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Alappuzha

  • Double whammy for poultry farmers
  • Five persons arrested
  • Blast leads to mass cracker seizure

    • Anantapur

  • DCCB gears up for seed supply
  • A saga of revenge and factionism
  • Survey of iron mining leases in 6 weeks
  • Strange coincidence of Nagam’s visit to Anantapur

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Two more suspected swine flu cases
  • ‘Dial Your SP’ programme
  • Daredevil act
  • Water scarcity in Mahabubabad
  • Mock counting of votes conducted
  • Construct road over bridge
  • Temple decked up for ‘kalyanotsavam’
  • Collector reviews mock counting
  • Kotipalli-Narsapur railway line a myth or a reality?
  • Winged friends of the farmer
  • Hundi, jewellery looted from temple
  • Watery grave for four teenagers
  • For healthy body and mind
  • Heat wave turns A.P. into a cauldron
  • Old wine in new bottle
  • Oprah Winfrey in the making?
  • Ask the Consul
  • New Air Commodore
  • Interview slots for students visa open
  • Yoga camps
  • Help needed
  • Getting ready
  • Dies in accident
  • Certificate course
  • IPE scholarships
  • Spoken English camp
  • Dividing State
  • Collector to hold review meetings
  • Meet on e-payment
  • Everyone’s feeling the heat
  • Electoral preferences

    • Badminton

  • Kashyap enters final

    • Bangalore

  • IIM-B among top ten
  • Music fest ends
  • Shunning all feelings of class-consciousness
  • Domestic workers demand their due
  • Nandakumar is innocent, declares Yeddyurappa
  • Worker’s death: JD(S) protest tomorrow
  • DLF withdraws from Knowledge City project
  • ‘Kunnakudi was a wonderful performer’
  • Speculation over poll outcome mounts
  • Taxpayers’ money splurged on refurbishing Ministers’ homes
  • Cancelled
  • Sentenced
  • ‘Access to timely, inexpensive justice remains a mirage’
  • Laughter as a means to well-being
  • Giving them a second chance at life

    • Basketball

  • Kottayam takes title
  • Pinakini trounces NAL Colony

    • Belgaum

  • Fashion show
  • Kusnoor regrets falling standards in literature
  • Shivaji Jayanti celebrated

    • Bidar

  • Fertilizers to be distributed from May 15
  • Row over installation of Ambedkar statue

    • Bihar

  • Unfair deal for women in Bihar Lok Sabha polls
  • Congress MLA arrested
  • Lalu Prasad trying to intimidate voters: Janata Dal (U)

    • Bijapur

  • Arrangements for CET

    • Cartoons

  • POCKETWATCH
  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Innovative projects of students showcased
  • Action initiated against pig rearers in Chennai
  • Tackling the pressure of examination results
  • “DMK combine violating code ”
  • CPI condemns arrest of PDK members
  • “No change in Aavin milk price”
  • Summer vacation for Madurai Bench
  • Swamy condemns attack on army convoy
  • Minor fire in building
  • Minor fire in building on Usman Road
  • Governance and accountability discussed
  • Old games rise like phoenix
  • In spirited defence of prohibition
  • Reaching out to voters through technology
  • It is gasping for more awareness
  • Suriya, Hari join hands
  • How to make your home ‘child-safe’
  • Central business district bursting at its seams
  • Multi-level parking lot proposal in final stage
  • Where heritage has survived onslaughts of time
  • Over 400 apprehended
  • Power shutdown tomorrow
  • PDK office attacked
  • “It is important to consider low-cost preventive healthcare”
  • Sessions court acquits doctor in harassment case
  • Left parties will provide an alternative: Manik Sarkar
  • Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Sagar upsets Vladimir

    • Coimbatore

  • BMW opens outlet
  • Anna University launches trademark search engine
  • Short-term courses in household industries
  • Relatives meet prisoners
  • Convoy attack: case against 20 persons
  • Si’Tarc signs agreement with TUV
  • Meet held on ‘Brand Coimbatore’
  • An indomitable iconoclast
  • ICWAI coaching
  • Coimbatore needs a development authority
  • Army convoy attack: SRB’s complaint to police
  • Change in load shedding
  • Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • It’s time to legalise the doosra
  • The young guns are here
  • ‘I get nervous while watching Yusuf bat’
  • T20 squad likely to be picked today
  • Madan sizzles
  • Cordiant is champion
  • Third win for CSK
  • My batting has been pathetic: Dhoni
  • We are definitely back on track

