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  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Alappuzha

  • Special House session to pass farm debt relief Bill

    • Anantapur

  • Announcement on drought draws flak
  • Rally taken out in SKU for fee cut

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • YSR hands over surplus land from his estate
  • On the fast track
  • Going hi-tech
  • "A.P. panel to go into GO implementation"
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • An Indophile's homecoming
  • Draft policy on farmers ready
  • Eye bank to be set up in Kakinada with Rs. 1 crore
  • Elections soon for Badvel Municipality, says SEC
  • Mystery shrouds couple's death
  • Leading from the front for quick results
  • Get cracking, bankers told
  • add brief
  • CITU hits out at INTUC
  • Credit plan released
  • MRPS activists `assault' TRS leader
  • Advice to ryots

    • Athletics

  • Abdulla, Geetha declared the best

    • Bangalore

  • Bangaloreans assert their right to information
  • New market intervention policy being considered
  • The pros and cons of linking rivers
  • Strike unlikely to hit essential services
  • Chief Minister clears projects worth Rs. 1,000 cr.
  • Interlinking of rivers will help solve farm crisis: H.K. Patil
  • State urges Centre to ban online lotteries
  • Law sought to tackle child trafficking
  • Sindhia criticises Kumaraswamy for `falling standards' of governance
  • IT firms requested to donate 1,000 computers to government colleges
  • Court levies costs on State
  • Plea on lottery may not be considered
  • A road which is no one's baby
  • Gear up to meet additional requirement, BWSSB told
  • Job market buoyant in the south: survey
  • Teachers' association opposes move to derecognise schools
  • Tips for success in business
  • `Government has failed Dalits'
  • Move to derecognise schools opposed
  • A long fight against corruption in society
  • Proliferation of mobile phone network towers
  • Geriatric centre to come up in city
  • J.H. Patel remembered
  • Janardhan Reddy withdraws petition
  • Woman robbed of chain
  • Flower show at Lalbagh
  • Laurels all the way
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Iran men in basketball semifinals
  • Bharatidasan in quarterfinals

    • Bellary

  • Delay proves costly for Land Army

    • Bidar

  • People of Kamthana regret attack on researcher
  • Revoke ban on sugar exports, Centre urged

    • Bihar

  • Probe on right track: Nitish Govt.

    • Bijapur

  • Man dies while cleaning drainage chamber in Bijapur

    • Briefly

  • DoT seeks nod for foreign CEOs
  • Tatas committed to deadline for small car
  • NCDEX revises near month position limits
  • Lukoil sells Kazakh oil assets to Mittal
  • Laser Soft implements CMS at UTI Bank
  • SlashSupport expands tie-up with Blackboard
  • Aptech opens training centre in Malaysia
  • AREVA to modernise Moscow power grid
  • Polymed bags Middle East order
  • Innominds launches second centre
  • Rasi Seeds MD bags award

    • Business

  • SpiceJet's preferential offer
  • Banks' exposure to NBFCs revised
  • Industrial growth dips to 6.2 p.c. in Oct.
  • `India should open up Govt. IT procurement'
  • Supervalu Inc. sets up centre
  • Rupee ends flat
  • Caparo targets India for future growth
  • `Cluster-based approach needed in agriculture'
  • CAMPCO ready to buy red arecanut
  • Rise in Central tax collections

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOONSCAPE

    • Chennai

  • Stalin peeved at MLAs boycotting review meetings
  • President's visit exposes lack of coordination among security agencies
  • Proposal to buy power from other States approved
  • Auto component sector poised to attract more investments
  • State pollution control board certificate not needed for environment clearance
  • International conference on `Mobile, Ubiquitous & Pervasive Computing'
  • Rotary Club of Providenciales' gesture to visually challenged
  • Teaching-learning process in SSA schools to undergo sea change
  • Stanley course denied Medical Council of India's recognition
  • `Punk' Kumar "attacked police"
  • Tamil animated movies to hit theatres soon
  • Cooptex plans to revive silk sari designs
  • Centre for Exceptional Children celebrates anniversary
  • Stray crocodile `not from wild'
  • Road caves in alarmingly at T. Nagar
  • NIB to get night vision binoculars
  • Art festival inaugurated
  • Talk show on vulnerability of women conducted
  • Panel to remove unauthorised hoardings
  • TNEB's publication released
  • TV serial `Selvi' coming to an end
  • Mullaperiyar talks on December 18
  • Campaign afloat
  • Befitting ambience for a press meet
  • Having a ball
  • Asin launches new commercial
  • Minorities panel chief felicitated
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • India sitting pretty
  • Swati Ghate in sole lead

