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  • Kunjan Nambiar Memorial to organise cultural fete
  • Chandy to open drinking water project

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Progressive cut in power tariff assured
  • Paritala Ravindra case: no fresh revelations in CBI chargesheet
  • Rs. 15-crore plan to help physically challenged
  • Firm step towards light callipers
  • Call to cancel health varsity counselling
  • IPS trainees clash with pan shop owner
  • Few takers for MMTS link bus services
  • Penchant for shooting films abroad
  • Revolutionary writers, artistes seek release of activists
  • No move to hike RTC fares, says Minister
  • Functioning of TTD under doubt as Parakamani scam unfolds
  • Stone laid for Telugu University campus
  • State Government to take `success story' to people
  • Motorcyclist sends YSR's securitymen into a tizzy
  • Maoist violence: villagers question role of rights bodies
  • Give peace a chance: APCC chief
  • World Asthma Day today
  • State fails on medicare front: Telugu Desam
  • TDP's protest motivated, say Ministers
  • Road contractor blames SCB for delay
  • Experts' advice sought on course revamp
  • Development of Vizag port suggested
  • APCLC terms encounter in city fake
  • ECET: full sleeves, shoes banned
  • 3,000 home guards on contract basis
  • 6 naxals surrender
  • Demonstrations planned
  • TRS condemns naxal attack on sarpanch
  • Boy held on rape charge
  • Ends life after SSC failure
  • Hospital clarifies
  • `Pavithrotsavam' from May 17
  • Briefly
  • CRIME WATCH

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Praja Patham reaches remote tribal hamlet
  • Chief Minister for Nellore, Cuddapah
  • Three die in road mishap

    • Bangalore

  • BJP says taxpayers' money wasted on tank
  • Round-the-clock pharmacies becoming popular in the city
  • Six killed in road accidents
  • Tanker, 2 lorries destroyed in fire

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Belgaum

  • JD (S) workers' meet on May 9

    • Briefly

  • IDBI net profit doubles
  • Ultramarine pays 150 p.c.
  • UTI Bank's bancassurance tie-up
  • JB Chem in pact with Australian firm
  • Samsung India elevates director
  • Bank of Baroda inducts new director
  • New bank chairmen

    • Business

  • Unilever, Lipton divest stake in Rossell Ind.
  • Manwani to succeed Banga
  • Manufacturing drives growth: FICCI study
  • MUL hikes prices
  • Murugappa group draws up Rs. 650 cr. capex programme
  • COFEPOSA must go: Assocham
  • TRAI revises 64 kbps rates
  • SAT favours extension of retirement age
  • Fresh buying lifts Sensex
  • Rupee weakens against $

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • Hoardings: eye candy or potential danger?
  • Where English hinders aspirations of engineering graduates
  • Government should pay compensation: rights panel
  • Vyasarpadi resident held for financial fraud
  • Baha'i community honour for five
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Chess

  • Mary-Ann and Nisha stay on top
  • Krishnan clinches top spot

    • Coimbatore

  • Pardon for member renews debate
  • `Concentrate on hygiene'
  • Raids on shops
  • Two held, 2,100 CDs seized
  • House burgled in city
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • NCA-CAP tie-up raises many eyebrows

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8283
  • Solution to Puzzle 8282

    • Cuddapah

  • Telugu Ganga completion in two years, says MLA

    • Dharmapuri

  • Plea to regulate traffic on by-pass road

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule

    • Editorials

  • Taking the plunge from the brink
  • India and Bangladesh must talk it out

    • Erode

  • Rain helps increase agricultural production
  • Bid to block road, villagers held
  • Water supply stopped
  • Two arrested

    • Football

  • Indian Bank — the team to watch
  • FC Barcelona keeps its lead

    • Front Page

  • Chidambaram raises IT exemption limit for women, senior citizens
  • Boycott: NDA makes an exception
  • No POTA case against Nedumaran: review panel
  • Karunakaran quits as Rajya Sabha member
  • 2-minute squall, trail of destruction
  • Bypolls announced for seven States
  • Madras High Court gives clean chit to BCCI, Dalmiya
  • Three car bombs rock Baghdad
  • MUL hikes prices

    • Generalia

  • Good news for sports lovers

    • Haryana

  • A helping hand for students

    • Hassan

  • Hassan Zilla Panchayat gets three more constituencies
  • Leadership crisis plagues BJP in Hassan district

    • Hockey

  • IHF Juniors edges out Central Railway to enter semifinals

    • Hubli

  • Road asphalting work begins

    • Hyderabad

  • Poor traffic sense, missing road divider add to chaos `Undivided' traffic woes
  • Rain brings relief, leaves roads clogged
  • Awareness camp on diabetes held
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • To lay stone or not to...

