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Alappuzha

  • Lack of facilities hinders proper driving tests
  • Adhere to poll code, parties told

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Telecast of campaign advertisements regulated
  • New mountain peacock found
  • Majlis remains the hot favourite
  • Rebels all set to make their presence felt
  • Close relatives yet formidable rivals
  • Naidu comes down heavily on Krishna Yadav's candidature
  • Better halves join the battle for ballot
  • APCC for judicial probe into sale of Government lands
  • Tribal family yearns for voting rights
  • Additional CEO denies official's role
  • BJP seeks apology from Sonia Gandhi
  • Plea for industry status to TV sector
  • And now, `vaastu' to counter Naidu
  • TDP questions Sonia's `silence' on Telangana
  • No shift of stand on Telangana: CPI(M)
  • Team to probe doctors' `negligence'
  • YSR's promise on Pulichintala
  • It's Naidu who is selling ticket, says PCC chief
  • Congress plea for check on TDP ads on TV channels
  • CII's gesture to OGH
  • Severe heat wave prevails
  • Anaesthesiologist Venkat Rao dead
  • Barnala greets cricket team
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Yellareddy may throw up surprise result
  • TDP has an edge in Chodavaram
  • People throng PCC chief's road show
  • CM intensifies campaign in KCR constituency
  • Two murdered
  • Vote without fear: DGP

    Assam

  • Assam to seek Army's help to trace abducted NRI

    Athletics

  • London marathon should justify top billing
  • Can Abera perform an encore?

    Badminton

  • Sharan gets past Pranav
  • Kottayam girls triumph
  • ICF beats Canara Bank
  • Monish Wilson helps Changanassery BC post easy win

    Bangalore

  • Partial response to bandh call
  • `First aid can help prevent deaths in road accidents'
  • Recovered property turning into junk
  • Teenager charged with raping eight-year-old girl
  • Healthcare facility for pourakarmikas
  • Water shortage likely in north-eastern areas
  • CET Cell detects forged application form
  • House raided, liquor seized
  • Inspector suspended
  • Police stage flag march
  • Traffic curbs
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Stock Market Index
  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    Basketball

  • Sanathnagar Playground wins

    Belgaum

  • Centre fair to all States, says Shourie

    Bellary

  • BJP gets a head start in Bellary
  • It is anybody's game in Hadagali

    Bidar

  • Congress lacks leadership, says Bangarappa
  • `Electing Congress only way to ensure development'
  • Announcement termed violation of poll code

    Bihar

  • Fernandes locked in a multi-cornered contest

    Bijapur

  • Bangarappa wants people to give BJP a chance in State

    Boxing

  • Kick boxing team returns with two bronze medals

    Briefly

  • Inflation to be below 5 p.c.
  • LG launches new notebook PCs
  • Cars sales touch 1.03 m units
  • Live trading at NSE
  • NISG signs MoU with IBM India
  • J&K Bank eyes southern market
  • Hero Mindmine ties up with TPC
  • CUB's money transfer service
  • Vijaya Bank's ATM at Dharmasthala
  • Xerox Modicorp launches new products
  • Shasun pays 25 p.c. interim
  • Matrix Lab's preferential offer
  • Hutch gets licence in two more States
  • Padmalaya Telefilms Chairman resigns
  • Orissa Cements' expansion
  • New VP for eForce
  • Jewellery show

    Business

  • Wipro joins billion dollar club, announces 2:1 bonus shares
  • ESCAP warns growth may fall to 6 p.c.
  • Jump in profit of Reliance Energy
  • Benefits but mainly over the medium term
  • Cash surplus may hold back G-Sec. auctions
  • 50 p.c. interim from Gujarat Ambuja
  • Rupee posts smart rally
  • Bata to enter real estate development
  • Sensex recovers on Wipro's liberal bonus
  • Call for single window system for biotech industry

    Cartoons

  • POCKET WATCH

    Chattisgarh

  • Many a slip of the tongue

    Chennai

  • Sleep and nightmare
  • Soft offence tough to handle
  • Poll booths will be disabled-friendly
  • Federation spreading hope for haemophiliacs
  • Independents file papers
  • Closed Circuit TV at Vadapalani temple
  • Plea for use of pollution-free fuel
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Good Friday for Sreejith

    Coimbatore

  • Taking the extreme step...
  • IN COIMBATORE TODAY
  • More summer showers likely
  • Free cancer detection camp

