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    Alappuzha

  • Power connection to seafood units to be cut

    • Anantapur

  • WLL phones for 4 more towns
  • SKU convocation today

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Make southern States a tourist hub, says YSR
  • Maoists claim responsibility
  • Make South a tourist hub, says YSR
  • Coastal village experiences unusually high tides
  • YSR for steps towards greater road safety YSR for measures to ensure greater road safety
  • Fear grips Hasthinapuram residents
  • Attack on SP a diversionary tactic
  • Changes to Rent Control Act likely
  • CLP gearing up for publicity campaign
  • `Hyderabad owes it to Rayalaseema'
  • It's time for `market baata': Telugu Desam
  • WUAs' financial power restricted
  • Call to oppose Pulichintala project
  • Over 3,500 students clear IIT-JEE prelims
  • Probe sought into killing of naxals
  • IA-Citibank scheme for travellers
  • `Help us fight extremism'
  • Court declines to stay medical counselling
  • Travel courses by State tourism training centre
  • FAPCCI welcomes monetary policy
  • Proceedings against police officer stayed
  • Farm workers' union on warpath
  • New mosques to come up in Secretariat
  • Dalit body formed
  • Thatapalli stir: agitators freed
  • A formality
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  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • `Mid-day meal to continue'
  • Warning against lllegal fishing
  • Teams to study local bodies

    • Bangalore

  • Court martial hearing against Anjalli today
  • BMP cracks down on illegal structures
  • Dedicated corridor for freight to be ready soon
  • Press raided, eight nabbed
  • Governor's initiative saved elephant calf
  • Three killed in road accidents
  • Two IAF officers seek time
  • BMP draws flak for ban on protests
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Two boys drown

    • Bidar

  • Kolis not in ST list: Minister

    • Briefly

  • Ranbaxy recommends final dividend
  • 40 p.c. dividend from Raymond
  • BHEL net profit up
  • Glaxosmithkline consumer PAT up
  • Subex Systems pays 20 p.c. final
  • EID Parry recommends 125 p.c.

    • Business

  • RBI asks banks to focus on deposit mobilisation
  • Ashok Leyland sales cross $1 b
  • New mode of SSI financing
  • Bharti Tele net zooms
  • Eveready Ind turns around
  • Novell enters new arena
  • Now, nuclear fusion in a lab
  • TRAI order on rate cut struck down
  • Oscar of business world
  • Varun Shipping to go in for SDR
  • Wockhardt's plant in Himachal Pradesh
  • GDP estimation on new base
  • Rupee recovers
  • Bank stocks suffer sharp setback
  • Overseas investment ceiling raised
  • Loan limit to farmers up
  • M&A guidelines on private banks shortly
  • `Lending rates will not be affected'

    • Cartoons

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    • Chattisgarh

  • CBI custody for Jaggi murder accused

    • Chennai

  • Tamil lexicon to be enlarged and updated
  • 70 per cent of two-wheeler casualties `due to head injuries'
  • Anna University begins ranking semester results
  • Remembering Ramanujan
  • City police preparing to receive ISO-9001: 2000
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Aarthie on top, Mary-Ann falters

    • Coimbatore

  • Dalit worker's death sparks unrest
  • Supply timings erratic, say residents
  • Consultation meeting on HIV
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • A hard act to follow
  • Sehwag and Rana honoured
  • Laxman signs up for a noble cause

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8280
  • Solution to puzzle 8279

    • Cuddalore

  • Students in tsunami-hit areas take SSLC exam

    • Cuddapah

  • State tops in trafficking of women

    • Dharwad

  • Help bring in rural transformation, says Mahadevappa
  • Water supply in Dharwad

    • Editorials

  • Political morality, law and precedents
  • A well nuanced credit policy

    • Erode

  • Gram sabhas to focus on rural sanitation
  • Free uniform distribution
  • Attack on BDO: Three held

