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Anantapur

  • TDP leader surrenders before court

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Two from Delhi held with Rs. 25 lakhs
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • V-C's call to churn out quality engineers
  • Police official charged with harassing prisoners
  • `Benefits of industrialisation should reach all'
  • RDO killed in accident
  • 30 workers taken ill after having lunch
  • Issue of ration cards to end by April 30
  • Officers told to complete works in time

    • Bangalore

  • Rahul Dravid scores a special 100
  • Ananthamurthy files nomination papers
  • `Re-inspect facilities available at Basaveshwara Medical College'
  • Will prosecution of five police officers be sanctioned?
  • Keep Metro project on track, it is essential for the city
  • Bangalore, Mangalore likely to get supplies of natural gas from 2009
  • Inauguration of biodiversity park at Mathikere tomorrow
  • Heart mended, baby safe in hospital
  • Government committed to State's development, says Kumaraswamy
  • Policeman arrested on charge of stealing purse
  • Mayor, BMP Commissioner divided over expert's role
  • Education system is directionless: Minister
  • Weather plays spoilsport for morning walkers
  • Sadananda Gowda to head State BJP
  • Raids: requests pour in for jewellery inspection
  • Metro rail: survey in Malleswaram shelved
  • Fees for CET application forms
  • Mathematics exam cancelled in one centre
  • Government to felicitate Kumble, Dravid
  • Elephant returned to owner
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Of crime and policemen

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • Steps to prevent malpractices during II PU examination

    • Bidar

  • A celebration of the spirit of `Gurubani' in Bidar

    • Bijapur

  • 25 SSLC students left in the lurch

    • Briefly

  • Rockwell offers new series of software
  • Sifymall.com's mobile shopping initiative
  • Birla Sun Life ties up with 5 coop. banks
  • Franklin Templeton declares tax-free dividend
  • Cisco Systems signs MoU with CERT-In
  • Visualsoft to withdraw merger proposal
  • Lanco Green Power achieves financial closure
  • Aurobindo Pharma gets licence to market 2 ARVs
  • Ahlcon to launch ready mix concrete
  • Optimix launches Fund of Funds scheme
  • Asianet launches PC-NET subscription scheme
  • Airtel, RIM launch new BlackBerry
  • TRAI to review network congestion
  • Electrical apparatus standards revised
  • MCX to raise capital

    • Business

  • Suzlon to acquire Belgian company
  • India calls for joint efforts to promote energy security
  • Reliance, Biocon among 150 SEZs cleared
  • A laptop for lawyers from HCL Info
  • Blow Plast's retail initiatives
  • AV Birla group to invest $350 m in Laos
  • Japanese delegation hails TQM system at Lucas-TVS
  • Hindalco unions hail Government initiative
  • IRE to give thrust to strategic materials programme
  • BPL Mobile cuts ISD, STD rates
  • Parts of Kerala may get natural gas supplies
  • Rupee weakens against $
  • Sensex touches 10950-mark

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • `Implement VAT on priority basis'
  • CPI (M) should double its strength in Assembly: Karat
  • Why overseas education is a big draw
  • Officers Training Academy to increase intake
  • `Manifesto of the Adivasis' for Assembly polls released
  • Election, additional burden for men in uniform?
  • Hitch in EPIC programme frustrates residents
  • Road accidents claim four lives in 48 hours
  • Web-based data entry system launched at Chennai airport
  • Passing-out parade at Tambaram IAF station
  • Seminar on anthropological artefacts
  • Meet on implications of WTO for economy
  • Local bodies in suburbs erase graffiti in public places
  • Job prospects of biotechnology in India
  • Book on South Indian temples released
  • Lok Paritran invites candidates to contest polls
  • Two filmmakers come together to launch `P365'
  • Over 100 kumbhabhishekams on a single day
  • CPI (M), DMK close to completing constituency identification
  • Inter-collegiate paper presentation
  • Concert series inaugurated
  • Committee to install Swami Sivananda statue
  • Sports meet for the differently-abled held
  • Not just another day for them
  • Books, CDs of conversations with Jaggi Vasudev released
  • Plea to Chief Minister on cruelty to animals
  • Crescent College team wins award
  • Applications invited for exchange programme
  • Film gets pat from President
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Amber tournament from today

    • Coimbatore

  • EPIC distribution centres
  • BJP has lost people's confidence: Singhal
  • Face of Coimbatore
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • White-collar offence

