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  • Kochi today
  • Today at Sabarimala

    • Alappuzha

  • Champakulam to herald boat race season
  • Six chikungunya cases confirmed in Alappuzha

    • Anantapur

  • Cloud-seeding operations from July 15, says Minister
  • CPI (M) cadre gherao Minister
  • DCCB’s new scheme
  • DLSA offers legal help to HIV-affected

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Digvijay cautions party men against losing credibility
  • Dharna by all-party Telangana MLAs
  • TTD plans to set up spiritual schools
  • Aarogya Sri: Collector expresses dissatisfaction
  • For record
  • Majestic statue
  • Sting operation
  • Bihar Minister to attend sadassu
  • President of Bar Association elected

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Euphoria in tribal hamlets over supply of potable water
  • Revival of board for ports likely
  • Bypass to come up at Nandyal
  • Monsanto gives sops to seed growers
  • Farmers claim ‘assigned’ land
  • Civic panels to improve amenities
  • Joint meet sought on port problems
  • MLA promises ration cards to poor
  • Kalyanamasthu second phase
  • Medical camps launched
  • Admissions in Blind School
  • Board of trustees appointed
  • ‘Raise groundnut seed quota’
  • Residents take out protest rally
  • House-breaking gang busted
  • Nurses’ stage dharna against promotions
  • Medical camp held
  • TTD’s mass marriage fete
  • One killed in road accident
  • CITU burns Finance Minister’s effigy

    • Athletics

  • Rich haul for India

    • Badminton

  • It’s time Indian shuttlers broke the jinx: Vimal

    • Bangalore

  • Helping the consumer remain the king
  • Chief Minister dares Congress for debate on land for SEZs
  • State wants to catch up with Kerala, Goa on tourism front
  • Khandre raises pitch for ban on book on social reformer Basaveshwara
  • Consumer courts not popular with the shopper
  • Bangalore today
  • COMED-K counselling to begin tomorrow
  • West far ahead in consumer movement
  • KBA to soon submit report on survey of nomadic groups
  • Film industry wants tax sop for remakes
  • Sadashivanagar case hearing adjourned
  • Landgrabbers may be booked under Goonda Act
  • Siddaganga seer taken ill
  • Repair footpaths to help children walk safely response
  • Pizzeria employee electrocuted Crime notes
  • Cauvery water for new areas soon
  • Catching up in the U.S.
  • Schools’ case posted to June 26
  • Two-year-old injured in attack by street dog
  • Viniv Inc asked to file affidavit on refund
  • Schools: Congress alleges bias
  • Crackdown on moneylenders
  • Directory distribution
  • Yashwanth Sinha to arrive today
  • Nominate Dalits to Council: DSS
  • Notice to Janardhan Reddy
  • Siddaramaiah’s comments opposed
  • College sought at Kerebilchi
  • MML gives Rs. 1 cr. to relief fund
  • Passports despatched
  • Condoled
  • Elected

    • Basketball

  • Chhattisgarh, Delhi triumph

    • Belgaum

  • ‘Focus on entrepreneurship to boost rural development’
  • This 11-year-old is clueless about his rights
  • Children’s Right Day

    • Bellary

  • Sonia convinced about Mahadayi project, says Congress leader
  • Accused in double murder case held

    • Bidar

  • Tension in village over land dispute
  • Collection of tax

    • Business

  • NCDEX seeks unified licence
  • Sanmina-SCI plans technology campus
  • Capital protection scheme from Birla Sun Life
  • Zicom ties up with Future Media
  • Surana’s Raichur project on schedule
  • BHEL bags NTPC contract
  • Epicor strengthens tie-up with Sonata
  • Rane Group unveils modern employee development institute
  • Tata Capital to handle financial services
  • Ecosystem software launched
  • LIC Housing to launch reverse mortgage loan
  • Renovated ITI in Guwahati inaugurated
  • Spice fixes IPO price band at Rs. 41-46
  • Manmohan to dedicate project
  • Broking cos. warned
  • NTPC to foray into nuclear power
  • Rupee snaps winning streak
  • Sensex jumps 215 points

