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Alappuzha

  • Lethargic workers, indifferent voters

    Anantapur

  • Last-minute efforts to garner votes

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Campaign ends in State for second phase poll
  • Kodela in the race for double hat-trick
  • APCC complains against Devender Goud to EC
  • Stakes high for Mysoora, YSR's brother
  • Specially equipped choppers to counter naxals
  • Five killed in two accidents
  • HC suspends APAT order
  • Congress to review World Bank agreements
  • 21 LS, 147 Assembly seats go to polls in second phase
  • Congress cannot provide stable Government, says CM
  • Sonia against free power to farmers: Naidu
  • CM ends campaign on home-turf
  • Concludes Jaitra Yatra at Nandikotkur Strong wave in favour of Congress: YSR
  • Azad silent on YSR as CM
  • Bandaru sees NDA wave
  • CM condemns naxal killings
  • Congress replaces official candidate
  • YSR cautions people against Naidu's promises
  • Shun Congress, Naidu to youth
  • Arrest of poll staff ordered
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • NTR Jr. asks people to vote for TDP
  • Naidu sounds confident
  • Naidu steps up attack on Congress-TRS
  • 0ver 20,000 staff drafted for election duty

    Bangalore

  • BMP to streamline waste disposal system
  • Power supply in Bangalore to be privatised?
  • A boon for working women
  • Seat aspirants to present case before fee panel
  • 24-year-old man murdered
  • Caring for the physically challenged
  • Woman dies, three hurt as tree falls on them
  • Congress worker dies in clash
  • Around The City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Bullion rates

    Basketball

  • Impressive win for Port Trust
  • IBBC rallies to down Greens

    Bellary

  • Tungabhadra Grameena Bank nets Rs. 20.05 crore profit

    Bihar

  • Criminals should have no role in politics: High Court

    Business

  • RBI revises norms on NRI deposits
  • Vizag Steel eyeing mines in Australia
  • Mumbai to host international exhibition on chemicals
  • `Outsourcing outcry, a temporary aberration'
  • Hyundai may raise Santro prices

    Cartoons

  • POCKET WATCH
  • Cartoon

    Chennai

  • Election Miscellany
  • Landline service not up to desired standards: TRAI
  • Nominations of candidates of major parties accepted
  • Flow of Kandaleru water to city has stopped
  • `Essence of public relations lies in bringing people together'
  • Chennai Telephones to launch new Internet scheme
  • 2 goldsmiths duped
  • ISO certification for school
  • Around The City
  • In Chennai Today

    Chess

  • Satyapragyan shocks Zurab Sturua
  • Premnath joins in lead
  • Nimmy clinches title
  • State `A' tournament from today

    Coimbatore

  • 4 nominations rejected in Coimbatore
  • Institute for mentally challenged to start new course
  • Observers announced
  • CII selects theme for the year
  • Training for anganwadi helpers
  • Around The City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • It's England's turn to play chin music
  • Salwan Boys regains title
  • West Indies opts to bat
  • Team may have to look for a wicketkeeper-batsman: Dravid
  • IOB `A' is champion
  • ZCU forced to select second string team again
  • Shailender, Srinath shine
  • Token appearance by Sehwag
  • Easy for Sonnet Club
  • Good knock by Ajay
  • Pakistan players lack spirit: Tauqir Zia
  • West Indies 57 for 2

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 2553
  • Solution No. 2552

    Cuddalore

  • NLC settles Rs. 3.23 crores towards gratuity claims

    Cuddapah

  • Poll meetings cancelled
  • Complaint to poll panel against Naidu
  • Two of marriage party killed in road mishap

    Cycling

  • Armstrong stays ahead

    Elections 2004

  • This Vajpayee speech campaigns against the NDA
  • Atal Speak
  • Five for Fernandes?
  • In Maharashtra, most races are too close to call
  • Jethmalani's fresh posers to Vajpayee
  • Stage play sets scene for Naveen's entry
  • No tea breaks in this village
  • Low-key campaign in Goa ends
  • Amethi nurses a soft corner for India's `first family'
  • POLL-POURRI
  • V.P. Kulkarni, CPI (M) candidate, Ramdurg Assembly constituency
  • Q & A: Veerappa Moily
  • THE HEAT IS ON
  • SITTING PRETTY?

