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    Alappuzha

  • People return home as tsunami threat recedes
  • Peeling sheds polluting water: PCB

    • Anantapur

  • Priority for farm sector in credit plan

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Tsunami threat: State Government acts swiftly
  • Speaker reprimands TDLP deputy leader
  • Congress, TDP trade charges, Left blames both
  • Naidu vows to `expose' Congress
  • Marathon effort pays off
  • UN initiative on knowledge sharing
  • A word of caution on GM technology
  • Keep watch on tsunami relief work, media told
  • Chaos at meet to distribute loans
  • Make service delivery simple: YSR
  • Job racket busted, four held
  • A rare `distinction'
  • Kin urges naxal leader to surrender
  • Speaker reprimands TDLP deputy leader
  • TTD seeks flowers for Ugadi festival
  • Rs. 15 lakhs `stolen' at bank
  • Couple attempts suicide
  • Suri custody in CBI: court order today
  • GO issued on PR teachers' salaries
  • TDP, CPI come out with `e proof'
  • Jaundice: pregnant women cautioned
  • A-I direct flight for Chicago
  • TDP stages protest
  • 13 houses damaged in Congress-TDP clash
  • Geared up for any eventuality: Army officer
  • Harassment of Natya Mandali artiste alleged
  • Retired IPS officer faces arrest
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Maoists claim hand in killing of two
  • Credit plan released
  • ACB traps ICDS project director
  • Former MP raps Government

    • Assam

  • BJP to give top priority to Assam in Assembly polls

    • Badminton

  • Cosmopolitan Club (Jayanagar) wins

    • Bangalore

  • Lokayukta intervenes to help accident victims' relative
  • 1,000 buses added to KSRTC fleet in a year
  • Govt. yet to approve scrapping of pay-and-park scheme
  • BMP seeks separate tax rates for city
  • Sexual harassment charge against poet
  • Degree course exams from April 13
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Farm sector gets big share in Belgaum credit plan

    • Bellary

  • Adopt safe abortion techniques, doctors told

    • Briefly

  • Allahabad Bank to focus on South
  • Janokka to go in for venture funding
  • IOB facility for tax payers
  • Atlas Copco's rotary screw compressors
  • TTK Prestige opens outlet in Pondicherry
  • Intelenet Global gets security certification

    • Business

  • India suggests SAARC agenda on WTO issues
  • C-DoT, Alcatel to set up centre in Chennai
  • SEBI redefines retail investor
  • PepsiCo plans to invest $300-500 m in India
  • Tata Power signs up joint venture with DVC
  • Software industry getting close to Rs. 100,000 crore mark
  • BioBusiness honour for Prathap Reddy
  • Tata Motors unveils bio-diesel blend
  • MRPL pact with Ashok Leyland
  • Airtel breaks circle barriers
  • Rupee loses further ground
  • Waheeda Rehman sells food firm to Avesthagen
  • BPL Mobile plans network expansion in TN

    • Carrom

  • Karnataka goes down fighting

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • The challenge of the HOLD syndrome
  • 20 km to pay a cellphone bill
  • HIV positive patient tries to con people at hospital
  • Anjuman-e-Himayath-e-Islam students to brush up English skills
  • Young workers tell panel they are over 16
  • Japanese grants for two NGOs
  • TNEB to undertake Rs. 596-cr. improvement works
  • Kidnap attempt foiled
  • Police recruit syces after nearly two decades
  • Normality returns to coast
  • 38 qualify as flying instructors
  • Woman robbed of cash, chain
  • 115 bags of ration rice seized
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Best woman player award for Humpy
  • Vikram in sole lead

    • Coimbatore

  • City will cruise through this summer
  • Rs. 20 lakhs allocated to fix faulty streetlights
  • `Cooperate in roll revision process'
  • Cases against 35 shops
  • Grievance day
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • A period of introspection for India
  • A chance for India hopefuls
  • A fitting reply to armchair critics
  • ICC Test rankings: India remains third
  • Yashpal, Akash shine
  • Wright, Dravid to arrive in Kochi today
  • Match Referee explains Inzamam's ban
  • Pakistan team arrives in city
  • `India lost the match in the mind'
  • Ranji final — much at stake
  • Former players salute Inzamam and his brigade
  • India beats England by seven wickets
  • Senior players' absence opens door for young cricketers
  • Is it Ferozeshah Kotla or `Fortla'?
  • McGrath happy to delay wicket No. 500
  • Big win for Freak Amigos
  • Delhi Police wins
  • TBML College wins
  • Indira Gandhi Stadium Club enters last eight

