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    Alappuzha

  • Thakazhi memorial to be completed in six months

    • Anantapur

  • Concern over poor pharma education
  • JVV mobile lab attracts students

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Coop. sugar factory reopened after a decade
  • Vision must for key programmes, says Kalam
  • Tourism in State on a historic roll
  • Probe confirms irregularities
  • State blames naxals for impasse
  • New safety policy soon
  • Mine cleared as fire breaks out
  • Shed outdated concepts, students told
  • Mahanadu to be held at Telugu Vijayam
  • Kin worried over missing naxals
  • Ration cards likely for poor families: Minister
  • State urged to modernise RDS
  • Bank achieves steady progress
  • Maoists fire at vehicles, patient dies of shock
  • Land drive next round in August
  • Suri appears in court
  • Six die in road mishap
  • 19 naxalites surrender
  • Registration charges to come down soon
  • Minister `grilled' by CBI team
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Kapunadu team to meet Sonia in June

    • Assam

  • `Sanitary conditions in Guwahati Medical College hospital deplorable'

    • Badminton

  • Indians have it easy

    • Bangalore

  • CEC springs a surprise on people
  • Woman held on charge of cheating
  • Health clinics planned
  • Holiday only in Delhi
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Samaritans may not be good always

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • Merchants, Greens post impressive wins
  • BSNL sweats it out

    • Bellary

  • Modernisation of Tungabhadra canals to start within 15 days

    • Bihar

  • Lalu accuses BJP of horse-trading

    • Bijapur

  • Broad-gauge line till Bagalkot by March Broad-gauge line till Bagalkot

    • Briefly

  • Inflation moves up to 5.26 p.c.
  • Dr. Reddy's loses patent case
  • Roots launches new horns
  • Aztec pays 10 p.c. dividend
  • Tata Tea launches new brand
  • Lionbridge's Chennai centre
  • Bharat Forge plans GDRs, FCCBs
  • India Infoline price band at Rs. 70-80
  • Godrej & Boyce's SED to double exports
  • MBT India completes ten years
  • Reliance Infocomm covers 200 towns

    • Business

  • Sensex crashes 219 points
  • VAT committee to decide on variations in tax slabs today
  • `No case for higher cell call charges'
  • New policy on jute unveiled
  • Rupee loses further ground
  • Qatar to supply more LNG
  • Ahill Group to enter Sri Lankan market
  • TEA signs MoU with Botswana

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • Where have all the open spaces gone?
  • Films, fans & crowd control
  • Re-certification of doctors may be made must
  • Online translation service tools under construction
  • Stolen articles worth Rs. 25 lakhs restored to owners
  • City college signs agreement with Danish business school
  • Commonwealth meet to focus on small trade
  • D. Pandian elected CPI State secretary
  • Youth knocked down by train
  • Correction
  • Diabetic? Better watch your feet
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • It's a tough call for Sasikiran

    • Coimbatore

  • When loved ones suffer personality splits
  • No transformers; Board's plan go awry
  • Additional seats: Medical Council team inspects college
  • Owners take over part of leased land
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • It is time to wield the stick

    • Cricket

  • Innings dedicated to Inzy

    • Crossword

  • THE HINDU CROSSWORD 8269
  • Solution to Puzzle 8268

    • Cuddapah

  • Series of programmes await Shinde in Cuddapah
  • Liquor shop applicants force banks' closure
  • Library inaugurated

    • Dharwad

  • APMC election schedule announced
  • Water supply in Dharwad

    • Editorials

  • Really opening up the skies
  • Death in a booming economy

    • Erode

  • Sathyamangalam seeks financial sanction for UGD

    • Football

  • Sporting Lisbon stuns Newcastle
  • East Bengal beats Churchill, regains top slot

    • Front Page

  • No political compromise with terror: Manmohan
  • Assembly by-polls on May 14
  • A tussle out in the open in Amul town
  • Tamil Nadu proposes a new airport at Tambaram
  • Retaliatory strike by Tigers, says army
  • Afridi delivers a knock-out punch
  • Dravid, the right man to lead India
  • TRAI extends date
  • Paris hotel fire kills 20
  • Tamil for the e-mail age
  • Qatar to supply more LNG
  • Tight security for Musharraf

    • Globescan

  • "Wholphin" born in captivity
  • Camilla begins royal duties
  • Kyrgyzstan not for more foreign forces

