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Alappuzha

  • Road accident deaths show big rise in Alappuzha district

    • Anantapur

  • Bid to snatch cash foiled

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Remnants of a ghastly accident
  • Mother throws children into well, kills self

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • YSR will have to quit politics, says Naidu
  • State committed to quota for minorities, says Chief Minister
  • Jana, Damodar Reddy sink differences
  • Rousing reception to Naidu's brother
  • YSR to lay foundation for Genome valley today
  • 4 Maoists, including dalam chief, lay down arms
  • Panel will study SC categorisation: Chief Minister
  • Seer urges people to protect dharma
  • Rally, meet mark Red Cross Day
  • Farmer struck dead by lightning
  • Two die in accidents

    • Bangalore

  • India needs to move towards energy efficiency: Shinde
  • 10,000 auto drivers do not have licence
  • `Forest area is shrinking'
  • Minister convenes meeting on professional college admissions
  • `Reorganised segments must be administratively viable'
  • Tadari project will be implemented: Kumaraswamy
  • The Hindu Opportunities Job Fair expected to help over 50,000 job-seekers
  • `I am sure the place will be flooded again'
  • 72 people selected for Kempe Gowda Award
  • Colourful start to Kempe Gowda Day celebrations
  • 88,765 candidates to appear for CET beginning today
  • Armed gang attacks house, takes away jewellery
  • Colourful start to Kempe Gowda Day celebrations in Bangalore
  • All taluk hospitals to have blood storage facilities
  • Dilapidated government school renovated by Rotary Club
  • He will drive for 800 km with his hands, legs tied
  • Panel writes to colleges on filling seats
  • Children adopt science for art
  • KPTCL to challenge regulatory panel order
  • Market information on mobile phones
  • Unique music festival
  • Making engineering students proficient in English
  • Initiative to help poor children
  • Before monsoon strikes...
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Belgaum

  • All-party team to seek nod for water diversion scheme

    • Briefly

  • VSNL to acquire Direct Internet
  • GAIL to set up LPG plants in Uzbekistan
  • RBI revises agency commission
  • SAT sets aside SEBI order on Time Capital
  • U.S. to release currency report
  • SHCIL takes stake in G.K. Management
  • HDFC Mutual Fund's new office
  • Glenmark's EMR pact with Aspen
  • City Union Bank hikes FCNR deposit rates
  • TMB raises NRE, FCNR (B) deposit rates
  • Award for Amco Batteries CEO
  • Satyam ties up with NNIT
  • Praxair signs on-site contract with SAIL
  • Aerens Goldsouk expansion plans
  • Sasken to raise $50 m
  • Valuemart reduces accumulated losses
  • MAA Group's buyback plan
  • Fila buys Sai Lakshmi's unit
  • Fapcci welcomes Govt. notification
  • Andhra Bank to open NRI branch in Kochi
  • Adfest 2007 brochure released
  • Qatar Airways' offer

    • Business

  • Companies allowed to place shares with QIBs
  • State level GST mooted
  • Options before regional exchanges
  • Pakistan may import tea through Wagah
  • Citizen to expand retail outlets
  • Cheaper power tariff in West Bengal
  • Rupee moves up
  • Sensex touches 12500-mark

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • What does high turnout mean?
  • Moderate to high voter turnout
  • Leaders cast their vote
  • Complaints of missing names persist
  • North Chennai seats wear a festive look
  • None gets to choose the "no vote" option
  • They cast a spell on voters at the booths
  • All voters photographed in `sensitive' Triplicane booth
  • Keeping restless youngsters occupied in the heat of May
  • Minor hitches in EVMs delay voting
  • Tamil Nadu students do well in Civil Services examination
  • Ramps at polling booths not disabled-friendly
  • Tambaram records 65 per cent
  • Salsa, anyone? Learn to groove this summer
  • Future of Carnatic music "sound and safe"
  • Lecture on TNPCEE organised by book store
  • When stars came Film stars make voting fun for the public
  • Grand finale to Mudhra's music course
  • Polling peaceful in city: Letika Saran
  • Tamil Nadu students do well in Civil Services exam
  • Monday was not only a day for voting...
  • 60 per cent in Villivakkam
  • Not so `indelible' after all
  • A long trek to polling booth
  • Are you game to go digital?
  • Injured mariner evacuated
  • Star voters
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Muralidharan held
  • Sasikiran starts with a loss

    • Coimbatore

  • Voting with great expectations
  • Voting day glimpses
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Cricket

  • Sonnet Club triumphs
  • Mani's biggest achievement

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8598
  • Solution to Puzzle 8597

    • Cuddalore

  • Photography delays voting in sensitive booths
  • Brisk polling in Cuddalore, Villupuram

