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    Alappuzha

  • Fishermen see red over language in PRD booklet
  • Tsunami relief: Government flayed

    • Anantapur

  • Hearing on Paritala murder

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Actress Aarti Agarwal attempts suicide?
  • Meet calls for steps to restore Hyderabad's charm
  • APHB serves notice on flat-owners' body
  • Water conflicts spiralling: report
  • Water diversion to Penna reservoir opposed 1 lakh acres under KC Canal to go dry
  • It's worth replicating, says Montek Singh
  • 20 naxals surrender
  • Insurance staff question ceiling on pay hike
  • House panel to look into petrol pump issue
  • Mini hydel project design to be modified
  • YSR regime most unpopular: Naidu
  • YSR takes battle to TDP camp
  • A-1 status sought
  • Six killed in road accidents
  • Rs. 1,200-crore credit plan for Cuddapah district
  • Inspectors shifted
  • Annamacharya fete from April 5
  • TDP stalling projects: Congress
  • Top BHEL official held
  • Diversification into bio fuels favoured
  • Stop targeting buses, PUCL urges Maoists
  • 50 cr. for improving agency roads
  • Murder attempt case: four held
  • Bill to amend municipal laws passed
  • Inter Board official faces action
  • Raghavulu against excise policy
  • Balakrishna case: police permitted to file appeal
  • LAWCET details on Internet
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Sponge iron unit caught in row
  • Two killed in accident

    • Bangalore

  • Gang loots Nicholas Piramal godown on Mysore Road
  • Manickavelu Mansion getting ready
  • Effective care, only hope for TB patients
  • 4 students of Military School missing
  • Driving school installs simulator
  • BDA will provide safe drinking water to cricket fans
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Singapore institute hopes to attract Indian students

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • RNSIT has the last laugh

    • Belgaum

  • Ugly scenes mar cooperative bank elections

    • Bidar

  • Low-cost plastination technique developed

    • Boxing

  • Bowe's fight in Salt Lake City postponed

    • Bridge

  • Good day for Indian teams

    • Briefly

  • OIL acquires field in Libya
  • Scandent bags deal
  • Fed raises rates
  • Airtel to expand network
  • Student empowerment workshop
  • Meeting on Union Budget
  • Bobcards offer
  • Turmeric market holidays

    • Business

  • India can invest up to $25 b for overseas oil acquisition
  • VSNL moves tribunal on bandwidth
  • Mastek to set up centre in Mahindra City
  • SEBI defers implementation of Clause 49
  • InMage opens development centre
  • Gokaldas fixes price band at Rs. 375-425
  • CII identifies key areas for development
  • REL directed to give bank guarantee for Rs. 300 crores
  • Rupee declines further
  • Interim order passed on Birla plea for administrator
  • Equities suffer sharp setback
  • Tata Chem to buy stake in Imacid
  • MUL's engine plant to be ready by early 2007

    • Chennai

  • Experts stress early detection
  • Why all languages need a dictator at some point of time
  • Biscuit bandits strike again, this time on Brindavan Express
  • 101 spanking new buses for STCs
  • Chennai violin prodigy wins rave reviews in Germany
  • Pre-medical programme for students
  • At 59, retired headmistress gets her Ph.D
  • Two die in septic tank
  • 6,000 km on the trail of kidnappers
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Awesome display by Anand

    • Coimbatore

  • Corporation disconnects water lines
  • It will be a `Mecca of aviation meteorology'
  • Karivaradan centre inaugurated
  • Businessman jailed for rape
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Pollock to miss first Test
  • Marshall replaces McMillan
  • ICC should take a permanent stand on Harbhajan: Ganguly
  • Inzamam enters the 100-Test club
  • Rawat excels
  • Uphill task for DDCA
  • Easy win for Railway Colony CC
  • Ashok excels
  • Dalmiya represented BCCI at EB meeting: ICC
  • SSCC clinches a thriller
  • Rain plays spoilsport
  • Good knock by Bharath Chipli
  • Narrow win for PESIT
  • Gandhi to lead
  • Chetan Sharma's century in vain

