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  • Leave office, BJP tells Government
  • Government should quit: BJP

    • Anantapur

  • Rural works scheme: just for wage?
  • PABR water released to fill tanks
  • Don't privatise public health care, YSR urged
  • YSR lays stone for water works

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Rs. 900-crore World Bank loan for Andhra Pradesh
  • Two more top Maoists held in Bhadrachalam
  • Cost convention to begin on January 18
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Crushing from today at Kadapa Co-op Sugars
  • Sankranti Prabha delights all
  • Nellore to turn into an apparel hub
  • Twenty four ROBs in State by year-end
  • 180 integrated hostels to be set up
  • 'Technical issues tilt decision on IIT'
  • No place for superstitions: SP
  • Work on modernisation of burial ground over
  • Two persons killed in gang rivalry
  • Ranganatha kalyanam at Kakinada
  • Ten teams probing irregularities
  • Five killed in accident

    • Bangalore

  • Where citizens put their hearts in the job
  • Will February bring freedom from garbage?
  • Anti-terrorist cell yet to take shape
  • Portugal President comes calling to Wipro
  • Caught on camera: horrors of war
  • Residents forced to buy water here
  • Soiling their hands for pittance
  • Power station snag leads to shutdown
  • SEZs to be set up in border areas
  • Aero India tickets to go on sale from tomorrow
  • Landfills get dumped?
  • Double murder case solved, three arrested
  • Narco test: Imran had a role in the attack on IISc., Delhi market blast
  • Helmet rule to stay
  • Hearing in Chitralekha murder case from March 1
  • A small step towards achieving a gigantic task
  • Derecognition: schools to move High Court
  • Laws tightened against Central excise evasion
  • They gave a lift and then robbed them
  • Nawaz Ahmed case: trial begins
  • Up against `Nimby' factor
  • More VVIPs coming
  • Pallavi to enthral music lovers
  • National law fest
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • Rest of India keeps winning

    • Belgaum

  • Sugarcane growers not happy with attitude of factory management
  • Women take up the cudgels against arrack sale in Belgaum

    • Bidar

  • 97 gold medals to be presented today

    • Bihar

  • Three RJD leaders join BJP

    • Bijapur

  • Tikota tank-filling project to be completed in 18 months

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Devendra Joshi begins well

    • Briefly

  • SEBI cancels BOI MF's registration
  • Guidelines on lending to priority sector
  • SC stays order on Tata Power's plea
  • MCX starts 16 new contracts
  • Tata Steel to acquire Rawmet Ferrous
  • Rajesh Exports launches retail stores
  • Hydro S&S' Pune facility
  • Salem Steel signs pact with Dasturco
  • PayPal opens centre in Chennai
  • Tata Motors launches stretch limousine
  • Technocraft IPO to open on January 18

    • Business

  • No immediate cut in output: OPEC
  • M&M-ITEC joint venture to invest Rs. 2,500 crore
  • ADB to raise $1 b rupee loans to fund state projects
  • TCS Q3 revenue crosses $1 b
  • Bajaj Auto Q3 net up 24 p.c.
  • Rupee ends flat
  • Market snaps three-day gaining streak
  • Move to ease listing norms for corporate bonds
  • NeST sets up ODC for Fujitsu VLSI
  • New management norms add to beverages corporation's profits

