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    Alappuzha

  • Book exhibition begins today

    • Anantapur

  • More land to be under irrigation

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • PG medical courses admission set aside
  • Work on Handri Neeva launched
  • Cropping patterns should suit market trends, says Shinde
  • `Row over DGP will be looked into'
  • Health varsity may have to wait for fresh GO
  • New plan for VTPS off
  • Dismiss Sen, demands Telugu Desam
  • Theft at SBI, 40.50 lakhs stolen
  • Wreckage of explosive sent for ballistic test
  • Colleges publicising ranks warned
  • Two AISF activists hurt in clash
  • Shinde, YSR greet Muslims
  • YSR operates poclain
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • YSR lauds Tumkur Mutt

    • Badminton

  • Foreign coach at Gopi's training centre
  • Arjun stuns Kamala Kannan
  • Aditya, Ashwini win titles

    • Bangalore

  • PG counselling: chaos reigns on RGUHS campus
  • Chitravaani awards on May 7
  • BMTC passes to cost more
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Kottayam in boys' quarterfinals

    • Bihar

  • Education gets a fillip under President's Rule

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Koramangala `C' posts win
  • Prasad in final

    • Briefly

  • Inflation rises to 5.48 p.c.
  • OBC price band at Rs. 235-260
  • Jindal Stainless pact with Italian firm
  • Pfizer nominates Managing Director
  • Adobe's new Sr. Vice-President
  • AKR Parcel Service gets ISO 9001-2000
  • Course on gold appraiser
  • New office-bearers
  • Andhra Bank ties up with Sundaram MF
  • Chola MF unveils Global Advantage Fund
  • IndusInd completes Tier-II bond issue
  • Infotech net at Rs. 27 crores
  • Northgate registers larger income
  • Intel's dual-core processor technology
  • Bosch Security launches new products
  • IDSA's turnover up 30 p.c.
  • Unichem's Baddi unit on stream
  • Indroyal opens new manufacturing unit
  • IBS Software bags contract from Italian airline
  • Paramount buys digital processing machine
  • BHEL sets achieve record PLF
  • SRF files appeal against excise demand
  • Kodak's new initiative

    • Business

  • TRAI recommends lower domestic bandwidth rates
  • FM cleares 25 FDI proposals
  • Avaya gives a big push to unified applications
  • Satyam Q4 net up
  • Simbhaoli Sugar turns around
  • UTI Bank pays 28 p.c.
  • Nalco profit rises
  • Corp. Bank pays 35 p.c. final
  • MPL's good performance
  • EMI sheds stake in Saregama
  • Shoppers' Stop IPO on April 27
  • Rupee ends higher
  • Sensex recovers early losses

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • No election is casual for the parties
  • Bench refuses to direct varsity to postpone exams
  • Chennai may become a python-breeding hub
  • Hospital turns away HIV-positive woman
  • Improved shelters provide respite to tsunami victims
  • PSUs also agree to supply diesel at concessional rates
  • DPI names candidates for by-polls
  • Wealth case progress hinges on defence plea disposal
  • BJP ready to work with Vijaykanth
  • Writ against `removal' of Shiva shrine
  • `Lean manufacturing process applies to the service sector too'
  • Summer specials
  • Court directive on college admission

    • Coimbatore

  • Mare goes berserk at residential colony
  • SHGs into marketing SHGs into marketing
  • A seminar for success in exams
  • Elephant attacks farm worker
  • Arrack seized
  • Grievances day
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Team culture essential, says Chris Cairns
  • Gursharan Singh benefit match

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8274
  • Solution to Puzzle No. 8273

    • Cuddapah

  • A cultural treat for Shinde
  • Governor pats Collector

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule for Dharwad, Hubli
  • More funds for research: Siddaramaiah

    • Editorials

  • Parivar caught in a muddle
  • No excuses for head-on collisions

    • Football

  • JCT Mills far too good for its rival
  • Arsenal gives Chelsea the patience pill

