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  • Measures to help traditional units

    • Anantapur

  • Coop. polls spur activity in villages

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • TDP walkout over Vashista Wahan company issue
  • Reprieve for Manohar; sentence reduced
  • Checking it out
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    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Darshan time stretches to 122 hours in Tirumala temple
  • Shinde moots corpus fund to help ryots in distress
  • Woman, two children found dead in Tenali
  • CITU calls stir on October 10
  • Mayor to strive for all-round development
  • Inter-state gang nabbed
  • Workshop on logic in Rajahmundry from today
  • Court orders elections to civic body
  • Kabaddi tourney inaugurated

    • Archery

  • Tarundeep, Dola hog limelight

    • Bangalore

  • KASSIA plans industrial estate for small units in Bangalore
  • Interest on soft loans for water heaters reduced
  • Support women who speak up
  • BMP website goes off screen
  • Plea on security posts in park adjourned
  • `Enough grounds to frame charges'
  • Rahman is here for ICA show
  • Kharge inaugurates automobile exhibition
  • `Don't withhold crop loss compensation'
  • ISRO to offer telemedicine links to Africa
  • A test in articulation
  • Gates to skip Bangalore during December trip; to go to Chennai
  • Court stays notification on temple takeover
  • BMP tax inspector caught
  • PU timetable notified
  • Sudden rain disrupts traffic
  • Voter identity cards
  • Air Deccan to lease two Airbus A-320s
  • Five persons arrested
  • `Drishti' campaign gets a boost from Reliance
  • Power shutdown
  • Around The City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • `Hello Neighbour' project will be revived: police

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Bellary

  • Anti-retroviral therapy to be introduced in Bellary district
  • `Unique' surgery performed in Bellary
  • Power shutdown in some parts of Bellary today

    • Bidar

  • NEKRTC's e-ticketing idea paying dividends
  • City buses in Bidar?

    • Bihar

  • No proof of MLA's role in kidnapping of boy
  • Another boy missing

    • Bijapur

  • Two men assaulted, DD snatched

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Arun outlasts Kiran

    • Briefly

  • IMPAL lists shares on NSE
  • Ashok Leyland September sales volume up 27 p.c.
  • M&M sells 3,200 Scorpios in September
  • Microsoft opens new research facility
  • American Express to exit money changing business
  • Avaya, SITA SC form alliance
  • GECAS to lease two aircraft to Air Deccan
  • Escorts U.S. arm to market SAME tractors
  • IMPAL lists shares on NSE
  • Functional directors on IA board
  • Tata Chem to invest Rs. 150 cr in urea plant
  • Air Deccan files application with SEBI
  • BP to sell petrochem business to Ineos

    • Business

  • Y.V. Reddy stresses on corporate disclosures
  • Maran seeks an affordable package from Microsoft
  • SBI buys major stake in Kenyan bank
  • Wide swings in Sensex
  • Toyota vehicle care programme launched
  • International Boat Show a big hit
  • Coir Board to launch husk procurement scheme
  • Bank lending to priority sector in district
  • Satellite radio service launched in Kochi
  • Gouri stresses role of media to help farmers
  • Rs. 210-crore road project in limbo
  • Reliance Info revamps billing system
  • JK Corp unveils new corporate identity
  • Co-branded card from Central Mall, ICICI Bank
  • Mahindras plan SEZ in Jaipur
  • DDA restrained in EHIRCL case
  • Rupee ends at 44.39 against $

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Start demanding information from Government, says Aruna Roy
  • Robotics sessions a big hit at `Shaastra'
  • Hospices last hope for terminally ill
  • Tsunami-hit air grievances
  • Steady increase in sale of rice in fair price shops
  • High Court orders security to Karate Thyagarajan's family
  • Beware of job racketeers
  • A step towards e-governance
  • A show of creativity, confidence
  • India, China will seek new trade links, routes
  • Xpress workout for people on the go
  • Teenagers offered tips on easy learning
  • NGOs, officials discuss ways of training tsunami-hit families
  • Judge calls for long-term foreign investment to spur growth
  • Unit making adulterated diesel unearthed at Athipet
  • Puthiya Tamizhagam seeks law to make land allotment to poor mandatory
  • Premium products fetch Tamil Nadu postal circle Rs. 65 crores
  • Tambaram, Alandur subways to be opened soon
  • Chromepet residents demand direct bus services to city
  • I'm a workaholic, says Devayani
  • Hilton plans to set up luxury hotel in Chennai
  • Thyagarajan issue: Minister sees conspiracy
  • Improving quality in Andaman schools
  • Samsung is at your service
  • Essay contest on dress code
  • Education fair tomorrow
  • Decentralised paddy procurement till July
  • Natural artefacts on display at art gallery
  • Fire destroys huts
  • A programme for a cause
  • Music critic Ranganathan Giridhar dead
  • Sudden flooding
  • Commits suicide
  • Mrs Chennai finals
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  • Around The City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Sasikiran shocked; Humpy wins

