs Birla Corporation board meeting
  • The Will of Priyamvada Birla
  • ABB to invevst Rs. 80 crores
  • HPL board to induct Godrej, Tata
  • Market snaps three session gaining streak
  • Rupee ends lower
  • Canara Bank net profit up 32 p.c.
  • Tecumseh to roll out rotary compressors
  • Qantas to resume Mumbai-Sydney service
  • Jindal acquires plant in Indonesia

    Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    Chennai

  • Medians welcome, but only on wide roads: residents
  • New suburban lines will be operational by November
  • Swift action puts out hospital fire
  • Injunction on taking over DMK Trust land
  • Governor visits fire victims
  • Grievances `real, but strike motivated'
  • Light lamps for victims: Vanamamalai Jeer
  • House burgled
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Sasikiran humbles Pelletier

    Coimbatore

  • Siruvani nearing full level
  • Autos off roads, to share grief
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Cricket

  • Big guns get ready for serious action
  • Vasanth Saravanan hits 109
  • Woolmer's toughest assignment
  • To succeed you have to be good at sport: Miandad
  • Prasanth, Sriram and Shirralan shine
  • Ensconse in command
  • ICC top brass unveils Champions Trophy
  • Century by Vinodh
  • Yaseema shines in Delhi's win
  • Ravi scalps five
  • Kartik inaugurates YMCA academy
  • Motorola XI wins

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8041
  • Solution to puzzle 8040

    Cuddalore

  • College students pay homage
  • Rs. 39.29 lakhs for streetlights

    Cuddapah

  • Model areas in the making in Pulivendula

    Editorials

  • TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
  • KARNATAKA'S PREDICTABLE BUDGET

    Erode

  • Collector inspects Orathupalayam reservoir
  • Villagers hit by contamination

    Football

  • Under-17 team for Leicester
  • BHEL (EPD) takes trophy
  • Bisht scores four goals
  • Iran blanks Thailand
  • Sabari posts win

    Front Page

  • We should not compromise on terrorism: Natwar Singh
  • "We will definitely not send troops to Iraq": Fischer
  • Task force to tackle Assam floods
  • EPF rate: decision put off
  • Set to be Deputy Chairman
  • Jharkhand police team in Delhi
  • NCERT textbooks
  • Pappu Yadav to be shifted
  • Lodha chairs meet
  • Compensation for victims

    Golf

  • Simarjeet, Jagmohan in joint lead
  • Palanisamy triumphs

    Guntur

  • Sirisha's husband arrested

    Haryana

  • Act or we quit, Congress ultimatum to Chautala
  • VAT touches a new high

    Hassan

  • Growers set fire to plants hit by stem borer

    Hockey

  • Ashwin stars in SAI Hostel's win

    Hubli

  • Boy with cleft palate boards The Smile Train

    Hyderabad

  • Musi clean-up works to begin next month
  • Slaughterhouses to be reopened
  • MCH charged with neglecting streetlights
  • HC sets aside order on Inter revaluation
  • `Protect Bathkammakunta from encroachers'
  • TRS making false claims, say Congress MLAs
  • Licence issue: automen seek more time
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Stage set for carrying forward peace talks
  • China resents meeting with Dalai Lama
  • Ready to take forward negotiations: Beijing
  • Offer on reopening Lhasa consulate
  • U.S. rejects request for Anderson's extradition

    International

  • Qurei to stay on as caretaker Prime Minister
  • Compensation for Sri Lankan Tamil victims of 1983 pogrom
  • Arab women encouraged Darfur rapes: Amnesty
  • Brickbats for Blair in Commons
  • U.N. delays vote on Israeli barrier
  • U.S. report for dialogue with Iran
  • Clinton's aide faces criminal probe
  • Row over Hemingway bar
  • 25 die in Ukrainian mine blast
  • Defend freedom, tolerance: Schroeder
  • Protest against Governor's jibe

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • Summer adventure at Gulmarg

    Kancheepuram

  • Control room set up in Tiruvallur Collectorate

    Karnataka

  • Follow dharma of coalition politics, JD(S) told
  • PIL against formation of layout dismissed
  • A rousing end planned for H.L.N. Simha's birth centenary fete
  • Gulbarga police seize 24 tonnes of grain
  • Rich tributes paid to Veerappa, Venkatagiri Gowda
  • Opposition obstructs Council proceedings
  • Lawyers resume agitation for Bench
  • Rahman Khan third from State to hold Rajya Sabha post
  • Assembly mourns Kumbakonam deaths
  • `State prepared to introduce VAT'
  • Five killed in road accidents
  • Rice scam: bail pleas posted to July 27
  • English is a vehicle of thought: VC
  • RSS questions need for fresh Godhra probe
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Show-cause notice ordered against sub-registrar
  • Davangere ZP decides to seek direction on lifting rice
  • Villagers protest against steel plant
  • Bank Nationalisation Day celebrated
  • Strike in Chitradurga