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 9523
  • Solution No. 9522

    • Cuddalore

  • 4 CPI (M) workers injured in lathicharge

    • Dharmapuri

  • Election observers inspect polling arrangements
  • Ensure amenities, officials told

    • Dindigul

  • Convoy attack: Vasan calls for stern action

    • Editorials

  • No confidence in Modi
  • The new challenges in IT

    • Eluru

  • ‘Kolleru issue may impact poll outcome’

    • Erode

  • ‘Support faculty of self-financed colleges’
  • CII wants MP to-be to bring food processing park to Erode

    • Football

  • HAL stays on course
  • Liverpool narrows gap on leader Man United

    • Front Page

  • Nepal Army chief sacked
  • Conditional amnesty offered to LTTE cadres
  • No swine flu case: government
  • Attack on Army convoy: eight more arrested
  • Eight supporters of militant outfits arrested
  • Alternatives to politics vs alternative politics
  • Military action looks likely in Swat district
  • “We will win all 10 seats in Haryana”
  • “BJP-RLD will emerge as a winning combination”
  • Congress sees hope in BJP citadel
  • Super Kings has the momentum
  • Kallis sparkles for RCB
  • Kings XI clinches win off the last ball
  • Karunanidhi admitted to hospital
  • 5 PDK cadres held for ransacking DMK office
  • Withdraw bus fare cut: EC
  • India Inc paying millions on lobbying in United States
  • Journalists can aim for greater credibility: Shahani
  • Chiranjeevi rules out hung Assembly
  • 8 of marriage party killed in accident
  • Himachal orders probe into school ragging case
  • Junior doctors’ strike continues
  • Strong quake shakes Guatemala

    • Gulbarga

  • Erring healthcare units to face the music

    • Guntur

  • Agrarian crisis stares at KW Delta

    • Haryana

  • A “Lal” greenhorn versus a “Lal” old horse in Bhiwani

    • Hassan

  • Direction issued for sending notice to Deve Gowda, Revanna
  • Area under potato likely to come down

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Contempt proceedings against former corporation Commissioner dismissed
  • Five books on farming released
  • 71 couples enter the wedlock
  • Special trains to clear summer rush
  • Students cannot be forced to buy prospectus: PU Board

    • Hyderabad

  • EC bars entry of party leaders
  • DD live phone-in programme
  • Telugu Desam dismisses Chiru’s claim
  • Counting to take 4 to 7 hours
  • Congress sees a clear verdict
  • MLC takes oath
  • Bridge collapse: BJP wants contract suspended
  • The laughter only gets louder
  • Training the trainer
  • Helen Keller College invites applications
  • TSCS holds rally for affected children
  • Shivlal may carry his bat through
  • Happy clicking!
  • LRS likely to be extended
  • Lotus Pond in state of neglect
  • NICD releases do’s and don’ts for swine flu
  • 3.8 tolas jewellery stolen from temple
  • Corporates cash in on IPL frenzy
  • Tension in Madannapet
  • Parcel bomb case solved
  • Real estate company pulled up for not honouring commitment
  • Plea to develop Qutb Shahi tombs
  • PR medical team to tour Vizag agency areas
  • Correction
  • Testing time for IIT-JEE aspirants!
  • Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Flu spreads through Europe, Latin America
  • Collapsed banks pile up in U.S.
  • U.S. fully backing Pakistan government: Holbrooke
  • TULF for global intervention on civilians

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Campaigning in Kashmir

    • Kadapa

  • Call to strengthen INTUC
  • Admissions for the hearing-impaired
  • Mayor opens hospital
  • Lok Sabha, Assembly data placed online
  • ‘Nothing new in cash scheme’

    • Kalpetta

  • Speaking the language of the tribes
  • Three hurt in political clash

    • Kannur

  • Film fete from May 7
  • Proposals invited
  • Chief Secretary hospitalised
  • PFI workers hurt in attack

    • Karnataka

  • Power shutdown
  • ‘Shortage of professionals in apparel industry’
  • Dharna
  • Life in action
  • Campus Notes
  • King of fruits turns sour
  • Counting to be taken up at two centres
  • Neglected Soliga tribe votes in a big way
  • Rain destroys paddy crop in 10 villages in Tumkur district
  • At people’s cost
  • ‘Krishi Jayanti’ at Swarnavalli
  • Garbage bins required in city

