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    Anantapur

  • Tungabhadra water row spreads to districts
  • Crop loans: bankers on course to achieve target

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Pushkaram: 4 killed in stampede, one drowned
  • Officials blamed for stampede
  • Judicial officers asked to instil confidence in people
  • An awful beginning
  • YSR offers prayers at Srisailam
  • Left parties warn of another stir
  • Businessman buys NTR's car
  • YSR sees TDP hand behind spurt in borewells
  • Low turnout marks Pushkaram first day
  • Ranga Reddy student qualifies for national science meet
  • Orders soon for free power to single-bulb houses
  • Notices to be serviced on powerloom owners
  • Kanda offers to go on leave
  • Relief package for artistes sought
  • Chief Minister disappointed
  • BSNL helps a brother help his sister!
  • Six hurt in accidents
  • More flights to Tirupati
  • Executive Officer of Srisailam transferred
  • DD Pushkaram fare
  • Saibaba indisposed
  • Governor mourns stampede victims
  • BJP leader's plea
  • Discom clarification
  • Group 1 screening test
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Religious fervour all the way
  • Purohits sulk over low pilgrim turnout
  • Poor facilities irk devotees
  • Government going back on free power promise: TDP MLA
  • 17,000 take dip on day one
  • Schoolchildren to undergo health check-up
  • ZP chief, husband hurt in road accident

    Assam

  • Assam Rifles men appear before probe panel
  • Court orders in-camera hearing

    Athletics

  • Joginder Singh wins

    Badminton

  • Smitha in last four
  • BAIT triumphs

    Bangalore

  • BJP outlines agitation plans in Bangalore
  • ABVP bandh flops in city
  • Two youths rob three women of gold ornaments
  • Subways planned on Old Madras Road
  • Three new trains from Bangalore
  • 21 cinemas to close down
  • Janaagraha to analyse property tax information
  • Deshmukh praises Dharam Singh
  • BESCOM drive
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Basketball

  • Easy win for St. Peters
  • Chhattisgarh & Maharashtra triumph

    Bellary

  • BJP launches `Rashtra Dhwaja Sangharsh Yatra'

    Business

  • Chidambaram wants banks to focus more on farm credit
  • Industry breathes easy as truckers call off strike
  • Further drop in forex reserves
  • Exporters seek more sops
  • Focus on integrating SAARC capital markets
  • Auction of treasury bills

    Cartoons

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    Chennai

  • Giant hoardings continue to mar cityscape
  • Spread awareness of cancer: Ramamohan Rao
  • Garbage is a `burning' problem round here
  • Bodies of murdered doctor, mother arrives from Jhansi
  • 11 vehicles damaged in wall collapse
  • Women's club jubilee celebrations
  • Operation Cobra Rescue at Sriperumbudur
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Senthilkumar wins
  • Tejdeep wins chess title

    Coimbatore

  • Taxi operators seek rollback
  • Grainage in city starts silkworm seed production
  • AUT seeks payment of salary dues
  • Police begin probe into fake certificates
  • Collector's fiat on electoral roll
  • Sorting competition winners
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • Australia wins Videocon Cup
  • BCCI set to wrap up telecast rights contract
  • Ponting's objections to new umpiring technology
  • Balaji bowled well: Wright
  • Player replacements approved for ICC Champions Trophy
  • Prasad scalps seven
  • Match delicately poised
  • Shimoga well placed
  • Lawrance shines
  • Vamshi scores century
  • Easy for Intelligroup

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    Cuddapah

  • Chief Justice prays at Saneeswara temple
  • CPI(M) wants review of power reforms
  • Rally against student's murder

    Erode

  • Collector's gesture to girl student

    Football

  • Bagan routs FCI

    Front Page

  • Truckers end strike
  • Editor of Marathi daily attacked
  • Apang returns to Congress
  • LeT militant killed
  • Double gold for Holmes
  • Manmohan unwell
  • Jawans depose
  • Indian firm bombed in Nepal
  • 4 killed in stampede
  • Kidnapped
  • Australia beats Pakistan

    Globescan

  • Violence rocks Bangladesh
  • More Americans poor now
  • Coup leader found guilty
  • Bishops fall out over gay priests
  • Diplomatic row over Myanmar

    Goa

  • Decline in nesting of Olive Ridleys in Goa

    Golf

  • Maney-John duo triumphs

    Gulbarga

  • Training programmes for rural youth

    Guntur

  • Kanna opens Pushkaram at Amaravathi
  • Rare surgery to remove tumour performed
  • Seven fever cases detected

    Hockey

  • Big win for Flying HC

    Hyderabad

  • A costly trip one cannot afford!
  • Panel to go into truckers' problems
  • Pollution Control Board directive on use of fly ash
  • Bus frequency increased
  • Helping `know' the Army
  • Retain contract staff, CITU urges YSR
  • Teachers' union hails GO
  • Speaker to open dental hospital
  • Khan Ather show today
  • Around the city
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • India to be sounded on Malacca Straits security