    • Golf

  • Lonard takes lead
  • Digvijay wins

    • Gujarat

  • Godhra carnage: bid to hide truth alleged

    • Guntur

  • Walking track is her unfinished task
  • Workers Colony lacks proper roads

    • Haryana

  • Big plans on education

    • Hassan

  • BAI course for engineering graduates

    • Hockey

  • Emphatic win for Indian Airlines

    • Hyderabad

  • The mummy still waits
  • A circular wonder
  • Metro Water Board moves to quench summer thirst
  • Given treatment
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • `Diversion' cases cry for attention

    • International

  • U.K. campaign "becoming ugly"
  • U.S. cannot sell nuclear power technology: Rice
  • E.U. delays lifting arms ban on China
  • `Soft border' emerges as common vocabulary
  • Tension in the backyard as Musharraf prepares for India trip
  • Soyuz craft launched to ISS
  • British journalists acquitted
  • Dhaka tragedy: More bodies found

    • Karnataka

  • Second round of counselling for PG medical courses
  • M.K. Bahn seeks policy to promote innovation
  • Malimath for implementing report in toto
  • State in a race to use its share of Krishna waters
  • No head for drug names? Don't worry!
  • Honour for great sacrifice touches every heart
  • IAF plan to set up facility may run aground
  • Indigenous cattle breeds dwindling, scientists term it dangerous
  • U.S. disappointed with delay in signing pact on aviation
  • Put railway projects on fast track, Velu urged
  • `No permission needed to offer cheaper loans'
  • Lokayukta free to inspect hospitals, says Minister
  • Panel dissolved following graft charges
  • Notification on bypoll to be issued soon
  • UAS strain a big hit in Indoneisa
  • U.S. keen on signing aviation pact with India
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Statue defiled, Nippani tense
  • Bayaluseeme board demands more funds
  • Boon for port is bane for Karwar
  • `Efforts being made to develop Chamarajanagar'
  • No ordinary village this
  • Calandria tubes installed at Kaiga atomic plant
  • Vishwakarmas seek special quota
  • Dacoits strike at dentist's house
  • TAPMI pact with U.S. varsity

    • Kerala

  • There is no shortcut to success
  • THRISSUR
  • UDF has not weakened, says Oommen Chandy
  • Loss from accidents put at Rs. 453.78 crores
  • Talks on with coalition partners, says Murali
  • Air-India Express to fly to Abu Dhabi on April 29
  • Achuthanandan blames Sooppy, Basheer
  • Court directive to register documents at old rates
  • `LDF happy over more partners leaving UDF'
  • Restrictions on massage parlours
  • Two more MLAs offer to resign
  • Sastri expects huge turnout at rally
  • New Chief Justice for Kerala
  • BJP suspends two leaders
  • Results published
  • New High Court CJ
  • Central leaders to attend Congress rally
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Around the City

    • Kochi

  • Stage set for Congress rally in the city
  • Relief for tsunami-hit delayed
  • SSLC exam held without a hitch
  • Five arrested for burglary at jewellery
  • District Youth Congress leaders against split
  • A coin and a horseshoe
  • In Kochi Today
  • Waiting for a proper workplace

    • Kollam

  • Asramam Maidan to be made heritage complex
  • Tuskers given vaccine

    • Kozhikode

  • Kozhikode city to get new power project
  • VAT registration

    • Kurnool

  • Differences in Congress over protocol issue
  • `Works costing Rs. 50 cr. taken up
  • Hostel inmates hospitalised

    • Leader Page Articles

  • The sangh parivar and the candid camera

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Most like it, some don't...
  • Musharraf's visit
  • A milestone
  • RSS-BJP row
  • Eye-opener
  • Stalemate in Bihar
  • Give him his due
  • Negative vote
  • Praiseworthy
  • Higher education
  • Government in Iraq
  • A pity
  • Not important?

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Narmada pilgrims ignored warning on water release; invited disaster

    • Madikeri

  • `Codava council's demands justified'

    • Madurai

  • Govt.'s free textbook scheme opens a chapter of woes for sellers
  • Power shutdown today
  • `Patta' transfer orders issued to 139 persons
  • Blaze in HC Bench complex
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • In the name of God

    • Maharashtra

  • Testing the waters for privatisation

    • Mangalore

  • `Laws helped curb child labour'
  • KDP meeting discusses water scarcity
  • `Walk for water' to Thumbay
  • Three persons end life in Dakshina Kannada
  • Fisheries census on in city
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • `Handle polymer products properly'
  • Deve Gowda gives up hope on early appointments to boards
  • Campaign for State chapter of NHRC begins
  • Concern over poor quality of drinking water
  • Sarvodaya Karnataka meet on Monday

    • Nagapattinam

  • Nagapattinam district farmers oppose New Veeranam Project

    • Nagercoil

  • Uproar in Nagercoil municipal council meeting, commissioner gheraoed
  • Charity padayatra culminates
  • Vehicles gutted at workshop

