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    Alappuzha

  • High rates of poverty prevailing in villages of Alappuzha district

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Andhra Pradesh announces more VAT concessions
  • Naidu begins ``drought yatra'
  • YSR nails criticism on bank loan
  • British Library gets a new look
  • Irrigation projects not conforming to international norms: experts
  • Yerrannaidu critical of Congress policies
  • LIC, Andhra Bank sign pact for `Bancassurance'
  • `Need for more insurance firms'
  • Revise norms for issue of white cards, says CPI
  • Major move to bail out RTC
  • APRJC entrance test results out
  • State has failed to help ryots: Naidu
  • Give up loan plan: CPI(M)
  • Bridge across Godavari to be closed from today
  • No let-up in heat wave
  • AICC names 17 DCC chiefs
  • 3 held in gangrape case
  • HUDA vice-chief's parting gift
  • Muslims favour united State
  • Congress activist shot at by Maoists
  • Pulivendula set for a facelift
  • Maoists plan to expand base
  • Woman sets husband ablaze
  • Wakf properties survey to be over by Dec
  • Farmers to maintain Sagar schemes
  • Clinical studies on mice done
  • Jewellery, cash stolen from shop
  • History sheets of 74 persons closed
  • Sunstroke claims lives of eight
  • Mini Mahanadu to discuss State's failures
  • TRS for GO 610 implementation
  • Scouts and Guides panel expanded
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Go back, TRS men tell Naidu
  • TDP drive against illegal projects
  • Naidu says he will play role of Opposition leader responsibly

    • Badminton

  • Need for infrastructural change: Gopi Chand
  • Sridhar to play Danish league

    • Bangalore

  • Oxygen content decreasing in some parts of city
  • City Railway police rescue Chennai girl
  • Desilt drains before taking up road works, say residents
  • Lineman dies of electrocution, residents blame BESCOM
  • Examination schedule
  • New traffic regulation
  • Thirumurthy's daughter out of danger
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Vijaya Bank defeats Army

    • Bellary

  • 3.56 lakh hectares to come under sowing

    • Boxing

  • Padmavathi in semifinals

    • Briefly

  • National aptitude test
  • India Knit Fair award for Eastman Exports
  • JP Mobile teams up with Microsoft
  • LIC's bancassurance pact
  • Satyam in pact with Optimyz
  • Seagate expands notebook hard disc drives

    • Business

  • U.S. quota on more Chinese apparel
  • ICICI Bank buys Russian bank
  • Court admits TRAI's appeal
  • Tata Steel net doubles
  • Maiden flight to Kuala Lumpur, a landmark event for Jet Airways
  • Powerloom Parks seek seed capital
  • RoC to issue notice on Reliance
  • Profit taking pares part of early gains
  • Rupee ends lower
  • Shriram forms venture for life insurance
  • Hyundai's new Sonata coming

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Government urged to increase tax revenue allocation for panchayats
  • `Geometrical model of development better than arithmetic approach'
  • `State should set up a specialised agency for water management'
  • A battle won, the but war is still unfinished
  • Water supply comfortable
  • `Crop diversification needed to accelerate sustainable growth'
  • Slum dwellers' protest forces Railways to halt eviction
  • Marginal rise in rice price
  • Jayalalithaa donates Rs. 13 lakhs for trade union benefit fund
  • Missing girl traced
  • 35 taken ill after eating biriyani
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Cinema

  • Lifetime achievement award for Krishnaswamy

    • Coimbatore

  • Concern over `gifting' of scheme road
  • Cattle killed
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Merchant XI on top of table; Manjrekar opens its account
  • Double century by Bharath
  • TCPL Knights CC takes `A' Div. title
  • HCA Secretary lauds SCF
  • Hot Weather cricket tournament
  • Nitin bats well

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No: 8298
  • Solution to Puzzle 8297

