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Anantapur

  • BSNL cell coverage across all mandals of district by March
  • SP warns poll impostors

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Leptospirosis surfaces in Hyderabad
  • Andhra Pradesh may backtrack on PSU reforms
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Second phase of panchayat polls today
  • Srisailam crest gates opened
  • Fear of police stalks Kanagal mandal
  • All jails to have legal cells, complaint boxes
  • Tribals flock to health camp
  • `Maharashtra to abide by CWC decision on Babli'
  • Sambalpur University goes the e-way
  • GIET students excel in campus selections
  • Collector for priority to treatment of chikungunya
  • Police personnel felicitated
  • Student unions form parishad
  • Three killed in accident

    • Badminton

  • Kanika sets up title clash with Shivika

    • Bangalore

  • Health insurance schemes may get subsidy
  • Work on Malleswaram underpass stopped until further notice
  • Shivakumar fires yet another salvo
  • New industrial policy for State soon
  • Lake bed in Attibele encroached upon: panel
  • `File report on building norms violations before August 21'
  • Vijaya Bank hikes interest rates on deposits
  • KSRTC launches two luxury bus services
  • Opposition to Kali mini-hydel project
  • Labourer falls to death
  • Selection of doctor to cardiology course challenged in court
  • Court asked to consider remarks made by other legislators too
  • NNF launches `battle against the feeding bottle campaign'
  • Monorail not advisable: Sreedharan
  • 11th Plan to focus on agriculture
  • BJP seeks probe into Garuda Mall issue
  • BSNL roadshow
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Flood threat in Belgaum recedes
  • Soon, farmers can get land records at hobli level

    • Bellary

  • Department fears crop loss owing to moisture stress

    • Bijapur

  • Over 100 villages affected owing to floods in Bagalkot
  • One lakh trees to be planted in Bijapur city as part of project

    • Briefly

  • Seminar on business opportunities
  • Air Arabia increases frequency
  • Apollo Sindhoori launches Sensex Futures on BSE
  • Pyramid Saimira files prospectus with SEBI
  • MphasiS BFL Q1 net drops
  • PNB posts marginal increase in profits
  • Granules' product gets USFDA nod
  • Natco Pharma's Q1 net up
  • Northgate posts higher Q1 net
  • DQ Entertainment, Onyx Films form JV
  • Warranty on Champion XL printers
  • Sanovi Tech secures additional funding
  • Karnataka Bank revises NRE deposit rates
  • Hinduja TMT Q1 net up
  • ADA, Altair to collaborate on aerospace industry
  • Bal Pharma net up 16 p.c.
  • ATF rates up again
  • Sanjiv Batra to take over as MMTC Chairman
  • TDSAT rejects petition on ADC

    • Business

  • Hindustan Tin signs pact with Rexam of U.K.
  • Stringent laws sought to tackle counterfeiters
  • Home, other loans costlier by up to 100 basis points
  • Loyalty programme unveiled
  • BTS India Private Equity fund launched
  • Mauritius fund to invest in Everonn Systems
  • BT signs deal with Wipro Technologies
  • India, U.S. tie up for pharmacopoeia
  • Maruti Udyog increases prices of some models
  • Rupee reacts against $
  • Sensex closes flat

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Seawall to protect Kalpakkam
  • Breastfeeding Week observed
  • Criminals using first time offenders, say police
  • Industrial Estate still plagued by infrastructure problems
  • Move that could change children's lives in U.S. and India
  • Faulty air conditioner shuts down surgical block at Stanley Medical College Hospital
  • `Hope' brings smiles to the faces of children in Chennai
  • Councillors are on tenterhooks
  • Windmill spare parts units to come up at Nanguneri
  • Orders on case against Fisheries Minister today
  • Draft list for polling stations approved
  • A tree survives, thanks to transplantation
  • Ministry treat for city schoolchildren
  • State allowed to procure paddy for two more months
  • Chain snatching at Tambaram
  • Trade unions stage demonstration
  • Award for Sirpi Balasubramaniam
  • Jayalalithaa has doubts on quality of TV sets
  • What the IMS Act says
  • Clash after MTC employee teases trans-sexual persons
  • Shift police station: court
  • Counselling for B. Arch from August 6
  • Vikram turns up for a noble cause
  • Song and dance competitions in September
  • Rajasthanis reach out to needy students
  • Kilpauk Utsav on Sunday
  • Correction
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Narayanan stuns Ravi
  • Hari Krishna retains top position
  • Junior Nationals from Aug. 23
  • Vishwas Saralaya takes honours
  • Ramesh Kumar wins title
  • U-13 chess tournament

