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Anantapur

  • MRO's innovative method to detect fake patta passbooks

    Andhra Pradesh

  • PM urged to take up water issue with Karnataka
  • Building future engineers
  • Jana gears up for next stage of peace efforts
  • Medical counselling hits roadblock
  • Chappal slap: teacher in a spot
  • TDP members grill Raghuveera
  • A `slow and steady' audit
  • Decision on EAMCET soon: Minister
  • Schoolchildren pay homage to fire victims
  • Minister for changes in crop insurance scheme
  • Probe ordered into Dalit's suicide
  • Intermediate student ends life
  • Four youths drowned
  • `Hike unit cost of weaker sections housing scheme'
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • YSR to lay foundation for Yellampalli project on July 28
  • Civic works sanctioned
  • Three rescued from unused well
  • Police open career guidance cell
  • BJP to boycott `palle bata' meet
  • Low pressure over Bay

    Archery

  • Indian men finish third, women eighth

    Athletics

  • Another chance for Olympic hopefuls

    Badminton

  • Inter-Railway meet from today

    Bangalore

  • Internet radio to hit India soon
  • Woman dies of injuries; `attacker' arrested
  • BMP to raze EWS quarters at Ejipura
  • Dharam Singh promises aid for NAB projects
  • Energy park coming up in city
  • Animals rescued
  • Jet Airways cuts fares
  • Man sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Doctor suspended
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    Basketball

  • ICF bags title
  • Semifinalists spotted

    Bijapur

  • Body of missing girl found
  • Statue desecrated

    Billiards & Snooker

  • Prasad advances

    Briefly

  • Infrastructure perks up
  • New stock option norms
  • Housing as priority sector advances
  • HLL beefs up corporate relations
  • Bannari Info launches road speed limiter
  • Adi festival loan campaign
  • Hyundai bullish on growth prospects
  • Standard Chartered MF's floating rate fund
  • Oracle OpenWorld conference
  • Corporation Bank gross profit up
  • State Bank of Mysore net at Rs. 53 crores
  • Cranes Software revenue up
  • New Executive Chairman for P&O Travel
  • Federal Bank ties up with SBI MF
  • Synthetic bone graft material
  • Seminar on IT
  • Qualcomm R & D centre
  • Camlin Pharma launches body spray
  • Hero Honda-SBI card for more cities

    Business

  • Tata Steel net profit zooms
  • Delta's additional service out of India
  • ONGC, Reliance in Business Week list
  • Nicholas Piramal net profit spurts
  • Rupee at one-year low
  • Equities forge ahead
  • Birlas raise doubts over Priyamvada's Will
  • Satyam Computer beats revenue guidance
  • Arun Nanda to head EU Chambers
  • ACC net jumps

    Chattisgarh

  • Raigarh DM removed

    Chennai

  • Traffic goes haywire as lorry overturns on Sardar Patel Road
  • No roof, no place to sit at Ambattur terminus
  • Masked men kill girl, escape with cash, gold
  • Non-interlocking work to be taken up at Pattabiram
  • Alandur civic officials walk out in protest
  • Missing students return home
  • Nemilicheri residents demand train halt
  • City Cinema
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Morozevich maintains lead

    Coimbatore

  • Not a motorable dream, this
  • `Housing needs of defence staff to be met in six years'
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • Zaheer Khan passes fitness test
  • A complicated issue
  • A must-win situation for Bangladesh
  • TN in Elite Group B list
  • 10-wicket win for Tamil Nadu
  • England asserts superiority
  • All-round show by Ayub Hussaini
  • Badrinath scalps eight
  • Mongia hits century
  • Deepak prevents Srikakulam's collapse
  • SJBHS, FAPS in final
  • Sandeep, Nagaraj shine
  • Thanjavur struggling

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8043
  • Solution to puzzle 8042

    Cuddalore

  • Short Assembly session reflects anti-people policies: Varadarajan

    Cuddapah

  • Ryots picket KC Canal engineer's office
  • Rs. 446-cr. crop loans to be disbursed through banks