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • IT/ITES staff face insomnia problems
  • Smog-free Bhogi thanks to awareness campaign
  • Nod to develop Colachel as a major port
  • Kidney foundation launches free dialysis scheme
  • "Timely action by executive will reduce burden on courts"
  • Call for concerted efforts at conserving petroleum products
  • Vocational training books ready
  • Sankranthi Saahitya Sangeetha Festival
  • Police zeroing in on robbers
  • Tiruvalluvar awards presented
  • Port Trust, Hyundai to sign MoU today
  • Girls' shelter gets new block
  • Corporation budget preparations hit roadblock
  • T.Nagar club told to ensure free, fair election
  • Pongal festivities colour city
  • Two sites for desalination plant identified
  • Ahamed seeks land for Branch Secretariat office
  • Cellular phone snatching cases rising in Nanganallur
  • Two-day music seminar
  • Relocate Kodungaiyur dumping ground: CPI(M)
  • Festive spirit of Pongal boils over
  • Handy volume for the elderly
  • Koyambedu traders drop strike plan scheduled for January 22
  • Soya food exhibition, contest
  • Rajan Eye Care Hospital holds eye camps
  • Animal welfare meet
  • `Eternal New Life Convention 2007'
  • Helping policemen and their families
  • Kite flight halted
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Anand in joint second spot

    • Coimbatore

  • More proposals for doubling, electrification of rail lines
  • Coimbatore Corporation needs separate wing for waste management
  • Station alert in AC coaches soon
  • Tug of war, martial arts display mark Pongal celebrations
  • Steps sought to overcome labour shortage
  • NMR service to resume on January 20
  • Festive spirit
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • Kerala probables for SZ one-dayers
  • Last-ball win for Delhi
  • Easy for CYC, Milagres sweats
  • Cheluvaraj excels
  • Mysore City Gymkhana wins

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8812
  • Solution to Puzzle No. 8811

    • Cuddalore

  • Fervour marks `Samathuva Pongal'

    • Dindigul

  • Course in science communication

    • Editorials

  • Cementing the peace process
  • Epitomising new entrepreneurship

    • Erode

  • Kalingarayan Canal is 725 years old
  • `Samathuva Pongal' at Samathuvapurams
  • SMS is in, greeting cards out
  • Interest rate reduced for NFS loans
  • Free powerloom training

    • Football

  • Air-India downs HASC
  • Semifinalists spotted

    • Front Page

  • Talks offer not a sign of weakness: Manmohan
  • Cauvery: final award on February 5
  • 65 killed in Baghdad varsity attack
  • "Implementation of Hyde Act would mean shifting of goalposts"
  • Japan's energy initiative welcomed
  • Sunnis angry over hangings
  • India likely to take part in 4-nation talks
  • Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe talks inconclusive
  • Sania quells Savchuk's challenge
  • A virus of the mind
  • Vacancies to 10 Lok Sabha seats will be filled within six months: Gopalaswami
  • Nations need to learn war not to fight, says Nobel laureate Prof. Aumann
  • No immediate cut in output: OPEC
  • M&M-ITEC joint venture to invest Rs. 2,500 crore
  • Rule allowing corporal punishment in schools goes
  • Police geared for `Kaanum Pongal'
  • State gets one more Project Tiger
  • Trinamool workers damage fence, enter Singur project site
  • High Court orders CBI probe in Lavalin case
  • Tamil Nadu granted time to file reply on quota issue
  • Gandhi peace prize for Tutu on January 31
  • Two more top Maoists arrested
  • Salem's development hit by delays
  • Emigration system liberalised
  • More bags with body parts found in Noida
  • Blast kills 7 policemen
  • 50 injured in `jallikattu'
  • Verdict reserved
  • B.Ed. programme comes at right time
  • `Cheated' women back in city from Oman
  • Sent back to Delhi
  • Karat: no problem with CBI probe
  • YSR critical of `water politics' of parties
  • Kumaraswamy has narrow escape

    • Globescan

  • Emergency still in force

    • Golf

  • Record prize money

    • Gulbarga

  • For this farmer, every drop counts
  • Centenary celebrations

    • Haryana

  • `Health indicators improving'

    • Hassan

  • Rogue elephant trapped in five-day operation near Hassan

    • Hockey

  • Azlan Shah re-elected

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Panchakalyan Mahotsava begins
  • `No response for letter on JNNURM'
  • Work on Bijapur-Hubli Road may begin soon
  • Jains oppose inclusion of egg in midday meal
  • In Hubli Today

