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Alappuzha

  • Vembanad fish count on May 31
  • Central team assesses losses in Mavelikara

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Caught unawares
  • Summer effect
  • Villagers force Chiru to visit their village
  • Chiru demands release of funds for Pulichintala project
  • Jindal-displaced: Lok Satta to move Lok Ayukta
  • Nature's ways
  • Survey on migrant population to begin
  • Rain disrupts life in East Godavari
  • Eyeing a big catch
  • Nagam Cheruvu and Boddumamidi Cheruvu tanks remain unrepaired for years
  • Heavy downpour in Guntur district
  • Cellphone call alerts 71 fishermen
  • Students participate in Museum Day
  • Cyclone alert in Krishna district
  • 3 killed in rain-related incidents in Nellore dt.
  • ‘Laila' disrupts oil and gas production
  • Balayya prays at Ahobilam
  • Three struck by lightning

    • Bangalore

  • Gangetic dolphin is now ‘National Aquatic Animal'
  • Minister holds meeting with Dalit leaders
  • National permits for goods carriers under new scheme
  • 97.05 p.c. pass CBSE Class XII
  • Giving the farmer his due
  • Political turn to Bhardwaj's notice to Bellary Ministers
  • GIM will bring in at least Rs. 2 lakh crore: Nirani
  • Complaint filed against Minister
  • Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange Rates
  • Bullion Rates

    • Belgaum

  • Elected to parishat
  • Complaint against VTU VC

    • Bellary

  • Showers of relief in Bellary district
  • Pre-monsoon showers scanty

    • Bijapur

  • Saplings to be planted in 25,000 hectares in State

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Vishal in quarterfinals

    • Bridge

  • Kailasam and Chandramouli win

    • Briefly

  • Videocon offers free mobile browsing
  • Avantha acquires Pyramid Healthcare of U.S.
  • Rane Brake raises dividend to Rs. 4.50
  • Airbus delivers first A380 to Lufthansa
  • SBI Mutual launches PSU fund
  • Venu Srinivasan quits Wabco–TVS board
  • Axis Bank buys property in Mumbai for over Rs. 782 crore

    • Business

  • Cabinet nod for hike in natural gas price
  • Sensex tumbles 467 points
  • Rupee crosses 46-mark
  • Exports surge 36 % in April
  • Steel Ministry wants export duty on iron ore raised
  • Samsung introduces smallest laser printer
  • New handsets from Coolpad
  • Everonn net doubles
  • Visa Steel plans unit in Chhattisgarh
  • Philips Innovation Campus to focus on healthcare

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Season of film workshops
  • Museum keeps students under spell
  • Stress on awareness of multiple sclerosis
  • How speed-breakers prove fatal
  • Goods trucks flagged off
  • Stormwater drains construction begins
  • Hindu Education Plus Career Fair from tomorrow
  • Undertrial moves court for medical treatment
  • Chinese translation of Tirukkural soon
  • Dialogue initiated for bullet train on Chennai-Mysore sector
  • Woman electrocuted
  • Green celebration
  • City has inadequate fire safety infrastructure
  • Rain disrupts power supply
  • What's in a name? A lot
  • Heavy showers bring respite from blistering heat
  • Forms to be secured from prospective voters in a week
  • Coast Guard awaits State nod to set up port for hovercraft
  • Madras varsity may not permit new courses in 14 colleges
  • Guidelines soon to bar sale of expired food products: Velu
  • Stalin presents Rs.3.77 lakh to trekkers
  • Probe ordered against de-addiction centres in Chennai
  • Girls outperform boys in CBSE XII results
  • ICSE class X and ISC class XII results out
  • Business leaders urged to adopt sustainable development system
  • Solatium announced for three more families
  • Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Anilkumar triumphs

    • Coimbatore

  • Surgery saves leg of cancer-affected boy
  • Anti-microbial treatment
  • Russian education exhibition in Coimbatore today
  • Sell small onions immediately
  • MoU inked to commercialise solar crop drier
  • ‘Sustained vigil needed to prevent sale of expired food items'
  • SP disburses relief assistance
  • PFI hails caste-based census
  • Career counselling
  • Mayor's appeal on boards in Tamil
  • Removal of encroachments will continue: Corporation
  • ELGI chairman dead
  • Anna University to have new courses: VC
  • Mini marathon to create awareness on Hepatitis B
  • Employment will be demanded as a basic human right: VC
  • Reliance's new offer
  • Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Day-night Tests coming soon
  • Salman Butt likely to get captaincy
  • ‘Build on Twenty20 glory'
  • Rynold stars in Ernakulam triumph
  • Facile win for Swastic
  • Anuragh sparkles
  • Shoaib shines
  • Bharat's knock in vain
  • Hari Prasad hits century
  • Close finish on the cards
  • T20 tournaments should have best-of-three finals: Ponting
  • Technique and guts are the key
  • Sathya scalps seven