    • Cricket

  • India facing problem of plenty
  • Tendulkar... 132 and batting
  • Dravid and Kumble felicitated
  • Railways pips Tamil Nadu at the post
  • Kallis helps South Africa bounce back
  • Big win for Bangladesh

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8554
  • Solution to Puzzle 8553

    • Editorials

  • Stock markets and absence of negatives
  • The long wait for a wildlife service

    • Erode

  • The bustle is all for admission to LKG
  • Former CBI director stresses need for women's education
  • Holi special offer from BSNL
  • 6 Veerappan associates get 3 years RI
  • `No bird flu in Erode district'

    • Football

  • Zenit stuns Marseille
  • Sub-jr football gets a fillip

    • Front Page

  • ``Russia can help in pipeline project''
  • Jaya Bachchan disqualified
  • Government moves High Court
  • Bandh in Navi Mumbai over clash
  • Shooters hit bull's-eye
  • Culling almost over in Jalgaon district
  • Four suspects shot dead in encounter
  • Reply to BCCI show-cause, High Court asks Dalmiya
  • Corporation comes down on poll graffiti
  • Coaching classes for CET to be telecast on `Chandana' channel
  • Metro all set now to bring Dwarka closer to Delhi
  • Two from Delhi held with 25 lakhs
  • BJP finalises Advani, Rajnath `yatra' details
  • Team chosen after due deliberations: Pinarayi
  • Six nominations filed for Rajya Sabha
  • Women in textile city adorn finance too
  • Thanjavur-Tiruvarur gauge conversion work to be over by May
  • EC's directive on pay revision quashed
  • CPI(M) district committee seeks Achuthanandan's candidature
  • One injured in blast
  • Geelani detained
  • Three jawans killed

    • Golf

  • Bad day for Atwal; Chopra tied 39th
  • Howell takes lead

    • Gulbarga

  • Recruitment of qualified persons will improve police image: DGP
  • Mathematics examination cancelled at Khajuri school
  • Protest against assault on village accountant

    • Guntur

  • Modern auditorium to come up in Guntur

    • Haryana

  • Haryana Government presents a deficit budget

    • Hassan

  • Concern over sale of drugs in Hassan
  • Vachana Sahitya Sammelana at Sakleshpur from March 25

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Modify farm education to suit our needs: scientist
  • Security tightened in Hubli for Ranga Panchami
  • `Polity of the past can solve today's problems'

    • Hyderabad

  • TDP seeks release of scholarship amount
  • State Government to get tough with micro finance bodies
  • OU Arts College principal assaulted
  • Maoists locked in ideological battle
  • Naidu submits `proof' of graft in Sripadasagar
  • Chickenpox cases on rise
  • Attack on Apollo: police told to act fast
  • Auction benefits only realtors: MLAs
  • Boy dies in road accident
  • BJP to support bill on separate Telangana
  • Coop banks should put up good show: YSR
  • Court pulls up officials on Bandar Road widening
  • One more hospital under scanner
  • Runaway girls sent back home
  • Fire safety: court seeks MCH report
  • Child labourers rescued
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Focus on safety of traffic police personnel on duty

    • India & World

  • UNESCO backs South Asia Foundation's work on regional cooperation
  • No re-negotiation, says Burns
  • Pakistan sounds a note of warning

    • International

  • U.S.-led assault continues in Iraq
  • Water forum's focus on the poor
  • U.N. reports "progress" in Iran talks
  • Protests over job scheme turn violent in France
  • Strippers win meal breaks
  • Marriages made in Britain
  • Of cosmic, rapid inflation
  • Pre-wedding HIV/AIDS test mandatory in Goa
  • Quake triggered tsunami?
  • 1 missing as volcano erupts
  • Efforts on to save lives of drug trial volunteers
  • Baby retained over bill
  • Norway names envoy

    • Kannur

  • Nursing students to go on strike at Pariyaram
  • Illegal telephone exchange unearthed in Kannur
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • CPI activists stage dharna
  • Tight security for Chief Minister's visit

    • Karnataka

  • Government sanction for prosecution crucial
  • Heart mended, baby safe in Manipal hospital
  • Briefly

    • Kerala

  • "CPI(M) team chosen after due deliberations"
  • Fortifying the system of examination
  • Video surveillance to curb crime
  • Next issue
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • State wins national tourism award
  • Women empowerment through magic
  • Vayalar Ravi to visit Doha