    • Hyderabad

  • More MMTS trains to Hi-Tec City
  • Training for managing `special child'
  • DSC scam `crosses' the Rs. 3-crore barrier!
  • BJP for white paper on Pothireddypadu
  • Two children killed in blast
  • Heritage committee alleges violation
  • Free from sufferings at last
  • Revised building rules amended
  • Wife `kills' man
  • Assigned lands: spare the poor, says Naidu
  • State geared to meet power needs: Minister
  • Rs. 900-cr. WB loan for State
  • Mother, son found dead
  • President to visit State
  • Award sought for superstar
  • Captain in action
  • Power shutdown
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • Consider Siachen plan seriously, Kasuri tells India

    • International

  • Sunnis angry over hangings
  • Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe talks inconclusive
  • Be cautious in dealing with ethnic problem, Anandasangaree urges Tamil Nadu
  • Blair defends deal
  • Few takers for Bush plan
  • Pakistan raids Al-Qaeda bases

    • Kancheepuram

  • Rehabilitation brick by brick

    • Karimnagar

  • Maoists resorting to forcible extortions: surrendered naxal
  • Five naxals surrender

    • Karnataka

  • Karnataka gets its fourth `Project Tiger' sanctuary
  • Kumaraswamy, 5 others have narrow escape
  • In all its splendour
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Outsourcing jobs to rural women
  • VES celebrates its silver jubilee
  • Need to teach spiritual, philosophical values to children stressed
  • Gram sabhas to be roped in to fight regional plan
  • For closer ties between India and Kuwait
  • Efforts on to popularise Sanskrit in district
  • Jogi Beeranna Nayak is dead

    • Kerala

  • SNC Lavalin case: CBI probe ordered
  • Need for water campaign
  • Winning the grade to claim the arts fete trophy
  • Facelift for memorial
  • Next issue
  • Due recognition
  • Recognition
  • Appeasing the goddess
  • At Sabarimala today
  • Festival grandeur
  • Massive haul
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Devaprasnam: notice to Government, TDB
  • Hamza seeks probe into woman's Haj travel
  • Not against ADB, says DYFI
  • Seminar on physical education
  • Film society to screen two films

    • Khammam

  • Khammam gears up for `sambaralu'

    • Kochi

  • Raman Pillai floats Janapaksham
  • Plea for alternative water sources
  • Corporation seeks senior officials
  • RTO finalising issue of autorickshaw permits
  • An undisputed masterpiece of new German cinema
  • Workshop on IPR at Cusat
  • Charm of literary events
  • Deployment of labour being streamlined
  • Getting the image right
  • Restrictions on dumping
  • On a corrective course
  • Rustic entertainer
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • 9,520 litres of spirit seized in Kollam
  • Annual meet of SNDP Yogam Vanitha Sangam
  • Demonstration by NGO Union
  • Annual meet
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Police on the track of one more person
  • Probe on into arms haul at Kanjirappally
  • R.V. Thomas Award announced
  • Award for Kadannappally

    • Kozhikode

  • Palliative care project to cover more patients in city
  • Winning the grade to claim the trophy
  • Union Bank to improve presence
  • NIT, Durgapur, to conduct NIMCET-07
  • Campaign to `save and reform' Civil Services
  • Drive against corruption
  • Agreement on water project
  • Mappilappattu contest
  • Holiday today
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • CITU jatha leaders hailed

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Improving the system of policing

    • Letters to the Editor

  • New CJI
  • Ninth Schedule
  • On Palkhivala
  • Video row

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • BJP gets a new team
  • `Arrested ultras involved in laying red corridor'

    • Madikeri

  • Samiti to move court over land, tree rights issues

    • Madurai

  • Pongal competitions, tool to bind people together
  • Court upholds preventive detention of gangster
  • Tamil culture's legacy showcased
  • Industrialist abducted
  • Power shutdown
  • Training programme in village industries
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • MCC and MESCOM lock horns over vacant land
  • BJP-JD (S) combine to stake claim for post of ZP president today
  • Registration number of motorcycle fake: police
  • Power supply to be disrupted
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Last metre gauge train chugs out of Mysore
  • Intensive revision of voters' list starts in Mysore
  • CITU national meet in Bangalore from today
  • Jathra begins on a grand note
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • 15,000 tonnes of paddy procured in Nagapattinam

