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Alappuzha

  • Land Reforms Act needs change: Sudhakaran
  • Huge tidal waves lash Alappuzha coast

    • Anantapur

  • SPARC meet calls for due share to BCs
  • Leopard scare among villagers
  • ‘State snatching land from poor for SEZs’
  • GMC sanctioned key posts

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Protective instinct
  • Sweet temptation
  • Summer time is swimming time
  • Hot favourite
  • Arogya Mitra workers dismissed
  • ‘Praja Patham’
  • Priority to health in Agency areas: MP
  • ‘Moral education need of the hour’
  • Mobile, internet services affected
  • Uphill task
  • PCPIR project gains momentum
  • Inspiring memories
  • Befriending crows and kittens
  • Calling all the foodies
  • Forgettable narrative
  • Medical camp
  • Registration Week
  • Mass marriages
  • ICET – 08 today
  • Seminar on M.S. courses in Austria
  • Free coaching
  • Training
  • Severed hand rejoined
  • Man murdered
  • Tribals caught in the grip of thirst
  • Stone laid for JNNURM schemes
  • Into ‘speed’ mode of rendering service

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Cradling a bundle of joy

    • Archery

  • Reena Kumari gains last Olympic place

    • Athletics

  • Anju George finishes fifth

    • Bangalore

  • Bangalore city witnesses a poor 44 per cent voter turnout
  • IIM-B’s offer
  • Making your displeasure with candidates known
  • Missing names continue to haunt poll process
  • Glitches in EVMs set right
  • Stray incidents of violence reported
  • Proxy voting upsets those whose votes were snatched
  • Age has not diminished her enthusiasm to vote
  • CLAT today
  • Bodies of accident victims handed over to family
  • Bus services to new airport
  • With no identity proof, many fail to vote
  • EC norms ensure discipline at booths
  • Shinde plays power politics
  • Bangalore today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion Rates

    • Basketball

  • East Godavari posts wins
  • Alappuzha, Kozhikode are joint winners
  • All-India basketball tournament
  • ICF triumphs
  • TNSP posts win

    • Belgaum

  • Training for Belgaum poll staff
  • Micro-observers in Belgaum district

    • Bellary

  • ‘BJP will take up national flag issue’
  • Cash seized, two taken into custody

    • Bidar

  • ‘Nagamarapalli blackmailed Congress to get ticket’
  • Ex-Minister booked for code violation

    • Briefly

  • Bangladesh to reopen talks with Tata
  • Dish TV to offer free set-top boxes
  • ArcelorMittal sells U.S. steel mill

    • Business

  • Global community keenly looking forward to Chinese tea party
  • Godrej Appliances to make foray into TV
  • Nilekani to give IT impetus to power sector

    • Carrom

  • Srinivasa Rao wins title

    • Chennai

  • Champion of the poor honoured
  • Special train to Nagercoil
  • Textile sector in distress: Elangovan
  • Workshop
  • Power of mind transcending disability
  • Building for visually challenged under threat
  • Popular serials in DVD/VCD format
  • Gold Quest case: Rs.3.5 crore seized
  • Server connectivity disrupted
  • They help to keep the trains on track at work
  • Chances of hoardings returning remote
  • Job-seekers allege racket
  • Return ticket facility not at all MRTS stations
  • “Network with friends, relatives to become a stamp collector”
  • Water storage capacity in Chennai inadequate, says PWD Secretary
  • Submission on Red Hills area
  • Power shutdown tomorrow
  • India Festival in Amsterdam, an extravaganza of culture and trade
  • BSNL to automate broadband user ID authentication process
  • Chennai today

    • Chess

  • Five share lead

    • Coimbatore

  • Sangam plea to Government
  • Government has cleared proposal for more judges: Minister
  • Panel will be set up to address pleaders’ grievances, says Durai Murugan
  • Engineering application forms
  • Tibetans stage demonstration
  • Treatment clinic
  • Pass percentage 88.70 in Coimbatore district
  • Tamil Nadu ready for talks on PAP pact renewal
  • Coimbatore today

    • Cricket

  • Rammohan shines
  • ICC CFO quits
  • Easy for VMCA ‘A’
  • Thrilling win for CCK
  • Vinay shines
  • Pathan stars for Royals
  • Anurag shines
  • Firasat excels
  • Deadly spell by Vijay Dutt
  • Warne ready to help Harbhajan
  • Nanavati to submit his report on Tuesday
  • ‘We are in a confident mood’
  • Is there any relevance to dope testing in IPL?
  • Ahmed shines