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 9847
  • Solution to puzzle 9846

    • Cuddalore

  • New national permit system inaugurated in Cuddalore
  • Traders warned
  • 43 cluster houses for transgenders

    • Editorials

  • Diplomacy, not sanctions
  • Fulfilment at last

    • Eluru

  • People reluctant to move to safer places
  • Administration gears up to meet cyclone threat

    • Erode

  • Extend credit to those selected under housing scheme, bankers told
  • ‘Over 34,000 applications received under the scheme'
  • CII to conduct job fair, career guidance programme on May 23
  • Need to monitor sanitary conditions in villages highlighted
  • Moderate showers in parts of Erode district
  • Lorry cleaner found dead

    • Football

  • Gulabi Bagh posts win
  • Three young footballers selected for training
  • Olympian's family languishes in abject poverty
  • The first of Italy's four triumphs
  • Highlights of 1934 WC
  • Honour for Bhutia

    • Front Page

  • Thai security forces storm Red Shirt bastion, crush protest
  • 3G sale nets Rs. 67,710 cr.
  • Four CRPF jawans, deputy commandant killed in blast
  • Police took the same route
  • Who is in command in Naxal areas?
  • UPA-II policies have spawned crony capitalism: Karat
  • Cyclone takes zig-zag path, nears coast
  • Afzal Guru's file sent back to Lt. Governor
  • EC order soon on pleas seeking Mayawati's disqualification
  • Direct Taxes Code Bill likely in monsoon session
  • Yangqin-tabla rhythms await Pratibha in Beijing
  • Pakistan blocks Facebook till May-end
  • UIDAI will support law to protect data: Nilekani
  • Shahzad charged with attempted terrorism
  • Cabinet nod for hike in natural gas price
  • Sensex tumbles 467 points
  • Maradona confident his team can go all the way
  • Grosso excluded from squad
  • Eligibility marks for engineering admission reduced
  • Milk producers' stir withdrawn
  • 17 convicted Indians get access to Punjabi translator
  • Chennai region records 92.17 pass percentage in CBSE exam
  • Sentence for rape-murder case convict commuted

    • Golf

  • Virk, Sayed in the lead

    • Gulbarga

  • Quarry workers stage protest
  • Kanta, 132 pourakarmikas held
  • Gulbarga airport: last hurdle cleared

    • Guntur

  • PF drive launched
  • UK education expo at Vignan varsity tomorrow
  • NEC students excel

    • Hassan

  • People demand doctor at PHC
  • SFI leader takes on State on private varsity issue

    • Hockey

  • Indian women held by New Zealand

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Award-winning films to be screened
  • IEBI plans college in Hubli
  • Reconsider decision on JOCs, Horatti tells Yeddyurappa
  • Pastor roughed up

    • Hyderabad

  • Shifting cities made easy
  • Pay power bills online: CPDCL
  • Twin sisters make it to Limca Book of Records
  • ‘Jumbo' problem for Nizam's Trust
  • Tower crashes due to heavy winds
  • Congress, MIM ‘boycott' GHMC meeting
  • Power restored after prolonged blackout
  • Land identified for new rail terminal at Hi-Tec City
  • SCR shelves GPRS service
  • Cyclone: IAS officers to coordinate
  • Problems surrounding FoBs persist
  • State students fare well in CBSE
  • Cabinet panel to study fiscal situation mooted
  • GHMC establishes six emergency control rooms
  • Zia was looking for local help to carry out attack
  • Naidu calls for necessary steps to tackle cyclone
  • Exhibition at Shilparamam
  • Over 3.8 lakh to appear for EAMCET-2010
  • ‘Rededication' put off
  • ‘Hope this will be last panel on Telangana'
  • No going back on YSR's promises, says Rosaiah
  • GO on payments to contract lecturers issued
  • New BJP Mahila Morcha chief
  • Scholarship issue referred to group of Ministers
  • Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Jalili likely to meet Ashton
  • U.S., Pakistan discuss terrorism prevention
  • We will fight on: Thai rebels
  • Shahzad charged with attempted terrorism
  • Taliban attacks U.S. Bagram base
  • Chomsky gives lecture by video
  • Al-Qaeda plot “just an idea”
  • French Cabinet approves burqa ban law
  • Indian aims to become the youngest to scale Everest

