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Alappuzha

  • Chikungunya: compensation distributed

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Brahmotsavam fetches Rs. 9.87 crore to TTD
  • Avoiding danger (or what) ...
  • Grand finale
  • Academies to upgrade Urdu medium teachers' skills
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Land row takes legal turn
  • Project to help students improve English
  • Telugu Mahila to campaign against gender bias
  • Welfare schemes: district Collector holds review meet
  • CPI workers allegedly beat up Congressmen, scribe
  • Minister reviews progress of works
  • SP addresses management school
  • Nod for MLA's suggestion
  • Centre for Gandhian philosophy opened

    • Athletics

  • Olympian Peter Norman passes away

    • Badminton

  • Good response for clinic

    • Bangalore

  • Despite looming deadline, child labour is rampant in Bangalore
  • Autorickshaws to stay off roads
  • Leading websites venture into regional language market
  • Tracing the State's cultural history
  • Expert critical of city's growth
  • `One crore trees worldwide' is his mission
  • Coordination panel will decide on Shoba Yatra, maintains BJP
  • Banaswadi flyover facing problems, may be redesigned
  • State to seek transfer of Tamil activists' case
  • Rules will be followed for duty-free, retail outlets: BIAL
  • Motorcyclist knocked down; residents set fire to bus
  • Meet on green buildings from October 12
  • Probe into functioning of medical college, hospital
  • An eyesore
  • Probe into running of college
  • For a noble cause
  • Time to show solidarity
  • Two schoolchildren missing
  • ICE 2006 takes off
  • Robbery bid foiled
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Dhanesh, Jibin star in SHC's win

    • Belgaum

  • It is a bandh sponsored by Government, says MES
  • For them, it means loss of a day's wages

    • Bijapur

  • Struggling to survive
  • Agitation seeking tank-filling project enters 24th day

    • Briefly

  • Tata Steel increases prices
  • Uttam Galva hikes prices
  • Sovereign picks up stake in Indiabulls
  • Tariff value on palm oil retained
  • Carrefour in talks with Dubai group
  • New fund offer from DSP Merrill Lynch
  • Classic Polo's showroom in Coimbatore
  • CAPEXIL award for MRF
  • Wockhardt acquires Ireland company
  • CUMI's new plant in Sriperumbudur
  • Renesas sets up ODC at KPIT Cummins
  • Karnataka Bank revises NRE, FCNR (B) rates
  • Springer deal with Indian Academy of Sciences
  • M&M to launch MaXX Maxi Truck on Friday
  • Australian Foods bags award
  • IOC to reach $60 b turnover by 2011-12
  • Moser Baer lists in Blu-ray disc specifications
  • IETE honours Sunil Mittal
  • Northwest Airlines launches new aircraft

    • Business

  • Tatas to launch consumer electronics chain store
  • CWC ties up with RT Group for cold storage
  • Megasoft plans to acquire U.S. firm
  • Saksoft buys Acuma of U.K. for $17 million
  • Gangotri identifies production partners
  • Rupee shoots up against $
  • Sensex sheds 88 points
  • Merchants call for futures market for rubber
  • Kochi Refinery's single point mooring facility to be ready by May
  • StanChart to launch credit linked notes
  • Indian Hotels to buy Ritz Carlton's Boston unit

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Will elected women have their say?
  • IT corridor gives new lease of life to wayside shrines
  • Time to celebrate...spend
  • India, Venezuela should have a shared social agenda: Ramirez
  • Essay prize, a trip to South Australia
  • Karunanidhi promises support for Singapore-India Economic Zone
  • UNICEF official lauds State
  • Thunder, lightning, rain in city
  • Three-day post graduate course in diabetology
  • Chennai's autos: a problem that defies solution
  • White tigers get a new home
  • For SMS contest winners, a date with Sachin
  • City student wins five-day trip to Singapore
  • EB cables stolen, melted, sold as bars
  • Man held for using stolen credit card
  • Medical camp, health meet
  • Police Commissioner inspects polling booths
  • Health hazard
  • Best NSS officer
  • Breast cancer detection camp
  • Creative writing competition
  • ATM opened in T. Nagar
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • City waiting eagerly for waste management programme
  • Spreading the green message
  • Singapore, Coimbatore air link planned
  • Feud forces Deputy Mayor to opt out
  • It is `Karunya University' now
  • Training for election officials
  • Khadi sale inaugurated
  • `Navachandi Yaham' on October 6
  • Symposium
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Dhoni walks the honest path
  • Lehmann backs Aussies to break the jinx
  • Sehwag's fitness to be assessed today
  • India to take on Bangladesh
  • Support staff: South Africa expected to beat England
  • Lloyd to join Windies team in India
  • BCCI for changes in ICC's MPA

