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Alappuzha

  • Rs. 844-cr. credit plan for Alappuzha mooted

    Anantapur

  • TDP flayed for `pompous' show
  • Naidu tells partymen to work unitedly

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Congress in collusion with naxals: Naidu
  • Ex-CM holds talks with Mysoora Reddy, others
  • Gandhian thought in action
  • Azad blames BJP for Kargil fiasco
  • Many yet to get cyclone relief
  • Disseminate news impartially, journalists told
  • Miseries of a `divided' lot
  • Congress' woes begin to show
  • Discontent among ex-TDP MLAs to the fore
  • Cop among four held in cheating case
  • AIDWA calls for defeat of TDP-BJP combine
  • Work in tandem, officials told
  • Naidu sees undercurrent in favour of TDP
  • Voter list: people can file appeals at Collectorate
  • Civic chief `locks up' Commissioner's chamber
  • Writ plea questioning provisions of Panchayat Raj Act dismissed
  • Medaram jatara: RTC to operate 1,685 buses
  • TDP derides Azad's remarks
  • 3 commit suicide, pregnant woman succumbs to burns
  • Gas cylinder racket busted; three held
  • Kodela warns scanning centres
  • Security stepped up at Secretariat
  • Father watches as daughter dies after hit by uprooted power pole
  • No `bird flu' cases in State, says Kodela
  • Excise official in CBI net
  • Scribe dead
  • Cop dies, 6 hurt as Sumo hits tree
  • SIT to seek Telgi's custody?
  • Officer arrested on graft charge
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Demand for modernisation picks up
  • Red Cross extends relief to flood victims
  • People urged to throw out TDP Government

    Bangalore

  • Goldsmith from TN robbed of cash
  • 27,569 BU students to be awarded degrees
  • BDA shines at BATF pre-summit discussions
  • Building owners cautioned against fictitious claims
  • Traffic curbs on some roads today
  • `MS-Life in Music' to be released on February 4
  • Newborn found abandoned, dies in hospital
  • M. Papanna dead
  • Youth suffers burns in acid attack
  • Online information service for lawyers launched
  • Arrangements for Martyr's Day
  • Train to be diverted
  • Power shutdown
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates
  • Stock Market Index

    Belgaum

  • MLA's protest forces Maharashtra to release water

    Bellary

  • CPI(M) demands arrest of Ananth Kumar

    Billiards & Snooker

  • Chitra beats Meenal, tops group

    Briefly

  • Maruti cuts Baleno price
  • Oracle signs MoU with Elcot
  • HealthScribe buys back stake
  • South Indian Bank net up
  • P&G to stop Vicks exports
  • HDFC Bank opens second branch
  • Mangalore Chem Q3 income up
  • SBT to market non-life insurance products
  • Forward group forms JV
  • ATM inaugurated
  • Covansys signs pact with SAS Institute
  • Gramin Bank meets NGOs, SHG members
  • Loan mela
  • UTI Bank branch in Udupi
  • Karvy to start PCG services
  • Acer targets 7 per cent storage market
  • Premier instruments to issue 1:2 bonus

    Business

  • Reliance Q3 net up 27 p.c. at Rs. 1,374 cr.
  • Rs. 30,000 cr. cash flow targeted in three years
  • SAIL nets Rs. 1,498 cr. profit in three quarters
  • Exports surge 43 p.c. in December
  • AL to consider stock split
  • HCL Technologies pays 100 p.c. interim
  • `Improved customer service key to progress of banking'
  • Rupee scales new high
  • Sensex dips further

    Cartoons

  • Cartoon - II
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    Chennai

  • Architectural plans of city students come in for praise
  • Decision on Harrington Road subway soon: Vijayakumar
  • Workshop on juvenile justice ends
  • Steps on to tackle drought
  • Nursing students take pledge
  • Held for selling train tickets in black
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Anand looks ahead with optimism
  • Humpy shares lead

    Coimbatore

  • More train diversions
  • Rs.1 cr. grant for Bharathiar varsity
  • Three given life term for murder
  • Wireless links for Bharathiar varsity departments likely
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • End of losing streak no consolation for Zimbabwe
  • Where have all the bowlers gone?
  • Good knock by Ramesh
  • Reid's reading: more yorkers
  • Alam helps U.P. take lead

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 7893
  • Solution to puzzle No. 7892

    Cuddapah

  • PCI chief exhorts people to elect good candidates
  • Meet on implementation of official language
  • SP decries PW motive