    • Coimbatore

  • Water charges may not go up despite arrears
  • Corporation non-committal on buildings
  • Beware of broken medians
  • Many roadworks will wait for revision of rates
  • Drop box facility at banks draws flak from consumers
  • Explosives haul case may go to SIT
  • New engineering college to open soon
  • Applications invited from social workers
  • Drive against speeding buses, 55 drivers booked
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Vellore 211 for eight
  • Inter-district under-15 cricket
  • Wright unruffled by abuse claims
  • `Beefy' bats for Panesar
  • Windies yet to decide on tri-series
  • Vinodh, Pawan make merry
  • Kanchipuram restricts Madurai

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8671
  • Solution to Puzzle 8670

    • Cuddalore

  • NABARD's refinancing comes to near halt

    • Cycling

  • Landis's B test result on Saturday

    • Dharmapuri

  • Bring migrant workers under safety net: CPI

    • Dindigul

  • Re-laying of rails for third winch to be over soon
  • 77,606 farmers benefit from crop loan waiver
  • Lawyers stage demonstration

    • Editorials

  • ULFA should see reason
  • Being open with regional trade

    • Erode

  • 420 kg rice for Adi Dravida students seized
  • Water scarcity grips Chennimalai
  • Piling garbage annoys residents
  • Collector places eight teachers under suspension
  • Draft list

    • Football

  • AIFF allows clubs to sign a player of Indian origin
  • UEFA's move to crack down on racism
  • Railway FC holds Md. Sporting

    • Front Page

  • Name the `mole': Manmohan
  • Give specific information on Mumbai blasts: Pakistan
  • Why are we damning Wright for no reason?
  • Fitness camp gets thumbs-up from Sehwag, Gregory King
  • Satellite pictures `show' Pakistan has terror camp
  • 5 lakh farmers to get wasteland
  • Elite institutions will determine their own threshold: committee
  • Anna varsity colleges to become departments
  • Naxalites attack IRB camp in West Bengal
  • Children can't be hired in eateries or as domestic help
  • Moratorium on Delhi demolitions nullifies our judgment: Court
  • Now a different feast every day aboard the Rajdhani
  • Sri Lanka invites Coimbatore SSIs
  • State may backtrack on PSU reforms
  • Bangalore Metro to cover more areas in first phase
  • Uncommon bacterial disease surfaces
  • Eight-hour duty schedule in 17 police stations
  • Apex court to hear Kerala plea on August 7
  • Kalasa-Banduri work to start in October
  • 121 lecturer posts sanctioned for Madurai region
  • Hospital issue: Panel to meet Sonia, PM
  • Proposal to subsidise fees dropped
  • CBI traces U.K. address of Ravi Shankaran
  • Maximum security
  • Ending gender bias
  • Meteorite-like objects

    • Generalia

  • Sai Praneeth steals the show

    • Goa

  • Four-lane bridge in north Goa on the cards

    • Gulbarga

  • Flood situation in Gulbarga likely to take a turn for the worse
  • Vast tracts of farm land submerged
  • GESCOM promises to replace faulty transformers soon
  • Protest against shortage of applications in post offices
  • Camp to treat chikungunya

    • Guntur

  • Increase awareness of ban on plastic bags: Pollution Control Board
  • BSNL to waive installation charges
  • Clash leads to murder of man

    • Gymnastics

  • Yibing, Zhou take all-around titles

    • Haryana

  • Six children dead as bus plunges into Sonepat canal
  • Haryana uses new technology for street light

    • Hassan

  • `I will stay on, fight those trying to destabilise Government'
  • Rs. 13 crore released to contain chikungunya

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Army hospital for Shimla

    • Hockey

  • Baskaran aiming for a triumph

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • `Set up magic academy in Bangalore'
  • Tailors demand welfare fund