    • Coimbatore

  • Scarcity for some despite abundant water
  • `Good forest cover crucial'
  • Adopt strategic vision: UPASI
  • 135 unauthorised stalls removed
  • Free telephone cards for select subscribers
  • `Farmers can begin sowing'
  • Free eye camp tomorrow
  • When it rains...
  • Free eye camp to be held
  • Around The City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • A check on overspeeding

    • Cricket

  • Run-outs proved costly: Pollock
  • Himachal salvages two points
  • Indian skipper hoping to be fit soon
  • Tamil Nadu keeps title

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8418
  • Solution to Puzzle 8417

    • Dindigul

  • Accent on quality basic education

    • Editorials

  • A rap on the knuckles for the UPA
  • Towards a healthy food chain

    • Erode

  • Separate place sought for slaughter in Erode
  • Impart quality education to students: Minister
  • Watch towers for festival season
  • Mosquito menace on the rise
  • Poor response to SHG grievances day

    • Football

  • Dempo meets HAL in opener
  • Air Force Bal Bharti In quarterfinals

    • Front Page

  • Bihar Assembly dissolution unconstitutional: apex court
  • Party must leave imprint on coalition, says Sonia
  • An embarrassed Centre wants to cut its losses
  • An idea of merit
  • "Remove Modi's name from respondents list"
  • YSR questioned closely on schemes at Chandigarh conclave
  • Tadi Sakunthala elected Mayor
  • Contempt proceedings against Govt.
  • High-level panel to probe dam gate collapse
  • Compounding of forest offences stopped
  • Angry father held for shooting married daughter
  • SEC cannot dissolve council: BJP
  • Land resource inventory taken up
  • It is their form of worship
  • "Remove Modi's name from respondents list"
  • Death sentence of Manohar commuted
  • Ravi Shankar Prasad admitted to AIIMS
  • Three resign from BJP poll panel
  • No troop pullout: Pranab
  • Meghalaya Deputy CM resigns
  • Judge transferred
  • Time-frame extended

    • Golf

  • Randhawa tied 27th
  • Jeev slips to tied third

    • Gulbarga

  • KBJNL official fails to persuade farmers to drop stir
  • Breach raises questions about safety, maintenance of dam
  • Workshop on human rights begins today
  • He missed the `hot seat' by a whisker
  • Electricity supply companies to seek upward revision in tariff

    • Haryana

  • Hooda raises SYL canal issue at CMs' conclave

    • Hassan

  • 125 farmers end life in Hassan in three years

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Landslip claims 14 pilgrims

    • Hockey

  • Dark Blues makes final

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Hubli can become hub of jewellery export, says Srikar
  • People have lost faith in Government: Shettar
  • HESCOM counters to be open

    • Hyderabad

  • Bus crushes constable to death
  • Motivating them to lead a better life
  • Urge to win is what propels him
  • TDP walkout over Vashista Wahan issue
  • Maharashtra asked to stop work on Babli project
  • Rain pushes up groundwater level
  • Prevention of crime takes a back seat
  • Rosaiah on the back foot
  • Police target youngsters
  • They can just step into temple
  • Amenities at Nehru zoo park to be improved
  • Bad roads give residents of Ramanthapur a bumpy ride
  • TDLP absolves Naidu of blame
  • Merry ride with `main' Rajpal Commercial potboiler
  • Judgment reserved in protocol case
  • RK joins elite band of Maoists
  • Safe landing
  • State petition dismissed
  • Arithmetical errors result in short-levy of sales tax
  • Tumultuous welcome to Shashidhar
  • Court admits plea on Rajiv Reddy issue
  • Contract workers stage dharna
  • An out and out potboiler Commercial potboiler
  • But for 3D torture...
  • CPI to seek House panel on private medical colleges
  • RTC depot gets ISO certificate
  • Training course
  • Around The City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • CRIME WATCH