    • Coimbatore

  • Mayor promises development
  • `Box making charges, a concocted story'
  • Ensure rule of law to guard democracy, says Judge
  • Joint initiative to tackle HIV/AIDS
  • Encroachments removed to revive canal
  • Mayor promises development, corruption-free administration
  • Bharathiar varsity remembers Bharathiar
  • HMK activist climbs atop cellular phone tower
  • BSNL offers STD facility without deposit
  • We too have rights
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Gujarat salvages two points
  • Chandrashekar Raghu fashions Karnataka's thrilling win
  • Match peters out into tame draw
  • Under-performers will be called back: BCCI
  • Saurashtra loses to Andhra
  • Mumbai, TN set to enter final
  • Baroda foils Delhi's designs
  • Good bowling by Shamsunder
  • Kalidoss scalps seven

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8783
  • Solution to Puzzle 8782

    • Cuddalore

  • Bank staff to strike work tomorrow

    • Dharmapuri

  • Eight held for brewing arrack

    • Dindigul

  • Rs.50-cr. development works identified for Dindigul district

    • Editorials

  • Clues to Kashmir peace puzzle
  • Lebanon on edge

    • Eluru

  • Vain wait for action

    • Equestrian

  • Junior National equestrian from Dec. 15

    • Erode

  • Running PCOs not easy anymore
  • DMK will support Reservation Bill: Stalin
  • Stagnant sewage, rainwater worry residents
  • Roadworks worth Rs. 26 cr. in Erode
  • Comprehensive water scheme for Vellakoil
  • In Erode Today

    • Football

  • AIFF signs MoU with DFL
  • Baros helps Villa share honours

    • Front Page

  • Pranab: no interference with strategic programme
  • Manmohan's assurance to Kakodkar
  • With Kumble, it's all about the heart
  • Sania Mirza breezes into final
  • Manjeet anchors India to 4x400m relay gold
  • China puts it across Pakistan
  • 60 killed in Baghdad blasts
  • Move to privatise bus routes dropped, High Court told
  • Stanley course denied MCI recognition
  • Further fall in Sensex
  • Blanket ban on obscene material will fetter press freedom: court
  • Panel to go into GO 610 implementation
  • Nudity per se not obscenity: Court
  • Lokayukta police decide to chargesheet tainted officials
  • `Punk' Kumar killed in police encounter
  • PSC to receive applications online
  • General strike to hit normal life
  • Eco tourism at Kovai Coutrallam
  • Court orders de-sealing of Delhi school
  • Varsity may relax Ph.D. norm for faculty
  • Egg to be part of midday meal in schools
  • Aiming high without requisite facilities
  • Arms dump unearthed in Ibrahimpatnam
  • NDA ends boycott of Speaker's meetings
  • Narrow escape
  • Dalits offer prayers

    • Golf

  • Shruti in lead

    • Gulbarga

  • Vasavadatta's unit IV getting ready
  • College teachers support general strike
  • Ready for bypoll, says B.R. Patil
  • Leprosy patients protest

    • Guntur

  • Two road-overbridges to be completed by 2007
  • Two more held in murder case

    • Haryana

  • Haryana Govt. releases funds
  • Haryana staff may get LTC
  • Death condoled

    • Hassan

  • Youth write to Siddaramiah

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Members of cooperative societies stage protest
  • Need for uniform growth stressed
  • Honour for musician
  • In Hubli Today