    International

  • Russian crashes: Bombers linked to Al-Qaeda
  • Shaukat Aziz sworn in
  • U.S. examines 'Israeli spy case'
  • Unrelenting violence in Baghdad
  • Powell cancels Athens visit amid protests
  • Healthcare team evokes interest in South East Asia
  • Bombs explode in Nepal factory
  • Koirala not allowed to fly for party meet
  • Muslim schoolgirls face new French law
  • Hysteria takes hold of New York

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • Jammu and Kashmir Houses adjourned sine die
  • When PoWs were ambassadors of peace
  • Women in Jammu celebrate fall of Bill

    Kancheepuram

  • Two killed in accidents

    Karnataka

  • You are insulting the tricolour: Uma Bharti
  • Dharam Singh's `behaviour shocks' Uma Bharti
  • Mixed response to ABVP's call
  • Increasing cases burdening courts, says judge
  • Tribal people anxious over Govt.'s stand
  • JD(S) legislators upset with Ministers from party
  • Ministry will be expanded soon, says Vilasrao Deshmukh
  • COMEDK's response to accord guarded
  • Minister favours activity mapping of local bodies
  • 31 held for enforcing bandh call
  • Sushma Swaraj berates Congress
  • Police rush in reinforcements
  • No conditions, says Siddaramaiah
  • Hospital ransacked
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Bandh hits life in Chitradurga
  • Youth told to study ideology of Urs
  • Vatal threatens stir for completion of Kabini works

    Kerala

  • IUML to join stir for reservation
  • Sonia to meet party leaders at airport
  • The Sree Narayana effect
  • Mineral sand-mining: storm in the offing
  • Onam celebrated with gaiety
  • Congress bid to set house in order
  • All set for Guruvarsham 150
  • Vicar found dead
  • At Sabarimala today
  • Briefly

    Khammam

  • Cardiac camp for children held

    Kochi

  • Maintain ethics, travel agents told
  • Plummeting pineapple prices hit farmers badly
  • `Mahabali' announces relaunch of toll stir
  • GIDA land sale prospects get a boost
  • Two of family killed
  • Raksha Bandhan goes hi-tech
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • Traffic regulations in Kollam today

    Kozhikode

  • Bishop seeks Central relief for farmers

    Leader Page Articles

  • Peace at a crossroads
  • Jihadi groups: alive and killing

    Madikeri

  • Panel on foodgrains makes little headway
  • Kushalnagar observes total bandh

    Madurai

  • Minimum nuclear deterrent policy essential: Kalam
  • `Mobilise local resources to promote tourism'
  • Siddha doctors resent poor patronage from State Govt.
  • Rural Talent Test today
  • `Social entrepreneurship concept' for rural youths
  • Research must have social relevance: VC
  • Employment Information Centre planned on church premises
  • Importance of solar energy stressed
  • Seminar
  • Grievance day meet
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • Controversy in Mangalore varsity takes new turn
  • Partial response to bandh call
  • Amhai bridge in bad condition
  • Campaign to conserve city's streams
  • Vice-Chancellor holds talks with students
  • When 1.5 and 1.5 made four

    Mysore

  • `State got raw deal in Cauvery water accord'
  • Dasara to be promoted as `jan utsav' this year
  • Good response to bandh call in Mysore
  • `Wrong billing causing loss to MESCOM'

    Nagapattinam

  • Velankanni festival begins today

    National

  • 'Minimum nuclear deterrent policy essential'
  • Ozone-depleting halon phased out in India
  • Assam Rifles men appear before probe panel
  • BJP outlines agitation plans in Bangalore
  • Agitation will continue till cases are withdrawn: Sushma
  • Warrant against Cadbury officials
  • NCW seeks justice for women deserted by NRI husbands
  • Corruption a complex phenomenon: Pachauri
  • Lalu Prasad hits outs at Thackeray
  • Convert LoC into International Border, says Farooq
  • Sahmat condemns attacks on journalists
  • High alert in Barak valley
  • 'Law enforcement agencies must change attitude'
  • Meet discusses background papers.
  • Sonia's stand on Savarkar not different, says Venkaiah
  • Bill for small sector in winter session
  • WHO asked to revise obesity scale for Indians
  • Empower women for social stability, says President
  • Manmohan felicitates new Prime Minister
  • Hostages' families hopeful
  • 'India for strengthening ties with all nations'
  • Goenka Award instituted

    Nellore

  • Idol stolen

    New Delhi

  • Poor students quota gives way to corruption
  • Sheila, Councillors on collision course
  • Barrier-free Dilli Haat fails to provide a wheel chair
  • Photo competition
  • Fake admission racket busted
  • NSUI, ABVP release manifestoes
  • Notorious criminal arrested
  • Clash in Zakir Husain college
  • Briefly

    News Analysis

  • Is stoppage of Parliament the only answer?