    • Editorials

  • Showing who's the boss
  • An effective response to malaria

    • Eluru

  • One killed, two hurt in cylinder blast

    • Erode

  • Candidates' fate in women's hands
  • Union Ministers exercise franchise
  • Rampant use of mobile phones near polling booths

    • Football

  • Farook College in final
  • Eriksson gambles on rookie Theo Walcott
  • Croatia: a regular World Cup dark horse
  • HAL manages solitary-goal win

    • Front Page

  • DMK front headed for a big win in Tamil Nadu
  • Left set for landslide in West Bengal
  • Tamil Nadu records 65 per cent polling
  • 72% turnout in West Bengal
  • Record percentage of polling in Pondicherry, Karaikal region
  • SC declines to stop work on dam height
  • Lashkar militant killed in Delhi
  • Jaya Bachchan's petition rejected
  • Adivasis told to vacate Aralam farm by May 12
  • New security system for Secretariat
  • Lady Shri Ram graduate tops IAS examination
  • Lashkar militant killed
  • Woman, her two sons murdered
  • Order on NICE ring road stayed
  • Surplus in treasury, claims Vakkom
  • Early summer vacation for Delhi schools
  • Woman throws two kids into well, kills self
  • Relief for Budhia likely
  • Appeal against Dalmiya
  • `Human bomb' loots UTI Bank

    • Golf

  • Jeev consolidates lead

    • Guntur

  • Revenue leakage issue dominates GMC meet
  • ABVP flays fashion show

    • Hassan

  • Hassan BJP unit seeks minimum price for potato
  • Rs. 302.4-crore plan presented by Hassan ZP

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Survey soon on land for airport expansion
  • Hubli airport: Shettar confident of getting more land
  • Rain disrupts life in twin cities
  • `Rehabilitate displaced vendors'
  • Rain hits life in Hubli, Dharwad
  • `Jain teachings relevant even today'
  • Doctor killed in road accident

    • Hyderabad

  • In protest mode on protection
  • Doubts over RTI implementation
  • New security system for Secretariat
  • Memorial sought for martyrs of Telangana armed struggle
  • UGC chief for permanent faculty in universities
  • Theatre blast: grenade used not made in India
  • Rebel TRS MLAs rule out poll alliance with Congress
  • Rain throws traffic out of gear in city
  • EMRI saves 2,200 lives, to extend coverage
  • Over 20 from State qualify for Civil Services
  • JNTU to admit foreign students from next year
  • MoU with ISRO for telemedicine network
  • Forward Bloc flays State policies
  • 10 chief engineers of Irrigation Department shifted
  • SCR to run several specials to clear summer rush
  • PV Foundation to set up varsity
  • Curb faction murders, TDP tells YSR
  • Relaxation sought for purchase of damaged paddy
  • All-party meet on ORR urged
  • Singapore Airlines announces promotional fare
  • EAMCET key released
  • Weeklong cultural bonanza for rural youth
  • Telugu scholar passes away
  • RTC to increase trips to several areas
  • Corporator's wife sustains burns
  • Student dies in road accident
  • Boy drowned in swimming pool
  • YMCA course in computers
  • Site clearance given
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Berlusconi rejects Presidential choices
  • Ahmedinejad writes to Bush in bold move to resolve nuclear crisis
  • E.U. to channel emergency aid to Palestinians
  • Japanese envoy meets Rajapakse
  • Bush for closure of Guantanamo
  • Venezuela to impose tax on foreign firms
  • Hamas, Fatah clash
  • Bush names CIA choice

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • A historic opportunity for separatists: Azad

    • Kancheepuram

  • Villagers vote after demand is conceded

    • Kannur

  • Officials review arrangements for counting of votes
  • Chinmayananda statue unveiled
  • Plea to reschedule trains
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Revolutionary ballads lose appeal

    • Karnataka

  • Discussing delimitation
  • High Court order on Corridor project stayed
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Tadari project: greens see red
  • Goa to focus on public, private partnership
  • Former Goa Minister dead

    • Kerala

  • Treasury balances are increasing, says Vakkom
  • Preserving indigenous culture
  • Total destruction
  • Not to her liking
  • Time for a facelift
  • Fighting a disease
  • Kerala BJP hopeful of more votes this time

    • Kerala - Others

  • Kattumadam strived to uphold humanism
  • Arrangements made for counting in Mahe
  • CPI leader injured in clash

    • Kochi

  • After tsunami slump, it is tourism high tide
  • Corporation files case against KCA secretary
  • Call to focus on road safety rules
  • Health services to focus on mental health
  • SC/ST people's panel formed
  • Stone laid for media museum
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kozhikode

  • BJP will get more votes this time: Sreedharan Pillai
  • Balasabha vacation classes being improved
  • Medicinal trees to be grown in more schools
  • World Thalassaemia Day observed
  • Exhibition of coins on Friday
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Kurnool

