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Anantapur

  • Couple hurt in attack

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Governor unveils development package
  • Realtor strangulated to death
  • Suresh Reddy formally elected Speaker
  • Suspended RTC employee leaps to death
  • Congress promises responsive administration
  • Seven hurt in lorry-tipper collision
  • From mandal leader to Speaker
  • Three held, property recovered
  • Eight distraught farmers end life
  • Jawan's body received with military honours
  • Naidu queries about free power to domestic sector
  • `Free power could deplete groundwater in State'
  • Naxalites open fire on police cultural troupe
  • Jutur incidents: TDP leaders stage dharna
  • Farmer helpline flooded by appeals
  • `Debt book' can prove a life-saver!
  • No reference to Telangana in Governor's address
  • NJR not sulking over ministership `denial'
  • Pitching strong for `umpire Reddy'
  • New shopping complex coming up in Tirupati
  • RS poll on June 21
  • TDP panels to monitor session
  • Rajyalakshmi withdraws resignation
  • Monsoon sets in
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Once a fertile village, now a barren land
  • Two youths drowned
  • Banks told to reschedule ryots' loans
  • Collector for AE's suspension

    Assam

  • Poet passes away

    Athletics

  • Individual title for Ranjithkumar

    Badminton

  • Hard-fought win for Nachiket

    Bangalore

  • After floods, many areas now contend with sewage
  • Smokers 70 p.c. more prone to diseases
  • BMP to cover, remodel storm-water drains
  • Russia beckons Indian students
  • Road accidents claim four lives
  • Workshop on CNC technology
  • Youth's body found
  • Recruitment of sub-inspectors
  • Police told to probe woman's death
  • Phone services hit
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Stock Market Index
  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    Belgaum

  • Officials told to supply seeds to farmers on time

    Bidar

  • Land records to have holograms
  • Two held on theft charge

    Bijapur

  • `Prosperity cannot be judged on the basis of good infrastructure'

    Boxing

  • Akhil & Vijender get bronze
  • Team title for ATNK &K

    Briefly

  • MERC rejects Tata Power's claims
  • Idea buy out
  • 3 banks to take stake in MCX
  • Bayer Crop to transfer business to BRCPL
  • Jagsonpal Pharma's EGM for bonus
  • EID Parry (India) declares 75 p.c.
  • Nagarjuna Construction bags orders

    Business

  • Indian steel prices unlikely to go up
  • Resumption of DEPB benefits sought
  • GAIL efforts to speed up national gas grid
  • Maran for cheaper, faster Internet services
  • Markets jittery over oil prices
  • Sensex bounces back on hectic shortcovering
  • Rupee gains four paise
  • Membership invited for plastics warehouses in U.S.
  • Three new products from AMP Sanmar
  • Capital markets meet
  • CavinKare plans to launch new products
  • Maruti 800 sales drop in May

    Carrom

  • Balamurugan & Sri Vidya triumph

    Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    Chennai

  • Over 5,000 lane, signal violations spotted
  • Pollution spells doom for residential colony
  • Hospital to expand diabetic retinopathy project
  • Veeranam project commissioning by July-end
  • Swimming pool renovation by month-end
  • Feasibility study soon for multi-layer flyover at Kathipara
  • Crushed to death
  • Six-day week for Chennai Telephones
  • Around The City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Koneru Humpy hits back to draw even
  • Top players for National team event
  • Ramu wins
  • Ratnakaran upset

    Coimbatore

  • Rain shifts focus from Pilloor scheme
  • High-speed connectivity at low cost
  • Karnataka Bank to open one more branch in city
  • Illicit arrack seized
  • Convocation
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    Cricket

  • Bangladesh's second innings in disarray
  • BPCA emerges champion
  • Central Zone sitting pretty
  • Musharib, Nasiruddin bowl well
  • Indian Airlines in semifinals
  • Facile win for Mysore (Chamundi)
  • Big win for Bharat Club
  • Easy for Subhania Club
  • Wellington CA scrapes through
  • Akhtar fit and available for Asia Cup
  • E.Co.R.S.A regains The Hindu Trophy
  • Decision on Kale likely today
  • Good outing for KIOC
  • Herons CC takes title
  • China to seek assistance from India
  • Rajdhani Club survives a scare
  • Sankar XI posts win
  • Gajuwaka Greens regains VDCA title

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 7999
  • Solution to puzzle 7998

