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Alappuzha

  • Navya thanks her fans for the State award
  • All-India cultural collective to begin

    • Anantapur

  • Collector, MP visit fever-hit village
  • Fake currency racket busted
  • Four-member gang loots three houses
  • Hoax bomb call delays train

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • No Cabinet expansion now, says Rajasekhara Reddy
  • Bus fare hike triggers protests in A.P.
  • Get dressed in style to look gorgeous
  • Liberal financial help sought for sericulture
  • Builder boulder
  • For a cause
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Grand finale to Konaseema Utsav
  • RTC fare hike draws flak from TDP
  • More funds for defence: Pallamraju
  • Weavers' stir hits silk saree trade in Dharmavaram
  • CPI accuses State of failing to tackle naxalite problem
  • 250 houses destroyed in fire
  • Come clear on Telangana, Narendra urges Congress
  • 150 new schools for STs: Minister
  • Hike in allocation of funds for handloom sector urged
  • Caught napping
  • Narrow escape for SI
  • `Samskrita mela' inaugurated

    • Athletics

  • Delightful double for Donald

    • Badminton

  • National camp concludes

    • Bangalore

  • Rail information now on your mobile
  • Rs. 5-lakh compensation for former BSF employee's family upheld
  • Shell to establish technology centre in Bangalore
  • Enter the world of illusion
  • CBCI general body meet to focus on education
  • British Airways offers return tickets to London at Rs. 14,500
  • BMP seeks Rs. 200 crores for clearing bills of contractors
  • Mata Amritanandamayi to arrive tomorrow
  • Dalit students move court over fee issue
  • Call to strive for betterment of youth
  • Landlords adjust to BPO tenants' erratic timings
  • Japanese team visits BMP
  • Five persons killed in road accidents
  • Traffic likely to be affected
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • Indian Bank triumphs

    • Belgaum

  • Address rural problems, says VC

    • Bidar

  • Barbers learn the art of self-reliance

    • Bijapur

  • Bijapur farmers' stir enters 22nd day
  • Goshala to be set up at Yalgur

    • Briefly

  • MTNL to get Rs. 956 cr. tax refund
  • DoT-TRAI meet to sort out ADC issues
  • Caution against negative list
  • Apple launches $149 iPod nano
  • Spanish Co. to exchange CO2 units
  • SanDisk opens design centre in Bangalore
  • Patni partners SAP to target SMBs
  • IBM, Freescale announce collaboration
  • Registration of Dundee MF cancelled
  • Pratibha Industries price band Rs. 100-120
  • Nokia launches upgraded smartphone
  • Netgear to unveil India-specific products

    • Business

  • Accounting Standards to be enforced from April
  • Salary levels up by 11-15 p.c.
  • Google opens sales offices in India
  • Rupee rallies against $
  • Create equity, mortgage and hybrid REITs: Assocham
  • Siemens to buy 50 p.c. stake in Flender
  • LMW to increase spinning machine output
  • TAC commissions ammonium bicarbonate plant

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOONSCAPE

    • Chennai

  • Students have unenviable task in hand as examination nears
  • Namakkal getting ready for ISO certification audit
  • Jayalalithaa dedicates water project to Tirupur residents
  • Education system fuelling anxiety in children, says expert
  • Gateway to South opened for BJP: Venkaiah Naidu
  • Neuroscience meet to focus on rehabilitation
  • Palliative care meet from February 10
  • Actor Vijayakumar returns to AIADMK
  • Propagate scientific facts on leprosy: Barnala
  • Corporation moves in to clear garbage in Onyx zones
  • Minor procedure, major relief
  • IIT director decries poor exam system
  • Unions serve strike notice
  • Insured in U.S., treated in India
  • Be creative, engineers told
  • Theatre owners demand compensation from Vijay
  • Shanmatha Sunadam CD released
  • Village theatre artists want their rights recognised
  • Platform to showcase digital films
  • Traffic diversion at Vadapalani today
  • 15 fall unconscious after ammonia leak
  • Hall tickets
  • Filing returns online `much simpler'
  • Lavanya Ashok is `Best Student Advocate'
  • Calling those with an eye for technical projects
  • University job fair
  • 12 buildings fight for `fire safety award'
  • Allotment of social security number begins
  • No pebbles here
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Gangadharan clinches title
  • Gangadharan clinches title