    • Hyderabad

  • Dawn of prosperity
  • No consensus on Krishna water issue
  • APSCHE focuses on soft skills
  • Institute of Mental Health to be modernised with Rs. 3-cr. fund
  • Wonderful achievement by lexicon man
  • Double murder: special team leaving for Delhi
  • Withdraw order on PSU reforms: Telugu Desam
  • Rag pickers to collect garbage from August 15
  • Srisailam provides relief on irrigation, power fronts
  • Combined rail-cum-road ticket proposal cleared
  • Financier's murder: brother held at city hospital
  • Constable rewarded for smart work
  • State committed to providing quota for Muslims: Shabbir
  • Varied demands to the fore
  • All-out efforts for Legislative Council
  • Two die of burns in family dispute
  • Attendance exemption for Inter private candidates
  • Ex-MLC, freedom fighter dead
  • YSR's assurance to protect Sultan-ul-Uloom society's land
  • Woman murdered in Bowenpally
  • Forum's directive to power consumers
  • Land auction opposed
  • Power shutdown
  • Mayor urged to release ex gratia
  • Child labourer rescued
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • India raises differential treatment issue
  • India seeks access to Chittagong port

    • International

  • Hospitals in Lebanon ill-prepared for long war
  • U.S. expert sees terror camp in Pakistan
  • Israeli forces advance deeper into Lebanon
  • 24 soldiers killed in Sri Lanka
  • Blair, Schwarzenegger sign climate pact
  • Koreas exchange fire
  • Pulmoddai battle on but Sri Lankan ship `safe'
  • Refereeing in the bars
  • Magicians battle for world title
  • Exhibits stolen
  • Deadline extended

    • Kannur

  • Award for three teachers
  • Campaign against destruction of hills

    • Karimnagar

  • Security in place for second phase
  • Teacher comes up with a miniature Gita
  • Students extend a helping hand

    • Karnataka

  • Karnataka to go ahead with Kalasa-Banduri project
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Experts stress the need for more awareness on breastfeeding
  • Clash between district administration and lorry owners association continues
  • Konkani in Roman script may get official status
  • Hampi no more on list of endangered heritage sites
  • MLAs slam CRZ authority officials
  • Government urged to set up welfare fund for tailors
  • Uttara Kannada JD(S) leaders criticise Congress

    • Kerala

  • Eight-hour duty schedule in 17 police stations
  • Use and misuse of Internet on the rise
  • Online counselling for Cusat B.Tech. course
  • KWA begins work on `Choondy Scheme'
  • Six factors identified as disaster risks in Kochi
  • Boat owners not to violate extended ban on trawling
  • KSRTC's debt equation with IOC remains the same
  • Vehicle pooling mooted to reduce traffic congestion in city
  • 10-paise call rate scheme for BSNL pre-paid customers
  • Scheme to reduce `book load' evokes good response
  • Talks with Government a farce, say managements
  • Meeting of great literary minds
  • End stalemate, AKPCTA tells university
  • Honouring the Chief Khasi
  • Cusat to introduce MBA twinning programme
  • Number of pending cases reduced
  • `Food for the Hungry' project launch tomorrow
  • India Post introduces `Rakhi envelope'
  • Chambakkara boat race on August 27
  • Building inauguration
  • Supreme Court to hear Kerala plea on August 7
  • Briefly
  • Reader's Mail

    • Kerala - Others

  • Eight-hour duty introduced at Malappuram police station
  • SFI, AISF stage marches to Pushpagiri
  • Anganwadi workers stage dharna
  • Bid to disrupt classes foiled

    • Khammam

  • CPI(M) to ask empowered committee for a revisit

    • Kochi

  • GCDA prepares plan for improving city corridors
  • Peace Boat to call at Kochi on Sunday
  • Honouring theatre personalities
  • Bollywood beauty in Kovalam
  • Anthrax: corporation for strict measures
  • Trees at the receiving end
  • Control SFI, Congress leader tells CPI(M)
  • Shopping spree
  • AFMC annual meeting
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Environmentalist picks loopholes in proposed Ordinance on mangroves
  • DRM inspects facilities at Kollam railway station
  • Call for efforts to curb road accidents
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Focus on IPRs regime
  • Thrust to be on tourism, IT: Collector

    • Kozhikode

  • Crackdown on plastic bags begins
  • Project to popularise endemic medicinal plants launched
  • Trawling ban: situation being monitored
  • Eight-hour duty for police
  • Man found dead
  • Mayor's car damaged in accident

    • Kurnool

  • Acid attack on medico

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Did wild birds bring avian flu to India?

