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  • CPI hails YSR's assurance on drinking, irrigation water
  • YSR promises to transform backward areas

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • TDP walkout over `delay' in civic polls
  • Agonising wait for liquor outlet applicants
  • VIPs urged to bail out Government hospitals
  • Tobacco growers threaten to lay siege to board office
  • PCB plans vermi-compost in hotels
  • Casual employees' services in RTC to be regularised
  • Heady brew spells doom for tribals
  • Norms for MLAs on development fund soon
  • TDP objects to Bhanumati's presence at YSR's meetings
  • Awareness campaign for FFW
  • New admission norms for minority B.Ed colleges
  • Congress defends invite
  • State taking steps to check encroachments in Tirumala: MSR
  • Students `target' B.Ed counselling
  • More sops sought for physically challenged
  • State fails on all fronts: BJP
  • Traders warned against spurious farm inputs
  • Boy returns, tells kidnap story
  • Diamonds worth Rs. 17 lakhs stolen
  • SSC exam: chief superintendent suspended
  • Relief in power tariff for industry proposed
  • Congress behaving like Opposition, says Naidu
  • Bill to curb video piracy tabled
  • Hall ticket row: SSC student's father issues notice
  • Chilli purchases hit
  • Chief's inspection stuns policemen
  • Ex-Minister dead
  • Volvo service for Mangalore
  • Briefly
  • Crime watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Land acquisition for irrigation project to start soon
  • Prayers at Tirumala

    • Athletics

  • Going strong at 84
  • Chandar, Saroja emerge winners

    • Badminton

  • Double for Anshuman

    • Bangalore

  • Hospital employee assaulted, robbed
  • Call centre executive killed in car crash
  • `Admissions knot will be untied soon'
  • Air Deccan announces additional flights
  • Cash stolen from NRI's bag
  • New eye hospital for the poor inaugurated
  • Women's group wants serial's name changed
  • Green stickers for deaf students of SSLC
  • Two more police squads to probe kidnap case
  • Woman robbed of gold chain
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Tuticorin to meet Kolkata
  • TKM beats MES

    • Bellary

  • Fire destroys huts of 90 families

    • Bidar

  • Call to teach computer skills to the disabled

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Pankaj Advani triumphs
  • Advani's mother absolutely elated

    • Boxing

  • Six-member team for Baku event

    • Briefly

  • Tianshi Group to tap South
  • IOC, OIL bag Libyan contract
  • Garmentech Bangladesh 2005
  • Microsoft's VAT compliant solution
  • Satyam pact with Bridgestone
  • Idea ties up with Indian Railways
  • Bahrain bank's plans for India
  • M & M to launch Scorpio in Oman
  • Essel's solution for medical retail traders
  • Manugistics launches India operations
  • Microsoft offers new product
  • Reliance Info's offer
  • New MD for LifeStyle International
  • International tax conference
  • HP strengthens leadership position
  • Watts Humphrey visits India
  • Meeting on ESI and PF
  • Hi-tech Maruti workshop
  • EID Parry to subdivide shares
  • Flexibonds from IDBI

    • Business

  • Road construction on BOT basis
  • UB to take control of Shaw Wallace
  • Tata Steel gets Moody's `Baa2' rating
  • Sensex loses 44 points
  • Russia offers scope for Indian IT firms
  • M&M, Renault sign pact to make Logan
  • Metlife to expand agency force
  • Develop domestic market, IT industry told
  • Cisco to launch latest product in India
  • Switcher to set up warehouse

    • Carrom

  • Devasahayam, Karmughil triumph

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • Showcasing capabilities at IndiaSoft-2005
  • Equality an enigmatic concept: judge
  • People's participation `key to water conservation'
  • Anna Varsity `must ensure that skills are used to help people'
  • Cemeteries decision shocks Orthodox Christians
  • Jackal rescued at Palavakkam
  • Enumeration begins
  • Pensioners list demands
  • Woman killed in road accident
  • House burgled in T.Nagar
  • MBBS results on the Net
  • Passports despatched
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Chess

  • Anand blanks Topalov

    • Coimbatore

  • Opposition resents advance charges collection
  • TNHB residents on the warpath
  • Head of accident victim found in train coach
  • Around the City
  • Readers' Mail

    • Cricket

  • Lord's to stage tsunami appeal match
  • Harbhajan's doosra under the scanner again
  • New Zealand in trouble
  • Punjab dethrones Mumbai
  • I will do well in the rest of the series: Kaarthick
  • ICC's process of reporting illegal bowling actions
  • Kumble stands by his bowling partner
  • Panel inspects Kotla pitch
  • Lara dropped, Chanderpaul named captain
  • Karnataka in final
  • India, Pakistan players take a break
  • Dravid tops ICC Test rankings
  • Scintillating knock by Sadasivam
  • Bansal scores century
  • Easy for Kanchana Memorial
  • India takes on Sri Lanka
  • Tehlan, Dewan in Delhi Ranji one-day squad
  • Narrow win for Microsoft
  • Big win for FUCC
  • CP in last four

