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Alappuzha

  • Tourism zone: demand to include Alappuzha

    • Anantapur

  • ‘Long-term investments will assure rich returns'

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Annual ritual
  • Household Census to commence on April 26
  • Bird-lover's delight
  • Conferment of classical tag on Telugu hailed
  • Officials told to prevent diversion of water
  • Tourist's delight
  • Home, Sweet Home!
  • All ingredients for a masala movie
  • A father too
  • Totally incendiary
  • Youth ends life for ‘Telangana'
  • Officials helpless as forests burn
  • 15 remanded in police custody
  • Police stumbles on fraud in stamp paper ‘business'
  • State to celebrate Krishnadevaraya fete
  • NTR literary award for Mahaswetha Devi
  • Case booked against Vijayawada company
  • Corruption in execution of job scheme alleged
  • Commitment to Muslim quota reiterated
  • Widening of Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway to be taken up soon
  • Correction
  • Minister's assurance on minority quota
  • Rosaiah woos Singapore investors and industrialists
  • Rosaiah flays Opposition

    • Archery

  • India adds three more gold medals

    • Badminton

  • Two-day workshop on badminton

    • Bangalore

  • BBMP poll: Krishna plays development card
  • A(H1N1) vaccination for health workers
  • Four held on charge of murder
  • CAG report: Decline in support to State PSUs
  • Rs. 1 crore released to math for opening a students' hostel and vedapatashala
  • Civic Front launches campaign
  • CAG suggests regulator for transport
  • Unauthorised investment cost BMRCL Rs. 1.64 crore
  • 98.44 lakh BPL cards issued, says Halappa
  • Baraguru criticises use of term ‘knowledge industry' for IT
  • Curbs on politicians attending meetings
  • It was all fun and frolics for them
  • Lights off to save the earth
  • Launch of EISB Movement
  • Popularising rainwater harvesting systems
  • Illicit liquor for poll campaign seized
  • Verdict reserved on EWS quarters
  • Bangalore Today

    • Basketball

  • Amala triumphs

    • Bellary

  • Commercialisation of medical education decried
  • Awareness programme for investors
  • Jatha against illegal mining
  • Forest staff facing threats?

    • Bijapur

  • Delay in rehabilitation of flood victims draws flak
  • Awareness on eye donation lacking, says expert
  • Talented students to be encouraged

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Pankaj tops rankings

    • Business

  • SBI reaches new milestones
  • Voice Mobile to set up manufacturing facility
  • Century Plyboards eyes Africa for setting up plantation
  • New range of switches from Anchor
  • Finding global space for Ayurveda
  • Hyundai targets sale of 27,000 cars in State

    • Chennai

  • Need for awareness of DVT
  • A platform to showcase skills
  • Summer camps to include academics
  • Regional-level Dak Adalat to be organised on April 8
  • Dental camp
  • CFLs distributed free to railway residential colonies
  • “Juvenile Justice Boards in all districts”
  • Remove Raja from Cabinet: Jayalalithaa
  • Karunanidhi clarifies on lower revenue receipts
  • Police probing inputs on LTTE cadre entering State
  • Companies urged to invest in betterment of district
  • Advertising awards presented
  • Tharoor downplays ‘Twitter' controversy
  • National Moot Court competition
  • “Infrastructure alone won't make a good school”
  • “IT can be leveraged to make learning effective”
  • Spanish film festival gets under way
  • Stress on better sanitation
  • Man found dead
  • This entrepreneur made the right choice
  • Alcohol abuse, accidents linked
  • ECR residents seek better services
  • College students do their bit for nature
  • Complaints of sewage overflow
  • Academy of Construction coming up
  • Chennai known for social emancipation, reforms: N. Ram
  • Engine driver presents paper on unmanned level crossing
  • Court orders notice to CBI, Government Pleader
  • Plea for action against 30 foreign law firms
  • Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Two share lead

