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Anantapur

  • Couple ends life

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • YSR seeks more forces, funds to fight naxalism

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Medak police to crack down on tipsy drivers
  • Oil price hike: call for rollback
  • Fuel price hike: Left parties hold rasta roko
  • TDP to give ticket to youth in municipal elections
  • AISF protests against donation in schools
  • Minister Naik warns of action against erring ITDA officials
  • Five persons arrested in double murder case
  • Kotwal system ruled out for Rajahmundry
  • Good rainfall raises hopes of farmers
  • Panel reviews safety on highways

    • Badminton

  • Vinay is champion

    • Bangalore

  • Designers come together for a cause
  • Crackdown on property tax evasion
  • Lack of infrastructure dogs Peenya industrial estate
  • BMP leaves debris on busy road
  • Janata Dal (S) is intact
  • Central excise to open help centres for traders
  • Anjali's counsel was not evicted, says IAF
  • the record books
  • BMP asked to submit status report on roadworks
  • Authorities ignoring children's safety, say parents
  • Software engineer robbed of cellphone, cash
  • Minister blames Congress
  • `Flora Expo 2005' from Friday
  • Stringent steps to curb sale of spurious drugs
  • Load shedding in some parts of city from Friday
  • Cellphone to the rescue of travellers
  • Ornaments stolen from house
  • `Only rabid dogs can be put to sleep'
  • A gentle push for the visually challenged
  • A tribute to legends
  • AIDSO to hold rally today
  • FAO workshop on agriculture today
  • KPCC presidential elections unlikely
  • Award for scientist
  • All for a seat
  • Rare recordings on sale
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Harlem Globetrotters to play in Kochi

    • Belgaum

  • Nationalisation of private schools and colleges sought

    • Bellary

  • GESCOM consumers asked to send in complaints for redressal

    • Bidar

  • DYFI demands regulating agency to fix college fees

    • Briefly

  • UBS Securities files appeal with SAT
  • SAIL's go-ahead to new projects
  • Essar Steel increases capacity
  • China, ASEAN set to reduce tariffs
  • MRF opens service outlet
  • Stanchart Mutual launches equity scheme
  • Sri Lankan Airlines handles record cargo
  • Calsoft net profit up
  • EFI's document capture and distribution solution
  • Pitti Laminations to issue shares and warrants
  • TIBCO brings AJAX accelerator program
  • Aventail SSL VPN wins award
  • MSK bags Rs. 17 crore project
  • SatNav Tech introduces navigation system
  • Surana division to deal with Hisense products

    • Business

  • Natural gas find larger than stated, says Modi
  • RIL to exercise option in Reliance Infocomm
  • Videocon buys Thomson colour TV tube business
  • SPIC improves performance
  • Tirupur firm to set up motor plant in China
  • Visteon forms two ventures with Tatas
  • Syndicate Bank's second offering opens on July 7
  • SEBI to suspend UIN registrations
  • Merck starts trials for antibiotics

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Fishing hamlet tense after mob attack
  • Many trucks remain off roads
  • Changes to criminal procedure code opposed
  • President to visit Nagapattinam
  • Looking for wealth and fame? Law school is worth a shot
  • CET: protest by PMK leaders
  • A plethora of complaints at grievance meet
  • Help underprivileged: Barnala
  • At 70, Susheela's voice is still young
  • Row over tank renovation
  • 69,000 disabled children covered under SSA
  • Pochampalli silk saree mela on in the city
  • Attack on fisherfolk: 10 arrested
  • Vasan's charge against Jayalalithaa
  • Forty huts go up in flames Forty huts go up in flames
  • It has all ingredients of a box office success
  • Amendment notified
  • Role model award for student
  • Bandh by transport unions peaceful
  • They are in a spot now
  • Sanskrit scholar dead
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Ratnakaran sitting pretty
  • Soumya goes into the lead

