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Alappuzha

  • Students of Muttar UP School reap the grains of their hard work
  • Wife commits suicide; husband arrested

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Common entrance test for PG admission in AU region
  • Brahmotsavams
  • They too contribute
  • Centre's claim on economy questioned
  • Five held in murder case
  • A day to remember
  • Summer special
  • For the celestial wedding
  • Hailstorm damages crop in 500 acres
  • Bear shot dead by police
  • KTPS to no longer face water shortage
  • ‘TRS kept at bay'
  • Youth from State dies in London

    • Bangalore

  • IT quiz for engineering students
  • Students ransack principal's chamber
  • MLCs peeved over getting Rs. 49 passes for IPL match
  • Chief Minister ready for discussion on NICE
  • It's show time for BBMP elections
  • II PU examinations from today
  • Welfare schemes elude sex workers
  • Budding photographer emerges on top
  • Watch ‘Jugaari Cross' this Saturday
  • Here's a chance to admire contemporary Madhubani art
  • Three run over by trains
  • Three arrested for distributing rice
  • Residents open Kamaraj Road bridge
  • Y.N. Sharma expelled from BSP
  • New CII-Karnataka chief to take over today
  • Scrutiny begins amid protests
  • AAI says it was not consulted over closure of HAL Airport
  • BMRCL caught on the wrong foot again
  • BJP may focus on water and roads
  • To rope in three stars
  • Akrama-Sakrama may prove costly for BJP
  • Migrant workers left out of poll
  • ‘Symbolic' delay for independents
  • Probe on into firing at ISRO facility: Karnataka government
  • Three survive Metro worksite mishap in Karnataka
  • Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange Rates
  • Bullion Rates

    • Belgaum

  • Organisations set deadline on varsity
  • MES opposes acquisition of fertile farmland by KIADB

    • Bellary

  • Bellary airport: farmers to meet Mathikatti

    • Bidar

  • Basava Utsava to have a grand start on March 27

    • Bihar

  • Uproar in Bihar Assembly over ‘corruption' in housing scheme
  • Bihar PG course may be open to outside doctors

    • Bijapur

  • ‘Give top priority to building roads, schools'

    • Briefly

  • GVK Bio's new unit in Ahmedabad
  • Dr. Reddy's commissions Mexico facility
  • Videocon launches nine mobile handsets
  • New aviation tool from Ramco Systems
  • IOB announces new rates for deposits
  • Reliance MediaWorks partners IMAGICA Corp
  • 52 % growth in engineering exports to ASEAN

    • Business

  • Micra car export to start in September
  • Fed to hold rates low as economy improves
  • Cabinet to decide on award of oil and gas blocks on March 19
  • Segmentation differentiated India
  • RCom ties up with Polycom for video conferencing service
  • Cethar Vessels to form venture with Russian firm
  • NCAER sets up centre for consumer research
  • Qualcomm to bid for BWA spectrum
  • Saving for child education, a top priority
  • Steps sought to stabilise coconut oil prices
  • Jet Airways plans new services
  • Immanuval Silks in Kottayam
  • OPIL pays dividend

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Man arrested
  • Two acquitted in murder case
  • Doctor’s plea dismissed
  • Karunanidhi praises Japanese enterprises
  • CISF takes over security of Rajiv Gandhi memorial
  • SHRC tells Metrowater to deal with contamination
  • Man to get brain-dead child's kidneys
  • ‘Pause for a cause'
  • E-learning centre for the visually impaired
  • Jewels missing from woman's bag
  • Mosquito menace figures at council meet
  • Court directive on T. Nagar man's traffic plan
  • Passing-out parade
  • New policy on automobiles and components soon, says Stalin
  • Power shutdown today
  • Swamy seeks resignation of HR & CE Minister
  • Chain snatched
  • Electronic gadgets stolen
  • Lecturers receive salary
  • Stress laid on formal study of entrepreneurship
  • Airtel towers cross the 10,000 mark
  • Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Modification of bus bays, traffic islands on the cards
  • Seminar on HR Engineering
  • DMK has been extremely good to workers, says Minister
  • Exchange programme
  • BSNL road shows
  • Bridgestone launches tyre showroom
  • Government high school students to have better facilities
  • Death of school girl triggers unrest
  • Correction
  • Ozone sterilisers for public toilets
  • ‘Keep order on water connections in abeyance'
  • Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Swann advances
  • Gayle arrives
  • Sensex gains 107 points
  • Sonnet, ONGC in title clash
  • Cutoff time for players' appeal
  • Promising youngsters flaunt their wares
  • Kumble's ‘Wide Angle' released
  • Easy for Social Cricketers
  • Partial dismantling of IPL gallery begins
  • Great players always rise to the occasion
  • MRF, the official blimp sponsor of IPL
  • Pusco scrapes through
  • Hari and Vasanth shine
  • Hyderabad falters at the final hurdle
  • Dhoni out for two games
  • The final impact
  • Clinical win for Mumbai Indians

