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Alappuzha

  • CPI(M) had no role in murder: Baby

    Anantapur

  • Sarpanch paraded half-naked for confining ex-employee
  • Government policies blamed for ryots' suicide
  • Tumkur-Rayadurg line included in rail budget

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Rice issue: judicial probe announced
  • No new trains, says SCR chief
  • No reformist zeal in budget: CII
  • Speaker moves to avoid wastage of time
  • Congress lashes out at Narendra, Harish Rao
  • All eyes on apex court's final judgment BITS candidates out of the woods?
  • FP campaign knocks out school admissions?
  • Tremors in Bhadrachalam
  • IAS officers on merry-go-round
  • Panel to take a close look at corporate hospitals
  • Fever toll seven in Cuddapah
  • Nine Ministers to handle YSR's subjects
  • Supplementary notification for Group I posts
  • `Excise duty on handloom products reimbursable'
  • 150-year-old idols recovered, 14 held
  • Briefly

    Archery

  • Ravinder for World junior archery meet

    Athletics

  • Alex Thomas sets meet record

    Badminton

  • Indian team for junior ABC championship
  • Triple crown for Aparna
  • 10 State shuttlers for Asia Cup

    Bangalore

  • A day of anxiety for applicants
  • For some Bangaloreans, it is `the best budget so far'
  • Seat selection for special groups this week
  • These `achievers' had a convocation of a different kind
  • Two killed in road accidents
  • Be ready with fees, CET Cell tells students
  • Woman rescued from employer in Kuwait
  • Seminar
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    Bellary

  • Demand for inclusion of Bellary in Rayalaseema opposed
  • MLA seeks expedition of work on reservoir

    Bijapur

  • Gol Gumbaz to get toy train

    Billiards & Snooker

  • Advani to lead Indian challenge
  • Cyrus makes main draw

    Book Reviews

  • Cartoon

    Briefly

  • Sensex vaults 85 points
  • RBI norms on bank investment
  • Infogain to open third centre
  • Birlasoft to hire 400 professionals
  • Dhanlakshmi Bank to outsource ATMs
  • "A" Polaris' banking products for Indian market
  • Exim Bank's credit for Angola
  • Thai trade fair
  • Plumbing seminar
  • IBM India's new service
  • Mint White Shirt Collection from Oxemberg
  • BPCL joins hands with eCharge
  • SISI invites small units
  • MosChip completes rights issue
  • KVB's ATM sharing plans
  • EMC unveils two solutions
  • Pearl Organics' R&D centre
  • LG Electronics' promotional scheme
  • Escotel is now Idea
  • PNB's Expo Gold Card
  • Takes membership in Singapore Commodity Exchange

    Business

  • Industry terms Railway Budget as `pragmatic'
  • `A status quo Budget'
  • L&T, Grasim complete cement deal
  • Rupee tumbles
  • Populist Railway Budget lifts Sensex
  • India-U.K. initiative in agriculture
  • PC sales cross 30 lakh mark
  • OM Kotak Life renamed
  • Markets expect realistic Central Budget
  • Sify buys EAP Global

    Chennai

  • Tiger, leopard skins seized in police drive
  • Topper gives up engineering seat to join maths course
  • 2 sentenced to 10-year rigorous imprisonment for robbery
  • Admission guide for engineering courses
  • Subhashan Reddy for disincentives to check population growth
  • Porcelain tiles seized
  • `Union budget should focus on healthcare'
  • Two held for misbehaving with woman
  • Haemodialysis machines donated
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Kasimdzhanov to meet Adams in final
  • China in the van, India `A' bounces back
  • Six share lead

    Coimbatore

  • CBI conducts raids
  • `Be committed to the task'
  • Compensation for accident victim
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Cricket

  • Flintoff, Strauss hit centuries
  • Cronje's life — an inspiration and a warning
  • Life in the fast lane for Pathan
  • Rayudu hits century
  • Four centuries during rainy weekend
  • Unbeaten 137 by Terence
  • Impressive show by Bangalore Zone
  • Six-wkt. win for Spark Colts
  • TVSLMHSS enters final
  • Two-run win for FAPS
  • Karan Harit shines
  • Ashish, Vikas star in K. G. Gymkhana's win
  • Unbeaten century by Bharath

