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Alappuzha

  • Spirit found concealed in seized lorry

    • Anantapur

  • Children of the landless stage `satyagraha'
  • Four burglars nabbed

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Vizag airport to resume normal operations
  • 25 killed as lorries collide on highway
  • Together we agitate

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • 25 killed as lorries collide
  • Municipal workers launch strike
  • Kadapa Sugars to resume crushing
  • Inter-State dacoit gang busted
  • Deafening silence at this protest
  • BSNL to introduce cable TV service in urban areas
  • Assigned lands to be resumed soon
  • Police foil CPI(M) bid to occupy lands
  • An accident that was waiting to happen
  • Passengers flay Railways
  • BC leader passes away

    • Athletics

  • Midnight marathon

    • Bangalore

  • Midday meal scheme extended till Class X
  • Markets planned to let budding floriculture sector bloom
  • Armed gang attacks couple; takes away cash, jewellery
  • It was M.A.D. Rob all the way
  • BBMP owes beggars in city Rs. 28 crore
  • Kyalasanahalli residents allege foul play in expressway alignment
  • Congress seeks dismissal of Government
  • Janata Dal (U) wants land auctions to stop
  • Withdrawal of night shift ban welcomed
  • Bypoll: JD(S) to field candidate
  • The colours of Gujarat on show
  • Pay of teachers in State medical colleges raised
  • Congress, JD(U) rallies throw city traffic out of gear
  • Jasmine fragrance spreads to Europe
  • Weddings at the click of a mouse
  • State eyes joint power projects
  • Separate entity planned for upkeep of major district roads
  • Government should frame policy on land use: CPI(M)
  • Powders, ready mixes to roll out at MTR
  • A smashing combination
  • Celebration with a difference
  • DSS seeks reopening of Kambalapalli case
  • Advocate seeks bail
  • Artists demand end to moral policing
  • Inspector held for dowry harassment
  • Challenger 2007 from Thursday
  • Student injured in accident
  • Safeguarding creativity
  • What was that?
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • IBBC beats Beagles
  • Young Cagers loses opener

    • Belgaum

  • Cabinet nod for 14 drinking water projects in Belgaum

    • Bellary

  • Lack of regulation, leakages hit water supply in Bellary

    • Bidar

  • Cooperative banks resist public scrutiny
  • Attack on Dalit youth: CPI(M) seeks action

    • Bihar

  • Bodyguard fires at MLA's marriage
  • Absconding former RJD MLA held

    • Boxing

  • Mandakini in line for gold

    • Briefly

  • Allsec Tech announces 50 p.c. dividend
  • UCO Bank net profit up 61 p.c.
  • GNFC declares Rs. 4.25 per share
  • Olympus launches new digi-cameras
  • Esika Infotech ties up with Vurv Technology
  • MRF tops JD Power study for 5th time
  • Senior appointments
  • Essar mulls steel plant in Egypt
  • TDSAT directive to private telcos
  • RCL acquires stake in Network 18
  • Tech Mahindra-Sun Microsystems pact

    • Business

  • Investors prefer to get land from States
  • Reliance launches low-cost colour handsets
  • Corporates under-assessed to tax: CAG
  • Sundaram Clayton to transfer brakes business to WABCO-TVS
  • CIPSA-RIC India to expand operations
  • Jet direct flight to U.S.
  • Sensex up 170 points
  • Rupee improves further against $