    • Coimbatore

  • They maintained the dignity of the House
  • Consumer body questions Corporation on penalty
  • `Digital herbarium needed to preserve natural wealth'
  • Road near stadium cries for attention
  • `More SEZs will come up in the next four to five years'
  • Manuscripts survey ends
  • BPL Mobile launches Chinna Recharge
  • Industrial expo
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Akhtar can be reported again: Gavaskar
  • Venkat honoured with `Life Time Achievement Award'
  • Sri Lanka enters finals
  • Rubbing salt into the wounds
  • Giles out of India tour
  • Get Anil Kumble in
  • BCCI favours three-Test series in West Indies
  • Easy for South Africa and Sri Lanka
  • Dravid, team fined

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8521
  • Solution to Puzzle 8520

    • Dharmapuri

  • Katta panchayat rampant in Dharmapuri district
  • Demonstration of farm implements

    • Editorials

  • Markets at a historic high
  • Not as good as it can get

    • Erode

  • Cultivable area of cotton, tobacco declines
  • Sewage treatment plant to be set up in Pallipalayam
  • Agri expo on wheels from February 9

    • Football

  • AIFF asks Fransa to apologise
  • Dempo, JCT play out goalless draw

    • Front Page

  • 8.1 per cent GDP growth projected
  • Anil Ambani gets control
  • Prachanda unveils road map for change in Nepal
  • IIT-M gates open to commerce students too
  • Information system aims to bridge rural-urban divide
  • Raj Babbar suspended
  • Bihar presses ahead with Taslimuddin case
  • SMS on ODIs: court restraint on mobile majors
  • Sensex closes above 10,000-mark
  • PM orders a new look at illegal constructions
  • Kumaraswamy may sail through today's trust vote
  • No Cabinet expansion now, says Chief Minister
  • Thanmatra, Ananthabhadram bag five State film awards each
  • Clean up voters' list, say parties
  • `Focus will be on rural development'
  • Cartload sand traders oppose move to set up quarry
  • Bench pulls up advocates for damaging public property
  • Over 20,000 houses to get water connections
  • Bus fare increase triggers protests
  • 3 held in Koti fire accident case
  • Dasari loses mines
  • Taxi carrying Salman hits girl

    • Golf

  • Indian pairs in joint lead
  • Indian pairs in joint lead
  • Lucknow Open from today
  • Army chief opens gates to juniors

    • Gulbarga

  • `UGC ready to provide financial assistance to universities'
  • DSS to hold agitations against Yediyurappa
  • More women are joining the police force, says DGP

    • Guntur

  • Kondaveeti vaagu diversion still evasive

    • Haryana

  • Incentives for kin of ex-Servicemen
  • Cop allegedly commits suicide
  • Haryana Government to frame new forest policy soon
  • Haryana to supply uninterrupted power to rural areas

    • Hockey

  • Four-nation hockey tournament postponed

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Railway employees take out procession
  • Deve Gowda termed anti-Lingayat
  • Head constable suspended

    • Hyderabad

  • Unmindful of long wait, people queue up for ration cards
  • A new dimension to learning
  • Blaze damage exaggerated, say Pushpanjali owners
  • Ongoing projects at Nayapul Maternity Hospital stopped
  • US company's first overseas testing lab for Hyderabad
  • NGRI gets into clean-up act
  • Naidu turns his attention to agriculture now
  • BJP wants village panels to monitor employment guarantee scheme
  • RTC chief dares critics to debate on crisis
  • Traders caught in a bind
  • Vambay housing works at Singareni Colony reviewed
  • Suicide bid by constable?
  • Excellence awards for teachers
  • Two held, stolen property recovered
  • Court stays GO on Visakha Dairy
  • Traffic restrictions for Bibi-ka-Alam
  • Students booked over clash in college
  • Power shutdown
  • 12-year-old boy attempts suicide?
  • Court declines to grant stay
  • State Government sets up task force on Telugu
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • New Delhi, Seoul to conclude economic agreement by 2007
  • India is an emerging global player, says South Korean President
  • 3 Indians receive awards