    • Kattappana

  • New bus stand hanging fire

    • Kerala

  • Government told to go by AG’s advice
  • Port strike continues
  • Setalvad slams LDF, UDF
  • Move against GM seeds
  • Sights and sounds of Pooram
  • In his thrall
  • Campus Notes
  • Plight of the homeless
  • Nature’s bounty

    • Khammam

  • 1,736 summer schools start functioning in Khammam
  • Acute drinking water problem in Rajiv Gruhakalpa blocks

    • Kochi

  • Passenger awareness week
  • Port stir continues
  • State may enact law against GM seeds
  • One held on charge of cheating
  • Corporation protests loss of ad revenue
  • Presented
  • ‘Benefit from education’
  • Human rights group opposes use of breath analyser
  • Urology meet held
  • Road safety panel yet to be formed
  • Kochi Today

    • Kottayam

  • One dies in accident
  • SIMI ‘activists’ to be taken to Wagamon

    • Kozhikode

  • Chain-snatching: two held
  • Early birds flock to ‘Jai Ho’
  • Entries invited
  • Monsoon health alert programme
  • Sreemathy to inaugurate IMCH renovation
  • Suburbs facing severe drinking water shortage
  • Euphoria as Rahman thrills
  • State reception for A.R. Rahman
  • Veerendrakumar’s poser to Pinarayi

    • Kurnool

  • Wushu summer camp
  • Two drown in well
  • Student electrocuted
  • One killed, six hurt in road accident

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Celeb crusades & the death of politics

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Subversion of justice
  • Outrageous
  • Sri Lankan crisis
  • Low turnout

    • Madurai

  • Trade centre for each Lok Sabha seat: DMDK
  • Opposition parties block roads in Madurai
  • Flag march taken out
  • “Bribing shows DMK will be defeated”
  • Of over 15 million asthma patients, 15 % are children
  • Pattabhishekam for Goddess Meenakshi
  • Water level
  • Cases filed against AIADMK leaders
  • Prison inmates permitted to meet their relatives
  • Madurai Today

    • Malappuram

  • Artistic talent knows no bounds

    • Mangalore

  • Walking together to happiness
  • ‘Only universities can save Yakshagana’
  • Lok Sabha elections: women outnumber men in voting
  • SSLC results: district ranks fourth in State
  • Man killed in accident at Ekkuru junction
  • Excitement unlimited at Pilikula

    • Mysore

  • A run against time
  • Ranganathittu gets a new look
  • Cauvery Kalpatharu Grameena Bank records net profit of Rs. 17.37 crore
  • Pursuing poll-related cases doggedly
  • Prabhakar mourned

    • Nagapattinam

  • SHGs to start departmental store in Nagapattinam
  • NGO hands over 65 houses to tsunami victims
  • Permission for 179 vehicles
  • Mariamman temple car festival

    • Nagercoil

  • People will opt for a third front, says Karat

    • Nalgonda

  • Meet on achieving high yield in kharif

    • National

  • Akali Dal-BJP regime did not fulfil poll promises, says Sonia
  • Akalis challenge Patiala royals on home turf
  • “Chances of non-Congress, non-BJP government bright”
  • After 20 years, truth on Bofors not known: Yechury
  • Muslim leaders condemn levy of jaziya on Sikhs in Pakistan
  • Congress anti-Dalit: Mayawati
  • A greenhorn versus an old horse
  • A parting gift from UPA to Quattrocchi: BJP
  • Nation fed up with Congress failures, says Jaitley
  • We will stick by Manmohan: Rahul
  • Sikhs protest in Jammu
  • Manmohan should have done something: Modi
  • Black money issue is BJP’s election stunt: PM
  • “Congress shielding heavyweight”
  • Swine flu: Gujarat orders checks in ports
  • Mughal ‘heiress’ roots for the BJP
  • The sporting link
  • Not-so-perfect rolls
  • Sparks fly as Farooq, nephew clash during debate
  • FASTFACT
  • I did not call Thackeray god: Shatrughan Sinha
  • SOUNDBITES
  • Protest against Taliban
  • “BJP misleading people on Ram temple”
  • Mayawati for welfare of sarva samaj
  • Cadre power Bikers for Bharathi
  • Gagged Kashmiris seek a vote
  • The biriyani factor
  • Taking Kozhikode by storm
  • Amarnath pilgrimage begins on June 7
  • Leopard dies of suffocation in fishing net
  • Seven held in Orissa district for Maoist links
  • ‘Manmohan dependent on others for decisions’
  • Manmohan: respect media freedom

