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Alappuzha

  • Poll result against LDF: Youth Congress
  • Nod sought for Pinarayi’s prosecution

    • Anantapur

  • Congress candidate seeks recounting of votes

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • A.P.’s focus to be on growth rate
  • Impressive show
  • Selected for national award
  • Summer effect
  • Duty first
  • A case of hope and despair for some
  • Siddipet and Medak bailed out Vijayashanti
  • ‘Mega’ disappointment for PRP
  • ‘Angi Babu’ wins hands down
  • Mega win for Usha Rani
  • TDP MLA thanks voters
  • Veteran MLA wins with thumping majority
  • Oozing confidence
  • H1N1 flu virus alert in Adilabad
  • Dharna over death of baby in hospital
  • Somireddy to quit as TDP district chief
  • TD improves tally in EG
  • Totally engrossed
  • Narrow win for TRS chief
  • Ask the Consul
  • Aaja nachle
  • L2 visas are for married people
  • Testing time for news channels Out of The Box
  • Physician cautions public
  • Award for AIR
  • No respite
  • Seminar held
  • Skill workshops for children
  • Technical training camp
  • Course in handwriting
  • Clear verdict
  • Lagadapati thanks voters
  • Six-member kidnappers’ gang busted by police
  • Masjid blast case still unsolved
  • Catching up
  • TDP comes a cropper in city
  • Majlis’ success proves a point
  • Two students killed in accident
  • ‘People will support only selfless service’
  • Lok Satta to focus on rural areas
  • Land for constituent colleges at Thanjavur, Dindigul identified

    • Athletics

  • Sohel, Chetana win 3km race

    • Badminton

  • Gopi Chand pleased with team’s show

    • Bangalore

  • Sancho and a lizard that speaks
  • Two die as bus ploughs into crowd on Hosur Main Road
  • Kin of leaders sail through
  • Sikhs celebrate UPA’s electoral triumphant
  • Three neighbours taste victory
  • JD(S) decision not to contest in eight seats didn’t help Congress
  • Small machine, significant role
  • Our purpose has been served: JD(U)
  • With polls over, focus should now be on administration
  • Figures on dropouts contested
  • Programme on I-T returns
  • KUSMA to file contempt plea
  • A ‘fox hunt’ that involved no weapons
  • Seven eminent cartoonists to be honoured
  • Choosing a career, with a little help
  • RGUHS counselling
  • A sound career
  • Dale Boone is the world’s biggest eater
  • City records 16.2 mm rainfall
  • Chain snatched
  • Draft rules to avoid duplication of names of roads, other public places
  • Baby ‘abandoned’ at BMTC bus stand
  • Parties are getting ready for BBMP Council elections
  • Music festival
  • Focus on reducing neonatal deaths
  • Over 50,000 write COMED-K test
  • Co-passengers of flu-hit patient traced
  • The number of complaints against Tulsiyan goes up Crime notes
  • Nine winners from State have criminal records
  • Schools in State now want their money back
  • Film timings
  • PG courses
  • Bangalore today

    • Belgaum

  • Five arrested
  • Mourned

    • Bellary

  • Bellary BJP has reasons to worry
  • Results show people’s faith in BJP: Minister

    • Bidar

  • ‘Nagamarapalli is to blame for defeat’

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Malleswaram Association in last four

    • Boxing

  • Suranjoy wins gold

    • Business

  • A healthy topping for baked foods
  • Hindware brand store in Kochi
  • IPA working panel to meet today

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Madras varsity extends last date
  • Found hanging
  • Screening of international movies lends an exotic touch
  • Woman succumbs to burns
  • Approach road sought
  • Woman suffers burns
  • Results reveal notion of ‘bastion’ no longer holds
  • Polls won by misuse of power, says Jayalalithaa
  • DMK executive meeting today
  • “Technology advancement a challenge to cyber cells”
  • We will continue to work towards finding solution to Tamils issue: Karunanidhi
  • Full bench hearing of Central Information Commission on June 8
  • A home of hope for HIV-affected children opened
  • Rice stock position comfortable in State
  • Taking the road to self-reliance
  • Civil services aspirants find General Studies paper tough
  • Residents in Tiruvottiyur facing acute drinking water shortage
  • The week-long workshop set to cast a spell on participants
  • Two Tamil films to be screened at festival
  • Fire safety on Ritchie Street a low priority
  • Electronics market plagued with problems
  • “TNHB initiative affecting a social cause”
  • Pudupet merchants of automobile spare parts seek another location
  • Improvement work apace at burial grounds
  • Boy fatally hit by car
  • 2 held for attack on mall
  • Traffic situation chaotic at this junction
  • Prince of Arcot calls on Karunanidhi
  • SHGs evince interest in new pension system
  • Nine killed in two different incidents
  • Decongest the road
  • Chennai today

