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    Anantapur

  • CIs shuffled in Anantapur, Kurnool Ranges

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Constituency fund for MLAs next year
  • Struggling for food, with a heavy heart
  • Digvijay's stand on Telangana gladdens partymen
  • Vaikhanasa Parishat lashes out at Government
  • Raghavulu tells KCR to maintain restraint
  • People's War recruitment under watch: Sukumara
  • Haj Committee selects guides for pilgrimage
  • Decks cleared for survey on Polavaram
  • Bank robbery was waiting to happen
  • Venkataswamy calls for regional leaders' meet
  • No dearth of funds for Pushkaram, says Kanda
  • `Failed' student ends life
  • Selja promises funds for housing
  • Conditions in hospital kitchen shock BJYM activists
  • Court admits plea against panel revival
  • Official booked for `passport fraud'
  • Village tense after man's death in clash
  • New youth policy on the anvil
  • Union Minister visits BDL
  • Weaver dies of starvation?
  • Property destroyed
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Naxals set free scribe
  • Official named to probe tubectomy fiasco
  • Epidemics: special teams to monitor situation

    Badminton

  • Kozhikode regains title
  • Nayak stops Amar's run

    Bangalore

  • Students take to the streets, blame Govt., colleges
  • Lokayukta laments corruption in public life
  • No clues on medico's death
  • Advertisers support BMP
  • Mayor orders water supply to schools
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Bullion rates

    Basketball

  • Customs Bangalore posts win
  • St. Joseph's keeps crown
  • St. Britto's posts win
  • Rozario sparkles for YMCA `A'

    Belgaum

  • 11 injured in Belgaum communal clash
  • Minister seeks report on rain damage

    Bidar

  • CPI(M) opposes move to abolish vacant posts

    Briefly

  • Touchtel launches voice portal
  • Tricom buys U.S. firm
  • Secova acquires EmpactEBS
  • Airtel to install mobile charger units
  • Coimbatore Air Cargo facility's feat
  • Apollo Hospitals services for Yemen
  • Amada moves software unit to Chennai
  • Logitech appoints new Country Manager
  • New VP-R&D for MRO-TEK
  • Hindustan Zinc gets recognition
  • LKB starts RTGS settlement
  • Zoom implements e-commerce solution
  • Coir Board celebrates golden jubilee
  • Car Security system launched
  • Home appliances festival
  • PNB's bonanza offer
  • New VP-R&D for MRO-TEK
  • Apollo Tyres' outlets for farm segment
  • Bajaj Allianz launches new scheme
  • LVB in pact with Wall Street Exchange

    Business

  • Inflation expected to fall by year-end
  • First Indian listing on Singapore Exchange
  • Air India, Lufthansa join hands
  • Agency to tackle telecom problems sought
  • Smart recovery in rupee
  • Sensex extends gains
  • Expanded output to meet demand
  • Task force for rural co-operative banks
  • Pact for recovery of non-performing assets
  • American Power unveils home inverter
  • Ford to sell 20,000 Ikons

    Cartoons

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    Chennai

  • Court order restores power to flats
  • Student protests snowball in city
  • Water's free, don't pay for it: Metrowater
  • Top rail official killed while crossing track
  • Traffic diversion
  • District police office for Tirunelveli
  • Cellphones for top city police officers
  • New office for Tiruchi Police Commissioner
  • Chain-snatching gang busted
  • Passport applications cleared
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Kidambi in sole lead
  • Kasturba Gandhi College claims title
  • Eight share lead
  • Vikram clinches title
  • Four colleges share lead

    Coimbatore

  • `Excess drawal hits Noyyal flow'
  • 10-year RI for raping minor
  • ECE the most sought after branch
  • Panel formed
  • Release tea subsidy: Prabhu
  • Grievances day