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 9793
  • Solution to puzzle 9792

    • Cuddalore

  • TNCSC workers observe fast
  • Police distribute handbills
  • Wadhwa panel holds closed-door meeting with officials

    • Dharmapuri

  • Officials warned against violating model code of conduct
  • ‘No dues' for candidates

    • Dindigul

  • Drinking water being wasted
  • Students condemn lack of facilities in college
  • Collector reviews festival arrangement

    • Editorials

  • New-look Team Gadkari
  • Left-green revival in France

    • Eluru

  • Civic body approves surplus budget

    • Football

  • Javed guides Malappuram to semifinals
  • Malabar United enters semifinal
  • Hussain's century in vain
  • Vizag Steel Cup from today
  • AGORC posts its first victory

    • Front Page

  • Headley will change his plea to guilty
  • No stopping currency garlands, says BSP
  • Let's have cool debate: Chavan
  • Piped natural gas network for 200 cities
  • Empowered Panel: Supreme Court agrees to hear Tamil Nadu plea
  • Sushma: we'll attend all-party meet on women's Bill with open mind
  • India to engage with Iran on Afghanistan
  • Nirupama focuses on India's role in Afghanistan
  • Offshore Patrol Vessel inducted into Coast Guard
  • Two MLAs of J&K marshalled out
  • Iran, Pakistan clinch gas pipeline deal
  • Head of Irish Church apologises for coverup
  • Tiny hands, big heart
  • All-party meet held on free zone issue
  • Russian woman found dead in Goa
  • Nod for initial works on Kochi metro
  • Shot in the arm for FPW of GHMC
  • Coimbatore Corporation begins efforts to avoid water scarcity
  • Modern fish market planned
  • More funds for development of wards
  • Curbs on clearance board mooted
  • Water-starved, paddy crop dying

    • Golf

  • Augusta Masters: Tiger returns to his favourite hunting ground
  • Ramalingam takes title

    • Gulbarga

  • Government gives nod for road-widening in Gulbarga
  • SUCI reiterates demand for train

    • Guntur

  • 19 new police circles created in Guntur range
  • Power consumers protest against death of boy
  • Ananth Sriram holds them spellbound
  • ‘Row over Hyderabad status does not hold water'
  • ANU yet to announce PG results
  • Chilli yard bustling with activity

    • Haryana

  • Haryana Annual Plan to be finalised on March 31
  • Photo exhibition
  • Dharmendra hospitalised
  • Consult people over projects, Hooda tells officers

    • Hassan

  • Riots: 18 remanded in judicial custody

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Farmers protest timber distribution policy
  • Textile Park for Himachal

    • Hockey

  • India ranked No. 9
  • Pakistanis withdraw resignations

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Philately and numismatic exhibition inaugurated
  • 25,000 students to take II PU exam in Dharwad
  • Bookshops to close on March 23

    • Hyderabad

  • IAS officer probing SVVU irregularities
  • One-time loan settlement extended
  • ‘Naxals captured, tortured, killed'
  • GATE applicants up, but success rate down
  • Veta to conduct English holiday for children
  • Chronicling history in wood
  • Nizam's jewels to get permanent display
  • Poverty blunts campaign against child labour
  • GHMC to launch drive against mosquitoes
  • Bypoll: Telangana TD leaders in a spot
  • 27-yr-old gets mother's kidney
  • Girl found dead in doctor's car
  • Stay sought on public hearing
  • Global meet on finance
  • Water Board proposes tariff for sewerage
  • Nursing students continue to boycott classes
  • Drive on to collect property tax: Minister
  • Ongole youth arrested for extortion bid
  • Girl set afire by three youths battling for life
  • Several BJP leaders held
  • Rosaiah hints at Cabinet expansion
  • TRCCC meets after 3 years!
  • Film industry calls for bandh against piracy
  • My view is vindicated, says KCR
  • Weavers' loans waived; Opposition stages walkout
  • Cabinet panel to allot land to SHGs
  • Ruckus in House over Hyderabad as free zone
  • Welfare schemes will continue, says Rosaiah
  • Salary for NREGP field staff hiked in Andhra Pradesh
  • Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Head of Irish Church apologises for coverup
  • Terrorism: Americans indicted in Pakistan
  • ‘LeT not yet on Pakistan's radar'
  • Ban goes ahead with Sri Lanka panel
  • O Beckham, where art thou?