    • Chess

  • Ganguly and Sandipan among leaders

    • Coimbatore

  • Workshop
  • Winners in Spelling Bee
  • BU to host symposium
  • MoU signed
  • Elected
  • Road blockade
  • KMK eyes over 60 Assembly seats
  • Two admitted with swine flu symptoms
  • Remembering lives that could have been saved
  • Focus will be on road repairs before monsoon
  • ‘India facing a slowdown, not recession’
  • Outsourcing
  • Coimbatore today

    • Cricket

  • Hat-trick by Venkataraman
  • ‘I don’t fear any opposition’
  • Love for the game keeps us going: Hayden
  • ICL: Badani asks for release
  • Hughes comes down hard on Gayle
  • Easy for Murugan
  • Daredevils needs to keep winning
  • VMCA gains three points
  • McCullum charged with breach of Code

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 9535
  • Solution to puzzle 9534

    • Cuddalore

  • Tasty pulps in thorny package

    • Dindigul

  • Court buildings inaugurated

    • Editorials

  • Hard work and good fortune
  • Controlling hypertension

    • Erode

  • State topper in English aspires to be a civil servant
  • Three Assembly segments let down Elangovan
  • KMK does well, but only in pockets

    • Football

  • Inter Milan retains title
  • VFC rallies to win
  • Hat-trick by Akshay
  • Liverpool, Chelsea chalk up wins

    • Front Page

  • Congress confident of working majority
  • SP offers “constructive support”
  • LTTE wages hopeless battle
  • “Local factors, new outfits have led to defeat of Congress leaders”
  • Azam Khan quits Samajwadi Party posts, but stays in party
  • Ministerial berth sought for Manipur
  • An enduring symbol of responsive governance
  • Lalu to continue support to UPA
  • The toss-up is between Joshi and Sushma
  • Left to be responsible Opposition
  • Mamata sets her sights on Assembly polls
  • From greenhorn to history-scripting politician
  • How the States Voted
  • Rohit the hero as Chargers grabs last-ball win
  • NCP biggest loser in Maharashtra
  • Hayden’s knock did it for us
  • Super Kings takes on distraught KKR
  • Generating awareness of need to control high blood pressure
  • Delhi Daredevils defeats Rajasthan Royals, stays on top
  • YSR swearing-in on Wednesday
  • Group celebrating BJP victory ‘attacks’ Muslims at Nettrakere
  • Race begins for Cabinet berths
  • Trinamool to support Congress
  • EC to submit list of MPs to Pratibha
  • Screening tightened

    • Gulbarga

  • BJP polls more votes than Congress in H K region
  • Kharge had to sweat it out

    • Guntur

  • Guntur may get significant number of Cabinet berths
  • Vallabhaneni Balashourie’s strategy fails in Palnadu
  • Row over cross-voting
  • One MP, 7 MLAs first-timers from Guntur district

    • Hassan

  • Revanna thanks Hassan for voting Deve Gowda
  • Kannada literary meets in districts soon: KSP chief
  • Elephant captured
  • Deve Gowda establishes lead in all Assembly segments

    • Hockey

  • Indian team returns
  • ‘Loss not a true indication of talent’

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • BJP consolidates its position
  • Squabbles hit Congress in Dharwad constituency
  • ‘Follow principles of Basaveshwara’
  • Candidates’ list
  • Illicit liquor seized