    • India & World

  • Stage set for India-U.S. defence cooperation

    • International

  • God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq: Bush
  • New York on threat alert
  • Rajapakse, Ranil file papers
  • Bali mastermind escapes the net
  • David Frost on Al-Jazeera
  • Eight killed in Pakistan sectarian attack
  • Iran-Britain tensions escalate
  • TV host flees to Paris
  • African migrants killed
  • Hurricane death toll 250
  • Pakistan ties up with Russian gas major

    • Kancheepuram

  • Case against Kancheepuram women advocates withdrawn

    • Kannur

  • Mahe tourism fete to begin on Sunday
  • Priority to agriculture sector, SSIs
  • Government no longer functioning: Pinarayi

    • Karnataka

  • High-level technical committee to probe dam gate collapse
  • In celebration of married women
  • Madras Sappers completes 225 years
  • It's all in the game
  • This is no politicking
  • In all hues
  • Karnataka to go ahead with VAT despite loss
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Health officials directed to check spread of dengue fever
  • Morarji Desai Residential School inaugurated
  • Focus to be on policies for the poor, farmers
  • Make use of opportunity provided by Navy: officer

    • Kerala

  • Compounding of offences for sandalwood felling stopped
  • Scrap speed governor rules: bus operators
  • Need to fix the responsibility on political parties stressed
  • Next issue
  • Beginning of a new chapter
  • Creativity at its best
  • Signs of official apathy
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Moulding students of anganwadi A makeover for anganwadis
  • BSF to set up battalion in the State
  • LDF exploits differences in UDF to get three grama panchayats
  • `Congress will bounce back'
  • Asan poetry award for Kilimanoor Ramakanthan

    • Khammam

  • Dengue cases: health staff swing into action
  • Pilgrim rush may increase during Dasara

    • Kochi

  • `Priority for keeping city clean'
  • Contempt notice to Transport Secretary
  • Panel moots cancellation of firm's authorisation
  • Passing out parade of ANOs held
  • `Scrap speed governor rules'
  • Sania in semi-final
  • Jaguar crashes
  • Around The City

    • Kollam

  • Mayor's growth agenda gets wide acceptance
  • Houses for the tsunami victims in November
  • One killed in accident
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • LDF blames bureaucracy for loss at district panchayat level

    • Kozhikode

  • Sheeba is the youngest grama panchayat president in the State
  • CPI(M) takes major local body posts
  • Koyilandy municipality to focus on improving basic amenities
  • Rare documents on Malabar history
  • New facilities at RSC opened to public
  • Torture in custody: 2 policemen suspended
  • Koyilandy municipality to focus on basic amenities
  • Seminar on freedom movement
  • Rs.99 crores for farm sector in first quarter

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Coping with variations in the monsoon

    • Letters to the Editor

  • A blow to the Centre
  • Confusing
  • Commendable

    • Madikeri

  • Thrust on eco-friendly industries in Kodagu district
  • Minister urges people, officials to participate in Yuva Jana Mela
  • `Cooperation of people necessary for checking timber smuggling'

    • Madurai

  • MKU says no to dress code
  • Ambassadors for the elixir of life
  • Central Government earmarks Rs. 2,300 crores for horticulture production
  • PIL plea on sharing of Neyyar water
  • PIL against paid `darshan' in Tirumogur Temple
  • Water level
  • Prisoner dies
  • Around The City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Project ATM break-in: how it was engineered

    • Mangalore

  • No new structures to be allowed in CRZ limits
  • Pilikula Nisarga Dhama to get Asiatic Lions, hippos
  • City corporation to absorb "badali" pourakarmikas
  • RBI study on self-help groups in six districts
  • U.R. Rao calls for policy on direct transfer of technology to rural areas
  • Bus service: official urged to look into legal hurdles
  • A stunning spectacle
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Food Mela is a big success
  • Protest against officials' transfer
  • Minister releases home stay compendium
  • A slice of royal Dasara grandeur
  • Dasara poets' meet to be held today
  • 120 poor patients avail heart care at concessional rates at cardiology camp
  • Dasara sports meet inaugurated