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8723
  • Solution to Puzzle No. 8722

    • Cuddalore

  • Computers in disrepair
  • Sensitive booths identified in Cuddalore
  • Appointment of temporary staff urged

    • Dharmapuri

  • Sales target fixed for Diwali

    • Dindigul

  • Two polling stations shifted for administrative reasons

    • Editorials

  • More than a saint
  • The world's most difficult job

    • Erode

  • Where allies fight
  • Farmers urge Govt. to implement Pandiyaru-Punnampuzha scheme
  • Farmers busy preparing lands given by Government
  • Fly menace worries people
  • Expert team visits Orathupalayam

    • Football

  • `Indian set-up needs total revamp'

    • Front Page

  • Tharoor quits race
  • We'll test the waters: Manmohan
  • Afzal's family submits mercy petition
  • LTTE agrees to `unconditional talks'
  • Selector Dilip Vengsarkar prefers performance to reputations
  • Dinesh Karthik in dazzling form
  • Thank goodness common sense has prevailed
  • Oldies ready for new challenges
  • Insurer directed to settle full claim
  • Shaastra looking for young entrepreneurs
  • Dengue claims one more life in Delhi; toll goes up to a dozen
  • No cause for panic in Delhi
  • Congress feud forces Deputy Mayor to pull out of local body elections
  • Kannada likely to get classical tag
  • Bypolls on November 6
  • Union serves strike notice on RTC
  • WHO team for chikungunya-hit areas
  • Land purchase counselling centre shut down
  • Independents form forum in Tiruchi
  • City's scientist couple misses Nobel narrowly
  • Government gears up for today's bandh
  • `Bechu' Rahman surrenders, remanded
  • Fab City to be set in motion next month
  • Greater Vijayawada idea moves forward
  • Fresh alert for dengue fever
  • Still open to `political solution': ULFA
  • Conflicting pleas
  • Turkish plane hijacked

    • Golf

  • Jeev Milkha Singh is India No. 1

    • Gujarat

  • Programme to fight social inequality announced

    • Gulbarga

  • File counter-plea to resolve border dispute: MLA
  • He helped revive the Vijayanagar style
  • Security tightened in view of bandh
  • Farmers protest against `harassment' by banks

    • Guntur

  • 3,500 acres to be given to landless poor in Guntur
  • Transco AE ends life

    • Haryana

  • 33 dengue cases in Haryana; 1 dead
  • Kurukshetra leads in paddy trading

    • Hassan

  • Hassan all set to become an educational hub
  • Security tightened for bandh

    • Hockey

  • India opens against Bangladesh
  • England stuns Germany

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Holiday declared for schools, colleges in Hubli and Belgaum
  • `Right to education remains a mirage'

    • Hyderabad

  • Illegal layouts face action
  • Work on expressway to begin soon
  • Double whammy for movie buffs
  • Vigilance sleuths detect tax evasion by soft drink retailers
  • Water, water everywhere
  • Meeting to discuss Polavaram project
  • A collector's item
  • YSR told to pressurise Centre for natural gas
  • YSR going against Centre's policy: TDP
  • Tigress gives birth to four healthy cubs
  • Manuscripts identified for conservation
  • ORR project oustees plan road blockade
  • European Parliament team on study tour
  • New Games Village for military meet
  • Farmers' welfare: BJP seeks all-party meet
  • World Sight Day to be observed on October 12
  • Let the bird fly
  • Medical camp
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Ban Ki-Moon cements position
  • North Korea to conduct nuclear weapon test
  • Threat to kill Hamas leaders
  • Colombo suggests two dates for holding peace talks
  • Pentagon-driven robot race is back
  • Study bolsters Big Bang theory
  • Speaks Tamil, misses flight
  • School shooting toll up
  • 7 U.S. soldiers killed