    • Kannur

  • Dwelling on recession
  • DYFI stages protest

    • Karimnagar

  • Modern multiplex in Karimnagar

    • Karnataka

  • Probe on into firing at ISRO facility
  • Bringing banks closer to people in rural areas
  • Work affected
  • Summer trains on Konkan Railway
  • The swami who turned barren land into a gold mine
  • Gram panchayat employees to launch indefinite agitation from March 25
  • Plea to hold all-party meet on Cauvery
  • Government says it has no power to ban mining
  • Decennial celebrations of MIM
  • ‘Dream' from March 20
  • ‘Fire stations being built in all taluks'
  • Separate water board for rural areas: Shettar
  • Uproar in Assembly over passage of Bill on varsity
  • Regularisation of librarians' services ruled out
  • Bill passed
  • His farm is a virtual research centre

    • Kerala

  • Delightful bloom
  • Semester at Sea students visit Kochi
  • Colours come alive on glass
  • Plastic mountain
  • Off for valuation
  • Calling attention
  • Malabar sanctuary
  • Water woes
  • CIAL likely to log 3 per cent growth
  • 14 persons convicted in Marad murder case
  • Torture case: activist moves court
  • Fears on water shortage allayed
  • Consensus on education policy stressed
  • EMS Academic Campus opens on Saturday
  • New Chief Justice sworn in

    • Khammam

  • Entrepreneurial skill development stressed

    • Kochi

  • English version of short stories released
  • Evictees to protest against Kochi Refineries
  • Cochin port to consider cut in maritime charges
  • Divorced Muslim women entitled to maintenance
  • Web site to give fair value of land
  • Sack unqualified boat drivers: High Court
  • Singer to be honoured
  • Documentary on Che Guevara
  • NUALS to have a new campus
  • Call to review death penalty
  • Family of four found dead
  • Milma hikes price of homogenised milk
  • BSNL launches 3G services
  • Reception for vessel crew
  • ‘Pattanam, first habitat site excavated in Kerala'
  • Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Gemstone jewellery mela a big draw
  • Robbery: three held
  • Man run over by bus

    • Kottayam

  • District panchayat budget: priority for farm sector

    • Kozhikode

  • History's missing links
  • Students to monitor quality of water
  • Curb power use: KSEB

    • Kurnool

  • Warm send-off for Collector
  • SFI opposes entry of foreign varsities
  • Uniform policy on languages sought

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Labour Party? What Labour Party?

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Money garland
  • Home alone
  • Women's Bill

    • Madikeri

  • Rs. 3.48-crore subsidy given to coffee growers in Madikeri
  • Testing time for PU students
  • BJP-backed candidates win
  • Kodava cultural fest from March 19

    • Madurai

  • VC stresses on soft skills
  • Dispute over authority on community certificates
  • High Court directive on religious functions in government offices
  • Rally taken out for house site pattas
  • A meet to encourage small weavers
  • Violence against women starts from birth to death: judge
  • Special children offer prayer
  • Human chain formed for conserving water and protecting environment
  • Results published
  • Proposal to buy EVMs
  • Beneficiaries hail health scheme
  • Women's Day celebrated
  • Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Yakshagana academy chooses 20 artistes for awards
  • 11 Chhota Shakeel ‘aides' held
  • Five-year plan for conservation of coastal biodiversity
  • Nine resolutions passed at sammelan
  • Camp for students

    • Mysore

  • Information on projects
  • Visitors throng Cauvery Craft Bazaar in Mysore
  • Six foreign students held
  • Move on mining in tiger reserve leads to confusion
  • Seminar on agribusiness
  • Contingency plan to tackle water crisis
  • 32,969 to appear for second PU examination from today
  • Workshop for research scholars begins