    Cricket

  • Rayudu to replace Badani
  • Lee: raring to be back in action
  • Dalmiya's unique proposal
  • Gopi stars for St. Anthony's
  • Dinesh guides Telangana home
  • Six-wicket win for Rising Stars
  • Easy for Rovers CC
  • Dilhara for Champions Trophy
  • Prabhu shines
  • Middlesex posts win
  • Venkatraghavan appointed director of umpires, referees
  • TNCA condoles Stanley's death
  • Narrow win for Vidya Jyothi
  • Vikhar hits century
  • Pavizham CC triumphs
  • Easy for ProcessMind
  • Majestic CC first division winners

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8059
  • Solution to puzzle 8058

    Cuddapah

  • Efforts on for removal of encroachments

    Dindigul

  • DMK cadres take out cycle rally

    Editorials

  • KEEPING BOFORS ALIVE
  • HOPE FOR DARFUR

    Erode

  • Demand to drain Orathupalayam Reservoir
  • Farmers seek release of water
  • Contaminated drinking water

    Football

  • Bhutia is captain
  • Sajal nets winner
  • AIFF plans to serve notice on East Bengal
  • East Bengal posts win
  • CCOB posts win

    Front Page

  • Cabinet nod for repeal of POTA
  • Prosecution seeks to withdraw case against Vaiko
  • Victory, says Vaiko
  • Assam Rifles men fail to turn up
  • BJP Ministers storm out of education meet
  • Preparations for hanging begin
  • Jehadi groups must pack up when Kashmir issue is resolved: Musharraf
  • Tibetan lake swells
  • Mixed response
  • Water recedes in Sutlej
  • Hope revives on hostage issue
  • Inflation to go up

    Golf

  • Memorable day for Shubham

    Gulbarga

  • Extension of quota in jobs for disabled favoured
  • Women stage protest

    Guntur

  • CPI seeks Narendra's ouster from Cabinet

    Haryana

  • Chautala contests Amarinder's claim

    Hassan

  • Rs. 40 crores released for bridge, road repair

    Hockey

  • Rajasekaran killed in accident
  • Nav Bharat downs Mohd. Sporting
  • Big win for ASC `A'
  • State Bank of India routs BSNL

    Hyderabad

  • Attendants all at sea
  • Another ailing boy dies
  • Plan to set up waste disposal unit at Adibatla
  • A moving gesture by medicos
  • State urged to repeal Urban Land Ceiling Act
  • Plea to revive Vasavi, Prudential banks
  • TDP team visits hospitals
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderaabad Today

    India & World

  • Trade ties: breakthrough unlikely in talks with Pakistan
  • Left favours full autonomy to solve Sri Lankan crisis
  • I will never return to Canada: Sanjay Dutt
  • Concern over 'continuing infiltration'

    International

  • U.S. asks civilians to leave Najaf
  • Right man to lead CIA: Bush
  • Chaos and defiance inside Najaf
  • U.S. pledges aid to 9/11 trial
  • Tidal wave disaster threat: a doomsday scenario
  • Reporter charged with contempt
  • Lee Kuan Yew to get new post
  • Crackdown on non-European accents
  • Mugabe accused of poll torture
  • Sudan massacres are not genocide: E.U.

    Kancheepuram

  • Postal savings scheme grows mightily

    Karnataka

  • Dharam Singh promises top priority to IT
  • Shifting of 700 villagers from Turadagi begins
  • Growers seek changes in Tobacco Board
  • Deve Gowda wants to finish off Congress: Poojary
  • `State needs Bangalore as economic engine'
  • Notice to Govt. on petition by non-Karnataka students
  • Teacher recruitment racket busted
  • Raitha sangha seeks new deputy commissioner for Raichur
  • Centre seeks details of budget estimates
  • Global investors' meet to be held in district centres
  • Govt. staff to strike work on August 20
  • An occasion to recollect their past
  • Assault on lecturer leads to tension
  • Tourist train service next year
  • NCC to be made more attractive
  • Former MLA's charge denied
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Private buses go off the road in several districts
  • Madikeri MLA inspects rain-hit villages
  • Private buses go off the road
  • Free health check-up camp conducted
  • MP seeks priority for infrastructure
  • Two end life
  • Survey of rivers on, says Minister
  • Arrested