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8254
  • Solution to puzzle No. 8253

    • Cuddalore

  • A park in the heart of Cuddalore town
  • Coaching classes for SC/ST students
  • Free cycles for girl students

    • Cuddapah

  • Cuddapah turning into a desert: TDP
  • 3 injured as oil tanker overturns

    • Dharmapuri

  • Examination malpractice: youth held

    • Dharwad

  • Coalition partners advised to be tolerant, responsible
  • Water supply in Dharwad

    • Editorials

  • L'AFFAIRE MODI

    • Erode

  • Six panchayat chiefs to submit resignations
  • A lakh people walk over embers
  • Shopkeepers down shutters
  • Electrician crushed to death

    • Football

  • Hat-trick by Rajeev
  • Award for Ancheri
  • East Bengal back on top

    • Front Page

  • Over 1,000 feared killed in quake
  • Challenge and response
  • Sensex crashes 143 points
  • Singhania plans to `Touch the face of God'
  • Supreme Court upholds preventive detention powers of police
  • Manmohan for Mauritius
  • Women on late night shifts: Bill being amended
  • Further contributions from `The Hindu Relief Fund'
  • Judge allows Jackson's past as testimony
  • India plans to buy Mirage fighters
  • New ICHR chairman
  • Seeks probe
  • Annan absolved

    • Generalia

  • Cabinet backs New Delhi's bid for 2014 Asian Games
  • British Sports minister offers support
  • Live telecast of ODIs

    • Golf

  • Funk takes title

    • Gulbarga

  • Rs. 30.6-lakh deficit budget for Gulbarga University
  • Starting of journalism courses put on hold

    • Haryana

  • Haryana for better fiscal management

    • Hassan

  • Canara Bank achieves highest credit deposit ratio in Hassan

    • Hockey

  • Chennai regains title
  • IOC to meet PSB in final
  • Khalsa Blues, Police AC post wins

    • Hubli

  • Hubli roads splashed with colours
  • Revellers argue with police
  • B. Chandrasekhar dead

    • Hyderabad

  • Not a happy scenario
  • Officials gear up for long haul
  • Foreigners go Global for liver transplant WHO survey
  • Our samples wholesome: water board
  • Civic polls: BJP stages dharna
  • YSR condoles journalist's death
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Warning system helped spread tsunami alert
  • Life returns to normality in Sri Lanka
  • India offers $2 million aid to Indonesia
  • U.S. promises quick action
  • India, China discuss farm sector cooperation
  • Death, devastation everywhere, says eyewitness
  • Law enforcement in India flawed: U.S. report
  • Former U.S. diplomats oppose Bolton
  • GM rice to combat blindness
  • Pandas face bamboo crisis
  • Akayev defiant
  • Passengers on April 7 will travel free: Pakistan
  • Saudi assurance on oil supplies

    • Karimnagar

  • Plans afoot to make Karimnagar litter-free
  • Special package for APCO revival sought

    • Karnataka

  • Boy from Bangalore drowns in Paris
  • No tsunami tidal waves in coast
  • CAMPCO official suspended
  • Tender process to be probed
  • Translators complete task in record time
  • Inter-State Council should focus on development: Dharam Singh
  • Work on water supply project to begin soon
  • Find permanent solution to canal breaches, Govt. urged
  • No joking about smoking
  • KAT orders issue of contempt notices
  • Mysore university to offer correspondence courses
  • Opposition stages dharna in Assembly
  • Single-digit lotteries to be curbed
  • Uma Bharti case hearing put off
  • Kabbaligas' status: decision promised
  • K. Sanjeeva Shetty passes away
  • Kidnap charge: CBI probe sought
  • `Religion not responsible for all ills'
  • Appointments by April-end
  • Dredging of Uppanar in progress
  • Briefly
  • From the Districts

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Rs. 143-crore credit plan for Chamarajanagar district
  • Farmers demand regular supply of drinking water
  • Organise to get facilities, MLA tells women
  • Rs. 319 crores for Mandya district
  • Sarvodaya Party to `fight against corruption'
  • Pulse polio drive on April 10