    • Hyderabad

  • They have much to laugh about
  • People `robbed' in the name of parking fee
  • Government to take over excess, assigned land
  • HUDA scheme falls flat
  • Telugu film industry in doldrums
  • YSR's move questioned
  • Wordy duel over flood aid
  • Recruitment drive in OU campus
  • 13-year-old boy suffers heart attack
  • Faulty traffic signals at Khairatabad
  • Minister refutes charge on cotton MSP
  • Deputy Tahsildar in ACB net
  • No plan to extend DGP's tenure: Jana
  • Two girls drowned at orphanage
  • Power shutdown in some areas
  • OU convocation in January
  • 408 cr. spent on power purchase
  • All-India general strike: rural banks, insurance employees to take part
  • B.Com student killed in accident
  • Free coaching for minorities
  • YSR promises amenities for SW hostels
  • AISF workers disrupt traffic
  • Look out for meteor shower
  • Court rejects Monica Bedi's bail petition
  • Shia chief priest flays new law
  • Loans for BPL minority students
  • Workshop on public relations held
  • Bluetooth-enabled headset launched
  • Electrical crematorium at Banjara Hills
  • Aquaculture course
  • Asking for trouble
  • Around the City
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • Sunita enters her new home in space
  • Nikitin expedition called off due to financial constraints

    • International

  • Tensions run high in Iraq
  • Blast at Samarra mosque
  • Thousands of civilians at risk: Sri Lanka monitors
  • Mixed response to Musharraf remark on Kashmir
  • E.U. freezes dialogue with Turkey
  • China calls for progress at talks
  • Annan hits out at the U.S. in farewell speech
  • 11 radicals held
  • Islamists warn Ethiopia

    • Kancheepuram

  • `Periyar' shooting at temple delayed

    • Kannur

  • Call for fresh enumeration to identify BPL families
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Schools excel at Science Fair
  • Workshop held for artisans

    • Karnataka

  • Lokayukta police to chargesheet tainted officials in Karnataka
  • Women power
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Prakash sees no threat to coalition government
  • Production of reactor unit to begin in March
  • Sugarcane growers organise peaceful `Hospet bandh'
  • Two bodies of mining workers recovered
  • Centre accused of discrimination
  • Congress `rasta roko' disrupts traffic on National Highway
  • Lack of suitable applicants for lifeguards
  • Panchayat workers protest in Davangere
  • Bhadra engineer pays surprise visit
  • Protest against Railway authorities
  • History textbooks followed in State schools may be changed
  • Obsequies of slain BJP leader held

    • Kerala

  • General strike likely to hit life in Kerala
  • Save Periyar: need for action
  • Penalty likely for Information Officer
  • Fighting the menace of piracy
  • Heavy traffic chokes roads in Thripunithura
  • Next phase of community policing to begin soon
  • Centre for perishable cargo to become operational next year
  • Aviation boom and beyond
  • Acidity of well water: health hazards in Choornikara
  • Pedestrians feel the heat
  • Steps to solve water crisis in city
  • New species of bird sighted in Silent Valley
  • Trailers to strike work today
  • Melodious tribute to Naushad
  • Tragic end to Ajmer pilgrimage
  • Ban on use of potassium chlorate
  • Fog delays flights
  • `Oil tanks posing threat to residents' life'
  • Road users told to be more responsible
  • Role of libraries in development stressed
  • Lawyers' grouse
  • KSSP jatha ends today
  • SPCA plans to amend its rules
  • Kerala film chamber for law to check CD piracy
  • Lecture on AIDS awareness
  • Odakkuzhal Award: entries invited
  • Strange belief
  • KCBC award
  • Legal thought
  • Colours of the season
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Kumbalanghi beckons
  • Briefly
  • Reader's Mail

    • Kerala - Others

  • `Parallel cinema not getting visibility at global festivals'
  • NHRC notice to the State
  • CBI probe sought into guard's death
  • Christmas fair
  • Lawyers' State meet at Manjeri
  • Police seize goods autorickshaw

    • Kochi

  • Under-trials: notice to Government
  • UDF demands Mayor's resignation
  • Film chamber for law on CD piracy
  • Season's cinema bouquet ready
  • Trouble will end soon: Mayor
  • Garbage issue may hit tourism, says MLA
  • Hindustani vocal recital on Saturday
  • Forum seeks Antony's intervention
  • Visually challenged women withdraw stir
  • For film buffs
  • The delights of tourism
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • SFI rally gets rousing welcome
  • Call to extend support to strike
  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • `Indian Ocean region a strategic heartland'
  • Bid to help HIV+ children gathers momentum
  • In Kottayam Today

    • Kozhikode

  • Thriving fake CD market in the city
  • Host of events for Malabar Shopping Festival
  • Kozhikode a thriving market for fake CDs
  • Student's death triggers tension in Kuttiyadi
  • Minister to give away SSI awards
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • World Bank scheme yields returns
  • Review meet held on Sivaratri festival at Srisailam
  • Washermen `work' in protest

