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  • Antony's stand not harmful: Kodikkunnil

    • Anantapur

  • Insurance staff stir hits transactions
  • Row over water lifting settled

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • VAT regime in State from today
  • Cabinet nod for Jayati Ghosh panel report
  • CAG report points to low returns from State-owned firms
  • YSR sets agenda for civic polls, Cabinet expansion
  • Crop diversification: blueprint to be ready by June
  • Mobile lab to check diesel adulteration on the anvil
  • Rs. 2,529-cr. spending has not helped even an acre: CAG
  • Small family norm campaign pays off
  • VAT regime in State from today
  • More Lepakshi showrooms to be set up
  • Medak police on high alert
  • Veterinary varsity Bill passed
  • EAMCET panel submits report
  • State tops in khadi, village units
  • Guillotining of demands decried
  • Man held on cheating charge
  • Transfer travails taxing Jana
  • Noisy scenes over transfer policy
  • Skeletal remains in sump: police suspect murder
  • Kapunadu to intensify stir
  • Rs. 75cr. for RDS modernisation
  • ABVP campaign against summer classes
  • Man attempts to tonsure wife?
  • Row over damage to plaque
  • Corruption charges irk Minister
  • Three bills passed
  • Meet on organic chemistry begins today
  • Bandh by drug traders
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Ticket price of pre-dawn sevas in Tirumala may be doubled
  • Five held in double murder case
  • Nutrine celebrates golden jubilee

    • Bangalore

  • Bangalore One kiosks to be operational from tomorrow
  • Some discipline may return to parking lots
  • Labourer dies as earth caves in
  • Man robbed of jewellery, cash
  • BMTC to honour school principals
  • BMP may not change decision
  • APSRTC driver among three killed in road accident
  • Power shutdown
  • Debarred
  • Water Adalat
  • In Bangalore Today

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  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • State mini championship from tomorrow

    • Belgaum

  • AIDS walkathon enters State

    • Bellary

  • `Andhra Pradesh using Krishna waters without clearance'

    • Boxing

  • Pele's 1,000th goal ball auctioned

    • Briefly

  • CII hails Cabinet decision
  • United Western Bank to raise Tier I capital
  • AQSR completes 1,000 registrations
  • Crompton Greaves bags order from NTPC
  • TAFE-Power Source pact with Chinese firm

    • Business

  • Adhere to deadline on governance norms: SEBI chief
  • Corp Bank ties up with MCX
  • `Choice of eating habits rests with consumer'
  • Centre notifies dereservation of items from SSI list
  • Xerox looks for greater market share in India
  • Birlas to set up aluminium smelter in Jharkhand
  • Rupee posts sharp gains
  • Microsoft launches `Office for Banks'
  • Sensex jumps 111 points
  • Lectra software for Tirupur institute
  • Mumbai-London service from Virgin Atlantic
  • IA board approves public offering

    • Carrom

  • TN wins men's title

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • 500 sovereigns of jewels stolen from T. Nagar shop
  • Awards programme seeks to transform education
  • Additional Judges yet to be made permanent
  • Early identification not a problem, early intervention is
  • Sugar mill case posted before another judge
  • NLC restrained from holding wage talks
  • 25 graduate from geriatric nursing course
  • Good governance `is good business'
  • High Court direction to prevent wall demolition
  • Hepatitis B screening camp for mothers on April 7
  • Residential colony flooded with sewage
  • Seminar on self-employment avenues
  • Co-optex to launch new designs
  • Kilpauk cemetery closed
  • Corporation goes in for bonds to save on interest
  • Temple burgled
  • Techies no longer making tracks for U.S.
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Clean sweep by Anand
  • Hari Krishna to play in Dos Hermanas tournament

    • Coimbatore

  • Mayor warns contractors
  • Entry of big IT companies at last
  • Councillor alleges scam in waste management
  • BSNL adalat for cellular subscribers
  • Life sentence for murder
  • Camp
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Sarwan, Gayle prefer careers to C&W contracts
  • Indian women lose to New Zealand
  • Muralitharan to resume training
  • Young Association posts win
  • Rajgopalan stars for Mohan Meakins
  • Just one knock to change his world
  • Haryana in command
  • Vettori out of first Test

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    • Cuddalore

  • LIC employees stage demonstration

    • Cuddapah

  • Highway gang nabbed
  • DCC minority cell chief flays Naidu

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply in Dharwad
  • Call to create awareness on Vedas

    • Editorials

  • DIASPORA AND CITIZENSHIP
  • FEDERAL POWER

    • Erode

  • Erode Municipality awaits upgradation
  • Drainage works get over Rs. 22 crs.

