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    Alappuzha

  • Mass drug therapy against filariasis
  • CPI(M) district conference

    • Anantapur

  • Police collecting factional leaders' history: IGP

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Extremism: Nepal police being trained in State
  • Jayaprada appears in court
  • More literates among Muslims than Hindus
  • KCR, Jayaprada appear in court
  • Prospects of water release to Chennai dim
  • Two TDP activists hacked to death
  • Ex-naxal admits to coercion by PW
  • Tiny hands shape eco-friendly ganeshas
  • PJR puts TRS chief on notice
  • Official in the dock for violating YSR's order
  • Helmet rule aimed at safe driving: Minister
  • Ceasefire with naxals extended
  • `Ankurarpanam' a prelude to mega event
  • Disquiet in TDP over Talasani's candidature
  • Service tax on insurance industry questioned
  • Congress rebuts Paritala's charges
  • TRS chief's camp office ransacked
  • MLA complains of land encroachment
  • Four Collectors transferred
  • Demand for houses
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • NCC Air wing in Adilabad mooted

    • Athletics

  • Bobby Aloysius quits in disgust
  • Controversies mar awards selection
  • Double for Sathya Priya

    • Badminton

  • All-India championship from today
  • Antony is champion
  • AVPS enters final

    • Bangalore

  • Site allotment in Arkavathy Layout as planned: Dharam Singh
  • Two Congress MLAs told to quit BMP Council
  • Four killed in road accidents
  • Fined for false complaint
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • India pulls off exciting win
  • St. Joseph's boys in final
  • HAL defeats HPS
  • Mixed fortunes for AUCPU & RDGC
  • Easy for TCE

    • Bidar

  • BJP to cash in on Veerappa's image
  • JD(S) yet to decide on candidate from Bidar

    • Briefly

  • Picks up stake in Subex
  • GTL partners Alcatel
  • Wockhardt to consider ADRs
  • RBI nod for J&K Bank
  • Union Bank's multi-city cheque
  • Expo on electronic hardware
  • Vanilla association inaugural meeting
  • Identified for ISO certification
  • Seminar on eco-friendly textiles
  • New India's customer seminar
  • Automated Workflow to expand
  • SSIs welcome RBI decision
  • Infosys uses SEEC's tool
  • LG launches Notebook PCs
  • Caddy's inexpensive data back-up solution
  • Paltech Cooling gets award
  • Monsanto's offshore centre
  • New series new car audio products
  • Krone unveils CopperTen
  • Parry Agro to sell algal unit
  • Good response to CIDEX trade fairs
  • Expo on electronic hardware
  • Additional directors on Bajaj Auto board

    • Business

  • Lodha chairs Birla Corp meeting amid chaos
  • Indian Airlines launches `Fly Select fares'
  • Need for professionally managed cooperatives
  • Bharti's brand unification strategy
  • Rupee gains further
  • Uptrend halted on BSE
  • Maruti board to meet on September 23
  • Trevira gets new management
  • Carborundum mulls China, Dubai foray
  • Mobile projectors from U.S. firm
  • Indigo Marina priced at Rs. 4.24-5.19 lakhs
  • Phonak to set up unit for hearing aids

    • Carrom

  • Srinivas beats Subramanyam
  • Anil Kumar & Swarnalatha triumph
  • Delhi Audit posts win

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Not in my backyard, please Back to square one?
  • Auto driver dies as MTC bus runs amok
  • Crowd jubilant over Vaiko's release
  • Fire downs Touchtel, Airtel networks
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Tejdeep leads

    • Coimbatore

  • Tight security for Chaturthi
  • Amrita varsity, TCS launch joint programmes in IT
  • Students stage road roko
  • Training for SHG
  • 15 hurt as bus overturns
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • Cricket

  • Pakistan crushes Kenya
  • Tendulkar's tennis elbow and the over-used top-hand
  • Sriram guides MRF to victory
  • Trans-Tasman tussle today
  • Six-wicket win for St. Andrews
  • Under-17 State cricket from today
  • DAV progresses
  • Unbeaten century by Praveen
  • Three-wkt. win for Kozhikode
  • Bangalore Zone 101 for six