    • Cuddalore

  • Work on houses for tsunami-hit to begin today

    • Dharmapuri

  • Police plan to initiate steps against traffic violators

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule in Dharwad today
  • Panchayat polls: 13 seats for general category

    • Editorials

  • A shocking absence of outrage
  • A fair deal for credit card users

    • Erode

  • Cooperative bank to advance Rs. 300 crores
  • Admission to music school courses

    • Front Page

  • Growth rate scaled down
  • CPI(M) hits back at BJP
  • Dara Singh's death sentence set aside
  • Mahmud Abbas meets Manmohan
  • Sethusamudram gets the green signal
  • 'Caravan of Peace' makes fourth trip
  • Reliance: Government orders notice
  • Fuel prices may go up
  • No leniency to rapists: Apex Court
  • Kolkata fire toll 9
  • Magistrates transferred in Bihar
  • Apex court notice to BSNL
  • Film withdrawn

    • Globescan

  • Hello! wins court appeal on photos
  • Many dead in twin ferry disaster

    • Golf

  • Randhawa consolidates lead

    • Guntur

  • Non-SCs told to vacate shopping complexes in Guntur
  • CPI(M) demands pattas for poor
  • Call for awareness about law on sex determination

    • Haryana

  • Annual Plan finalised
  • Hooda for higher subsidy for solar pumps

    • Hassan

  • Series of tragedies comes in the way of development

    • Hockey

  • Focus on strong defence: coach

    • Hubli

  • `Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases must to combat AIDS'
  • BJP plans dharna against Ministers from Dharwad
  • Two held in raid on poppy units
  • Ajit Kumar Kadkade to perform in Hubli

    • Hyderabad

  • City lad makes it to MIT
  • Water board chief has his task cut out
  • Probe sale of Indira Seva Sadan assets, says CPI
  • BJP opposes Bill on communal violence
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Afghans on U.S. project shot dead
  • Bush likely to back weapons in space
  • French vote may affect U.K. move
  • NATO forces placed on alert for help in Darfur
  • "Pakistan can play effective role in West Asia"
  • Thousands march for return of Aristide
  • Efforts against logging firms overturned
  • More Holocaust survivors to get compensation
  • IRA urged to give up violence
  • Wrangle over judicial posting in U.S.
  • Robot medics with gentle bedside manner

    • Jharkand

  • Land transfer okayed

    • Karnataka

  • Battlelines drawn for bypoll in Shimoga, Chamarajpet
  • `Repentant' BJP dares Bangarappa for debate
  • Krishna panel members' resignation, blow to Govt.
  • Naxalites strike again in State after lying low for a while
  • High Court directs dental colleges to admit 27 students
  • Future of railway line project hangs in the balance
  • Programme for empowerment of women a success
  • These Lords are losing their splendour, majesty
  • Candidates declare assets
  • Retired wildlife warden gets justice after 17 years
  • `Separate Kodagu State an isolated demand'
  • New guidelines for assessing land value
  • Govt. likely to outsource translation work
  • Panchayat staff meet
  • World Communicators' Day celebrated
  • AIDWA remarks misleading: IAF
  • Admissions panel to meet soon
  • Karnataka History Congress from today
  • Govt. to release seed subsidy from June 1
  • Conservation plan soon for 23 tanks in Tumkur
  • Cheaper air fares
  • Karnataka moves Krishna tribunal against A.P. on construction of 11 projects
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Reservations for ZP seats announced

    • Kerala

  • Chandy trying for a tie-up with BJP: Karunakaran
  • Government ill-equipped to handle sea rescue
  • Youth held on murder charge
  • Power theft by industrial units a big drain on KSEB
  • Kannur varsity BA, B.Com. results out
  • Deal sternly with corrupt officers: Lok Ayukta
  • Doctors to strike work on May 23
  • When they held the audience in thrall
  • Management development programme at IIM-K
  • BJP seeks inquiry into NDF-ISI links
  • Kerala to have world-class B school soon
  • Women entrepreneurs in Kannur set up forum
  • Row over letter recommending clearance for factory
  • Nayanar remembered
  • No requests for separate blocks in House: Speaker
  • KSKTU leaders call off fast
  • Idol installation anniversary
  • Probe sought into platform collapse
  • 10 candidates for byelections
  • Plea to appoint arrack workers in toddy shops
  • Girl fatally hit by train
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Around the City