    • Nagercoil

  • It's a `centre' of happiness for drug addicts
  • Kottar Bishop passes away

    • Nalgonda

  • Man `kills' father-in-law, injures mother-in-law

    • National

  • 2 more bags with body parts recovered
  • Parking of pension funds in stock market to be opposed
  • Need to develop new low cost sources of energy: Pranab
  • Silva comes to Wipro
  • "Newspapers must keep standards high"
  • Federal set-up only way out in Sri Lanka: Swamy
  • Brinda Karat flays Congress, NCP
  • Munde, Oram may be new BJP general secretaries
  • BSF, BDR exchange fire
  • ``Urgent action needed to tone up ICDS''
  • War veterans threaten to return medals
  • Publish White Paper on Central aid: Dasmunsi
  • Minister advised against contesting CAB polls
  • Teacher asked to do peon's duty for a week
  • Supreme Court reserves verdict in U.P. MLAs case
  • BJP alleges discrepancies in Goa poll rolls
  • "Unified Command in Assam following Kashmir pattern"

    • New Delhi

  • Four parties forge a new alliance for MCD polls
  • Akali Dal (Sarna) wins 27 seats in Gurdwara polls
  • A treat for theatre lovers....
  • MCD asked to find ways for increasing income
  • Congress devises strategy for MCD elections
  • Bridging the celluloid divide in style
  • Prime accused in Safdarjung Hospital rape case acquitted
  • High Court extends stay on CIC order
  • 39 arrested for violating order
  • DDA auctions 21 commercial plots for more than Rs.600 crore
  • Ahmadi performs Haj on invitation of Saudi King
  • Fresh chargesheet filed in housing scam case
  • Three get life term
  • Gearing up for Republic Day
  • Car trouble for Congress
  • JD(U) clears names for 5 Punjab seats
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • "Implementation of Hyde Act would mean shifting of goalposts"
  • A reprieve for Myanmar junta
  • Corrections and Clarifications
  • Iraqis will never accept oil sellout

    • Nizamabad

  • Collector reviews power situation

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • MLA faults officials on Gundlakamma project

    • Orissa

  • Turning garbage dump into garden
  • Seasonal port at Gopalpur becomes functional
  • Bitihotra case: top cop gets a breather from court
  • Held on charge of kidnapping son
  • 4,385 file papers for panchayat polls
  • Corporates promised all help
  • Elephants kill two children
  • Khurana new EcoR GM

    • Palakkad

  • Man remanded to judicial custody in arms haul case
  • Government measures to revive Chittur Cooperative Sugars
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • LDF member elected Eraviperoor grama panchayat president
  • Procession from Malikappuram begins

    • Puducherry

  • Tributes paid to Tiruvalluvar
  • Centre on Environmental Information system
  • Suicide bid by woman constable
  • Coast Guard DG to visit Puducherry
  • MGR birth anniversary today

    • Punjab

  • Schoolboy's body recovered from family land
  • Dal-BJP will get two thirds majority: Badal

    • Racing : Horse

  • Fawn Princess bags The Hindu South India Derby
  • Super Speed pleases
  • Onnu Onnu Onnu wins main event
  • Pied Piper well tuned
  • Future Fame has an edge
  • Brahmaputra triumphs

    • Racing : Motor

  • Narain to race for A1 Team India

    • Raichur

  • Empty stalls greet visitors to exhibition

    • Rajasthan

  • 50 villages to be developed

    • Religion

  • Strive for inner peace

    • Salem

  • Protected drinking water for schools
  • Lorry owners join nation-wide strike
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • `Modern technology can improve dairy industry'

