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  • Rayadurg gets 1.5 cr. for rural works

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Police open fire on Thotapalli project oustees
  • National security doctrine mooted
  • Bank vehicles auctioned
  • Cabinet nod for more forces
  • Artisans told to adopt new methods
  • Deadline for farm inputs' release
  • Maoists attack New Democracy activists
  • Victim's family up in arms against `annalu'
  • Police fire at oustees of Thotapalli project
  • Jawans' `ruckus' raises their hackles
  • CBI questions Paritala's widow
  • Health varsity PG entrance test schedule
  • Cabinet panel promises to meet Rayalaseema leaders
  • Two traders from Hyderabad killed in road mishap
  • Teachers drawing UGC scales seek a fair deal
  • Tiffin centre owner murdered
  • TDP MLA critical of Government
  • TDP seeks sack of Irrigation Advisor
  • Komatireddy to take on Maruthi
  • Congress cadre asked to confront TDP
  • Ryot-Coolies allege police oppression
  • Hyderabadi touch for Prez
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • TDP seeks white paper on relief
  • Stone laying put off after TDP protest
  • 20 houses sanctioned

    • Badminton

  • Ajay moves up

    • Bangalore

  • Govt. announces norms for schools in Bangalore Urban
  • Environmentalists protest tree felling
  • Three sentenced to death for children's murder
  • Girl dies in wall collapse
  • Aroud the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Basketball

  • Merchants SC grabs title
  • TBC enters last four round
  • Indian basketball team

    • Belgaum

  • Desecration of Ambedkar statue condemned

    • Business

  • VAT panel may allow flexibility in rates
  • India-made `green' car finds global takers
  • India Infoline to expand
  • Forex reserves up $253 m

    • Chennai

  • Cash, jewellery stolen from businessman's house
  • Residents plan protest against disposal facility
  • Man stabbed in cinema hall
  • An exhibition of Japanese stamps
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • This year I silenced my critics: Anand
  • Sasikiran posts win

    • Coimbatore

  • Omni bus stand in six months: Mayor
  • No more jarring tones!
  • Outlook bright for engineer entrepreneurs
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Afridi makes all the difference
  • M.S. Dhoni — football's loss is cricket's gain
  • Shah hopeful of early merger
  • Good knock by Abdullah

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    • Cuddalore

  • `Change policy on appointment of vigilance panel chief'

    • Cuddapah

  • People complain of worms in municipal tap water
  • Adopt new farm techniques, ryots told
  • Travel agent held

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule for Dharwad, Hubli today

    • Erode

  • Encroachments on Perundurai Main Road removed
  • Canvassing for by-election on
  • One killed, 13 injured

    • Football

  • Arsenal makes F.A. Cup final
  • Karnataka Police holds MSU

    • Front Page

  • ``I have come with a message of peace''
  • Musharraf prays for peace at Ajmer dargah
  • Let President's rule continue: Paswan
  • F1 racing coverage: Order against The Hindu stayed
  • Bowlers need to be more disciplined
  • Momentum with Inzamam's team
  • Tamil Nadu BJP wants to go it alone in Assembly poll
  • VAT panel may allow flexibility in rates
  • Top Hizb commander killed
  • Centre decides to resurrect CAS
  • Fishermen freed
  • Badal retained
  • Bhajan Lal hospitalised

    • Hassan

  • Illegal mining of sand rampant in two taluks
  • Krishi Mela in Hassan from today

    • Hubli

  • Hubli to get water once in six days

    • Hyderabad

  • Eight new bridges on Musi proposed
  • Summer camps for children
  • Cash prizes given
  • YSR no to NTR varsity doctorate
  • Light and sound show
  • ACB surprise check on hospital
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Include Kashmiris, says Musharraf
  • Global growth outlook conceals imbalances: Chidambaram
  • We value relations with both China, U.S.: Natwar
  • Japan, India to expand economic relationship

    • International

  • Anti-Japan protests spread to more Chinese cities
  • High drama as Zardari returns to Pakistan
  • Britain denies role in Iraq oil "scam''
  • 12 die in Iraq attacks
  • Of art and craft: Mandela sues ally
  • Britain apologises for ricin blunder
  • Ecuador President dissolves apex court
  • Pro-Syrian named Lebanese Premier