    • Khammam

  • CPI(M) to organise Prajahita padayatra

    • Kochi

  • SPV planned for rail link to Vallarpadam terminal
  • Development comes at a price to Kumbalanghi
  • Yesudasan felicitated
  • A new supplement
  • Fish workers' protest for auction centre
  • Petitions seek stay on GIDA meet
  • Man hacked to death

    • Kollam

  • Anganawadi workers stage dharna seeking wage revision
  • Comprehensive scheme to clean Kollam canal launched
  • Literary awards announced
  • KSCDC gets aid from Government

    • Kottayam

  • Mahila Morcha meet from today

    • Kurnool

  • New DCC chief to focus on unity
  • `BCs not given nominated posts'
  • Rytu Sadassu venue shifted

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Governance reform for India's forests
  • Gender equality still a distant dream

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Advani's charge
  • Parliament boycott
  • AIADMK win
  • Inquiry commissions
  • Historic
  • Triple talaq
  • Injured innocence?
  • Allied victory

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Protests outside Congress headquarters in Bhopal

    • Madurai

  • Councillor gets anticipatory bail
  • Failed candidates of B. Ed., M. Ed. get last chance to appear in exams
  • Women doctors get bail in culpable homicide case
  • Ace magician is here
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • BSNL appoints franchisee to market its services
  • 21,940 waiting for phone connections
  • 12 seats reserved for general category in Dakshina Kannada
  • Two die, seven hurt in accident
  • Varsity move opposed
  • Power shutdown
  • Menasinahadya murder condemned
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Manipur

  • Tribals against teaching Manipuri script

    • Mysore

  • Weavers' colonies languishing in Mysore
  • Memoirs of a photojournalist
  • Mysore City Corporation waives interest on pending water bills
  • Burglars loot house, make away with valuables
  • Birth anniversary of C. D.N. on Sunday

    • Nagapattinam

  • Link all self-help groups and extend loan: Collector
  • Residents' plea to stop creation of prawn farms

    • National

  • Lalu rules out hike in passenger fares
  • Population commission recast
  • Left will not destabilise Government: V.P. Singh
  • Cabinet approves new map policy
  • Chinese Army chief to visit Indian military institutions
  • CBSE tele-counselling from May 23
  • Set up rights panels immediately, NHRC tells States
  • Windshield damage: no definite conclusion
  • Local communities must protect tigers: task force
  • Programme to conserve genetic diversity of tiger population
  • National Horticulture Mission approved
  • Left needs no certificate from Advani, says CPI
  • Lalu, DMK chief meet Sonia
  • Amarnath Yatra from June 21
  • ``Fight for control reflects poorly on religious bodies''
  • Sharad Yadav hits out at BJP

    • Nellore

  • New DCC chief promises justice to party workers

    • New Delhi

  • L-G brokers peace among Delhi Govt., DDA, MCD
  • MCD hits back at Delhi Govt.
  • Fire Service goes hi-tech
  • Ministers give go-by to meeting by DPCC chief
  • Power cuts again
  • MCD seals two godowns
  • ADM faces Minister's wrath
  • Heralding a `new generation' of Indian authors
  • Gandhi Bhavan in the eye of storm
  • `Go green' this Environment Day
  • `Unsung legends' honoured
  • Fake drugs seized
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • The new job market — in the sky

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • "Dara Singh cannot be individually held liable"

    • Pondicherry

  • World Bank package for tsunami-affected
  • Homage to Rajiv

    • Punjab

  • Punjab launches computer education in schools
  • SGPC demands ban on screening of film