    • Nellore

  • BSNL to set up 133 new base terminals in Nellore

    • New Delhi

  • New cooking fuel is here
  • Blending indigenous and modern designs
  • On a Sunday picnic
  • Advani concedes BJP was over-confident in 2004
  • Paswan comes to Kalyan’s rescue
  • To our readers
  • Death toll in Faridabad factory fire rises to 10
  • Laughter medicine
  • Inter-school debate organised
  • Book on a cop, by a cop
  • Independents hoping to change the system for good
  • ‘Spare a thought for the diabetics’
  • Gearing up health care services for the Games
  • Kashmiri Pandits protest against “discrimination” in voting procedures
  • A theatrical extravaganza staged
  • BSP candidate lodges complaint
  • Tips on voting
  • Black money issue is BJP’s election stunt: Manmohan
  • Labourer killed, another injured
  • Teenager injured after he falls from train
  • Shopkeeper beaten to death
  • Man held on murder charge
  • Teenaged boy knocked down by car
  • CPI criticises BJP and Congress
  • Mayawati asks Dalits not to support Congress
  • Metro 24-carat gold standard organisation, says L-G
  • In the Capital Today
  • Please vote

    • News Analysis

  • Enough with the 100 days already
  • Fresh initiatives in SCO expansion
  • Intensive farming at heart of flu crisis

    • Nizamabad

  • Rich tributes paid to Mahatma Phule

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • World Press Freedom Day
  • Seven arrested
  • Couple found hanging
  • In the guru’s footsteps
  • Four- member medical team visits Rayalpeta village
  • Matriculation evaluation starts
  • Quack arrested
  • Ten killed, thirty injured in accident
  • Seven held in Rayagada district for Maoist links
  • Ill-advised step

    • Palakkad

  • State failed to ensure minimum flow: experts

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Water supply restored in Kuttanad region
  • Gearing up for vote counting
  • ‘Yajnom’ at Aranmula temple today
  • Four arrested on theft charges

    • Puducherry

  • Chipping in with their mite to save ecology
  • ‘Kamban Vizha’ from May 8
  • A lesson in renal transplants
  • Sonia to campaign in Puducherry on May 6
  • Applications invited for MD Siddha seat

    • Punjab

  • Teenager commits suicide
  • Army corps begin exercise
  • Sonia accused of betrayal on women reservation bill issue

    • Racing : Horse

  • Cotswold Arms triumphs

    • Raichur

  • Raichur district improves performace

    • Rajasthan

  • Three killed in road accident
  • No need to be afraid of any nation, says Rahul

    • Ramanathapuram

  • This Ramanathapuram man is 101 years old and still going strong

    • Religion

  • Nature of Bliss

    • Salem

  • Youth urged to remain disciplined
  • A trek to inspect polling booths
  • ‘Give importance to agriculture education’
  • Plea for monthly pension of Rs. 3,000 for widows
  • Film world forum to campaign against Congress

    • Shimoga

  • ‘Young artistes should make efforts to sharpen talent’
  • ‘Medical literature not meant only for doctors, students’

    • Sport

  • Super Kings has the momentum
  • Kallis sparkles for RCB
  • Kings XI clinches win off the last ball
  • Prajusha ends two years of agony and frustration
  • Confident Indian team leaves for Kuantan
  • Barca hits Real for a six

    • Sports : General

  • Pathanamthitta triumphs
  • Janani upsets Bharathi
  • Easy for CASC
  • Tvm rules the pool
  • Stress on hard work