    Kerala

  • New turn to row over fee structure
  • Walkout over suicides' issue
  • Recruitments justified
  • Vigilance inquiry stayed
  • MBBS, BDS merit seats exhausted
  • `Edusat' launch on September 10
  • `Nothing wrong in special recruitments'
  • CMC allowed to admit students
  • No cut in expenditure planned
  • Concrete structures for schools soon
  • SHRC members allowed to discharge their functions
  • Rainwater harvesting to be made compulsory
  • Farmers' stir from August 4
  • Government undecided on Coke plant's future
  • CAP: 578 seats allotted
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Customs steps up security at airport
  • No-trust notice against civic chief
  • Demand to appoint doctors

    Kochi

  • Indal deadlock continues
  • Row over move to divert Kerala Express
  • Demand for HIL closure condemned
  • Award of contract : court orders probe
  • Ombudsman inspects dump yard
  • Alleged robbery
  • Steps to recover loan arrears
  • YMCA State meet
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • Oppose privatisation of banks: CPI
  • Plea to write off loans up to Rs. 1 lakh
  • Grant not received: KTSS

    Kottayam

  • Syndicate seeks permission for 50 new posts

    Kurnool

  • 59 Sub-Inspectors shuffled
  • Plea to restore medical seats

    Leader Page Articles

  • We should convince U.S. that it is part of the U.N. system: Fischer

    Letters to the Editor

  • Manmohan's letter
  • Welcome relief
  • Reservation issue
  • Tragedy in school
  • Spare the teachers
  • Centre's relief

    Madhya Pradesh

  • Bhopal victims demand potable water
  • All daily wagers to be reinducted, says Shejwar

    Madikeri

  • Kodagu ZP loses Rs. 49 crores

    Madurai

  • Director of Matriculation Schools monitors action
  • Govt. urged to extend IT exemption to all assesses
  • CPI(M) conducts signature campaign
  • Farmers told to take up fruit cultivation
  • Attachment of Corp. assets ordered
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • NABARD to focus on rural industries
  • Panchayat's refusal to allow visitors sparks row
  • Electronic goods stolen
  • Environment: Karanth's services recalled
  • Arrested on charge of attempt to murder

    Mysore

  • NGOs want corporation to strengthen itself
  • Online lotteries cannot be banned, says BJP leader
  • Hardware dealers seek rollback of tax hike
  • Pakistan delegation visits Mysore

    Nalgonda

  • Hostel warden suspended

    National

  • Allies oppose rise in FDI
  • 'Centre views flood problem as serious'
  • 'Tainted' Ministers issue disrupts Lok Sabha business again
  • Bhopal residents seek drinking water supply
  • Let us ensure safety of children in schools: Advani
  • The seeds of suicide — II
  • Court moved to attach Soren's property in firing case
  • Rahman Khan to be elected unanimously
  • 'Edusat' launch on September 10
  • Rapid Action Force deployed in Manipur
  • Employees Provident Fund meeting postponed
  • Militants kill 5 of family
  • Narrow escape for Amitabh
  • Old history books from next year
  • Quota for Muslims illegal: Vajpayee
  • Manmohan doubts estimate of illegal immigrants
  • Tripura Congress president held

    Nellore

  • Survey on tribal population

    New Delhi

  • Anti-corruption drive needs more steam
  • Increase in compensation for gas victims demanded
  • Airport strike hits exporters hard
  • Respiratory disease centre soon
  • Prem Singh is Delhi Speaker
  • Dubai don aides arrested
  • Budget lost track of children's issues: NGOs
  • Assamese girl escapes confinement
  • Cops on tape: officer, two constables suspended
  • Kohli may be quizzed in diplomat rape case
  • Celebration ends in tragedy
  • `Chargesheet' against Sheila Government
  • MAMC case: Last bid to prove accused as minor
  • Court summons Health Secretary
  • `Manu fled Capital after murder'
  • BJP opposes rationalisation of parking charges
  • Mosquito breeding penalty hiked
  • Sentenced
  • Hindi medium students protest 'discrimination'
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    Nizamabad