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 2483
  • Solution No. 2482

    • Cuddalore

  • Residents’ forum appeals to BSNL

    • Dindigul

  • Rural women urged to involve themselves in economic activities
  • Rural varsity gets grant

    • Eluru

  • Don’t be biased in atrocity cases, district Colletor tells police

    • Erode

  • Mass contact programme
  • Councillors oppose move to ‘under auction’ Nethaji Daily Market
  • Employment training
  • Women fight for motherhood over baby boy

    • Front Page

  • 60 per cent vote in Karnataka phase I
  • Manmohan: hope nation will heed Kalam’s counsel on nuclear deal
  • NAC-Tech to gauge employability
  • Badrinath, Dhoni set up Chennai’s win
  • Chargers needs something special
  • Manchester United chases 10th Premier League title
  • Royals seeks revenge against Daredevils
  • Massa wins pole for the third straight year
  • Vayalar Ravi hits out at Arjun Singh
  • Myanmar holds referendum
  • Ratan Tata, L.N. Mittal receive Padma Vibhushan
  • NDTV exit poll favours BJP
  • 60 p.c. turnout in eastern poll
  • Sign the deal only after Left parties agree to it: NCP
  • National Art Gallery awaits funds
  • Virtual doctors for the young
  • New Web tools break barriers of ‘bhasha’
  • Myanmar: U.S. seeks India’s help
  • India ‘inside’ many smart phones
  • If the Health Minister can’t do this, who can?
  • New Yahoo tool
  • Scientists now look to public office
  • Nandigram: panchayat polls today
  • Benazir was a courier in illegal nuclear arms trade, says book
  • Medical managements propose Rs.2.6 lakh as fee
  • Stay away from RCY, politicians told
  • Training programme benefits the young
  • CBI probe sought into ex-MP’s land deals
  • Rs. 2.2-cr. heroin seized at Shamshabad airport
  • Revision of bus fares ruled out
  • Bangaloreans show their apathy once again
  • Second Vaigai water supply project may be over by year-end
  • Orissa heat wave toll mounts to 28
  • Rural job scheme takes off
  • Falling Ganga sets alarm bells ringing
  • BHEL unveils mega power plans
  • Pakistan prisoner’s body handed over
  • Hat-trick hero

    • Golf

  • Veeraraghavan takes title

    • Guntur

  • Kalipeetham fete from May 11
  • Undavalli Arun Kumar asks Naidu to join debate
  • Water supply to be partially restored today
  • Market yard fire: early removal of debris sought

    • Haryana

  • INLD accepts Hooda’s invitation for debate

    • Hassan

  • JD(S) is people’s party: Deve Gowda
  • Polling peaceful in Hassan
  • Constable on poll duty dies

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Poetess meet begins in Kullu
  • Food festival begins in Sangla

    • Hockey

  • Semifinalists spotted

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Two arrested, illicit liquor seized
  • Lawyers, parties slam police
  • Blast rocks Hubli JMFC court

    • Hyderabad

  • Heroin worth Rs. 2.2 crore seized at Rajiv Gandhi airport
  • SMS mooted for LPG home delivery
  • Hyderabad man found killed in Warangal
  • Sri Chaitanya students excel in VITEEE-08
  • BJP mulls support to other candidates
  • Shah Rukh Khan’s absence likely for ongoing IPL match
  • EC clears A.P. Rythu Chaitanya Yathra
  • TRS leader joins Congress
  • Praja Patham in 10 districts after bypolls
  • TDP petitions to EC against YSR, Raghuveera
  • Mareppa lashes out at Mohanty
  • EAMCET key released, six mistakes found
  • Naidu has lost credibility: Minister
  • KCR comes to Paul’s defence
  • All set for Telugu student’s release from US prison
  • Matrimonial meet
  • ‘Festivals have scientific reason’
  • Research on Bt cotton impact sought
  • Traffic diversions in view of constables’ recruitment
  • Parties spare a thought for road users
  • Pseudo police rob junior artistes
  • PCC coordinators named for bypolls
  • Two accused in assault case attack SI
  • Fire in museum
  • SCB polls: candidates rain promises
  • 11 lakh cardholders fail to lift rice
  • Pat for Gandhi Gyan Mandir
  • Hyderabad today

    • India & World

  • Proposals on Kashmir “half-baked”
  • I have advised Musharraf to stop execution: Gillani
  • India, U.S. narrowing gap on Doha round: Kamal Nath

    • International

  • North Korea delivers nuclear papers
  • Gordon Brown gets survival tips from Blair
  • ‘Several’ militants killed
  • Six held for rail accident
  • Hamas fires rockets into Israel