    • National

  • BrahMos test-fired off west coast
  • Panel of Chief Ministers to tackle naxalite violence
  • Peace process will not come to a wall: Brajesh
  • Eminent industrialist T.S. Santhanam passes away
  • A testimony to military's resilience
  • Army gets a new Command
  • Supreme Court notice on bio-medical waste disposal
  • A doctor seeks a life-saving law
  • Uncertainty over Central aid to water projects
  • `Ask Centre for CVC report on defence deals'
  • Greenpeace seeks ban on open-air GE rice trials
  • Court continues stay on confirmation of GCM verdict
  • ``I initiated Guiding Principles''

    • Nellore

  • Aquaculture feed: bill likely in next Assembly session
  • Two die in accident

    • New Delhi

  • DMRC allays fears about operations
  • Automated toll collection now
  • Tyre dealers ask for parity in tax rates
  • Misguided drives
  • Delhi in grip of cricket fever
  • Mock drill conducted
  • Petrol pump strike on Monday
  • No room for complacency, says Chandy
  • Bus driver beaten to death
  • Baby-swapping alleged
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Why we should give up on `race'
  • Guide to good parenting

    • Pathanamthitta

  • `Save sandalwood tree' rally to tour district on April 17, 18
  • CITU plans to launch agitation
  • PDCB to open four new branches

    • Pondicherry

  • MBA in banking technology
  • Woman in IAF
  • Plea for pension
  • Stir intensified

    • Punjab

  • Punjab seeks loan waiver

    • Religion

  • Grace of the Divine

    • Salem

  • Yercaud being spruced up for five-day flower show in May
  • Amendments for disaster management discussed

    • Sport

  • Afridi delivers a knock-out punch
  • Dravid, the right man to lead India

    • Sports : General

  • Victorian PM assures support for CWG
  • SAAP's gesture

    • Squash

  • Joshna ready to take on the world

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Stage set for trial of strength
  • `Take firm stand against terrorism'
  • Tamil Nadu seeks private partners for infrastructure projects
  • At 75, freedom spirit is still strong
  • It continues to be a burning problem
  • Four cities to be promoted IT destinations
  • Wait for buses without a shelter
  • Waves have not washed away ambition
  • Reservation policy `not yet framed for IIT'
  • Bail for woman who hanged her children
  • Women's film festival opens
  • Seven killed in accidents
  • Former Minister convicted in wealth case
  • Foreign students welcome: Minister
  • Tension after youth's murder
  • Binny workers slam anti-labour policies
  • Hampering traffic
  • 3 killed in car-van collision
  • Avoid climbing Tiruvannamalai hills, people told
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Mango pulp units pin hopes on exports
  • Mobile phone call turns fatal for 24-year-old woman
  • Korean fabrics to be displayed in Tirupur
  • `Pudukottai vulnerable to gastroenteritis'
  • Training for census

    • Tennis

  • Golovin packs off an erratic Venus Williams
  • Rushmi enters final
  • Santhanam a great admirer of sport: Ramanathan Krishnan
  • Indian team ready for Fed Cup

    • Thanjavur

  • `All villages will be made knowledge centres'
  • Twice-put off DMK meet begins today

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • TRIDA plans ring roads to ease traffic congestion
  • Needle-shaped spider spotted
  • Youth arrested on murder charge
  • Tusker recovering from injury
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • A transit point for heroin?

    • This Day That Age

  • dated April 16, 1955: PM writes to Kotelawala
  • dated April 16, 1955: Portugal rejects note
  • dated April 16, 1955: Tamil encyclopaedia

    • Thrissur

  • Police conduct raids on firms lending money

    • Tiruchi

  • Puthanatham yet to tap its economic potential fully
  • Tiruchi dt. farmers seek relief for crop damage
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tuticorin

  • MCI team inspects Tuticorin college
  • Potential of coastal afforestation in tsunami-affected areas assessed

    • Udupi

  • `Vishnu Sahasranama' recitation at Malpe
  • Body found

    • Union Territories

  • Chandigarh retains `upright' officer

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • The trail of a tortoise

    • Vellore

  • Dacoits flee after snatching jewels
  • 400 treated at special medical camp in tsunami-hit village

    • Vijayawada

  • Shunning paddy, mango no big deal
  • A quest for moksha, at 21
  • Druggists told to opt for VAT
  • No alternative to peace talks: ex-Minister
  • Ryots told to make use of Rythu bazaars
  • Test of endurance
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Chit fund company told to repay
  • Eleven State castes on BCs list
  • Takes charge as Senior DCM
  • MLA promises water scheme
  • Uncertain future
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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