    Football

  • DGACR, AGTN in last four
  • Tollygunge Agragami holds Salgaocar SC

    Front Page

  • Campaign ends for phase two
  • Only 60 women in fray
  • This Vajpayee speech campaigns against the NDA
  • Most parties uncertain about eastern U.P.
  • Dutch Prince gives up right to throne for love
  • Don't harm Arafat, U.S. warns Sharon
  • `We're martyrs-in-waiting'

    Golf

  • Three share lead
  • Morgan ties course record
  • Harinder triumphs

    Gulbarga

  • No end to strike as doctors seek settlement of arrears

    Guntur

  • Congress bid to reverse performance
  • Boy dies in road accident
  • Thunderbolt kills woman

    Hassan

  • Cong., BJP find going tough in Hassan
  • Writers, artistes attacked at Birur
  • 10 persons hurt in clash in Hassan

    Hockey

  • India wins a close match again
  • India mauls Bangladesh, enters semifinals
  • AGAP downs SBI

    Hubli

  • Panel urged to look into complaints

    Hyderabad

  • Increase in number of visitors to zoo
  • Power shutdown in several areas today
  • Four die in road mishap at Medak
  • BRAOU entrance test result declared
  • DRS survey predicts TDP win
  • Baby girl survives fall from moving train
  • Estate officer trapped by ACB
  • No EC bar on Ministers camping
  • PCB to fund Asian Paints environmental project
  • Seminar on yoga today
  • Two killed in road accident
  • Police book cases against CRPF official
  • Summer carnival at Westside
  • BA Languages exam in distance mode from April 28
  • Donation for oral health
  • Around The City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    India & World

  • Shed protectionist tendencies, RBI Governor tells West

    International

  • U.S. lifts most sanctions
  • Sharon issues covert threat to Arafat's life
  • Spate of attacks in Iraq
  • U.S. offers help to North Korea
  • E.U. ratifies trade pact
  • 4-year-old survives nine-storey fall
  • China for military dialogue
  • Disillusioned Afghan women choose death by fire

    Karimnagar

  • No repoll in Karimnagar district
  • `TDP-BJP will net 10 seats in Karimnagar district'
  • `Magic Bhaskar' show in Karimnagar town

    Karnataka

  • Doctors' stir: patients left in the lurch
  • A matter of `honour' for Congress, BJP
  • `Congress will be back in the saddle'
  • Cipher pips i-flex at the post
  • Police rescue kidnapped boy
  • Krishna lashes out at Modi
  • Congress blamed for regional imbalances
  • Cash-strapped JD(S) keeping fingers crossed
  • Congress, BJP, JD(S) call for peaceful polling
  • Contest between Congress, BJP for Udupi Lok Sabha seat
  • Sympathy for Nagappa in the native place of condemned prisoners
  • CoD forms team to probe KAS exam. scandal
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Police accused of working for Congress

    Kerala

  • Venkaiah Naidu denies appeasement of minorities
  • SERC's projections for 2003-04 go awry
  • Ideology takes a back seat
  • Marad case: Kummanam refutes Antony's statement
  • Low-key campaigning in Vadakara
  • `Padmaja's regrets more painful'
  • BJP files petition against Navodhana Yatra
  • International pilgrim centre status for Malayattoor church
  • `BJP had sent feelers to CPI(M) on common candidate'
  • Two water projects to be taken up: Jacob
  • `Onus is on Karunakaran, Antony, Murali'
  • `Upheaval in Congress likely'
  • `Yogam stand will help LDF, Rajagopal'
  • Christian families to join BJP
  • BJP dividing country on communal lines: Antony
  • 200 nomination papers valid
  • IPSTA to launch online trading
  • `Araya Samajam was not informed of AG's report'
  • Nayanar to be shifted to AIIMS
  • Antony taken ill
  • Award
  • Briefly