    Kerala

  • State planning to float NRI bonds
  • High Court's powers unconstitutional?
  • ISRO developing radar satellite
  • Self-financing colleges' association files appeal
  • `Ensure foolproof admission procedure'
  • Labour office raids unearth graft
  • Nehru Trophy Boat Race on August 14
  • Brahmanandan dead
  • Gujral hails Indo-Russian ties
  • Kottayam Chellappan passes away
  • AIYF activists storm Urumi mini-hydel project
  • Thennala assigns responsibilities to KPCC office-bearers
  • Conversions rampant in State: VHP
  • BMS plea to remove ceiling on bonus
  • Governor to inaugurate Golden Jubilee
  • Briefly
  • Readers' Mail

    Kerala - Others

  • Rag-pickers found to be living in posh houses

    Kochi

  • Rs. 80-cr. fraud: Mumbai police arrest one
  • Guidance for nurses
  • RTA holds meet on bus route issue
  • Youth organisations join parents' stir
  • Fisheries college students launch indefinite stir
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • `KMML development scheme must be transparent'
  • KDF plans High Court march
  • Protest against Union Budget

    Kurnool

  • KC Canal likely to be reopened on August 18
  • Canal opening by MP causes ripples
  • MP, wife threaten to quit
  • Free cardiac screening for children

    Leader Page Articles

  • Improving monsoon forecasting
  • Diplomacy sidelined

    Letters to the Editor

  • EPF rates
  • Build on the ceasefire
  • Criminals in politics
  • Over-the-top proposals
  • Arjun's remarks
  • Smaller States
  • Bilkis case
  • Double standards

    Madhya Pradesh

  • `Ensure urban amenities in rural areas'

    Madikeri

  • MLAs seek more funds for relief work

    Madurai

  • Counselling for engg. admission in Madurai
  • Airhorns removed from vehicles
  • Self-help group concept for indigent artistes
  • Heat wave sweeps city
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • Private bus strike total, peaceful
  • Varsity withdraws semester scheme
  • Poojary urged to take action against rebels
  • Seminar on tourism begins on Friday

    Mysore

  • Private bus strike leaves commuters stranded
  • `Palace on Wheels' to put Mysore on tourism map
  • `Pro Vice-Chancellor needed for varsities'
  • Conversion of Udaya TV to pay channel opposed
  • Workshop on secularism

    Nalgonda

  • Bringing police to people's doorstep
  • Two found dead at temple

    National

  • Special Powers Act cannot be withdrawn: Pranab
  • Left attacks decision on EPF rate
  • Parivar activists stop bus carrying tribal Christians
  • Don't push up commodity prices, Chidambaram warns producers
  • Minimum support price for paddy raised
  • Celestial sparklers: make a wish tonight
  • Elangovan for Thailand
  • Education loan scheme simplified
  • Uproar in Assam Assembly over ISI's activities
  • 'Starvation deaths' in Bihar
  • Talks only within Constitutional framework: Minister
  • Understanding complex networks
  • Government may try to avoid oil price hike
  • Jayalalithaa writes to Manmohan
  • 'Welcome service' for a fee at airports

    Nellore

  • TDP leader flays Government on water front

    New Delhi

  • `Bad times' for extortionists
  • Supreme Court lawyer allegedly dupes client
  • Confusion prevails over new property tax
  • Apple goes sour as prices soar
  • Dubai don aides arrested
  • Experts sceptical about conservation panel
  • Government schools yet to get modern facilities
  • Discrepancies in internal assessment scores
  • MCD students present a grim health scenario
  • Mystery shrouds death of newly married woman
  • High Court allows Ansals to file replies
  • Debts Recovery Tribunal gets ISO-9001 certification
  • In the Capital Today
  • Plea against polluting units
  • Illegal hoarding inside station premises
  • MP forgets pistol in train
  • Teenagers held for stealing
  • `Ensure normal work at Tis Hazari'
  • Delhi-Kalka rail traffic restored
  • Mayor manhandled by Councillor
  • POTA will be repealed shortly: Shivraj Patil
  • RSS threatens legal action against Arjun Singh
  • Around the City
  • Briefly