  • Training in boat operation, life-saving skills for youth
  • Auto driver run over in bid to flee dacoits

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Pathanamthitta

  • BJP withdraws hartal call

    Pondicherry

  • Concrete buildings for anganwadis soon: Chandirakasu
  • Anbalagan stages walkout
  • Speaker stresses rural development
  • Sugarcane growers `in bad shape'
  • Now, marriages registered in French

    Punjab

  • Akalis to tone down anti-Amarinder pitch
  • Arms and ammunition seized

    Racing : Motor

  • Karun's bad luck continues
  • Rally for blind on Aug. 1
  • MRF-MAI karting on July 25

    Rajasthan

  • Strengthen Freedom of Information Act, Sonia told
  • Workers demand Employment Guarantee Act

    Religion

  • Garland of devotional verses

    Shimoga

  • Waste disposal: CMC team to visit Mysore
  • Police ask hawkers to vacate footpaths

    Sports : General

  • Chennai, Coimbatore claim titles
  • Delhi vs New Delhi: the controversy continues
  • Artillery Centre has it easy

    Squash

  • In pursuit of excellence in PSA circuit

    Table Tennis

  • Indian boys go down to Japan

    Tamil Nadu

  • Plan to showcase low-cost desalination plant
  • Sampath to probe school fire
  • Disfigured walls
  • Apex court hearing on eve of inauguration
  • Rollbacks will not tell on fiscal goals: analysts
  • Regulate unaided schools, say educationists
  • Tamil Nadu ideal destination for German investment: Jayalalithaa
  • Speedy admission to fire-hit students
  • Notice to Government on compensation for kin
  • 22,817 teacher vacancies to be filled
  • BJP politicising relief issue: Vasan
  • Move to set up treatment plant at processing park
  • Injunction on taking over DMK Trust land
  • `Vasool Raja MBBS' angers doctors
  • BSNL to expand pre-paid Cellone connections
  • BHEL symposium on `joining of materials'
  • Bank employees hail Centre's privatisation stand
  • Manpower manipulation continues for Medical Council inspections
  • Natham gets attention, after school tragedy
  • Mothers get counselling to overcome trauma
  • All-time high in daily procurement
  • Passport applications cleared
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Thatched roofs to be removed from 288 schools
  • 91 schools in Virudhunagar with thatched roofs
  • Unprecedented reaction

    Tennis

  • Ulihrach upset
  • Rajeev Ram ousts Moodie
  • Prabhakar qualifies
  • Pruthvika hogs limelight
  • Talent series main draw from today

    Thanjavur

  • SASTRA gesture

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Arrack, crude bombs seized
  • Resist bid to depoliticise campuses: Yechury
  • `Move to hand over castle will be opposed'
  • Corporation staff protest forces ADB team to retreat
  • KPCC attack case accused surrenders
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated July 21, 1954: U Nu's four-point plan
  • dated July 21, 1954: Accord at Geneva
  • dated July 21, 1954: Fillip to khadi

    Thrissur

  • Amala Institute gets Centre's nod

    Tiruchi

  • 177 schools with thatched roof identified in Tiruchi dt.
  • Quota in self-financing colleges sought
  • Stir continues
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Tirunelveli

  • Traders down shutters, take out silent rallies
  • Medical council team expected only today

    Tirupati

  • Thyagaraja fest from tomorrow
  • BJP activists stall CMEY interviews
  • RPI demands probe into Dalit's suicide

    Udhagamandalam

  • Drop in film shooting in the Nilgiris

    Udupi

  • Bank unions threaten stir over FDI issue
  • Budget harsh on common man, says MLA

    Union Territories

  • AICC reshuffle a signal to Haryana dissidents

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Centre prejudiced against U.P., says Kalyan
  • U.P. admits failure in achieving basic education target
  • U.P. to recruit 3,000 Urdu teachers

    Uttaranchal

  • Tiwari presents deficit Budget
  • Rawat breaks fast

    Vijayawada

  • Call for healthy gender equations
  • `Cobra' hiss to girls' rescue
  • TDP shedding crocodile tears for ryots: UDA chief
  • Around the City

    Visakhapatnam

  • VMC cannot cover it up!
  • Lions' gesture to physically challenged
  • Abandoned boy yearns for love
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Weather

  • Weather

    West Bengal

  • Salamanders facing extinction

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