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Four killed in accident in Doda
  • Man arrested on rape charge

    • Kadapa

  • Souvenir on Kadapa released
  • 2 students drown
  • Annamacharya ‘jayanti’ from May 19
  • Sheep-rearer ‘kills’ wife
  • Couple electrocuted

    • Kalpetta

  • Guest lecturer vacancies

    • Kancheepuram

  • Arrested
  • Man killed
  • Charred to death
  • One killed in accident

    • Kannur

  • Microchip implants for tuskers
  • ‘Red Alert’ aims at disease prevention
  • Legal literacy tops action plan
  • Achuthanandan to open Kudumbasree meeting
  • Kannur University staff union meet

    • Karimnagar

  • ‘Mee Kosam’ yatra ends in Karimnagar
  • 3 killed, 5 hurt in road accident

    • Karnataka

  • Long ride to nowhere
  • Disappointing fare
  • Dissociation from BJP a wise move: Kumaraswamy
  • Boycott of elections
  • Coalitions are here to stay, says Bangarappa
  • Will the star win?
  • Randomisation of EVMs held
  • Mandya records 68 p.c. polling
  • No water sports in Salcete beach areas
  • Curbs on sale of liquor in south Goa
  • Elders make their choice
  • Next Government will decide on ban on arrack: Krishna
  • ‘Free power to farmers is a false assurance’
  • Smooth ride
  • These girls just made it in time

    • Kerala

  • Popularising mural art
  • Something scary
  • Balancing act
  • A special occasion
  • Explosives seized
  • Murder of labourer: one held
  • Money-lending institutions raided
  • Gold jewellery seized
  • Expo on food processing industry
  • International flights delayed
  • Striking contrast
  • Special occasion
  • Campus notes
  • PEOPLESPEAK

    • Khammam

  • Workshop on safety in coal mining
  • Patil coming
  • Girijan mela at coal town

    • Kochi

  • Free counselling for anxious students
  • SMS for results
  • Alumni meet
  • Mons: new norms for buildings soon
  • Police waiting for formal complaint
  • Reforms in banking sector criticised
  • AISF opposes fee committee’s order
  • Job programme gathering momentum
  • Jobs for evictees sought
  • Rally to demand coastal area protection
  • Awareness programme
  • Initiatives to protect single women
  • New traffic regulations
  • C.P. Mammu awards announced
  • Bypass stretch turning a deathtrap
  • Police search Santhosh Madhavan’s residence
  • Kochi today

    • Kollam

  • Education sector in disarray: Bishop
  • Humanitarian gathering planned
  • Pensioners’ State meet on
  • Traffic restrictions in Kollam today
  • Drive against sand-mining on
  • Village, evening courts for State

    • Kottayam

  • Sand-mining: 13 vehicles seized

    • Kozhikode

  • Surgical techniques demonstrated
  • New LIC office opened
  • Congress district meet from May 18
  • Vyloppilly memorial award announced
  • KSVVS demands probe into misuse of funds
  • New postgraduate courses at NIT-C
  • Institute of Languages showroom
  • Facelift for Calicut varsity
  • Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Undertake revaluation of degree papers: SFI

    • Madikeri

  • Polling peaceful in Kodagu, rain plays spoilsport

    • Madurai

  • More scope for civil engineers
  • A fair that counselled the confused
  • “Do not approach touts for passport”
  • Buses damaged
  • 52 refugees arrive at Dhanushkodi
  • Abolish ‘permit’ system in market committee
  • Chain snatched
  • 5,500 get Anna University applications
  • Chamber to establish forum
  • Madurai today

    • Mangalore

  • It is a motorist’s nightmare
  • Inflation: Scindia defends Centre
  • Pay premium through cellphone
  • Scindia’s rally disrupted

    • Mysore

  • Voters run from booth to booth in vain
  • 66.24 per cent voting recorded in district
  • Applications invited

    • Nagapattinam

  • Two die

    • Nalgonda

  • ‘TRS is not bothered to develop Telangana’

    • National

  • Forced to cut down on their daily food
  • Sonia: backward districts will have 370 new degree colleges
  • The silent treatment
  • Second operation of the Interpol against child abusers meets with instant success
  • UPA committed to public sector, says Chidambaram
  • Now, inspector Rathod held in Sohrabuddin case
  • Rains bring relief to Punjab, Haryana
  • Fotedar expresses surprise
  • Woman thrown out of moving train
  • It’s debatable: Balakrishnan
  • Cyriac Joseph elevated Supreme Court judge
  • 12 militants killed in Assam
  • A mother’s day
  • Buddhadeb speaks to Manmohan
  • Check ‘infiltration’ of outsiders: Raj
  • Mother “throws” child from fourth floor