    • Football

  • Sukhwinder Singh to coach India
  • Southern holds Western
  • England ekes out a win over Azerbaijan
  • Remembering Heysel tragedy
  • Big win for Sporting Clube
  • Narrow win for KTC

    • Front Page

  • 2 Haryana Ministers killed in copter crash
  • India, Mauritius plan Free Trade Agreement
  • BJP's tough message to Modi and detractors
  • This day, a century ago
  • Verdict unexpected, says Biman Bose
  • Acharya moves Supreme Court for transfer of case outside Tamil Nadu
  • `Black Friday' release only after blasts case judgment
  • Ganguly should try and turn things around
  • It will be tougher for India in the ODIs
  • I've grown into a more all-round batsman now: Dravid
  • Madan Yadav puts Railways on track
  • Having shown he belongs, Narain will have to look to improve
  • Ramadorai to head Nasscom
  • No "security threat" to ODI in Delhi
  • Missile test-fired
  • Centre insists on Kotla venue

    • Golf

  • Gaurav Ghei leads as Jeev, Kapur disappoint

    • Guntur

  • PCET result announced
  • Congress leader hacked to death
  • Rights panel may be moved in Anjamma case

    • Haryana

  • Death shocks Kurukshetra

    • Hassan

  • Hassan cooperative bank posts profit

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Traders' strike hits Himachal

    • Hockey

  • India drubs England

    • Hubli

  • Bandh call evokes mixed response in Hubli-Dharwad
  • Railway police trace missing boys

    • Hyderabad

  • Little say for MCH tenders panel?
  • MCH shifts, removes parking lots
  • Drive against roadside eateries from today
  • Making learning of Telugu a fun
  • More jaundice cases surface
  • Disruption in water supply on April 4, 5
  • Caste certificates for Benthu Oriya tribes: Minister
  • Achampet police station attacked by Maoists
  • 22 cases booked against FP shops
  • Plan to improve sewerage system in phases
  • Dictionary author lauded
  • Power shutdown
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Spy agencies were dead wrong on Iraq: report
  • Jakarta admits slow delivery of relief
  • U.K. Conservatives want to ditch "Tory"
  • North Korea demands nuclear talks on "equal terms"
  • Uncertainty in Egypt over Mubarak's successor
  • Woman seeks damages for racial bias
  • `Joint mechanism could help move peace process forward'
  • Mugabe vows to crush Opposition
  • Europe asks Akayev to resign
  • Parents denied access at moment of death
  • World court ponders war crimes probe in Darfur
  • Brain implant reads man's thoughts
  • A carnage on the frozen vastness
  • Rwanda rebels declare truce
  • Israeli court eases Jewish conversion law
  • 28 killed in chlorine spill
  • Former police chief held for graft
  • Paul Wolfowitz gets the nod

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Vaishno Devi pilgrims die

    • Kannur

  • Doctors to campaign against death sentence

    • Karimnagar

  • Rs. 1,200-cr. annual credit plan for Karimnagar district

    • Karnataka

  • Centre's intervention sought on `illegal' projects in A.P.
  • Illicit arrack claims two lives in Hassan
  • Budget session ends on a sour note
  • Charge this mobile battery in a minute
  • Government lambasted in both Houses
  • Governor names 14-member board of management for vet varsity
  • Khot elected Deputy Chairman of Council
  • State files fresh affidavit on BMIC project
  • `Law alone can't stop sexual harassment'
  • Deposits for Arkavathy sites being refunded
  • Stern action to recover excise arrears of over Rs. 630 crores
  • Illicit arrack claims two lives in Hassan
  • Plea to disqualify ZP members turned down
  • Pourakarmikas begin indefinite dharna
  • `Janapada Loka will not be closed down'
  • Briefly
  • From the Districts

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Teachers boycott evaluation of SSLC answer scripts
  • Davangere Ratna awards questioned
  • Villagers protest assault on teacher
  • Jayanna elected executive president of Horata Samiti
  • Defeated candidate elected president of gram panchayat
  • `Mahila kendras possible centres of naxal activity'
  • Man's death: villagers cry murder
  • Man attempts suicide
  • Yeshwantpur, Ajmer train

    • Kerala

  • Congress reschedules party polls in State
  • O.V. Vijayan cremated
  • Karunakaran faction raises new demand
  • Traders' stir total on second day
  • O.V. Vijayan cremated
  • Gangadharan demands Joseph's ouster
  • Warm reception to Gayoom
  • Memorial for Vijayan in Palakkad
  • A film inspired by a real-life incident
  • CPI(M) to build 100 houses for tsunami-hit
  • Collection agents to be made permanent staff
  • Cable operators to boycott AXN, Sony, Discovery
  • Publish tsunami relief accounts, demands CPI
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Probe on into `misuse' of rail fare concession