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8247
  • Solution to puzzle 8246

    • Cuddapah

  • Police plan joint action to counter naxals
  • World Bank aid sought for urban development
  • Call to recover loans from bigwigs

    • Dharwad

  • Drinking water supply schedule for Dharwad
  • Aradhana of five saints from tomorrow

    • Editorials

  • RESTORING THE BALANCE
  • NO SAVINGS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

    • Erode

  • Forest committees formed to help tribals
  • Overbridge sought to ease congestion

    • Football

  • Fransa Pax gets full points
  • Liverpool beats Everton
  • South Zone in final

    • Front Page

  • Modi: U.S. sticks to its guns
  • Kalam cautions against `dubious' steps to form government
  • Muralitharan ties the knot
  • Patents Bill debate deferred
  • 'India poised for 7-8 p.c. growth'
  • Parliament nod for President's Rule in Bihar
  • Help make India powerful, Modi tells U.S. Indians
  • Pension regulatory authority Bill introduced
  • Left stages walkout
  • Bank strike today
  • CBI raids
  • Pappu Yadav takes oath
  • Petition disposed of
  • Pankaj wins world title
  • Fishermen held

    • Golf

  • Randhawa, Jeev among top five in Asian Tour Order of Merit
  • Perry wins; Singh returns to top
  • Amardeep wins

    • Gulbarga

  • Magu Biradar is president of Kannada sammelan
  • Daily wage earners go on fast
  • Govt. accused of neglecting weavers
  • Importance of forensic science underscored

    • Guntur

  • Coastal corridor blueprint ready
  • Law college building opened
  • RRB employees to strike work today

    • Haryana

  • Chatha is Haryana Speaker

    • Hassan

  • Rs. 4.97 cr. sanctioned for tank rejuvenation
  • Hassan CMC President `resigns'

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Fresh snowfall in Himachal

    • Hockey

  • Emphatic win for Indian Airlines

    • Hubli

  • Corporation to make road cutting a `costly affair'
  • 13 elected to cooperative bank
  • Vendor development programme

    • Hyderabad

  • Presentation made to YSR on monorail system
  • MCH toils to meet property tax target
  • City institutions to get treated water soon
  • Train to Delhi flagged off
  • Air Deccan daily flights to Kolkata
  • Fourth lift for irrigation scheme likely
  • Priority for public views on ring road development
  • New buses on two routes
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Readers' Mail

    • India & World

  • Pranab denies meeting Hasina's son
  • Musharraf will watch one-day cricket match in Delhi

    • International

  • Violence in Iraq amid spat with Jordan
  • Nuclear suppliers' team for Pakistan
  • Annan asks nations to approve reforms in U.N.
  • More arrests in Nepal
  • Minorities unhappy in U.K.: poll
  • Indonesia, Malaysia to hold talks on maritime row
  • Tornadoes kill 31 in Bangladesh
  • Pakistan, Afghanistan to sign pacts, protocol
  • Poll triggers riots in Kyrgyzstan
  • Aftershocks continue to batter Japan
  • LTTE makes pre-dawn raid on Karuna base
  • Aerial photos reveal new Jewish settlements
  • Tree-top laboratories
  • Mine blast toll rises

    • Kannur

  • SFI seeks Basheer's resignation

    • Karimnagar

  • Government urged to build houses for fishermen
  • 118 Inter students debarred

    • Karnataka

  • Camera trapping best for tiger count, says wildlife biologist
  • Contractors owe Govt. Rs. 630 crores
  • A majority of villages have no toilets
  • Naxalism will be quelled, says Dharam Singh
  • Deve Gowda authorised to expel four dissident leaders
  • India to launch satellite in 2008 with French help
  • Acute scarcity of water in Sira taluk
  • Petition against BJP candidate dismissed
  • Stir against power project will go on: samiti
  • `Decentralise to meet challenge of globalisation'
  • Look into reasons for naxal activity, Govt. urged
  • Yediyurappa receives death threat
  • Land being acquired for Mysore airport
  • 98 animal, bird deaths in a year in Mysore zoo
  • Plea for extension of train
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Centre determined to implement code of conduct in fisheries sector
  • Rs. 191-crore outlay for Chamarajanagar
  • Policemen told to be cautious in dealing with women victims
  • Davangere judge transferred
  • `Police should have legal knowledge'
  • BSNL cheated of Rs. 1.74 crores
  • Repay principal component of loan, farmers told