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOONSCAPE

    • Chennai

  • Chennai today
  • Rain, and a recurring problem… waterlogging
  • An acute power crisis in southern suburbs
  • Notice to AIADMK MPs: plea referred to larger bench
  • Blueprint for beautification of the Marina Beach is ready
  • Panel formed to hold talks with mill unions
  • MMC to offer course in laparoscopic surgical techniques from tomorrow
  • State signs MoU with U.S. firm for setting up unit at Oragadam
  • Andhra Mahila Sabha to inaugurate school with innovative curriculum
  • Learn English, the British way
  • Hundreds seek pattas
  • Residents protest councillor’s behaviour
  • Consultant sought for tsunami housing project
  • Government schools told not to collect donations
  • Shatabdi gets ISO certification
  • Tree rips open bus, seven killed in Tiruvallur district
  • Water scheme for Ullagaram
  • College teachers on fast
  • Jayalalithaa flays attack on party activists
  • Man found with head smashed in
  • Young achiever honoured
  • Farmers observe fast
  • Teenager’s body retrieved from temple tank
  • Holiday declared in Madurai for bypoll
  • Woman commits suicide
  • Environmental awareness

    • Chess

  • Sasikiran makes a winning start

    • Coimbatore

  • Pinning hopes on the youth Personality of the week
  • Chikungunya: Coimbatore Corporation seeks support of private doctors
  • Efforts on to abolish child labour
  • ‘Kidzee’ to open in Coimbatore
  • Woman, daughter found dead near railway track
  • Free training to work in tourism industry
  • Coimbatore today
  • Transfer counselling for teachers
  • No power
  • Programme

    • Cricket

  • India, Pakistan to tour Bangladesh
  • Muthukumar sparkles
  • Cricket trials

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8944
  • Solution to Puzzle 8943

    • Dindigul

  • Residents seek speed breakers
  • Train services disrupted

    • Editorials

  • When the numbers don’t add up
  • Balance between work and family

    • Eluru

  • Programme for girls’ education

    • Erode

  • Now for a job
  • Drinking water promised to bus passengers
  • ‘Desilt Amaravathy Reservoir’
  • Demonstration held

    • Front Page

  • Manmohan, Sonia sign papers for Pratibha
  • Ball in UPA court: NDA
  • Atlantis undocks from space station
  • Farmers’ suicides: PM to visit 3 States
  • Mamata rejects Singur package
  • West Bengal announces Singur rehabilitation package
  • Indonesia for more cooperation with India
  • Singapore, India set up joint panel
  • Basu: sustain industrialisation drive
  • We need to excel in all departments: Dravid
  • Skipper Dravid holds fond memories of England
  • Panesar does West Indies in
  • Rushdie: Pakistan summons British envoy
  • Night flights from Colombo to resume
  • Truck blast kills more than 75 in Baghdad
  • Complaints of bribing voters a serious issue: Naresh Gupta
  • Development works hinder traffic flow
  • 4,000 acres of recovered land to be used for welfare of poor
  • NCDEX seeks unified licence
  • Assembly proceedings disrupted
  • Hyundai Heavy Industries to set up plant in Chakan
  • Special funds for Primary Health Centres
  • Digvijay Singh sounds a word of caution
  • Three hostels for women by August
  • Dental colleges sign pact on seat split
  • Temple tank to be filled with fresh water
  • Two CRPF men killed
  • Telgi, two doctors convicted
  • IT raids conducted
  • Order reserved
  • Dharna by all-party Telangana MLAs
  • Sentencing deferred
  • NBW against Mohanti
  • An insult: Lalu
  • Zahira wants to contest elections

    • Golf

  • Jeev grows further in stature
  • Anirban rules the roost

    • Gulbarga

  • Chief Minister to stay at Kannalli village on June 24
  • Kharge felicitated

    • Guntur

  • A positive sign indeed
  • 212 schools to be closed in Guntur
  • Full complement for kharif after six years in Guntur
  • Highway robbers nabbed
  • ‘Kalyanamastu’ on August 26
  • Constable sets himself ablaze?
  • Woman murdered
  • RSI booked for wife’s death

    • Haryana

  • Bid to ensure adequate water supply

    • Hassan

  • Deve Gowda opposed to varsity being named after him
  • Horticulture marketing unit on the cards

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Official refutes charge on delay in fertilizer supply
  • Rashtriya Hindu Sena to block roads to Goa
  • Regularisation: workers set deadline
  • College to offer new courses
  • Special train extended