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8029
  • Solution to puzzle No. 8028

    Cuddalore

  • Adulterated petrol seized

    Cuddapah

  • Two die as lorries collide

    Cycling

  • McEwen wins second stage

    Editorials

  • THE LALU EXPRESS
  • THE NON-CONFORMIST ACTOR

    Erode

  • `Vegetable hundi' a success

    Football

  • Scrappy AG's Office beats Southern Railway
  • Dindigul in last four
  • Easy for Asoka FC

    Front Page

  • Lalu spares passengers; freight untouched
  • NDA to change tack, target Lalu
  • 136 Ministers axed
  • Blaze at HIL plant
  • Monsoon worry
  • Lashkar plan foiled
  • Kerry picks John Edwards
  • 'BITS not included'
  • 17 killed, yatra suspended
  • Kalam takes up mercy plea

    Golf

  • A win worth waiting for
  • Vikram and Selvaraj win

    Gulbarga

  • Directorate sought for hostel maintenance
  • Factory revival gets a shot in the arm

    Haryana

  • Chautala orders connections to check power thefts

    Himachal Pradesh

  • New Ministry leaves Virbhadra unhappy

    Hockey

  • Stars galore for Vivek's charity match
  • Jagbir to join team as coach
  • Karnataka Police overwhelms BEL

    Hyderabad

  • Sisters' death sends officials into a tizzy
  • No fuel in surprise visit
  • Water board augments supply
  • A `fare' deal, say students
  • HUDA enlists support for green drive
  • Inspector placed under suspension
  • Four teachers suspended
  • Mother, daughter commit suicide
  • Commercial complex to come up on RTC land
  • Revival of DBR Mills sought
  • Briefly
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • `India, Pakistan should step back from maximalist approach'
  • `Singlish' makes it to dictionary

    International

  • 15 members of family die in U.S. air strike
  • Iraqi WMD may not be found: Blair
  • One-time rival becomes running mate
  • Senate panel report on Iraq may indict CIA
  • Beaten TV presenter drops case
  • G-5 mulls terror database
  • Monks seek legal protection
  • Serial killer to help find bodies
  • Hasina receives death threats
  • Historic victory in Mexican poll

    Kancheepuram

  • `Guard against monetary allurement'

    Karnataka

  • Two labourers buried alive in pit
  • Centre's recipe for fund-starved panchayats
  • World heritage status for Darasuram Temple
  • Panel told to justify tentative fee fixed for engineering courses
  • Chaos at Shimoga Congress meeting
  • Private colleges' fee structure will lead to gender disparity: Govt.
  • Four new express trains for State
  • `Maharashtra raising unnecessary objection to Alamatti Dam height'
  • Govt. urged to set up panel on admissions
  • Venkatagiri Gowda cremated at Byrapatna
  • Compensation for injured workers to be revised
  • Cabinet expansion before July 15
  • Aradhana Mahotsava begins at Malkhed
  • Funds sought for development of north Karnataka
  • Counselling for AIEEE from July 7
  • Kolar panel to launch agitation
  • Three killed in road accidents
  • New chairman for Gramina Bank
  • Two injured in blast near Tumkur
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • BJP activists accused of ransacking hotel in Mapusa
  • 121 applications at Janaspandana programme
  • Banks achieve target in priority lending
  • 24 couples tie the knot
  • Corrupt officials will be arrested: Lokayukta
  • MLA hits out at panchayat engineering wing
  • Arecanut growers seek Rs. 85 per kg.

