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Alappuzha

  • UDF salvages some pride in Alappuzha

    • Anantapur

  • SKU's engineering college cleared
  • `Strange marriage' ends in separation

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Monsanto directed to reduce Bt cotton price
  • Prasar Bharati to premiere in U.S.
  • Sonia mania
  • Crowning glory
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Point where none dares now a beehive of activity
  • Lok Satta training camps from May 17
  • State awaits report on Godavari water for Kamareddy
  • National Technology Day celebrated
  • Fake naxal gang busted
  • 14 killed in two accidents
  • Police foil bid to torch couple
  • `Priority for water supply'
  • Tight security for YSR's visit
  • 294 unrecognised schools in Medak
  • No politics for my son now: YSR
  • Woman's pliant to YSR on Indiramma
  • YSR lays stone for road
  • Fatal fall

    • Athletics

  • Damayanthi Darsha for Asian GP meets

    • Badminton

  • Shravan, Sarath in last four

    • Bangalore

  • India has become a nation of clerks to the world, says Joshi
  • Levi Strauss opens mega-store in city
  • Low-lying areas may face the brunt again
  • Managing time in a better way
  • Software to help police analyse accidents
  • Businessman robbed of Rs. 3.50 lakh
  • Lobbying on for Council seats
  • Modern laboratory for Drugs Control Department
  • Men are handling new roles with ease
  • Junior doctors call off strike following talks
  • Caught in the rain, unawares
  • Good prospects make one stick on to a job
  • Work on Rs. 100-crore Jalahalli Circle flyover to start in August
  • Correspondence course exams from Monday
  • BMP chief directs revenue officials to meet targets
  • Sonia Gandhi's victory gives Congress leaders something to cheer about
  • BJP forms panel to choose ministers
  • BDA engineer held on graft charge
  • BMP to start road engineering works immediately
  • Congress councillors' team meets Governor
  • 12.9 mm of rain in city
  • Scope of Yeshaswini scheme expanded
  • Experts on Cauvery dispute criticised
  • Highighting Indian heritage in engineering
  • Satyajit Ray magic
  • Two students to participate in `Know US' quiz
  • Woman electrocuted
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Karimnagar boys win a thriller

    • Belgaum

  • 13 gram panchayats from Belgaum to apply for Nirmal Gram Award

    • Briefly

  • Reliance raises petrol prices
  • Gold at new high
  • IRDA panel on redressal systems
  • Fed raises rates further
  • Wockhardt gets USFDA nod for injectables plant
  • Voltas pays Rs. 6 per share, to split share
  • Sudsun Housing changes name
  • Areva T&D Q1 net up
  • Tyche Peripherals ties up with NCR Corp.
  • Integrien partnership with MphasiS
  • Gangotri Textiles' follow-on public offer
  • Zicom's security solutions for homes
  • Eurocopter wins Igor Sikorsky trophy
  • IONA partners Wipro
  • Areva T & D profit up
  • Satyam's new head for Continental Europe

    • Business

  • Re-look at power access surcharge
  • Itochu among 26 FDI proposals
  • RPL makes debut with a bang
  • Patents (Amendment) Rules notified
  • Zicom's security solutions for homes
  • Zicom's security solutions for homes
  • ONGC ties up with Halliburton
  • HP launches technology centre
  • Deccan Aviation IPO on May 18
  • Sensex dives 177 points
  • Rupee tumbles against $

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • A victory for democratic forces, says DPA
  • DMK men celebrate in style
  • City springs a surprise; seven each for rival fronts
  • Lab standards under the scanner
  • Forum hails change in government
  • People pin their hopes on the new government
  • First-time voters look into the future with hope
  • The reactions on the street
  • "We have the honour of forming a coalition"
  • Close contests in Harbour, Perambur
  • DMK retains Tambaram seat
  • Disappointed, but not dejected
  • An Independent who stood to gain
  • Vijayakant party's impressive show
  • The Hindu MetroPlus Food Guide released
  • Valarmathi defeated by DMK's Anbarasan in Alandur
  • Technology alone "can bridge gap between rich and poor"
  • Happy to churn out Chief Ministers
  • Dharmendra as brand ambassador
  • Celebration time
  • Sweet victory
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Anand plays Bacrot
  • Sasikiran held

    • Coimbatore

  • Surprises and disappointments mark counting
  • Re-laying Mettupalayam Road: residents to step up stir
  • `Home Science is no more gender specific'
  • Post-election scenario
  • The sounds of success
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Chappell, Dravid confident
  • Trescothick back with a bang
  • `Pay heed to players' complaints'
  • ICC hits back at Steve Bucknor
  • Mushtaq and Read in angry clash
  • Big win for West Indies
  • Zaheer scalps six

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8601 Solution to Puzzle 8600
  • Solution to Puzzle 8600