    • Football

  • Chelsea and Liverpool in first-leg deadlock
  • Viva Kerala in semifinals

    • Front Page

  • Japan, India need each other: Koizumi
  • RBI concerned over inflation
  • NDA leaders seek Kalam's intervention
  • `No oil price hike for now'
  • IAF official in custody
  • Nandita Das on jury
  • Moderate quake
  • Leander Paes decides to play singles
  • Alonso — breaking the hegemony
  • The tell-tale Pallava stamp

    • Golf

  • Arjun's blunder gives Harinder place in last eight

    • Gujarat

  • Probe into Zahira's complaint stayed
  • Samalaya stationmaster arrested
  • Highest-ever lion count at 359 in Gir sanctuary

    • Gulbarga

  • Lawyer killed

    • Guntur

  • BSNL to sell products through franchisees from May 1
  • Eastern Tobacco team arrives in State

    • Haryana

  • More fish seed farms in Haryana

    • Hockey

  • IHF probables for Azlan Shah
  • IOB beats Karnataka XI

    • Hubli

  • `Primacy of gram sabhas crucial for decentralisation' `Primacy of gram sabhas crucial for decentralisation'
  • Meeting to discuss `insult' to Gangubai Hangal

    • Hyderabad

  • RTC to cash in on summer rush
  • National Highway-9 stretch to be widened
  • Ex-head of NGO plans to sue Shalini Mishra
  • Stage set for EAMCET
  • NGO all set to expand activities
  • KCR plays it cool
  • `Only BJP can achieve Telangana'
  • SCB civilian member takes charge
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Tony Blair was told invasion of Iraq could be illegal
  • Iraq was complying: Blix
  • Anti-Government protests in Egypt
  • Iraqi MPs approve 37-member Cabinet
  • Bolton committee widens inquiry
  • Bill Gates wants more engineers let in
  • TamilNet website member abducted

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Militants behead policeman
  • Rail link to Kashmir Valley: Boon for some, bane for others
  • Human rights panel unhappy with J-K Government

    • Karimnagar

  • Praja Patham a success, says MSR

    • Karnataka

  • State's software exports touch Rs. 27,600 crores
  • Stop A.P.'s `illegal' projects, team urges Centre
  • GPs empowered to select beneficiaries
  • No role for legislators in housing, water schemes, says Mahadevappa
  • Live-band centres to be allowed to continue in State
  • Head or hairstyle? It's your choice
  • St. John's Medical College challenges fee structure, seat matrix for PG courses
  • Deve Gowda has done nothing for slum dwellers, say BJP leaders
  • Corporators plan 12-day study tour
  • Ombudsmen to be appointed before long
  • A cloud of uncertainty over bypolls in State
  • JD(S) to go ahead with rally
  • Computer education: panel to be set up to improve Kannada use
  • SIT promises support to make Tumkur University a model
  • Four die as bus touches power line
  • Celebrities play golf for a cause
  • Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait laid to rest with State honours
  • Notice to JD(S), police on rally
  • Two scribes robbed in city
  • MBA, MCA entrance test on June 5
  • New PDS to be launched in July
  • Power shutdown
  • Forest guards open fire, kill man
  • Aiyar to visit Gulbarga today
  • `Contempt of Courts Act misused'
  • For sale?
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • 65 houses, standing crops damaged in rain in Chitradurga district
  • SSLC exam: Chikkodi secures second place
  • Girl prevented from becoming Devadasi
  • `Make Scouts compulsory'
  • Fight against corruption, people told

    • Kerala

  • Delimitation panel refuses to accept Chandy's proposals
  • `End campaign against Antony'
  • Exodus from `I' group continues
  • Government, DIC reach agreement
  • Peace process irreversible, says Mufti
  • `NSS, SNDP moving closer to BJP'
  • Muttathu Varkey award for Zacharia
  • SBT's scheme for transport operators
  • Chandy meets Sonia
  • Raring to go
  • Braving all odds
  • For a genuine cause
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Minister visits houses of victims
  • `Rehabilitate Endosulfan victims'
  • Assembly panel holds sitting
  • Around the City

