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  • Chandy to open Congress camp
  • Smoking high risk for diabetes patients
  • `I' group to boycott Congress programme

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Naxals kill policeman, burn six buses
  • Maoists reorganise set-up to form platoons
  • Measures to tackle drought unveiled
  • Wordy duel likened to `Assembly Open'
  • YSR's announcement sets off speculation
  • Coaching in English for rural students EAMCET panel report by month-end
  • Villagers force naxals to retreat
  • Factionists will be eliminated: ex-naxal
  • State to usher in second green revolution
  • Court order against medical PG admissions
  • Abduction case: hunt on for woman suspect
  • APIDC to maintain Sagar lift irrigation schemes
  • Food poisoning: 120 students taken ill
  • Note sparks off sharp exchanges
  • Next round of land distribution soon: YSR
  • Sarpanch killed by professional, says Jana
  • Policemen rally against naxal violence
  • Security at police stations to be beefed up
  • Telugu Desam dares Government to hold local body polls
  • Two children drowned in tank
  • SSC exam: five superintendents relieved of duty
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Athletics

  • Loyola ITC triumphs

    • Bangalore

  • Fuel price hike hasn't spared even the dead
  • Man run over by train
  • Being good in sports can get you more marks
  • Bangalore varsity expects Rs. 80-crore revenue
  • Three arrested on charge of murder
  • Pravin Pissay is dead
  • 99 SSLC students debarred in State
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Police achieve success as criminals bungle

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Belgaum

  • Minister for improving teaching quality

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Kothari misses out

    • Briefly

  • Workshop on textile exports
  • Handloom exporters plea on duty drawback
  • Office-bearers elected
  • Central Bank to open new branch
  • KEC International bags order
  • Maruti revises production plans
  • ICICI Bank ADS priced at $21.11
  • Videocon to issue GDRs

    • Business

  • Inflation breaches 5 p.c.-mark
  • Pakistan willing to discuss grant of MFN status
  • Air India Express to begin flights from April 29
  • Market crash: `SEBI initiated appropriate action'
  • 'New Internet' for India by 2006
  • Sensex gains 31 points
  • SBI plans to raise capital
  • Rupee ends a shade higher
  • Software potential in yen country
  • New company formed to sell Tata Tea plantations
  • K. M. Birla to head Board of Trade

    • Chattisgarh

  • Move to upgrade water feature of Sukhna Lake

    • Chennai

  • `Waste disposal facility a health hazard'
  • `IIT Madras tackling a knotty problem'
  • Students crack a hard nut, turn plastic into fuel
  • Quality of elementary education cause for concern
  • Designing a success story with jute bags
  • Automatic signals in annexed area soon
  • Death of girl: nurse was at fault, says rights panel
  • Don't stray from main case, High Court tells SIT
  • TWAD Board response to tsunami `impressive'
  • Proceedings in five motor accident claims cases stayed
  • Give priority to sports, says Barnala
  • Kumbakonam-Mayiladuturai section closure from April 1
  • Mathrubhumi, Medimix film awards announced
  • Imax theatres soon in city
  • Port Trust achieves record cargo throughput
  • Students fall ill after taking noon meal
  • Bid to smuggle ganja in jail
  • House burgled
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Anand starts favourite

    • Coimbatore

  • Not just a token effort
  • Autorickshaw union resents police move
  • Tourist police patrol unit to be strengthened
  • Assistance to women SHGs
  • Health camp
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Proposal for another bus stand

    • Cricket

  • Essex Farms carves out four-wkt. win
  • Honours even on day one
  • India in control: Kumble
  • Pakistan offers to host Champions Trophy
  • Punjab dominates day's play
  • Harbhajan eclipses Prasanna
  • Good bowling by Balasundaram, Kumar
  • MBP XI posts win

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8245
  • Solution to puzzle 8244

    • Cuddalore

  • CPI (M) leader fears threat to life
  • Farmers yet to get relief

    • Cuddapah

  • Boy run over

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule for Dharwad
  • 10 students debarred

    • Editorials

  • A DESPAIRING VERDICT
  • A SLAP IN MR. MODI'S FACE

    • Erode

  • Debate over disconnection of water supply
  • Residents seek drainage facility

    • Football

  • Cardone strikes for Parma and gets struck
  • Mahindra United holds Vasco
  • Felix nets winner for Salgaocar