    • Dharmapuri

  • Easy win for DPA in Dharmapuri district

    • Dindigul

  • DMK bags five seats in Dindigul

    • Editorials

  • Election outcome positives
  • Time to deliver on promises

    • Eluru

  • YSR's remark fuels mid-term poll talk

    • Erode

  • AIADMK bastion shattered
  • DPA celebrates victory

    • Football

  • Abhishek nets two in RSC's win
  • Broken dreams litter road to World Cup
  • England's only World Cup triumph
  • Kaka wants to make bigger impact
  • Sevilla lifts UEFA Cup in style
  • Advocaat names team
  • Australian squad

    • Front Page

  • Karunanidhi to be Chief Minister for fifth time
  • Moily in Chennai for talks
  • Two-thirds majority for LDF in Kerala
  • Record win for Left in West Bengal
  • Poll projections come true
  • Congress to form coalition government in Assam
  • Sonia registers her biggest win
  • Oil price hike: Manmohan Singh may have to play mediator
  • Outcome a reflection of our good performance: Gogoi
  • 17 Sri Lankan sailors missing in battle

    • Goa

  • Goa Government invites EoI for oceanarium project

    • Golf

  • Gaganjeet Bhullar takes lead
  • Hendrik Buhrmann leads the pack
  • Jeev starts with one-under 71

    • Gulbarga

  • Reinstate contract workers: Kanta
  • RAF personnel take out route march in Gulbarga, Jewargi
  • `Hold talks on Tadari project'
  • `Ease water crisis in Brahmpur'

    • Guntur

  • Congress MLAs patch up
  • City Congress panel announced
  • Book expo opened

    • Hassan

  • Farmers seek steps to market neera
  • Cattle feed plant to be opened on Monday

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Junior doctors' strike affects out-patient services in KIMS
  • Yuva Samata Sena stages demonstration
  • Cancel separate CETs, says ABVP
  • In Hubli-Dharwad Today

    • Hyderabad

  • CT scan remains elusive
  • Monsanto directed to reduce Bt cotton price
  • Fire precaution fee to be levied on builders
  • Woman injured in crude bomb explosion
  • CPI (M) celebrates victory
  • Plans to take up $50 billion projects through public-private partnership: NHAI member
  • Three ROBs to come up in city
  • Crude bomb explodes, woman injured
  • History comes alive at Chowmohalla Palace
  • Prasar Bharati to premiere in US
  • Modern facility for drug discovery at IICT soon
  • Cartoon exhibition on HIV/AIDS
  • `Networking of rivers aims at creating water grid'
  • Crime rate up in first quarter
  • Teachers' plea to State on postings
  • Odeon blast: Rs. 1-lakh reward for information
  • Cheer for IIT aspirants
  • No power supply in some areas
  • On the tenterhooks
  • Closure notices to 285 schools
  • Probe into bribery charge
  • Free training
  • `Free service' camps for Fiat car owners
  • Victim identified
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Indian kidnapped in Nigeria

    • International

  • 17 Sri Lankan sailors missing in battle
  • 7/7 report a whitewash, say victims' relatives
  • Iraq: April toll reaches 1,100
  • 122 die in battle for Somali capital
  • Sudan blocks U.N. force
  • Six killed in Baloch blasts
  • Fiji election chief admits to hitches

    • Kancheepuram

  • DMDK makes its presence felt in Kancheepuram

    • Kannur

  • Assembly poll outcome in Kannur a jolt to UDF
  • LDF celebrates victory

    • Karnataka

  • `India a nation of clerks to the world'
  • A question of language
  • Rain blues

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Schoolchildren to get uniforms, books on time
  • Health care card launched
  • World waking up to Ayurveda, says Acharya
  • Religious heads oppose Tadari power project
  • Government will develop Hassan: Kumaraswamy
  • `Do not oppose irrigation schemes, power projects'
  • Two mobile laboratories to monitor pollution soon
  • Devotees gather at B.R Hills for rathotsava
  • GPs told to implement job scheme
  • Hospital in poor state

    • Kerala

  • CPI(M) Polit Bureau to choose Kerala Chief Minister nominee
  • `LDF won through unholy alliance'
  • Stemming the red sweep
  • The triumphant march of democracy
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • LDF wave batters IUML citadel
  • IUML admits defeat, but says it is not forever
  • Idukki: UDF stronghold falls
  • Congress retains Mahe, Palloor

    • Kochi

  • LDF camp erupts in joy
  • Impressive gains for LDF in district
  • Gains galore for LDF in Ernakulam district
  • T.M. Jacob loses Piravom
  • Victory celebrations
  • Consumer information centre opened
  • Port Board reconstituted
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Many titans lose their footing in Kollam
  • Seesaw scenes at Chavara, Neduvathur