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Congress enrols over 5-lakh members in J &K

    • Kadapa

  • Brahmamgari Matham decked up for fete
  • Tributes paid to Sundarayya

    • Kalpetta

  • Rain: Rs.20-crore loss in Wayanad
  • AKS to resist eviction of Adivasis

    • Kannur

  • Kottiyur fete
  • Police forum to campaign against the third degree
  • CPI(M) pays tributes to Nayanar

    • Karimnagar

  • Development and welfare schemes two features of progress: Minister

    • Karnataka

  • Gone with the wind
  • Need to prepare students to face challenges stressed
  • Meeting on textbooks on May 21
  • Absence of officials riles ZP chief
  • ‘Mining needs to be regulated effectively'
  • Civic irresponsibility
  • Tulunadu seminar begins in Udupi
  • ‘Demonstration for release of farmers'
  • When utilities don't coordinate
  • ‘Don't talk lightly about Governor'
  • Hurrah, we've done it!
  • ‘There is sufficient stock of fertilizer'
  • Four districts plunge into darkness as power plants trip

    • Kerala

  • Best child artistes
  • Veteran's words
  • Students develop Malayalam menu for graphics software
  • Steps to promote beach tourism
  • Monsoon vignettes
  • Rainy days ahead
  • Special Ganapathi Homam held at Kalady temple

    • Khammam

  • Chiru's visit to Bhadrachalam put off

    • Kochi

  • Women's Science Congress
  • Saxophone concert presented
  • City waits for KSRTC services
  • Temple aid for the poor and ill
  • Call to women scientists
  • Seminar to mark Biodiversity Day
  • Court order on land allotment
  • Good show by CBSE schools in Ernakulam
  • 29 distinctions for Crescent
  • Four persons held on charge of selling ganja
  • Fishing boat rescued
  • State asked to file affidavit
  • Writ plea against entrance test
  • Options on professional education and more
  • Kochi Today

    • Kolkata

  • High alert for Cyclone Laila in West Bengal coastal areas
  • Tiger claims another life in Sunderbans
  • Continue with talks, GJM told
  • Maoists blast rail track, drivers injured

    • Kollam

  • District-level fete today
  • Plea for Oil Palm India headquarters in Kollam
  • VS highlights feats of LDF

    • Kozhikode

  • Probe on into train food poisoning incident
  • Accident claims two lives at Thamarassery
  • Two held for possessing ganja
  • Good show by district schools
  • Deer succumbs to injury
  • ‘KTDC strategy to woo tourists'

    • Kurnool

  • KCR's plan to visit Vijayawada questioned

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Manipur: no exit at the end of the road

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Dantewada attack
  • On senior citizens

    • Madikeri

  • Catch the new Kodava movie
  • Undertrial caught by Somwarpet police
  • Residents allege tank encroachment
  • Residents help police catch undertrial

    • Madurai

  • Lakshmi Narayanan, former MLA, dead
  • Children urged to spread Gandhi's ideas
  • Rs. 29.87 crore for roads and schools in rural areas
  • Power shutdown
  • Kalam inaugurates various facilities at village
  • Four-day cleaning campaign from May 25
  • Drinking water adequate for next 50 days, says Collector
  • Special school students' feat
  • Electricity Board asks High Tension units to pay penalty for excess use of power
  • Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • CAMPCO to suspend white arecanut procurement
  • Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Celebrating 25 years of presenting melodies
  • Lingadevaru Halemane is Rangayana director
  • Film festival on environment and development tomorrow
  • Five MysoreOne centres launched
  • ‘Discrimination' in location of MysoreOne centres irks Sait

    • Nagercoil

  • Minister reviews development works

    • Nalgonda

  • ‘Draw inspiration from Sundarayya'

