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Alappuzha

  • Reconstitute welfare boards: RSP(M)
  • Cultural programmes planned for Onam

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Tea, coffee and salt to cost less in Andhra Pradesh
  • Cloud-seeding in A.P.: claims of rain to be verified
  • A new ray of hope in engineering
  • BC status for Patra community
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Varsity to offer new courses
  • Two-wheeler sales zoom
  • Court fines Apollo Hospitals for `deficiency of service'
  • BSNL to provide more broadband connections
  • Steps afoot to set up more Kendriya Vidyalayas
  • TDP leader vows to stand by partymen
  • Hardikar death anniversary observed
  • Erring autorickshaw drivers put on notice
  • Mega Lok Adalat from September 1
  • Bank managers told to give best customer service

    • Archery

  • Indian team left with no foreign coach

    • Assam

  • BSF, BDR considering Wagha-like retreat

    • Badminton

  • Kashyap pulls off a major upset

    • Bangalore

  • SHGs for disabled soon
  • Four children die in road accidents
  • PESIT, Sun sign MoU to set up Sun Labs
  • Can new bylaws curb hoardings?
  • `Only State syllabus students can participate in DPI sports meet'
  • Special trains from city to Ernakulam
  • Proceedings against M.P. Prakash stayed
  • Lok Ayukta invites ideas from people on fighting corruption
  • BMP plans to develop 18 parks in Lakshman Rau Boulevard
  • City's most expensive flats getting ready
  • Samples of colas sent to CFTRI for analysis
  • Shell Technology to begin operations
  • ESI amnesty scheme
  • Casual vacancy round for quota engineering seats from today
  • Retirement age of anganwadi workers to be fixed
  • BMTC bus pass rate increased
  • Chief Minister leaves on three-day tour
  • Two youths drown in well
  • Ramanasri Sharana awards
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • Chhattisgarh maintains clean slate

    • Belgaum

  • Centre to be apprised of flood situation

    • Bihar

  • IT officials crack down on steel units

    • Bijapur

  • Alamatti accident toll put at 29

    • Briefly

  • Escorts to divest stake in joint venture
  • Huawei Technologies to invest $100 m
  • Godrej and Boyce plans more Lifespace stores
  • KVB launches Tax Shield deposit scheme
  • Malaysia Airlines announces special fare
  • CATA to expand brand presence
  • Maharashtra Seamless pays 70 p.c.
  • BSE to suspend 52 companies
  • Flag seeks damages from VSNL
  • New TDSAT Chairman
  • Channel pricing under CAS

    • Business

  • Panel wants coal price regulation
  • SEBI warning to cos. defying Clause 49 provisions
  • Late selling trims early gains
  • Sharma may head ONGC
  • Indo Asian ties up with Simon
  • CTEL's expansion plans
  • BHEL plans Rs. 1,600 cr. investment
  • Expo of products from industrial clusters
  • Godrej group launches new furniture brand
  • New Balance to make foray into Kerala market
  • Kerala Power Finance to fund other sectors
  • Petroleum subsidies unsustainable: Montek
  • Rupee ends flat against $