    • Kancheepuram

  • Nineteen injured in van-lorry collision

    • Kannur

  • Careerism eclipsing science: expert
  • Call to address challenges of the aged
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Congress gears up for Karimnagar bypoll
  • Job racket busted, two arrested
  • 16 sub-inspectors transferred

    • Karnataka

  • Classical tag for Kannada likely by November
  • Springer signs pact with science academy
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Air pollution the bane of Davangere
  • `Pragathi Bandhu' model could be replicated: NABARD
  • Court building opened in Chamarajanagar
  • BJP to support VHP's stance on Datta Jayanti

    • Kerala

  • WHO team to visit chikungunya-hit areas
  • Environmental activists sceptic about `Save Periyar' initiative
  • Special trains to run till November 30
  • Visitors keep off famed walkway
  • Shortage of doctors hits PHCs
  • An association for victims of torture and harassment
  • Statutory panels for sports, youth
  • Chikungunya yet to mar tourism season in State
  • Tamil Nadu to get water from Neyyar Dam
  • Security to be tightened at Guruvayur
  • Beyond barriers of religion
  • Heavy traffic on S.M. Street
  • Power plant from solid waste in Piravom market
  • Bank employees strike work
  • Somnath to present award
  • Noisy scenes in Assembly over chikungunya
  • Mustering support
  • SNDST board polls today
  • Baby promises steps to control managements
  • Brahmapuram: land to be given soon
  • Chennai Airport police file case against Joseph
  • Nursing managements told to submit entrance rank list
  • Drama awards announced
  • Protest against illegal fishing
  • Four more die of chikungunya in Cherthala
  • `Disciplinary action initiated against police officers'
  • Guidance for legislators
  • All-party meet today
  • Briefly

    • Kochi

  • A helpline in need of help
  • City police launch special drive
  • Bank strike total in district
  • An opportunity lost
  • Corporation exploring plans to set up biogas units
  • Periyar waters discoloured along Muttar kadavu
  • Mahabharata Yajnam to be performed in Kochi
  • A plain speak on North-East
  • Next issue
  • ISTE award announced
  • Two injured in freak accident
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Officers call for national eco-tourism policy
  • Forest Minister urged to save Marutimala
  • `Government denying minimum wages to cashew workers'
  • 70 stake nets removed from Paravur Lake

    • Kozhikode

  • `Commodities markets have a long way to go'
  • Corporation anniversary: Somnath to inaugurate fete
  • Quit politics, Karunakaran tells Antony
  • `Resist imperialist globalisation'
  • Garbage row: court seeks Corporation's views

    • Kurnool

  • One killed, several injured in Dasara ritual
  • Brahmakumaris' padayatra troupe reaches Kurnool town
  • Lok Adalat poised to play bigger role
  • Motorcycle collides with bus, 2 killed

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Confucius makes a comeback in China

    • Letters to the Editor

  • ISI hand?
  • Musharraf & media
  • Clemency appeal

    • Madikeri

  • Thousands witness Dasara procession at Madikeri
  • Minister visits hospital

    • Madurai

  • Councillors' spouses, wards get tickets to contest polls
  • A few localities are prone to Chikungunya
  • Expedition to preserve ecology
  • Four nabbed in false insurance claim case
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Dubai-Mangalore daily flight service launched
  • `No frills account' gets good response
  • Sadananda Gowda sends letter to Kumaraswamy
  • `Kasargod must be a part of Karnataka'
  • Man killed in road accident
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • 50 lakh houses to be built for poor in a year
  • Organisations, writers support State bandh
  • Permanent lighting to be put up on Chamundi Hills
  • Torchlight Parade thrills capacity crowd in Mysore
  • Mysore zoo posts record collection
  • Increased noise scares away birds
  • `Cow parliament' held