    • Nellore

  • 5,414 students for ICET in Nellore
  • Demand for earthen pots soars

    • New Delhi

  • A new peep into public affairs
  • Bollywood gets a brand new angelic ghost
  • MCD’s ‘autocratic attitude’ angers traders
  • Woman commits suicide
  • Venugopal conducts operation
  • 370 new degree colleges for backward districts: Sonia
  • Capital may face long hours of power cuts
  • Parekh re-elected Supreme Court Bar Association president
  • Showers bring relief from heat wave
  • Judge inspects Moga jail
  • Power discoms to promote use of CFLs
  • Sketches of bank robbers released
  • ‘Roll back nuclear weapons programme’
  • Punjab all set for panchayat polls
  • A new centre for child care, healthy parenting
  • Prayers for recovery of ‘Renny’
  • Focus on joint efforts to achieve target
  • Woman, paramour done to death in Haryana village
  • Police search temples looking for bank robbers
  • Literary meet
  • Seminar on educational schemes
  • Hansraj Day observed
  • Stop legislation, demands Goel
  • Draft legislation on Property Title Act soon
  • Inside Delhi
  • BJP seeks PM’s help over water issue
  • Cabinet panel decided to send me to Kandahar, says Jaswant
  • Listen to voices of wisdom: Manmohan
  • Cultural programme marks 1857 anniversary
  • Dish TV to offer free set top boxes
  • DMA unhappy with pay panel proposals
  • Teachers’ concern over questionnaire
  • Electrification of Sangam Vihar roads
  • ‘Vajpayee, Mishra differ on nuke deal’
  • Venugopal back on job, conducts operation
  • Youth found murdered
  • Army car gutted
  • One dies as truck overturns
  • Congress hopeful on Cantonment polls
  • No headway in murder case
  • Cop ‘assaults’ women
  • In the Capital Today

    • New Delhi - Others

  • A juicy treat
  • Putting it back on track
  • Inside Patna

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • Kalam’s mantra to realise dreams
  • ‘Chak De’ formula for business managers
  • ‘Swarna Sanjivani’ award for Prafulla Kar
  • Delay in gazette notification irks government doctors
  • Dasbarma appointed OSA vice-president
  • Students celebrate annual day
  • Stray tusker tramples woman to death
  • Fake goods manufacturing units raided
  • Biranchi case: Congress stages demonstration
  • Sex racket busted
  • Heat wave toll goes up to 28
  • Orissa to be spelt as Odhisa soon
  • Black pepper fetches big bucks for farmers

    • Palakkad

  • Freedom fighter cremated
  • Paddy procurement: plea to extend date

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Communication system unutilised
  • Call to strengthen Congress machinery

    • Puducherry

  • PMK seeks viability report
  • Orientation programme for policemen to tackle emergencies
  • Mother’s day at SOS children’s village
  • Churches to hoist flag
  • AIADMK flays Puducherry government on full Statehood issue

    • Punjab

  • CBI court begins hearing in Dera case

    • Racing : Horse

  • Original Vel almanac
  • Top Line for Nilgiris Derby Stakes
  • Andronicus impresses

    • Racing : Motor

  • Formula Rolon car for F-1 screening
  • Cody Crocker firmly on top; Taguchi pulls out midway

    • Raichur

  • Syed Yasin banking on votes of minority communities
  • Councillor murdered

    • Rajahmundry

  • ‘Moral victory of Venugopal’
  • Rice seized

    • Salem

  • Make use of incentives, farmers told
  • Corporation workers stage demonstration
  • Meeting for entrepreneurs
  • Traffic on Yercaud Ghat Road affected
  • Sale of application forms for admission to BE/B.Tech courses begins
  • Industries’ association to meet entrepreneurs

    • Shimoga

  • Parties asked to make stand clear on environmental issues
  • Congress ready to campaign for Bangarappa: Kharge

    • Sport

  • Badrinath, Dhoni set up Chennai’s win
  • Chargers needs something special
  • Manchester United chases 10th Premier League title
  • Royals seeks revenge against Daredevils
  • Massa wins pole for the third straight year
  • We don’t know how to hone talent: Bhutia

    • Sports : General

  • Guntur and Krishna district in semifinals
  • Danica - an exciting F-1 prospect
  • Wright is NZC’s first choice
  • Akhtar not yet in the clear
  • Annadorai passes away
  • Match drawn

