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Alappuzha

  • Alappuzha port to be revived

    Anantapur

  • Process for artificial rain from June 20: Minister
  • All-party meet suggests interest waiver on ryots' loans
  • Farmer ends life

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Quota for Muslims in government jobs mooted
  • Five more farmers commit suicide
  • Srinivas to take charge today
  • TDP cadre for parting ways with BJP
  • Rosaiah defends move to review TDP schemes
  • I owe it to Sonia, says Dasari
  • Weavers in non-coop. sector to have marketing agency
  • Two court staffers held
  • Streamline functioning of coop. banks: CPI(M)
  • `Congress will complete pending projects'
  • Minister assures ryots of all help
  • Five workers die as tractor overturns
  • PW naxals beat up TDP worker, villager
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Collector pledges debt relief
  • No recognition for 15 colleges

    Archery

  • National ranking tourney from today

    Bangalore

  • BWSSB to introduce portable meter-testing machine soon
  • Jal Shakti buses are fuel efficient
  • Yet another elderly woman murdered
  • Four arrested on murder charge
  • Drive to remove dead trees
  • Three injured as house collapses in heavy rain
  • CBI arrests wanted man
  • Programme to help residents pay property tax
  • Recognition for heart centre
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Stock Market Index
  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    Basketball

  • ONGC downs DLW
  • Madurai boys to meet Coimbatore

    Belgaum

  • `Create jobs for youth from minority communities'

    Briefly

  • RBI nod for HSBC
  • Topsgrup plans IPO
  • Dell' new storage solution
  • Morepen gets patent
  • Subex Systems bags Latin American order
  • OSS Technologies pact with Texas Digital Systems
  • Hindustan Zinc wins award
  • Aptech to train students in Orissa
  • AIG Systems gets CMMI Level 3
  • International furniture fair
  • Impresa award winners
  • Sonata's Symantec centre
  • Manpower partners British Telecom
  • Hutch's Hindi voice response service
  • Tanishq launches new collections
  • XLRI alumni carnival
  • Hyundai launches Elantra
  • UTI Bank opens counter
  • UTI Securities opens retail branch

    Business

  • Exports to be made globally competitive
  • Bharti, Nokia initiative for managing networks
  • UTI MF goes global, ties up with SSgA
  • Now mobile phone users can `push to talk'
  • Rupee continues to drift
  • Sensex drops 23 points in low volume trade
  • RBI Gold Card scheme
  • Benchmark AMC launches `Fund of Funds'
  • A technology that came full circle
  • HP brings in `doubling' technology
  • Dividend announcements

    Chennai

  • List of subject toppers
  • `Our teachers spared no effort to help us do well'
  • Cargo boxes pile up as container terminal workers' strike continues
  • Where there is a will there is a way
  • Corporation schools register 67 p.c. pass in SSLC
  • `I studied whenever I felt like it'
  • The achievers
  • Ahobila Math student secures first rank in Sanskrit
  • Assistance for relatives of crime victims
  • Special train for Nagercoil
  • Japanese language programme
  • Power union demands wage hike
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Tatiana stuns Humpy
  • Santhosbaala holds Negi
  • Athirai outwits Priya

    Coimbatore

  • Rain augurs well for Siruvani
  • Farmers urged to protect tomato crop
  • Library helped Sriram a lot
  • Sabarish followed a schedule
  • Study everyday: Rajitha
  • Parul favours science
  • Life convict held
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • Emotional Hussain calls it a day
  • Lalchand Rajput tops in coaches clinic
  • Intercontinental Cup from today
  • North Zone dismissed for 181
  • Australia wins series
  • Four-wkt. win for Dynamos
  • Hemant Singh shines
  • Delhi Police wins
  • Gambhir slams century
  • Four-wicket win for Chetan Sharma Academy
  • Madras Club takes title

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 7995
  • Solution to puzzle 7994