    • Hyderabad

  • Gandhi mortuary a ‘dead case’?
  • Youth held in Dubai linked to blasts?
  • Team to study fitness of bridge
  • IT sector may come under tax net soon
  • CPI(M) for third alternative, not front, says Nilotpal Basu
  • KCR demands for non-locals in judiciary
  • NSUI workers celebrate Rahul Gandhi’s birthday
  • Jaipal Reddy promises more help for metro rail project
  • APCC creates database
  • Last day for electoral rolls entry
  • Army recruitment rally at Warangal
  • PG entrance results released
  • Free coaching in medical transcription
  • YSR’s assurance to teachers
  • Seminar on tourism and hospitality
  • Degree award ceremony
  • Two employees held on corruption charge
  • Workshop on LIFE
  • RTC facility for students

    • India & World

  • Indonesia for more cooperation with India
  • Singapore, India set up joint panel

    • International

  • China may lift ban on domestic tiger trade
  • U.S. against military role in politics: envoy
  • Rushdie: Pakistan summons British envoy
  • Night flights from Colombo to resume
  • Truck blast kills more than 75 in Baghdad
  • Google Earth on a mission
  • America’s biggest mob trial since Al Capone starts
  • U.S. rallies behind Abbas

    • Kancheepuram

  • Underground sewers for municipalities soon: Stalin

    • Kannur

  • Protest by varsity staff

    • Karimnagar

  • District gears up with flood contingency plan
  • Massive plantation to be taken up
  • Rahul Gandhi’s birthday celebrated

    • Karnataka

  • Karnataka wants to catch up with Kerala, Goa on developing tourism
  • A bonus support

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Inefficiency of officials come to light at education adalat
  • Hosts await Chief Minister’s visit to Suramuttina Tanda in Bijapur
  • Families of farmers left in the lurch
  • Extended dry spell worries farmers
  • ‘78 part-time fair price shops opened in Dharmapuri’
  • Congress names Jacob for Karnataka
  • 45,383 applications received for name inclusion
  • Applications invited for scholarships
  • ‘People reposed faith in Congress’
  • 8 child workers rescued
  • Spotted deer found dead
  • Heavy rain

    • Kerala

  • Vector control units for all districts in Kerala
  • Monsoon fishing Bill introduced
  • Kalam calls for smart waterways
  • Civic chiefs elated over proposal to hand over school education to local bodies
  • Two-wheelers involved in 44% accidents in Ernakulam district
  • Air Kerala remains ‘grounded’
  • White water rafting course begins
  • Hindalco: unions ready for talks
  • When camera meets canvas
  • Spare schools of political activity: union
  • ‘No passenger backlog to Lakshadweep’
  • Bio-tools to kill mosquitoes
  • Mistaken priorities
  • Listen to KSEB, slash power bill
  • Work on photo-affixed ration card from next week
  • Baby expresses displeasure
  • Sabari coffee in July
  • A matter of taste
  • Balancing act
  • For the love of letters
  • Centre urged to revise BPL norms
  • High Court seeks explanation
  • MACTA firm on strike plan
  • Engagements: Thrissur

    • Kerala - Others

  • Curbs on issue of pilgrim visa likely
  • Bowing to their contribution
  • Teachers resent move to hand over education to civic bodies
  • Police conduct medical camps
  • Bodies of youth recovered

    • Kochi

  • Focus on garbage removal
  • New tug for Lakshadweep administration
  • Anti-encroachment drive continues
  • Indiscriminate mining on in Periyar
  • Highway project: deadline to accept award fixed
  • Two held on burglary charge
  • Federal Bank venture gets UAE approval
  • Training programme

    • Kollam

  • Corporation to launch more cashew products
  • Fishing boat operators flay trawling ban
  • ‘Exorbitant rate charged by headload workers’

    • Kozhikode

  • Mopla Song Lovers’ Association anniversary

    • Kurnool

  • Dacoity in Adoni, Rs. 20 lakh looted

    • Leader Page Articles

  • To save the tiger, revamp the system

    • Madikeri

  • Vishwa Kodava Mela from December 23 to 25

    • Madurai

  • Madurai Today
  • “EC to ensure voters exercise their franchise without fear”
  • Statutory notice has to conform to procedures: Bench
  • More infrastructure for three PHCs
  • A handful of ‘Sivaji,’ now
  • AIADMK cadres arrested in Madurai
  • Water level
  • Revolver seized