  • Public meeting in Kurnool today
  • Protest against erratic water supply
  • Demonstration held seeking road repairs

    • Leader Page Articles

  • U.S. makes a return to Cold War rhetoric

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Tamil Nadu elections
  • High Court fiat
  • Widen the column
  • Spell-check disasters

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Massive destruction of forests in M.P.: Report

    • Madikeri

  • Various organisations express solidarity with `Kodagu bandh'
  • Youth told to fight communal forces

    • Madurai

  • 63% turnout in southern districts
  • Peaceful, brisk polling in Madurai constituencies
  • The queen of festivals of the Temple City
  • A tough game named poll duty
  • Adding aroma to an amazing event
  • 73 per cent recorded in Madurai district
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Mangalore

  • Mangalore may get a permanent bus stand after a long wait
  • Fulfil demands or face protest, say teachers
  • Sachin's pilgrimage whips up frenzy
  • Indian team to attend three-day convention on trade in nuts
  • New postgraduate course in earth studies proposed
  • First flight by State-owned airline may be delayed
  • Police arrest man, seize motorcycles
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Ban on export of cement sought
  • Children to assert their rights
  • Consumer forum objects to increase in water tariff
  • Licence of two commission agents cancelled
  • MUDA criticised for not distributing sites
  • Protest against construction on lake precincts in Mysore
  • Cauvery Grameena Bank posts a profit of Rs. 5.67 crore
  • Meet on cyber law
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • Brisk, peaceful in Nagai district

    • Nalgonda

  • Rain damages paddy

    • National

  • No serious challenge to the Left Front
  • What explains the DMK's lead
  • 42.6 p.c. polling in Rae Bareli
  • Medha: UPA is following Modi's brand of development
  • 72% turnout in West Bengal
  • India urged to put pressure on LTTE
  • NASA chief coming
  • 2 J&K architects get U.S. internship in conservation of heritage
  • Sweep by DMK-led front predicted in Tamil Nadu
  • Farmers' suicides nothing but genocide, says Vandana Shiva
  • India to contest for U.N. Human Rights Council seat
  • Revamp government processes, says panel
  • Budhia medical report under study
  • BJP meetings to mourn Mahajan
  • Volcker issue not forgotten: BJP
  • Mona Pruthi tops Civil Services exam
  • Army pulled out of Vadodara
  • UPCC extends support on reservation issue
  • India belongs to everyone: Arjun
  • Rape alleged
  • Budhia wants to run again

    • Nellore

  • `Aim at winning 90 p.c. panchayat seats'
  • Veteran Congress leader of Nellore passes away

    • New Delhi

  • No strong rival this time: Priyanka
  • Special Assembly session on May 16
  • New legislation coming, Manmohan tells DPCC
  • Threat to launch "jan andolan" against Jal Board
  • Police file status report in Jessica case
  • Films you would love to watch
  • Rise in demand leads to major power cuts
  • UTI Bank robbed of Rs. 40 lakhs
  • Russia opens its gates for Indian students
  • 200 shops sealed in eight civic zones of Capital
  • DDA opens bids for financial consultant for the Games
  • Invoking `Shree Shakti'
  • Three junior engineers suspended
  • Court pulls up DDA, MCD
  • Woman power
  • Bail extended
  • Capital under siege
  • High-tech system to provide Indian soldier with overmatch facilities
  • "New vistas of growth for IGNOU"
  • Sher Singh Rana sent to Rohini Jail
  • Scorching heat claims three more lives in U.P.
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Inside Delhi

    • News Analysis

  • Ensuring justice in a flat world
  • The plight of women in Iraq
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Tobacco farmers stage rasta roko
  • Three killed in car-tractor smash

    • Orissa

  • Budhia should not run long distances, say doctors

    • Palakkad

  • Plea to declare Attappady ecologically fragile zone
  • Mata arrives in Palakkad

    • Pathanamthitta

  • `Drop move to draw 400 kV lines through populated areas'
  • Cooperative bank posts record net profit
  • Chandanappally Orthodox Church festival ends

    • Perambalur

  • Observing compassion

    • Pondicherry

  • Record percentage of polling in Pondicherry, Karaikal region
  • AICC secretary happy with Pondy turnout

    • Punjab

  • "Deal" with RIL sparks controversy

    • Racing : Horse

  • Nordic Star and Mount Royale impress

    • Racing : Motor

  • INRC's Coimbatore leg called off

    • Raichur

  • Work on roads, drainage to start by September
  • MLA demands demolition of `unauthorised' huts

    • Rajasthan

  • 33 IAS officers transferred in bureaucratic reshuffle
  • 55 per cent turnout in Deeg by-election
  • Free coaching classes