    • Kottayam

  • LDF makes inroads into UDF's traditional bastion
  • Development agenda will run its course: Chandy
  • Sympathy wave helped LDF: Mani

    • Kozhikode

  • Spectacular sweep for LDF in Wayanad
  • LDF rewrites history in Kozhikode district
  • LDF consolidates position in Kasaragod
  • Namesakes trouble candidates
  • IUML failed to read the writing on the wall: INL
  • Kanthapuram claims credit for LDF success
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Lok Satta to train aspirants contesting panchayat polls
  • Valmikis told to shun faction politics

    • Leader Page Articles

  • An Iranian offer that America must heed

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Poll results
  • Kerala verdict
  • Seven times in a row
  • A new dimension

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Stress on e-governance
  • Madhya Pradesh plans to spend Rs. 1800 cr. on rural roads

    • Madikeri

  • Sporadic violence during bandh in Kodagu
  • Kodagu unit of Indian Red Cross bags award

    • Madurai

  • AIADMK front clinches six out of ten seats
  • Traffic diversions
  • It's the time of the year for children to learn new things
  • `Captain' turns predator
  • Suprabhatam of Alagarkovil
  • Exam notification
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Officials criticised for poor state of affairs in ashram schools
  • Online counselling for transfers
  • Work on total sanitation in full swing
  • `Tulu Samskritika Bhavan' planned
  • Strand to organise book show in Mangalore
  • Man detained under Goonda Act, sent to jail
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Yediyurappa promises funds for Kannada encyclopaedia project
  • CFTRI observes National Technology Day
  • Clarification sought on STF rewards
  • Minister seeks suggestions from writers on beautifying city
  • Efforts should be made to make Kannada administrative language: Javare Gowda
  • Order soon on allowance to teachers
  • Anointment ceremony on the net
  • Fire breaks out at garment shop
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Ruling party routed in Nagapattinam district

    • Nagercoil

  • DPA secures all seven segments in Kanyakumari district

    • Nalgonda

  • Naidu to camp in Suryapet

    • National

  • A vote for development, says Buddhadeb
  • Buddhadeb will have to play a major role: Basu
  • Industry lauds Left Front victory
  • BJP disappointed with poll results
  • Debate poll panel reforms: Karat
  • Resignations accepted
  • Kalam promises steps to ensure return of Pandits to Valley
  • Apex court notice to Centre, Gujarat
  • IAF's airfield in Siachen to stay
  • Kalam to scientists: focus on healthcare, electronic systems
  • Environmentalists' complaint led to conviction
  • Australia may sell uranium to India
  • Montek calls for more IIT like institutions
  • Reactors that will come under safeguards identified
  • Transfer assets cases, says Lalu
  • Pawar signs agriculture work plan with Israel
  • 2 militants killed
  • Review sentence: Naik
  • Overhaul the system, says Sam Pitroda
  • We did not organise Budhia run: CRPF
  • "Evolve scheme for appointments to EC"
  • Parliament adjourned over Delhi demolitions
  • Akashi meets Narayanan, Saran
  • Fresh case
  • Sonia disappointed with Congress show

    • New Delhi

  • Leaders vie to take credit for Bill on sealing
  • Continue sealing drive: Supreme Court
  • GMR group woos AAI staff through their stomachs
  • DPCC and party legislators hail Sonia Gandhi's victory
  • Parliament adjourned over Delhi demolitions
  • Court restrains four lawyers from using pilfered data
  • A different kind of stag party
  • Bringing alive the grittier side of realm of magic
  • MCD continues pick and choose policy: BJP
  • MCD to appeal to court for allowing meat shops in residential areas
  • A film on ancient theatre form
  • Soz confident Mulayam will relent on water to Delhi
  • Medicos to protest today
  • Dyal Singh College teachers threaten to abstain from work
  • On the warpath
  • Jail Superintendents fined
  • Wheat import norms relaxed further
  • Arrested militant underwent training in Bangladesh
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • For human rights protection, a new beginning
  • Microsoft's problem bringing Vista online
  • Poll projections come true
  • Corrections and Clarifications
  • The election results and coalition politics
  • Resource rich Bolivia turns clock back

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Civic body kills 80 pigs to maintain public health

    • Palakkad

  • LDF wins nine seats in Palakkad
  • Achuthanandan romps home with a record majority

    • Pathanamthitta

  • UDF can take solace in verdict in Pathanamthitta district

    • Perambalur

  • DMK front bags three out of five seats

    • Pondicherry

  • DPA emerges victorious
  • Bill to rename Pondicherry

    • Racing : Horse

  • Dance With Dreams in fine trim
  • Great Strides wins main event
  • Canny Lad and Cincinnati impress

    • Raichur

  • KRRS criticises subsidy scheme

    • Rajasthan

  • BJP wins Deeg by-election
  • Water shortage plays havoc on Bharatpur's wildlife
  • Raje meets Deputy PM of Israel

