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    Alappuzha

  • `Poverty alleviation schemes fail to benefit the poor at Arookkutty'

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Maoists blast Claymore mine, one killed
  • Two naxals shot dead on city outskirts
  • TRS Ministers not to quit
  • Police rescue abducted Nanded schoolgirl
  • With love from EME Corps With love from EME Corps
  • YSR, condemns naxal attack YSR, Jana condemn Maoist attack
  • Civic polls in three months: YSR
  • Sen makes light of demand for ouster
  • Call centre opened to redress civic grievances
  • Rule on religion in B.Ed. colleges applies, says court
  • CPI(M) plans to take to the streets
  • Government industry-friendly too, says Rosaiah
  • Testing the response
  • Yeleru: CPI wants State to move apex court
  • Miners' strike ends peacefully
  • Rythu sangham flays Government move
  • Infant abandoned in train
  • SSC results on April 30
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Chief Minister unveils river-linking plan
  • Quota for Muslims in three months, says YSR
  • Naxal shadow on Pulichintala hearing

    • Bangalore

  • Real estate agent killed; search on for two men
  • Hold-up in work leads to uproar
  • Deve Gowda's remarks on land scam leads to furore
  • Windfall for labourers at layout
  • Officials criticised for slow pace of work
  • Colleges and the courses they offer
  • BESCOM sets up new kiosk
  • A goddess goes visiting
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Birla institute bags trophy at `Bizzy Heights'

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Bihar

  • Kalazar cases on the rise

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Stevens in last four

    • Briefly

  • Access to GATT documents on net
  • Cognizant's Q1 income up
  • Prudential ICICI's new plan
  • Rahul Dravid, Max New York's brand ambassador
  • 1:1 bonus from Carborundum Universal
  • IPCL pays 45 per cent

    • Business

  • Reliance net profit zooms 47 p.c. to Rs. 7,572 crs.
  • Apex court clears Shoppers' Stop IPO
  • RBI breaks tradition
  • Key rates may not be touched: survey
  • Maruti rolls out five millionth car
  • IOB net profit up 27 p.c. at Rs. 651 crs.
  • Hind. Paper plans IPO
  • Top moves in Murugappa group
  • Infratech to offer services to four projects
  • Rupee declines against $
  • Sensex extends losses
  • Buys stake in Arvind Brands
  • Picks up equity in Gujarat Pipavav
  • Russian bank opens office in India
  • HT Media files draft prospectus
  • Videocon plans GDR issue
  • FDI in pension likely to be 26 p.c.

    • Cartoons

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    • Chattisgarh

  • Naxals kill two in Chhattisgarh

    • Chennai

  • Tamil Nadu stands first in small savings Tamil Nadu stands first in small savings in the south
  • Government study turns spotlight on street children
  • Indo-U.S. forum plans R&D centres
  • Court to form panel to study Noyyal pollution
  • Customs officer detained under Goondas Act
  • Servants held for theft of jewels
  • This MKT has all of Bhagavathar's music, and more
  • Educating students, parents on new syllabus
  • April showers `had only a marginal impact'
  • Around the city
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Swathi Ghate surges back

    • Coimbatore

  • Multi-speciality Govt. hospital to come up
  • It went haywire for an hour
  • Quiz for hearing impaired
  • Three more held
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Ganguly issue: Wasim Akram advocates caution

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8279
  • Solution to puzzle 8278

    • Cuddapah

  • Balijas stage dharnas seeking BC status
  • Agri Expo from today

    • Dharwad

  • Schedule of water supply in Dharwad
  • Dharwad AIR begins national Kannada news broadcast

    • Editorials

  • At last, Air India goes for the Boeing
  • A necessary reaffirmation of ties

    • Erode

  • Animal census begins on May 5
  • Sheep death: medical team rush to Kundadam
  • Revenue officials to boycott jamabandhi

    • Football

  • Viva Kerala enters quarterfinals

    • Front Page

  • Question mark over arms for Nepal
  • It's Reliance Eleven versus me, says Anil
  • Manmohan's plea to Opposition
  • Opposition being gagged, says NDA
  • Deuba held on graft charges
  • Aftab Ansari, 6 others sentenced to death
  • Canada orders review of Kanishka trial
  • Court of Inquiry ordered
  • Maoists kill 5
  • India is well prepared: Leander
  • Justine Henin-Hardenne hits cruise mode
  • AC Milan has final in sight

    • Golf

  • Basad dethrones Digvijay Singh
  • Randhawa raring to go
  • Pritham triumphs

    • Gulbarga

  • Yadgir girls excel in SSLC exam

    • Guntur

  • Red alert in Guntur district

    • Haryana

  • Job backlog cleared
  • Cabinet rank
  • Rs. 1,860 crores paid for wheat procurement
  • BJP to protest
  • Panipat to become petro chemical hub
  • Amarinder, Badal cross swords over `Kar Sewa' in Pak shrines