    Cycling

  • Armstrong extends overall lead

    Dharmapuri

  • Poverty, not disability, coming in the way of her dream

    Dharwad

  • New SP assumes charge in Dharwad

    Dindigul

  • Power shutdown

    Editorials

  • ACT DECISIVELY ON HOSTAGE ISSUE
  • PROMOTING SCIENCE

    Erode

  • Bees attack devotees
  • Student falls from bus

    Football

  • Tollygunge records first win
  • SBI wins
  • Brazilians have the last laugh in shootout
  • Narrow escape for Iraq
  • T.V.S. School wins title
  • Yunuskunju College wins
  • Keltron FC wins
  • Vinoth nets four

    Front Page

  • Government moves to get hostages released
  • Natwar Singh's appeal
  • Presidential Reference filed in Supreme Court
  • Article 143 of the Constitution
  • Speaker anguished
  • Quota for Muslims in Andhra Pradesh stayed
  • Soren case hearing today
  • 128 killed as train derails
  • Elected
  • Scribes' visa
  • Snag hits Saras
  • Jet Air fares

    Golf

  • Keshav widens lead

    Gujarat

  • Love-sick maiden waits for Irfan Pathan

    Gulbarga

  • Sowing completed in 78 p.c. of land in Gulbarga
  • `Budget disappointing and inflationary'
  • Students protest against Budget proposals
  • Dalits protest for better facilities

    Guntur

  • Engineering counselling: 238 take admission
  • Soil testing on for overbridge work
  • Two farmers end life

    Haryana

  • Haryana transfers seven IAS officers
  • Chautala dares Congress MPs to quit
  • Extra power arranged

    Hockey

  • Prakash scores five
  • ICF in last four
  • Baldwins posts win

    Hyderabad

  • Toppers skip counselling for Engineering courses
  • eSeva set to go door-to-door
  • `Ramakrishna still most wanted criminal'
  • ECE first choice for many
  • Parking takes a back seat
  • Cheque deposit machines by BSNL
  • Power shutdown
  • Assumes charge
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Natwar condemns abduction, appeals for hostages' release
  • Natwar Singh, Shaukat Aziz review ties
  • India to consider SAFMA plea
  • Malaysia keen on projecting moderate face of Islam
  • `Quota not for creamy layer'

    International

  • Israel reluctant on West Asia peace meet
  • Held for helping Americans, says Indian hostage
  • U.S. troops kill 25 Iraqi fighters
  • U.S. covering up Pakistan's September 11 connection?
  • How the hijackers sailed through security
  • The missing link?
  • 9/11 probe panel rebukes failure to comprehend threat
  • The cellphone as wallet
  • Ban on `designer babies' to go
  • 'A really good job'
  • Train disaster: sabotage not ruled out

    Kancheepuram

  • Free cataract surgery

    Karimnagar

  • New borewells banned in six mandals

    Karnataka

  • `Public respect for legislators on the decline'
  • Governor regrets fall in respect for legislators
  • `Education should produce entrepreneurs'
  • Govt. may have to review decision
  • Election of Kolar MP challenged
  • A mission to save the female foetus
  • `Panchayat raj has helped the poor'
  • `Interests of students will be protected'
  • Kempe Gowda bus station to be upgraded
  • Concern over admissions imbroglio
  • Manjunath to call all-party meet on affiliation to Tumkur varsity
  • Girl dies, three fall ill after taking tablets
  • Management research centre to be set up
  • Kannadigas assured of all support
  • JD(U) will launch farmers' stir: Fernandes
  • White Paper sought on State's finances
  • Shibu Soren in Kodagu?
  • Briefly
  • From the Districts

    Karnataka - Others

  • Lokayuta directs Health Dept. to recover money from doctor
  • Zilla panchayat president to be elected today
  • Okkoota to oppose rehabilitation package

    Kerala

  • One more suicide; farmers picket Collectorate
  • Row over lease hots up
  • MPs' plea to Patil on Maudany case
  • VS, Mani lock horns over lease rate
  • E-governance: IT firms' role to be studied
  • Directive on Yogam board meeting
  • Fighting injustice from Libyan firm
  • Water data to be available soon
  • IT companies seek strike-free atmosphere
  • Steps on to prevent sea water intrusion
  • 327 get allotment for medical courses
  • MPs take Maudany's case up with Patil
  • Cartoon collection on Nayanar released
  • Niraputhari celebrations
  • At Sabarimala today
  • Kalamandalam Gopi ailing
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Around the City
  • Around the City