    Cuddalore

  • `Effluent discharge affects groundwater quality'
  • State rank holder wants to become Collector
  • 24 schools record cent per cent pass in Cuddalore

    Cuddapah

  • Collector's pat for EAMCET topper

    Dindigul

  • Girls bag ranks in Dindigul, Theni dts.
  • Govt. schools' good performance

    Editorials

  • A WAKE-UP CALL
  • REGULATING BIOTECHNOLOGY

    Erode

  • Rain in Perundurai

    Football

  • FC Porto adds one more trophy to its collection
  • Hat-trick by Bisht
  • `Sleeping giant' can wake up to Turkish delight
  • Barreto free to sign for Penang FC, says FIFA
  • Titanium trounces Nilgiris DFA
  • Grand reception for team SBT
  • Punjab beats Bihar

    Front Page

  • UPA, Left parties release CMP
  • Politicians' silence stuns men in uniform
  • Rebels seek Modi's ouster
  • 'Most encounters real'
  • Dharam Singh to be new CM
  • 'No hike in fuel prices'
  • Resignation denied
  • Threat to Musharraf

    Golf

  • Sreedhar triumphs
  • C.C. Somaiah leads the pack
  • Sandhu continues to lead

    Gulbarga

  • Awards for artists

    Guntur

  • Guidelines sought for ryots' package
  • Do not insult farmers, says MPTC member
  • Youth murdered in Sattenapalli
  • ACB raid on RTA office

    Haryana

  • Action should be taken against guilty: Chautala

    Hassan

  • Early rains encourage Hassan farmers to sow potato

    Hyderabad

  • Election to Cantonment Board not in sight
  • Icrisat Colony residents' woes filled to the brim
  • No power supply in some areas
  • Workshop on police housing
  • Availability of berths in trains
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Musharraf not sure of Congress interpretation

    International

  • Decades of civil war ends
  • Pakistani masterminded attacks: Musharraf
  • New York Times admits critical failures in Iraq reports
  • Donor meet on Sri Lanka
  • Caribbean flood toll mounts to 900
  • Terror attacks imminent, says U.S.
  • Kerry to accept nomination
  • Muslim cleric arrested

    Kancheepuram

  • Over 27,000 come out successful in SSLC exams

    Karnataka

  • Dharam Singh to be sworn in CM today
  • Dharam Singh to lead coalition government
  • Wedding Bells: A time to exchange vows
  • Crop diversity blossoms in 100 villages
  • Court fixes tentative fees for some colleges
  • Fluid-power firms told to focus on exports
  • Congress has no right to form govt.: Bangarappa
  • An unconquered `ajatha shatru'
  • Raids on printing presses: kin claim accused are innocent
  • Phones of ZP offices cut for non-payment of bills
  • `Compromises have hit infrastructure development'
  • Fake stamp papers still being printed
  • Seeds worth Rs. 50 cr. to be supplied
  • Ilavarasan to reveal details of abduction?
  • Four electrocuted in Mysore, Chikmagalur
  • Two die in road accidents in Tumkur
  • File appeal on fee, junior doctors told
  • `Help families evicted from forest land'
  • KSRP constable dies as rifle goes off
  • Noted photographer Venkatagiri Rao dead
  • Train to stop at Uruli
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • `Live with Hampi, not in Hampi'
  • Tourism will be promoted in Uttara Kannada: MP
  • Drive planned to contain filariasis
  • Venkatesh Pai Raikar passes away
  • Goa girls outshine boys in exam.