    Kerala

  • Stern steps to check sand-mining soon
  • Jayalalithaa to visit Guruvayur
  • Pension scheme for milk producers
  • State has not got its due: Antony
  • Antony bars MLAs from going after Minister
  • A nightmare comes true for Eloor residents
  • Contempt case against Excise Commissioner
  • Pension scheme for milk producers
  • Steps to check sand-mining soon
  • Police tighten vigil against inter-State gangs
  • No error in answer keys: CEE
  • Three killed as lorry overturns at Thenmala
  • `No decision yet on Halcyon Castle'
  • `Liquor suppliers have sought higher prices'
  • High Court march planned on July 9
  • Investigate CPI(M) leaders' role in murder: BJP
  • Jayalalithaa to visit Guruvayur
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Flight cancelled

    Kochi

  • GCDA told to build convention centre
  • `Stress-relieving exercises must for drivers'
  • Organic farmers to form producer companies
  • Cusat sets record in campus recruitment
  • Nurses resume duty; plan protest meetings
  • Mammootty to bid for fancy registration number
  • Train picketed
  • Body recovered
  • Around the City

    Kollam

  • Kollam council: quandary over no-confidence motion
  • Government cannot browbeat us: Mayor
  • Garbage clearance comes to standstill again

    Kottayam

  • MBA course affiliation: panel constituted

    Kurnool

  • College-parents dispute resolved
  • Need to vaccinate pets stressed

    Leader Page Articles

  • The Dhanatantra age begins
  • Dealing with AIDS

    Letters to the Editor

  • Lalu's budget
  • Governors' dismissal
  • Furore in Parliament
  • Death penalty
  • Bravo Brando

    Madikeri

  • Madikeri `palace' is in a shambles
  • Eviction continues in two villages

    Madurai

  • Railway budget balanced: Chamber
  • Fill vacancies in aided colleges, MUTA urges Govt.
  • 345 constable recruits pass out
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Maharashtra

  • Encounters of a different kind with spotted cat
  • Bollywood favours `khaki', ignores blue, white

    Mangalore

  • Railway Budget disappoints Mangalore MP
  • Govt. urged to take measures to end sea erosion
  • Crackdown on eateries begins
  • Students boycott classes
  • ENGAGEMENTS

    Mysore

  • Bountiful rain revives glory of Shivanasamudra
  • MCCI disappointed with Railway Budget
  • Meet soon to evolve strategy to market surplus milk
  • Anganwadi workers oppose Govt.'s decision
  • Two held, vehicle seized
  • Package to regularise water connections
  • Tibetans celebrate Dalai Lama's birthday

    National

  • Opposition calls it directionless
  • Plan outlay of Rs. 11,265 cr. proposed
  • 32 new trains proposed
  • Natwar rules out sending troops to Iraq
  • Weakening monsoon causes concern
  • A tragedy beyond numbers
  • Pitching for girls' education
  • Priority for passenger safety
  • Tribunal members to visit Cauvery basin
  • Shinde drops 22 Ministers
  • BITS excluded from AIEEE counselling
  • Government imposing `poisonous ideology': Vajpayee
  • Lashkar plan to strike at vital installations foiled
  • Telgi issue: RJD creates a flutter in Lok Sabha
  • Governor-designate bereaved
  • Probe ordered into burning down of Kashmir school
  • No free ride for journalists
  • Shades of Bhopal
  • Downsizing complete in north east
  • Fellowships for scribes
  • Bihar-centric, says Rajasekhara Reddy
  • Literacy award for Sudha, Radha
  • New German designed coaches
  • Court declines early hearing of plea against Governors' removal
  • History books panel suggests alternative books
  • Trade unions welcome budget
  • Major fire in insecticide plant near Kochi
  • Dhananjoy case: Kalam consults Attorney General
  • Link works to be expedited
  • One-liners, digs all the way
  • Ishrat's mother hospitalised

    New Delhi

  • Delhiites welcome Lalu's budget
  • Probe ordered into Fire Services recruitment
  • MLAs to have no say in opening of liquor shops
  • Probe ordered into power disconnection to schools
  • SC/ST students face hiccups
  • BJP flays new excise policy
  • Man found hanging in lock-up
  • NSC racket busted, four held
  • 70-year-old held for drug-peddling
  • INTACH concern over controversial memorial
  • Accused shot at during interrogation
  • New Principal Secretary to the L-G
  • Prison term for abduction
  • DCE selected for `Mission Reach' programme
  • Sentenced for raping minors
  • No rate revision of bus passes for students
  • Gangster arrested
  • Jagjivan Ram remembered
  • Private universities: Notice to Chhattisgarh
  • Youth pins hope on Budget
  • Showroom robbers held
  • Industry has modest hopes
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Orissa

