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    Alappuzha

  • Bank loans to revive paddy cultivation
  • Applications invited for scholarship

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Suri main accused in Paritala murder case
  • Order set aside to revive Somasekhara panel
  • PG medical counselling runs into trouble Trouble at medical counselling
  • Clashes mar polls to WUAs
  • TDP faults YSR remarks on ryot loans
  • Strike hits mining operations
  • Vijayashanti offers to quit post
  • Corporation to check diversion of gas
  • Bank manager duped
  • All eyes on KCR
  • Farmers need help, not tips: Raghavulu
  • Koneru plays peacemaker
  • Women activists arrested
  • Panel to inspect nursing institutions
  • Inter exam fee
  • Man poisons family, ends life
  • Police party, Maoists exchange fire
  • Patient at Gandhi jumps to death
  • Rajakumari shifted to hospital
  • Cour order on Yeleru panel revival hailed
  • Panther cub dies in zoo
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Public hearing on Pulichintala today

    • Bangalore

  • And now, it is a rush for seats in good colleges
  • Man commits suicide in police station
  • Topper secures 99.2 per cent
  • `Pay service tax without fine by May 30'
  • No water supply
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Beagles' boys and girls in last eight

    • Belgaum

  • Farmers look to Govt. for help in floriculture

    • Bellary

  • Bellary traders oppose shifting of tax offices

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Easy for Catholic Club `A'

    • Briefly

  • Nicholas pays 150 per cent
  • Cipla net profit up 38 per cent
  • Wartsila opens warehouse in Chennai
  • Siemens pays 45 p.c. interim
  • Omnex's Six sigma training programmes

    • Business

  • `Remove connectivity hurdles'
  • 3 operators oblige
  • Anil Ambani asks SEBI to look into IPCL issue
  • Tax collections fall short of target
  • Audi launches new model in India
  • `7-7.5 p.c. growth likely for India'
  • `Mission mode projects key to boost PC usage'
  • Market snaps 4-day winning streak
  • Glenmark, Teijin tie up
  • New CEO for Kuoni India
  • Microsoft hires new CFO
  • Sanctions against U.S. in anti-dumping row
  • Rupee strengthens
  • Shoppers' Stop IPO put on hold
  • RINL to wipe off accumulated losses
  • UPASI seeks uniform VAT for tea

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • Bicycles: Still the city's best mode of transport for many
  • 3 held, stolen jewels recovered
  • Educating students, parents on new syllabus
  • Cable TV operators asked to ensure clear Doordarshan signals
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Mary-Ann and Aarthie share the lead

    • Coimbatore

  • 'Hefty fine only way to curb stray horse menace'
  • Self-immolation bid: case against building owner
  • Drop in diarrhoea cases
  • HR meet
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Gursharan's benefit match a success
  • Jaishankar shines
  • Time not right for Indian coach, says Prasad
  • `Still time for others to apply'

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8278
  • Solution to puzzle 8277

    • Cuddapah

  • Expedite land acquisition, officials told

    • Dharmapuri

  • Arrested for killing wife

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply in Dharwad
  • Convention of panchayat members tomorrow
  • Dharwad is 19th

    • Editorials

  • Arms supply to Nepal will be gross folly
  • Forced consolidation is not the way

    • Erode

  • Forest officials seek sanctuary for Black Bucks
  • 20 coop. banks in deep crisis
  • Villagers oppose construction of sewage tank
  • No water supply for 20 days
  • Man `missing,' complains wife

    • Football

  • Reyes shoots Arsenal to victory
  • Indian football has commercial potential

    • Front Page

  • Air-India plumps for Boeing
  • NDA plans to boycott Parliament
  • Trishul test-fired
  • Agree on uniform VAT
  • Honour for Nehru
  • Court notice
  • G-4 may move resolution in U.N.
  • India, Russia to sign defence secrecy agreement
  • Syria leaves Lebanon after 29-year stay
  • Trinamool Congress splits
  • Finishes work
  • 'Why lose sleep over what people say?'
  • Rajinder (jr.) named chief coach
  • Uzbeks sweat it out in hot conditions

    • Golf

  • Karan Bindra stuns Ashok

    • Guntur

  • New admission rates for film theatres in May

    • Haryana

  • Services terminated
  • Crop loan interest slashed; 12 lakh farmers to benefit
  • School ranking to be displayed on website
  • Haryana plan to check AIDS

    • Hassan

  • Panel to study problems of journalists
  • Hassan fares well in SSLC exam

    • Hockey

  • KHA all set to celebrate golden jubilee
  • Tata goes down to MSP

    • Hyderabad

  • Bids opened for Krishna water pipeline
  • Telly fare all set to turn lacklustre
  • Vijayashanti offers to quit party position
  • Traffic diversions
  • Power shutdown
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Bush, Saudi prince agree on long-term plans
  • Irritants will be resolved through talks: Dhaka
  • Taiwan Opposition leader in China on peace mission
  • Rafsanjani eyes Iranian presidency
  • MP's defection a blow to Blair
  • Tabloids putting "Harry's life at risk"
  • Joint mechanism with LTTE opposed
  • Schroeder comes to Chirac's aid on E.U. statute
  • U.S. Democrats defend the filibuster
  • Son of ex-Togo leader wins poll
  • U.S. closes book on search for Iraq WMD
  • The Happy Slappers on the prowl
  • A window's headlong plunge to the ground