    • International

  • Haitians flock to polling booths
  • Cartoons: Khamenei sees Israel's hand
  • U.S. General for strategic refit in West Asia
  • Journalists stand trial in Turkey
  • Hunt for "sleeper bugs"
  • 13 killed in Afghan blast
  • Defiant Moussaoui evicted from court
  • LTTE rules out "modifications" to ceasefire pact
  • M.F. Husain apologises

    • Kancheepuram

  • Officials' request bowls over parties

    • Kannur

  • UDF Government made Kerala bankrupt: Ismail
  • Mata gets rousing reception
  • Banks told to focus on customer satisfaction

    • Karimnagar

  • Dalits beaten up in Karimnagar
  • TDP's `padayatra' enters Nizamabad
  • Uninterrupted power sought for farmers

    • Karnataka

  • Kumaraswamy may sail through today's vote of confidence
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • State's help sought to complete railway projects
  • Mangalore Mayor to review water supply
  • Konkani script issue may reach flashpoint
  • Bullet tanker overturns
  • NCP Minister remains defiant
  • Railways to run special trains

    • Kerala

  • Kerala State film awards for 2005 announced
  • Permission declined to file appeal in sex scandal case
  • Collectorate renovation progressing
  • World Travel, Tourism Council members visit Kumbalanghi
  • Promote public-private partnership: Ravi
  • City police start listing `felons'
  • Pineapple export via sea a big success
  • Welfare panel for juveniles not yet formed
  • Celebrating the life of Jesudas
  • Chaos with entertainment value
  • Contractors seek steps for non-stop supply of materials
  • Magic contest in school arts festival welcomed
  • Getting to the nucleus of a film
  • IEM: 20 MoUs signed
  • Preserving a tradition
  • Word of caution
  • Astronomical interest
  • Ayurveda doctors seek promotion
  • Adoor felicitated
  • Vaidyar fete
  • Shot in the arm for engineering college
  • Hindalco workers' meet today
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • `Neglect of history harmed Muslims'

    • Kochi

  • Tourism project hits GCDA plan
  • Education meet moots regulatory authority
  • Purbashree fair a big draw
  • Chamber to lead renovation of Broadway
  • Protest against FDI in retailing
  • Tiger by the tail
  • Call to curb illegal recruitment agencies
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • `Inquire into lathi-charge on CPI(M) activists'
  • KWAEU State meet from today
  • Youth called to vote against UDF
  • Merchants to hold talks with corporation authorities

    • Kozhikode

  • SFI march turns violent
  • Violence erupts during SFI agitation in Kozhikode
  • Corporation council approves Rs.15-crore draft proposals
  • Waste treatment project at MCH becomes operational
  • CCCI urges Railways to revoke order
  • School annual day held

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Geneva talks: not much scope for optimism

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Deplorable
  • Vote against Iran
  • Speaker & courts
  • Sensex soars

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Court records statements of Bhopal gas disaster accused

    • Madikeri

  • Shrinking space causing man-elephant conflict
  • Census of children in Kodagu
  • Centre urged to give ownership rights to `Jamma Malai' holders

    • Madurai

  • Software for visually impaired launched
  • ARPF promotions: HC Bench moved
  • Chamber flays Centre's move
  • Woman told to pay interim maintenance
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Workshop to discuss problems of fisheries
  • `Gamaka Sammelan' in Suratkal tomorrow
  • Two youths injured in group clash
  • Artiste remembered
  • Mishra brothers to perform on Saturday

    • Mysore

  • Mysore forum to hand over 92 houses to tsunami victims
  • Shortage of typhoid vaccine plagues city
  • KSRTC operates special services to Shravanabelogola
  • Programme to improve quality of traffic education
  • Two shops sealed for non-payment of rent
  • V. Chandrashekar is dead