    • Kannur

  • Oncology seminar to focus on ayurveda treatment

    • Karimnagar

  • Arrangements in place for `Rajiv Nagarabaata'
  • Grill YSR, says TDP

    • Karnataka

  • Sessions courts to try cases of human rights violations
  • Fiery speeches put parties into poll gear
  • Cost escalation a hurdle in Krishna basin projects
  • Major hotels well prepared for emergency
  • Governor calls on Gangubai
  • Ruling on plea clears me of charges: Islam
  • Palm cultivation to be promoted in State
  • Poojary chides Deve Gowda for comments
  • Govt. urged to reach out to the disabled
  • State to reconstruct two townships in Tamil Nadu
  • BJP seeks probe into land acquisition
  • Private colleges file petition in Supreme Court
  • Villages favoured for technical institutes
  • Nature's fury
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • LPG filling stations planned in major cities in State; talks on

    • Kerala

  • Akshaya project to be extended to all districts
  • Air-India to finalise fleet acquisition
  • A sound change in Church music
  • `No plan for triangular or bulb station at Shoranur'
  • Dissidence in BJP to the fore
  • It will be smooth sailing from Kollam to Alappuzha soon
  • Services of doctors on leave to be terminated
  • `Government failed to check encroachment'
  • No truck with `I' group, says KC(B)
  • Chandy meets Kunhalikutty
  • Jumbo in jam
  • Special team to trace minor girl
  • A different Kathakali
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • International workshop
  • Around the City

    • Khammam

  • `Padayatra' for Godavari water

    • Kochi

  • Congress rally disrupts normal life
  • Encroachers to be evicted from April end
  • Budget proposals: GCDA considers new options
  • Vegetable exhibition begins on Tuesday
  • Meet reviews progress of work
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Rights panel visits Maruti hillock
  • CPI(ML) Red Flag call for harmony
  • Ornaments stolen

    • Kottayam

  • Procurement of paddy: coop. banks plan stir
  • Government sanction for first phase of EcoCity Project

    • Kozhikode

  • Concern at female foeticide

    • Kurnool

  • `Demand work, don't migrate'

    • Madikeri

  • Kodagu district stands fourth in State in literacy rate
  • Elections to three APMCs to be held on May 29

    • Madurai

  • Water schemes still waiting for budgetary allocation
  • Buy SHG goods, says Kalimuthu
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Ore dust proving to be a health hazard
  • Rural areas facing acute water shortage
  • Kalkura awards presented
  • Four women held
  • Petroleum dealers' stir tomorrow
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • `10 paise bid' leads to losses
  • Love for classical dance brings him fame
  • Sericulturists to get subsidy
  • Country to be self-reliant in silk by 2012
  • Hoax bomb call creates panic in Mysore hotel
  • Girl run over by lorry

    • Nalgonda

  • Woman ends life near temple

    • National

  • The Khwaja has finally called Gen. Musharraf
  • Gursharan praise for Musharraf's mother
  • Musharraf is free to meet Hurriyat leaders: Saran
  • Differences within LJP, SP to the fore in Bihar
  • Lalu Prasad calls on Mamata
  • NDA meeting on Monday
  • Senior Sena leader speaks out against Thackeray
  • The scientist and the aviator: a positive celebration
  • The Hindu aids release of Pakistani from jail
  • Education: Vajpayee admits mistake
  • It's Musharraf all the way
  • A certificate for the General
  • When the General comes, the captain has to stop
  • Tight security at Ferozeshah Kotla
  • Two "chadars" for Musharraf
  • Tricolour displayed upside down
  • Left parties to meet next week
  • ``No place for AIADMK in third front''
  • Congress seeks CBI probe into allegations of Gujarat police official against Modi
  • Court allows European team to see Maoist leader
  • Two-child norm for all: Sena chief
  • A witch-hunt: Sharad Yadav
  • NDFB extends ceasefire
  • Gun has no place now, says Mufti
  • Women's groups express support for bar girls
  • NHRC's directive
  • Amarnath Yatra: court vests authority with shrine board
  • SEBs are in poor shape: Sayeed
  • `Chintan Shivir' to tone up BJP in U.P.
  • Bar Association's plea for holiday rejected
  • VHP to organise `Ramjanma utsavs'
  • Constitutional experts to decide on hill council future
  • 69 per cent hike in aid for cooperative projects
  • Salahuddin ready for talks
  • Project redesign for age-old bullock-carts
  • `Muslims pray in mosques'
  • Turban issue: SGPC team to visit France
  • Row over Mizos' origins