    • Leader Page Articles

  • No sugar-coated pills for cotton farmers

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Dr. Singh's remarks
  • Periyar's statue
  • Pinochet's death

    • Madurai

  • Go holidaying armed with the right info
  • Extending a helping hand to the handicapped
  • University to hold AIDS awareness campaign
  • Names suggested by Vice-Chancellor not nominated
  • Union Minister to visit Madurai
  • For a lasting relationship
  • Appointment of tahsildar as temple trustee challenged
  • "Be aware of various Acts"
  • Union Minister to visit Madurai
  • Some things are deceptive
  • Heralding the arrival
  • Simple yet colourful
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Milk may become part of Akshara Dasoha menu
  • Minister appalled over poor conditions at hostel
  • All gram panchayats to go online from January 1
  • Officials asked to take steps to control malaria
  • Work to widen Subrahmanya-Gundya road to begin from today
  • Move to remove Kannada boards from railway stations criticised
  • Show of women entrepreneurship
  • `Konkani Natakotsava'
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Conference to be held on South Asian languages
  • Trade unions in Mysore extend support to December 14 strike
  • State may soon have a National School of Drama
  • `Bahuroopi' offered more than just plays
  • Seer opposes power project
  • Job aspirants stage dharna
  • Hearing aids at a concession
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • CRA inspects tsunami rehabilitation works
  • Karaikal MLAs' decision to boycott Puducherry Assembly session hailed

    • Nalgonda

  • `Pay advance tax by Dec. 15'

    • National

  • Pact significant, says Pranab
  • Afzal issue: walkout in Lok Sabha
  • IT units not exempt from strike, says CITU leader
  • Report malicious: Rajnath
  • Excerpts from the interview
  • Parliament approves varsity status for CIEFL
  • CWC endorses stand on nuclear deal
  • Singur farmers appeal to Mamata to end strike
  • Left seeks support for general strike
  • Lifetime fuel guarantee remains a sticking point in `123' talks with U.S.
  • Nitish to consider plea for CBI probe
  • "Survival is her first challenge"
  • Rajya Sabha adjourned twice over Singur
  • Lok Sabha approves excess grant
  • Investment in women will bring in double dividends: Sharmila Tagore
  • BJP to protest against "politics of minorityism"
  • NHRC notice to Kerala
  • Sethna still sceptical
  • Tardy implementation hits job scheme, say elders
  • Panel for realistic EPF interest rate
  • Late import of de-mining vehicles flayed
  • Polio cases decline, say experts
  • NDA ends boycott
  • OBC quota Bill likely on Thursday
  • Lok Sabha asks Sharmila to end fast
  • JPC on office of profit gets extension
  • Woman attempting sati may be treated as victim
  • Pakistani to be deported
  • Rs. 404 crore spent on deportation
  • Dalits offer prayer at the Chawanda temple
  • Modi detractors find no place in BJP State executive

    • New Delhi

  • Need to control HIV epidemic among Injecting Drug Users
  • Capturing the finer things of life on the canvas
  • Govt. assurance to safeguard schools facing sealing
  • Centre urges U.P. to renovate Sharda Canal
  • Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh protests against SEZs
  • Up close with the aftermath of Tsunami
  • Chargesheets filed against 19 in housing scam
  • Capital gets a taste of dense fog
  • Supreme Court asks Centre to amend law
  • Demand for CBI probe into building plans
  • Charity show for a noble cause
  • Spotlight on policing
  • Make Domestic Violence Act impartial: NGO
  • Young man arrested for threatening MPs
  • Three acquitted
  • "Capitalists have existed in every civilisation"
  • Antique idol seized in Delhi
  • "Terrorists roping in Govt. employees"
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • New Delhi - Others

  • Around the City

    • News Analysis

  • Singur: just the facts, please
  • How Diana died: facts and fiction
  • Obama the next U.S. President?
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • `Suicide by 287 ryots'
  • TRS in protest mode over IIT
  • BJP's new district panel

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • I-T collections likely to go up

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Scheme to improve service at Collectorates launched
  • Exclude Pathanamthitta from general strike: KC(M)

    • Puducherry

  • Autorickshaws to keep off road on Thursday
  • Speaker invites Karaikal legislators for talks

    • Punjab

  • "Integrated Check Posts at Attari will boost exports"
  • Cong. may replicate Punjab Yatra in U.P.