    • Sport

  • Sania quells Savchuk's challenge
  • A virus of the mind
  • Flintoff fashions England's victory
  • Reward for consistent performance
  • Dilip Tirkey delivers
  • Sudhakar Babu holds Dreev

    • Sports : General

  • Abhishek defeats Yadav
  • Dindigul lifts S.A. Naidu memorial shield
  • Sanuth stars as Harisree Masters scores big win
  • Sports psychology conference
  • Shahabuddin is skipper

    • Srikakulam

  • Fisherman hacked to death

    • Tamil Nadu

  • For virtual universities with e-learning
  • Playing a different tune
  • Celebration time
  • Fighting for rights
  • Wasteland to be made cultivable
  • 17,025 free LPG connections to be given in Villupuram
  • Palamedu `jallikattu' leaves 50 injured
  • NHRC relief for STF victims
  • Vocalist honoured
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Workers from north get a `sweet' experience
  • Children were the life of his works
  • It is a sweet occasion for them
  • Textile machinery import from U.K. may increase
  • Drawing inspiration from India
  • Call to preserve natural barriers in coastal areas
  • List of approved Teacher Training Institutes released
  • Living conditions of poor will be improved, says Minister
  • 12 injured as bulls run amok
  • `Samathuva Pongal' in Pudukottai

    • Tennis

  • Ronak shown the door

    • Thanjavur

  • Four students of SASTRA win prize in international conference

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Mixed response to curbs Welcome move
  • Not worried about CBI probe: Pinarayi
  • Nodal officers to assist tourists
  • Sub-Inspectors suspended
  • UDF organises dharna against spiralling prices
  • Verdict a setback to LDF Government: UDF
  • Flower show to begin on Saturday
  • AAI seeks detailed report
  • Prem Nazir Award for Sukumari
  • Zoning regulation norms notified
  • Nine-member gang held
  • Anti-terrorist squad soon
  • Getting the image right
  • Robbery: three arrested
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated January 17, 1957: Controversy deplored
  • dated January 17, 1957: Back to mango grove

    • Thrissur

  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Focus on plight of mentally retarded
  • Recitation of kural couplets marks Tiruvalluvar Day
  • 10 get call letters among 926 in campus interview
  • Business as usual, but not safe
  • B.Ed. programme comes at a right time
  • Operate more trains via Tiruchi: Forum
  • Rural sports meet ends
  • Victorious march
  • `Large togetherness'
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirumala

  • The Lord goes hunting

    • Tirunelveli

  • `Fun science gallery' inaugurated in Tirunelveli
  • DIG receives award
  • `Kari Naal': Many picnic spots awash with cheerful visitors
  • Three killed

    • Tirupati

  • Pedalling his way on a noble mission
  • TTD jobs urged for ex-servicemen
  • Kanchi mutt, TTD tie up for medical college
  • In Tirupati Today

    • Tumkur

  • Six killed in road accident

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Ooty's founder remembered
  • Colour and gaiety mark Pongal

    • Udupi

  • MP rejects proposal to visit thermal plants

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Samajwadi Party confident of winning majority

    • Uttaranchal

  • BJP promises to restore pride of Uttarakhand

    • Vellore

  • Young talent competitions on January 18, 19
  • Training in welding technology

    • Vijayawada

  • Builders wait for the bubble to burst
  • Easing flow of traffic on Bandar Road
  • Patience key word for Council voters
  • RIL serves an ace at volleyball tourney
  • Kerala Club celebrates New Year
  • Kite festival held
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Giving them the gift of sight
  • AU gears up for English test
  • Currency racket busted
  • BSNL sets out to woo corporates
  • Satyam to hold campus interviews from Feb. 2
  • Burglars strike it rich
  • Protest against hike in price of milk
  • Shopping mall winners
  • Full house
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Jharkhand made to sweat
  • Volleyball tournament

    • Warangal

  • Village comes alive with jatara
  • Rail roko against TRS move

    • Weather

  • Weather

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