    • Kerala

  • `Unusual tidal action' triggers tsunami fears
  • Traders' stir today
  • Stage shows to be monitored
  • Traders begin three-day anti-VAT stir today
  • B.Ed. colleges: Government decision upheld
  • `Water table around Coke plant has depleted'
  • Orders on sick units being reviewed
  • 25,000 evacuees return home in Alapad
  • Thousands form `human chain' for closure of soft drink units
  • Isaac calls for new development agenda
  • Chandy to flag off first train from Kochuveli
  • Government to monitor stage shows
  • Curbs on soil extraction in Ottappalam
  • BJP denies secret pact with Congress
  • Four killed in road accident
  • Court order to attach treasury
  • Water scarcity in Periyar wildlife reserve
  • Briefly

    • Kochi

  • Agriculture gets priority in district panchayat budget
  • Life thrown out of gear in coastal belt
  • Road development to get a boost in Thrikkakara
  • Women's panel holds sitting
  • Culvert work holds up traffic in city
  • Permits of two driving schools cancelled
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Work on houses for tsunami-hit to begin tomorrow
  • Swollen sea triggers panic

    • Kurnool

  • TDP leader faults Congress, TRS stand on Telangana

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Secrecy and governance
  • Building a new India

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Chilling reminder
  • F-16s for Pakistan
  • Modi issue
  • Merger of banks
  • Need for regulation
  • Terri Schiavo case

    • Madikeri

  • `Good education system must for social transformation'
  • Landholders end stir for tree rights

    • Maharashtra

  • Animal welfare is close to my heart: Amrita
  • Move to boost eco-tourism in Maharashtra

    • Mangalore

  • Nine street children rescued
  • Moily wants education to be a social tool
  • Success of credit plan depends on banks: DC
  • Rs. 1,451-crore credit plan for Dakshina Kannada
  • Adopt original model of reforms, banks told
  • Pillion rider dies in road accident
  • Ullal Darga urs tomorrow
  • St. Lawrence Shrine hall ready
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Campaign against drunken driving from next week
  • Rs. 1.4-crore deficit budget for Mysore varsity
  • Man killed in road accident
  • Release aid to poultry farms: NECC

    • Nagapattinam

  • Police keep vigil in coastal villages

    • National

  • A `non-partisan' visit to Mauritius
  • Chidambaram's allegations totally baseless: Jayalalithaa
  • Revisit labour policies: Minister
  • Support to UPA Government not in perpetuity: Bardhan
  • F-16 offer to Pakistan an impediment to peace: CPI
  • Cabinet panel clears defence purchases
  • Gujarat BJP dissidents unrelenting
  • Action plan on good governance: panel stresses need for blueprint
  • Mehbooba, Omar Abdullah to board bus
  • Why Monday's quake did not produce big tsunami?
  • U.S. starting arms race in South Asia: Jaswant Singh
  • Modi meets Vajpayee
  • Committed to resolving issues with Pakistan: Manmohan
  • Baby oil battle moves to Delhi
  • Vijay Nambiar is Deputy National Security Adviser
  • National meet of AIDS Society of India
  • 5 more Ministers inducted into Jharkhand Ministry
  • `Serfoji took ophthalmic care of patients'
  • Rs. 3,334-crore State-Wide Area Networks planned
  • Agni-III missile to be test-fired by year-end
  • Supreme Court order raises hopes of villagers facing submergence

    • Nellore

  • Collector wants fair deal to beneficiaries
  • Tsunami: officials heave a sigh of relief

    • New Delhi

  • Congress MLA suspended for `insulting' Chair; House adjourned
  • DDA sets the ball rolling for Games
  • Second thoughts on diesel price hike
  • Dissidents have their way
  • Sheila refuses to make public list of corrupt officers
  • East Delhi to be the gainer
  • CISF nabs three for misconduct at airport
  • Award for woman editor
  • Supreme Court sets deadline on action plan for illegal mining
  • Punjab Assembly passes VAT Bill amid walkout
  • East Delhi to go waterless More flak for hike in water tariff
  • CINEMA
  • Drive against faulty number plates
  • IIS officer shoots himself
  • FIR ordered against India TV CEO
  • UKD leader blasts Govt. over capital issue
  • No water for Sonia Vihar plant
  • Urdu Bill faces another hurdle
  • U.P. gears up to face bandh
  • Relief for private schools
  • Go-ahead for controversial proposal
  • Ghosts of internal assessment haunt students
  • Old couple allegedly thrashed
  • MCD to carry out another survey for ODI after 10 days
  • Alleged suicide by security guard
  • Hoax bomb call in Chanakyapuri
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    • Nizamabad