    • Nagapattinam

  • TNCSC closes DPCs in Nagapattinam dt.
  • Delta farmers' association hails State Government's welfare schemes
  • Navaratri puja

    • National

  • Confusion after order, says RJD
  • Lalu, Nitish say stand has been vindicated
  • Centre to consult allies on Bihar judgment
  • NDA to petition Kalam for recall of Buta Singh
  • Advani demands immediate recall of Buta Singh
  • "Government seized of report on bird flu"
  • Mulford's observation an impropriety: CPI(M)
  • Jaguar aircraft crashes
  • India always helpful to Iran: Natwar
  • I will ask people to come and vote, says Priya Dutt
  • AITUC protests "backdoor" push to economic reforms
  • Assam opposes expansion of NH 37
  • AGP revives alliance with ASDC
  • NBT to facilitate translation agreements
  • Microsoft official wants India to revamp curriculum
  • Two elephants found dead in Orissa
  • Vacant seats: court hearing on October 21
  • India contributes $ 1 million for Khmer Rouge trials
  • Shekhawat conferred with honorary degree
  • A blow to arbitrary action: Sorabjee
  • Left to meet to discuss Sonia's request
  • Raises issue of role of Governors: Karat
  • Sorabjee posts a milestone vis-a-vis Article 356
  • WiMax set to extend net's reach: Intel
  • SEWA to keep off Gujarat Government projects
  • Harassment of women: NCW draft bill ready
  • Centre to spend more on supplementary nutrition for children under ICDS grant
  • Record crowd at Tirumala
  • Baglihar: Lafitte says he could get lots of information
  • BJP workers beat up assailant to conceal facts, says Lalu
  • BJP leader admitted to AIIMS
  • Three resign from BJP poll panel
  • Strike will not affect IT industry: Buddhadeb
  • AICC plenary in January

    • Nellore

  • Mayor seeks media's help

    • New Delhi

  • AICC delegates list loaded with Ram Babu Sharma loyalists
  • A road map now to counter mercury pollution
  • Privilege motion against Vats `for violating code'
  • Fighting it out to fly an Air Force fighter
  • A festival of French thrillers
  • Transco fails to meet Delhi's power demand
  • "File notings can encourage officers to be forthright"
  • India's first Biking Rally
  • Court allows R.K. Sharma to undergo operation
  • Court notice to U.P. Police in Katara murder case
  • Steep rise in dengue cases
  • Narcotics haul
  • Appeal filed in DUTA case
  • CBI raids on CPWD officials
  • For welfare of the aged
  • Vintage beauty
  • Dazzling show
  • Cabinet nod for `Shiksha Kosh'
  • 21-year-old Amity student commits suicide
  • Get your act together, airlines told
  • Lack of pricing policy cause for crisis: BJP
  • LPG crisis will be resolved by Monday, says Aiyar
  • Around The City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today
  • Disturbing questions about sensationalism by media

    • News Analysis

  • The complex battlefields of Iraq
  • What does the AMU verdict imply?
  • Young blog their way to a publishing revolution

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Mega Lok Adalat held
  • SCs, STs asked to make optimal use of financial assistance
  • Maoists kill youngster

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Bhagavata Sathram in Thiruvalla
  • LDF to prepare master plan for Pathanamthitta
  • Programme on quality initiatives in colleges

    • Pondicherry

  • 'Shelter belt' along Pondy coast

    • Punjab

  • Punjab favours expanding scope of MSP

    • Racing : Horse

  • Splash Of Class wins Chief Minister's Gold Cup
  • Zroom for feature event
  • Stornoway catches the eye
  • Arabian King claims honours in Rainy Sky Plate
  • Badge Of Honour shines
  • Supreme Act, Empire Star show out

    • Racing : Motor

  • Yet another engine failure for Kimi Raikkonen in Grand Prix

    • Raichur

  • BJP demands Kharge's resignation

    • Rajasthan

  • Raje facing revolt from Cabinet colleagues
  • Directive to Rajasthan on Shobha Yatra

    • Ramanathapuram

  • No bar on actors paying homage at Thevar memorial

    • Religion

  • Looking beyond self

    • Salem

  • Tamil Nadu Assembly Assurance Committee visits Salem
  • TNSTC's new bus pass scheme