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Olympic Games

  • Argentina edges Paraguay for gold
  • Double delight for Guerrouj, Holmes
  • Fonte pockets heavyweight gold
  • Aussies realise a dream
  • I was feeling giddy: Anju
  • Face-saving win for Sushil Kumar
  • U.S. women reign
  • Bronze is good enough for Cuba
  • Marion Jones — from cheers to tears
  • Liu Xiang sets new mark
  • Australia removes bridesmaid tag
  • Janics stops Fischer at eight
  • Julien Absalon corners glory
  • Sujeet Mann loses
  • Hungarian weightlifter stripped of silver
  • Austrians dominate

    Orissa

  • 12 held for violence

    Palakkad

  • Temple fete

    Pathanamthitta

  • Rousing reception for Thiruvonathoni
  • Fast observed on Thiruvonam day

    Perambalur

  • Training programme for small-savings agents

    Pondicherry

  • Congress, allies to hold talks with Delimitation Commission
  • 6 huts destroyed in Delarshpet fire
  • Adhere to teachings of saints: Lakhera
  • Truck operators resume work
  • Cycle rally for communal harmony
  • 3 undertrials injured in assault

    Punjab

  • Amritsar gets ready to host mega-event

    Rajasthan

  • Desert folks re-discovering water

    Salem

  • Rs. 19 cr. for education in Salem

    Shimoga

  • Good response to ABVP bandh call in Shimoga, Hubli
  • `Translation of literary works fosters national integration'

    Sports : General

  • Iran makes clean sweep
  • Bombay Gymkhana begins well
  • S. Railway, HAL advance

    Tamil Nadu

  • Jayalalithaa seeks Rs. 1,680 crores for drought relief
  • Manmohan visit cancellation a disappointment
  • Students sitting on the fence
  • Bring in Constitution amendment: PMK
  • `Biofuel can be an alternative energy source'
  • Start virtual classrooms, Kalam tells varsity
  • Centre should keep powers to sack Governors: CPI (M)
  • Artificial insemination for cattle on the doorstep
  • Karnataka team continues talks with special judge
  • Value-based education in law colleges needed: Lakshmanan
  • Entrance test for management quota seats today
  • `Ensure availability of medicines for mental health'
  • Special counselling for instant exam students
  • e-dining system in BHEL canteen
  • DMK criticises stalling of Parliament proceedings
  • Two child labourers rescued
  • Railway rates tribunal chief
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • More credit flow to farm sector in Virudhunagar dt.
  • Adventure tourism coming on Ariyaman beach
  • Importance of tomato cultivation stressed
  • Assurance to get school upgraded
  • Rare rusty spotted cat run over
  • Panther skin seized, two held
  • Anthurium adds colour to the tribal life

    Tennis

  • Srichaphan advances
  • J.J. College retains title
  • Ajai, Preethi triumph
  • Samuel in semifinals

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • City lacking proper trade fair grounds
  • IAF jets pen poetry in the sky
  • Traditional fervour marks Onam celebrations
  • Ten injured in accidents
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    Thrissur

  • Kummatti fete to be held today
  • Cable operators attacked
  • Winners of Triprayar regatta

    Tiruchi

  • Tiruchi-Thanjavur sector feels the pinch, owing to inadequate trains
  • Cancer awareness drive launched by NCC cadets
  • PWD clearing Uyyakondan of weed growth
  • Village temple priests' plea
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • `Give more loans to farmers'

    Tirupati

  • `Srimad Bhagavatham' in Sanskrit
  • BJP stages protest seeking release of Uma Bharati
  • Minimum wages sought for TTD health workers

    Udhagamandalam

  • A tribal hamlet in the Nilgiris blooms
  • Onam boosts tourist inflow amid tight security

    Udupi

  • Disposal of garbage dominates Udupi civic body meet
  • Revised fare for private buses from today

    Uttaranchal

  • Plan panel official returns Cabinet perks

    Vijayawada

  • Holy dip proves disastrous
  • No formal inauguration for three mega projects
  • Traffic goes haywire
  • Inquiry into stampede today
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Suicide threat does pay off!
  • Probe Visakha Dairy affairs, says CPI(M)
  • Vizag-Chennai superfast from Sept. 1
  • Varun Motors top Maruti dealer
  • Manikumari's case adjourned
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • Loyola is volleyball champion
  • SRMV triumphs
  • SRTS-I's reign continues

    Warangal

  • Moves afoot to constitute six engineering divisions

    Weather

  • Weather

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