    • Mangalore

  • Varsity’s council declines affiliation for B.Sc. course
  • Fall in number of youth enrolling for higher education: Vice-Chancellor
  • A place to market their showpieces
  • Monsoon weak in Dakshina Kannada
  • Government showing signs of instability: Kharge
  • ‘Handover gomala land to DKMUL’
  • John Fernandes gets award
  • Nature’s fury

    • Mysore

  • K. Ramadas passes away
  • Public opposition to thermal power project

    • Nagapattinam

  • ‘Helmet awareness’ rally in Nagapattinam

    • Nagercoil

  • Heavy rain continues in Kanyakumari

    • Nalgonda

  • Land granted to poor
  • RTC fleet gets bigger

    • National

  • Surat kidnapping generates anti-Modi sentiments
  • SC to examine scope of ‘demand for dowry’
  • Manmohan to visit 3 States
  • Israel offers expertise to Assam farmers
  • Plea against sentencing in Mumbai blasts case
  • Ageing population on the rise: survey
  • Mamata supports Kalam
  • Special DGP for U.P.
  • UNPA leaders to meet Kalam today
  • Maharashtra board: rethink on SEZs
  • “Failure to give reasons is denial of justice”
  • 1.45 lakh affected in Assam floods
  • Opposition insulting Kalam: Lalu
  • Water level at Omkareshwar increased
  • Non-bailable warrant against Mohanti defective: Orissa
  • Karan Singh quits IGNCA
  • Karunanidhi a proposer
  • Fernandes meets Kalam
  • Malcha villagers’ strange claim
  • Nitish hails decision on Nalanda group
  • Soldier’s wife raped in Jammu cantonment
  • French honour for book fair director
  • I-T raids

    • Nellore

  • CPI (M) to move NHRC on ‘police excesses ’
  • Nellore bandh today

    • New Delhi

  • Sheila reviews Capital’s flood control measures
  • Businessman robbed
  • Relatives blame traffic cops for man’s death
  • Heroin worth Rs. 10 crore seized
  • In THE CAPITAL TODAY
  • Action against two MCD lab assistants
  • NDMC resumes sealing drive
  • Fifth dengue case reported
  • 15-year-old missing since Friday
  • Held with fake currency
  • A new twist in murder case
  • Minimum rates for land, property valuation hiked
  • New course at Institute of Home Economics

    • News Analysis

  • Sir Salman’s long journey
  • “Try to see the world through their eyes”
  • Early springs a problem for Arctic creatures
  • How the world watches television
  • Corrections and clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • Seven-hour power to farm sector likely

    • Ongole

  • Bengal gram no more farmers’ favourite
  • Officials move to solve inundation problem

    • Orissa

  • They rekindle hopes of the visually impaired
  • Demand for Central varsity
  • High-level team visits Patrapur
  • Reliance to expand retail business
  • Mineral exports alone will not help: Jairam
  • Samskruti Academy launches library service
  • Question marks over Bismay’s results
  • Varsity students’ plea to DIG
  • Two teenage girls kidnapped?
  • For a cause
  • Lightning kills 20 goats
  • AISF to organise seminar on private varsities
  • Vision paper prepared
  • Students’ demand

    • Palakkad

  • Eviction: MP finds a sabotage attempt
  • WLL connections
  • Housing scheme

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Fever claims five more lives
  • RYF urges VS to visit fever-hit areas

    • Puducherry

  • Stray dog menace on the rise
  • Kandasamy to convene meeting of officials today on welfare programmes
  • Karaikal Struggle Group members observe fast
  • Mauritius President visit on July 1

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Goods train derails near Mandapam station

    • Religion

  • Spiritual practice religion

    • Salem

  • Corporation to make all efforts to beautify Salem
  • Power shutdown

    • Shimoga

  • Officials asked to control misuse of SC/ST funds
  • Pall of gloom over Shimoga
  • Teak wood smuggling attempt foiled
  • Workshop

    • Sport

  • We need to excel in all departments: Dravid
  • Skipper Dravid holds fond memories of England
  • Panesar does West Indies in
  • Prasad takes a walk down memory lane
  • Air-India proves too strong for Kerala
  • Close finish on the cards

    • Sports : General

  • Time for a change in mindset: Wiggins
  • Beckham will have a bigger appeal, says Galaxy
  • India wins compound team gold medal
  • Kappa to design rugby team jersey
  • Bopanna loses