    • Kerala

  • Question paper leak: two more exams put off
  • Power sector restructuring plan remains hazy
  • State ready to implement VAT from April 1
  • Government plans inquiry into drug purchase
  • Police Commission recommends full freedom for VACB
  • Law and order in disarray, says Veliyam Bhargavan
  • State to get more allocation for rural development projects
  • I have differences with Antony: Chandy
  • Cheating case: one arrested
  • CLP to issue show-cause notices to 12 `I' group MLAs
  • Pay panel terms to include pensioners' benefits
  • SSLC question paper packets found open
  • Basheer rejects plea for resignation
  • Isaac blames Government for paper leak
  • Film exhibitors threaten to close down cinemas
  • Karunakaran blames Chandy for question paper leak
  • Opposition bid to disrupt question hour
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • IA flight cancelled
  • Medical equipment seized

    • Khammam

  • Response to Maoist bandh partial
  • Farmer's wife commits suicide

    • Kochi

  • SA Road: draft plan ready
  • Uncertainty over VAT hits drug supply
  • Awareness class on child's rights organised
  • Two held on charges of theft
  • Pharmacists' strike
  • Fire at godown
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Kollam

  • BJP's protest against Centre's policies today
  • Elephant death: fears about spread of rabies discounted
  • Exhibition on water-related issues

    • Kozhikode

  • Pharmacists to boycott work for an hour today
  • Women's panel settles 12 cases
  • Support for traders' stir
  • Rare heart surgery performed at KMCH

    • Kurnool

  • Impressive rendition of Annamayya kritis

    • Leader Page Articles

  • On improving the quality of democracy
  • Warped reality of the occupiers

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Legislature & judiciary
  • Visa row
  • Challenge to sovereignty

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Jaitley remarks make Babulal Gaur stronger

    • Madikeri

  • MLA takes jail officials to task

    • Madurai

  • Saving habit picking up among students in govt. schools
  • People's commission on globalisation mooted
  • Police tampered with records in court custody: HC Bench
  • Awareness of safe drinking water being created
  • `Monitor foreign funds' flow'
  • `Explain missing of an inmate'
  • `Give remaining pension arrears in one instalment'
  • Dharna staged
  • 82 injured in jallikattu
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Surplus budget for Maharashtra

    • Mangalore

  • `Textbooks should be based on NCERT guidelines'
  • Furore over vented dam; meeting adjourned
  • Job mela in Mangalore from Friday
  • Officials forcibly take away cattle from goshala: samithi
  • BJP unhappy over halt in road work
  • Congress, BJP cross swords over `goshala'
  • Alva's Institutions to adopt more children
  • Seminar on accounting from tomorrow
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Medical students in the lurch as Govt. delays stipend
  • CPI(M) cautions people against Karnataka Vimochana Ranga
  • Official accused of violating norms at Vairamudi festival
  • Narayana Murthy to lay foundation stone for hostel
  • Meet on credit rating for SSIs

    • Nagapattinam

  • Furniture, PCs donated to 25 schools in tsunami-hit areas
  • Free siddha medical camps
  • PRO assumes charge

    • Nagercoil

  • Rs.1.5 lakhs disbursed to tsunami-hit

    • National

  • Centre accepts all but two changes in Patents Bill
  • Rahul makes maiden speech
  • BJP may go along with consensus on Patents Bill
  • Pakistan delegation joins Dandi March
  • Villagers battle militants in the higher reaches
  • CRICKET TELECAST: Court lashes out at Dalmiya
  • Pension Bill: Left stages walkout in Lok Sabha
  • Court notice to BCCI office-bearers
  • Stir against Bengali script: 16 held
  • `Senior citizens hit hard by budget proposals'
  • Interest on EPF deposits: BJP seeks clarification
  • Wait will continue for divided families
  • HAL plans to build light combat copter, trainer aircraft
  • Correction
  • On the track to peace
  • Dalmiya, Nair do not turn up
  • Special fund for vulture conservation
  • Farooq Abdullah's remarks on travel permit his own: Omar
  • `No change in VAT deadline'
  • CBI files corruption case against ex-IAS officer
  • Manmohan hosts lunch for Musharraf's mother, son
  • Zahira fails to appear before panel again
  • 2 CSIR journals in compulsory reference list of patent treaty
  • `Parties must not change positions because they change sides'