    • Kochi

  • Corporation plans own water supply system
  • Strike at Kochi port called off
  • Granite boulders spill over from tipper lorry
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Dealing with crowd at bus stops

    • Kollam

  • KGOU hails wage revision
  • Devarajan cremated with police honours
  • Fishermen oppose total ban on fishing
  • Essence of coalition politics lost: Azhikode

    • Kozhikode

  • Video surveillance to curb crime in Kozhikode
  • Residents want stops of trains restored
  • Clean city status: court begins proceedings

    • Kurnool

  • `Time to enforce Telugu in State'

    • Leader Page Articles

  • China turns to nuclear power to fuel growth

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Hostile indeed?
  • The golden goose
  • Welcome move
  • Farmers' woes

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Arjun files nomination papers for Rajya Sabha

    • Madurai

  • Petition seeking refund of auction amount for running `prasadam' stalls dismissed
  • Mahasamprokshanam
  • Rare cardiac surgery at Madurai hospital
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • A tailor-made solution

    • Mangalore

  • `Better human resource management needed'
  • HRD is new thrust area for research, says VC
  • Move to stop issuing advance licence welcomed
  • New Registrar appointed but varsity says it is not right time
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Down memory lane with Satyan
  • Ban on animal sacrifice during festival

    • Nagercoil

  • Call to follow election rules
  • Craft bazaar inaugurated
  • Housing society employee commits suicide

    • Nalgonda

  • Jala Sadhana Samithi members call off fast

    • National

  • India, Russia sign seven agreements
  • Jaya Bachchan to be re-nominated
  • Tarun Gogoi files nomination for Assembly poll
  • Nitish files nomination
  • Our message will be on our chest
  • ``Border fencing in a year''
  • New norms for transfer of KVS teachers
  • Centre urged to stop anti-naxal movement in Chhattisgarh
  • S. Kumar dead
  • Hamid Ansari takes over as NCM chief
  • Six in fray for Rajya Sabha polls from West Bengal
  • Key deal in Nepal hits roadblock
  • No sell-out, says Praful Patel
  • Medha meets Soz on Narmada dam height
  • Legislature must decide on the issue: CPI(M)
  • BJP finalises `yatra' details
  • Jaya Bachchan will be re-nominated: Samajwadi Party

    • Nellore

  • Patient decides to plead for mercy killing

    • New Delhi

  • Regularise all shops in Delhi, demands Assembly
  • Khurana all set to quit BJP?
  • Ruckus in Delhi Assembly
  • `Khurana should quit BJP, form Third Front'
  • Acquainting weavers with a lost legacy
  • Cases of power theft detected
  • NCERT counselling course for teachers
  • Hannah murder accused allowed to produce wife as witness
  • Father alleges foul play in call centre executive's death
  • IT fair begins on Tuesday
  • Sisters criminally assaulted
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • High time to bring objectivity to criminal justice system

    • News Analysis

  • Trial by media is rough but useful
  • Corrections and clarifications
  • Vaccines for an influenza pandemic
  • A consensus remains elusive in West Bengal
  • Queen's English? How do you spell that?

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • TDP seeks fresh voter list
  • e-Panchayat service to be extended to 475 villages

    • Palakkad

  • Demonstrations, posters in support of Achuthanandan
  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • DTPC project in troubled waters

    • Perambalur

  • Jail term for murder

    • Pondicherry

  • State NCP to go it alone in Assembly polls
  • Allegations of irregularities in Chamber of Commerce denied

    • Punjab

  • Punjab Assembly adjourned sine die

    • Racing : Horse

  • Rising Fame runs with a good chance
  • Adolfito wins main event
  • Colour Bearer shines
  • Wafadar pleases

    • Racing : Motor

  • Alonso leads the field in practice

    • Raichur

  • Police fire in the air to end group clash

    • Rajasthan

  • Choice of Singhvi surprises Rajasthan Congressmen
  • Anguish over arrest of Kota Bishop

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Election officials' work will be closely monitored: Collector

    • Religion

  • God's accessibility

    • Salem

  • Coop. staff stage dharna
  • Reminder to parties on cut-outs
  • 54 recruited in campus interview
  • Probe on
  • Applications invited
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • BJP members seek probe into `irregularities'
  • DSS members for supersession of Anavatti Gram Panchayat