    Cricket

  • Ganguly and his men make history
  • Dravid's mammoth innings was the key
  • It's celebration time
  • Umrigar salutes both teams
  • Victory cheers up one and all
  • It's a special feeling: Balaji
  • Everyone did well: Ganguly
  • Tamil Nadu dethrones Karnataka
  • East Coast Railway derails Metro
  • Players ignore ultimatum to turn up for practice
  • Ganguly on top
  • India moves to fourth spot
  • Inzamam threatens disciplinary action against Shoaib
  • Pakistani trainer confirms quitting
  • Prasad scalps five
  • Good spell by Raguraman
  • No problems for Young Friends
  • A half dozen
  • Rajdhani squeezes past Sonnet
  • Narrow win for Modern School

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 7960
  • Solution to puzzle 7959

    Cuddalore

  • Four candidates file nominations in Cuddalore, Villupuram
  • AIADMK nominee quits panchayat union chief post

    Cuddapah

  • Booth capturing: police told to open fire

    Dindigul

  • Rs.9.4-cr. proposal to link open wells with Vaigai dam
  • DMK betrayed powerloom weavers: Jayalalithaa
  • 94 polling stations in Dindigul constituency identified as sensitive

    Editorials

  • WELL DONE
  • PREDICTING THE MONSOON

    Elections 2004

  • A challenge to the text-book understanding of politics
  • Poll-Pourri
  • Congress thriving on poverty
  • Sharma, Jaitley & Hema Malini on LS Polls
  • Candidate Watch : A.K. ROY
  • Q & A : Kanwar Yogendra
  • CPI (M) campaign goes hi-tech
  • In Bihar's jails, dons gird for the electoral battle
  • Setback for Congress before the polls

    Football

  • KSEB downs Haywards 2000
  • Cash bonanza for Indian team
  • Vasco trounces Mohun Bagan
  • Match drawn

    Front Page

  • India clinches first-ever Test series in Pakistan
  • Leaders hail series win
  • EC notice to BJP
  • Jethmalani withdraws from contest
  • Wipro in billion dollar club
  • ANC the winner
  • Manufacturing policy imperative: CII

    Globescan

  • Berlusconi's bribery trial resumes
  • Pro-Roh party wins

    Golf

  • Vijay Kumar, Rafiq Ali make the grade

    Gulbarga

  • 4,990 more voters in Gulbarga district this time
  • Teachers, doctors to resume strike

    Guntur

  • Congress hopes hinge on YSR yatra
  • Woman, son killed in sleep

    Hockey

  • Artillery fires at the right time
  • Rao is Indian team manager

    Hubli

  • Congress manifesto skips imbalances issue
  • Disinvestment not a poll issue: Shourie

    Hyderabad

  • Treasure trove for book-lovers
  • Krishna water reaches city
  • Traffic restrictions on polling day
  • MIM seeks package for old city development
  • All arrangements made for polling
  • Seizure of cash: poll officials seek report
  • Naidu to address 11 election meetings today
  • eSeva ties up with courier agency
  • Written test for admission into residential schools
  • No power supply in some areas
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Pakistan proposes talks on drug trafficking issue

    International

  • Sovereignty to Iraq: U.S., U.K. vow to stick to June 30 deadline
  • U.S. turning to Iran, Syria to defuse crisis
  • No ransom was paid, says Japan
  • How the LTTE neutralised Karuna
  • Europe derides Osama's truce offer
  • Pallone wants U.S. access to A. Q. Khan
  • Three Czech reporters released
  • `Bush cannot sell our rights'
  • New members may prove a drag on E.U.
  • Many Russians refuse to leave Iraq
  • Mujib, Tagore, Bose among `greatest Bengalis of all time'
  • Rumsfeld sounds subdued on Iraq
  • British racist group `targeting' schools
  • Pakistan rejects U.S. demarche on Javed Hashmi trial

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • `Army prepared for smooth conduct of polls in J&K'
  • Rebels may affect Congress prospects in Doaba region
  • Permanent Resident Bill not a poll issue

    Karimnagar

  • Rebels spell trouble in Indurthi
  • Keen contest in the offing

    Karnataka

  • BJP has unleashed terror, says Sonia
  • Congress in consolidation mode in Kolar
  • New postings for judges of lower courts
  • Bail conditions of Nakkeeran scribe relaxed
  • Yediyurappa leaving nothing to chance in Shikaripur
  • `Nobody wants Vajpayee to retire from politics now'
  • BJP, JD(S) candidates attacked
  • BJP, Congress engaged in bitter fight for Gulbarga seat
  • M.C. Nanaiah group to back Congress
  • Panel to look into poll advertisements
  • Adulation for heroes irks Jayanti
  • `Govt. discriminating against Tumkur CMC'
  • Congress manifesto impractical, says Deve Gowda
  • Govt. misleading people: Shettar
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Party affiliations may not matter much
  • Vadnal Rajanna, Mahima Patel in contest in Chennagiri
  • Silver screen set to light up in Goa
  • Mill accused of polluting river
  • Three die of gastroenteritis, 50 in hospital
  • `Innovations important in all fields'
  • Around the City