    • Nalgonda

  • Lakshminarayana confident of re-election

    • National

  • CPI(M) leader shot dead
  • We want to pass Bill through collaborative approach: Chavan
  • U.S., India sign trade and investment agreement
  • NPCIL, Areva finalising contracts for two reactors
  • Robert Blake to visit India
  • ‘Public, private sectors to have bigger role in equipment production'
  • Kasab retraction an afterthought: Nikam
  • Truckers threaten strike from April 5
  • Supreme Court quashes criminal proceedings against Pawar
  • Initiative to ensure menstrual hygiene among rural women
  • Increase LoC trade frequency: J&K
  • Take 1971 rolls as basis for updating NRC: Assam
  • Anna Hazare on indefinite hunger strike
  • Interacting with villagers
  • Further probe on
  • A tragic end
  • Inside Lucknow
  • Case against activist dismissed
  • We won't seek extension of time, says Srikrishna
  • Court allows plea against Tiwari
  • A feel of rural India
  • Mayawati is “ daulat ki beti ”
  • No dissent note by Lalu Prasad on Women's Bill
  • Adverse media reports cost Justice Sabharwal NHRC job
  • 10-year limit for ministers' personal staff
  • Foetus was intact in Naroda-Patiya victim: doctor
  • CRPF official asks Bengal D-G to step up forces

    • Nellore

  • NRIs to fund VSU

    • New Delhi

  • Vyas Samman for novel by Amar Kant
  • An invitation to Lord Balaji's wedding
  • A dream journey for young intellectuals
  • North-East calling
  • Amar Kant selected for Vyas Samman award
  • Government ready to discuss nuclear liability Bill: Chavan
  • A new deal for BPL families
  • Protection for woman facing threats from cop
  • Life in jail for murder of students' union leader
  • NDMC members may lose perks
  • NGO overruling MLAs, says BJP
  • India to help revive Ethiopian footwear sector
  • Discoms show losses after years of profit
  • Reviving Yamuna
  • Apex court to hear Tamil Nadu plea
  • Manipur Plan pegged at 2,600 crore
  • Azad defends rural health care cadre
  • A better deal for IIFT graduates

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Op-Ed

  • A celebration of the “Putin Decade” in bilateral relations
  • A bit at a time, privacy vanishes online
  • Leaders' lavishness and ‘lifestyle audits'
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Orissa

  • Excellence award for J.K. Paper Mills
  • Summer camp for weightlifters
  • Naveen Kalakar Odissi Utsav planned in June
  • Doctors give up stir plan
  • BSNL casual workers hold demonstration
  • Turtles shift their mass nesting site
  • Nurses gherao SCB Superintendent
  • Barabati decked up for IPL matches
  • Mining issue rocks House

    • Palakkad

  • Exploring music's role in education
  • Delimitation panel holds sitting
  • Stadium work from April
  • ‘Torture led to elephant death'

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Rs.67.31-crore budget for Pathanamthitta district panchayat
  • Special pujas performed at Sabarimala

    • Puducherry

  • Noon meal staff strike work again
  • Stolen valuables recovered, two held
  • Skill development programme for students held
  • A train of royal thoughts
  • Baggage scanner installed at prison

    • Racing : Horse

  • Swahili runs with a chance
  • Grand Madame set for an encore

    • Racing : Motor

  • Bolt to run 300m in Ostrava

    • Raichur

  • Clear stand on master plan needed: RCCI
  • Officials told to restore civic facilities

    • Rajahmundry

  • APIIC acquiring land for Wood City
  • Plea to TTD

    • Rajasthan

  • ‘Outlay for SCs/STs as per population'
  • BJP MLA suspended in Rajasthan

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Load men stage protest, seek regularisation of services

    • Religion

  • Robber gets moksha

    • Sailing

  • Mourinho and Inter have the last laugh

    • Shimoga

  • Violence: JD(S) seeks release of ‘innocent' persons

    • Sport

  • India claims team championship
  • Royal Challengers takes on injury-hit Royals
  • Woman commits suicide at house in Selaiyur

    • Sports : General

  • Milner is Villa's hero
  • Noble Flash claims Glorious Plate
  • Awards criteria amended
  • Coca-Cola is official beverage
  • Jayaram is KCA's chairman of selectors
  • Dhoni stars for CSK
  • Ministry's recommendations ignored once again
  • Vijayawada Division lifts trophy