    • Nellore

  • Officials to meet on canal extension

    • New Delhi

  • Private operators harass DTC staff in Noida
  • Ad hocism hits Delhi Government
  • Three arrested for abduction, murder of West Delhi youth
  • Tribal convention to focus on culture
  • Musharraf wants to see the `climax'
  • Waiting to serve for the last time
  • Tree-tier security for the General
  • Jitender Kumar elected MCD House leader
  • Judgment on poll reserved
  • Haveli waits for a word
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Minister to commission check-dam at Madamom

    • Pondicherry

  • PMK calls for use of Tamil in court
  • `Delimitation panel adopted equitable approach'
  • Ramadass to press for B2 status for Pondy
  • Lottery agency penalised

    • Racing : Horse

  • Star Strike shines
  • Star Of The Season wins

    • Shimoga

  • `Red tape hampering progress'

    • Sport

  • Bowlers need to be more disciplined
  • Momentum with Inzamam's team
  • Broad, Koertzen stopped from entering Ferozeshah Kotla
  • John Wright: the man who gave the Indian team a new identity
  • Tamil Nadu stuns Indian Oil
  • Chin-Wei Chan clinches title

    • Sports : General

  • India duty-bound to test in accredited labs
  • House sites and incentives for Mithali, Nooshin
  • AICF issue: HC suspends order
  • MCP enters semifinals

    • Squash

  • Joshna aims to tie up with Bajwa

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Ensure periodic cooperative polls: DMK
  • They are normal, yet bleed
  • Tamil Nadu and Kerala to get $200 million ADB aid
  • Long delayed Police Academy awaits cost sanction
  • A shocking surprise in store for Plus-One students
  • "Not all who wear sarees help propagate Tamil"
  • NLC to adopt new technology in power generation
  • CPI to launch campaign
  • Writ plea to stop State monopoly in sand sale
  • Doctors denied advance bail
  • "It is politics of vendetta"
  • Rs. 221.52 crores to State under rural health mission
  • Commonwealth meet to focus on small trade
  • Corals, shells seized at Tuticorin
  • Morphine seized, two held at Kovilpatti
  • Bypoll directive
  • BIS Deputy Director-General
  • MTC to set up 200 shelters
  • `Donate materials for High Court museum'
  • Elephant census in Western Ghats in May
  • `State shows the way in rainwater harvesting'
  • Doctor penalised for labour ward deaths
  • Re-certification of doctors may be made mandatory
  • Woman entrepreneur award
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • TNHB residents exasperated over lack of appropriate drainage disposal system
  • National Highways to sport a luxuriant look soon
  • Raise paddy only in water fertile region, ryots told
  • A bridge hangs in balance
  • Around the City

    • Tennis

  • Dementieva scrambles past Srebotnik, into last four
  • Chinese team arrives in full strength to face India

    • Thanjavur

  • Upgrade Nagapattinam port: DMK conclave

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Three `I' group members relinquishes posts in corporation council
  • `No permanent winning formula'
  • 13 hurt as bus falls into swamp and overturns
  • There is no permanent winning formula for films: Sreenivasan
  • Government support for tourism
  • Question leak: case diary submitted
  • Bhatia's plea to save sandalwood trees
  • Sale of flats till June 30
  • Paddling flock
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Rs.1.90 crores sought to ease drinking water crisis
  • Students to be roped in for total sanitation campaign
  • SHGs' credibility goes up and so does bank credit
  • AIR phone-in programme
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Setback to work on widening Tirunelveli-Tuticorin NH
  • Two bodies found

    • Tirupati

  • Students gherao SVU College principal
  • Stolen motorcycles recovered

    • Udupi

  • Call to clean up beach at Malpe
  • `California show' to be held today
  • One killed, 3 injured as lightning strikes

    • Vijayawada

  • Hi-tech trunk booking system commissioned
  • Dial 100 for swift action from police forces
  • Good response to new mode of justice: Lok Ayukta
  • Footwear manufacturers in jitters over VAT
  • Prajahita yatra evokes good response
  • Meet on footwear components begins today
  • Two hurt in mishap
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • MCV's plan to store Godavari water
  • Urban poor neglected: CPI(M)
  • Online power bill payment through credit cards
  • `Livelihood' plan for mentally challenged
  • Free music classes
  • Hospital building demolished
  • Two names finalised for V-C posts?
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • India to host first World championship

    • Warangal

  • On a noble mission
  • BSNL plans service expansion

    • Weather

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