    Kerala

  • KSEB told to manage without tariff hike
  • A newcomer pitted against a veteran
  • Old rivals cross swords once again
  • Unnikrishnan raps Antony, Karunakaran
  • Supply of anti-rabies vaccines: petition adjourned
  • Kunhalikutty sabotaged CBI probe: Kummanam
  • KSEB told to improve collection of dues
  • `Adivasi-Dalit vote bank can change political equations'
  • Eight candidates file nominations in State
  • CSS to decide on support to candidates soon
  • Statues of Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar within a year
  • P.M. Sayeed files nomination papers
  • BJP leader accuses CPI(M) of political dishonesty
  • `Electoral cards will prevent bogus voting'
  • Crime Branch probe into Sivagiri theft
  • Farming loans to be restructured by June 15
  • At Sabarimala today
  • Doctors' meet
  • Poll observers' meet
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Complaints galore at UDF convention

    Khammam

  • Probe into eye operations held

    Kochi

  • Majority of residents free from ailments: survey
  • Ombudsman pulls up Kochi Corporation
  • Stir completing 1,000 days
  • Workers injured
  • Deans appointed
  • Celebrations
  • National Savings Scheme meet
  • Man run over
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • Two candidates file nomination papers in Kollam
  • Chattambi Swami Samadhi anniversary

    Kozhikode

  • Fisherfolk's demand
  • RTA decision criticised

    Leader Page Articles

  • Growth over development
  • ANC greatest threat to itself

    Letters to the Editor

  • PM's retirement
  • Best Bakery case
  • Political ads
  • Clarification
  • Ban the practice

    Madikeri

  • Rural-urban divide reduced, says Minister

    Madurai

  • Encroachment back to square one
  • Accent on power of decision-making
  • Group use of mobile phone catching up in departments
  • No nomination in Madurai
  • Last date to submit application forms extended
  • Power shutdown
  • Water level
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Maharashtra

  • Support secular forces, says Catholic forum
  • SP, BSP may pose problems to Congress, NCP
  • Remark on Shivaji to be withdrawn

    Mangalore

  • Memories of riots haunt Suratkal voters
  • College of Konkani arts to be opened in July
  • A fusion of Yakshagana, Hindustani music
  • Allegations of irregularities in cooperative society denied
  • Identity proof for voting
  • Temple festival from May 23
  • Phone-in programme on health issues
  • Overpass sought on Padil-Bajal Road
  • In Mangalore Today

    Mysore

  • Parties adopt two-pronged strategy to woo voters
  • Students develop dummy EVMs for voters' benefit
  • MCC collects Rs. 14.6 crore in property tax
  • `Brindavan Gardens has to be developed'
  • New facilities in AC two-tier coaches
  • Man murdered in Mysore

    Nagercoil

  • Film on EVMs screened

    Nalgonda

  • Poll material: Left parties hit by financial crunch
  • CPI contests Naidu's claim on welfare measures

    National

  • Vajpayee hints at `new initiatives' to improve bilateral relations
  • Gujjars divided on support to BJP
  • Fiscal deficit will be less than 4.8 per cent: Jaswant
  • Put off Lucknow election, says Congress
  • Congress demands explanation from Vajpayee
  • Cash for warrants: CBI files fresh report
  • Rich, richer and the richest
  • Supreme Court asks IIMs to have dialogue with Centre
  • Notice to EC on facilities for physically challenged
  • Chief Secretary summoned in Taj Corridor case
  • Anita Arya, Javed Abidi file papers
  • Mercy petition yet to reach President
  • IIM-A forms panel to hold talks with Centre
  • Poser to PM
  • Sidhu, Smriti Irani in BJP list
  • Congress to field Navin Jindal from Kurukshetra
  • Court declines to stay dam construction

    New Delhi

  • Kendriya Bhandar weekly rates
  • Paper leak: A bigger challenge ahead
  • CGHS move may affect patients
  • Children issues do not concern parties
  • Anita Arya, Javed Abidi file nomination papers
  • Now park at DTC depots and relax
  • Special arrangements for voters on polling day
  • New DU admission process for the disabled
  • Eight criminals arrested
  • Brain-dead gives a new lease of life to six
  • Two murder cases reported
  • Robbery at lawyer's house
  • High capacity bus introduced
  • Eight held in satta racket
  • Prize from Vajpayee for best slogan
  • Bomb hoax in Supreme Court
  • A few distinctions for the Capital
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    Nizamabad