    • Nagercoil

  • Meet on diabetes at medical college

    • Nalgonda

  • Sending poems to girl students costs English lecturer his job
  • Portion of bridge over Musi caves in
  • Lovers commit suicide
  • College students donate blood

    • National

  • Navin Chawla denies any conflict of interest, presents details of trust funding
  • Honour for former Judge
  • BJP to take issue to President
  • India, Serbia sign trade pact
  • Stress on close public-private cooperation for cyber security
  • NGOs: water a fundamental right
  • Sentence remission: Supreme Court to examine Governor's power
  • Man meets brother after 58 years
  • Youth enterprise amid ruins
  • Victoria Memorial: environmental activist writes to Tony Blair
  • Industrial livestock, a threat to eco systems: FAO
  • Assam journalists demand security
  • Gujarat traders get hate SMS
  • Rights groups' plea to Centre on Kalam's Myanmar visit
  • Review nuclear accord with America: V.P. Singh
  • U.S., India to fight human trafficking
  • Centre open to CBMs on human rights in Assam
  • Let petition come: Tandon
  • We had no knowledge: main accused in gas case
  • Finance Minister lauds States
  • Jaitley put in charge of West Bengal
  • Aim for 10 p.c. growth: Montek
  • Reliance: Bombay Stock Exchange terms for listing demerged firms
  • Andamans police planning to sneak in and retrieve bodies of slain fishermen

    • Nellore

  • TDP, CPI(M), BJP protest against increase in APSRTC bus fares
  • Lifer for dowry harassment

    • New Delhi

  • Wheat procurement target set at 162 lakh tonnes
  • Crisis in Delhi BJP; Balli on `fast unto death'
  • Congress legislator fires another salvo at Sheila
  • Notice to Delhi Metro
  • Literary links beyond national boundaries
  • Def Col residents make it a zero-waste zone
  • BSES teams detect power theft cases
  • Tribals protest against displacement
  • MCD demolition drive continues
  • High Court directs probe into misuse of Government land
  • 18 contestants for national singing competition in Delhi
  • No relief for fashion designers
  • DU students plan rally
  • International conference on vocational education
  • `Little Europe' comes to DU campus
  • French author eyes Indian readers
  • Phone tapping: notice to Uttar Pradesh police
  • Under-trial in jail for 38 years: notice to U.P. Govt.
  • India agrees to Russia joining WTO
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Moderate Islam has lost its voice
  • Why we love to hate our jobs
  • The Left in Latin America
  • Behind the transition in Karnataka
  • America's `long war' on terror

    • Nizamabad

  • Villagers kill two branding them sorcerers
  • Protests all over against RTC bus fare hike

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Rectification counselling proves an uphill task
  • Velugonda project will irrigate four lakh acres, says Rosaiah

    • Perambalur

  • Survey brings to light manuscripts

    • Pondicherry

  • Local Administration department website launched in Pondicherry
  • Ministerial staff strike dislocates work
  • AIDWA volunteers stage protest

    • Punjab

  • Punjab Govt. steps for Dalit welfare

    • Racing : Horse

  • Thats The Touch impresses
  • Since, Good Speed shine
  • Petronella excels

    • Racing : Motor

  • Popular Hyundai car rally

    • Raichur

  • HGML facing closure threat

    • Rajasthan

  • Mass rape accused denied bail
  • Rajasthan Govt. signs MoU with LIC
  • AIDWA takes umbrage at Pawar's statement
  • "Nirmal Gram'' prizes to be given in Rajasthan

    • Religion

  • Instruction by practice

    • Salem

  • Shortage of manpower affects digital mapping programme
  • Periyar University to open six departments
  • Delay in rebuilding culvert causes hardship to residents
  • Move to appoint doctors on contract flayed
  • Awareness rally taken out
  • Inspector, SI suspended in Salem
  • Demonstration staged

    • Shimoga

  • CMC to hold talks with citizens' groups on property tax increase
  • Sagar, Hosnagar MLAs may obey BJP whip on trust vote
  • Women recite slokas to spread message of national unity