    • Ramanathapuram

  • DMK sets record in Ramnad district

    • Religion

  • Devotional hymn

    • Salem

  • AIADMK's defeat springs a surprise
  • Cadres of DMK, alliance camps over the moon
  • Celebration time for DMK-led front
  • Another pair of father and son in Dravidian politics
  • `Election not democratic'

    • Shimoga

  • Shimoga to host drama festival
  • Plea to ensure success of drama festival
  • Proposal to establish SEZ in Shimoga hailed

    • Shooting

  • Manavjit sixth on day one

    • Sivaganga

  • Four seats go to DPA in Sivaganga dt.

    • Sport

  • Windies tour: timing is bang on
  • Hingis beats Dementieva, enters quarterfinals

    • Sports : General

  • Vizag to hold South Zone kabaddi tourney
  • Treble for Karhadkar
  • Showers mar play

    • Srikakulam

  • Banks ready to finance entrepreneurs: SBI official

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Will Congress, PMK join the government?
  • Unusual verdict from south
  • Coimbatore, lone saving grace for AIADMK
  • Trailing travails
  • Officialdom a bit wary
  • Good, except for hitch at the end
  • Time to celebrate
  • Congress fails to retain all four seats in Karaikal
  • Impressive gains for DMK in the central region
  • District Elections Officer thanks staff
  • 20 p.c. rise in IT industry revenue: CII survey
  • Chembarambakkam lake under `green attack'
  • Cotton weaves from Erode, Salem
  • DMK combine sweeps Vellore, Tiruvannamalai
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • DMK alliance wins three seats
  • AIADMK retains two seats
  • He lost by just 53 votes
  • AIADMK-led front bags four seats in Theni district
  • AIADMK wins Gobichettipalayam, DMK wrests Bhavanisagar and Sathyamangalam
  • DPA wins three out of five seats in Krishnagiri district
  • Two major fronts share honours in Virudhunagar district
  • Victorious smiles and bitter tears seen on counting day in Pondicherry
  • It is a watershed for CPI in Avanashi
  • Congress loses four seats
  • DPA makes a clean sweep in Tiruvarur district
  • Of being grateful
  • No victory celebrations
  • Rangasamy polls 31,099 votes
  • Bill to rename Pondicherry
  • `10-year gap, reason for slender margin'
  • Chess-talk in Karur

    • Tennis

  • Sandhya Nagaraj in last four
  • Becker optimistic about winning case
  • India blanks Malaysia
  • Dent has back surgery

    • Thanjavur

  • Honours even in Thanjavur district

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • LDF notches up impressive win
  • Victory a continuation of Lok Sabha election trends, says Pinarayi
  • LDF workers take to the streets
  • Achuthanandan, Chandy win by a margin of 20,000
  • Voting machines come as a boon
  • New brake system
  • Prominent winners and losers
  • Computerised train control charting system to be inaugurated today
  • Dance festival
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 12, 1956: Elections as scheduled
  • dated May 12, 1956: Churchill's suggestion
  • dated May 12, 1956: Award for Pather Panchali

    • Thrissur

  • LDF scores impressive win in Thrissur
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • DMK front secures seven seats in Tiruchi dt.
  • Cadres burst out into joyous rallies
  • ``Drop move to hike prices of petrol, diesel''
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • DMK front gets 9 in Nellai dt.

    • Tirupati

  • `Veshams' steal the show at Ganga Jatara in Tirupati
  • Tirupati utsav from May 28
  • Naidu breathes fire against Government
  • TTD extends free bus facility to SV Zoological Park
  • Probe ordered into temple row

    • Tumkur

  • My Ministry is under pressure, says Kumaraswamy

    • Udhagamandalam

  • A fine show by DMK-led alliance in the Nilgiris
  • Of their plans and priorities

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • U.P. Assembly begins on a stormy note
  • High Court seeks report on cases against MP, MLAs

    • Uttaranchal

  • Left parties, UKD petition President

    • Vijayawada

  • Police turn punching bag despite drop in Vijayawada crime rate
  • Krishna looking for industrial development
  • Ban on private practice by Government doctors to go
  • Towards mastering the popular game
  • It's no criticism of State policies, says Rajagopal
  • Body found in Hyderabad identified
  • ABKS asks Monsanto to cut Bt cotton seed price
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Minister, MLA don't see eye to eye
  • Opposition stages dharna over Gangavaram
  • CPI (M) hails win in Bengal, Kerala
  • Madras Telugu Academy fest begins today
  • MNC exploitation flayed
  • `It is going to be a festival'
  • Demand for Railway Zone
  • Country drink
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Karnataka girls struggle to beat Rajasthan

    • Weather

  • Weather

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