    • Front Page

  • New Patents Bill introduced amid protests
  • U.S. denies entry to Modi; Centre protests
  • ``Insult to India''
  • Kaneria asserts his class
  • India noses ahead
  • Parliament approves vote-on-account
  • China agrees to share Sutlej data with India
  • Inflation breaches 5 p.c.-mark
  • Panel indicts Railways
  • Hoax call holds up train
  • Proclamation okayed

    • Generalia

  • RSB (Chennai) takes overall title
  • Sports medicine interactive session
  • Shaharyar's book on cricket released
  • Tintu dazzles

    • Golf

  • Harinder grabs lead
  • Johl is best Indian

    • Gulbarga

  • Kannada cassettes, CDs on HIV/AIDS released
  • Four break into jewellery shop

    • Haryana

  • Haryana bus stands to have night shelters

    • Hassan

  • Hassan CMC chief keen on continuing in post

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Inquiry ordered into mass copying by students

    • Hockey

  • Hyderabad blanks Tripura

    • Hubli

  • Delegation of khadi workers leaves for New Delhi

    • Hyderabad

  • A simple test to check petrol quality
  • Ryots vent ire against land acquisition
  • `Rise in dengue cases likely'
  • SCB polls postponed
  • Bar owners' plea dismissed
  • Assumes charge as EME Centre Commandant
  • Army official visits AOC Centre
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Tough cases to crack

    • India & World

  • U.S., India can explore alternative energy sources: Rice
  • Pakistan no to visa camp
  • Bollywood actor wins case to work in Britain

    • International

  • European leaders seek to court Russia
  • Many killed in Baloch flare-up
  • Revenge motive suspected in attack on Chubais
  • Shock in France over E.U. vote survey
  • Sharon welcomes ceasefire offer
  • Benazir to contest polls
  • Cool reaction to Wolfowitz nomination
  • Vanunu faces another term
  • Bar on expatriate Zimbabweans
  • Franco statue removed

    • Karnataka

  • Turf Club's rider for shifting racecourse
  • Work on three airports to start this year
  • `Globalisation is part of our culture'
  • Probe into graft in forest development corporation
  • Jindal airstrip needs a few more facilities
  • Circuit Benches: Judges' panel to visit Dharwad, Gulbarga
  • More funds for facility at Tirumala Hills
  • Bandh call evokes near total response in Dharwad
  • Two Ministers to be inducted after session
  • Phone services affected
  • IG to probe Bangalore incident
  • Chief Minister's announcement welcomed
  • CoD to investigate rape, murder
  • `Agitation not against Govt.'
  • BDA Bill tabled in Assembly
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Samiti members disrupt meeting
  • Action plan for development of SC, ST people soon
  • `Engineer 2005' gets under way at NITK
  • Grants released to tackle drinking water crisis
  • Action sought against police
  • Adopt humanitarian attitude, constables told
  • Credit card system for public toilet users opposed
  • Seminar on VAT today
  • Vote on account for Goa budget approved
  • 32 students debarred in Davangere

    • Kerala

  • No compromise on discipline, says KPCC chief
  • Guruvayur Devaswom urged to clarify with CBDT
  • SriLankan Airlines to increase frequency of flights
  • Five sand-mining licences cancelled
  • Directive to Government on anti-filaria drugs
  • T.K.A. Nair visits Sabarimala
  • Melsanthi's qualification: High Court order stayed
  • Plan to build `Greenbelts' to check coastal erosion
  • Karunakaran optimistic
  • Sex racket case: plea filed to withdraw PIL
  • `CPI(M) not against Neyyar Dam waters for Tamil Nadu'
  • `Laksharchana' at Sabarimala today
  • `League will face polls as part of UDF'
  • Panel welcomes decision
  • Ezhimala evictees to get compensation
  • Meeting of `parallel DCC' held
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Truce led to Congress debacle: Chennithala

    • Kochi

  • Mass drug administration programme on March 28, 29
  • Phone booths at railway stations: Minister's intervention sought
  • Company denies charges of pollution
  • Taking healthcare to remote areas
  • `Keep communal elements at bay'
  • Communication network mooted to popularise science
  • Idol recovered
  • In Kochi Today
  • When enforcement becomes a tough task