    Dharwad

  • Bank to popularise farming technology
  • Seer felicitates students of philosophy

    Dindigul

  • Federation of HIV-positive persons formed
  • Internet banking facility in Dindigul SBI main branch in February

    Editorials

  • WHERE IS THE RESETTLEMENT?
  • AND NOW, EXPORT INCENTIVES

    Eluru

  • WLL technology in West Godavari soon

    Front Page

  • Supreme Court orders CBI probe against Magistrate
  • Magistrate suspended
  • Where have all the bowlers gone?
  • Total ban on poultry imports
  • VHP, Bajrang Dal activists damage Husain's paintings
  • Review panel defers decision on Narmada dam height
  • Director-general of BBC quits
  • More new trains likely
  • Manish killing: 3 detained

    Gulbarga

  • Dissolution of Lok Sabha improper: Siddaramaiah
  • Insurance company manager arrested
  • Recognition for an educationist

    Haryana

  • Govt. teams to monitor eco-clubs

    Hassan

  • Vachana Sahitya Sammelan in Sakleshpur today
  • Give value-based education, teachers told

    Hubli

  • Government urged to abandon privatisation move
  • Railwaymen strike work

    Hyderabad

  • Writ questioning provisions of Panchayat Raj Act dismissed
  • CPI(M) reiterates opposition to separate Telangana
  • Muffakhamjah students question collection of development fee
  • Owaisi opens `Health Mela'
  • No power supply in MLA Colony
  • Naidu condemns killing of TDP leader by naxals
  • Youth festival inaugurated
  • Powerful shock first, power play later
  • 2 majestic monuments, one squalid basti
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • `Elections will not affect talks with Pakistan'
  • U.S. hails Pakistan's probe into alleged n-proliferation

    International

  • Suicide attack near Sharon's residence
  • Many injured in a string of attacks in Iraq
  • Protectionism will hurt U.S.: Greenspan
  • Hutton report termed `one-sided, unbalanced'
  • Save the motherland, says UPFA
  • Pre-war intelligence was flawed, says Kay

    Karimnagar

  • Farmers seek changes in crop insurance scheme
  • Congress promise on free power criticised

    Karnataka

  • Krishna inaugurates work on Devanahalli airport
  • Janata Party opposes early elections
  • Misra may be made new Chief Secretary
  • Nine projects worth Rs. 5,554 crore cleared
  • Alamatti power unit to go on stream next month
  • Tourism among top priorities: Krishna
  • Ananth Kumar sees political polarisation
  • Govt. to provide tourism infrastructure
  • Cong. to make HUDCO `loan scam' a poll issue
  • JD(S) won't join secular front: Siddaramaiah
  • Decision to cut Lufthansa flights riles Krishna
  • Drip irrigation subsidy for all districts
  • Villagers stage `rasta roko'
  • MP sanctions funds for tree planting
  • `Action against jail officials was delayed'
  • Brahmins warn of stir over Nada Geethe
  • Four p.c. increase in DA for Govt. employees
  • Academy to host programmes
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Goa to be self-sufficient in milk soon
  • New Executive Director for VISL
  • Four men killed in road accident
  • Konkani music festival on February 7, 8
  • Medical college doctors go on strike
  • Congress members stage dharna

    Kerala

  • Rider to Cabinet berth for Murali
  • Call to use science for development of State
  • Commissioner gets time to move court
  • Boat operators threaten to seize foreign fishing trawlers
  • 200 MW to be added in two years
  • Opposition walkout over B.Ed. college issue
  • `Save FACT' team calls on Antony
  • No Central nod required for medical college
  • Revised farm tax rates withdrawn
  • CSIR, Cusat sign MoU on research
  • Soopy denies allegations
  • Opposition boycotts Ministers' speeches
  • Antony warns officials against backdoor postings
  • Case against Soopy posted to February 6
  • New award at HSS youth fete
  • Centre urged to relax CRZ norms
  • Congress betrayed me: Balakrishna Pillai
  • Veterinary courses
  • Personal loan
  • Briefly

    Khammam

  • Tularam project to be ready by March

    Kochi

  • AIMS to start cancer centre
  • New contractor to be appointed
  • Portrayal of women in TV serials condemned
  • `Entrepreneur' remanded
  • A memorial for the bard
  • Two killed in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • A ritual to appease `Kadalamma'
  • `Bid to create rift in group will fail'
  • Cashew worker elected president of grama panchayat
  • Gita festival from tomorrow