    • Kannur

  • Workshop

    • Karate

  • Kalaivani hogs the limelight

    • Karimnagar

  • Vow to end untouchability

    • Karnataka

  • Take a drive in your dream car for two years
  • Chhattisgarh invites State's IT, BT companies
  • Rally is party affair, says Deve Gowda
  • Master plan ready for using share of surplus waters
  • Chhattisgarh invites State's IT, biotech firms to set up units
  • Setting up of rights courts welcomed
  • Kodava Sahitya Academy to establish cultural museum
  • Plea to withdraw `borewell cess' to be considered
  • Govt. `recognises' staff federation
  • Three accused of running bogus college, arrested
  • Rain-related problems inundate many areas
  • AAI takes up work on Mysore airfield
  • Petition by colleges against fee notification adjourned
  • Minister hints at new criteria for admission
  • Bangaloreans urged to holiday in `God's own country'
  • Four-lane highway by October
  • Govt. schools to have better facilities
  • `It is not land grabbing until proven'
  • Govt. urged not to scrap pension benefits
  • Outsourcing is an absolute strategic necessity: Premji
  • `Pro rata' charges: no decision on plea
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Factories averse to using ovens
  • Students throng Internet centres in Davangere
  • Aid for SC/ST students to increase

    • Kerala

  • Bid to procure arms foiled, Maldivian deported
  • Constituency delimitation to be over by mid-May
  • Police thwart bid to buy weapons
  • Proposals for inclusion in railway timetable
  • Steps to recover revenue arrears
  • Thiruvananthapuram division to have more passenger amenities
  • Remarks misinterpreted, says Achuthanandan
  • DHS denies Opposition leader's allegation
  • Income Tax, Guruvayur Devaswom officials hold talks
  • Children raise Rs.27 lakhs in thrift funds
  • `Achuthanandan should apologise'
  • `Talks only if Chandy apologises'
  • Keeping with the tradition
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Teachers boycott SSLC IT evaluation camp
  • Commotion at airport after flight cancellation
  • Around the City

    • Kochi

  • Haphazard parking creates traffic congestion along M.G. Road
  • Ombudsman tells panchayat to stop dumping of waste
  • Two arrested
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • PSC employees attack journalists in Kollam, four hospitalised
  • KSSP flays `partisan' allocation of tsunami relief work

    • Kozhikode

  • More forces to be deployed at Marad Tight security at Marad; Vedi to hold meeting

    • Kurnool

  • WUA polls marred by stray incidents

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Indian politics: a crisis of leadership

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Lalu should go
  • Wrong priorities?
  • Disruptions
  • Shocking
  • De-reserve it
  • India-Pakistan ties
  • Pope's conservatism
  • Sloppy
  • Pioneering work

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • A good investment destination: Gaur

    • Madurai

  • Bench denies giving blanket fiat on `eviction sans due process of law' Bench denies having given blanket fiat on 'eviction sans due process of law'
  • No evidence to prove charges made by Jayalakshmi: CBI
  • Garbage clearance inspected
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Mangalore

  • Another thermal power project may come up
  • Malaria enumeration on in Mangalore city
  • `Brahmakalashotsava' of Ganapathi temple
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Motivating dropouts
  • Government School registers 100 per cent results in SSLC 100 per cent results for Govt. school
  • Diabetes foot common in summer
  • Storming of govt. office criticised
  • Deve Gowda visits Chamundi Hills

    • Nagapattinam

  • All farmers to be given uniform compensation

    • National

  • Lalu should resign: Vajpayee
  • Aftab Ansari, 6 others convicted
  • Hurried disposal of IT cases against Lalu questioned
  • `Centre, CBI must monitor Bihar situation'
  • Court order against Biman Bose stayed
  • High-level panel to prepare report on Muslims' status
  • Ranganathananda cremated
  • Kalam, Manmohan condole Ranganathananda's death
  • Ceiling on cash withdrawal tax likely to be raised
  • VAT States agree on uniform tax rates
  • Car brought to forensic lab
  • Parameters changed, says Airbus Industrie
  • Case against Taslimuddin: court notice to co-accused
  • Attack on Nepal Communist party office flayed
  • `Examine defence purchase norms afresh'
  • NHRC takes suo motu cognisance of abuse report
  • Gordon Moore's new take
  • A tale of two sail ships in Kochi
  • Humour amid war of words
  • Oil price: Ministers to meet PM