    • India & World

  • India, Sri Lanka discuss tsunami rehabilitation

    • International

  • Nepal releases Opposition leader
  • Three car bombs rock Baghdad
  • "Resistance as potent as it was a year ago"
  • 28 die as arms cache explodes in Afghanistan
  • Crowd forces release of detained protesters in Moscow
  • Sharansky quits over Gaza Strip disengagement plan
  • Missile test hits peace hopes
  • Anti-nuclear demonstration at U.N.
  • Former Singapore President is dead
  • Loneliness can lead to heartache
  • Abu Ghraib accused pleads guilty

    • Kannur

  • Establish link between departments, colleges, says UGC Vice-Chairman
  • Campaign against hill demolition

    • Karimnagar

  • Plan for providing job opportunities

    • Karnataka

  • Deve Gowda sets deadline to improve slums in City
  • Govt. yet to decide on autonomy for colleges
  • For contractors it was money for jam, CoD inquiry reveals
  • No Boeing in Belgaum for now
  • Govt. approval not likely for Kambar's plan
  • Crafting their way to success
  • Congress has not sought JD(S) support for bypolls: Thippanna
  • Coal shortage hits RTPS operations
  • Bangarappa confident of securing people's vote
  • Arkavathy Layout: BDA files appeal against single judge's order
  • Ex-MP's remark heightens tension at Baddihalli
  • Explosives seized from naxal suspects
  • Freedom fighter's charge against CMC
  • Ruling on BMIC project today
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Government has ignored people's problems: BJP
  • Aiyar's statement on Cauvery dispute flayed
  • Three held for `collecting' money from drivers
  • Chitradurga ZP now has 34 seats

    • Kerala

  • Online facility to tackle e-mail harassment
  • Controversy erupts over deportation of Maldives national by Kerala police
  • Chief Minister should step down, says Jacob
  • Drowning: local bodies authorities in the dock
  • Bribery charge levelled against Government
  • A moment of honour for writer-patriarch Kovilan
  • `Ghost money' comes to haunt Kochi port
  • Controversy over TOURFED
  • NC(I) looking forward to polls: Murali
  • Lok Ayukta issues notice to State Government
  • Kottayam
  • KSKTU for hunger strike
  • Students' bodies handed over to families
  • Rainwater harvesting project for coir workers
  • Achuthanandan clarifies on entrance result remark
  • Mohan Kumar made DCC president
  • New Registrar for Sanskrit university
  • Kannur
  • Building dream homes
  • NSS to continue `equi-distance' policy
  • Kunjan award for Kalamandalam Parameswaran
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Jamia meet ends with call to shed luxury
  • Chandy to open district hospital complex
  • Two-day career festival inaugurated
  • Village declared litigation-free
  • Around the City

    • Kochi

  • Residents of Vypeen up in arms for drinking water
  • Police to set up special team to streamline autorickshaw services
  • Life comes to a standstill in Kochi
  • Life-term for murdering constable
  • `Timely care can check asthma'
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Kollam

  • Two resign from parallel DCC panel
  • Consecration of bishop today

    • Kozhikode

  • Ten Congress councillors with Karunakaran's party

    • Kurnool

  • Protest staged
  • Kurnool getting water from Jurala canal

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Presidents face hard work in Moscow

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Karunakaran's party
  • Lalu must go
  • BJP must look inward
  • Not easy
  • Difficult choice
  • Sino-Indian ties
  • Model nikahnama
  • Dalits' plight
  • Plagiarism
  • Rape & middle class
  • Nehru & Jinnah

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Probe pension scam, Advani told

    • Madikeri

  • Farmers told to utilise interest waiver scheme
  • Govt. ignoring people's welfare, says MLA

    • Madurai

  • Call to reduce freight rates for foodgrains
  • `Asthma patients must use only inhalers'
  • Students to study the lot of tsunami victims
  • New Registrars
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Cotton fiasco strains Maharashtra exchequer

    • Mangalore

  • Small farmers' aroma of livelihood
  • Malaria: study plan shot down
  • Summer showers ease water supply situation
  • Crackdown on bootleggers
  • Refresher course for principals
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • MATF suggests water-sharing Act Task Force suggests water-sharing Act
  • JD(S) should withdraw support to Govt. over land-grabbing issue, says Yediyurappa
  • Aiyar's remarks on release of water to Tamil Nadu criticised
  • `Notification on sale of residential sites restricted to Bangalore'
  • Doctors blamed for man's death
  • Supply from new storage tank begins
  • Police Shield presentation

    • Nagercoil

  • 40-lakh child labourers in State, says study
  • Pollution of Pazhayar deplored

    • Nalgonda

  • Rain, gales wreak havoc in Nalgonda district
  • Displaced tribals seek promised land