    • Sport

  • So, we thought it would never end?
  • Hopeful Anju leaves for Thailand today
  • Need for level-playing fields

    • Sports : General

  • South India teams likely to dominate
  • Solitary goal win for HAL
  • Keshavan tipped to win hearts at Turin
  • Easy win for Friends United
  • Kasi Rao, Mercy win titles

    • Srikakulam

  • Rs. 2 crores sanctioned for horticulture in Srikakulam

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Applications pour in as parties prepare for seats sharing
  • Left to look beyond elections
  • Order to appoint SPP valid: court
  • Alliance to strive for revamping education system in the State
  • It's time DPA partners quit alliance: Kalimuthu
  • 59 and going strong
  • Now, you can get it recharged often
  • It's what you call quick-fix
  • Just outlandish
  • In God they put trust
  • Dam to be constructed on Palar: Andhra
  • Well-versed Chapter
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Concentrate on studies, Vaiko tells students
  • New project to ease congestion on NH 45
  • Duo creates miniature of Sathiya Gnana Sabha
  • Focus on studies, Vaiko tells students
  • Applications called for multi-skilled courses
  • Chemists hail Centre's move
  • Boy commits suicide; relatives block road
  • Kerosene supply on rotation

    • Tennis

  • Top-seed Zvonareva out of Pattaya Open
  • Gearing up for the big event

    • Thanjavur

  • Blaring vehicles take Thanjavur to ransom

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Plan preparation likely to be hit
  • Staff shortage hits Kerala University
  • `Presence of bold women characters rare'
  • Engineering college closed indefinitely
  • Youth Congress leaders in the doldrums
  • Lok Ayukta case against alienation of forest land
  • Food poisoning: rice was unfit for consumption
  • Abide by Supreme Court rules: PCB
  • Six-year rigorous imprisonment for murder attempt
  • One killed in accident
  • CPI(M) plans campaign in solidarity with Iran
  • Assam under threat, says former official
  • Tiger by the tail
  • Elected office-bearers
  • Protest by students
  • Doctors' protest
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated February 8, 1956: The Amritsar Congress
  • dated February 8, 1956: Multilingual States
  • dated February 8, 1956: Tax on motor vehicles

    • Thrissur

  • My career-best performance: Bhavana
  • Girl succumbs to burns
  • Youth arrested

    • Tiruchi

  • TREC-STEP to implement ``Innovation Fund''
  • Be ready to welcome a new-look Thai ther
  • For eco-education too the BHEL tolls
  • Drive against traffic violators
  • Aid still flooding
  • Yagnam on Feb. 12
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Wildlife census to begin on Feb. 15 in Tirunelveli district: forest officer
  • University students strike work

    • Tirupati

  • Educational camp held on prospects in sericulture
  • Modifications in Galeru-Nagari irrigation scheme irk farmers

    • Tuticorin

  • Rs. 374 lakh for infrastructure development works
  • Rs.5-lakh welfare assistance disbursed

    • Udhagamandalam

  • `Be sensitive to the needs of tribals'

    • Udupi

  • Yediyurappa criticised

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Grand welcome awaits Rajnath in Lucknow

    • Vellore

  • Devotional songs mark Art of Living function

    • Vijayawada

  • Gulzar asks students to play it cool
  • Gunadala Matha Festival to be conducted from tomorrow
  • NSM Public School principal to take up assignment in Rome
  • TDP's padayatra to conclude today
  • Protest against bus fare hike
  • College taps alumni resources to guide its students
  • Works reviewed
  • Auto-rickshaw drivers stage dharna
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Contract workers demand regularisation
  • Bypoll: time to dole out promises
  • Lost but found, thanks to driver
  • Lalitha Peetham brahmotsavams from today
  • CPI(M) to protest against Bush's visit
  • Two constables suspended
  • Voicing land woes
  • An exception too
  • Protest against RTC fare hike
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • KU overall champion at NSS youth festival
  • Naxal nabbed

    • Weather

  • Weather

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