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8090
  • Solution to puzzle 8089

    • Cuddalore

  • Roads to Srimushnam `in bad shape'
  • Chemical unit fire probe urged

    • Cuddapah

  • BJP functionaries gherao civic official
  • SP opens medical camps
  • 4 engineering students beaten up

    • Editorials

  • TACKLING INFLATION
  • A DEEPENING QUANDARY

    • Football

  • No sweat for Chelsea
  • Al Jaish holds East Bengal
  • AP-Kerala match drawn
  • Bangalore South wins
  • AKCE makes final

    • Front Page

  • Geelani's political secretary shot dead
  • Cabinet panel discusses naxalite issue
  • Court asks BCCI not to award telecast rights to any party
  • Nepal Communists' charge against India
  • Railway inquiry panel visits Godhra
  • Base price of edible oils cut
  • Controversies mar awards selection
  • Poll notified
  • All-India bank strike on October 5, 6
  • Filing of charges in Best Bakery case postponed
  • Air Force version of Trishul test-fired
  • Service tax on MSOs from Sept. 10

    • Golf

  • Three share lead

    • Guntur

  • BSNL to offer CLI-based Internet

    • Haryana

  • Examination improvement year declared
  • More buses to connect rural areas

    • Hassan

  • Rs. 4-cr. profit expected from sales
  • JD(S) seeks action against officials

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Snowfall in Lahaul, Spiti
  • `Manu's varna system needs a contemporary touch'
  • Delhi woman found murdered

    • Hockey

  • American & Sourashtra share trophy
  • Gaganpreet shines
  • Easy for MSC

    • Hyderabad

  • Decks cleared for Shekhawat's visit for Ganesh immersion
  • `More Krishna water by 2006'
  • BJP leaders to hoist national flag
  • 5 OU engineering students arrested
  • Rs. 35 lakhs stolen property recovered
  • Pseudo cops rob two women of jewellery
  • Private firm director held on fraud charge
  • Bridge course for `Little Friends'
  • Hoax bomb call at Chiranjeevi's house
  • Court directive on compensation
  • Certificate course
  • Music Dance & Drama
  • Nakabandi organised
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • `Let us now strive for freedom from poverty'
  • `U.S. raised Gujarat riots with BJP-led Government'
  • `India, Pakistan will become friends one day'
  • Natwar visit gives thrust to Euro-Indian dialogue
  • Religious freedom in India has improved: U.S. report

    • International

  • U.S. asks staff to leave Nepal
  • Hu rules out western models
  • Plea to Musharraf on posts
  • Call to back Kerry
  • Hurricane triggers evacuation
  • Jail term for U.S. vigilantes
  • Iraq's spiral of violence
  • Secret Picasso unveiled
  • Setback to Anwar
  • Pro-hunters stage protest
  • Sudan peace talks collapse

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Police running the State, says J-K leader

    • Judo

  • Hyderabad, Warangal win team titles

    • Karimnagar

  • DCC chief promises action

    • Karnataka

  • Chief Justice to re-examine plea for High Court Bench
  • Ministry: CM to speak to Sonia
  • `Govt. against disinvestment'
  • Ties with Queensland to be strengthened
  • No disinvestment: Sindhia
  • State will be number one: Sindhia
  • Medicos' plea to be heard today
  • `Propagate Basaveshwara's ideals'
  • R.N. Shetty presented Visvesvaraya award
  • Talks with Sonia on Ministry expansion soon: Dharam Singh
  • Gowri - Ganesha: an auspicious festival
  • Bypoll to local bodies on October 17
  • Guest-house continues to be a prison
  • Town and Country Planning Bill to be amended
  • Delay in Vice-Chancellor's appointment intriguing
  • BHEL capability appreciated
  • `Chief Minister' Siddaramaiah?
  • Man confesses to killing brother, surrenders
  • Appointment to Coffee Board post stayed

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Pennappa elected Chitradurga TP president