  • Water-borne diseases on rise
  • TDP leaders pay tributes to NTR
  • BJP exercise on party panels from April 6

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Gangadharan, George let down Congress: Hassan
  • Reconsider VAT implementation

    • Pondicherry

  • Housing subsidy distributed
  • Over 11,000 candidates appear for SSLC exam
  • CM's remarks on VAT draw flak
  • Nod for cattle breeding project
  • Let seniority decide nurses appointment, urge MLAs
  • Implement CMP, says CPI legislator
  • Civic polls soon, says Rangasamy

    • Racing : Horse

  • Amazing Striker in fine nick

    • Racing : Motor

  • Armaan bags BMW scholarship award

    • Religion

  • Saint who ruled Vijayanagar

    • Salem

  • Waste collection to be outsourced
  • Uzhavar Santhai to get facelift

    • Shimoga

  • Shankar Bharathi wins 16 seats in MAMCOS elections
  • Industry wants gas for vehicles at low price

    • Sport

  • Australia's domination continues
  • Dent gobbles up Coria
  • Victory boosts Anand's lead

    • Sports : General

  • Bangalore varsity honours achievers
  • Good show by Indians

    • Swimming

  • Pradeep Kumar named chief coach

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Near-perfect response to late night alert
  • Chidambaram hindering tsunami assistance flow, says Jayalalithaa
  • Widen road
  • `Betrayal of voters'
  • Objections to oil purchase from Reliance `strange'
  • Removal of encroachments
  • Charge sheet in kidnap case likely today
  • Kancheepuram fishermen restless
  • Produce records in attempt to murder case: Madurai Bench
  • Pension scheme for construction workers
  • Appavu walks out
  • Acharya moves court for relaxation of bail conditions
  • Over seven lakh students appear for SSLC exam
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Role of some NGOs under scanner
  • Multimedia classrooms `in the offing'
  • Need to start community colleges: VC
  • 1,800 applications registered
  • Basketball court being relaid
  • Graft charge: official held

    • Tennis

  • Harsh crashes out
  • Binu Mani advances

    • Thanjavur

  • Tourism Dept. training taxi drivers

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Kerala university budget announces slew of courses
  • K.T. Thomas panel suggestions to be implemented soon
  • Back to normal after tsunami scare
  • Land documents for new terminal handed over to AAI
  • Anti-filariasis campaign
  • Reconsider provisions in Patents Bill: KSSP
  • Around the City

    • This Day That Age

  • dated March 30, 1955: Minister on defence needs
  • dated March 30, 1955: Sanskrit University
  • dated March 30, 1955: PF interest

    • Thrissur

  • Anti-Karunakaran factions hold meeting

    • Tiruchi

  • Peer educators' initiative in combating AIDS
  • Revised plantain crop loss put at Rs.10 crores
  • Appeal to residents
  • GH to get Surgical Intensive Care facility
  • 27,259 students appear for SSLC exam
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Collector allays fears of Kanyakumari fishermen
  • Police personnel take to the skies
  • 31,019 sit for SSLC exams
  • Guard held

    • Tirupati

  • TDP celebrates Foundation Day
  • TTD working on epic project
  • Service tax: Customs raids on 92 premises

    • Tuticorin

  • Tuticorin normal

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Relief for tsunami victims

    • Union Territories

  • New reservation policy for Chandigarh students

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Board student alleges negligence on part of invigilators

    • Vijayawada

  • Eventful end to VMC general body tenure
  • TDP leaders pay tribute to NTR
  • Blast in dustbin creates panic
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • `Wish I had brought Godavari water'
  • Swerve it like Schumi here
  • VUDA justifies release of mobilisation advance
  • Around the City

    • Volleyball

  • Indian Youth team triumphs

    • Warangal

  • Life term for two in murder case
  • Students urged to develop HR skills
  • Hold civic polls, says Kadiam
  • KU management school opens today

    • Weather

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