    • New Delhi

  • MLAs corner their own Ministers
  • Clients arrested for lawyer's murder
  • Assembly nod for Stamp Bill
  • Rewards for clues to human traffickers announced
  • `CAG should probe private power companies' accounts'
  • Delhi University takes steps for safe Holi
  • Physiotherapists protest
  • MBBS student held in fraud case
  • New technique for hip surgery
  • Racket in duplicate NCERT books smashed
  • `Withdraw advertisement'
  • Rape issue rocks Assembly
  • RI for two
  • `Slain lawyer sustained five gunshots'
  • Sheila under fire on corruption issue
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Inside Delhi

    • Orissa

  • Skipped Speakers' meet for personal reasons: Mohanty

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Rs.104.85-lakh profit for cooperative bank

    • Pondicherry

  • Pondy plans ecological barrier along coastline
  • Trauma care centres
  • Official transferred
  • Unemployed nurses go on indefinite fast

    • Punjab

  • Governor launches Chandigarh Green Action Plan

    • Rajasthan

  • Sati rumour leaves many hurt in Rajasthan village

    • Religion

  • Values of human life

    • Salem

  • Training programme

    • Shimoga

  • `Educate people about social evils'
  • Meeting adjourned as members protest against funds diversion

    • Shooting

  • Narang desperately seeking sponsors
  • Easy for Brown Shooters

    • Sport

  • Kumble — a true champion
  • A significant moment in Murali's life

    • Sports : General

  • Semifinalists spotted

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Contract medical consultants for government hospitals
  • Pace slackens in Sankararaman murder case
  • Witnesses recall Dharmapuri bus burning incident
  • Temples in Dalit habitations to be renovated
  • DMK, CPI(M) walk out
  • `Dictionaries should reflect contemporary usage'
  • Court panel recommends job guarantee scheme
  • Panchayatdars help them remain united
  • Education department to hone students' skills
  • World-Bank aided project for health care
  • Anna University Ph.D admissions stayed
  • It is `cheap politics': Vasan
  • Rs. 219.35 crores more for village panchayats
  • I saw no need to attend Speakers meet, says Kalimuthu
  • Passports despatched
  • Sri Lankan MPs team visits Assembly
  • Rice is of poor quality: tsunami victims
  • Tirukkural at her fingertips
  • Plea for inclusion of Kaveripakkam firka in Walajapet taluk
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Plan to augment storage capacity of tanks, ponds
  • Acute water scarcity in Thannerpandhal

    • Tennis

  • Roger Federer retains Pacific Life Open title
  • Harsh-Sunil pair enters quarterfinals

    • Thanjavur

  • Bharathidasan varsity to offer diploma course in Sanskrit
  • Power cut

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Tech-A-Break gets off to colourful start
  • New lease of life for Raghuraman
  • 24-hour helpline for drinking water soon
  • Four found guilty of gang-rape in slaughterhouse
  • `Tech-A-Break' gets under way today
  • KCHR invites applications
  • RI for former fisheries official
  • Freight service over Venduruthy bridge restored
  • Remand prisoner dead
  • Fisherman drowns
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • This Day That Age

  • dated March 22, 1955: Ministry-making in Andhra
  • dated March 22, 1955: Sea erosion at Dhanushkodi
  • dated March 22, 1955: Meters for umpires

    • Thrissur

  • Meet on drought management
  • Salem police in town to probe `sale' of children
  • Swati Tirunal music fete from Friday

    • Tiruchi

  • Flood prevention project shelved
  • New takers for used US textbooks
  • General insurance employees to go on strike
  • Theatre owners seek sops
  • Four trains to be cancelled
  • Temple festival
  • Sale of CAT application forms
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • MSU web site for placement activities launched
  • Two more mini-stadiums coming up in Tirunelveli

    • Tirupati

  • Call to rekindle interest in research
  • Heart Foundation ties up with SVIMS
  • Governor distributes assets at Puttur
  • Kalyanam Iyyengar centenary fete ends

    • Tuticorin

  • Row between Chairman and Vice-Chairman

    • Udupi

  • Nagarika Samiti opposes merger move
  • Two more held in Modabettu case

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Delhi Metro to reach Noida, Ghaziabad

    • Uttaranchal

  • No fresh tax in Uttaranchal Budget
  • Ruling party MLA fires salvo at Government

    • Vijayawada

  • Day of protests at Sub-Collector's office
  • Health varsity invites applications for MPT courses
  • Police, naxals blamed for spurt in violence
  • Woman's death: kin charge doctors with negligence
  • Bank staff stir may hit ATMs too
  • Public prosecutor in ACB net
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Visakhapatnam

  • AU Senate okays budget
  • GP's bust unveiled
  • Andhra University BBM exam centres clubbed
  • Council members resent panel `remarks'
  • Bail granted in gambling case
  • Toyota Innova launched
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Wrestling

  • Indian women bag five medals; finish runner-up
  • Indian women bag five medals

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