    Cuddapah

  • Collector urges SCs, STs to join thrift groups
  • Ryots told to choose crops based on water availability
  • Old-age pension for those below poverty line
  • Panchayat raj workers call on YSR
  • Woman killed

    Editorials

  • BROADBAND AND INTERNET ACCESS
  • SPEAKING UP FOR PALESTINE

    Erode

  • Councillors criticise Pollution Board officials
  • Pandemonium in Dharapuram Council
  • New Collector assumes charge
  • Water tankers seized

    Football

  • Punjab takes lead but match abandoned
  • Hat-trick by Trilok
  • Figo doesn't rule out change of heart
  • Sankar to officiate in Asian Cup finals

    Front Page

  • Talks with Pakistan on nuclear issues on June 19, 20
  • Consensus likely on Somnath as Speaker
  • New post for Vajpayee; Advani to be Leader of the Opposition
  • A tale of six mine-proof BMWs
  • Lahoti takes oath as CJI
  • MTNL, BSNL merger `under study'
  • Sensex up 76 points
  • Coaches derail
  • Jump in oil prices

    Globescan

  • 38 die in jail rebellion
  • Lashes for wife-abuser
  • Atmosphere already damaged

    Golf

  • Balpreet on top
  • Dream start for Chowrasia
  • Less golf, more fishing for Nicklaus

    Gujarat

  • Gujarat is ready with `alternative' if POTA is repealed
  • `Prosecute Modi, others'

    Gulbarga

  • Selecting Ministerial candidates becomes tough for Siddaramaiah
  • Missing boy found dead in field

    Guntur

  • Ryots' suicide: DCC chief blames TDP

    Hassan

  • MLA seeks report on rice distribution

    Himachal Pradesh

  • State to approach Centre on Renuka Dam

    Hockey

  • Be confident that you can win: Sunil Dutt
  • HHA ready to host Test

    Hyderabad

  • Visa-aspirants' after-birth pangs
  • TRS stakes claim for 7 Cabinet berths
  • Indoor cricket stadium mooted in city
  • Town planning officials at the receiving end
  • These parks are not for visitors
  • No power in some areas
  • Transparency sought in Inter revaluation
  • `Critical' problems dog Gandhi Hospital
  • Quota for Muslims: Government to seek legal opinion
  • YSR's promise to Prudential depositors
  • Berths available
  • Junior colleges to reopen on June 2
  • Osmania Hospital clarifies
  • Health Ministry constitutes PAC
  • Around The City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Moves on to bring back bodies of Al Khobar victims
  • Pakistan happy over announcement of dates
  • Praveen Swami wins Senior Fellowship of U.S. Peace Institute

    International

  • Iraq/ President-elect promises sovereignty
  • `Patterns' behind Iraqi prisoners' deaths
  • Blair must answer to evidence of abuse
  • `Karachi blast was a suicide attack'
  • U.K. for lifting arms embargo on China
  • Take the path of enlightened moderation, Musharraf tells Muslims
  • Cheney's ex-firm favoured in oil contract
  • Russia joins non-proliferation plan
  • U.S. ousted two terror regimes, says Bush
  • Mandela to spend time on memoirs
  • A book in French sans verbs
  • Fiction in scientific metrics

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • PDP demands Kashmir-specific CBMs
  • J&K defers order limiting guests at marriages
  • Love for old duties

    Kannur

  • Special school for children with Down's syndrome

    Karimnagar

  • Police rally in support of ryots
  • Hospital bandh in Karimnagar total

    Karnataka

  • Expansion of Ministry within this week
  • IT exports from State put at Rs. 18,100 crores
  • Headmistress pulled up for impersonation
  • AIDSO seeks law on college admissions
  • Forum formed to market State
  • Expert wants CME to be made mandatory
  • Somashekar gives new Govt. six months
  • Decision to bring Kolar under Tumkur varsity opposed
  • Cartel may be behind racket in FCI rice, say police
  • Sankeshwar not to retire from politics
  • Temporary halts of six trains extended
  • KPTCL breathes a sigh of relief
  • Faux pas in varsity invitation
  • Lobbying on for ministerial posts
  • Calendar of events for Rajya Sabha polls announced
  • Probe sought into HUDCO irregularities
  • Parishat panel to meet on June 11
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Zilla panchayat objects to withdrawal of funds
  • Government urged to strengthen tank bunds
  • CoD to probe alleged graft in fund release
  • Zilla panchayat prepares plan for repair of classrooms
  • Two Hiriyur rivers full after three years
  • Three held on robbery charge
  • Farmers stage dharna in protest against power supply disconnection
  • Village accountants warned
  • Two killed in road accident

