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    Andhra Pradesh

  • World Bank ready to extend Rs. 7510-cr. loans
  • Heat wave claims 10 lives in State
  • Helping needy sportspersons
  • Massive protest against `innocents' arrest
  • Hospitals to have community kitchens
  • State Museum beckons
  • Engineers to strive for equitable information society
  • Direct polls to local bodies favoured
  • TDP submits memo to EC
  • Congress campaign against Naidu flayed
  • Government asked to come clean on stance towards World Bank
  • Singapore firm plumps for Vijaya milk
  • Blanket withdrawal of pending cases
  • Agro industries corporation to be revived
  • BJP to agitate against Maharashtra projects
  • Some promises not kept: Jakkampudi
  • Teachers protest extension to PRC
  • RK's former guard among 13 Maoists surrender
  • Two case filed in 1995 against Suri dismissed
  • Kalyana Rao cries foul
  • Chartered accountant mourned
  • Change in Delhi flight timings
  • Naidu's criticism unexpected: SP
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Uncertainty at helm hits administration
  • Aiming big with pint-sized creations
  • Dealers told to supply quality seed
  • Divergent views in Congress on Telangana, says Pranab

    • Athletics

  • Shobha struggling to get back on track
  • Surekha scales a new peak

    • Bangalore

  • Traffic hold-ups are now common on Airport Road
  • BDA preparing plan for multi-storey parking lots
  • Rise in temperature `unusual' for Bangalore
  • Bangalore University to set up cell for backward classes
  • Car loan rate set to go up by 50 basis points
  • `Radio provides easy, cheap source of entertainment'
  • Driver assaulted, robbed of cash
  • Children's hospital inaugurated
  • Teams to crack double murder
  • Where there is a will, there is a wheel
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Good monsoon may boost sugarcane production

    • Bidar

  • `Let people decide on inter-State disputes'

    • Bihar

  • Centre to help Bihar MLAs draw salaries

    • Briefly

  • Indian firm for global fair
  • Zebra appoints channel partner
  • Mumbai to host FAIR
  • Record physical delivery in pepper at NMCE
  • Award for Sunil Mittal
  • NDTV plans fourth channel
  • SAP India to raise headcount
  • SEBI ties up with HCL Tech
  • Draft report on RRBs

    • Business

  • Doors to be opened wide for FDI, FII inflows
  • SEBI bars UBS Securities
  • Trade deficit swells
  • Sensex drops 62 points
  • SpiceJet to launch operations on May 23
  • Shell plans cargo terminal at Hazira
  • Jet Airways net more than doubles; pays 30 p.c.
  • Tata Motors pays 125 p.c.
  • Rupee recovers
  • bmi introduces flight services from India
  • Satyam bags big order

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chattisgarh

  • Chhattisgarh blames Centre for power crisis

    • Chennai

  • A goodwill ambassador
  • Corporation to scale down water testing
  • Homeopathy can help non-insulin dependent diabetic patients
  • Plea to limit seats for `improvement students'
  • Hot spell may continue for some more weeks in the State
  • Broadband rates set to tumble
  • Arrested Adikesavan aide turns approver, claim police
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Sowmya wins
  • Adams holds Anand

    • Coimbatore

  • BSNL launches SMS facility on basic phones
  • Children now focus on personality development
  • Power shutdown tomorrow
  • 'Promote contract farming for oilseed cultivation'
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Lara rested for first one-dayer
  • Eight-wicket win for TVS Club
  • Khandu Rangnekar XI dismissed for 140

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No: 8296
  • Solution to Puzzle 8295

    • Cuddalore

  • Construction workers arrested

    • Cuddapah

  • YSR to tour Cuddapah district
  • Transfer of Collector opposed
  • Woman charred to death

    • Dharmapuri

  • Medical camp for disabled from May 28

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule in Dharwad

    • Editorials

  • Behind the explosions
  • Rejecting what is useless

    • Erode

  • Rs. 100-crore loan to farm sector

    • Football

  • Three probables for Pakistan tour from SBT
  • Viva finishes third

    • Front Page

  • India is a responsible nuclear power: Manmohan
  • Charges framed against Lalu
  • Two killed in attack on mourners
  • Kuwaiti women get political rights
  • Galloway dismisses charges of oil-for-food kickbacks
  • BSNL cuts ISD rates
  • Narain ready for Monaco challenge
  • Nod for DTH service
  • Remanded to custody
  • 37 killed in accident

    • Globescan

  • Kylie Minogue diagnosed with cancer
  • Secret race course near Naples

    • Golf

  • Raj takes lead

    • Gulbarga

  • CPI to launch agitation
  • Curb atrocities against Dalits, Centre urged
  • Jarkiholi felicitated