    • Carrom

  • Saradambal storms into final

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • What they say Is Chennai really safe for women?
  • Chennai Corporation schools do well
  • No-confidence motion against Speaker defeated
  • Online and through text: harassment all the same
  • City students shine in Plus Two exams
  • How to check the unwanted advance
  • Navy intensifies patrolling in Palk Bay, Gulf of Mannar
  • Coastal Security Group to recruit personnel
  • Lacuna in Stamp Act deprives Tamil Nadu of huge revenue
  • Karunanidhi to hold talks with Manmohan
  • Guards who fired at robbers in police custody
  • Residents' appeal to civic bodies
  • Swamy files PIL plea over "Rama Sethu" issue
  • Canadian academic meets Madras University professors
  • Property handed over to NHAI
  • Kandaleru-Poondi canal renovation begins
  • An evening of humour, music
  • Services for expectant mothers launched
  • Web site opened
  • Music Academy's 81st annual conference
  • Girl commits suicide ahead of results
  • Court guidelines against harassment
  • Import of cement under study: Anbazhagan
  • Four get life for murder
  • Portal on education
  • Speaker refers news item to Privileges Committee
  • Trains from Delhi running late
  • "Centre must notify CBI probe by May 21"
  • Speeding lorry kills man
  • Website on global education
  • Correction
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Chess

  • Baburin beats Vijayalakshmi
  • Prasenjit Dutta clinches title
  • Topalov topples Sasikiran
  • State senior chess

    • Coimbatore

  • Pass percentage rises
  • Coimbatore educational district records 89.23 p.c. pass
  • TNAU plans weather-based crop insurance model
  • Scholarships to deserving school students
  • Medicine preferred choice of toppers
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • Bangladesh still has a lot to prove
  • Kapil to head ICL's executive board
  • Dravid elaborates on team flexibility
  • Twenty20 tournament
  • Adequate preparation required
  • Easy for Kanchana Memorial and NKCC
  • South Delhi Colts posts win
  • Kadapa triumphs
  • Bisht, Malhotra shine

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8913
  • Solution to Puzzle 8912

    • Cuddalore

  • Cuddalore betters last year's performance

    • Editorials

  • Asia's last lions
  • A scandal-ridden presidency

    • Eluru

  • Civic employees' stir hits services

    • Erode

  • District improves performance in Plus-Two examinations
  • TTD to open online darshan ticket counter in Coimbatore
  • Toppers make BVB proud
  • BSNL drivers' plea

    • Football

  • Sheffield United relegated
  • Farook beats Falcons
  • Sporting Clube beats Bagan
  • Iraq players not bothered by the heat
  • Palakkad advances

    • Front Page

  • ATR: police officer admits to role
  • Raja will replace Maran
  • Will support DMK: Maran
  • Opposition strike shuts down Karachi
  • Clashes over art expo in Vadodara
  • Girls excel again in Plus Two exams
  • Monsoon may set in a week earlier
  • Uthappa and R.P. Singh set to play in final ODI
  • Moody quits as Sri Lanka's coach
  • Manchester United's game was a delight
  • State Government to scrap law banning night shifts for women
  • Artists protest vandalism in varsity
  • Talks to be held on admissions
  • Threat: security for VS tightened
  • Crisis management
  • Shutdown in Pakistan
  • Amar Singh dares Mayawati
  • Shilpa moves court
  • ULFA blast kills two
  • Bus-tanker collision

    • Goa

  • Margao incident: Goa administration blamed

    • Golf

  • Mickelson is champion
  • Ashok tops Order of Merit

    • Gulbarga

  • Two sugarcane growers commit suicide

    • Guntur

  • ANU joins hands with US varsity for special MBA programme

    • Haryana

  • Haryana to amend Finance commission rules
  • Farmers to get grant for setting up orchards
  • Senior officials to get laptops

    • Hassan

  • Demolition of houses, a barbaric act: Shivaram
  • Man hurt in dacoity near Arsikere

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Gangubai Hangal mesmerises them with Jaijaivanti
  • Stone throwing during protest by ABVP in Hubli; 20 arrested
  • Midday meal scheme workers stage protest
  • Yuva Shakti Sangha raids tutorials
  • Crackdown on traffic rule violators