    • Kerala

  • EVMs may be used for civic polls
  • Bus fares up
  • Former DGP summoned
  • Coordinated efforts for Sabarimala season
  • Government accepts SILK restructuring plan
  • Bus operators to decide on stir today
  • Move to get quotations for supply of medicines set aside
  • Plantation strike: talks fail
  • Centre opposes more forest land for TDB
  • Government to take over Halcyon Castle
  • PDP leaders lambast Balakrishna Pillai
  • Chandy to begin mass contact programme
  • Director of Lotteries shifted
  • Marad panel summons former DGP
  • Pat for Kerala NCC
  • Therambil, Balan file papers
  • SIB posts Rs.84-cr. net profit
  • Court to be moved against bus fare hike
  • Currency seized
  • Stir called off
  • Babu Divakaran admitted to hospital
  • Briefly

    • Kochi

  • Greens oppose dumping of waste into estuary
  • Workshop to focus on protection of ozone layer
  • State Agmark lab to be shifted to Maradu
  • Coop. hospital plans Ayurveda facility
  • Senior citizens savings scheme a big draw
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • Kollam

  • Double trouble for ration card holder
  • Minister to inaugurate jubilee fete
  • Sri Chitra Tirunal Maharaja Award for social worker

    • Kottayam

  • CBSE zonal youth fete from September 23
  • BSNL awards presentation

    • Kozhikode

  • IMHANS rehabilitation programme a success
  • Digital library for medical college
  • Seminar on butterfly population

    • Kurnool

  • Stir at agricultural market yard

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Haksar is relevant
  • Understanding mass hysteria

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Vaiko arrest
  • Census 2004
  • Disappointing
  • Licence fee
  • Politics & religion
  • Remembering Anna

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • M.P. to ensure development of villages

    • Madikeri

  • Try to excel in all fields, Kodagu Gowdas told
  • Madikeri to host `Cubs, Bul Bul' festival

    • Madurai

  • Youth held, stolen goods recovered
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • Mangalore

  • A sober opposition and a dignified treasury bench
  • 20 leprosy reporting centres set up
  • Man wanted in cheating case arrested
  • 85 places identified for Doordarshan DTH service
  • Action against building law violations sought
  • `Stories should deal with experiences of life'
  • Coastal Clean-Up Day on Saturday
  • Six men arrested
  • Engagement

    • Mysore

  • Meet on ICT to be held in Mysore
  • One killed, three injured in house collapse
  • World Ozone Day

    • Nalgonda

  • CPI(M) cadre told to agitate for pending projects
  • Engineers asked to strive for quality

    • National

  • Mulayam hits back
  • Sonia asks States to stop playing politics
  • Pir's killing seen as setback to Geelani
  • Manmohan monitoring inflation
  • I don't view Opposition as an enemy, says Manmohan
  • Probe ordered into `allotment of land' to Sangh Parivar outfits
  • Indian, Japanese warships conduct joint exercises
  • First public test of Sky Bus Metro Rail
  • Patil to visit J&K from October 23
  • Focus on Congress States, Sonia told
  • BSP promises separate Vidarbha in manifesto
  • Supreme Court restores jail term to teacher for rape
  • BJP criticises Muslim leader's attitude to population control
  • Court notice to BCCI
  • Assets cases: Special Judge assumes charge
  • `Animators are actors with a pencil'

    • Nellore

  • Land development project in the pipeline
  • Local railway departments gear up for Lalu's visit

    • New Delhi

  • Businessman kills kids, commits suicide
  • Private sector needed to check malnutrition
  • No late night yet; major markets close shop at 8 p.m.
  • Delhi in for a major facelift
  • Sajjan nominated as Rural Development Board chief
  • Airline to pay for lost baggage
  • WHO outlines waste disposal policy
  • 2 % extra sales tax now on leasing of services
  • Doctors claim partial recovery of vision
  • Hydrogen energy projects cleared
  • Manmohan holds out an assurance
  • Tour operators observe black day
  • `Khurana wants to return to active politics'
  • CINEMA
  • Court notices on admission denial
  • Mysterious call to Police Commissioner
  • Dismal education conditions for disabled students
  • Farmhouse murder accused tried to dispose of body
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Pathanamthitta