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Olympic Games

  • Indian athletes getting acclimatised
  • In search of the perfect 10
  • Susanthika decides not to run
  • I am fine: Anju

    Pathanamthitta

  • Police policy hailed

    Perambalur

  • Summary revision of poll rolls

    Pondicherry

  • Redrawing of Pondicherry Assembly map on cards

    Rajasthan

  • Minister's visit fuelled unrest: Gehlot
  • Muslim forum sees Gujarat pattern

    Ramanathapuram

  • PWD desilting 126 major tanks in Ramnad district

    Religion

  • Simple spiritual practices

    Sailing

  • Rout is Laser radial champion

    Salem

  • The 500-odd middle school children find a place

    Sports : General

  • Can Phelps become the Lord of Seven Rings?
  • Plan to spread chess awareness during World Cup
  • Hyderabad takes title
  • Ex-world champion cyclist tests positive

    Table Tennis

  • Double for Shreethi
  • Sachdeva School wins
  • Joginder and Jagmohan advance

    Tamil Nadu

  • Jayalalithaa's claim hollow, says Karunanidhi
  • Advocates clash on High Court premises
  • Street dogs
  • Government had no option: Vaiko
  • Counselling apace under efficient system
  • Accountant-General explains his stand
  • `No pre-conceived notion on coalition in State'
  • Sri Lankan Navy shoots down fisherman in sea
  • Bomb alert at Tindivanam, Villupuram
  • Common medical entrance test on August 29
  • Engineering vacancy position
  • Drop in Mettur inflow
  • Watch out, someone is tracking you on the Net
  • Tribunal members coming on August 23
  • Bus services suspended
  • Funeral held amid security
  • Dictionary of technical sign language released
  • Parthenium, a threat to the Nilgiris
  • Talaq victims to fight for equal rights
  • Computers for police stations by next month
  • Briefly
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Karur council seeks removal of Commissioner
  • Village bazaars for SHG products
  • Villagers impound 10 lorries
  • Man hacked to death
  • Students boycott classes

    Tennis

  • Garcia stuns Davydenko
  • Nilaya enters main draw
  • Main draw from today

    Thanjavur

  • `Photography can play a role in society welfare'
  • Advocates stage demo in Thanjavur

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Focus on protocols in tackling maternal mortality
  • Putherikandam Maidan to get a facelift
  • IB official held on charge of child molestation
  • Case against MCH superintendent
  • Chamber plea to Antony
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated August 11, 1954: Concept of secular State
  • dated August 11, 1954: Balkan military alliance
  • dated August 11, 1954: A.L. Mudaliar's appeal

    Thrissur

  • Assistance for ailing artistes
  • Ayurveda physician to be felicitated
  • Award for Kathakali maestro

    Tiruchi

  • Police crack the whip to prevent immoral trafficking
  • Promote research on basic sciences, private sector told
  • Assert rights, women told
  • CPI urges Corpn. to rescind water tax hike
  • Power shutdown
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Tirunelveli

  • Dharna staged

    Tirupati

  • Need for qualified teachers in bridge schools stressed

    Tuticorin

  • Tight security for slain panchayat chief's funeral

    Udhagamandalam

  • Small tea growers' plea to Centre

    Udupi

  • MLAs want special team to probe fishermen's case

    Uttaranchal

  • Uttaranchal mourns Baba's death

    Vijayawada

  • Don't toe TDP line on reforms: CPI(M)
  • Heated debate over eSeva centres
  • Factionalists may take a cue from PW: DGP
  • Pushkaram work huffs and puffs to finishing line
  • Loyola launches `add-on' courses
  • VMC co-opted members sworn in
  • Around the City

    Visakhapatnam

  • Trend-setting scheme to clear garbage
  • Unions decry cut in EPF rate
  • Withdraw suspension of union leaders: CITU
  • Pat for steel plant's CISF unit
  • IOB's renovated branch opened
  • Passport officer clarifies
  • Around the city
  • In Visakhpatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • St. Joseph's takes title

    Weather

  • Weather

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