    • Srikakulam

  • Job guarantee works in full swing

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Time and tide wait for none
  • Colossal waste
  • In unison
  • Training programme
  • Inspected
  • Needs attention
  • Golden car to get facelift
  • Workshop on official language
  • Lecturers go on relay fast
  • Six deaths not due to fever: official
  • Case against former MLA
  • Biometric cards given to 135 customers of IOB
  • Usual phenomenon
  • Web site on plastic ban launched
  • Palayamkottai prisoners go on fast
  • Unheard melodies are sweeter
  • Make hay while the sun shines
  • “UK regarded recession as an opportunity than threat”
  • Mayiladuturai-Villupuram speed trial run held
  • State Manufacturing Competitiveness Council headed by Stalin set up

    • Tennis

  • Baghdatis finally solves the Federer puzzle
  • Prashanth advances
  • Ritvik wins title

    • Thanjavur

  • “700 cases of women issues pending before commission”
  • College celebrates Women's Day

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Panel report slammed
  • Speaker: use simple Malayalam
  • Online lotteries: State to move apex court
  • Bill to protect sandalwood referred to panel
  • Another walkout over mark scam
  • All-party meet to discuss ban on night traffic
  • House panel for curbs on Pepsi
  • State's finances in the right direction: Isaac
  • Convenience foods from poultry corporation
  • BJP discusses strategy for local polls
  • e-learning system launched
  • Selection process for DTPC secretaries modified
  • Approach road to airport to be ready by month-end
  • Education gets priority
  • Police justify Cheriathura firing
  • Special trains to Dadar from April 3
  • Another sprinkle of showers by Friday likely
  • KWA, KSIDC plan water supply scheme

    • This Day That Age

  • dated March 18, 2010: Border issue
  • dated March 18, 2010: Use of public funds
  • dated March 18, 2010: Local Library Authority

    • Thrissur

  • Man escapes from custody
  • Socio-political interventions needed to ensure food security: economist
  • Rahul, Priyanka visit Thrissur

    • Tiruchi

  • Post offices to register mock examinees
  • Despite poor show, hockey interest revived, feel followers
  • No power supply today
  • Renovation of Srirangam Nattu Vaical under way
  • Highest yield under SRI in Musiri block
  • Congress workers held
  • Youth Congress elections democratic, says Rahul
  • Five inscriptions of 13th, 14th and 15th centuries discovered
  • Counting of huts for housing to start soon
  • Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Power shutdown
  • Collector holds meeting
  • Protesting TASMAC workers court arrest
  • Five children injured
  • Be careful in selecting engineering colleges: V-C

    • Tirupati

  • TVS launches ‘Jive'
  • TTD holds meeting with JAC leaders
  • TTD rationalises pre-dawn rituals

    • Tuticorin

  • Contract workers seek wage hike

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Residents object to ‘poor road work'
  • Public hearing held for master plan
  • NMR restoration works enter final phase

    • Udupi

  • Literary meet in Udupi from Friday

    • Uttaranchal

  • No new taxes in Uttarakhand

    • Vellore

  • Woman killed in accident
  • Ashok Chacko felicitated
  • Welfare aid worth Rs.40 lakh distributed
  • CTS to conduct combined off-campus recruitment drive
  • Memorial for Paridhimar Kalaignar in Chennai sought

    • Vijayawada

  • Roof-top gallery getting ready
  • Power cuts crippling industry: Chamber
  • Residents seek traffic signals and blinkers
  • Focus on research
  • Citizens' initiative for unified State
  • PG medical entrance hall tickets on website
  • Rajagopal opposes resolution on free zone
  • ‘GOs on water regulation unconstitutional'

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Ship building workers' plea to Union Minister
  • Call to develop green tech
  • Medical camp held
  • Teaching does not diminish his love for music
  • 12-hour operations at airport from March 28
  • Follow the Korean model of shipbuilding: HSL CMD
  • AU workshop begins today
  • Sindhis celebrate New Year
  • TDP changes floor leaders in GVMC
  • Hindi seminar gets under way

    • Volleyball

  • Punjab Police prevails

    • Warangal

  • Sivananda Murthy birthday fete

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • Several shops gutted in Kolkata fire

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