    Kochi

  • Counselling at Cusat disrupted
  • Gas agency staff attacked
  • FACT terminates contract with Mumbai firm
  • Ship catches fire
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • NGO Union plans dharna in front of hospitals
  • Panels to inspect safety of schools
  • Kollam residents' forum to launch agitation
  • Blood group detection camp
  • Education officers' meet

    Kurnool

  • Kanda reviews Pushkaram arragements
  • Radar station hit by monkey menace
  • BJP stand on quota for Muslims decried

    Leader Page Articles

  • Ex gratia justice
  • Poor economy threatens Berlusconi

    Letters to the Editor

  • Arrest drama
  • Reservation issue
  • Hostage crisis
  • Against federalism
  • Unhealthy practice
  • Triple talaq

    Madhya Pradesh

  • Court concludes another round in Carbide hearing
  • BJP awaits Bhuria's move
  • Congress spreading misinformation on crime graph: Uma

    Madikeri

  • Slow progress in paddy transplantation
  • Banks to offer loans to Stree Shakti groups

    Madurai

  • Over 100 unrecognised nursery schools identified in Madurai dt.
  • Council meet put off to protest absence of Commissioner
  • `Establish common kitchen for midday meal scheme'
  • Collector's fiat to VAOs
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Maharashtra

  • `Rangoli' in Guinness Book of World Records

    Mangalore

  • Growers unhappy with increase in sales tax on arecanut
  • Tribal farmers apprehensive over Forest Department survey
  • Teachers, students oppose semester scheme
  • KMC ambulance to be flagged off today
  • Three held, seven vehicles recovered
  • Petty shop owners protest against eviction
  • Urus at Ajilamogaru Juma Masjid
  • In Mangalore Today

    Mysore

  • Kukkarahalli Lake set to regain its glory
  • Hassan-Mangalore rail line to be ready by March next
  • Surgery brings back life to his legs
  • Tension at K.R. Pet
  • Conference on diabetes from Saturday

    Nagercoil

  • Govt. plans 43 exhibitions to promote artisans

    Nalgonda

  • Official probes `doctors negligence'

    National

  • Pandemonium in Parliament over Shibu Soren issue
  • Opposition stalling Parliament on non-issues: Azad
  • Quota for Muslims: Andhra Pradesh examining legal aspects
  • Soren's plea: hearing put off by a day
  • Save them, families urge Centre
  • Flood relief panels to be set up in Assam
  • Somnath hurt at conduct of MPs
  • 'Chidambaram has no time for us'
  • Will ensure minorities' voice: Rahman Khan
  • Collection of cartoons on Nayanar released
  • Water row: Presidential reference
  • Over 5,000 Indians employed in Iraq
  • Gujarat police seek custody of three Lashkar militants
  • I-T returns: date extended
  • Goa's beaches of life and death
  • Jet Airways offers new monsoon fares
  • Award for Agnivesh, Moideen
  • Badal meets Manmohan
  • Telgi aide surrenders
  • Protests continue in Manipur
  • Sibal seeks aid for monsoon forecasts
  • Tribunal to visit canal site

    Nellore

  • Unidentified body found

    New Delhi

  • Stress on infrastructure, sops for elders
  • `Transmission loss to blame for water crisis'
  • BJP legislators clash with marshals
  • Confusion over property tax concessions
  • Sale of vehicles may see a spurt
  • Court stays construction of Police Memorial
  • Automobile makers flay levy on diesel cars
  • Heritage lovers hail step
  • Proposal to `discourage' diesel use welcomed
  • Kalyan's plea dismissed
  • Last date for I-T returns extended
  • One arrested for selling fake paintings
  • CINEMA
  • Call centres for trouble-free visa
  • Ad hoc trade registration scheme
  • Water supply to be affected
  • Elderly man shot, robbed
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    News Analysis

  • Yarlung Tsangpo to Brahmaputra

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Pathanamthitta

  • Expo on architecture begins at Thiruvalla
  • Elephant collapses on road, torture alleged