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Cruel campaign
  • What about Hizbollah?
  • Peace process

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Major role for industry in minor hydel power projects
  • Steps to ensure safety of reservoir area residents

    • Madurai

  • New scheme aims at creating `BSNL families'
  • Transported to another world
  • Melur Road turns out to be unsafe for motorbike riders
  • Earthworm manure production by ryots will be encouraged: Collector
  • Bio-fuel will ensure India's energy security
  • The right approach
  • Powerless, at times
  • MCA selection list
  • End of it all
  • Grievance day meeting
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • SIMI members in police custody

    • Mangalore

  • Distribute ration cards by August 15: Nagaraj Shetty
  • `VC has promised pay for all exam work'
  • Raitha Sangha to organise natural farming seminars
  • Two arrested, two weapons seized
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • MLA sees bias in sanctioning of new schools
  • Four-day training programme for women councillors begins
  • Special fee questioned
  • Club to take up welfare projects in Mysore
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Reimburse tuition fees, institutions told

    • Nagercoil

  • Bank allots Rs.42.5 crore to rehabilitate fishermen

    • Nalgonda

  • Seven-member gang busted
  • Teenaged lovers end life

    • National

  • LS adjourned over farmers' issues
  • Moratorium on Delhi demolitions nullifies our verdict: Supreme Court
  • NDA to blame for price rise: Sonia
  • NASDAQ trading on Infosys campus
  • Investigation into Mumbai bombings looks east
  • Jaswant was "irresponsible" in handling security: Dasmunsi
  • A dream date with Bill Gates & co.
  • Ministers criticise Buddhadeb's remarks
  • Children can't be hired in eateries or as domestic help
  • Nuclear deal: BJP not lukewarm to resolution
  • India needs no certificate on human rights: Baig
  • Ordnance Board to produce `cargo ammunition' with Israeli company
  • West Bengal complies with EC fiat
  • Missing student's body found
  • New Secretary
  • Indian Bank employees to strike work on August 8
  • Women, Child Development Secretary
  • Naga ceasefire extended by another year
  • Scheme to be reviewed
  • New initiative for peace in Sri Lanka
  • Banking law: Government hears unions
  • Opposition earns Dasmunsi's ire
  • FBI proof is nothing new, says India
  • Beaching permission for Norwegian ship
  • Rakhi for Musharraf
  • Similar service terms for women and men in Army

    • New Delhi

  • Centre sets up expert panel
  • Saving the Capital's green lung
  • CBI files closure appeal in Tughlakabad land grab case
  • Clues elude police over Monday murders
  • Exciting visuals through vibrant hand-block prints
  • MCD set to constitute task force
  • Bid to change `grammar' of students' politics
  • Contract given for Metro line
  • Now CISF to help curb power theft
  • "Police probing facts for which trial had already been conducted"
  • Hunting for `desi' women writers of international acclaim
  • Street kids' plea to end W. Asia war
  • New parking system introduced
  • Three held for woman's murder
  • `Survey of Govt. bungalows over'
  • New front launched
  • Bangladeshis arrested
  • Hampi not in UNESCO list of endangered sites
  • Transfer and posting of tainted officials under CBI scanner
  • GoM set up to resolve tussle between Ministries
  • Show commitment on ICDS, Karat tells Centre
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • "Battle of Brick Lane" fizzles out
  • On the runway and ready for take-off
  • Bush fundamentalism is courting disaster
  • Rwanda striving for a high-tech future
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • Two arrested in Chittapur murder case
  • Nigerian national held on cheating charge

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Flutter as police search train

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pondicherry

  • PMK leader finds shortcomings in Pondy budget proposals
  • Housing scheme provisos go against secularism: BJP
  • PCC lauds Rangasamy for `pro-poor budget'
  • Additional charge for Health Secretary

    • Punjab

  • Punjab ties up with RIL to promote agri-business
  • Uma's party to contest polls in U.P., Punjab

    • Racing : Horse

  • Premier Thrill impresses
  • Enaksi excels
  • Aleksei in good form
  • Symbol Of Speed, Parthenon shine
  • Pune season from Aug. 5

    • Rajasthan

  • Teachers' posts to be filled up
  • New postings

    • Religion

  • Truth that liberates

    • Salem

  • Child labourers rescued

    • Shimoga

  • Every home in this village gets water
  • NABARD's refinance policy may hit farm loan scheme
  • MP, MLA inaugurate same school twice
  • Tailors stage `rasta roko'
  • Major dams in Malnad filling up

    • Sport

  • Why are we damning Wright for no reason?
  • Fitness camp gets thumbs-up from Sehwag, Gregory King
  • Wright has the right to say what he has said: V.B. Chandrasekhar