  • 3,690 EVMs to be used in Nizamabad district

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Olympic Games

  • A chance to watch Olympics

    Pathanamthitta

  • Over 12,000 excise raids conducted in Pathanamthitta
  • Travancore Auto Show-2004 begins
  • Gowri Lakshmibhai in Sabarimala

    Pondicherry

  • 91 sensitive booths identified
  • Police intensify vehicle checks

    Racing : Horse

  • Mehmaan has an edge
  • Zealous Cat shows out

    Racing : Motor

  • Rossi clocks fastest time

    Rajasthan

  • Relief works hit in Rajasthan: Congress

    Religion

  • Importance of pilgrimage

    Shooting

  • Heartbreak for Moraad

    Sports : General

  • Basic bags two titles

    Table Tennis

  • Nishank, Esha get pride of place
  • Savio posts win

    Tamil Nadu

  • Violations will increase with lengthy campaign: Vaiko
  • `Synthetic substances can cause irreversible damage'
  • `Synthetic drugs can cause irreversible damage'
  • Independent files nomination in Thanjavur
  • `Railways must improve share in freight, passenger traffic'
  • Software for judging seismic vulnerability of buildings
  • Ensure against personal attacks: Karunanidhi
  • TNAU submits proposal on increasing maize production
  • Vigyan Rail showcases scientific heritage
  • `Inordinate delay in regularising strike period, staff suspension'
  • Perundurai plant to set up reverse osmosis facility
  • Dowry case: order stayed
  • Complaint against Haroon amounts to conceding defeat: Vasan
  • Sugarcane farmers demand clearance of power bills
  • Vajpayee vouched for our innocence: DMK
  • Sanctuary reopens
  • Charges at par with BSNL
  • Judgment in free chappal case adjourned again
  • Rajnikant leaves for the Himalayas
  • Cases booked for EC order violation
  • Manufacturing policy imperative: CII
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Three file papers in Pudukottai, one in Karur
  • Training for poll officials held

    Tennis

  • Haas has it easy
  • Paes calls for long-term development programme
  • Serena needs more time away from game

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Cheque cases mounting in city courts Cheque cases mounting in city courts
  • Move for round-the-clock diversion of traffic
  • Probe sought into MCH software security breach
  • Perennial crops worst hit by drought, says study
  • Poll observers appointed
  • Burglary: three youths held
  • S.Seetharaman dead
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    This Day That Age

  • dated April 17, 1954: Writers' conference
  • dated April 17, 1954: Tram service
  • dated April 17, 1954: 1956 Olympic Games

    Thrissur

  • Applicants in Thrissur to get phone on demand
  • Protest against wrong use of medical symbols
  • New Malayalam portal launched
  • Thesis contest on Ayurveda

    Tiruchi

  • Integrated sanitation programme launched
  • `Intensify health awareness'
  • Decision to charge phone enquiry service flayed
  • Let State's voice be heard in Parliament: Jayalalithaa
  • Let State's voice be heard in Parliament: Jayalalithaa
  • Botanist dead
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchy Today

    Tirunelveli

  • Pickle vendor files papers for Tirunelveli

    Tirupati

  • Trapped youth's ordeal continues

    Udupi

  • Plight of sugar factory, Varahi project are the main issues here
  • Seminar on CRM

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Tandon won't comment
  • Atal `poorest' among high profile U.P. candidates
  • BJP expels three legislators
  • School owner quizzed
  • BJP expels three MLAs in U.P.

    Uttaranchal

  • Poll process begins in Uttaranchal

    Vellore

  • Vellore temperature crosses 108 degrees F
  • Five file papers in Vellore, Tiruvannamalai districts

    Vijayawada

  • Show TDP the door: YSR
  • Free power will not be a huge burden: Rajagopal
  • Massive deployment of forces for election
  • Tumultuous welcome to `Jaitra yatra'
  • Expelled Congressmen join hands
  • BC factor will be decisive in poll outcome: Dasari
  • Dutt calls film distributors' meet
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • Arrangements in place for smooth conduct of polls
  • AIESEC chapter opened
  • `Reverse osmosis' will be future technology
  • Technocrats back TD candidates
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya celebrations
  • Electoral list to be displayed
  • Youth falls to death
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Volleyball

  • IOB registers win
  • TSET triumphs

    Warangal

  • Polls mean nothing for tribals

    Weather

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