    • Srikakulam

  • Ph. D awarded

    • Table Tennis

  • Chinese paddlers dominate

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Scholar-musician Rajam Iyer dead
  • A dream come true for folk artist from Mudanai
  • In safe hands
  • “Bio-technology will determine the future”
  • ‘Follow rules on campaigning’
  • Future leaders?
  • Not a rare occurrence
  • Villagers say no to child marriages
  • House burgled
  • Utility of star cast doubtful
  • Detention of goonda ordered
  • 56 polling stations hypersensitive in Tirupur
  • Destroyed in fire
  • “Leaders cannot take security guards inside polling stations”
  • Campaign rules do not spare bicycles too
  • Proof for voters’ identity
  • One killed, 11 injured in accident
  • Traffic blocked
  • Group clash
  • Accident
  • Gauging the election wind
  • Tirukalyanam fete celebrated
  • 29 poll code violation cases registered in Tirupur
  • Textile sector keeping fingers crossed
  • Slovak film festival to be inaugurated
  • Education fair
  • What they say
  • Fire accident
  • Fatal accident
  • Telephone hassle
  • Training in herbal cultivation
  • Awareness meet
  • Spoken English, Hindi classes
  • Amendment to bill collection cycle
  • Black top this road
  • “Benefits reaped by ISRO surpass investments”
  • Testing ground for various schemes’popularity
  • G.K.Vasan campaigns in Theni
  • Four vehicles seized
  • It is rich in potential, poor in infrastructure
  • DMK, DMDK activists clash near Dindigul
  • “Karunanidhi has made Tamil Nadu a model State”
  • Thangkabalu condemns attack on Army convoy
  • Vote for AIADMK alliance to reverse economic slowdown: Jayalalithaa
  • Jayalalithaa to campaign in Vellore today
  • Credit and debit cards
  • Telephone hassle
  • A worthy example

    • Tennis

  • Karthikeyan second in sprint
  • Nadal reigns supreme

    • Thanjavur

  • Farmers ‘betrayed’: Vaiko
  • Poll observers check expense accounts

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Lavalin: Chandy flays CPI(M) decision
  • Teesta slams both fronts for links with fundamentalists
  • ‘No legal validity for AG’s advice’
  • No cases with swine flu symptoms
  • French tourist attacked on Varkala beach
  • State to help make Pattanam heritage site
  • ‘State multi-hazard-prone’
  • Young innovators take centre stage
  • Arches: Ombudsman orders probe
  • Snakeman returns
  • Swine flu: 213 screened at airport

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 4, 1959: Exports to be expanded
  • dated May 4, 1959: Proper use of funds
  • dated May 4, 1959: Training in crafts
  • dated May 4, 1959: Taxi meters

    • Thrissur

  • Pooram grandeur
  • Workshop
  • Pooram musical ensemble a big draw
  • Thousands gather to watch Thrissur Pooram
  • Pooram touches the carnival spirit

    • Tiruchi

  • Railways flayed for express train cancellation
  • Camel ride hugely popular at expo in Tiruchi
  • Mettur level
  • Mock-counting exercise conducted
  • Educate patients on asthma management”
  • “Solve inadequacies in public scheme”
  • Indian Medical Association to organise health camps for doctors
  • Flood scheme tops candidates’ agenda

    • Tirumala

  • ‘Padmavathi Parinayotsavam’ off to a grand start
  • ‘Bala Bhaja Govindam’ programme held

    • Tirunelveli

  • “Minorities suffer whenever Congress is in power: Raja
  • Rectified spirit seized
  • ‘Internet centres must apply for licence soon’

    • Tirupati

  • Excels in swimming
  • Jalayagnam grinds to a halt in Chittoor
  • Ex-naxal held for extortion bid
  • Bid to burn Lalu Prasad’s effigy fails

    • Tumkur

  • Rain destroys paddy crop in 10 villages

    • Tuticorin

  • Coral diseases a rising problem, says study
  • Counting centre inspected
  • Sarath Kumar’s convoy attacked

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Thousands participate in annual feast of the Kandhal Cross Shrine
  • Group clash at Emerald
  • Kanimozhi campaigns for A. Raja
  • Wildlife census begins at Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Woman found dead
  • Two CISF jawans killed, 6 injured

    • Uttaranchal

  • Forest fires raging in Uttarakhand

    • Vellore

  • 180 cases of poll code violations booked
  • Three arrested in connection with 24 robbery cases
  • Training programme postponed
  • 26 additional polling stations set up in Vellore
  • Women prisoners, relatives meet
  • 110.1 degrees F in Vellore

    • Vijayawada

  • Emulate Saira Banu, paddlers told
  • Laughing their hearts out
  • CPI activists stage dharna
  • Campaign to mobilise support against black money
  • Much-awaited annual fair gets under way
  • Mock counting conducted
  • Road closure opposed
  • Samaram’s ‘Fantasy’ comes under fire
  • Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Rural bank records business growth of Rs.1,063 crores
  • Cancer hospital gets new facility
  • Water kiosk inaugurated
  • Corporate colleges excel in VIT entrance
  • Cricket player felicitated
  • Man succumbs to injuries
  • Buzz of tourists yet to peak
  • Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • NIT inks pact with TCS

    • Weather

  • Weather

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