    • Hyderabad

  • New programme to empower weaker sections
  • Accident-prone areas in State to be mapped
  • Provide parking or face police music
  • State IPS probationer tops UPSC test
  • Sugar mills to help in power generation
  • PJR hits out at YSR
  • Indefinite stir by municipal employees hits sanitation
  • Sarma to get GHMC on the rails
  • Children hit the road for land
  • Get set for Hindu's career counselling
  • Telangana civic staff not to join strike
  • Fire breaks out in cloth factory; loss Rs. 20 lakh
  • By rainy season, some SCB roads will glow
  • Re-dedication day is a farce: Bandaru
  • Man `hacks' wife to death
  • SSC supplementary exam in June
  • Pulse Polio from June 10
  • "Don't go by vaastu"
  • A break for the roar
  • Cherry blossom
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Reporter's Diary
  • Crime Watch

    • International

  • Opposition strike shuts down Karachi
  • Key Palestinian Minister resigns
  • 9 killed in Sri Lanka
  • Rajapaksa's party modifies power devolution proposals
  • Philippines poll peaceful
  • Satellite launched

    • Kannur

  • Rs.200 crore handloom sale expected: Karim

    • Karimnagar

  • SP suspends several police personnel

    • Karnataka

  • Karnataka to scrap law banning night shifts for women
  • Safe crossing
  • Cooling off
  • Registering their protest
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • EC to look into Congress plea
  • `Jails should become centres of rehabilitation for inmates'
  • Protest against manhandling of medical staff in Davangere
  • Rane, Parrikar file nominations
  • Scattered rainfall hits farmers of Chitradurga
  • Government to provide houses for two lakh teachers
  • Wedding without pomp

    • Kerala

  • Achuthanandan's security intensified
  • Admissions: panel to hold talks with colleges
  • Demand for easier copra procurement
  • Fall in dollar value may hit coir exports
  • Chief of Air Staff arrives in Thiruvananthapuram
  • Demand to expedite release of prisoners
  • Teacher's short film for Quebec fete
  • `New Left force should emerge'
  • Forest protective staff threaten stir
  • New bishop to be ordained on Monday
  • Safe home in the sea
  • In unison
  • Concern for elders
  • Briefly
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kerala - Others

  • Demolition drive on amid CPI protest
  • New departure terminal at Karipur airport opened
  • DYFI's charge against Chandy
  • Videography workshop
  • Bill to regulate unions planned

    • Kochi

  • Need to enforce rules to curb reckless driving
  • Big rush for fancy vehicle numbers
  • New talents make their mark in the tinsel town
  • Strike hits container movement at port
  • Abhaya case: court seeks interim report
  • Panel directs nursing colleges to refund fee
  • 3,000 get jobs under PMRY
  • `CIAL bigger project than Smart City'
  • Oceanography symposium
  • Safe home in the sea
  • Hostels to be inaugurated
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Congress leader flays LDF
  • Clarification on CPI(M) stand on Smart City sought
  • Smart City: Dalits demand jobs
  • Couple, children found dead

    • Kozhikode

  • Road works set to begin
  • Probe sought into land deals
  • Documents of 1957 on show
  • NGO group enters IT-enabled education
  • Lawyer found guilty of cheating

    • Kurnool

  • ZP schools fare better in SSC examination
  • Basivinis stage `rasta roko'

    • Leader Page Articles

  • BJP sound effects and BSP silence

    • Letters to the Editor

  • A major shift
  • Well done!
  • Maran's exit
  • Condemnable

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • BJP, Congress yet to name by-poll candidates

    • Madikeri

  • Stance on `jamma' landholders worries rural development bank
  • Cauvery Sene warns against land mafia
  • ZP member dead

    • Madurai

  • Pass percentage goes up by six per cent
  • An occasion to celebrate and renew family ties
  • AIADMK files case against Azhagiri
  • Hazard in front of hospital
  • A success graph in geography
  • Corporation schools better State average
  • LTTE sympathisers under police scanner
  • Creditable performance
  • Swimming pool inaugurated
  • Training camp
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Maharashtra