    • National

  • Congress goes into damage control mode
  • New anti-Naxalite strategy sought
  • West Bengal plans package for Maoists
  • Dissolution of MCI undemocratic: CPI(M)
  • With escort, stranded buses leave for Jiribam
  • Navy expands footprint in Indian Ocean
  • 2,000 rendered homeless after demolition drive
  • R.K. Sinha takes over as BARC chief
  • Sibal sees role for PSUs in adult education programme
  • Globemaster will be flown to India for trials
  • Stringent tobacco pictorial warnings deferred to December
  • In Maharashtra, a small step to expedite Forest Act implementation
  • Don't ignore compensation in cheque bounce cases, says Supreme Court
  • Resolve dispute, court tells Fernandes' kin
  • Plea against using Gandhi's image on currency
  • Sohrabuddin case: Inspector, DSP remanded to custody
  • CBI files case against IPS officer
  • ‘Creating AIDS vaccine still the biggest challenge'
  • Breath-taking feat
  • Verdict on Rathore's plea today
  • Tigress found dead in reserve
  • Ministry ticks off major channels for ad code violation
  • ‘Dinosaurs swallowed stones as digestive pills'

    • New Delhi

  • Maoist bandh hits train movement
  • Deep into battles across the Pacific
  • Too hot to handle
  • PIL co-petitioners decry Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh
  • One year on, Nehru Library deputy director awaits justice
  • BJP protests delay in hanging of Afzal Guru
  • Sajjan involved in lynchings, says CBI
  • Insurance firm directed to pay full compensation
  • TV channels pulled up for suggestive advertisements
  • E-waste rules ignore unorganised sector
  • 20 % hike in Annual Plan for Chhattisgarh
  • Bypolls in Telangana likely late in July

    • Nizamabad

  • Life imprisonment for murder accused

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Olympic Games

  • Four RS MPs write to Randhir Singh

    • Ongole

  • Collector asks tehsildars to evacuate people from low-lying areas

    • Op-Ed

  • Russia comes out on top in Iran deal
  • This war can't be won by mines and bullets
  • Duping Harvard
  • Oil spill surpasses worst-case scenarios
  • Corrections & Clarifications

    • Orissa

  • Girls outshine boys in Plus II exams
  • Chhau dance exponent passes away
  • Chess players bring laurels to State
  • EMG machine inaugurated at MKCG Medical College
  • Private colleges put up good show
  • Cuttack students make a mark
  • Maoists blow up warehouse building
  • Huge amount sought for revamp of higher education
  • Experts foresee problems due to climate changes
  • 6 parties back stir against Posco project

    • Other States

  • Three militants killed in J&K
  • Reaching out
  • IIT dreams
  • Plastic factory gutted
  • A great chance for students
  • Babus at work
  • U.P. orders probe, seizure of magazine
  • Badrinath reopens
  • Save them, please

    • Palakkad

  • Theatre workshop
  • ‘Probe KSEB's financial deals'
  • Action sought against pollution of water sources
  • Central team visits Palakkad

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Central team visits drought-hit areas

    • Puducherry

  • Road works begin
  • Demand to scrap G.O. on regional quota for Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam
  • Tenders floated for civic works in Krishna Nagar
  • Regional quota for Puducherry announced

    • Racing : Horse

  • King's Envoy wins

    • Racing : Motor

  • Karun exudes confidence

    • Raichur

  • KRRS plans dharna on May 21
  • Gusty winds, power shutdown in Raichur

    • Rajahmundry

  • Evacuation begins in Konaseema

    • Rajasthan

  • Hepatitis awareness rally

    • Religion

  • Ardhanariswara

    • Salem

  • Action taken
  • Revenue administration asked to seek explanation from Salem Collector
  • Workers observe fast seeking regularisation

    • Shimoga

  • ‘High-tech hospital soon'
  • Yeddyurappa defends release of funds for maths

    • Shooting

  • Manavjit misses final

    • Sport

  • Maradona confident his team can go all the way
  • Grosso excluded from squad
  • Focus on sustainable development
  • Preparations under way for kuruvai season

    • Sports : General

  • Indian team for Asian taekwondo
  • IOA decision unilaterel, says Sports Minister

    • Srikakulam

  • People of 224 villages in Srikakulam alerted

    • Tamil Nadu

  • All is well
  • Lashing out in all fury
  • Employment Office organises special camps
  • Proud moment
  • 211 teachers get transfer orders
  • Tamil Nadu Electricity Workers Federation observes fast
  • 11 Sainik School students selected to NDA
  • Move to focus on NMR in summer festival
  • Govt. keen on ensuring safety of people and wildlife: Forest Minister
  • Summer woe
  • Students get trained in drawing and painting
  • TNEB staff observe fast
  • Enumeration of huts completed
  • TNCSC to procure black gram
  • Better living
  • No tall order
  • Self-financing schools flay State Government's stand
  • One killed, eight injured as bus falls into gorge
  • Rain triggers agriculture activities in rain-fed areas
  • Action against local bodies polluting water sources
  • 15 injured in accident
  • Television sets distributed to 1,567 families
  • Heavy rain continues in Karur district
  • Tension prevails in two villages
  • Spotted deer rescued from farm well near Krishnagiri
  • Investors throng SP office
  • Organs of accident victim donated
  • Three fishermen missing
  • Black top
  • Child electrocuted
  • DRM inspects railway stations
  • Three-day training on advanced farm practices begins
  • Grievance camp for LPG consumers
  • Public humiliation drives Dalit girl to commit suicide
  • “NIOT can help achieve energy independence”
  • Heavy rain disrupts normal life