    • Front Page

  • Sabarmati Express rams goods train, 18 die, 114 injured
  • Lalu attacked at accident site
  • Home Ministry to probe attack on Lalu Prasad
  • Tamil Nadu ranks third in FDI, favoured destination
  • TRAI recommends lower domestic bandwidth rates
  • "Allawi is still our target"
  • Tirupur dyeing units to resume today
  • `Violates Convention'
  • Zahira questioned
  • Church set on fire
  • Border talks

    • Generalia

  • Paneendra, Shruthi claim titles

    • Gulbarga

  • Dharam Singh prays at temple, dargah

    • Haryana

  • 14 new varieties of crop developed

    • Hassan

  • Revanna promises healthcare fund
  • Hassan may get Central university

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Foreign cooperation in agri-trade suggested

    • Hyderabad

  • Court directive to Government
  • Open drain a bother for patients
  • It's now clean and green
  • Moves to strengthen Krishna water network
  • IA flight timings changed
  • New water connections
  • Bahai festival
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • "Allawi is still our target"
  • Russia, NATO sign status of forces pact
  • Five Tamil rebels killed
  • Search for Osama: U.S. General's comments are "irresponsible"
  • Battle for Muslim vote in Britain takes an ugly turn
  • 9/11 prisoner to admit terror role

    • Karnataka

  • IT exports likely to touch Rs. 28,000 crores this year
  • Loan waiver scheme: RBI urges State Govt. to release Rs. 450 crores to cooperative banks
  • Meet on naxal issue convened
  • Smuggling of timber goes unchecked in Chitradurga
  • `Judgment on layout not a blow to Govt.'
  • Lokayukta contests deputy's view
  • `Funds allocation will depend on resources'
  • Rift led to postponement of Kannada meet?
  • Deve Gowda told to prove land grabbing charges
  • Former MLA sees scams in Metro project
  • Seven highways to be upgraded
  • Seer's felicitation fete from Sunday
  • Rajasekhara Reddy lauds Tumkur Mutt's service
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Poor infrastructure hampers port
  • Couple die after `drunken brawl'
  • Deve Gowda spurns BJP's overtures on govt. formation
  • Bellary industries looking at Alamatti for water
  • Education fair on May 30
  • Official accused of giving wrong data to team

    • Kerala

  • Comprehensive probe sought into pipe deal
  • Entrance coaching — a success story
  • IUML maintains silence on Congress factionalism
  • Anti-poaching camps in more forest ranges
  • Pooram fireworks show draws huge crowds
  • Eco-restoration project hanging fire
  • Let Karunakaran form party first: Veliyam
  • `House panel should probe pipe deal'
  • Herbal remedies may stage a comeback
  • Business school being set up at Technopark
  • New `set-up' will align with LDF, says Murali
  • Apollo Tyres considering outsourcing
  • A costly option for student
  • Jose seeks CPI(M)'s clarification
  • Plan for `ready delivery contract' in commodities
  • The rising graph
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Around the City

    • Kochi

  • City Police gearing up to tackle cyber crime
  • Uncertainty over proposal to constitute Environment Division
  • Fracas between scribes, theme park officials
  • YHAI to organise cruise-cum-seminar
  • Kochi port handles record cargo
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • KC(B) chief to inaugurate march
  • Church festival from Saturday
  • Tsunami relief: Dalits to take out protest march
  • DYFI Kollam unit to hold arts festival from May 7 at Paravur

    • Kottayam

  • Chandy to inaugurate Earth Day celebrations

    • Kozhikode

  • Tributes to poet Iqbal
  • Project for hill highway to be submitted to NABARD

    • Kurnool

  • YSR makes surprise visit to hospital

    • Leader Page Articles

  • A forceful message, but will it end poverty?