    Pondicherry

  • Private hospitals norms being finalised: Valsaraj
  • Shops close to mourn Children's deaths
  • Selvaraj is Development Commissioner
  • Governor visits hospital
  • Rangasamy warns polluting units
  • Declare Pondy drought-hit region, urge legislators

    Rajasthan

  • Khurana to help provide Jaipur Foot for needy students
  • 'Liquor units will guzzle ground water'
  • 'Cotton is finished this year'

    Religion

  • True nature of Brahman

    Shimoga

  • Evicted vendors stage demonstration
  • Cable operators stage protest
  • Hiriyur Krishnamurthy dead

    Shooting

  • Rathore wins another gold

    Sports : General

  • Soma Biswas hopes to regain National record
  • Olympics: plan to hike athletes' allowance
  • Women's relay team's entry confirmed

    Squash

  • A shot in the arm for the sport
  • Ghosal in last four

    Table Tennis

  • Sarkar stages a dream comeback

    Tamil Nadu

  • Another child dies of burns
  • Reconstruction of roofs in full swing
  • Revert to paper ballot: Jayalalithaa
  • Short session, a trap for the Opposition?
  • Assembly pays homage
  • `Revamp public education system'
  • BJP will not boycott discussion on budget: Ganesan
  • PMK legislators' contribution to fire victims
  • Death condoled
  • 4 more arrested
  • 'Micro-concrete tiles cheaper, durable alternative to thatches'
  • CBI probe sought into school fire
  • Need for new right to information Act
  • School in dilapidated building shut down
  • Judges inspect inaugural arrangements
  • Held for bid to smuggle diesel
  • Film stars should keep off politics: opinion poll
  • Bomb rumours send parents scurrying to Salem schools
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Apex court notice on plea to recover deposits
  • Teachers to be trained in extinguishing fire
  • Construct bridge, says CPI
  • 33-year RI for gang rape
  • `Complete works in time'

    Tennis

  • Grosjean quells Jeanpierre's challenge
  • Varun ousts Santosh
  • Saketh Sai in quarterfinals
  • Karthik Dhore enters final
  • Air Force National tennis from Monday

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Girl jumps to death from Housing Board building
  • Action plan to revamp garbage collection
  • Couple held on robbery charge
  • Biomedical waste disposal centre opened at MCH
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated July 23, 1954: March into Goa
  • dated July 23, 1954: Dalai Lama on China trip
  • dated July 23, 1954: Tubeless tyre for cars

    Thrissur

  • `Ensure quality in education'
  • Narendran panel report incomplete: BJP

    Tiruchi

  • `Samajwadi Party will oppose FDI in three sectors'
  • Rich tributes paid to Sivaji
  • Students told to pursue personality-enhancing hobbies
  • `Write off all farm loans'
  • S. Rly. GM inspects Central Workshops
  • NSS officers to offer counselling
  • Demonstration
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • `Admit children from unrecognised schools'

    Tirupati

  • RTC launches on-line inventory system

    Udupi

  • `Inform people about consumers' rights'

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Woman attempts self-immolation
  • Power units synchronised to resolve crisis

    Uttaranchal

  • BJP walks out over staff strike issue

    Vellore

  • 'Cellphone on demand by next March'

    Vijayawada

  • To Germany with an atheist message
  • `Efficient' rolls the RTC
  • GO brings down water charges
  • Sumo Victa launched
  • Probe house allotment: VMC
  • Worker electrocuted
  • 11 held on gambling charges
  • Around the city
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Predicament for BITS aspirants
  • Loan mela for entrepreneurs
  • Cops may go slow inSoujanya case
  • Hassle-free education loans for the needy
  • Port to take up Master List issue with trade unions
  • Pensioners to seek separate department
  • Relief for injured persons
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • Volleyball youth camp concludes

    Warangal

  • All eyes on PW's public meeting

    Weather

  • Weather

    West Bengal

  • Naxalites: West Bengal monitoring developments

    World View

  • Hearty welcome for Hamilton
  • Newcastle signs up Kluivert
  • Croatian medal of honour for Moya
  • Brazil salutes Eusebio

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