    Kottayam

  • A week of festivals
  • Space science symposium from February 17
  • Book Fair opens
  • Today at youth fete

    Kozhikode

  • BJP blames Sonia for crisis in State
  • Postal staff threaten to extend stir to RMS

    Kurnool

  • `TDP's sincerity in uplifting women cannot be disputed'
  • Bank employees to take part in general strike
  • NSS volunteers' gesture to hostel inmates

    Leader Page Articles

  • Feel-good factor and rural areas
  • Defying the Hindutva canon

    Letters to the Editor

  • Karunakaran's move
  • Mahajan's remarks
  • In election mode
  • Intemperate
  • A tragedy
  • U.N. role
  • Should we rush in?
  • Oath to children
  • Exim policy
  • NCW response

    Madhya Pradesh

  • Minister sounds the alarm bell on slaughter houses

    Madurai

  • Health centre in unhealthy condition
  • Efforts to promote tourism in Madurai district
  • Create awareness of road safety, IGP tells youth
  • Criminal nabbed, weapons seized
  • `Ethanol-blended petrol by Feb.-end'
  • `A slur on Indian judiciary'
  • Rs.580-cr. ACP for Madurai dt.
  • Teacher held for `misbehavior'
  • Level in dams
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Maharashtra

  • Shah Rukh gets a reprieve

    Mangalore

  • `Health mela' at Sullia from Saturday
  • Companies spending less on IT: expert
  • Forest Department accused of altering ecosystem
  • Mahila Congress convention tomorrow
  • In Magalore Today

    Mysore

  • Apex court verdict rekindles memories of Palar blast
  • Meet to prepare blueprint for Dasara festivities
  • Krishna urged to streamline MUDA functioning
  • Verdict brings solace to victims' kin
  • Work on mini Vidhana Soudha to begin soon
  • Displaced people to be rehabilitated
  • Footpath vendors protest demolition
  • Seminar on BPO on Saturday

    Nagapattinam

  • Declare crop loss as a national loss, say farmers
  • Rs.1.72 lakhs for upgrading `anganwadis'

    Nagercoil

  • `Environment management needed for sustainable development'
  • Red Ribbon Clubs opened

    Nalgonda

  • CPI(M) all set to paint town `red'

    National

  • No plans to call ceasefire against J&K terrorists, says Fernandes
  • Hurriyat to continue talks
  • PM reviews strategy for Parliament session
  • Tax sops improper, says CPI (M)
  • CPI to have seat adjustment with TRS
  • Death sentence to four of Veerappan gang
  • Tehelka weekly launch today
  • I do not repent, says Mahajan
  • Policy for urban street vendors
  • BJP may repeat NDA agenda
  • 'Secretariat will mar campus serenity'
  • Lok Sabha pays homage to 3 members
  • Orissa Assembly to be dissolved
  • Honour for Advani, Jaswant
  • Backward Classes Commission submits report
  • Bengal sets up emergency panel to monitor livestock health
  • India-Myanmar gas pipeline likely
  • J&K forms expert's panel to keep vigil on bird flu
  • `Sagar Mala will bring vibrancy to maritime sector'
  • Wage board: DUJ seeks MPs' support
  • Karnad miffed at film selection process
  • Soft drinks: JPC upholds NGO findings, to seek stiff norms
  • J.J. Singh Western Command chief
  • 16 militants surrender
  • U.S. team satisfied with facilities at Cochin Shipyard
  • Not a `special session'
  • Correction
  • J&K panel reviews cases of Public Safety Act detainees
  • Coca-Cola's response

    Nellore

  • Ex-Minister's motive in quitting TDP questioned
  • Project sanctioned

    New Delhi

  • Kendriya Bhandar weekly rates
  • Statehood issue all set to become main poll plank
  • Mobile rescue squad for welfare of destitutes
  • Grand finale at Raisina Hill
  • Delhi measures to prevent bird flu
  • Move to popularise Kautilya's philosophy
  • Cable operators protest
  • Projected power losses fictitious, says Mukhi
  • `Take action against sorcerers'
  • Murder case solved
  • Two girls commit suicide
  • AIIMS job racket: two arrested
  • Minors rescued
  • Cacophony on streets
  • Meeting on torch relay
  • New priorities for Delhi police
  • Cong. rally vows to defeat BJP
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    Nizamabad