    • Srikakulam

  • Vamsadhara compensation to be re-evaluated
  • Job scheme reviewed

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Lake sluices breached to protect encroachments
  • Plans to rope in Israeli firms to tide over water crisis
  • No stay on Sethusamudram project implementation: Madras High Court
  • No-judicial review possible of no confidence motion: court
  • Department of Municipal Administration to set up debt management cell soon
  • Disability intervention centres in districts
  • “Public sector must play bigger role in vaccine production”
  • Karaikal Struggle Group members observe fast
  • Retired judges’ association plea
  • Rectified spirit seized
  • Special trains to clear rush
  • Bringing it down
  • 3 killed in two road accidents
  • Police in dilemma over helmet rule in rural areas

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Eleventh Plan: focus on farming
  • Collector’s moving gesture
  • State committed to providing quality education: Minister
  • Over 100 students boycott school
  • Lecture series at Kalpetta
  • MACTA to ahead with strike plan
  • Raman Pillai hints at new party
  • Revoke anti-labour GO, AITUC urges Govt.
  • Town panchayat chief, vice- president resign
  • A well-documented effort
  • Giving a fillip to Scouts movement
  • Goonda ordinance: MYL flays Government
  • Counselling for teachers’ transfer from June 23
  • Demand to revise teacher-pupil ratio
  • Vacancies
  • Auto drivers take out procession at Sattur
  • Reading Week observance inaugurated

    • Tennis

  • Francesca Schiavone packs off Sania Mirza; Tim Henman advances at Nottingham
  • ‘I have matured as a player’

    • Thanjavur

  • Ten-day music fete in Thanjavur from June 22

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Fishing community opposes draft Coastal Management Zone law
  • Mad rush for helmets in city
  • Corporation team inspects complexes
  • A view of State’s geomophology
  • Accused to be shifted to prisoner’s cell
  • Waves destroy 17 houses
  • Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Anti-tobacco drive by school
  • Reading Week inaugurated
  • ‘Thaliru’ turns over a new leaf
  • Two malaria cases reported
  • Workshop organised

    • This Day That Age

  • dated June 20, 1957: Mao on contradictions
  • dated June 20, 1957: Nehru in Helsinki

    • Thrissur

  • Pavanan’s death anniversary

    • Tiruchi

  • They get together to make a ‘trademark’
  • Rs.17 crore allocated for Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
  • Students welcome their juniors with a difference
  • 28 Teacher Training Institutes await nod
  • 3 special camps set up to detect chikungunya
  • NIT-T plans to set up school
  • Amul to bring out fitness candy
  • “Verify institutions before joining”
  • Mettur level

    • Tirunelveli

  • Swimming pool cries for attention
  • CITU flays cancellation of bus drivers’ licences

    • Tirupati

  • TUDA to develop 12 roads
  • Rahul should tour State: VHR
  • RTC to conduct essay-writing contest
  • Date extended

    • Tuticorin

  • Farm breeds 60 types of fish

    • Udhagamandalam

  • ‘Vaccine Park’ will strengthen Pasteur Institute: Ramadoss
  • Uplift plantation workers: Ramadoss

    • Udupi

  • Man killed road accident

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Muslim leaders criticize Presidential nominee
  • Workshop for new legislators

    • Vellore

  • Geomatics in natural disaster management

    • Vijayawada

  • Opposition faults Gulzar action
  • Birdwatchers’ paradise
  • Shops’ allotment triggers furore
  • Hospital implants pacemaker on nonagenarian
  • ‘Power league’ off to a start
  • Man creates flutter on GGH new premises
  • Vijayawada Today
  • BSNL road show
  • TANA invitation

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Stuck with orphaned children in twilight years
  • Body sculpting: the cool way to fitness
  • It’s love at first sight for tourists
  • Work for elimination of child labour, trade unions told
  • No skirting VLT, says official
  • VUDA looking to tune in to Telugu
  • Make traffic discipline a way of life, says CP
  • Monsoon arrives in city, finally
  • Rehabilitated child labourers get cheques
  • Forum wants GO Ms. No. 610 put on hold
  • Land for refinery opposed
  • Board to deliberate on welfare measures
  • ‘Take back land grabbed by leaders’
  • Strive for excellence, says Minister
  • Demands day
  • ‘Bonus demand day’

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