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8249
  • Solution to puzzle 8248

    • Cuddapah

  • Three burglars nabbed

    • Dharwad

  • Ban on sale of liquor for Holi celebrations
  • Water supply schedule

    • Editorials

  • TWO CHEERS FOR PATENTS
  • A NEW BONHOMIE

    • Erode

  • Rs. 1.75 crores sought for drought relief
  • Don't disappoint the country, students told

    • Football

  • Australia gets AFC nod to join Asian group
  • Vasco thrashes Tollygunge

    • Front Page

  • Parliament approves Patents Bill
  • A small battle won: Left
  • No official meeting in Britain for Modi
  • "Manmohan's statement not a defence of Modi"
  • Pension Bill referred to Standing Committee on Finance
  • Ghising to be caretaker of council
  • "Bus service will lose credibility if Kashmir issue is not resolved"
  • Intriguing final Test on the cards
  • Kumble and Bhajji love bowling together
  • Insurance strike
  • Stand on anthem
  • No to administrator
  • Oil spill
  • More channels on DTH
  • Wright's term

    • Generalia

  • IOA delegations meets PM
  • Gurbachan calls for financial support from business houses

    • Golf

  • Vijay Singh not worried about rankings

    • Gulbarga

  • Airtel to increase coverage in north Karnataka

    • Guntur

  • New plan needed to keep pace with growth
  • Piped water supply his major achievement
  • Nine killed in road mishaps
  • Doctorate for Brahmanandam

    • Haryana

  • Haryana Govt. presents interim budget
  • Hooda declares all-out war on TB

    • Hassan

  • Regional Art Centre project yet to take off

    • Hockey

  • Bara's golden goal does it for Bengal
  • Beighton Cup from Saturday

    • Hubli

  • Bids for road repair works opened

    • Hyderabad

  • City of pearls turns `Mandrax capital'
  • Crackdown on ice candy factories, dairy farms
  • MCH clarifies on dumping site
  • Malaysian group submits plan on MRTS
  • YSR urged to shelve monorail idea
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Headed for Hollywood
  • Pressure on U.K. to revoke Modi's visa

    • International

  • Many "foreign fighters" killed in Iraq raid
  • Onus is on Islamabad, says Baloch leader
  • Pakistan, Afghanistan sign six pacts
  • E.U. ready to put China arms issue on hold
  • France relaxes 35-hour week
  • Kosovo Premier elected
  • Russia warns West over Kyrgyzstan
  • China supports U.N. reforms
  • Schiavo's parents to appeal to Supreme Court

    • Kannur

  • `Conspiracy against campus politics'

    • Karimnagar

  • Protest against collection of dues by Transco
  • Clean Karimnagar campaign launched

    • Karnataka

  • Cricket fans hoping for an absorbing contest
  • Uphold ethics in practice, medical graduates told
  • Insurance policy for coffee growers
  • Deve Gowda demands crackdown on land-grabbers
  • Nominated members of various academies
  • Metro Rail project to start in 12 months
  • Water schemes to get power connection
  • Steps to conserve water inevitable: Prakash
  • `Protect rights of vendors'
  • `Rebel' JD(S) leaders not to join any other party
  • Survey aimed at eliminating bogus BPL cards: Siddaramaiah
  • `Prepare White Paper on assets, liabilities'
  • Small units in villages to be encouraged
  • Mulayam to attend Samajwadi Party convention
  • Permanent exhibition venues in three cities
  • Congress suspends Obeidullah Sharief
  • Woman found dead
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • `Release water into canal till month-end'
  • Cess on iron ore transportation suggested
  • People urged to conserve water

    • Kerala

  • NABARD aid for Rs.450-crore road project
  • C-sections: concern over health hazards
  • `Local bodies facing heavy fund lapse'
  • Declining standards of lyrics pain this master
  • 24 students garner top three offers at NIT-C
  • Directive on use of groundwater sought
  • `I' group MLAs reply to show-cause notices
  • Do not release Hajira to police: court
  • Rs. 450-crore NABARD aid for road project
  • A rising graph
  • Maternal mortality rate high
  • No power tariff hike in 2005-06
  • Summer special trains
  • Karunakaran promoting `dynasty' rule: Chandy
  • Lakshadweep MP seeks Centre's help
  • Expedite Pampa Action Plan, Government told
  • O.V. Vijayan's condition critical
  • Telecom strike withdrawn
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Summer schedule of airlines
  • `Youth should have social commitment'