    • Nagapattinam

  • Printing of ballot papers in full swing

    • Nalgonda

  • Sarpanch enters record books

    • National

  • Kalam: cardiac care calls for continuous upgrading
  • Azad's stand on Afzal criticised
  • When Lok Adalats can't pass orders
  • CPI: Clarify decision to block Chinese firms
  • Madurai-based NGO building houses for quake-hit in J&K
  • Islamabad offer on terror assailed
  • India awaiting response from Myanmar on bus service: Minister
  • BJP opposes any pardon to Afzal
  • "Consensus needed to take reforms ahead"
  • Academies suggest ways to boost B.Sc. students' morale
  • Year of more crop per drop
  • We have challenged the global order: Manmohan
  • Combat aircraft will be upgraded
  • Convene all-party meet on SEZs: Yadav
  • A Foreign Minister shortly
  • Rs.18-lakh trade through Nathu La
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri's sons criticise Centre
  • UNI staff stage dharna in Delhi
  • Congress seeks removal of Goa Minister
  • 3 insurgents gunned down in Manipur
  • Security stepped up in Nagaland
  • One more convicted
  • Dengue alert sounded in J&K
  • Will intervene only if asked, says Soz
  • Anbumani seeks report on medico's death
  • Anbumani calls CMs' meet
  • Trinamool wants CBI probe
  • ``End conflict in Sri Lanka''

    • New Delhi

  • A festival to break disability myths
  • Tall claims of Govt. fall flat on face
  • Colony-wise sealing criteria raises eyebrows
  • Unbroken chain of evidence against Manu Sharma: Counsel
  • Creating symbols of `shakti'
  • Gurgaon Metro link gets nod
  • Reply sought from Rajghat office-bearer
  • Delhi Police get ISO certificate
  • A musical extravaganza from Canada
  • Bina Ramani testimony comes under scanner
  • MCD inaction led to dengue crisis: Bidhuri
  • Woman murdered in Civil Lines
  • Postponed
  • Plan to revive alternative education
  • "Abide by human rights treaties in treating HIV-afflicted"
  • Why high-cost security to certain VIPs, asks Delhi High Court
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Will Singur cause a realignment?
  • Aid agencies flee Darfur camp as fighting erupts
  • America is living beyond its means
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • Hoarding triggers controversy
  • NRI film on India set for release on October 13

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • 20 farmers of Mallavaram held

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Adoor Gopalakrishnan suggests informal curriculum for schools
  • Exhibition for students
  • Explosion on court premises

    • Perambalur

  • Follow model code, Collector tells candidates

    • Pondicherry

  • Prevention key to curb HIV/AIDS: Mithi
  • JIPMER strike committee to meet PM
  • Do not encourage strikes in hospitals: Ramadoss

    • Racing : Horse

  • Money With Talent, Abide Proven shine
  • Cannon Ray impresses
  • Beau Monde pleases
  • Profile triumphs

    • Raichur

  • Malaria claims three more lives
  • Demand to amend Article 371

    • Rajasthan

  • `Govt. insensitive to Kaman tragedy'
  • Free treatment in Rajasthan
  • "Santhara an exercise for self-purification''
  • Building dedicated to the people in Jodhpur

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Dasara comes alive in Ramnad
  • 1,685 persons elected unopposed
  • Officer suspended

    • Religion

  • Subdue the mind

    • Salem

  • Poll officials get training
  • Army recruitment drive from today
  • Independent candidate dies

    • Shimoga

  • Kannada meet in Bahrain on December 15, 16
  • School students paint on wildlife
  • Police to step up vigil
  • People urged to live in peace and harmony

    • Sport

  • Selector Dilip Vengsarkar prefers performance to reputations
  • Dinesh Karthik in dazzling form
  • Thank goodness common sense has prevailed
  • Oldies ready for new challenges

    • Sports : General

  • Guntur to meet West Godavari
  • Tennis photography awards
  • TDSC's games festival
  • Samiyar Thottam CC posts win
  • Indian Army downs Karnataka
  • St. Peter's HS wins title
  • Bad start by Indian juniors