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Time to make up
  • Roadblock to peace
  • New vistas
  • New Pope
  • Ban on dance bars
  • Not important?
  • Salt satyagraha

    • Madikeri

  • Subbaiah challenges expulsion

    • Madurai

  • Printing units, now a success story
  • Bench declines to postpone TNPCEE for tsunami-hit
  • Fast flows the Vaigai
  • Trains rescheduled
  • Ban on entry of heavy vehicles
  • Man hacks wife, neighbour
  • Landing in trouble
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Thumbay dam to be repaired soon
  • Delegation meets Chief Minister
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Madhya Pradesh Government to build 400 permanent houses
  • Rs.50-cr. ADB aid for Nagapattinam port

    • National

  • Parliament adjourned
  • Baseless, says BJP
  • Government orders probe into all deals with Denel
  • Second bus leaves without incident
  • Bandhs hit life in Assam
  • Mulayam for third front formation
  • Lighten load of students: Kalam
  • Commissioner of Railway Safety to conduct probe
  • Kalam condoles loss of lives
  • A terrible experience
  • Congress condemns attack
  • NDA Government refused to share CVC report: Advani
  • Congress, BJP members clash over Talbott's claim
  • CBI inquiry sought into payoff allegations
  • Peace saboteurs find no backing: Mufti
  • Aiyar to meet Chidambaram on oil pricing issues
  • Pakistani citizens to lose residency rights in Kashmir
  • "Iran pipeline not discussed with Rice"
  • A dawn in Kashmir
  • IAF holds talks on F-16s with U.S. Agency
  • Patil launches second phase birth registration
  • Swiss express inability to assist in Bofors case
  • Court notice to Jharkhand Speaker
  • Management of temple a secular act: Supreme Court
  • Court rejects Swamy's plea
  • ``Oil price hike under study''
  • MPs seek ministry for OBCs
  • Council passes Panchayati Raj Bill despite protest
  • Bus opens evacuees' property issue
  • Task force to submit report on J&K
  • "Marine ecology of Bay of Bengal irrevocably altered by tsunami"
  • Not quitting politics, ready to fight rivals: Uma Bharti
  • Court notice to Mumbai blasts case acused
  • Supreme Court acquits MLA in arms smuggling case
  • Court directive to Pappu Yadav

    • Nellore

  • `Priority for infrastructure'

    • New Delhi

  • DMRC may go for multi-level parking
  • Massive seizure of marco tablets in Delhi
  • Infighting "damages'' Delhi Congress image
  • NCB to check dubious portals
  • Bureaucratic reshuffle
  • Passport renewal request rejected
  • Poison for children at home
  • Three held for two murders
  • Sehwag extends support for social cause
  • Daring robbery in bank
  • Goel re-elected chairman of MCD panel
  • `Write against female foeticide'
  • Plea against Bharti Yadav filed
  • Marginalised for too long
  • A debate in Kashmir, an echo in Delhi
  • Senior health services official arrested for corruption
  • High profile pimp nabbed
  • Support price up for kharif crops
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Captial Today

    • News Analysis

  • A President to be proud of
  • Porous border, worrisome scenario
  • Yes, Blair will win the election
  • A lot is expected of the new Pope
  • Mullahs, Musharraf & a `change of heart'
  • Stage set for Asian-African partnership

    • Perambalur

  • Hygiene park declared open

    • Pondicherry

  • Tirunallar shrine to get Rs. 3.65 crores boost
  • Cyber crime cell
  • Fishermen to get 100 kg rice, Rs. 500 in cash
  • Herbal mineral water on the cards
  • Government to pay public exam fees of students

    • Punjab

  • Milk samples found adulterated

    • Racing : Horse

  • Loaded Gun for main event
  • Armament excels
  • Oriental Forest and Name And Fame to fight it out
  • Santorini wins feature event