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Serviced apartments becoming popular in Chennai
  • MMC includes yoga in preventive cardiology
  • Every day is a learning experience, says Lakshmi
  • Spanish institute holds its first convocation
  • Complaint signed by power of attorney valid in law: Bench
  • S. Ramachandran appointed Madras varsity Vice-Chancellor
  • At CoP's office, few grievance petitions result in tangible action
  • Community college system in focus
  • Huge opportunities in manufacturing sector: Seshasayee
  • Crackdown on overloading of heavy vehicles
  • AIADMK, DMK clash in Assemby
  • Corporation council to convene today
  • 54 more hectares bought for tsunami rebuilding works
  • New building to house offices of city police
  • Chinmaya cultural fete from tomorrow
  • Leadership circle seminar on September 6
  • Course on ethics and biotechnology
  • French journalist misses flight for smoking
  • Revenue Intelligence seizes illicit drugs
  • Cine technicians awards announced
  • Air France tri-weekly service to Paris from October-end
  • Scholarship test for GATE-2007
  • Budding writers set for knowledge festival
  • Man held on job racket charges at Vadapalani
  • Poornalingam to head Third Police Commission
  • Fashion show, but costumes not made from cloth
  • `Captain' begins countdown to 150
  • Agarwal's Eye Hospital's new branch
  • CSC launches certificate course in Maya
  • NGOs plan to campaign for free and fair polling
  • Tamil version of "Lean Tools" released
  • "Sethu work has little impact on environment"
  • Illicit arrack seized
  • Assistance distributed
  • Man murders wife
  • Protest continues
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Special drive to control chikungunya from Sept. 4
  • "Unanswered questions weaken prosecution case"
  • No comfort zone for pedestrians
  • A fortnight of music begins on Friday
  • New plan on the anvil for powerloom sector
  • Plan to increase cotton production
  • CITU seeks national-level wage fixation for textile workers
  • National-level wage fixation needed: CITU
  • Lawyers plan boycott of special court on Monday
  • SEBI chairman's appeal to youth
  • Communicative English workshop for teachers
  • Competitions
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • Gritty knock by Anjum
  • Clarke working hard to make it to the Ashes squad
  • Thiruvananthapuram emerges winner
  • A case for leaving it to the match referee
  • Lawson trying to resurrect career
  • Easy win for Chemplast
  • Hair is in big trouble: Inzamam

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu crossword 8695
  • Solution to Puzzle 8694

    • Cuddalore

  • Poll rolls for civic elections to be released today
  • Rs 2,500 crore for improving roads

    • Dindigul

  • Their `action' is loud and clear
  • Call to produce cattle in large scale
  • Two arrested for defacing Periyar statue

    • Editorials

  • No rotation for outlaw panchayats
  • Bad to worse in Iraq

    • Erode

  • Release of untreated effluents from paper units affects villages in Sathyamangalam
  • Chikungunya awareness programme conducted
  • Bridge to be constructed across River Bhavani at Rs. 3 crore
  • Tight security for Vinayaka idols rally

    • Football

  • Sevilla crushes Levante
  • Aqeel Khan enters semifinals, wins circuit

    • Front Page

  • Defence procurement policy revised
  • Defence Attache recalled
  • Election Commission needs reforms: CPI(M)
  • Meeting to discuss prices of essentials
  • Two ABVP leaders surrender in Ujjain
  • No military aid to Colombo, Manmohan assures Vaiko
  • Unrest persists in Balochistan
  • Centre aware of Telangana-naxal links
  • Training camp gets underway
  • Badrinath lights up opening day
  • Panel wants coal price regulation
  • SEBI warning to cos. defying Clause 49 provisions
  • New Vice-Chancellor for Madras University
  • Question mark over fate of 1,700 Delhi schools
  • Centre gives Rs. 250 crore for flood relief in State
  • Hu Jintao to visit India in November
  • Efforts on to raise cotton, maize production
  • Tea, coffee and salt to cost less in State
  • LKG student knocked down by mini-bus
  • "Highway expansion on own lands"
  • Age limit for promotion of policemen scrapped
  • Textbooks to be reviewed
  • Touts take rail passengers for a ride
  • Illegal occupants of government bungalows served with notice
  • BTPS first unit to be ready by March 2007
  • New devices seized
  • Allotment schedule on Saturday, says CEE
  • Vajpayee calls on Somnath
  • SPO shot dead in Kupwara

    • Globescan

  • Fiji to hold Pacific meet
  • Indian convicted in U.S.
  • Fugitive sect leader held

    • Gulbarga

  • State to have new education policy
  • New transfer policy on the anvil
  • Horatti lauds contribution of private educational institutions
  • Increase minimum support price for red gram, say farmers
  • Headmasters to get interim relief
  • Ashraya colony residents seek basic amenities

    • Guntur

  • Go for alternative crops: Collector
  • Drive to protect antique articles
  • APDF conference on September 2
  • BSNL revises tariff for PCOs
  • Panel on freedom fighters' issue

    • Hassan

  • Tobacco auction to begin on September 6
  • Approval for Rs. 19.2-crore plan from Hassan ZP

    • Hockey

  • Sourashtra College retains title
  • India bounces back, trounces Belgium

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • MP favours changes in education system
  • In Hubli-Dharwad Today