    • Khammam

  • Meet on Rajiv Sagar project on March 28

    • Kochi

  • `Small buses can ease traffic congestion'
  • Panchayat ordered to clean drains
  • DYFI, SFI activists march to DEO's office
  • Hawala: five held
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Making science interesting for common man

    • Kollam

  • World Stop TB Day
  • Course in astrology opposed

    • Kottayam

  • BMS threatens stir against Patents Act

    • Kozhikode

  • Hotel owners divided over joining strike
  • Strike hits general insurance sector

    • Kurnool

  • Private firm ready to buy Jatropha seed
  • Municipal Council meets for last time

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Global threats and U.N. reforms
  • Where science is a dirty word

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Judicial intervention
  • Let the matter rest
  • Child marriage
  • Bank strike
  • Romantic actor

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Have the courage to fail, youth told
  • M.P. seeks aid to boost tourism

    • Madikeri

  • Over 100 elephants dead in 13 years

    • Madurai

  • Proposal to form bioregional community clusters
  • `Streamlining of small enterprises will make them global players'
  • `Collect entertainment tax only from MSO'
  • Three attempt suicide, one dies
  • 4,693 students to write Matriculation exams
  • Weights and measurers makers to down shutters
  • Orders cancelling licences of petty shops quashed
  • Insurance workers strike work
  • Special registration camp today
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • `Scientists have realised value of Gandhiji's ideas'
  • Minorities panel to submit report
  • Seminar on literature, history
  • AAI employees withdraw strike
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • `Encourage meritocracy to overcome poverty'
  • Rs. 1,028-crore credit plan released
  • Contests to mark World Water Day
  • Call to build a society of equal opportunity
  • Religious fervour marks Nanjangud car festival
  • Injured leopard rescued from well
  • e-beat system for Mysore police soon

    • Nalgonda

  • Two killed in road mishap

    • National

  • Congress sticks to its stand on Modi
  • Insurance employees go on strike
  • Buddhadeb behind end to BSNL strike?
  • Aerial version of Nag being developed
  • BSNL executives call off stir
  • Meera detained, later allowed to attend peace march
  • A scorpion from the canopy
  • Panel to probe illegal uranium mining in Jharkhand
  • Encourage organic farming, say tribal women
  • Marketing The Rising
  • Bilkis questioned
  • Bihar situation unfortunate: Yechury
  • Telgi files discharge application
  • 1,690 fast track courts face closure
  • Munde seeks probe into dereservation of plot
  • Deleting `Sindh' will destroy National Anthem: Centre
  • ``Andamans ready for tourism''
  • Elders pay tributes to Bhagat Singh
  • Buddhadeb's pat for Indian team
  • Additional charge for Buta Singh
  • RSS conclave begins in Bhopal
  • Former Minister files case against VAT
  • Government mulling amendment to Criminal Procedure Code: Patil
  • Crackdown on money-lenders planned
  • Tsunami relief work in Tamil Nadu criticised
  • Anil to head Reliance Infocomm?
  • Urge U.S. to end occupation: Iraqi leader
  • Speaker moots panel to fix salaries of MPs
  • 11 NIT directors sacked, two quit
  • ``Raise allocation to MPs scheme or scrap it''
  • VAT panel to meet today

    • Nellore

  • YSR asks officials to give priority to water needs

    • New Delhi

  • Delhi's water dreams turning sour
  • 2 CSIR journals in compulsory reference list of patent treaty
  • Overground Metro Rail track worries ASI
  • A strong case for police reforms
  • Two stadiums to be upgraded for Commonwealth Games
  • Court notices to Delhi Government, police chief
  • "Anti-imperialist march''
  • Consumer court fines company for defective service
  • Briefly