    • Racing : Motor

  • Montoya and Alonso on top
  • Running into trouble

    • Rajasthan

  • Tilonia children leave for Korea
  • Saras parlours in all tehsils

    • Religion

  • Saint composer

    • Shimoga

  • `It is murder by the Government'

    • Sport

  • Coach's post: Panel gives patient hearing
  • Anand loses to Topalov
  • Razzaq bowls Pakistan to victory

    • Sports : General

  • C'wealth Games organising committee formed
  • Honours for Tulsain

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Final seat matrix for MBBS to be clear by May end
  • Dedicated cancer helpline launched
  • Study to evaluate mental health of tsunami-hit
  • All Central Ministers from Tamil Nadu have performed well: Karunanidhi
  • MRTS: experts to study soil condition between Perungudi-Velachery
  • Tuticorin-Nagapattinam road construction progressing fast
  • Stolen property recovered, 18 held
  • Bamboo ware from the Northeast
  • Answer sheet scam: principals interrogated
  • Tamil Protection Movement to launch stir on May 23
  • Boats donated to fishermen
  • Gold jewellery, foreign currency stolen
  • Merchant robbed
  • `Law needed to uphold democracy in Dalit panchayats'
  • Decks cleared for release of Tamil film
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Youth hits barricade, dies
  • Tirupur Municipality to get Cauvery water from August
  • History courses to be started in Govt. college

    • Tennis

  • Roland Garros — a graveyard of heroes
  • Argentina beats Chile, enters final
  • Memorable day for Sujith and Sphoorti
  • Shiva bags double
  • Sanam, Vivek for European tour

    • Thanjavur

  • Modern blood bank for Thanjavur soon
  • Meeting on rural development

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • 'Quasi-judicial bodies should reach out to people'
  • MLA stages protest at police station
  • Nayanar remembered
  • Plea for railway overbridges
  • National Youth Congress (I) meet tomorrow
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 20, 1955: Chou-Krishna Menon talks
  • dated May 20, 1955: Kabul rejects Pak. offer
  • dated May 20, 1955: Russia-Yugoslavia ties

    • Thrissur

  • Lalithakala Akademi painting camp concludes today
  • Body of man found

    • Tiruchi

  • Lot of motorists keep off parking lot in prime area
  • Now a new-look park for all
  • Eight held for group clash at Uttamarseeli
  • Housing quarters opened
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Centre for sheep rearing at Ramaiyanpatti
  • A clinical strategy to get ranks
  • Police `beat up' Dalit woman
  • Free training for eatery staff

    • Tirupati

  • Gali defends YSR on World Bank loans
  • Dravidian varsity plans new courses

    • Tuticorin

  • Underground drainage scheme for Tuticorin

    • Udupi

  • Reservations for Udupi ZP constituencies announced

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Amar Singh rebuts Rahul's charge
  • Mulayam announces Rs 40 crores for Gorakhpur
  • U P Women's Commission joins issue on `talaq'

    • Uttaranchal

  • RLD includes Dehra Dun in `Harit Pradesh'

    • Vellore

  • 3 killed in car-bus smash

    • Vijayawada

  • Survey for Krishna delta mini-modernisation on
  • Vendors pour out their woes at CPI's Samarabheri programme
  • Lenin for Asian Archery meet
  • Food poisoning renders 40 ill
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • VUDA asked to submit NoC
  • Brand value to Visakhapatnam from Volkswagen company
  • PACS employees plan stir
  • Hyundai showroom opened
  • CPI(M) seeks daily water supply
  • House panel on scholarships holds meet
  • Return tickets for Garuda buses
  • Farewell for VUDA Vice-Chief
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Asian Youth championship: Indian girls confident
  • Yuvakranthi PG posts win
  • DSA's inter-club transfers
  • India qualifies

    • Warangal

  • DCC chief renominated

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • Sunderban sharks at poachers' mercy

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