    • Hyderabad

  • Microsoft asks State to protect intellectual property rights
  • Quartet on `Mission Possible'
  • Noisy exchanges mar ORR debate
  • `Rendezvous' with a python
  • Poor response to MCH's modern market scheme
  • Small IT units seek land at fixed cost
  • Special team to check cyber crime
  • Plan to verify rain under cloud-seeding
  • City youth deported from London held
  • State housing board to get financial independence
  • Road works in SCB soon
  • IEG planning tie-up with MIT
  • `Unhygienic conditions rampant in hostels'
  • Teegala gets a feel of the condition in slums
  • ORR alignment changed 115 times: Devender Goud
  • Short-term courses for jobless minority youth
  • Vacancies: YSR asks APPSC to submit tentative plan
  • The forgotten sentinels of the city
  • No closure threat to Open Schools
  • City to get 24-hour water supply in 10 years: Minister
  • TRS MLAs suspended for third day in a row
  • YSR sore at debate on ORR
  • Retirement, healthcare schemes inadequate for Indian workers: survey
  • Gowri Shankar is SCB vice-president
  • TRS unhappy with verdict of Krishna Tribunal
  • Attractive packages for holiday travellers
  • TRS chief arrives in city
  • No alternative to peace: seminar
  • Telangana Jana Parishad on conference drive
  • Power shutdown
  • Sub-division offices of water board opened
  • Hospital's offer for chikungunya patients
  • Court directive to Archaeological Survey of India
  • Change in rules sought
  • Tribal battalion opposed
  • Morning walks, meditation at Shilparamam
  • Part-time MBA
  • HUDA staff boycott work
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Unrest persists in Balochistan
  • Call to halt Baloch operations
  • Army behind aid workers' massacre: SLMM
  • Lift blockade, Annan tells Israel
  • Rajapakse leaves for U.K.
  • Low-tech methods to mop up
  • For free downloads of public domain books
  • Robots with a face: rehearsing for the future
  • A voice of moderation falls silent
  • Brain scan revelation
  • Free, compulsory education in China

    • Interviews

  • Azad ready for talks with Hizb, not Lashkar

    • Kannur

  • Outfit defends protest against researcher
  • CPI(M) rally at stadium ground
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • TRS launches relay hunger strike

    • Karnataka

  • Centre sanctions Rs. 250 crore for relief in Karnataka
  • Foundation laid for second thermal unit
  • Centre taking impartial view on border row, Karnataka told
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Coastal security, narcotics control to dominate zonal council meeting
  • Machinery not to be used in relief works
  • Do not glorify naxal activities: Minister
  • Farmers not to harvest sugarcane till Government decides on price
  • `Work unitedly to ensure development'
  • Panel meets Dalit representatives

    • Kerala

  • Pressure Centre, urges Yechury
  • BJP extends support to Kerala legislation
  • Bonus for Devaswom staff
  • KPCC lashes out at Government
  • Onam fervour on campus
  • Probe into `backdoor' appointments
  • Straight from nature
  • 7,000 litres of spirit seized
  • `Speed up admissions process'
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Put pressure on Centre to implement CMP: Yechury
  • Kuwait airliner begins operations from Kochi
  • Doctors' strike hits functioning of hospitals
  • Malampuzha dam shutters opened
  • Online registration for domestic helps in Saudi Arabia
  • Recruitment fraud: Dubai officials to launch probe

    • Khammam

  • Renuka for interest waiver on crop loans

    • Kochi

  • Onam celebrations to begin on Sunday
  • A platform to comment on social issues
  • Health services hit
  • `Speed up process of admissions'
  • Supplyco fairs
  • SCMS wins contest
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Man threatens self-immolation to evade arrest
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • LDF for debt relief Act, says Pinarayi
  • Youth commits suicide

    • Kozhikode

  • Police tips to contain burglary during Onam
  • GEC students contest claim on TEJAs
  • 25,000 VAT scratch cards sold in district
  • Ombudsman seeks clarification on slaughterhouse
  • Management meet