    • Nizamabad

  • Programme to develop remote villages
  • Officials gheraoed over water crisis
  • TRS for mini hydel power stations in four districts

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Rs.24.6-crore budget for district panchayat
  • Rs.200 lakhs earmarked for housing scheme for poor
  • Devotees witness idol re-installation at Kurampala temple
  • Uthram festival at Sabarimala

    • Pondicherry

  • 300 sq.ft-houses for tsunami-hit families
  • Pondy to encourage labour-intensive units
  • Don't drop the name Oulgaret: Namassivayam
  • Panel formed to thwart JIPMER autonomy move
  • Debate on Governor's address on March 29, 30

    • Racing : Motor

  • Schumacher tests new Ferrari

    • Raichur

  • Official seeks police protection

    • Rajasthan

  • Rajasthan budget today
  • Focus on mustard as oilseed crop

    • Religion

  • Seek good company

    • Salem

  • Privatise garbage collection: councillors
  • Fire in transformer

    • Shimoga

  • CMC chief taken to task

    • Sport

  • Intriguing final Test on the cards
  • Kumble and Bhajji love bowling together

    • Sports : General

  • Panel critical of dope control measures

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Technology centre for small units soon
  • No secrecy in patta allotment: Paneerselvam
  • Tamil Nadu Stamp Act soon
  • Seven more adalats for tsunami victims
  • Weekly compensatory allowance to policemen hiked
  • Tax exemption for charity institutions not automatic: court
  • `Participatory management vital'
  • Security to be enhanced in central prisons
  • Case against Joshi condemnable, says Dattatreya
  • Caught on the wrong foot
  • Government not keen on promoting Tamil: PMK
  • 17 bonded labourers rescued
  • Question hour elusive
  • Former CPI MLA passes away
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Rs. 284-crore ACP for Tiruvarur dt.
  • Homeopath held for `torturing' wife
  • Road tax collection for vehicles till April 10
  • Special counters for vehicle tax

    • Tennis

  • Rastogi prevails over Greul

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Dancing their way to glory
  • `Tuberculosis detection rate lowest in State'
  • Probe on into question paper delivery
  • Three of family found guilty of murder
  • Heroin seized; woman held
  • Theft: one arrested
  • Attingal Municipality budget presented
  • Vigilance raid
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • English syllabus revision on the cards

    • This Day That Age

  • dated March 24, 1955: Hindu Succession Bill
  • dated March 24, 1955: Calendar reform
  • dated March 24, 1955: U.S. plane crashes

    • Thrissur

  • V.K. Asokan loses SNDP post
  • `CPI(M) trapped in Fourth World Theory'

    • Tiruchi

  • Forest Dept., students to take wildlife census
  • Accent on value-added products rather than labour-intensive commodities
  • `AICTE nod not necessary to start MCA, MBA courses'
  • Insurance employees go on two-day strike
  • Salt Satyagraha march to be re-enacted
  • Motorist killed in mishap
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • BSNL officers' stir earns wrath of public, traders
  • Youth murdered

    • Tirupati

  • MLA, ex-MLA clash over roadwork Panchayat staff boycott duties
  • Meagre allocation for SC/ST welfare criticised

    • Tuticorin

  • Child labourers rescued
  • Man found dead

    • Udupi

  • Objective of linguistic States yet to be realised: Idinabba
  • SBI rules out merger

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Dismiss Tiwari Govt., demands BJP
  • U.P. legislature adjourned sine die

    • Vijayawada

  • CPI, CPI(M) lay a siege to VMC office
  • Insurance employees seek wage revision
  • Army recruitment rally from April 3
  • NGOs asked to assist in relief works
  • Municipal Commissioner inspects works
  • 2 SSC students booked for copying
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Godavari water issue rocks VMC council meet
  • Arrangements in full swing for One-Day match
  • LAWCET details on Internet
  • Ticket sale from tomorrow
  • ECoR gears up for mango freight
  • Woman constable injured in scuffle
  • Selected for award
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Naxals indulging in violence will not be spared: SP

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