  • BJP votes to be decisive in civic chief's election
  • Archbishop to lead consecration service
  • Patriarch to be accorded reception at Manjanikkara

    • Perambalur

  • Coaching classes

    • Pondicherry

  • Speed up SC welfare schemes, says Rangasamy
  • Rs. 8 crore drinking water plan
  • Anna remembered

    • Punjab

  • Vigilance Bureau to be housed in Mohali
  • Loan bonanza from PNB

    • Rajasthan

  • Khurana cancels visit to drought-hit Baran
  • Call for judicious management of resources
  • Rural expo begins today

    • Religion

  • Fundamental of all dharmas

    • Shimoga

  • Be prepared for trouble during festivities: ADGP

    • Shooting

  • Kancham grabs gold

    • Sports : General

  • Anju and Bobby ecstatic
  • Korea enters final

    • Table Tennis

  • Esha claims sub-junior girls' crown

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Vaiko arrested after midnight drama
  • Tamil Nadu needs a new deal: Vaiko
  • VIPs on culinary delights
  • Creating an awareness of career opportunities
  • Benefit from yoga, students told
  • `Do not sabotage Sethusamudram project'
  • Recall orders for CBI probe: police
  • Common entrance test marks must for admission: High Court
  • Marchers satisfied, police feel relieved
  • Apex court stays POTA panel order for documents to Gopal
  • Karunanidhi wants Centre to convene meeting
  • DMK to hold Mupperum Vizha in district headquarters
  • Reduction in air tariff will not hit Railways: Velu
  • Panel favours regulation of programmes in four colleges
  • Decisions will be taken here, not in Delhi: Khurshid
  • Forest ranger produced in court
  • Jayalalithaa releases souvenir
  • SriLankan Airlines plans cargo connectivity to Coimbatore
  • `Officials issuing bogus certificates will face action'
  • Chennai hospital performs risky surgery on Pakistani boy
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • `Involve men SHGs'
  • `Job generation need of the hour'
  • Pay taxes properly, Collector tells residents
  • Heavy rain in Krishnagiri
  • Second phase of Project Rainbow begins
  • Funds for desalination project

    • Tennis

  • Sanam outplays Toshiaki
  • Agnel enters quarterfinals
  • Ferrero sails into second round

    • Thanjavur

  • Need for proper solid waste management
  • Anna remembered

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Call for transparency on Expressway project
  • District sitting pretty with excess rainfall
  • Minister inspects learning resource centre at MCH
  • Two motorists killed in accidents
  • Pro-Congress teachers' bodies form new forum
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • This Day That Age

  • dated September 16, 1954: Mao's call to people
  • dated September 16, 1954: State award for films
  • dated September 16, 1954: Gomateswara statue

    • Tiruchi

  • Focus on quality, fabrication units told
  • Golden Rock workshops to produce 1000 wagons a year
  • Stir plan
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • Tirunelveli

  • Precautionary measures for monsoon discussed
  • Walk-in interview for temporary lecturer posts

    • Tirupati

  • Higher education for differently-abled at Tirupati
  • Scouts' service to be used during Brahmotsavams

    • Tuticorin

  • Unruly scenes at public hearing

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Autumn festival in Ooty from September 25

    • Udupi

  • Farmers stage dharna seeking dues from sugar factory
  • Do not permit thermal plants, says Udupi MP

    • Union Territories

  • Diamond jewellery exhibition

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Nominations for U.P. by-polls begin

    • Vellore

  • Nominations for local body poll end on Sept. 16
  • HR & CE takes over Selliamman temple

    • Vijayawada

  • SFI for withdrawal of Model Act
  • Vibrations: experts still in the dark
  • Deputy Mayor steps down
  • `State setting example in micro irrigation projects'
  • Anganwadi workers' strike enters third day
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • Visakhapatnam

  • VUDA scheme extended
  • Spot admission by foreign varsities
  • Ganapati navaratri celebrations
  • Engineer ends life
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Campus Jottings

    • Volleyball

  • Bhagyanagar Club wins

    • Warangal

  • NCC takes possession of land
  • Rumours of actor's surrender create a flutter

    • Weather

  • Weather

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