    • Tennis

  • Ronit, Kyra in semifinals
  • Bharat pips Kunal
  • Sivan advances to third round
  • Mahesh upsets Subash
  • Amritraj crashes out
  • Devvarman moves up

    • Thanjavur

  • Heavy rain in Thanjavur and Tiruvarur districts
  • Farmers oriented on pulse production
  • Thyagaraja's renovated house to be opened on June 21

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Seaview employees visit Abhayagramam
  • Accentia to enter LPO domain
  • State for Kanjikode coach factory in public sector
  • VSSC scientist couple killed in road accident
  • Applications invited
  • Braille printing press set up at reprographic centre
  • Repeal power surcharge: BJP
  • Dial 108 for emergency medical help
  • Ambulance service for all districts soon
  • ‘Laila' to bring in more rain
  • Treasury revamp by December
  • Probe Wakf Board: panel
  • Good show by Thiruvananthapuram schools
  • Meet to discuss impact of e-stamping
  • Polls changed youth mindset, says Pilot
  • Centre may pressure Kerala on 45-metre width for two NHs
  • Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 20, 1960: Ike on summit failure
  • dated May 20, 1960: Council meet likely
  • dated May 20, 1960: Acharya Bhave's tour

    • Thrissur

  • Workshop on radiation safety to be held
  • 2,715 houses completed under EMS scheme

    • Tiruchi

  • Exceptional educational experience
  • BHEL despatches 135 MT boiler components to Tuticorin Sterlite
  • Bio-diversity competition draws 50 school students
  • Heavy rain in Tiruchi and Perambalur districts
  • “My coaches helped me”
  • 15 metre gauge engines to be converted into broad gauge shunting locos
  • House burgled; gold jewels and silver vessels stolen
  • Warm reception to Rajiv Jyothi Yatra in Tiruchi
  • NHAI urged to build underpass at G.Corner
  • PF adalat on June 10
  • Tiruchi Today

    • Tirupati

  • Heavy rain, winds lash parts of Chittoor district
  • Gangamma fete concludes
  • SBI to open five branches in Tirupati
  • Arrangements for UPSC exam reviewed
  • ‘Hepatitis Day' observed

    • Tumkur

  • Nilekani inspects unique identity card project areas
  • Arrest of CMC member causes tension in Tumkur

    • Tuticorin

  • TNSTC begins non-stop bus services
  • Unauthorised hoardings removed in Tuticorin
  • Minister gives identity cards
  • Superintendent assumes charge
  • Shooting competition for police personnel begins

    • Udhagamandalam

  • War of hoardings intensifies

    • Udupi

  • ‘Tread carefully while choosing a career'
  • Students all praise for guidance session

    • Vijayawada

  • Focus on health, hygiene
  • Specials to clear rush
  • Toyota's Etios concept car to be launched in city soon
  • Incessant rain lashes city
  • Rich tributes paid to Sundaraiah
  • Three electrocuted
  • Five held, stolen property worth 30 lakhs recovered
  • Principal Secretary inspects JNNURM works
  • Minister's directive to officials on evacuation
  • Union assures of milk supply
  • Railway officials on alert

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Navy rescue, relief teams rushed
  • Suggestions sought on Forest Rights Act
  • ‘Laila' likely to hit coast today
  • Admissions to customer service management course rescheduled
  • BSNL's customer meets
  • Legal expert for epidemiological study in city to find out level of pollution
  • HPCL gets award
  • City students excel in Spell Bee
  • CARE Hospitals gets approval for organ tansplantation
  • City students excel in CBSE exam
  • Fishing boats damaged
  • 2 Railway officials held
  • EPDCL ready for any eventuality
  • Improve water supply to apartments, residents' association tells Vishnu
  • Laila: GVMC sets up control room

    • Volleyball

  • Vijaya Bank in semifinal league
  • State boys' u-17 boxing from tomorrow

    • Weather

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