    • Coimbatore

  • Association welcomes govt. move on model colleges
  • Meeting on March 22
  • Pujas
  • Power shutdown
  • Housing scheme: Corporation will ask for more grant
  • ‘India's growth is more creditable than China's'
  • Salem Rly. division steps up energy saving efforts
  • Global India Textile Show in Coimbatore from March 26
  • Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Kallis guides RCB home
  • PCB faces fire on contract policy
  • Pumped up Chargers meets Daredevils
  • Prashanth's effort in vain
  • Mannanam Hostel XI posts win
  • Rising Star posts win
  • Deccan Chargers beats Kings XI Punjab
  • Chaminda Vaas shows there's place for experience
  • Arumugam scalps six
  • Bids for IPL teams today
  • Aussies in command

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 2577
  • Solution to Puzzle 2576

    • Cuddalore

  • “Tamil Nadu has set a precedent in giving loans to farmers”

    • Dindigul

  • Job mela for the disabled on March 26
  • Concern over withering crops

    • Erode

  • Scheme for Kisan Credit Card
  • Terminal Marketing Complex for agriculture produce soon
  • Additional kerosene
  • Special buses to Palani for festival

    • Football

  • JCT beats Mumbai FC
  • Malappuram enters final
  • Brace by Mithun
  • Sporting Clube downs Bagan
  • Lajong downs Pune FC
  • Indian Bank holds ICF
  • Big win for SRKFC
  • Jerry nets winner
  • Tottenham wins at Stoke
  • Martins stars for Dempo

    • Front Page

  • We will get access to Headley: Chidambaram
  • Sajjan Kumar to face trial
  • KG basin gas to flow from 2012
  • G.P. Koirala passes away
  • CSK banking on ‘Mongoose-man'
  • Rajasthan Royals reigns supreme
  • Koirala's death robs Nepali politics of its centre
  • Kallis guides RCB home
  • Three employees killed in blast at NFL plant
  • Microsoft speeds up app development with free tools
  • Award for Russian mathematician for solving Poincaré Conjecture
  • It was a tough nut to crack
  • Drug control procedures to be streamlined
  • Early salary only an option: Isaac
  • Indian origin cash clerk shot dead
  • This vendor could be your councillor
  • 7 held for ‘leaking' Intermediate paper

    • Golf

  • A.S.K. Consultance Services wins title
  • Chowrasia tied 20th

    • Gulbarga

  • RPI stages protest, demands construction of community hall
  • ‘UPA committed to food security'

    • Guntur

  • Levy target fixed at 1.65 lakh metric tonnes
  • Mega job fair held at Vignan varsity
  • Blood donation camp held
  • Protest mars GMC budget meeting
  • Fire in garments store
  • Uninterrupted power for agriculture sought
  • Rs.152-crore ANU budget approved with deficit

    • Hassan

  • Jain seer thanks Yeddyurappa for funds
  • ‘Raise honorarium'
  • Fresh charges against accused doctor

    • Hockey

  • Prabhjot apologises for inappropriate behaviour

    • Hyderabad

  • NREGP ‘irregularities' rock House
  • Minister denies role in land transfer
  • Plea to change name of Communal Violence Bill
  • World Sparrow Day celebrated
  • Water crisis looms large
  • H1N1 vaccine arrives in State
  • Power shutdown in some areas today
  • ISB wins regional round of Tata Crucible Campus quiz
  • RTC to run SSC exams special
  • Appointed Central Bank Director
  • Bill banning strikes in SEZs denounced
  • Governor opens Apollo cancer hospital
  • Spate of hysterectomies stuns authorities
  • Rs. 8 lakh stolen from bike's box
  • Techie held in harassment case
  • Man found murdered
  • Two ‘impostors' held
  • JAC made broad based
  • NGO to issue UIDs to 10,000 women
  • ‘Orange' gives new colour to ties with Australia
  • Minister seeks report on accidents
  • Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Indian envoy to Sri Lanka visits relief camps

    • International

  • Anti-war protest in U.S.
  • When Beijing's skies turned red
  • Russia, U.S. may sign arms treaty soon
  • Holbrooke pats U.S. on Baradar
  • Doubts grow on chances of peace in Somalia
  • Pope apologises to child abuse victims
  • Blast rocks Athens
  • Lead poisonings linked to Indian imports