    • Kollam

  • Row over `mermaid sculpture' on Kollam beach

    • Kottayam

  • Meet on advances in polymer blends

    • Kozhikode

  • Special ward for children with leukaemia
  • Plea to shift West Asian study centre to university campus
  • Workshop on software project management

    • Kurnool

  • Plea to protect seed companies

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Economic growth in West Bengal
  • Don't hand religion to the Right

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Visa denial
  • Kanishka verdict
  • Good news?
  • Budget & elders
  • Public execution

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Concern over depleting number of tigers

    • Madikeri

  • Nanaiah convenes meeting of supporters

    • Madurai

  • `India needs great entrepreneurs'
  • Farmers want encroachers evicted from water bodies
  • Bench declines to restrain demolition of temples
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Driven to take the extreme step

    • Maharashtra

  • Hazare denies corrupt practices by Trust
  • Shabnam's real life story now on reel

    • Mangalore

  • Permanent affiliation may help improve govt. colleges
  • `Traders worried about VAT'
  • Man jumps off bridge, dies
  • Good response for DTH in Mangalore
  • Implement ISEC report: trust
  • Commonwealth scholars meet today
  • Murder suspect ends life in Moodbidri
  • Annual mass marriage programme
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Provide permanent shelters early, say fishermen
  • Loan waiver, kist remission sought

    • Nagercoil

  • Cycle expedition reaches Kanyakumari

    • National

  • Amendments to Patents Act introduced
  • BJP protests against U.S. action
  • G-20 sets deadline
  • No intention to end energy projects in Iran: Japan
  • "More than oil at stake in Iraq"
  • An emotional journey
  • Visa refused for 'severe violations of religious freedom'
  • `He glorified Nazism'
  • U.S. carried away by canard: Modi
  • Many Left amendments accepted
  • A reprieve for Modi
  • Boy killed, 9 injured in J&K school blast
  • Uproar in Maharashtra House over Sawant report
  • Left deplores U.S. `interference'
  • Don't resume military aid to Nepal: CPI(M)
  • Call to dismiss Arjun Munda Government
  • Army changes expedition route
  • CPI(M), Trinamool in slanging match
  • Battle against "baby oil" continues
  • West Bengal to attract FDI, take care of poorest
  • VHP plans meetings against Acharyas' arrest
  • Indira Goswami to write `crucial' letter to ULFA chairman
  • "Life-saving drugs will be out of reach"

    • Nellore

  • Lifer for one in dowry death case
  • Tributes paid to ex-Minister

    • New Delhi

  • Nod to Bauxite refinery raises questions
  • No money given to RWAs, asserts Sheila
  • He pressed for disabled-friendly lab at IIT, got the sack
  • ASI to charge fee for events in, around monuments
  • Centre, Delhi Govt. rapped over wrong use of industrial areas
  • Resolution on exemption to villages defeated
  • Police Chief orders strict vigil on police stations
  • NHRC slams Tamil Nadu, Karnataka
  • DDA seeks feedback over draft Master Plan
  • Three more booked in manpower racket
  • Vinod Khanna told to vacate bungalow
  • Two held for fraud
  • Bus rams into police station
  • SHO sent to lines
  • Lawyer found murdered
  • Manmohan sets up task force on status of tigers
  • Unemployment benefit scheme for labour from April
  • No more gifting of exotic birds
  • Lure of gold lands him in jail
  • 11 auto-lifters held
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Delhi police in the spotlight again

    • Orissa

  • Judicial probe into custodial deaths ordered

    • Pathanamthitta

  • `IT can play lead role in development of State'

    • Pondicherry

  • Revamp education system: Lakhera
  • Seeds of `rare species' of mangroves found
  • Recognise STs in Pondy: Ramadass
  • 'Protect interests of stakeholders'

    • Punjab

  • Kidwai praises judicial system

    • Racing : Horse

  • Stellar attractions for Sunday's Mumbai races
  • Water Wood well placed on weights

    • Raichur

  • `Infrastructure scheme being implemented in select towns'