    • Sports : General

  • Junior badminton tournament from Sept. 4
  • Thiagarajar CE wins

    • Squash

  • Joshna storms into top 50

    • Srikakulam

  • Farmers to get fair compensation

    • Table Tennis

  • I Gate emerges overall champion
  • Kamal to play for Madrid club

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Regional disparity in High Court representation irks advocates
  • Stamp duty exemption for TANSI
  • Jayalalithaa directs party workers to protest against budget
  • Al-Umma hurled pipe bombs after serial blasts: Prosecution
  • EPIC coverage in State 75 per cent, says CEC
  • Steps to prevent dam construction across Palar
  • Appeal for doing business in peace
  • Seven get appointment orders from Collector
  • Razed down
  • Delay in repatriation of bodies deepens grief
  • State Government urged to address problems of senior citizens
  • Childs Trust to launch laparoscopy surgery
  • Scouts movement inculcates spirit of unity, says Barnala
  • Civil society influences policies in U.S.: expert
  • We will not allow any compromise on foreign policy: Karat
  • BSNL scheme lacks publicity
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • `Govt. plans to form 25,000 more SHGs'
  • Forum to maximise growth potential of textile trade
  • Municipal officials blamed for not retrieving ward office
  • Retention walls on Salem-Yercaud Ghat Road
  • Transplantation deadline extended
  • Applications invited for trade courses in ITIs
  • Tempting fare at The Promenade
  • 5,000 apply for water connections in Tirupur
  • Warning against illegal stocking of crackers
  • Government allots fund for uplift of Adi-dravidars
  • Maya Venkatesan in police custody

    • Tennis

  • Andre Agassi's advice to youngsters
  • Safin fights on; Roddick pulls out
  • Somdev gets wild card
  • Shantanu shocks Chandril, enters last eight

    • Thanjavur

  • Disability cannot dampen learning ability

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Move to curb diversion of explosives
  • Developing appropriate technology for small farmers
  • Lawyers divided over advertising legal services
  • Rare frog spotted in central Kerala forest
  • Engineers abandon work on trial pit for flyover
  • The legend of a crown
  • Health Minister warns doctors
  • Meeting of literary minds
  • SFI, AISF take out marches
  • Rafi remembered
  • 14-kg tumour removed from woman
  • Baby at his best
  • Congress activists stage protest at POE office
  • Bank staff plea to Central Government
  • NDF demand
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 2, 1956: Nasser's assurance
  • dated August 2, 1956: India's basic language
  • dated August 2, 1956: World record by Laker

    • Thrissur

  • Colourful start to Thrissur film fete

    • Tiruchi

  • Reminiscences of early days
  • Move to bring out school newsletters
  • Peer educators' meet
  • Khadi workers seek pay arrears
  • Residents of Devadanam upset
  • An ear for good music
  • "Start super speciality departments at GH"
  • Rotarians pledge to donate eyes
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Government opens sand quarry at Thonithurai
  • Collector reviews local body poll preparedness

    • Tirupati

  • Gram panchayats go to polls today
  • Inter student commits suicide

    • Tumkur

  • Workshop on snakes in Tumkur
  • Jayamala episode: literary unit criticises Government

    • Tuticorin

  • Apartments in Housing Board unit ``falling apart''

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Leopards found dead

    • Udupi

  • `Kumarswamy has lost moral authority to be in power'
  • Tailors stage `rasta roko'

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • U.P. Cabinet nod for taking Metro rail to Ghaziabad
  • Special Economic Zones thrown open to private sector in U.P.
  • U.P. Speaker to decide MLAs' plea on August 7

    • Uttaranchal

  • Kumaon varsity gets new V-C

    • Vellore

  • Engineering students get tips on boosting their employability skills
  • Plus-Two supplementary exams

    • Vijayawada

  • Panic at railway station as man fires at co-passenger
  • Scrap G.O. 5, Raghavulu tells Congress Government
  • UDA proposes flyover, bypass under urban renewal mission
  • KDM gold glitters brighter
  • Magna Hyper Market unveils cultural bonanza
  • Sharing expense for fire station mooted
  • Dairy project in 40 sectors
  • End in sight for cable problem
  • Swimming pool closed
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Ritual for prosperity
  • Hike in registration charges hits business
  • Student's death leads to tension
  • Official takes charge
  • New forex agency
  • Sports meet for special children
  • Training in advanced photoshop
  • Kharif begins on bright note
  • Low pressure over Bay may bring rain
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • India should do well, says coach

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • Scheme to foster traditional arts in West Bengal

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