    Kerala

  • Antony, Kunhalikutty clash at UDF meet
  • Academic year begins amid apprehensions
  • CPI(M) expels Ekbal, Elamon
  • State-wide vigilance raids at ST check-posts
  • UDF meeting backs Antony's leadership
  • Plant can draw 5 lakh litres a day
  • Move for Bill on road safety
  • Privatisation fear stalks KRL workers
  • Nod for 20 p.c. increase in Plus Two seats
  • Fund misappropriation: CBI probe demanded
  • Government expedites move to privatise ration sub-depots
  • Private bus operators threaten strike
  • SBI launches new housing loan scheme
  • Train halts
  • Violation of PAP pact: farmers to move court
  • UDF, LDF looking out for scapegoats: IFDP
  • Shortage of suitable paper delaying textbook printing
  • Big flow of Keralites from Saudi Arabia
  • Varghese Koratty passes away
  • Journalist dead
  • Briefly

    Kochi

  • 10 children among 80 rounded up for begging
  • Murders: `crude weapon was used'
  • Building permits: single window system planned
  • Ombudsman's order on subway project
  • In Kochi Today

    Kottayam

  • Centre urged to solve crisis in farm sector

    Kozhikode

  • Minister instigating violence in island: MP

    Kurnool

  • `Congress must meet expectations'
  • Corporators asked to quit posts

    Leader Page Articles

  • Continuity and change
  • Poverty and inequality in India

    Letters to the Editor

  • Cess for education
  • The CMP
  • Power tariff rollback
  • PM's challenge
  • Mandate for change
  • Outdated
  • Waste of money
  • Expand the re-look

    Madurai

  • Double-crop area farmers told to tap groundwater
  • Good response to army recruitment
  • Bus passes for students
  • Thousands throng Tirupparankunram temple
  • Around the city
  • In Madurai Today
  • Readers' Mail

    Maharashtra

  • Fees for medical courses reduced
  • Case may be filed against Gustad's associate

    Mangalore

  • Newly concreted road develops cracks
  • CAMPCO looking at international market for cocoa products
  • Rural development schemes get major share of allocation
  • Row at corporation meet over release of water from dam
  • Dharam Singh urged to stop child marriages
  • Engagement

    Mysore

  • Steam engine to chug from Mysore to K.R. Nagar today
  • A one-stop centre of intriguing facts
  • Long queues greet Lokayukta at K.R. Hospital
  • Poompuhar exhibition

    National

  • NDA to meet President on `tainted' Ministers issue
  • U.S. keen on continuing close military ties with India
  • Position on missile defence to be discussed: Natwar Singh
  • Lahoti takes over as Chief Justice of India
  • `Decision on petrol prices after OPEC meeting'
  • Jaswant is BJP leader in Rajya Sabha
  • Draft of Presidential address finalised
  • Alert on Indo-Myanmar border
  • India, Bangladesh discuss `all issues'
  • India offers more diesel to Bangladesh
  • Arjun Singh puts official on `compulsory wait'
  • `Gujarat has to appoint public prosecutor for Best Bakery case retrial'
  • The quest for Tagore's Nobel medallion
  • ITBP gears up for Mansarovar yatra
  • Vasudevan Nair, CPI leader in the Lok Sabha
  • Centre's options for funding Sethusamudram project
  • Honour for India
  • Arun Prakash next Naval Chief
  • NHRC takes note of farmers' suicides
  • Swadeshi Jagran Manch lauds CMP

    New Delhi

  • UGC offers over 140 degree courses
  • New-age surgery still out of reach of common man
  • A cloud over power reforms
  • Pirated computer toners, CDs seized
  • Transparency move stalled
  • Delhi Govt. says `No' to bus fare hike
  • Standing body takes Govt. head-on
  • Police officers transferred
  • Insurance firm told to pay mediclaim amount
  • Confusion over power supply order
  • Agitation threat by flat owners
  • Rain surprises all
  • Allow business seven days a week, Govt. urged
  • Man held for cheating
  • A helping hand for freshers
  • Presentation on CP Metro station
  • Good show by Mehta Vidyalaya
  • Around The City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    Nizamabad