    • Khammam

  • 80 naxal sympathisers surrender

    • Kochi

  • GCDA may be permitted to collect road toll
  • Civic bodies file report on comfort stations
  • Poor infrastructure at nursing institute
  • New twist to fraud case
  • 5 held for obstructing dumping of garbage
  • 2 killed in accidents
  • CTTU to be affiliated to HMS
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Drive against unauthorised bunks fails to take off
  • Stone to be laid for water scheme
  • Anchal hooch tragedy: verdict on May 3
  • Get-together of environment activists
  • Two killed in accident

    • Kottayam

  • NSS opposes entrance test for B.Ed. course

    • Kozhikode

  • Kozhikode honours one of its great sons

    • Kurnool

  • Ryots told to go in for multiple crops
  • Two children drowned in checkdam

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Can judicial ascendancy be rolled back?

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Arms for Nepal
  • Drop Lalu
  • Opposition boycott
  • Leadership crisis
  • Don't blame all
  • Little known

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Two die in M.P. police firing

    • Madurai

  • Madurai-Dindigul BG line doubling may be delayed
  • `Staff disabled in service entitled to alternative post with same benefits'
  • Plan to enrol dropouts in regular schools
  • Bail granted to accused cancelled
  • Bench notice on collection of fees for using stadium
  • Ex-minister's application dismissed
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Cooperative banks oppose Vaidyanathan panel report, seek modifications
  • Four sentenced for assaulting SC women
  • Road-concreting work likely to be delayed
  • In Mangalore Today
  • 4,000 students to appear for CET
  • Four held, revolver recovered
  • Mass marriage on Sunday

    • Mizoram

  • Appeal to save the tigers

    • Mysore

  • Check the authenticity of a certificate on the Net
  • Popularity turns a bane for Kukkarahalli lake
  • Workhop on dance for speech therapists
  • Sri Lankan team visits Epigraphy Museum

    • Nagapattinam

  • Get back to sea, Collector appeals to all fishermen Return to sea for earning livelihood, says Collector
  • `Crop insurance scheme is better than compensation'

    • Nalgonda

  • Pulichintala hearing: retired engineer steals show
  • Seminar held in police academy

    • National

  • Restore democracy now, Annan urges Nepal
  • Annan calls for norms on use of force
  • Manmohan meets President
  • India wants Nepal crisis resolved in friendly manner
  • Muivah talks of a `special federal relationship' with India
  • ULFA in U.S. terrorist list
  • Lapses will not go unnoticed, says Pranab
  • Finance Bill moved in Lok Sabha
  • Sudarshan hails VHP, mentions BJP in passing
  • Women's panel seeks Tamil Nadu report on child marriages
  • Court order on CBSE results in Andamans
  • Supreme Court annoyed at lack of response on exam result deadline
  • Project Seabird to be dedicated on May 9
  • Shivraj Patil denies charges of phone-tapping
  • Ceasefire extended
  • New Railway Board member
  • Collectors put on alert after reports of high tides
  • "Big industries are top defaulters"

    • New Delhi

  • DPCC polls to be delayed further
  • Two arrested for duping people
  • "Paani Adalat'' to be held on May 3
  • Take back cleanliness work from NGOs, demand Councillors
  • USAID expertise for quake-resistant buildings
  • `Workplace accidents on the rise'
  • Murder case solved, man arrested
  • Trial proceedings in Katara murder case stayed
  • Health dept. to take staff on contract
  • High Court directive on stray cattle
  • Cartoon blue film racket smashed
  • DJ's circular on corruption in city courts
  • Lifer for killing friend
  • Dance festival
  • Cabinet nod for Knowledge Commission
  • World Bank recommends neutral expert on Baglihar dam issue
  • `Workplace accidents on the rise in developing countries'
  • `Why Jama Masjid is not a protected monument?'
  • Conserve water, Govt. exhorts Delhiites
  • AIDS/HIV programme impresses Annan's wife
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • `Huge potential for Japan-India trade ties'
  • Post-tsunami: waiting for things to happen
  • A veto proposal for Japan and India
  • Blogging: next big thing for businesses
  • The wrong Tory leader