    • National

  • Congress downplays Kerala episode
  • Do not hike oil prices: CPI
  • Shiv Sena activists attack Electricity Board offices
  • Minister wants sports on Concurrent List
  • Mufti's nephew dies of injuries
  • Kalam moots action plan to eradicate leprosy
  • Court of inquiry begins
  • Kamal Nath to address OECD meet tomorrow
  • MRTP Commission Chairperson to be appointed soon
  • Anjali Gupta will be protected: Air chief
  • Act leads to fears of dispossession
  • Petition challenges Hooda becoming Chief Minister
  • Notice to Centre on PoK residents' property
  • Clearance for projects in Tamil Nadu being delayed: AIADMK
  • Suicides by HIV positive patients in Mumbai
  • Show and tell in the PC world
  • Child Rights Bill tabled in Parliament
  • Trinamool not affected by desertions: party leader
  • Peace talks with ULFA on track
  • "Appeal" over ITC duty due causes a stir
  • French honour for Balamuralikrishna
  • Pranab Mukherjee keeps a promise
  • `Terrorism, fundamentalism main threats'
  • Will Azad's gesture bear fruit?
  • Somnath seeks explanation
  • FIR against IDBI chairman

    • Nellore

  • Power failure in 50 villages of Nellore district after rain

    • New Delhi

  • Abducted baby rescued
  • Tyre dealers resent disparity in VAT rates
  • Cabinet nod for appointment of consultants
  • Govt. fails to take action against erring hospitals
  • PUDR picks several holes in police version on Pragati Maidan encounter
  • Three held on land-grabbing charge
  • Ban on sale of cut fruits
  • Two arrested in fake case
  • Order on bail plea in Katara murder case reserved
  • High Court order on Akshardham Setu
  • Hans Anderson's works to be aired on DD
  • Two-day festival for children
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • INSIDE DELHI

    • News Analysis

  • A gut punch to the middle
  • Religions as works of art
  • Remembering them on Press Freedom Day
  • Who owns groundwater?

    • Nizamabad

  • Campaign to construct farm ponds

    • Palakkad

  • Cremated

    • Pathanamthitta

  • `Chempeduppu' at Chandanapally on May 8

    • Pondicherry

  • Canine problem dogs Pondy residents
  • Rs. 35-crore drainage project for Karaikal
  • Do away with central sales tax: Ramadass

    • Punjab

  • Badal seeks CBI probe into excise scam

    • Racing : Horse

  • Hawaiian Sunrise pleases
  • Smart Supreme triumphs

    • Racing : Motor

  • Narain hopes for GP circuit in India
  • New challenge for Naren Kumar in Airtel rally

    • Rajasthan

  • A Kranti Yatra to highlight people's grievances

    • Religion

  • Eternal relevance

    • Shooting

  • Prithviraj for World junior championship

    • Sport

  • Gayle force still on the ravage mode
  • Cash incentive for Gopi Chand and Sania
  • Central Excise blanks Hunters

    • Sports : General

  • Hyderabad to host World Military Games

    • Squash

  • Rahul moves up

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Special observer named for State byelections
  • Higher education needs resources, says Accreditation Council director
  • Tamaraikani assault case: Vaiko, Ko.Si. Mani acquitted
  • Right idea, but the wrong trees?
  • Interim stay on Raman panel lifted
  • Opening of Mettur reservoir on June 12 unlikely
  • Bishop seeks Collector's intervention
  • Call for relief plan for tsunami-hit
  • Biscuit bandits' latest victims: 2 engineers from Chennai
  • Protest against delay in water release
  • Railway carriage maintenance staff demand special allowance
  • Theatre is the only reflection of truth, says Balachander
  • Remove defective windmills in Tirunelveli: PIL
  • Tiruvallur tanks on verge of becoming `dead' structures
  • Jayakanthan on science and art
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Sports events mark May Day celebrations
  • Around the City

    • Tennis

  • Hewitt appealing against fine
  • Varun ousts Advait
  • Roddick makes winning start
  • Sania moves one place up

    • Thanjavur

  • Draft electoral rolls to be released on May 10
  • Students to be taken on eco awareness tour
  • Collector gives welfare aid to eight families

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Education policy blamed for Rajani's death
  • Work on flood control project gathers pace
  • Eco group plans fresh campaign against Athirappilly project
  • Waylaying: youth arrested
  • Warning against Weil's disease
  • Garbage: rights panel directive to Mayor
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 3, 1955: Labour disputes: PM's plea
  • dated May 3, 1955: Katju on voluntary force

    • Thrissur

  • `New party will spell doom for Karunakaran'

    • Tiruchi

  • Corporation demolishes horse-cart stand
  • Quenching the thirst, the natural way
  • Development works in panchayats inspected
  • E. Pudur police to probe man's death

    • Tirupati

  • YSR begins two-day tour of Chittoor tomorrow
  • Catch them young, says TTD Executive Officer
  • Contract system goes in SV University

    • Tuticorin

  • Jobseekers taken for a ride

    • Udupi

  • Rs. 3 cr. for Brahmavar Sugars
  • Cashew firm owner ends life

    • Vijayawada

  • A delight for the discerning bibliophile
  • VMC all set for wards' delimitation
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • Police song and dance

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Role of media in arresting deterioration of polity stressed
  • Nomination of Muslim to PCC welcomed
  • Oppressive heat takes a toll
  • Painter succumbs to injuries
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • An incorrigible lot

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • Indian gold tally rises to 37

    • West Bengal

  • Rising asthma cases worries experts

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