    • Kurnool

  • `Sathachandiyagam' begins at Tripuranthakam
  • Srisailam temple elephant to bow out
  • CPI activists storm excise office
  • Funds released for two hospital wards in Kurnool

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Darrell Hair and South Asian solidarity

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Bugti's killing
  • Ultra-nationalism
  • Airport drama
  • File notings
  • On The Hindu
  • Indelible impression

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Farmers' welfare fund to be created in Madhya Pradesh

    • Madurai

  • Move to shift city bus bay draws traders' ire
  • Credit card for Government, public sector staff at book fair
  • Departmental enquiry against faculty member
  • Open University spot admissions in Madurai
  • IAIS test in November
  • `Vande Mataram' to be sung in schools on September 7
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Two more plans for EPIP cleared
  • Cruise liner visits New Mangalore Port
  • Osteoarthritis camp from September 7
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Tenders for Mandakalli airport work likely to be opened today
  • Kumaraswamy to open four-lane highway today
  • Samajwadi Party to expose `role of Congress' in mining scandal
  • Junior doctors hail decision on stipend, tuition fee
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Youth forum formed to help tsunami victims

    • Nalgonda

  • Student run over by RTC bus

    • National

  • Core group proposals to Oversight Committee
  • BJP calls off plan to sing Vande Mataram in Parliament
  • Congress wants BJP to apologise
  • Bill for OBC quota in unaided universities soon: Arjun Singh
  • Police open fire outside refinery
  • It is not murder, says Chief Minister
  • Pistol taken away from Ibrahim at Chennai airport
  • "Compensate family of ULFA leader's wife"
  • Maldivian party condemns assault
  • New media panel for Congress
  • Committee to look into anganwadi workers' demands
  • Fish weighing 200 kg caught
  • Bhatnagar Prize for 13 scientists
  • Bugti killing tragic, says Rajnath
  • Apex court may lay down norms for pardon, remission
  • Expedite pace of funds utilisation, States told
  • Nine-judge Bench to examine Tamil Nadu Reservation Act
  • CPI (M) team to probe "custodial torture" of party leader
  • Disciplinary panel
  • Complaint of forcible hair cut `concocted'

    • Nellore

  • Family feud claims three lives

    • New Delhi

  • MCD starts demolition work at slum cluster
  • Status report on demolitions filed
  • Khurana plans 15-day `Dilli bachao yatra'
  • Treasures of tribal craftsmanship come calling
  • AIIMS to conduct tests on Jharkhand girl
  • Tricolour scales new heights on Independence Day
  • Deadline for sealing banquet halls extended
  • Fire in Okhla foam factory; eight firemen injured
  • Bidhuri threatens stir against `no water'
  • Deputy Speaker seeks opening of mosque
  • `Notify Master Plan for Delhi-2021'
  • Held for robbery
  • Shocking variation in prices of same medicine
  • `Vyas Samman' conferred on two Hindi writers
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • DUSU elections turn into a slanging match

    • News Analysis

  • U.S. regulation of GE foods a bad model
  • Corrections and clarifications
  • Violent, not gradual, change
  • New York Times site blocked to U.K. visitors

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Civil Supplies officials smell a rat in dealings of rice millers
  • Rajya Sabha member plans big for Guntur, Prakasam districts

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pondicherry

  • Government Medical College construction begins
  • Contract labour system opposed
  • Farmers' union seeks bank loan waiver
  • Legislators oppose move to sell Government lands to private entrepreneurs
  • New Chief Secretary
  • Moopanar remembered

    • Punjab

  • Second road link to satellite town of Panchkula opened

    • Racing : Horse

  • Lord Of Vision may score an encore
  • Pricewise well prepared
  • Caprese, Cedros catch the eye
  • Glaring Godzilla and Vijay Marg please
  • Kiss Of Luck shines
  • Clockwork triumphs

    • Racing : Motor

  • Good response to monsoon rally

    • Rajasthan

  • Govt. seeks 3,200-crore relief package

    • Religion

  • Liberating knowledge

    • Salem

  • Speed up development works, says Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan
  • `Food industry should ensure hygiene'
  • District to get 150 more silk reeling basins
  • Spinning a saga of survival
  • Soil testing lab opened