    Kerala

  • DYFI leader, policemen injured in scuffle
  • 'First phase of Expressway by 2006'
  • Legislation on fee structure sought
  • Drastic changes in police training in the offing
  • I am a representative of NRIs: Wahab
  • Killi: reinstatement of police officers criticised
  • Do not politicise police force: DGP
  • Liquor tragedy: DIG told to probe charges
  • Concern over increase in use of plastics
  • Website for Sabarimala temple
  • Church to elect seven more bishops
  • Trawling ban: `panel will decide mode of implementation'
  • AIBEA lauds decision on privatisation
  • Air taxi service may soon become a reality in State
  • Airlines uncertain about fuel surcharge
  • Film Chamber to take action against Kunchakko Boban
  • Shop damaged in bomb attack near Nadapuram
  • Fee structure: VS for legislation
  • `Police policy will continue'
  • Toddy workers threaten stir
  • Plea to reopen Coca-Cola unit at Plachimada
  • Fee structure for medical courses today
  • Public booth collects complaints
  • SSLC SAY exam fee hiked
  • `Standard of HS courses on the decline'
  • Tax exemption
  • Briefly

    Kochi

  • Complete subway by June 30: Ombudsman
  • Juvenile's call for help
  • Demand to monitor cleaning of canals
  • Land sale to dominate GIDA meet
  • Temporary appointments deferred
  • Natya Vadya Vidyalaya
  • Canal repair: PWD told to appoint agency
  • Proposal to hand over FACT hospitals challenged
  • Postal pension adalat
  • Work on Chathiath link road to begin soon
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • Ugly scenes at Kollam Corporation meeting
  • Release of blood donors' diary

    Kozhikode

  • Minister to release book on educational history of Kozhikode
  • Workshop on IT prospects

    Kurnool

  • Literacy scheme reviewed

    Leader Page Articles

  • Security Council & non-proliferation
  • Bleak prospects

    Letters to the Editor

  • Glowing tribute
  • Verdict 2004
  • Neglected Orissa
  • Why the rollback?
  • Farmers' woes
  • Crowd management
  • What is the song?

    Madikeri

  • Sand mining affecting rivers in Kodagu

    Madurai

  • Pass percentage comes down
  • TANCET from tomorrow
  • Fire in Poompuhar showroom
  • Last date
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • Engineers will crack the whip soon on truck drivers
  • Take pride in language, Konkanis told
  • Awareness drive on education
  • ENGAGEMENTS
  • Undertrials pour out their woes to MLAs
  • Water released from Thumbe vented dam
  • Awareness drive

    Mysore

  • Mysore may soon have six subways
  • Inauguration of median put off

    Nagercoil

  • Nagercoil girl bags third rank

    Nalgonda

  • Two farmers attempt suicide

    National

  • Ministry of Disinvestment disbanded
  • A challenging task: Somnath Chatterjee
  • Multi-polarity in world ties planned
  • UPA Government to adhere to six basic principles of governance
  • Women's Bill acceptable only in new format: Mulayam Singh
  • `One step forward, still a long way to go'
  • I have lost my freedom: Manmohan
  • Dissidence against Modi comes into the open
  • End of innings for Najma?
  • Pranab nominated Leader of House
  • Kadirgamar, Morshed Khan coming
  • Demand for Telangana to be considered at `appropriate time'
  • Left parties welcome CMP
  • Expert prefers to wait for carbon dating of Adichanallur script
  • Arjun Singh denies writing to PM on Rajiv case probe
  • Labour laws to be re-examined
  • 'Additional' budget presented in Maharashtra
  • Biman Bose surrenders
  • We are clean, says Maran
  • Saras flight put off

    New Delhi

  • Congress Councillors, MLAs derailing power reforms
  • BSES pulled up for dismal power situation
  • Sheila presents `authentic' textbooks to Arjun
  • Latest river-linking plan suggests levy of water charges
  • In battle for freedom of expression
  • `Drive' against illegal dairies
  • Chidambaram not for divesting Navaratna PSUs
  • Pushta dwellers back, DDA promises action
  • Class X results out, girls excel
  • Court issues fresh summons to Bharti Yadav
  • DUTA up in arms again
  • Brilliant score despite odds
  • IA asked to pay compensation
  • Kiran Walia hits back at opponents
  • Chinese Foreign Minister calls up Natwar
  • Job racket smashed, five arrested
  • Plea to put off Akademi's meet
  • Six held for drug trafficking
  • `Review house tax rates'
  • Reaching out to children through songs
  • Visa racket busted
  • Couple killed
  • Police school performs well
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    Pathanamthitta