    • Kochi

  • City to host 3 major events tomorrow
  • A farewell to remember
  • Mayors' meet: delegates arriving
  • `Waive debts of tsunami victims'
  • Minister invites foreign universities to the State
  • Timber units to down shutters
  • Theft of credit card: three held
  • Elephant runs amok
  • Around the Ciy
  • In Kochi Today
  • CAMPUS NOTES

    • Kollam

  • QSSS function blocked; tension at Alapad
  • MP first accused in two criminal cases

    • Kurnool

  • Jurala water for Kurnool to be sought
  • VAT comes into force today

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Legality of denying visa
  • The neocon revolution

    • Letters to the Editor

  • The Modi affair
  • Heart-wrenching
  • Women on night shifts
  • Media matters
  • Science education
  • A visionary

    • Madikeri

  • CPI(ML) is not a naxalite outfit: leader
  • Writer sees harmony between Kannada, Kodava
  • Academy chief not in favour of Kodava script

    • Madurai

  • Call to revive indigenous knowledge of the seas
  • `New Veeranam project will hit ecology'
  • Bench transfers probe to CB-CID
  • Strike hits work in LIC offices
  • Traders stage demo
  • Seminar
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Agents to suspend sale of A-I tickets

    • Mangalore

  • Two sentenced for murder
  • Councillors upset over turn of events
  • Chain, earrings snatched from woman
  • St. Aloysius College sets up observatory
  • Association to intensify struggle to reform Church
  • Musical concerts in Mangalore from today
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Manipur

  • Five militants killed in Manipur

    • Mysore

  • Trade bandh near total in Mysore
  • Non-payment of rent by Congress sparks heated debate
  • Musical feature on health tomorrow
  • Property tax can be paid till Sunday
  • Man dies of suspected food poisoning
  • Man held, stolen goods recovered

    • Nagapattinam

  • Engg. college to host workshop on tsunami
  • Rotary gesture to tsunami-hit children

    • Nagercoil

  • Water, sanitation programme for coastal villages

    • Nalgonda

  • Governor to tour fluoride-hit villages
  • Fake naxals loot petrol bunk

    • National

  • This day, a century ago
  • CPI(M) planning major campaign in Darjeeling
  • Special Representatives of India, China to meet
  • Congress reschedules organisational elections in 9 States
  • "Ensure security for Muzaffarabad bus users"
  • President condoles Vijayan's death
  • I will continue to come to Baripada, says Gladys
  • Implement Prasar Bharti Act, Centre told
  • The Gulmarg Gondola aloft
  • Orissa Assembly stalemate ends
  • Swamy calls for nationalist front against Congress
  • Indian prisoners in Port Louis go on fast
  • Fears over security of bus passengers
  • Eco-friendly facilities for Amarnath pilgrims
  • Army assures adequate security for bus service
  • Draft national biotechnology development strategy released
  • Copter crash: DGCA orders enquiry
  • BMS fears anti-labour reforms
  • Response from P. Chidambaram
  • `Speedy justice to undertrials a constitutional obligation'
  • Response from RSS chief
  • Major reconstruction programme for Maldives
  • Ministers' meet to discuss labour reforms
  • Passengers undeterred by threat
  • UGC chief's appointment found ``illegal''
  • Vivek Oberoi returns award
  • Minister's last order
  • Leaders condole death of Haryana Ministers
  • ``Multi-party democracy in Maldives in a year''
  • Arjun Munda's copter makes emergency landing

    • New Delhi

  • Budget silent on new projects
  • No new tax proposal in NDMC surplus budget
  • Dissidents force House adjournment
  • Warning bell against fake universities
  • Mixed response to bandh on Day-Two
  • Weavers shown the way to success
  • Human traffickers still at large
  • Matharu case finds echo in Assembly
  • Wanted criminals nabbed
  • CINEMA
  • Four acquitted in murder case
  • Badrinath `prasad' to be available across the world
  • Reshuffle of Central Secretaries
  • Shivaji Terminus in World Heritage List
  • Airport PCO operator held
  • Government reduces VAT rate on many items
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Gujarat dissidents unwilling to give up

    • Nizamabad

  • YSR to unveil LI scheme foundation stone
  • Yet another woman found murdered

    • Pondicherry

  • Goat owners told to inoculate animals against PPR
  • CII hails focus on infrastructure development
  • Scrap central sales tax, businessmen urge
  • MLA seeks ban on cabaret dances
  • Patient care at General Hospital `not up to the mark'
  • `Quality of life' will determine who's poor and who isn't
  • Speaker urges government to take over defunct sugar mill
  • Privatised garbage clearance working well, says Minister