    • Hockey

  • C. Rly. proves its might
  • 10 players arrive

    • Hyderabad

  • Naxalite couple gunned down
  • Cable TV charges likely to go up
  • Clubhouse to come up on 8 acres
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Bus driver's error led to Sri Lanka train collision
  • Putin for West Asia summit in Moscow
  • U.S. court convicts Muslim leader
  • Chicago mafia hit by betrayals
  • Militancy undiminished, admits U.S. General
  • Howard questions Blair's character
  • Poll result sparks Togo violence
  • Move to privatise Al-Jazeera
  • Teenage Indian writer in big-money league
  • "Pakistan not succumbing to pressure"
  • Airbus aloft
  • Not yielding to pressure: Pakistan

    • Karate

  • M.P. rules the roost

    • Karnataka

  • U.S. legislation on medical outsourcing may hit business
  • IAF orders probe into `sexual harassment'
  • Byelections: uncertainty in key parties
  • Notices served on Assembly Secretary for `lapses'
  • Pollution level exceeds limit on many city roads with high vehicle density
  • New crop insurance scheme on the anvil `Improved' crop insurance scheme under study
  • Govt. to tie up with ICRISAT for watershed projects
  • Govt. told to quit for `failure' to end illicit liquor trade
  • Power generation at RTPS comes down
  • Harvard School to have Yeshasvini chair
  • Suspension of tree felling hits launch of lane system
  • Excise Department will be restructured: Siddaramaiah
  • High Court adjourns case against senior pontiff
  • Experts seek academic freedom in education
  • Hooch toll goes up to 13; villagers berate leaders
  • Dalit bodies want KPSC scrapped
  • Delegation from Punjab visits MAHE
  • A costly lapse
  • Suspension of two doctors ordered
  • Horatti decides to play it safe
  • Pourakarmikas threaten strike
  • `Halcyon-2005' kicks off today
  • Minister's day out
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Manjunath wants panel to study health centres
  • Govt. firm on empowering panchayats: Minister
  • Overloading of lorries discussed
  • All students pass in nine schools of Chitradurga
  • Aid under Ganga Kalyan to go up

    • Kerala

  • No signal to Karunakaran camp: Prakash Karat
  • Coke unit contests panchayat's claim
  • `Champion of minority rights'
  • Trees cut down for road widening to be replaced
  • No mechanism to check destruction of mounds
  • Anti-Murali `I' group leaders to meet
  • BJP march to restore land peaceful
  • SIDCO estates properties to be sold to units
  • Clemency sought for Indian in Saudi jail
  • Antony failed to address dissidence: Chandy
  • Oust Unnithan: Alappuzha DCC
  • Decision as per wishes of party workers: Murali
  • Archbishop backs anti-death campaign
  • RSP(B) to strengthen Left unity
  • Show-cause notice to Unnithan
  • Rajeev Gupta sworn in as Chief Justice
  • INL puts off State meet
  • Complaints galore
  • Revenue recovery proceedings
  • Houses for all tsunami victims
  • Summer blues
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Around the City

    • Kochi

  • Campus recruiters turn to Kochi
  • Cabinet exempts Goshree land from KLR Act
  • NHAI gives sanction for pipe-laying across Highway
  • Smart City project: talks to continue with Dubai team
  • Ombudsman orders sanction of financial aid
  • CPSA plans anniversary fete
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • MVR to present P.N. Panicker Award
  • Punalur bishop to be consecrated
  • LDF candidate elected civic chief

    • Kottayam

  • Plantation crisis: AITUC to launch stir

    • Leader Page Articles

  • How far can India travel with the U.S.?

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Opposition boycott
  • Arms supply
  • Disturbing
  • What a shame!
  • Train young minds
  • Peshawar revolt
  • Great spiritual leader

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • New hospital building for gas disaster victims

    • Madurai

  • SBI donates advanced equipment to Aravind Eye Hospital
  • CBI holds Jayalakshmi, two police personnel guilty of cheating
  • Summer vacation for Madurai Bench
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Row over maintenance of road
  • Training for GP members held
  • `Karmikotsava 2005' from Saturday
  • 650 students to get religious degrees
  • Workers' interests will be safeguarded: Minister
  • Cooperative bank nets Rs. 42-lakh profit
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Rainwater harvesting should be compulsory MUDA urged to enforce harvesting of rainwater in city
  • Many schools show good results

    • National

  • Annan wants India, Pakistan to cooperate in tackling terrorism
  • Give us fair, equal opportunity, says Airbus
  • U.N. chief's praise for The Hindu
  • NDA adopting double standards, says Karat
  • Zonal general managers to be accountable for rail accidents
  • Sulaiman Sait passes away
  • Manmohan condoles death
  • Supreme Court reserves verdict on `Sindh'
  • Three varsities join hands
  • Assumes office
  • MPs move to save the Tiger
  • DRDO embarks on `soldier as a system' project
  • `Progress on intermediate jet trainer not satisfactory'
  • Move to remove Sonal Mansingh wrong: Karnad
  • Annan gets an insight into plight of AIDS victims

    • Nellore

  • BJP committed to `integrated Telangana'