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Focus on management
  • ‘Cold’ comfort
  • Schools, colleges urged to participate in AIDS awareness drive
  • Timely intervention enhanced performance
  • Youth killed in accident
  • Chinnavepampattu residents’ plea to upgrade middle school
  • Unexpected
  • Demonstration
  • Vennavalkudi centre celebrates Health Day
  • Correction
  • Snapped lines
  • Centenary function
  • Mother of all creations
  • Thousands witness rose show
  • All India NCC trek gets under way
  • Environmentalists concerned about airport project
  • Ban futures trading to check inflation: Vaiko
  • Government intervention sought
  • Conference of Muslims begins
  • Local Administration Minister releases DMK functionary’s book in Tirunelveli
  • 50 tonnes of fertilizers needed
  • Co-optex handloom exhibition targets youth
  • JAC plea
  • Two women lay claim to a baby boy in Erode
  • HC allows doctors’ plea for admission to PG courses
  • Pitching in for children’s rights through street theatre
  • Mettur level
  • Found dead
  • Ponmudy firm on setting up medical college at Villupuram
  • PMK favours uniform education system
  • 15,500 tonnes of palm oil sanctioned to State
  • Gold jewels, cash stolen from house
  • 2 from State killed in Iraq
  • Rama Subbiah’s centenary celebrated
  • Nine injured in cylinder burst
  • Application forms for engineering courses
  • Rising prices and rural households
  • Professionals to monitor quality of catering on trains
  • Programme for Vidharbha farmers

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Beautiful flow
  • Floral tributes
  • Heading to chill out

    • Tennis

  • Indian girls finish eighth
  • Isha Lakhani emerges champion
  • Bopanna keen to do well
  • Farooq: militant camps still intact
  • Mohit, Shweta clinch titles
  • Djokovic to meet Wawrinka

    • Thanjavur

  • Farmers take to improved paddy cultivation method in Thanjavur

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Kerala Tourism to rope in students to prepare projects
  • A digital fillip for Chitranjali Studio
  • Mango festival begins today
  • ‘India can be world leader in aerospace’
  • DYFI defends new scheme
  • Congress, IUML to bury differences
  • Promoting eco-tourism and tiger conservation
  • Kisan Sabha office-bearers
  • Bus station-cum-shopping complexes planned in State
  • Drive against sand-mining
  • Satyagraha continues
  • Transfer of registry cancelled
  • Call for stringent laws to deter litterbugs
  • AOL Foundation to distribute 10 lakh saplings
  • Child drowns in well
  • More ‘beat officers’ sought for residential areas
  • Thiruvananthapuram today

    • Thrissur

  • Robbed of gold
  • Mata’s discourse
  • 8 accused arrested in Thrissur
  • Probe sought into attack on women

    • Tiruchi

  • Assistance distributed
  • Consortium threatens to launch nationwide agitation
  • Assemblies banned
  • Rs. 200 crore for Tiruchi
  • Concerted efforts under way to maintain health of residents
  • Tiruchi today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Foundation laid for modern flower market

    • Tirupati

  • Travelling expo on biodiversity
  • Tractors, tippers create roadblock
  • SVU professor’s house burgled
  • Tearful farewell to slain siblings
  • Siblings’ murder angers villagers

    • Tumkur

  • Candidates enter a booth

    • Tuticorin

  • Kattabomman festival concludes
  • Campus interview
  • Training programme

    • Udhagamandalam

  • ‘Farmers should adopt scientific methods’

    • Udupi

  • Undergraduate courses on offer at UAS
  • Home for the aged
  • Multi-cornered contest in Kaup

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • A new role for Akhilesh Das
  • Four DMs transferred in Uttar Pradesh

    • Vellore

  • 18 schools register 100 % pass in Plus-Two

    • Vijayawada

  • National Technology Day celebrations today
  • The success mantra
  • Revision of electoral rolls begins
  • 1857 martyrs remembered
  • Congress, CPI, TDP corporators firm on tour
  • 10 quintals of PDS rice seized
  • Blasting works on ghat road to conclude soon
  • Jyothirmayi case: ETA offers help
  • Vijayawada today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Fresh and cool
  • Campus recruitment drive at AITAM
  • Vikas students get good ranks in VITET
  • Low-priced ultra light laptops launched
  • Srinivasa Kalyanam music fete in Amalapuram
  • Yechury calls for protest against price rise
  • ‘Chidambara Rahasyam’
  • Summer camp at VSP
  • Mother’s Day celebrations
  • Ban on tinted glasses remains on paper
  • Special Purpose Vehicle to push forward PCPIR
  • Visakhapatnam today

    • Warangal

  • Ponnala takes a dig at TDP chief

    • Weather

  • Weather

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