    • Punjab

  • An oasis of tolerance

    • Racing : Horse

  • Ooty season from April 14

    • Rajasthan

  • Whole night power supply for Rajasthan villages
  • Bid to improve seeds' quality
  • Trade bodies back VAT
  • Call for legal empowerment of marginalised sections
  • An industrialist with a vision
  • Stress on better marketing to promote mustard
  • Congress, BJP call truce over member's suspension

    • Religion

  • Quest for the Self

    • Salem

  • Blood Donors Directory released
  • Life imprisonment

    • Shimoga

  • Industrialists protest action against gas-run vehicles

    • Sport

  • Ganguly should try and turn things around
  • It will be tougher for India in the ODIs
  • I've grown into a more all-round batsman now: Dravid
  • Madan Yadav puts Railways on track
  • Having shown he belongs, Narain will have to look to improve

    • Sports : General

  • Summer camps at 154 centres
  • National coach was unaware of supplements being given to lifters
  • DDCA expresses inability to host ODI
  • SDAT to use motion analysis system

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Charge sheet copies given to Acharyas
  • Katpadi-Tirunelveli direct service possible in two years: Velu
  • State still tops in productivity of major crops
  • Remains of 2 temples found near Shore Temple: ASI
  • Rolls revision progressing satisfactorily: Gupta
  • Saplings planted at Sadar Kuppam
  • It's contrary to truth: Baalu
  • Dravidian parties betraying people's interests: BJP
  • `Shipping Ministry has sent reply to PMO'
  • Government keen on Nanguneri project
  • Jayalalithaa flouting norms, says Balasubramoniyan
  • TNEB to set up 60 sub-stations
  • Appu seeks charge sheet in Telugu
  • PMK warns of stir
  • `More weaver' cooperatives making profits'
  • ENGAGEMENTS
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Coir industry in crisis
  • Rs.624-cr. ACP for Karur
  • Alandur Councillors charge staff with bribery
  • Efforts on to set up memorial for school fire victims
  • Become entrepreneurs, students told
  • Student killed
  • Local holiday
  • LIC employees stage demonstration

    • Tennis

  • Prakash in last four
  • Christopher Marquis advances
  • Mauresmo's march towards No. 1 spot continues
  • Semifinalists spotted

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • VAT will bring down prices: expert
  • Sivamani, ace drummer
  • Traffic curbs today
  • Government revives Kannur airport project proposal
  • AIYF activists block water tankers
  • Six arrested
  • Steps to help Keralite women in Kuwait
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated April 01,1955: PM defends China's claim
  • dated April 01,1955: Kabul protest to Pakistan
  • dated April 01,1955: Film Federation of India

    • Thrissur

  • Protest at KAU executive committee meeting
  • Rs.70 lakhs for science museum
  • Rs. 3.54 crores for temples
  • `School of Drama popularised serious theatre'
  • Life term for five in murder case
  • TTI student falls to death from train
  • BJP activist hacked

    • Tiruchi

  • Parking lot created on Amaravathy Supermarket premises
  • Fill vacant posts in Govt. arts colleges: teachers
  • Local body byelection schedule
  • TNEB warning to welding units
  • `Check fall in prices of farm produce'
  • Insurance staff go on strike
  • NIT to conduct model AIEEE on April 15
  • Rs.17.5-lakh grant for university
  • Woman killed as two lorries collide
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Computerised post-office at Koodankulam staff colony
  • Employees' stir hits work in LIC offices

    • Tirupati

  • SBI module achieves 6,000-cr. turnover

    • Tuticorin

  • Water treatment plant planned in Tuticorin
  • Local body byelections on April 14
  • NAAC to visit Tuticorin college today

    • Udupi

  • 15 schools to get special grants

    • Uttaranchal

  • Most shops remain closed in Uttaranchal
  • Call to make earthquake resistant structures

    • Vellore

  • Go in for self-employment, engineering students told

    • Vijayawada

  • King of fruits hits market
  • A picture of neglect
  • Poll promises fulfilled
  • Work at LIC branches hit
  • Transco, civic officials squabble over power dues
  • Grand reception awaits Sindhura
  • Disappointment for I-T assessees
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Confusion over enforcement of fishing ban
  • One-dayers' live telecast on giant screen
  • Protest against damage to KGH
  • Two end life
  • RINL signs MoU with Ministry of Steel
  • Medical shops to remain open
  • Steps to curb fictitious claims urged
  • LIC staff observe strike
  • Special trains to clear rush
  • Theft in temple
  • Issue of EAMCET hall tickets
  • Low pressure over Bay
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Chilli farmers face uncertain market in Warangal
  • Implementation of GO 610 sought

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Yachting

  • YAI's 45th anniversary regatta from April 29

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