    • Hyderabad

  • International Museum Day
  • YSR likely to tour Israel with family
  • TRS washed out in 3 districts, manages nominal presence in two
  • Verdict a slap in the face of Grand Alliance: Rosaiah
  • ‘Telangana sentiment intact’
  • Focus on growth rate
  • Mistrust among Left does them in
  • It’s business as usual for PR members
  • FAPCCI hails Congress victory
  • New APSTU office-bearers
  • Proposals on fee structure invited
  • Some party changers win, many lose
  • PR comes second in 32 constituencies only
  • EC rejects pleas for recounting
  • PR will be wound up , says Parakala
  • H1N1 flu patient’s condition stable
  • Inter supplementary from May 20
  • 15,000 appear for Civils Prelims
  • Rare honour for philatelist
  • Vehicle dealer told to repay customer Consumer Notes
  • Cable line to be repaired by Wednesday
  • New office-bearers
  • City BJP fares poorly
  • Realtors a relieved lot
  • Power shutdown
  • Rosaiah showers praise on P.V. Narasimha Rao
  • Ironically, Telugu Desam Party fares well in Telangana
  • Finishing touches
  • A(H1N1) flu patient’s condition stable
  • Disturbing trend
  • Out of service ATMs
  • Hyderabad today

    • India & World

  • Hasina greets Manmohan
  • Leading Indian poet loses Oxford election

    • International

  • Battle at its bitter end: LTTE
  • Madhav Kumar Nepal set to become Premier
  • Kuwait elects women MPs
  • Obama, Sarkozy hail Indian elections

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • SPO shot dead

    • Karimnagar

  • A severe jolt for PR in Karimnagar

    • Karnataka

  • Victory celebrations turn violent in Karnataka village
  • This festival brings Kodava clans on one turf
  • Power projects opposed
  • Jubilant mood
  • A day after counting
  • Davangere north, Chennagiri segments uplift Siddeshwar
  • Remembering a leader
  • Bickering leads to Congress defeat in Chitradurga
  • Moily’s stature helps him emerge victorious
  • Man kills self, children
  • Joyous
  • Course
  • Hanumantappa to seek recounting of votes

    • Kattappana

  • Schools to be selected for sports project

    • Kerala

  • 4 killed in police firing in Kerala
  • Splashing around
  • Flicker of hope
  • Pitter patter
  • Disbelief over Sudhakaran’s tally in CPI(M) bastion
  • What a catch!
  • Another day ends
  • Today at Sabarimala

    • Khammam

  • Renuka: I will remain a loyal soldier of Sonia
  • Winners feted in Khammam

    • Kochi

  • Lack of organ donors hits transplantation surgeries
  • Training programme
  • Seminar
  • Fake notes seized
  • Little fans root for their heroes
  • Transport authority could ease traffic snarls
  • Navy veterans’ meet
  • Plea to parents
  • Delimitation blamed for low victory margin
  • More Plus One seats for science stream students
  • Call to pick Railway Minister from State
  • Kochi today

    • Kottayam

  • Kerala Congress politics set for a new turn
  • Hashish seized: three held

    • Kozhikode

  • ‘Footprints’ helps ease pain
  • IMHANS invites applications
  • Applications invited
  • MP makes development promises
  • Independent spends Rs.10.34 lakh
  • Soldier selection
  • Rs.27 lakh for repair of schools
  • Violence continues

    • Kurnool

  • PR delivers blow to TDP in Kurnool
  • Group clash at Peapuly

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Obligations of the new mandate

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Mature verdict
  • Manmohan as PM
  • ‘No’ to communalism

    • Madikeri

  • Vishwanath promises to work for Kodagu’s growth
  • ‘Direct HOPCOMS to buy green chilli from Kodagu farmers’
  • Notifications issued for TP chiefs’ election

    • Madurai

  • Security up
  • Chains snatched from women
  • Madurai accident toll rises to 18
  • 35 new B.Ed. colleges coming up in State this year
  • 3G services to be available in Madurai by July: BSNL GM
  • Not worried about defeat in election, says Vaiko
  • Water level
  • Power shutdown at various places tomorrow
  • Madurai today

    • Malappuram

  • UDF re-establishes its supremacy in Malappuram

    • Mangalore

  • Janardhana Poojary to introspect on his defeat
  • Three held on murder charge
  • Nursing students’ services to be sought for government hospitals
  • World Hepatitis Week
  • Congress shocked over poll outcome

    • Mysore

  • Creating awareness about AIDS
  • Expedition
  • CAVA’s students to launch agitation
  • Ambareesh’s defeat in Mandya raises questions
  • Expectations for development of Mysore soar
  • Yatra for peace and harmony