    • New Delhi

  • L-G not impressed with three new flyovers
  • More terrorists may be hiding in Capital
  • All's well now, say Sheila, Ram Babu
  • Govt. to roll back VAT on diesel, LPG
  • Now Indo-Pak academic exchanges in the offing
  • Water remains a mirage for Sonia Vihar plant
  • NCERT to introduce counselling courses
  • High Court directive to MCD in title case
  • Spurned love behind acid attack
  • Jamia goes smoke-free
  • Women bodies unmoved
  • Public forum on back pain
  • Robbery solved
  • Connecting people
  • Curtains for fashion week
  • Court cautions media against unwarranted criticism
  • Rani's dress creates a stir
  • Two Lashkar militants killed in encounter
  • Petroleum Ministry seeks hike in petrol, diesel prices
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Maharashtra's coming water wars
  • Ethics and plagiarism
  • Mobile (phone) classroom
  • Needed, a fresh initiative in Kashmir
  • Can the U.N., member states enlarge security?

    • Pondicherry

  • Bandh on Thursday against move to make JIPMER autonomous
  • Special economic zone coming
  • Spurt in suicide rate
  • Girls school dropout rate lower, says Pondicherry report

    • Racing : Motor

  • National road racing opener on May 1
  • Big surprises in MRF rally team

    • Rajasthan

  • Stick to employment guarantee scheme, Centre told

    • Religion

  • Boundless compassion

    • Salem

  • Row over appointment of additional SPP in Dharmapuri bus burning case
  • Row over appointment of additional SPP in bus burning case

    • Shimoga

  • Shimoga ranks 17th in SSLC pass percentage

    • Sport

  • 'Why lose sleep over what people say?'
  • Rajinder (jr.) named chief coach
  • Uzbeks sweat it out in hot conditions

    • Sports : General

  • One-day seminar on sports policy held
  • Kozhikode, Kannur in final

    • Swimming

  • SWAC wins overall title

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Efforts on to offset shrinking land availability for farming
  • Uncertainty continues in admissions
  • No evidence on charges made by Jayalakshmi: CBI
  • DMK expands panel for two byelections
  • Pat for councillor
  • Aavin making efforts to be competitive
  • Survey to rate hospitals planned
  • Thank God, it's not Saturday
  • Special children render a `special touch' to bakery exhibition
  • This collector has all of MKT's music, and much more
  • NHAI all set to take up four-laning of Tiruchi-Madurai section
  • Helping fisherfolk to set sail
  • Advocates stage dharna on court premises
  • Auckland university to recruit students from city
  • Disaster management school planned
  • Keeripatti caste Hindus, Dalits make peace
  • High Court issues vacation schedule
  • PMK protests obscene portrayal of women
  • 6 killed in road accidents
  • MP rebuts Jayalalithaa's charge
  • 117 bags of PDS rice seized
  • CM announces solatium to jawan's family
  • For a shock treatment
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • April showers `had only a marginal impact'
  • Meetings of 337 gram sabhas on May 1
  • Encroachments in Velachery removed
  • Youth killed in accident

    • Tennis

  • Gaudio escapes early exit
  • Abhishek in quarterfinals
  • Semifinalists spotted

    • Thanjavur

  • `Mukthambal Chathiram must be declared national monument' `Mukthambal Chathiram deserves to be declared a monument'
  • `SHGs brought about social renaissance'
  • Collector for steps to end child labour

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Government asks Railways to shelve Erumeli line
  • Panel gives TTP more time to set up plant
  • Three panchayats to be delinked
  • 18-year-old girl killed in accident
  • UDF council leader elected
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated April 27, 1955: Encouragement to khadi
  • dated April 27, 1955: State Bank Bill
  • dated April 27, 1955: Mangoes for Jakarta

    • Thrissur

  • BSNL to launch Broadband from 13 stations in district BSNL to launch Broadband at 13 stations in Thrissur

    • Tiruchi

  • Pachamalai tribal women to be involved in eco-conservation
  • University committees inspect affiliated colleges
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Tirunelveli

  • Eviction drive: Traders allege bias
  • Man murdered by duo

    • Tirupati

  • Forest officials of three States to meet
  • Corporate college bags top slots in Inter exam

    • Udupi

  • Udupi achieves 79.02 pass percentage in SSLC exam
  • LIC Udupi division sells three lakh policies

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Greater Noida gets global exhibition centre

    • Vellore

  • Two sculptures found in Polur taluk
  • Varsity V-C draws flak for `unilateral' decisions

    • Vijayawada

  • Krishna district market panels in crisis
  • Set up industries to provide jobs, CPI(M) tells Government
  • Polls to WUAs by and large peaceful
  • Minister to visit Vijayawada
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Hall-tickets for EAMCET issued
  • Fishermen see threat from beach tourism
  • Rare surgery performed in KGH
  • Naxals set concrete mixer afire
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Minister urges women to utilise welfare schemes

    • Weather

  • Weather

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