    • Hassan

  • Decision to amend APMC Act opposed

    • Hubli

  • HDMC officials fare poorly in test
  • Sankara Jayanti from today

    • Hyderabad

  • Agonising wait for eSeva users at Alwal
  • Sanjay Jaju takes over as MCH Commissioner
  • PCO NET launched
  • Three of pseudo naxal gang held
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • China astonished at Indian reports of border violation

    • International

  • Hundreds killed in Uzbekistan: Opposition
  • U.S. failed to monitor Iraq oil misuse: Democrats
  • 10-year term for Deuba sought
  • Petitioners permitted to seize Saudi Arabia's property in Britain
  • Mayors snub Bush and sign up to Kyoto protocol
  • Blair will face tough time
  • Iranian Minister in Baghdad

    • Issues

  • "Unfair and misconceived"

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • "Congress will not forgo turn to rule J&K"

    • Kannur

  • 13 nominations for byelections found valid
  • Telephone on demand in Kannur SSA soon

    • Karnataka

  • Charges of Andhra Pradesh far from truth, says Kharge
  • Mixed reactions to ban on land conversion
  • Activists see no need for new forest project
  • 20-month term too short for panchayat chiefs
  • Power eludes panchayats: Chandrashekar
  • Special package for fishermen likely
  • Safeguarding your vehicle from thieves
  • BSNL unveils its range of broadband services
  • Zilla panchayats get funds only by year-end: CAG
  • Mixed reaction to parallel parking regulations
  • Two more cocoon markets in two years
  • Explosives Act honoured in the breach?
  • Textile parks to be opened in seven places
  • Huge turnout at job rally surprises IAF
  • High Court allows police to arrest circle inspector
  • Hooch victim's body to be exhumed
  • Meet on environment awareness begins
  • `I did not resign under pressure'
  • Bhoruka Power set to achieve 100 MW capacity
  • JD(U) units to be consulted on poll tie-ups
  • Senior priest Stany Baptist dead
  • A prayer for world peace
  • Satriani gets strumming
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Officials directed to visit villages

    • Kerala

  • Delimitation: Advantage LDF
  • Appeal against court order: Medha
  • Sandalwood import: directive to produce probe report
  • NATPAC interview postponed
  • Kerala Congress(M) not to budge
  • Ensure transparency on Smart City project: Sudheeran
  • P.C. Thomas flays delimitation procedure
  • Congress-BJP pact in polls likely: Murali
  • Summons to T.M. Jacob
  • Karunakaran's exit has helped Congress: Sonia
  • `Dubai Government not involved'
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • UDF and LDF upbeat after delimitation
  • Local bodies in Kasaragod after delimitation
  • Scholarship offered
  • Winners of Civil Services examination felicitated
  • Government cheated the youth: NYC
  • Around the City

    • Khammam

  • `Resume peace talks with naxals'

    • Kochi

  • Shops and other structures on Fort Kochi beach demolished
  • Only 5,000 seats on offer in degree courses
  • Smart City: NC(I) seeks transparency
  • Telecom Day observed
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kottayam

  • `Clean Kerala' programme to be launched

    • Kozhikode

  • LDF accused of sabotaging development projects

    • Kurnool

  • Minister for frugality at farm meets
  • BSNL to launch WLL soon in Kurnool

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Reconstruction of higher education in India

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Strengthen grass-root democracy
  • AIADMK victory
  • Opposition charge
  • Appalling

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • `New BJP executive to be announced this month'

    • Madikeri

  • 12,000 more ration cards to be issued in Kodagu
  • Leaders seek suspension of police officer

    • Madurai

  • `Belgium willing to give expertise in Sethu project'
  • Rain raises the level, but they bring it down
  • CITU cadres held for bid to stage road blockade
  • Jayalakshmi's petition dismissed
  • Cattle-rearers warned
  • Case against John Pandian
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Mangalore

  • Inter-State gang of car thieves active
  • Telecom revolution benefits yet to reach rural areas, says MP
  • `Beeja Mela' gets under way in Belthangady
  • Vice-Chancellor worried over graft in universities
  • Tarang service to be improved
  • Funds for survey re-allocated
  • 92 per cent target met in Pulse Polio
  • Deadline for pumpset regularisation extended
  • College gets 98 p.c. passes
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Census indicates rise in elephant numbers
  • Mysore firm ties up with Lucknow biotech park on jatropha cultivation
  • Fasting unemployed teachers hospitalised
  • `Teachers must help students choose career'

    • Nagapattinam

  • Expedite disbursal of loans to fishermen, banks told

    • National

  • Why should I want to be Prime Minister?
  • "Congress will not forgo turn to rule J&K"
  • Massive rural development package launched
  • Left not to attend UPA function
  • She fought the odds like a one-woman army
  • Programme for infrastructure development
  • Murderer-son, family lose inheritance right
  • Notice to Centre on Sun TV's DTH application
  • Cut spending, Chidambaram tells Ministries
  • Lalu must go: AIFB, RSP
  • CBSE results on May 23
  • ISC, ICSE results today
  • ``Clear backlog of cases''
  • Chidambaram's idea to raise UPA performance rating
  • Unbundling of power boards deferred again