    • Shimoga

  • Farmers demand adequate storage in Upper Tunga reservoir
  • Height of Tunga project dam reduced?
  • Sahyadri Utsava 2005 gets under way

    • Sport

  • Gilchrist on song
  • Challenger series: Ganguly out
  • Anand overpowers Judit Polgar
  • Megan Rivers's strike drowns Indians
  • An idea of merit

    • Sports : General

  • Spin of coin favours Balaji Colts
  • Table tennis titles for Balaji, Raja Kumari
  • Shankar, Bharath set meet records
  • Clinton, Jetty chosen for G.V. Raja Award
  • Boniface Prabhu in semifinals

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Spicy, but these Danes now like the idlies here
  • SHGs to handle sanitation at tsunami relief camps
  • Catheters replacing drugs in treating heart problems
  • Relax bar rules, say hoteliers
  • Twelve accused of forging loan papers
  • This school's kolu is all about patriotism and national feeling
  • Day One sets the pace for tech fest
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Flood control measures taken in Theni district
  • Water in Palar after five years leaves Vaniyambadi in raptures
  • Public led by Councillor squat inside trench to draw attention
  • Tsunami-hit land being reclaimed in Karaikal
  • Rs. 132 crores for construction of 416 backward hostels in State: Minister
  • Entrance examination of Sainik school
  • Encroachments removed
  • Row over allotment of group houses in Karur
  • Raids on fair price shops
  • MP expresses concern over import of Chinese fabrics
  • `Help students develop qualities'

    • Tennis

  • Jugal bags a double; Tanvi emulates it in distaff side
  • Sania stuns Zvonareva
  • It's Kedriouk vs. Sunil Kumar again

    • Thanjavur

  • Camps to issue identity cards

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Claim on assistance to tsunami-hit questioned
  • Awaiting succour
  • Crime Branch to seek help of forensic experts
  • Four injured in multiple accident
  • BJP-LDF tie-up exposed: Chennithala
  • Directive to expedite work on AI maintenance hangar
  • SHRC's directive to DMO
  • Allotment list published
  • DYFI activists blockade ADB officials
  • Ventilators at MCH functional: DME
  • Water supply scheme
  • Counterfeit currency seized
  • Deep devotion
  • Meeting to be inaugurated
  • Around The City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated October 8, 1955: Value of social service
  • dated October 8, 1955: Atoms for peace
  • dated October 8, 1955: Jamuna in spate

    • Thrissur

  • LDF not totally opposed to ADB loan, says Mayor
  • Priority to farm sector
  • Auto driver hands over lost money
  • Stand on Iran flayed
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Revive original market complex, say traders
  • Promoting bread as regular food
  • University to start School of Fine Arts
  • A camp that helped children fall in love with science
  • Caring for their customers
  • Around The City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Farmers happy over cultivation of new crop
  • Seawater enters coastal village

    • Tirupati

  • High-level team reviews safety set-up
  • Plan to set up 7,000 more crèches
  • CPI to contest coop. elections

    • Tuticorin

  • Improve technology, manufacturers told
  • Minister inaugurates college building

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Continual rain evokes mixed reaction
  • Rs. 9 crores earmarked for basic amenities
  • Students told to focus on studies

    • Udupi

  • Karwar team in IT quiz finals

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Central grant to boost horticulture in U.P.

    • Uttaranchal

  • Congress leaders quit ministerial status posts

    • Vellore

  • Cultural festival for disabled children

    • Vijayawada

  • Traffic diversions imposed in city
  • Top priority for drinking water, says Sakunthala
  • Merry ride with `main' Rajpal
  • 3 die in road accident
  • CPI to continue with people's struggles
  • New Red Cross building
  • Rising sand, cement prices hit construction activity
  • 11 down but not out?
  • College fete ends
  • Goddess of prosperity
  • Around The City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • MCV launches steps to check incidence of dengue fever
  • Insurance firm told to pay assured sum besides compensation
  • Commercial potboiler
  • Adequate supply of LPG to dealers: Joint Collector
  • Safe landing
  • Livelihood concerns
  • Vavilala centenary
  • Around The City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Indian Navy stuns KSEB
  • Qualifiers spotted; SIT enters final

    • Weather

  • Weather

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