    Kerala - Others

  • Five candidates each in Manjeri, Ponnani

    Kochi

  • Gallantry awards presented
  • `Public sector units can be profitable'
  • Polling officers for Lakshadweep from Kerala
  • Scrutiny of nominations in Ernakulam district
  • President arrives in city
  • Electorate up to 10.68 lakhs in Ernakulam
  • Two injured in road accident
  • Sankara Jayanti celebrations end
  • Around The City
  • In Kochi today

    Kollam

  • Number of voters falls in Kollam, Adoor
  • Call for changes in Plus Two education system
  • `TUs supporting foreign trawlers'
  • LDF Government blamed for closure of cashew factories

    Kottayam

  • Nine nominations valid in Kottayam

    Kozhikode

  • `Bring marginalised sections to mainstream'
  • Civil Services model examination
  • Uroob's works to be donated to library
  • No-trust motion against Mayor

    Madhya Pradesh

  • Contrasting moods, contrasting campaigns

    Madikeri

  • `Janata Party will win from Madikeri'
  • Muslim association president asked to quit

    Madurai

  • Independent thinking
  • `Silent revolution on'
  • 15 nomination papers for Madurai found in order
  • More question papers leaked
  • 7000 candidates appear for TNPCEE
  • Around The City
  • In Madurai Today

    Mangalore

  • 1,270 polling booths set up in Dakshina Kannada
  • Congress fined Rs. 1 lakh
  • Administration of TDS revamped
  • `Congress manifesto has helped improve party's prospects'
  • Engagements

    Mysore

  • Will Cauvery issue mar Cong. chances in Mandya?
  • Deve Gowda hints at realignment of parties
  • BJP, JD(S) candidates list promises
  • CNC announces boycott of elections
  • JD(S) seeks ban on exit polls
  • Tension in Mysore over Minister's remarks

    Nagercoil

  • 12 nominations accepted in Nagercoil constituency

    National

  • Country headed for 1996 situation: Karat
  • `Transfer Godhra case out of Gujarat'
  • Amar Singh apologises for advertisements
  • BJP bid to destroy composite culture: Sonia
  • Vajpayee only alternative: Advani
  • VHP demonstration against Vajpayee
  • Around the world, creating history
  • EC relaxes curbs on hoardings, banners
  • Opinion poll predicts minor reverses for NDA
  • PDP blamed for attacks
  • IOC plans $18 m. investment in Mauritius
  • Lok Sabha polls: multi-cornered contests likely in Haryana
  • Exciting times ahead for movie buffs
  • Vajpayee should retire: Congress
  • Farooq predicts third-front government at Centre
  • Tough fight for Orissa veterans
  • CBI arrests inspector on bribery charge
  • CPI(M) plea to EC
  • Curfew lifted in Hardwar
  • A Windows-Linux sangam soon?
  • Congress campaign receives a boost in eastern U.P.
  • EU — Mercosur trade negotiations
  • Video on 3 former Ministers `taking money'
  • A near-noiseless campaign ends
  • No talks with militant groups in third country: Advani
  • Clarify on leadership issue: BJP tells Congress

    Nellore

  • NJR addresses meetings in Gudur

    New Delhi

  • `Congress will win 5 Delhi seats'
  • Supreme Court lawyer, tantrik held for fraud
  • Shortage of EVMs likely
  • This tea vendor refuses to give up
  • Sajjan Kumar wants DDA notice withdrawn
  • Meetings to identify weak spots
  • Charred body found in car
  • Gaining a new identity
  • Police Commissioner briefs officers
  • High Court notice to Home Ministry
  • Outstanding women awarded
  • Bid to harvest rainwater
  • Papers of 20 candidates rejected
  • Around The City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today