  • 14-year-old girl commits suicide
  • Central Excise official trapped by CBI

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Palakkad

  • Hi-tech buses launched

    Pathanamthitta

  • Catholicos to consecrate Mylapra church
  • Mahabharatha, a summary of India: Panicker
  • Preparations in full swing for Cherukolpuzha meet

    Pondicherry

  • Women voters outnumber men
  • Functions get postponed or cancelled
  • Sack Rangasamy Government: Anbalagan
  • Interactive meet to improve forensic science services
  • Become job generators, students told

    Rajasthan

  • New forum to check power shocks
  • Potential of administrator unravelled

    Ramanathapuram

  • Rs.15.48 cr. for laying roads in Ramnad villages

    Religion

  • Supremacy of devotion

    Shimoga

  • Ensure protection of minorities: Bangarappa
  • Timber merchants seek withdrawal of criminal cases

    Sports : General

  • TN maintains winning streak

    Tamil Nadu

  • Start work on IT expressway: Jayalalithaa
  • Accord on Congress seats likely today
  • 'Secretariat will mar campus serenity'
  • `Policewoman both counsellor and officer'
  • `State Government cannot move High Court against Centre'
  • Fire safety checks soon in Thanjavur marriage halls
  • Court lays down repayment schedule for MCC Finance
  • Tirunelveli hospital to acquire blood separation centre
  • Postal cover on Vorhees College centenary released
  • Unaided colleges may agree on single entrance examination
  • Kalam to participate in Cancer Institute jubilee
  • Rehabilitate the displaced before starting new NLC project: villagers
  • Tribunal notice on plea against dismissals
  • Move to rural areas, Governor tells psychiatrists
  • `Suspend procurement of cotton for export'
  • Finance commission team coming
  • Nepal airline offers darshan package
  • Change cropping pattern to end man-animal conflict: Forest dept.
  • Chairman makes futile bid to convene Villupuram council meet
  • Tamil, a clear and logical language: Russian scholar
  • 26 outfits to form `true secular front'
  • Special trains for Nagercoil
  • Pollution Board fiat to brick manufacturers
  • Land scheme for Adi Dravidar women
  • Two dolphins washed ashore
  • Woman robbed, murdered in daylight
  • We will contest the seat: PMK
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • An event which enhances police-public relationship
  • Goldsmith robbed of Rs. 5.50 lakhs
  • Free health camps at all sub-centres in Pudukottai dt.
  • Thai Poosam festival from today
  • Rs.26.30 lakhs for tourism projects
  • Plan to restructure underground drainage system
  • Three sentenced to life for murder
  • Thousands witness Garuda Seva

    Tennis

  • Rastogi enters quarterfinals
  • Yana shocks Madura
  • Maiden title for Jiwaji

    Thanjavur

  • Procurement

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Raids intensified to check violations
  • Safety norms thrown to the wind
  • Mobilising school children against TB
  • Lack of resting spots prove a bane
  • Drinking water scheme for city soon
  • Global literary meet in capital city
  • Plastic ban to be enforced
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated January 30, 1954: American Attitudes on Threat of Recession
  • dated January 30, 1954: Churchill Will Not Retire

    Thrissur

  • `Society neglecting people who made sacrifices'

    Tiruchi

  • Provide better basic amenities on court campus: Tiruchi Bar
  • Norms liberalised for sanctioning loans to physically handicapped
  • Corporation launches eviction drive
  • Train cancelled
  • Mettur level
  • Shun inhibitions, NSS girl volunteers told
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirupati

  • Ramamurthy Naidu's show at Chandragiri

    Udupi

  • Government urged to reduce tax rates
  • Many programmes to mark Madhwa Navami

    Union Territories

  • Jail-break case: Arrested officials allege torture
  • Fresh spell of snow renews cold wave
  • `Mahajan must apologise'

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Lucknow-New Delhi AC bus service begins

    Vellore

  • Acquire globalised education, nurses told
  • EPF Adalat

    Vijayawada

  • Congress leader misleading ryots: Minister
  • Students cry foul at health varsity counselling
  • eSeva centre inaugurated
  • Litigant public suffers as lawyers boycott courts
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • SBI to focus on customer service, SHGs
  • VMC budget passed with minor amendments
  • New projects in VSEZ pipeline
  • Study on special children launched
  • Environmental awareness in schools stressed
  • eSeva centres inaugurated
  • `Kidnapped' businessman returns safe
  • Oil conservation fortnight at VSP
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Warangal

  • Congress demands compensation to ryots
  • Water management agency invites entries

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