    • Coimbatore

  • Corporation buys more time for waste disposal
  • Gunning for Guinness record
  • AUT demands filling of vacancies
  • Demand for white cocoon goes up
  • Pilloor breach repaired
  • `Continue free power'
  • Musical show
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • West Indies may pick new team
  • Yadav back on track

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8332
  • Solution to Puzzle No. 8331

    • Cuddalore

  • Sikh group to build houses for fishermen
  • Tripartite panel to identify development works urged

    • Cuddapah

  • Peer Baba from Trichy visits dargah
  • Residents object to wine shop
  • Red sanders seized

    • Dharmapuri

  • State to get Rs. 200 crores for healthcare of rural folk: Anbumani
  • Cradle Baby Centre gets 600th baby
  • New family cards to be distributed from July 2

    • Dindigul

  • Mixed response to strike against fuel price hike
  • Chief Minister must participate, says CPI(M)
  • Protest against amendment to Cr. PC

    • Editorials

  • Let the admissions begin
  • Welcome but not adequate relief

    • Eluru

  • Agri export zone proposed in West Godavari
  • Congress leaders protest against `protocol violation'

    • Erode

  • Desilting of Kalingarayan canal in progress
  • Left parties stage demonstrations
  • New arrival at Cradle Baby Centre in Erode
  • Plea to link rivers

    • Football

  • Fierce rivalry resumes on an unfamiliar territory

    • Front Page

  • Sonia Gandhi calls up Prakash Karat
  • "Left will stick to its decision"
  • ``Police need to be caring, humane''
  • Left organises protests against fuel price hike
  • Sinha dropped as BJP spokesperson
  • Implement interim award of Cauvery Tribunal: Jayalalithaa
  • All set for launch tomorrow
  • 15 labourers trapped in tunnel near Thane
  • "Committed to keeping fascist parties at bay"
  • BKI militant arrested
  • Bihar Speaker quits
  • Dubai-bound flight suffers bird hit
  • Consumer activist dead
  • Nominated

    • Gulbarga

  • Congress retains key posts in Gulbarga City Corporation
  • Govt. promises to help artist set up gallery
  • Attack on KBJNL office, police resort to lathi charge
  • Continuation of Mahiti Sindhu programme sought
  • Left parties protest increase in oil prices

    • Guntur

  • From Europe to Guntur... for ecology
  • No doctor in this PHC for 8 months
  • Civic poll: Congress confident of winning all seats
  • Trucks stay off Guntur roads too
  • Man charged with killing wife in front of parents
  • Course in footwear making
  • Woman beaten up, robbed of cash

    • Haryana

  • Hooda seeks better price for crops

    • Hassan

  • Congress blames JD(S) for problems in Hassan
  • Protests against rise in fuel prices
  • Bail applications rejected

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • CPI (M) strike evokes mixed response
  • Bad weather affects airlifting of stranded tourists in Himachal

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Hubli-Ankola rail line realignment ruled out
  • Shopkeepers cautioned against encroaching upon corporation land
  • Water supply schedule in Hubli

    • Hyderabad

  • City-based rights activist in race for Nobel Peace Prize
  • No end to woes of SCB residents
  • Fire safety goes for a toss in city
  • YSR seeks forces to pursue naxalites
  • Fresh airmen in top flight and raring to go
  • Hi-tech textile park to be set up by next June
  • Crisis management hallmark of PV's rule, says Governor
  • Cupid has the last laugh
  • Door-to-door campaign on HIV
  • YSR plays politics at NDC meet: TDP
  • Truckers' strike evokes a mixed response in State
  • Eight pseudo naxalites arrested
  • Youth slashes wrist of school girl
  • Oil price hike: Congress joins issue with Telugu Desam chief
  • There were more frowns than smiles on their faces
  • An effective teaching tool
  • Eleven killed, 29 injured in road accidents
  • No downsizing, privatisation, says RTC MD
  • Labour Department's revamp being kept in abeyance
  • Left parties protest against hike in prices of petroleum products
  • Develop devices to measure speed of vehicles, says YSR
  • APSCHE shortlists 80 private institutes
  • Robbers strike at Vanasthalipuram
  • Oil price hike: stir by Left
  • Floral tributes paid to former Prime Minister
  • Hospital gets nod to use `Watchman Device'
  • Rain, gales disrupt power supply
  • BJP seeks action against MCH officials
  • I've got the power
  • High Court upholds AICTE decision
  • Tributes paid to ex-Prime Minister
  • 8-man TDP panel for civic polls formed
  • Earned leave encashment for Government employees
  • Heavy rain in twin cities
  • No power supply
  • Bags HMA award
  • Water board MD directive
  • Foreign language classes
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • "Peace process with Pakistan not entrenched"
  • "India can be an excellent base for U.S. defence industry"
  • Military relations with India excellent, says Rumsfeld