    • Rajasthan

  • Nature-lovers welcome Manmohan's initiative on wildlife conservation
  • 3,224 complaints resolved
  • Sarvodaya leader criticises Rice

    • Religion

  • A leader among devotees

    • Salem

  • Farmers seek better market places
  • 92 doctors selected

    • Shimoga

  • Higher allocation for Sorab, Shikaripur suggested
  • Dissidence haunts BJP in Shimoga

    • Shooting

  • Rana wins centre fire pistol gold

    • Sport

  • Kaneria asserts his class
  • India noses ahead
  • Narain gets a bird's eye view of Sepang

    • Sports : General

  • Contempt notice to Dalmiya, S.K. Nair

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Minister alleges Rs. 200-crore loan scam during DMK regime
  • Chennai property tax anomaly stays
  • UNDP-funded scheme to help tsunami victims overcome trauma
  • `Tardy implementation of schemes hampers farm sector'
  • Trade, industry on tenterhooks as VAT deadline closes in
  • Fear of sea, comfort in groups delay return to the sea
  • Samayapuram temple `vimana' to be goldplated
  • Tarangampadi Siva temple disintegrating
  • OTA to increase cadet intake
  • Witness examination in wealth case likely from April
  • Defamation suit filed against Joshi
  • Drama festival from April 8
  • Promoted
  • Create awareness of health rights, SHGs told
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Rs.519.45-cr. ACP for Pudukottai district
  • 25 motors seized, supply disconnected
  • Appointment orders issued

    • Tennis

  • Upsets galore in plus-45 section
  • Davenport gets past Dechy
  • Vinod to fight it out with Fass
  • Four Indians get wildcards
  • Three ITF veterans' meets allotted to India

    • Thanjavur

  • Delta farmers seek relaxation of rule

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Private firms to develop two city parks
  • People's representatives briefed on merits of anti-filaria drive
  • Case against former staff of KSCSC godown
  • Man sentenced to life for murder
  • Students arrested
  • Crime Branch takes over cheque case
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes
  • Ayurvedic massage centres under spotlight

    • This Day That Age

  • dated March 19, 1955: New refinery
  • dated March 19, 1955: Churchill on Yalta papers

    • Thrissur

  • Rs. 6 crore for beautification of Thekkinkadu maidan
  • `Digital atlas' to be released

    • Tiruchi

  • `EC committed to defect-free rolls'
  • Modernise placement departments, colleges told
  • Plus-One exams from March 21
  • `Cooperate with officials'
  • Couple held for murder of woman
  • Bus passengers injured
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Astroturf for Anna Stadium hockey ground may be ready by June-end
  • Stop dumping of waste in channel, Collector tells RDO
  • EC officials `satisfied' with summary revision
  • Team visits Nuclear Power Project
  • TNSTC depots inspected
  • Reorientation course concludes

    • Tirupati

  • Student held on `blackmail' charge
  • Ex-TTD officials held in land scam case
  • Governor coming to Tirupati today
  • Lioness dies at Tirupati zoo
  • Police draw up plan to tackle crime in Tirupati

    • Tuticorin

  • Revolving fund for 65 women SHGs
  • 66 doctors appointed

    • Udhagamandalam

  • `The Nilgiris still beautiful'
  • Soldiers do their best, says Commandant

    • Udupi

  • Three held in connection with assault case

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • U.P. Assembly adjourned over row on Taj Mahal
  • Urdu University Bill passed

    • Vellore

  • Declare Vellore drought-hit: farmers

    • Vijayawada

  • Sewage woes abound
  • Cross-bund work picks up pace
  • Roaster trouble: aspirants shoot off letter to YSR
  • Delay in tabling VMC budget draws flak
  • Duo goes e-way to dupe, held
  • Farmers urged to go in for drip, sprinkler systems
  • SSC student caught copying
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Travel agency asked to pay compensation
  • EPTRI stresses integrated approach for city
  • Penalise construction firms: CPI(M)
  • Madras Telugu Academy to honour eminent personalities
  • VUDA lists unauthorised layouts
  • Mala Mahanadu gears up for `Chalo Hyderabad'
  • BJP padayatra to focus on civic problems
  • Girl missing
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Major Ports meet

    • Weather

  • Weather

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