    • Shimoga

  • LIC staff told not to ignore private players in insurance
  • Sadashiva panel receives several petitions
  • Kala Pratibhotsava begins

    • Sport

  • Training camp gets underway
  • Badrinath lights up opening day
  • Rain, rain... more rain
  • Abhijeet Gupta, Soumya Swaminathan reign supreme
  • Easy win for Chemplast

    • Sports : General

  • GRDC cagers triumph
  • Wesley JC wins The Hindu Trophy
  • Subba Rao remembered
  • Sri Lankan athletes for State meet
  • Tata Sky launches Active Sports service

    • Srikakulam

  • Telephone directory released

    • Tamil Nadu

  • `Tamil publishing industry has glorious years ahead'
  • "Two police commissions set up during DMK rule"
  • PMK rally seeks quota implementation
  • Puthiya Thamizhagam volunteers take out rally
  • Students told to develop communication skills
  • Quiz contest for medical students
  • Centre's move to shift education to State list opposed
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Newspaper in Education programme to be implemented in more schools
  • Water quality monitoring system to be launched in Krishnagiri
  • Can change in BMP bylaws curb illegal hoardings?
  • `Create awareness on personal hygiene among students'
  • `Renovation at Samathuvapurams to be over'
  • Flying squads formed
  • Two persons found dead

    • Tennis

  • Sharon Paul downs Shweta Rana

    • Thanjavur

  • Thanjavur farmers seek incentive for paddy
  • Electronic database for manuscripts created
  • Poondi Basilica festival begins

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Doctors' strike hits OP clinics
  • Pluto sends students into a tizzy
  • Vector control to be intensified
  • KPCC lashes out at Government
  • Magisterial probe to be made mandatory
  • DIC(K) plans stir against Government
  • Panel to protect Vellayani lake set up
  • `Aero Space Command likely in capital'
  • KTDFC urged to bail out KSRTC
  • Building permit revoked
  • Naval unit NCC wins trophy
  • Bhagavatha Saptaham from today
  • FRAT to observe Demand Day
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated August 31, 1956: US farm products for India
  • dated August 31, 1956: Madras Central Station

    • Thrissur

  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Special campaign to promote innovative ideas
  • Flight of students to greener pastures causing concern
  • Career guidance scheme for wards of policemen
  • System to certify welding inspectors on the anvil
  • This is what festivals are for
  • Better diagnosis and treatment possible
  • UGC asked to extend deadline
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirumala

  • Karunakar Reddy sworn in TTD Chairman

    • Tirunelveli

  • Welfare measures distributed to the physically challenged

    • Tirupati

  • Seven old faces on TTD board
  • 41,900 power connections approved for farm sector
  • Tirupati lad secures seat in BITS, Dubai

    • Tuticorin

  • A total of 4,892.17 acres identified for land scheme
  • Final draft of Annual Credit Plan released
  • Milk centre removed

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Rs. 433 cr. credit plan for Nilgiris
  • Ooty-Mettupalayam road in bad shape
  • Work apace on providing power to tribal hamlets

    • Udupi

  • Councillors complain of faulty pipe connections
  • Centre urged to release funds to repair NH 17, 48
  • Seer re-elected as president of WCRP

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Bahraich flood situation still grim
  • Mulayam's largesse for ex-MLAs

    • Vellore

  • Coaching for IAS exam

    • Vijayawada

  • Opposition parties stage walkout
  • Traffic norms go for a toss
  • War, human progress interlinked, says professor
  • Towards honouring the dignity of labour
  • Lenin sets his eyes on Mexico archery meet
  • Rally marks end of `Paryushana Parva'
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Big projects favoured to meet water needs
  • AU teams up with Swedish tech institute
  • `Sex education crucial to contain AIDS'
  • VUDA approves 16 private layouts
  • Dhanalakshmi Bank in expansion mode
  • MSB affiliated to University of Mysore
  • Elocution, debate contest at Pydah College
  • CII meet with SME sector tommorrow
  • BJP urged to back consensus on Telangana
  • Visakha Dairy donates cots and chairs to KGH
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Asian circuit beach volleyball in Hyderabad

    • Warangal

  • Students take out rally

    • Weather

  • Weather

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