    • Racing : Motor

  • `I'm very focused for Imola'
  • Karamjit to skip Canberra leg

    • Rajasthan

  • Salaries of Rajasthan Ministers, MLAs increased

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Warning to fishermen

    • Religion

  • Prophet of Islam

    • Sport

  • India blanks Kazakhstan, keeps slate clean
  • If it's spring it must be clay court tennis
  • Gurpreet is the hero as Air-India enters semifinals via tie-breaker

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Gulf Indians seek Anna Varsity campus in Dubai
  • PSUs also agree to supply diesel at concessional rates
  • Police Academy awaits cost sanction
  • DPI names candidates
  • Karunalaya gifts fibreglass boats to fishermen
  • Wealth case progress hinges on defence plea disposal
  • 5 rescued from building on fire
  • BJP ready to work with Vijaykanth
  • Private schools demand recognition
  • Writ against `removal' of Shiva shrine
  • Neglected, VOC Park a den for anti-socials
  • Apex court declines to stay Coimbatore serial blasts case trial
  • "AIADMK has bought victory through violence"
  • Sethusamudram project: district's proposal on land allotment soon
  • Former High Court judge dead
  • Woman official held while taking bribe from widow
  • Vice-president locks panchayat chief's room
  • Six panchayat members resign
  • `Jamabandhi' from April 28
  • Rice, cash allocated
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Over 75,000 house toilets to be constructed
  • IT exports likely to touch Rs. 28,000 crores this year
  • Elaborate arrangements made for Tiruvarur car festival
  • PG medical courses admission set aside
  • Court will not stay blasts case trial
  • Case against CPI(M) leaders struck down
  • Four militants held after exchange of fire
  • A violation of conduct rules, says Ramadoss

    • Tennis

  • Andy Roddick gets past Ginepri to enter last eight
  • Double for Akash
  • Uzbekistan players arrive

    • Thanjavur

  • Special buses for TNPCEE

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Design for civic centre building approved
  • Burglary: police suspect role of inter-State gang
  • Malidivian national held
  • Semi-paralysed lion dies in city zoo
  • 6,000 NSS units for rally
  • Courses in aero modelling
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated April 22, 1955: Annamacharya festival
  • dated April 22, 1955: No opening speech
  • dated April 22, 1955: Jinnah's house
  • dated April 22, 1955: Poet Bharathi's works

    • Thrissur

  • Vagaries of weather let down Thrissur Pooram fans
  • Competition for animation students

    • Tiruchi

  • Samyapuram temple tusker calms down in mate's company
  • Facility for expeditious realisation of cheques, demand drafts
  • Computerised service to tackle complaints takes off well
  • Gang nabbed
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • DPA evolving strategy to unseat Corporation Mayor
  • CPI(M) demonstration against move to set up soft drink unit
  • Mystery shrouds murder of AIADMK cadre
  • Fatal fall for old man

    • Tirupati

  • Countdown for civic body upgradation begins
  • Forest officials to tackle monkey menace

    • Tuticorin

  • Alternative houses to be built for those moving out of CRZ

    • Udupi

  • Kharge opens diversion weir

    • Union Territories

  • INLD not to contest Hisar, Tosham by-elections
  • Heat wave sweeps north India

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • `Extortion' charge against Ghaziabad civic body

    • Uttaranchal

  • Plan to study change in sea profile
  • Patwa Dangar to be bio-tech hub

    • Vijayawada

  • Project to tackle AIDS among `group D' staff
  • Former Minister accuses Government of collusion with contractors
  • YSR to deliver convocation address
  • Krishna ryots are let down: TDP
  • Two die in explosion
  • Water supply reviewed
  • Teachers' team meets Commissioner
  • Lack of amenities resented by residents
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Vizag steel plant keeps its funding options open
  • Convention for re-look on policy for life-saving drugs
  • BSNL to introduce mobile connectivity in all mandals
  • Bank clerk jailed for swindling funds
  • Cooling off in style!
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Kannur and Thrissur corner glory
  • Indian Seniors `B' rallies to win

    • Weather

  • Weather

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