    • Nagercoil

  • INTACH’s plea

    • Nalgonda

  • Poor show by GA partners in Nalgonda

    • National

  • Barnala’s son expelled from Akali Dal
  • A wake-up call for Mayawati
  • UPA tally goes up to 261, NDA finishes with 159
  • Buddhadeb unlikely to attend Polit Bureau meet
  • We are at the giving end: Amar Singh
  • BJP leaders meet Advani
  • AGP-BJP tie-up to continue for Assembly polls
  • I’m against bargaining for ministerial slot: Mamata
  • MPs with criminal charges aplenty in new House
  • Musclemen bite the dust in Bihar
  • Churu hottest in Rajasthan as heatwave continues
  • LCA induction into IAF likely by 2010: Air Chief
  • Common Law Admission Test on May 31
  • Victory runs in their families
  • Taking stock
  • Sri Lankan refugees sent to Chennai
  • Man shot dead, arms recovered
  • Endowment awards presented
  • Atop the monument
  • Azhar begins innings on political pitch
  • Azam Khan quits Samajwadi Party posts
  • Sri Lankan refugees sent to Chennai
  • JD(S) keen to be part of the UPA government
  • Prakash Mehra passes away
  • Suspected Marriott blast mastermind arrested
  • Port workers call off strike

    • Nellore

  • Leaders accuse NJR of sabotage

    • New Delhi

  • From a dream debut to a dream role
  • Disbelief in Congress over its stunning performance
  • Tribute to the departed
  • Secret ballot?
  • A major facelift for Delhi roads soon
  • Delhi BSP in for a major revamp
  • Power yoga session organised
  • PHD Chamber hails UPA victory
  • Talk on advances in breast cancer cure
  • NHPC signs MoU
  • Celebration time
  • “MPs with criminal charges aplenty in new House”
  • Labourer found killed
  • J. P. Agarwal wants to “change the face of North-East Delhi”
  • Delhi sizzles at 42.4° C
  • Six minor children drown in separate cases
  • Woman commits suicide
  • Congratulations….
  • Voters saluted
  • In the capital today

    • News Analysis

  • Making sense of the verdict
  • U.S.-Israel partnership: fraying at the edges?
  • Guatemala: bank warning lands Tweeter in jail
  • Politicians of all hues are demoralised

    • Nizamabad

  • Smooth end to poll process
  • Swine flu: health officials alerted in Nizamabad
  • Bodhan MLA may get into the Cabinet
  • Change of constituency proves disastrous for Suresh Reddy
  • Nizamabad voters crush Congress

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • Of families and fortunes in State elections
  • Gearing up
  • Congress loses to charisma of Chyau Patnaik
  • No ‘fair’ share in new Assembly
  • Newspapers most favourite for poll results
  • BJP State unit accepts defeat
  • ‘Ghatam parikrama’ of Taradevi jatra
  • BJD legislators to meet today
  • Provide parking facilities

    • Palakkad

  • Three drown in Dhoni waterfall

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Coir geo-textiles on the skids at Sabarimala
  • Lead for UDF in all Assembly segments
  • Kung fu is the rage among children

    • Puducherry

  • Programme offers glimpses into trends in higher education
  • Power shutdown tomorrow
  • UPSC preliminary examination held

    • Punjab

  • Sidhu’s rival demands recounting
  • Congress vote share shoots up in Punjab

    • Racing : Horse

  • Polar Circle bags Chamundi Plate
  • Splendid Surprise wins main event

    • Racing : Motor

  • Lorenzo wins French GP

    • Raichur

  • BJP increases vote share in Raichur by 22.17 per cent
  • 16 PU colleges in Raichur district have only one lecturer each

    • Rajahmundry

  • Rebels fail to impress

    • Rajasthan

  • All-woman police battalion may not take off
  • Namonarain Meena defeats Bainsla

    • Religion

  • The art of speaking

    • Salem

  • Govt. schools in rural areas lag behind with poor results
  • Drinking water for Swarnapuri residential colonies soon
  • Woman found dead
  • Power cut, pollution major reasons for Congress’ defeat in Salem

    • Shimoga

  • ‘Include spiritual heritage in textbooks’

    • Shooting

  • Samaresh finishes 27th

    • Sport

  • Rohit the hero as Chargers grabs last-ball win
  • Hayden’s knock did it for us
  • Super Kings takes on distraught KKR
  • Delhi Daredevils defeats Rajasthan Royals, stays on top
  • Indian Premier League -- Points Table