    • Nizamabad

  • Administrative nod for Nizamsagar works

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Palakkad

  • Course

    • Pondicherry

  • Kerosene seized
  • Free coaching
  • Work on houses for tsunami-hit fishermen to begin soon
  • Pondicherry bandh evokes mixed response

    • Rajasthan

  • Scribe passes away

    • Religion

  • Driven by Karma

    • Salem

  • Periyar varsity introduces off-campus programmes

    • Shimoga

  • Month-long free heart check-up camp

    • Shooting

  • Anxious moments for team

    • Sport

  • Leander Paes decides to play singles
  • Alonso — breaking the hegemony

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Special trains, buses unable to cope with holiday rush
  • Staff shortage, lack of weapons hit conservation
  • Byelections: 36 in fray for two seats
  • Tips to beat the heat without vacation
  • Civil servants and political compulsions
  • Cooum, the most polluted Tamil Nadu river Cooum, the most polluted river
  • Spinning mills back on track
  • Southern regional tourism circuit soon: Kerala Minister
  • `Mother universities' to share resources
  • `DMK chances bright'
  • Court closes DMK petitions
  • AIDS testing centres in private hospitals planned
  • Breach in Keelkattalai Lake plugged
  • Maintenance `as important as building construction'
  • District, fast track court judges reshuffled
  • Bail for 6 women POTA detenus
  • Katju opens Indian Bank ATM on court premises
  • `No misuse of power during byelection'
  • Waste of resources
  • Elected president
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Banana farmers cash in on tissue culture
  • 396 habitations to get Cauvery water soon Work on two major water schemes to begin shortly
  • Gram sabha meets to be held on May 1
  • Karur tops in disbursal of micro credit loans
  • Aid for students
  • Around the City

    • Tennis

  • Vento makes Henin struggle for a win
  • Titles for Varun, Praveen

    • Thanjavur

  • Crisis management training vital for teachers: SP
  • Four-day para sailing camp at Thanjavur IAF station
  • Books distributed to Arivoli volunteers

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Corporation to set up rabies diagnostic lab
  • Thirteen injured in accidents in district
  • Mystery shrouds murder of youth
  • 405 petitions received at Defence adalat
  • Relentless campaign
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated April 29, 1955: Bandung meet unique: PM
  • dated April 29, 1955: Nehru, the artist
  • dated April 29, 1955: TV Sundaram Iyengar dead

    • Tiruchi

  • Coop Dept. plays a Good Samaritan
  • Rally lays stress on reading habit
  • Bank's growth in deposits
  • Expedite project, TWAD Board told
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Councillors demand removal of Mayor
  • Need to check slide in quality of medical research
  • A counter attack

    • Tirupati

  • State to tread the peace path: Raghuveera Raghuveera chants peace mantra
  • TTD to construct Rs.3-cr medical block in Tirupati
  • Row over tenders for flower supply at Tirumala

    • Tuticorin

  • Banks asked to clear pending applications for PMRY loans
  • Supermarket opened

    • Udupi

  • Clearance hastens work on irrigation project

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • ASI begins work on ancient ruins
  • Duststorm sets off fires; 23 dead
  • High Court seeks progress report of food scam probe

    • Uttaranchal

  • White ink banned in schools

    • Vellore

  • Jeer visit
  • Self-employment scheme: certificates given to banks

    • Vijayawada

  • CPI(M) yatra evokes good response
  • Officials told to speed up clearance to industries
  • Raghavalu flays violence, calls for restraint
  • `Fulfil poll promises or face public ire'
  • Corporate colleges strike it big
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Good sign for shrimp sector
  • With the constituents
  • Railway counter opened
  • Qualify for IIT main
  • House burgled
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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