    • International

  • India will become important to us: Lee
  • U.N. seat: U.S. boosts hopes of Germany
  • Religious leaders make joint anti-poverty appeal to Blair
  • U.S. will not interfere in Bangladesh affairs: Burns
  • Russian n-offer to Iran
  • $450-million grant to tackle health problems
  • "Corruption in French literary world"
  • Site for fusion reactor
  • Shia legislator killed in blast
  • U.S. opposes needle exchange plan
  • Rain-making experiment
  • Picasso's mistress auctions sketches

    • Kannur

  • KSU not for self-financing colleges sans social control
  • In support of a peaceful agitation

    • Karimnagar

  • Two children die of mystery fever in Karimnagar district

    • Karnataka

  • Dharam Singh calls for review of forest laws
  • For a cause
  • Back to animal power
  • In Kasaragod Today

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Illegal units flourishing in State, says Achuthanandan
  • Amend Forest Act, sangha urges Govt.
  • Panchayat clears projects for Rs.1.55 crores
  • Relief works not executed properly: MLC
  • Additional voters list to be published on July 8
  • All is well in Janata Dal (S), says Kumaraswamy
  • Hospital facing shortage of doctors
  • Two-day KANFED State meet at Iritty
  • Legal workshop for teachers
  • Siddaramaiah to meet JD(U), RJD leaders

    • Kerala

  • Project to develop green cover in Kerala cities
  • Yet another debate
  • Department without a head
  • Diary of Mayor's London visit
  • Demand for rollback
  • Swarm of bees
  • Briefly
  • In Thrissur Today
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kerala - Others

  • Matching up to the samba beats...
  • People oppose lime shell dredging
  • Around the City
  • Around the City

    • Khammam

  • 17 lakh saplings to be planted
  • Lorries stay off roads

    • Kochi

  • Cultural festival planned for Onam
  • West Kochi residents to wait out monsoon
  • Steps on to develop roads and drains
  • Wish of a story-teller
  • Former Dy.SP's bail plea dismissed
  • Ban orders imposed at Thrikunnathu Seminary
  • Ban on foreign trawlers sought
  • Action sought against Principal
  • A sign of illness
  • A safety net for the poor
  • One arrested on burglary charge
  • Trial by the media
  • MLAs' meet to discuss water distribution
  • Encounter with a difference
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Two youth from Tuticorin held on charge of murder
  • Cashew workers block roads
  • Rs. 4.71 crores for seawall at Eravipuram

    • Kottayam

  • Orthodox Church flays interference in its affairs

    • Kozhikode

  • Desilting of drains being taken up on a war footing in Kozhikode
  • ISM flays Left move to boycott UPA meetings
  • Workshop on security in South Asia
  • Traffic on ghat road disrupted

    • Kurnool

  • Seed dealers urged to educate farmers

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Should the IMD monopolise monsoon forecasts?