  • Nesting sites of crocodiles found

    Pondicherry

  • Pondy budget today
  • Government failed to project important schemes: DMK
  • New archbishop installed
  • Appoint teachers, demand students
  • Health department employees call off agitation

    Racing : Motor

  • Ralf indirectly confirms move to Toyota

    Raichur

  • BJP demands allocation to complete canal repair

    Rajasthan

  • `Advani remarks misleading'
  • NDA indulging in double-talk on Governors: CPI
  • Train farmers in technology, Raje tells banks

    Ramanathapuram

  • Ramnad Collector gheraoed

    Religion

  • Tenets of eternal truth

    Shooting

  • Rathore claims gold

    Table Tennis

  • Jitender, Sri Laxmi given top billing

    Tamil Nadu

  • Permanent Bench for Madurai with jurisdiction over 14 districts
  • Counselling kept in abeyance
  • People must cooperate
  • Government floats company for desalination projects
  • Five new trains for State
  • 30 Tanzanians undergoing cardiac treatment in Chennai
  • Concessions for poor, downtrodden in rail budget welcomed
  • The anxious wait continues
  • `Declare violence against women torture'
  • Court to hear writ petitions against panel order on common entrance test
  • Ramamohan Rao should go: PMK
  • Torture charges against 3 policemen
  • Poll officer begins probe into dumping of voter cards
  • Trial begins in tribal girl rape case, after 11 years
  • Steps on to prevent dengue outbreak
  • ENGAGEMENTS
  • Assault case against Vaiko posted to July 12
  • 21 injured
  • Rules are her handicap
  • Mirugandanadhi dam work begins
  • Evasion of anti-dumping duty detected
  • Water crisis hurts delta environment also
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Works for over Rs. 7 crores in Namakkal district
  • Applications submitted

    Tennis

  • Koubek ousts Ferrero
  • Sky is the limit for fantastic Federer

    Thanjavur

  • Constable recruits pass out in districts

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Steps to raise funds for Vizhinjam project
  • Murder suspects linked to fake diamond trade?
  • Railway to go ahead with satellite terminal
  • Security guard at Sri Chitra Home arrested
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated Jule 07, 1954: "Ceylonisation"
  • dated Jule 07, 1954: Ban on Communists
  • dated Jule 07, 1954: Water supply in Madras
  • dated Jule 07, 1954: Nuclear-powered aircraft

    Thrissur

  • IMFL worth Rs. 17 lakhs seized
  • Opposition boycotts Council
  • ISO 9001 for ayurveda group
  • Bank to outsource ATMs

    Tiruchi

  • Serve people with humanitarian approach, recruit constables told
  • Mettur water reaches Upper Anaicut
  • Applications invited
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Tirunelveli

  • 267 constable recruits pass out in Tirunelveli
  • Removal of Director of Collegiate Education sought

    Tirupati

  • CPI asks officials to check land grabbers
  • Students demand opening of hostel
  • Red sanders worth Rs. 5 lakhs seized
  • Youth dies in road mishap

    Tuticorin

  • Murders, extortion on the rise in Tuticorin

    Udupi

  • IMA demands action against quacks
  • Brahmavar sugar unit layoff put off
  • Gold jewellery stolen from house

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Hi-tech airport in Mulayam's hometown

    Vellore

  • Engineers, postgraduates among constable recruits

    Vijayawada

  • Students for greater security measures at colleges
  • `Intelligent persons' aid Manohar: police chief
  • MP appeals to Karnataka for water
  • Around the City

    Visakhapatnam

  • RTC plans package tour to Tirupati
  • Hard lessons for future tasks
  • Villagers apprehend pseudo naxalite
  • Manhole menace on main road
  • Summer special extended
  • Naval chief coming
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Weather

  • Weather

    World View

  • Portugal President honours Euro squad
  • Thorpe's advice to Phelps
  • Muralitharan out to prove his `doosra' right
  • ICC unveils 2007 World Cup match venues
  • India selected for FIFA's coin programme

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