    News Analysis

  • How deep shall we dig?
  • Speculation over the shape of things to come
  • Remedy worse than the disease

    Nizamabad

  • `Pariraksha' campaign to improve rural services

    Pathanamthitta

  • Police begin anti-gangster drive in Thiruvalla

    Perambalur

  • Maintain accounts of expenses, candidates told

    Pondicherry

  • `Only a secular government can ensure Pondy's separate identity'
  • 22 papers accepted
  • Central forces for poll duty
  • `Accord Statehood'
  • Policemen injured
  • Women voters outnumber men
  • Tirumurugan expelled from Congress

    Racing : Motor

  • The top ten
  • Deepak, Armaan, Karan take honours
  • Sidhu maintains lead

    Shimoga

  • Old rivals to battle it out in Shimoga Assembly segment

    Shooting

  • Dismal show by Mansher

    Sports : General

  • MCH camps inaugurated
  • Kannur boys in final

    Tamil Nadu

  • TNPCEE results expected on May 17
  • Nominations of party candidates accepted
  • Anti-incumbency, dissensions haunt candidates
  • Infrastructure improvement a dominant concern
  • Transfer sends strong message, flagpoles and hoardings removed
  • Ponnaiyan rebuts Chidambaram's charges on economy
  • DPA will continue after polls: Karunanidhi
  • DPI criticises DMK stand on POTA
  • Decision to allow Dinakaran to contest surprising: Swamy
  • Code for doctors: plan to move court against medical council
  • Two Periyakulam college employees in custody for question paper leak
  • Title for Sudha Raghunathan
  • `Madurai-Dindigul gauge conversion will be taken up soon'
  • Rehabilitated, reunited with family
  • Additional steps to conduct elections in hostile terrains
  • Court upholds move to clear encroachments on Vaigai riverbed
  • TDS problem no more intractable: CLRI director
  • Students on mass contact journey for harmony
  • They amble down a highway for livelihood
  • Briefly

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Four nominations rejected in Pudukottai constituency
  • Rs.50-lakh SHG products sold through DSMS
  • Dinakaran's nomination accepted
  • Election observers' phone numbers
  • Election observers
  • Writer's body brought to Pudukottai

    Tennis

  • Somdev Dev Varman gets T.K. Ramanathan Award
  • Coria to meet Schuettler
  • Venus helps U.S. draw level
  • End of the road for India
  • Vikram meets Sohan in final
  • Rain washes out matches

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Wanted gang leader held
  • `Vigyan Rail' to arrive tomorrow
  • Passion coming to town
  • Accused in murder case arrested
  • Reaching out to children
  • Munna case: CBI examines Transport Commissioner
  • Sale of drug suspended
  • Nomination papers scrutinised
  • Woman's murder: more questioned
  • Lutheran Church to back Francis Albert
  • Around The City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes

    Thrissur

  • Flag hoisted for Pooram festival

    Tiruchi

  • Good prospects for prawn culture
  • Around The City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Udhagamandalam

  • `Jayalalithaa's tactics will be counterproductive'

    Udupi

  • Congress leader sees `Krishna wave'
  • Independent candidate retires from contest

    Union Territories

  • Peace moves likely to boost Bansal's campaign

    Vellore

  • Thrust on tanneries adopting eco-friendly technologies

    Vijayawada

  • Curtains down on second phase campaign
  • Heavy bandobust for polling
  • Arrangements in place for polls: Collector
  • TDP candidate regrets NTR's daughter joining Congress
  • Case booked against engineers
  • Around The City

    Visakhapatnam

  • Collector clarifies on deletion of voters' names
  • More services through eSeva planned
  • Ensure success of pulse polio drive: Collector
  • Chief of Naval staff for city today
  • Mayor opens art gallery
  • Special train for Secunderabad
  • Three naxals surrender
  • Around The City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

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