  • Woman engineer found dead in hotel

    • Mangalore

  • Greens concerned over hydel projects in Western Ghats
  • Traders oppose move to de-notify Bunder market yard
  • BJP confident of prospects in Ullal bypoll
  • End outsourcing of work from KIOCL, says union
  • Bloodless open heart surgery
  • Ullal: three candidates file papers
  • Pre-counselling session for students on Friday
  • Permission needed
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Garbage piles up as workers go on strike
  • Panel from Bengal visits Mysore ZP
  • A playwright in her own right
  • `Make teaching of computer skills mandatory in schools'
  • VC can make temporary recruitments: Ramegowda
  • Garbage piles up in Mysore as workers go on strike
  • Water project for Hunsur cleared

    • Nagapattinam

  • 8,955 pass in Nagapattinam

    • Nalgonda

  • Land acquisition for Pulichintala to be completed by September

    • National

  • Help for localised schemes: PM
  • Will continue to support DMK even if expelled: Maran
  • "A great champion of the IT sector"
  • Dismiss Government: AIADMK
  • Vandalism in varsity condemned
  • Focus on Sarva Samaj: Mayawati
  • Mufti:self-rule document soon
  • Shilpa Shetty moves apex court
  • Kalam to get King Charles II Medal
  • Another ULFA blast kills two in Guwahati
  • CAG pulls up Army for excess soldiers in ranks
  • Three Bills passed in 15 minutes
  • Policy to clamp down on "transfer industry"
  • Call to end moral policing
  • "Clear attack on artistic freedom"
  • A.P. candidate tops civil services exam
  • An attack on cultural freedom: Mumbaikars
  • Social audit of job guarantee scheme

    • Nellore

  • Signalling safe traffic

    • New Delhi

  • Afghan refugees worried about their future
  • Eyewitness told to testify in BMW case on Thursday
  • A slice of God's Own Country
  • NGO seeks details of plans to augment power supply
  • A special cinema event to see and savour
  • Engaging with gender and sexuality
  • Jamia makes it simpler
  • Vikas Yadav deposes in Katara case
  • Order on Kohli's extradition reserved
  • Gang of women pickpockets busted
  • For nature's sake
  • Elected
  • MPs on a mission to bridge the language divide
  • Taj Corridor case hearing today
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Inside Delhi

    • News Analysis

  • The great language divide in Sri Lanka
  • Angela Merkel's modest rise to the summit
  • How to decorate your desk
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • Congress, Left parties join hands against Vedanta project
  • `King of fruits' all set to disappoint this summer
  • Puppet theatre: hanging by a thread
  • More rural electrification projects sought
  • Odissi set for record in `Kal ke Kalakar'
  • Rally highlights drinking water scarcity
  • Court takes cognisance of tribal boy's case
  • State pulled up for lukewarm response to plight of prisoners
  • Resident deposes before probe panel
  • Sentence review for 52 life convicts
  • Young IIS officer dies of cardiac arrest

    • Pathanamthitta

  • BJP asks Pinarayi to clarify stand
  • Seva Dal district camp at Kumbazha concludes
  • Sabarimala shrine opens for five-day puja

    • Puducherry

  • Better overall pass percentage
  • IAS officers reshuffled
  • Medha Patkar to visit Puducherry

    • Punjab

  • Tension in Bathinda as religious groups clash

    • Racing : Horse

  • Irish Noble triumphs
  • Abide Proven impresses

    • Racing : Motor

  • Ashwin Sundar finishes fifth

    • Rajasthan

  • Central aid for Rajasthan rural development agencies
  • Eight killed in accidents

    • Ramanathapuram

  • IAF radar station near Nagapattinam

    • Religion

  • Bound by Bhakti

    • Sport

  • Uthappa and R.P. Singh set to play in final ODI
  • Moody quits as Sri Lanka's coach
  • Manchester United's game was a delight