    • Racing : Horse

  • Eclair Blanche in fine fettle
  • Moon Emperor has a chance
  • Thundering Power impresses
  • Dilnawaz bags main event

    • Raichur

  • Bandh peaceful in Raichur district

    • Rajasthan

  • Activist groups seek withdrawal of textbooks
  • Big haul of elephant tusks
  • Probe into mining activities sought

    • Religion

  • The three qualities

    • Salem

  • Efforts on to implement ABL effectively
  • New designs can promote handicrafts, says official
  • Focus on welfare of tribals
  • Stolen cellphones recovered; 3 held
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • Preparations under way for Kannada sammelana
  • Brilliant display of dexterity

    • Sport

  • With Kumble, it's all about the heart
  • Sania Mirza breezes into final
  • Manjeet anchors India to 4x400m relay gold
  • China puts it across Pakistan
  • Pathan turns to Akram again
  • Boje announces retirement
  • Jaspal Rana declared the best

    • Sports : General

  • India finishes eighth
  • LMPC wins handball title
  • Medals tally
  • Results at a glance
  • Rajesh wins bronze in Laser Radial Open
  • FAPS bags two titles
  • A shot in the arm for WADA
  • Shitul and Leckspok shine
  • Bodybuilder banned
  • SAIL in semifinals

    • Srikakulam

  • Vamsadhara oustees to be shifted to new colonies
  • Expo to encourage mechanised farming

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Charity begins at home
  • Precarious
  • Unmindful
  • M.S. Subbulakshmi's `Meera' now in dance form
  • Lyngdoh calls for electoral reforms
  • Bharathi's patriotic fervour recalled
  • Congress leader seeks higher procurement price for copra
  • Death of prisoners cause for concern
  • Abolition of CET challenged
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Speakers stress need for multi-pronged approach to combat hemophilia
  • Water connections given by mistake
  • Butterfly park fails to enthuse visitors
  • Ancient idols, pillars found
  • Aborted delivery claims elephant, calf
  • Creative learning method launched
  • "They deserve our affection"
  • Man sentenced in dowry case
  • Karaoke evening
  • Postponed
  • Demand
  • Around the City

    • Thanjavur

  • Rats wreak havoc in farms
  • In Thanjavur Today

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • `Chief Minister's stand misleading'
  • New industrial policy by month-end
  • Bid to check drug peddling in Varkala
  • Plan to generate power from wind
  • LDF State Committee reviews functioning of Home, PWD
  • `Women's panel may be revamped'
  • National Book Fair begins
  • PWD road works commence
  • A boost to sports
  • Pocket film
  • Suspended
  • Seeking blessings
  • Supporting a genuine mission
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated December 13, 1956: Sri Prakasa's hope
  • dated December 13, 1956: Most cartoonable person
  • dated December 13, 1956: Rajaratnam Pillai dead

    • Thrissur

  • Thrissur rail reservation office lacks facilities

    • Tiruchi

  • Training for women to start enterprises
  • Towards villages to know farming techniques
  • Commissioner hails Home Guards' contribution to the society
  • Researchers focus on emerging trends in theoretical chemistry
  • Best Teacher Award winners honoured
  • BHEL `flame scanner' gets international accredition
  • Godman's property auctioning put off
  • A challenging job for Government officials
  • Social commitment of superstar's fans
  • It was truly children's day out
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirumala

  • TTD to strengthen security

    • Tirunelveli

  • Dalits in local bodies: Forum for panel
  • Trade unions' stir tomorrow
  • Praise from pontiff

    • Tirupati

  • Atmospheric radar network proposed
  • Celebrating the `Swadeshi' spirit

    • Tuticorin

  • Additional facilities for 9 Government hospitals
  • Yarn from banana waste made possible
  • Rain damages houses

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Alternative road to plains from Gudalur mooted
  • Subsidy sought

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • 3 pilgrims from Kerala die in accident in U.P.
  • Buta for President's rule in Uttar Pradesh
  • Block pramukh shot dead

    • Uttaranchal

  • Tourists flock to Mussoorie
  • Mishap in school premises

    • Vellore

  • Play on Vellore Sepoy Revolution released
  • Defence pension adalat

    • Vijayawada

  • Protection officers find the going tough