    • Sports : General

  • Adithya stars in Kedar CA’s title win

    • Srikakulam

  • Krupa Rani proves to be a giant killer

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Staying connected without wires
  • Defeating its purpose
  • A weave of fantasy, social message and action
  • Sans a care
  • Moment to cherish
  • In demand
  • Management Education
  • Poll losers analysing defeat
  • Goods wagon jumps off the rail
  • Desalination plant awaiting completion
  • Did infighting in DMK lead to Palanisamy’s defeat?
  • Porur lake covered with aquatic weeds
  • Sale of air-conditioners yet to hot up this summer
  • 8 students from the State to visit Japan
  • Two Assembly segments come to the rescue of Chidambaram
  • Security tightened
  • Grievance day meet
  • 7 held for trying to sell liquor
  • What they say
  • House burgled
  • Inaugurated
  • Engagements
  • Kumbhabhishekam
  • Kattankulathur residents for removal of encroachments on park land
  • High Court stays reduction in pension to retired RBI employee
  • State can fix minimum wages for apprentices: court
  • City put on special alert
  • Sarubala Tondaiman’s defeat shocks Congress
  • PMK will re-emerge: Ramadoss
  • Kanyakumari constituency creates history
  • Ryots want release of Mettur water in time

    • Tennis

  • Safina beats Wozniacki, claims Madrid Open
  • Roof at Wimbledon’s centre court unveiled
  • Prakash-Ram and Hof-Harsh lose in finals
  • Rain affects play
  • Rynold storms into quarterfinals
  • Sanya enters u-8 final
  • Tsonga wins first game
  • Federer wins Madrid

    • Thanjavur

  • SASTRA University signs MoU with US varsity
  • One killed, three injured in group clash
  • “Common minimum programme vital for coalition government”
  • 19 schools record cent per cent pass in Plus Two
  • Country needs 11.5 lakh teachers: VC

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Netting cyber information
  • CPI: results reflect public resentment
  • Victory of bipolar coalition politics
  • BJP charge against CPI(M)
  • Technical education hub proposed
  • Plea for supply of water, LPG
  • ‘Make parking facilities mandatory’
  • City set to get a new commercial centre
  • Call for steps to prevent epidemics
  • Cleaning drive from May 26
  • Maithri meet demands urgent repair of city roads
  • Kodiyeri cuts short Delhi visit
  • Ban orders at Cheriathura, Beemapally
  • People’s verdict: KC(B)

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 18, 1959: Nepal situation
  • dated May 18, 1959: Nuclear tests
  • dated May 18, 1959: Foreign students in India

    • Thrissur

  • A cancer survivor’s message to youth
  • Candlelight memorial against AIDS
  • Mega adalat
  • One killed, 4 injured
  • Verdict against wrong policies: pastoral council

    • Tiruchi

  • Martial arts enable better concentration, says chief coach
  • Coaching for National Eligibility Test gets under way
  • A mirror of conventional dishes
  • Mettur level
  • DMK belies predictions of pollsters in central districts
  • Napoleon puts politics above films
  • Co-operative employees want government to fill secretary posts
  • Rights body rescues pregnant woman
  • Damage caused by small parties in Lok Sabha polls goes unnoticed
  • Vigil stepped up in city
  • Expo gets visitors from other districts too

    • Tirunelveli

  • Minorities, government staff and teachers script Congress win
  • Infighting did Congress in at Tenkasi
  • Villagers admitted to hospitals

    • Tirupati

  • Parties in introspection mode

    • Tumkur

  • Did Congress help BJP in Tumkur?
  • ‘Upgrade level of probe’

    • Udhagamandalam

  • NCC trekking expedition begins today
  • ‘Children should be encouraged to read’
  • Opportunity for Raja to become a trend-setter

    • Udupi

  • Tala Maddale Saptaha begins in Udupi
  • LS polls: organisational strength has stood BJP in good stead

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • BKU woman wing president dies

    • Vellore

  • Vellore voters prove predictions wrong

    • Vijayawada

  • Mystery shrouds man’s death
  • Congress cadre morale low in Krishna
  • Overambitious programmes
  • Check their quality

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Airavat to be commissioned tomorrow
  • Polling trend
  • Congress continues winning ways
  • Lok Satta Party puts up an impressive show
  • Four persons killed in road accident
  • Rotary gesture to school
  • Railway zone top on agenda: Purandeswari
  • ‘A silent verdict in favour of Congress’
  • A message to parties
  • Visakhapatnam today

    • Warangal

  • Shock defeat for GA in Warangal
  • Warangal to get 3 cabinet berths?

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • Wife beaten for being Trinamool supporter

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