  • Collector calls for urgent steps to check spread of epidemic
  • Campaign against fish medicine decried
  • `Suicide is not the solution'

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Orissa

  • Experts inspect damage to sacred wheel atop Puri temple tower

    Perambalur

  • 87 govt. schools record 60 per cent pass

    Pondicherry

  • Web sites for 19 departments, says Rangasamy
  • DMK no longer an Opposition party: Valsaraj
  • Mass anti-filariasis drug programme on June 5

    Punjab

  • SGPC general elections on July 11

    Raichur

  • Power supply disrupted
  • Shop gutted in Raichur

    Rajasthan

  • Khurana chairs all-party meet on his programme for poor

    Religion

  • Devotional mystic

    Shimoga

  • Municipal workers stage demonstration
  • BJP thanks Shimoga electorate

    Sports : General

  • Legends to be part of Sahara Sports Academy
  • Athens Olympics: Ashwini pins hopes on Anju George
  • Steve Waugh Foundation launched
  • Majority of Olympic tickets still unsold

    Tamil Nadu

  • Confusion persists over medical seats
  • Comprehensive crime profile under study
  • Cauvery delta farmers look to Congress and MPs
  • Revoke suspensions, Baalu requests terminal management
  • A victory for people, say PMK and CPI(M)
  • Orders today on return of Vaiko's passport
  • Borewell pipes sink, problems surface
  • Industries win awards for spreading AIDS awareness
  • Readers' mail
  • People throng meal centres to apply for ration cards
  • Milk procurement price up by Re.1 a litre
  • Rights panel summons forest personnel
  • Help us get EB orders, small units urge CM
  • DMK neither contented nor unhappy: Karunanidhi
  • Constable dies of bullet wounds
  • Form panel to resolve TNPCEE questions ambiguity: counsel
  • Mangalore MLA takes oath
  • Anna varsity programme for integrated PG course
  • Fire in car seat unit
  • CB-CID to probe youth murder
  • Gnanabhoomi founder dead
  • DMK man killed
  • Mangalore MLA takes oath
  • `Expedite VCs appointment'
  • Rajya Sabha elections announced
  • Centre's options for funding Sethusamudram project
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Hundreds take part in Palani car festival
  • New fish market to be constructed in Pudukottai

    Tennis

  • Capriati overcomes Serena in a dramatic encounter
  • Vikas blanks Siddharth
  • Qualifying phase completed
  • Karishma stands tall against Iciri
  • Divided loyalties for Clijsters
  • Zainab beats Samia

    Thanjavur

  • Committee reviews 39 petitions in Thanjavur

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Pirated CDs seized from video parlour
  • Raid on tribals: CPI demand
  • Three held for attack on shops
  • Woman's death: police register case
  • New clinics at General Hospital
  • Hotel employee found dead
  • Corporation to construct 20,000 rainwater pits
  • Good show
  • Alert driver averts major train accident
  • Around the city
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated June 2, 1954: France unrelenting
  • dated June 2, 1954: Arrests in East Bengal
  • dated June 2, 1954: General Naguib removed
  • dated June 2, 1954: Integrating influence

    Thrissur

  • New inmates for Thrissur zoo
  • Dead

    Tiruchi

  • Tiruchi prisoners enrol for undergraduate courses
  • Mettur level
  • Post Office facilities
  • Anti-smoking contest evokes good response
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirupati

  • Viswam group students excel in CEEP

    Udupi

  • Houseless people yet to get financial aid
  • Dakshina Kannada tops in milk production

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Communal violence in Aligarh: 7 injured

    Uttaranchal

  • Kalam asks NHO to help find site for deep port

    Vellore

  • Assisstance for treatment of poor children
  • Annual identification of defence pensioners

    Vijayawada

  • Vijayawada firms churn wealth out of waste
  • Pre-monsoon showers raise fears of epidemics
  • Welcome arches for Krishna pushkarams
  • ICICI makes money transfer easy
  • Orders to complete social welfare hostels by Aug. 15
  • Around The City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Godavari waters likely from July 15
  • LJP leaders to take up VSP issue with Paswan
  • Regional development council sought
  • Several trains cancelled, rescheduled
  • Danger lurks on this road
  • June named `malaria month'
  • Around The City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Weather

  • Weather

    World View

  • Greene looks set to be fastest
  • Dalmiya's denial
  • `Form will decide opening combination'
  • Murali's Aussie tour decision later this week
  • Pankaj hopes to add Asian title to collection

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