    • New Delhi

  • Arjun Singh lauded as man with "titanic vision''
  • Hooda unhappy with Sheila
  • Yoga new magic mantra of Delhi Government
  • Plan to make Delhi a "heritage city''
  • Conserve water, Govt. exhorts Delhiites
  • Police AIDS programme impresses Annan's wife
  • Man booked on cheating charge
  • PIL on forged degrees disposed of
  • Alleged gangster killed
  • `Why Jama Masjid is not a protected monument?'
  • Toll tax plaza
  • Perfect poses
  • More terrorists may be hiding in Capital
  • Indo-Pak academic exchanges in the offing
  • Congress in M.P. virtually defunct, says party leader
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • A voice against harassment

    • News Analysis

  • Water: how the deal was done
  • False claims, lying politicians
  • Ozone layer most fragile on record
  • Japan, China and a "troubled past"

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Pondicherry

  • Cash awards for children
  • Modernise three textile units: CPI
  • AIADMK extends support to bandh call
  • JIPMER entrance test
  • Focus shifts to coaching Class XI students
  • Priests sentenced to jail

    • Punjab

  • New police stations in U.P.
  • Heroin seized from jail
  • Heavy rainfall damages wheat crop in Punjab areas

    • Racing : Motor

  • GDTNC second leg
  • Airtel One Rally from May 8

    • Raichur

  • Raichur farmers prefer sunflower to others

    • Rajasthan

  • Dispose of complaints promptly, Minister tells Commissioners
  • More to probe than meets the eye in violence-hit Rajasthan town
  • Liquor claims four lives

    • Religion

  • Impulsive behaviour

    • Salem

  • Educational fair

    • Shimoga

  • Govt. committed to improving roads: Revanna Govt. committed to improving roads, says Revanna
  • Khadi Shankarappa passes away

    • Sport

  • India is well prepared: Leander
  • Justine Henin-Hardenne hits cruise mode
  • AC Milan has final in sight
  • Bridging the man-machine divide
  • Caution is the name of the game
  • Glaciers on Antarctica shrinking fast

    • Sports : General

  • An idea worth contemplating

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Kanchi Mutt manager faces narcotics charge
  • TNPCEE may go online
  • Scrap industry comes under pollution control board scanner
  • The new-look North Chennai
  • Sankararaman murder case adjourned to June 16
  • Whitaker gets top U.K. conservation prize
  • Vaiko alleges election code violation in Kancheepuram
  • Kalimuthu seeks exemption from court appearance
  • Online exam plan: an idea whose time has come?
  • Plea against Chief Secretary dismissed
  • Plan to offset shrinking farmland
  • `Innovation in manufacturing vital to face competition'
  • HIV awareness `among migrants up'
  • Pulled back from brink of death
  • Fake mehendi racket busted
  • Tamil lexicon to be enlarged and updated
  • "BJP will provide national alternative"
  • Status quo ordered on erecting birthday arches on highways
  • Uniform legislation to check sandalwood smuggling sought
  • Vaiko, Ko.Si. Mani appear in court
  • 18 child labourers rescued in Salem
  • Metrowater sets 30-day ultimatum on sewage disposal
  • AIADMK candidate begins campaign
  • Perundurai
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Where movie-buffs fear to tread
  • PMRY target exceeded in Karur dt.
  • Power shutdown in Tirupur
  • Three run over by lorry

    • Tennis

  • Yamini in final

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Two-lane bridge to be built across Karamana river
  • Hi-tech gadgets designed
  • Youth killed in Attingal
  • Teresa receives award for O.V. Vijayan
  • 97 cases of dengue fever reported
  • Plea to resolve lottery ticket shortage
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated April 28, 1955: Poll panel suggestions
  • dated April 28, 1955: Ceylon PM's new move

    • Thrissur

  • Taluk office peon killed in accident

    • Tiruchi

  • Draft poll rolls to be published on June 16
  • Bharathidasan University high-level committees inspect affiliated colleges
  • Huge haul of CDs
  • Orientation programme for enumerators
  • Loadmen stage demonstration, demanding wage rise
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • BSNL staff stage dharna
  • Protest for solatium

    • Tirupati

  • Drive to control leprosy lauded

    • Tuticorin

  • Row over under-assessment of property tax at council meet
  • Two held for betraying girl
  • Seminar on GPF, pension

    • Udupi

  • Samiti opposes thermal plant

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • SP unit dissolved

    • Vellore

  • Farmers protest against exploitation of groundwater resources

    • Vijayawada

  • CPI(M) leaders claim to have succeeded in mission
  • Eco nod mandatory for construction of multi-storeys
  • `Chalo Collectorate' by RTC union today
  • Officials asked to install public taps
  • Teacher found dead
  • Prime accused in teacher recruitment scam held
  • Waiting for their turn
  • Mystery shrouds lorry driver's death
  • Around the City

    • Visakhapatnam

  • New V-Cs for 3 universities
  • Post boxes in city lie in a state of neglect
  • Need to explore oceans underscored
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Around the City

    • Warangal

  • Arrangements in place for EAMCET
  • TDP neglected ryots: Congress

    • Weather

  • Weather

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