    • Sport

  • Shooters hit bull's-eye
  • England's last chance for redemption
  • Malaysia shares honours with India

    • Sports : General

  • Murugesan loses by a whisker
  • JETS sports festival
  • More funds may solve problems: minister

    • Srikakulam

  • Collector for completion of housing schemes on time

    • Swimming

  • Thorpe to quit after Beijing

    • Tamil Nadu

  • High Court quashes EC's directive on pay revision
  • `India-ASEAN trade potential remains underutilised'
  • Web-based health information management system in place
  • Residents protest against airport expansion plan
  • Women panchayat presidents gear up for local body polls
  • Kurinji flowers bloom again in Kodaikanal hills
  • Prisoners in Coimbatore volunteer for HIV test
  • Paddy procurement touches 1.70 lakh tonnes
  • Thanjavur-Tiruvarur gauge conversion work to be over by May
  • For Rs. 5,500 a year, industrialists get a bumpy ride at SIPCOT
  • Devotees throng temple kumbhabhishekam
  • A `national shrine' near the sea
  • Poll graffiti in public a violation: CEO
  • Priyanka should contest in Cuddalore: Congressmen
  • Rally to highlight plight of Bhopal gas victims
  • VIT offers to accommodate new institute
  • Cane furniture trade in doldrums due to dwindling demand
  • Work on new bus stand makes rapid progress
  • French team studies Indian response to climate change
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Kurinji flowers bloom again in Kodaikanal
  • Include eggs in noon meal scheme: poultry farmers
  • Grizzled Giant Squirrel population up
  • 2000 cusecs of water to be released from Mettur dam
  • Plan to modernise rope car cabins in Palani temple
  • NCP to go it alone in Assembly polls
  • Residents block road
  • Around the City

    • Tennis

  • Indian pair wins Masters doubles
  • Federer enters semifinals

    • Thanjavur

  • Significance of computer education emphasised
  • Rice institute gets new chief
  • In Thanjavur Today

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Looking into charges of breach of code: Tandon
  • LDF seat-sharing talks hit snag
  • Bishops' Council calls for liquor ban
  • BJP to shortlist candidates today
  • UDF partners seek more seats
  • State not for confrontation with apex court: Thiruvanchoor
  • `Quality of democracy depends on type of vigilance'
  • Chandy flays Opposition stand on pay revision
  • Burglary: one held
  • Tampering: Lok Ayukta seeks explanation
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • What is in an alias?

    • This Day That Age

  • dated March 18, 1956: Nehru on Mountbatten

    • Thrissur

  • `Propagandist literature lacks individual touch'
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • `Be more vigilant'
  • Two held with explosive materials
  • Thief escapes from police custody
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Police crack the whip on fake doctors

    • Tirunelveli

  • Religious fervour marks Tenkasi temple mahakumbabhishekam

    • Tirupati

  • Social activists felicitated

    • Tuticorin

  • Construction of tank commences

    • Udupi

  • College building to be inaugurated today

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Interesting contest likely for Rajya Sabha polls in U.P.
  • U.P. Govt. appoints 17 MLAs to State bodies ahead of RS polls
  • 29 die in Holi violence

    • Uttaranchal

  • Rajya Sabha ticket to `outsider' evokes mixed response
  • `Danger of pollutants in vegetables'
  • Har-Ki-Dun trekking expedition from May 1

    • Vellore

  • VIT makes offer on institute
  • Women observe fast

    • Vijayawada

  • Superwhizz Academy chief creates ruckus
  • Parents told to involve children in sports
  • CPI(M) firm on ration cards, housing schemes
  • CPI(M) against move to hike property tax
  • Boy killed in road accident
  • Gulzar to abide by court order
  • Magisterial probe on March 20
  • Political vacuum in coastal region: Katragadda Babu
  • Around the city
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Retailers reap rewards at The Hindu display contest
  • Bypoll postponement: TDP blames `failure' of State
  • `Rotary spending 50 crores on health, education in India'
  • RTC specials for SSC exam
  • Power shutdown
  • Officials told to organise medical camps
  • Bank's extension counter opened
  • Zilla Parishad meeting today
  • Around the City
  • In visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Heart patients stage `rasta-roko'
  • Varsity to revamp exam system

    • Weather

  • Weather

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