  • Church to launch water conservation programmes

    Pondicherry

  • Girls outshine boys in Pondicherry
  • `Provide stipend to unemployed youth'

    Punjab

  • Amarinder reviews budget proposals
  • Bhattal's expulsion demanded

    Rajasthan

  • Whizkid wins laurels
  • Scheme for industrial institutes
  • Bank profit goes up

    Religion

  • Scriptures help visualise God

    Sailing

  • Mongia in line for title

    Salem

  • Girls outsmart boys in Salem
  • Rain lashes Salem

    Sivaganga

  • Rise in pass percentage

    Sports : General

  • Nikitha, Ashish to lead

    Squash

  • Ghosal enters semifinals

    Swimming

  • Wilson to attempt Palk Strait again
  • State junior, sub-junior aquatic meet from today

    Table Tennis

  • Poojitha enters semifinals

    Tamil Nadu

  • Top ranks go to Thanjavur and Madurai in SSLC, matriculation
  • Systematic efforts paid off: Thanjavur CEO
  • Back home but `it is no cause for joy'
  • TVS school wins top 3 ranks in Matriculation
  • Special supplementary examination from June 30
  • Keen on following in his father's footsteps
  • Meet to discuss plea for holding CET for management quota seats
  • Maran welcomes declaration of Tamil as classical language
  • `Restore subsidies to entrepreneurs not covered by NAMT'
  • Rain in Tiruchi, Ramnad districts
  • The top rank holders
  • Study on road safety policy under way
  • Government schools do well in Villupuram
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Girls outshine boys in Pudukottai
  • 80.64 p. c. in Namakkal
  • `Sensitise rural people to AIDS'
  • Virudhunagar dt. students fare well
  • Govt. to buy TNAU produced bio-fertilizers
  • Tamil topper
  • Petitions panel to visit Tiruvarur

    Tennis

  • Liza gives Ankita a scare
  • Sahana stuns Snigdha
  • Siddarth prevails
  • Sania in last eight

    Thanjavur

  • Thanjavur students bag honours

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Doctors over-prescribing antibiotics: study
  • Shanghumukhom beach project makes headway
  • BA examinations: girls corner top ranks
  • 1,152 viral fever cases in district
  • Youth killed in road accident
  • Sitting by adalat
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • University of Kerala

    This Day That Age

  • dated May 28, 1954: Share for daughter
  • dated May 28, 1954: Indo-Ceylon travel
  • dated May 28, 1954: Nehru clarifies
  • dated May 28, 1954: Harnessing Sun's energy

    Thrissur

  • Anti-filariasis drive
  • Civic reception for auxiliary bishop
  • Old-age home

    Tiruchi

  • Girls outshine boys in SSLC examinations
  • Toppers' dream is medicine
  • Corpn. move to raise water charges condemned
  • Students, parents throng schools for textbooks
  • Training camp
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • Cheranmahadevi fares well
  • Nellai district earns third rank

    Tirupati

  • TTD's eviction plan worries Congress
  • Varsity pleads for release of arrears

    Udupi

  • Building for library yet to come up
  • Artists' Forum to hold exhibition from May 30

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Women's Bill acceptable only in new format: Mulayam

    Vellore

  • Girls corner top ranks

    Vijayawada

  • CM urged to fill posts

    Visakhapatnam

  • Uncertainty plagues seafood exports
  • Farmers promised all help
  • More PHCs for Paderu division
  • Book released
  • Short story awards
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • Cash award for youth team

    Weather

  • Weather

    World View

  • Ronaldo donates money
  • Ulmer breaks world individual pursuit record

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