    • Letters to the Editor

  • A master stroke
  • Sethusamudram project
  • Welcome verdict
  • Appalling
  • Needed, awareness

    • Madikeri

  • Govt.'s pact with COMED-K termed unethical

    • Madurai

  • Elaborate security arrangements for Prime Minister's visit to Madurai
  • PILs against Dalmia cement factory expansion admitted
  • Left parties protest fuel price hike Left parties protest fuel price hike
  • Baalu politicising Sethu project function: BJP
  • Making them feel at home
  • SP appears before Bench
  • Plan to declare Madurai district child labour-free on Thursday
  • Awarded for his high score
  • Wishful thinking
  • AIFB plans demo
  • Upside down
  • Sorry spectacle caused by a lorry
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Mangalore

  • Left parties stage protest against increase in fuel prices
  • Kannada meet in Kasaragod on Sunday
  • Vegetable growers and vendors want raitha bazaar
  • Mangalore students bag 11 dental ranks
  • Jeevotham Mutt to build community hall, hostel
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Towards a comprehensive master plan for Mysore
  • Differences surface over Model APMC Act
  • Bank employees robbed of Rs. 5 lakhs
  • Lessons from the zoo, for the zookeepers
  • High Court upholds reservation for Mayor's post
  • College to offer integrated M.Sc. course
  • Left parties protest fuel price hike
  • Teacher suspended
  • Interior designing course

    • Nagapattinam

  • Centenary celebration
  • `Shutters down' stir seeking development projects for Nagapattinam

    • National

  • Yechury, Brinda Karat to contest RS elections
  • "Karnataka ruling allies pulling in different directions"
  • Navy launches fast attack craft
  • Decision not a permanent arrangement: Basu
  • Red alert after heavy rain in Gujarat
  • Catching them young
  • A gritty journey, with a message
  • Sub-committees to be set up on agriculture, finance
  • `Outcome budget' to be unveiled in July
  • Venkaiah Naidu, three others meet RSS leader
  • "Go ahead with reforms in pension sector"
  • "Do not intimidate credit card holders"
  • `Need to reform Muslim personal law'
  • "Fatwa in Imrana case should not be enforced"
  • Rs. 12,000 cr. to be spent on missiles
  • Tourists airlifted after floods in Sutlej
  • ``Treat sunstroke deaths as human loss in natural disaster''
  • Decision on application of POTA in Godhra case postponed
  • Rising Chenab threatens villages
  • Presentation on "Pan African Network"
  • Separatists sending delegates to OIC meet
  • Talks on Tulbul project inconclusive
  • ``Tariff formula must be on `bound' rates"
  • Maldives backs India's claim
  • Myanmar refugees rally against NHPC plant
  • "Loss-making PSUs must be closed or sold"
  • Three drown during `search for diamonds'
  • Advisory panel on direct taxes reconstituted
  • Court upholds Kurien's authority

    • New Delhi

  • Cooling heels
  • Sub-committees to be set up on agriculture, finance
  • It's discoms' show of power
  • Sheila pleads for priority to drinking water
  • Many students pin hopes on second list
  • Technological marvel set to unfold on July 2
  • A platform for budding singers
  • `Cocoon villages from property tax'
  • New traction sub-station to supply power
  • Indian authors bag prestigious award
  • Action sought against cops
  • Advisory panel reconstituted
  • `Correct policy to stem deceleration'
  • Mumbai boy rescued in U.P.
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Anybody remember Manipur?
  • A gambling epidemic hits Russia
  • Snipers with children in their sights
  • Ways to leave your boss
  • `Jury of Conscience' indicts U.S., U.K. on Iraq
  • Briefly

    • Nizamabad

  • Welfare officers told to monitor facilities in hostels

    • Pathanamthitta

  • SFI strike hits functioning of schools, colleges
  • Be committed, Minister tells Health staff

    • Pondicherry

  • Staff shortage hits property tax assessment
  • Russia to help implement five projects
  • Violence: Kannan charges Governor with inaction
  • Autos, tempos off the roads

    • Racing : Motor

  • U.S. GP: Disciplinary hearing today

    • Raichur

  • Bangarappa promises free power

    • Rajasthan

  • Choice of CLP leader a tough task
  • Raje pins hope on early verdict on water issue