    • Swimming

  • NLC wins overall title

    • Table Tennis

  • Jitendra, Paulomi are top seeds

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Deliberate attempt to freeze `Murasu' symbol, alleges Vijayakant
  • Police file case against Kerala ex-Minister
  • "Steps will be taken to check dengue"
  • Now it is dengue alert
  • Realign Sethusamudram channel to protect Adam's Bridge: Swamy
  • LIC's social security month kicks off
  • Film festival on mental health from October 6
  • Steps to preserve megalithic burial site
  • Alumni forum's seminar
  • Temple mandapam to be rebuilt
  • Promoting brand South Australia
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Dump yard near bus stand irks residents
  • SW railway to run special trains
  • Major schemes remain on paper
  • Waste management commands attention
  • Seven candidates elected unopposed
  • Pondicherry University celebrates Wildlife Week
  • 1,687 polling booths to be set up in Tiruvarur district
  • 12,500 litres of spirit seized
  • Kerala to supply water from Neyyar to State
  • Traffic snarls
  • Thousands take part in temple car festival
  • Stove production units to be inspected
  • Tirupur team to visit U.S.

    • Tennis

  • AITA wants Mahesh Bhupathi back in the team
  • Henman cruises into the third round

    • Thanjavur

  • 36 village panchayat chiefs elected unopposed
  • Book on salt march released
  • "Music should bring peace to mind"

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Work on boundary wall of capital airport nearing completion
  • Insurance scheme for animal-handlers mooted
  • Protect interests of pharmacy students, says Lok Ayukta
  • Information literacy programme in colleges
  • Paucity of IV fluids hits MCH and SAT
  • Ability to read is a potent weapon, says Speaker
  • Experts stress need for early detection of cancer
  • Tender coconut parlours soon
  • Camp sans media hype
  • Boy reunited with family
  • Scheme for senior citizens demanded
  • Garbage Free Kerala project evokes good public response
  • Named after the day she was found abandoned
  • Nature's art work
  • Coffined cola
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthampuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated October 5, 1956: Bilingual Bombay
  • dated October 5, 1956: K. Ramnoth dead

    • Thrissur

  • Pigs' death: swine fever confirmed
  • Aid centre director threatens to jump from third floor of Collectorate
  • Mahout gored to death
  • UDF councillors stage dharna
  • Abduction case: three arrested
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Sensitive booths to be videographed
  • Taking steps towards a cleaner and greener State
  • "Regularise services of 34,000 employees"
  • Call for good rapport between State government, local bodies
  • Robot with sixth sense
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirumala

  • Curtains down Brahmotsavam fetches 9.87 cr.

    • Tirunelveli

  • Siddha medical students to go on indefinite strike

    • Tirupati

  • Tight schedule awaits YSR
  • Raghavulu to address SEZ meet today
  • Chittoor district cricket team bags 20-Twenty cup

    • Tumkur

  • Kumaraswamy criticised for `forgetting' farmers

    • Tuticorin

  • Meet discusses election strategies
  • Tractor driver killed

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Margin of victory expected to be slender in many parts
  • Ooty Lake - a major tourist draw
  • `People should expose forest offenders'
  • Meeting

    • Udupi

  • Troupe to enter Udupi on October 5

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Confusion prevails on Day 1 of nominations
  • Arson marks Durga immersion in U.P.

    • Uttaranchal

  • Kedarnath to be closed from October 24

    • Vellore

  • National workshop on MEMS research
  • 459 candidates elected unopposed in Vellore

    • Vijayawada

  • Is Nuzvid mango project finally coming through?
  • LPG dealers told to prevent diversion
  • Big-time table tennis arrives in Vijayawada after several years
  • Mahila Mandali's call to implement child rights
  • Land for church sought
  • CITU `jatha' to be held from today
  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • One-time settlement for borrowers
  • Bahujan front meet
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Dog menace: NGO approaches rights panel
  • Post-dated cheque only for first instalment, says Commissioner
  • GVMC action `questionable'
  • Montessori training boosts their morale
  • Convocations of Andhra University next month
  • Circle-Inspector held on gambling charge
  • LIC's social security month
  • Lure of the beach
  • Call to Buddhists, Ambedkarites
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Congress leaders lobby for place in Council
  • VIPs delay Bhadrakali temple's `teppotsavam'?

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Wrestling

  • Historic feat by Alka

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