    • New Delhi

  • Right to information still a distant dream in Delhi
  • PCC polls run into rough weather
  • CAG points out irregularities at AIIMS
  • DU teachers want new B.Sc. course reviewed
  • Power cuts begin
  • Mothers, daughters to discuss taboo subjects
  • Evil of caste system in India flayed
  • Woman arrested for cheating
  • New by-laws for building on anvil
  • Sikh groups hail Delhi High Court order
  • `Workshop on building regulations politicised'
  • Acid attack accused held
  • On a mission to learn
  • Ten new cases of meningitis
  • Commonwealth literature meet planned
  • Men at work
  • Delhi stations de-congested
  • New visa procedures for students
  • Rights groups demand release of Kashmiri activist
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Dilemma for Pakistan's leadership
  • Lesson remain unlearnt, 60 years on
  • A return to the killing fields

    • Nizamabad

  • Rythu sadassu to be held on May 21, 22
  • Man hacked to death

    • Palakkad

  • Broadband services launched

    • Pathanamthitta

  • KSKTU leaders begin indefinite fast
  • Tension over Gurumandiram demolition

    • Pondicherry

  • Shortage of power likely next year
  • CPI(M) volunteers stage protest
  • Career guidance exhibition
  • Sithananda Swamigal guru pooja on May 29

    • Punjab

  • Akali Dal seeks ban on `Jo Bole So Nihal'
  • Notice to police on alleged custodial death

    • Racing : Horse

  • It's Moon Emperor vs. Brush With Fame

    • Rajasthan

  • Rs. 32 crores spent on mother and child care

    • Religion

  • Characteristics of saints

    • Sport

  • Federer is Laureus sportsman of the year
  • Narain ready for Monaco challenge
  • An ace among trump cards

    • Sports : General

  • Karun to race in Monaco
  • Fund crunch for skiers

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Plus Two examination results today
  • State agreeing to double power capacity no surprise
  • Where did the DMK's votes go?
  • For Mogappair's Mangal Eri, redemption at last
  • War veteran honoured
  • Notice to Centre on Sun TV's DTH application
  • "AIADMK victories interim"
  • Four killed in road accidents
  • Community centre to focus on rehabilitation programme
  • Residents demand release of water
  • Trade unions protest Centre's foreign direct investment policies
  • Two convicted in murder case
  • House break-in
  • Cash stolen
  • Girl run over by train
  • Secret ballot on May 30
  • Voter list revision in progress in Tiruvannamalai
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • CITU cadres held in Karur, Pudukottai and Perambalur

    • Tennis

  • WTA Open logo unveiled
  • Cash on talent scouting mission
  • Indian boys do well
  • Chile, Argentina take unbeatable leads
  • Sujith, Gurmeet advance
  • Megha Vakharia advances
  • Orissa shocks Haryana
  • Sunil Kumar in doubles semifinals

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Corporation approves sanitary landfill project
  • Conveyor belt consignment seized
  • Minister promises job for Hareesh
  • Prisoner escapes from custody
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 18, 1955: Talks on Kashmir
  • dated May 18, 1955: Chou repeats offer
  • dated May 18, 1955: Depression in Bay

    • Thrissur

  • Rs.70.2 crores to be set apart from ADB loan for water supply projects
  • Concern over development project for Guruvayur
  • Congress polls deferred

    • Tiruchi

  • A vital component of HIV prevention mechanism
  • Plan to provide 12 lakh mobile connections
  • SISI programme from May 30 to June 3
  • CITU members arrested
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Tirunelveli

  • Two esteemed awards and BSNL staff on cloud nine
  • CITU members stage road roko

    • Tirupati

  • NCC camp for girls concludes
  • SVU to introduce new distance courses
  • BSNL sees promising future in broadband segment

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Diarrhoea claims four lives
  • Rapist ordered to marry victim

    • Uttaranchal

  • 38 killed as bus falls into ravine

    • Vellore

  • 279 unorganised workers held

    • Vijayawada

  • Focus on strengthening rural telephone services
  • Krishna eastern main canal to be closed tomorrow
  • Fond farewell to ``people's man''
  • More sub-stations planned
  • Meet on CNG
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • Elderly man slips from train, dies
  • Cyclist dies as RTC bus hits him from behind
  • Around the City

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Two-pronged approach mooted to tackle AIDS problem
  • Parking, a major concern
  • World Telecom Day observed
  • YSR to tour north coastal districts
  • Golden crown for goddess
  • CAT coaching centre launched
  • Body found
  • Around the City

    • Weather

  • Weather

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