    • Religion

  • Influence of qualities

    • Salem

  • Booths inspected

    • Shimoga

  • Increase sought in revolving fund set aside for State's market intervention scheme
  • Bandh throws life out of gear in Hosnagar taluk
  • High school assistant teachers launch indefinite dharna
  • Chikungunya: reports of death denied

    • Sport

  • Dravid for healthy dialogue with Board
  • BCCI has acted in haste
  • India stands a good chance in the Windies
  • Only Murali bowls doosra, says Mallett
  • Rahul Dravid second in ICC Test rankings
  • Zidane signs off from Bernabeu

    • Sports : General

  • Padukone and Usha to address SJFI convention
  • In praise of individual genius
  • Mini-National volleyball
  • Harshal, Vani, Mahima claim titles
  • All-round show by Dheeraj
  • Ratnakaran triumphs
  • GRP (Vijayawada) emerges champion

    • Srikakulam

  • Stone laid for FM radio station
  • Vamsadhara work in full swing, says Dharmana

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Impressive turnout in rural areas in western region
  • Central districts witness brisk polling
  • Poster-painting contest for students
  • Exercising their right
  • A sight for the Gods to see
  • We'll determine
  • Cultural festival at Kapaleeswarar temple
  • Petroleum products price increase likely anytime
  • Handmade match units in troubled waters
  • Workshop on science writing
  • DMK candidate barges into booth
  • AIADMK man hacked to death
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Polling peaceful in four districts
  • Pondicherry wakes up early to vote
  • Good turnout of women in Pudukottai dt.
  • Unwillingness to vote, protest, seizures
  • Tiruvallur turns up early to vote
  • A small village votes for three MLAs
  • 73 p.c. voting recorded in Karur district
  • EPIC victory for poll panel
  • Case of missing names
  • Court extends stay on removal of State Election Commissioner
  • 65 per cent polling in Virudhunagar
  • Vijayakant at the receiving end on polling day
  • They vote for 3 MLAs
  • AICC secretary happy with Pondy turnout
  • CISF man opens fire

    • Tennis

  • Hrbaty eliminates Ljubicic
  • India finishes 11th
  • Amit Sanghi finishes 18th
  • Sania moves up to 37th

    • Thanjavur

  • 65 p. c. polling in Thanjavur district

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • More fever cases reported
  • All set for counting of votes in the district
  • Muslims still averse to Marxists: Muneer
  • Government betrayed people on insurance scheme: CPI(M)
  • `Lack of civic sense major reason for road accidents'
  • Torture in custody alleged
  • Success for Civil Services training centre
  • Campus recruitment drive by Infosys
  • In a pensive mood
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • CAMPUS NOTES

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 9, 1956: Atomic weapons for NATO
  • dated May 9, 1956: Check on rice price
  • dated May 9, 1956: Smoking and cancer

    • Thrissur

  • Concern over failure to enforce regulatory measures
  • Part of Thrissur Pooram firecrackers destroyed
  • Pooram concludes
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Peaceful polling in all constituencies of Tiruchi
  • 65 to 74 p. c. registered
  • That tribals turn up in droves is food for thought
  • A fruitful exercise of EPIC proportions
  • Man arrested with forged travel document
  • Posters displayed for and against Assembly polls
  • Diverse dimensions of the democratic kaleidoscope
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • It's peaceful in Nellai, Tuticorin, Kanyakumari
  • Stray tiger caught, at last

    • Tirupati

  • Respect at least my post, says YSR
  • `Stop persecuting poets, writers'

    • Udupi

  • 2,341 students to appear for CET in Udupi
  • Winners of research paper contest
  • Ban order around test centres

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Rahul active in U.P. Congress activities: Salman Khurshid
  • Transfers in U.P. administration

    • Uttaranchal

  • Security cover for Ramdev demanded
  • Uttaranchal postings

    • Vellore

  • Brisk polling in Vellore district

    • Vijayawada

  • Speckled mango is sweeter: experts
  • Grain Bank scheme succour for 66 villages
  • Talent unlimited: right way to tap skills of players from rural areas
  • Chief Minister to lay stone for LI scheme second phase tomorrow
  • NCERT books slot for mega fair in Frankfurt
  • YSR to lay stone for LI scheme second phase
  • CPI(M) questions Congress stand
  • Loyola alumnus is president-elect of Michigan State Medical Society
  • The surplus woes
  • Fishing in tranquil waters
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Gangavaram: all-party forum takes out rally in support of fishermen
  • Passion for rearing pigeons
  • Lockout declared in Nellimarla jute mill
  • Adidas opens showroom
  • Attack on AU professor condemned
  • AU advanced supplementary examination
  • Six-year-old girl run over by lorry
  • Takes charge as Commanding Officer
  • Around the city
  • In Visakhapatnam today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Weather

  • Weather

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