    • Sports : General

  • Southern Blues (Bangalore) enters quarterfinals
  • Mixed luck for Kerala
  • Navayuga Engineering's team clinches title
  • Jamadar's effort in vain
  • Combating doping: Pound sees much progress
  • Mahesh's name to be recommended for Khel Ratna

    • Srikakulam

  • Plan to develop 102 tanks

    • Tamil Nadu

  • An occasion to celebrate and renew family ties
  • Lacklustre show in Villupuram
  • Hand hygiene critical for nurses, says expert
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Better overall pass percentage
  • Pass percentage up by 11.73 in Krishnagiri
  • Sand mafia growing more brazen by the day
  • 8,351 come out successful
  • Pass per centage stands at 88.91 in Karur district
  • Virudhunagar tops the State in overall pass percentage
  • Good collection attracts readers from far and wide
  • Three Namakkal students share State third rank
  • She has a `designer' dream, but poverty a dampener
  • Supreme Court declines to stay ruling on depositors Act
  • What the toppers aspire to become
  • `Collaboration essential to exploit potential of Tirupur'
  • IAS officers reshuffled
  • Pollachi educational district records 86.63 per cent pass
  • Medha Patkar to visit Puducherry
  • Youth stabbed to death in Tirupur

    • Tennis

  • Easy for seeds
  • Hewitt, Chela post wins

    • Thanjavur

  • Thanjavur girls outshine boys
  • Topper wants to become a doctor

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Village resurvey to use modern technology
  • New block begins functioning at hospital
  • Chandy alleges hidden concessions
  • Teachers to be trained in school management
  • Centre should avoid court review of land reforms: VS
  • Equipment to make night driving easy
  • Collector moots special task force to evict land sharks
  • Alternative nursery becomes functional
  • Minister to inaugurate crocodile research centre
  • Sabarimala development to be expedited
  • Next issue
  • Seminar
  • UDF stages dharnas
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 15, 1957: Nehru warns partymen
  • dated May 15, 1957: C.V. Raman's appeal
  • dated May 15, 1957: Audience with Pope

    • Tiruchi

  • "It's right time for entrepreneurs"
  • Plus Two students gain a lot from lowering of bar in theory
  • Lateral entry into engineering colleges must be stopped: Anandakrishnan
  • Hyderabad to host astronautical meet
  • State top ranker in non-Tamil category
  • Bomb blast victim's body brought home
  • Delta farmers' plea
  • Awareness programme on de-addiction of drugs
  • Two arrested
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Tirunelveli

  • Three per cent increase in pass per centage in Tirunelveli
  • 22 schools register cent per cent
  • New DIG for Tirunelveli

    • Tuticorin

  • Pass per centage goes up in Tuticorin

    • Udhagamandalam

  • All set for floral carnival
  • 75.62 per cent pass recorded in Plus Two exams in the Nilgiris district
  • Two-day floriculture seminar

    • Udupi

  • Samiti takes up Sumathi Kotian's case

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Mayawati announces new transfer policy
  • Wipro, AMU sign MoU

    • Vellore

  • Shrishti students bag first two ranks in Vellore district

    • Vijayawada

  • Learning the fun-filled ways to beat stress
  • Book value of lands revised
  • Newsreel rule irks exhibitors
  • Shortage of stadium staff a hurdle for athletes
  • Multi-play broadband by August
  • `World Bank calling the shots'
  • People warned against improper waste dumping
  • Around the City
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Restructuring of journalism courses on the cards
  • Crime Stoppers in Vizag
  • Children go `crazy' at this carnival!
  • Municipal workers launch strike
  • Vizag airport to resume normal operations
  • Five-day camp for sailors, their children
  • Good response to YMCA camp
  • Rain forecast as storm is likely to intensify
  • FLP seeks appointments
  • Charged ambience!
  • Contact numbers
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Volleyball

  • India beats Australia

    • Warangal

  • Gifts to light up their world

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Wrestling

  • Suman, Pranesh hog the limelight

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