    • Religion

  • Man of wisdom

    • Salem

  • Blowing the whistle the pro-victim way
  • Public to be involved in traffic management
  • Goods carriers off roads
  • Placed under suspension

    • Shimoga

  • Farmers urged to grow medicinal plants

    • Shooting

  • Chance for youngsters to vie with the top guns
  • Briefly

    • Sport

  • Sharapova brushes aside Petrova
  • Junior World Cup gets off to a start today
  • Haryana swamps Karnataka
  • Indians promise more

    • Squash

  • Easy for the top seeds

    • Srikakulam

  • Officials under fire at Srikakulam ZP meet

    • Table Tennis

  • Field day for Indian paddlers

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Large-scale jatropha cultivation yet to gain momentum
  • Training for police to handle communal cases
  • Infrastructre projects: legislation soon for public-private tie-ups
  • Post offices must change with times
  • Cluster approach for infrastructure development
  • A drama a day from July 22
  • To Switzerland for just two songs
  • Campaign to fight torture
  • Additional burden
  • Upside down
  • Maran inaugurates baggage scanning machine at airport
  • House system inaugurated in school
  • `Make schooling interesting to attract child workers'
  • 20 MW power project proposed at Manali
  • "Information about impending calamities can reduce losses"
  • Rights activist in race for Nobel Peace Prize

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Students propagate waste management through theatre
  • In Tambaram, a war on encroachments
  • Pallavaram residents flay subway design
  • A gesture of benevolence
  • NTADCL to disconnect water supply
  • Second reform package meaningful: Jayalalithaa
  • Bangalore to host international flower expo
  • Dies of suspected dengue attack
  • Around the City

    • Thanjavur

  • Form federations in panchayats, SHGs told

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Campus Notes
  • KWA to expedite pipe re-laying at Palayam
  • `Enough evidence to prosecute former CPI(M) MLA'
  • Talks with self-financing college managements soon, says Minister
  • `Stop religious appeasement'
  • `Centre studying issue of discontinuing executions'
  • Bookings galore for Harry Potter
  • Mangattidam adjudged best panchayat
  • Paintings on areca palm spathe
  • Policemen doused with soft drinks
  • Three of family found dead
  • Fall of a sentinel
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated June 29, 1955: Nehru in Vienna
  • dated June 29, 1955: At the Wimbledon

    • Thrissur

  • Thalikkulam set to be totally computerised second panchayat

    • Tiruchi

  • Don't turn a blind eye to their woes
  • Partial response to stir call
  • In dire need of planning
  • Security arrangements for Kalam's visit
  • 3 more arrested for murder
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Tirunelveli

  • Lorries off the road in Nellai

    • Tirupati

  • Schools without recognition likely to face action
  • Krish Srikkanth offers prayers at Srikalahasti

    • Tuticorin

  • Noisy scenes mar public hearing

    • Udhagamandalam

  • `Declare Mudumalai a tiger reserve'
  • `2.17 crore persons suffer from disabilities'

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Power employees plan strike today
  • Monsoon showers across U.P.
  • Promise on water to Delhi conditional: U.P.

    • Vellore

  • Tharapadavedu, Thorappadi affected by water crisis

    • Vijayawada

  • Land distribution scheme takes curious turn
  • Lorry owners vent their ire
  • General Hospital pleads for additional doctors
  • Eight Left activists held, freed
  • TDP irked by delay in water release to delta
  • I've the power!
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Bringing the smile back on their faces
  • Naidu to hit campaign trail for civic body polls tomorrow
  • Generation X throwing caution to the winds?
  • Cooperative banks hail MoU with Reserve Bank
  • All for an identity
  • Inspectors appointed SHOs
  • CPI, CPI(M) block rail, road traffic
  • Plan to make one lakh women literate
  • Walk for a cause
  • Farm operations commence
  • Junior doctors donate blood
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Song and dance about social evils

    • Weather

  • Weather

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