    • Kadapa

  • Consumer Act implementation tardy: MLC
  • Impart qualitative education, teachers told
  • 10 students injured in road accident

    • Kalpetta

  • Steps to protect tribal workers

    • Kancheepuram

  • Work on at Shore Temple

    • Kannur

  • All set for actor's Army training
  • IMA refutes allegation

    • Karimnagar

  • Shopping fest at Karimnagar

    • Karnataka

  • Meira Kumar: reservation will stay till casteism exists
  • Fresh, original and entertaining
  • Moments of pure cinema
  • Award for Chikmagalur District Central Cooperative Bank
  • Media should exercise caution on sensitive issues, says IGP
  • Yeddyurappa favours internal quota for Madigas
  • Seeking blessings
  • Becoming extinct
  • Police protection sought
  • Work for nation's development, Halappa tells students
  • Lathi-charge: SHRC fiat to State
  • Country should not miss photonics bus: Mathur
  • Omani rhythms

    • Kerala

  • First consignment of swine flu vaccine arrives in Kerala
  • Climate change hits mango farmers
  • Steps to implement e-freight agenda
  • All set for Painkuni fete
  • An adventure at Payyambalam

    • Khammam

  • Call to maintain ‘sleep hygiene'
  • ‘Slain naxals are hardcore elements'

    • Kochi

  • Beauty contest
  • VS sees major triumphs in higher education sector
  • Ministers not corrupt: Baby
  • Filmdom to honour Kaviyoor Ponnamma
  • Kannada cultural convention
  • Quarries aiding terrorists: worker
  • Milma to roll back price of milk from April 1
  • ‘Media essential for survival of democracy'
  • Cusat centre invited to join drug discovery plan
  • Triveni stores for all constituencies: VS
  • Data census to cover the whole country
  • ‘Airports emerging as business nodes'
  • Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Hindu Aikyavedi meet
  • Call to make use of CFL distribution scheme
  • LDF government a burden: Satav

    • Kottayam

  • Drought relief: panel to seek Rs.1-crore aid
  • Election to NSS forum

    • Kozhikode

  • 250 students pass out of IIM-K
  • Uneasy calm at Orkatteri, Onchiyam
  • Coaching centre for Muslim youths
  • ‘Malabar sanctuary a proud achievement'

    • Kurnool

  • Workshop held on green technologies
  • Horticulture farmers under pressure
  • Be sincere about Muslim quota: Gafoor

    • Madikeri

  • Kodava-speaking groups urged to show unity
  • Chosen member
  • Greens, prominent citizens oppose rail link to Kodagu
  • Bopaiah launches development works

    • Madurai

  • Education must build character: Health Secretary
  • Physicians more at risk for cardiovascular diseases
  • Traditional welcome for Golden Chariot
  • Bench orders recruitment of candidate associated with TMMK as jail warder
  • The Differently-abled thank Chief Minister
  • RBI calls for electronic mode of financial transactions
  • “Shed inferiority complex”
  • Training for students
  • Water supply on alternate day from tomorrow
  • Madurai Today

    • Malappuram

  • Man held with stolen mobiles
  • Warrier, Kurup felicitated
  • Stone laid for Plan Complex
  • ‘Lay stress on agriculture'
  • ‘Need for more courses in cooperative sector'

    • Mangalore

  • Concern over future of fisheries in coastal region
  • Four-lane highway to have many facilities
  • ‘Gomala' land to be identified
  • Samiti opposes land acquisition

    • Mysore

  • Course to be launched
  • Ex-servicemen send pension memorandum
  • Legislators walk out of MUDA budget meeting
  • NCDC director calls for rabies awareness in rural areas
  • Reviving interest in indigenous games
  • NTS to chalk out plan for field administration of tests

    • Nagercoil

  • Budget gets mixed response

    • National

  • Cabinet gives approval for ESI benefits to unorganised workers
  • $75 million project to clean up four polluted sites
  • AIDS stigma easing off in south, says survey
  • Complainant untraceable
  • Special force to counter Maoists
  • T-20 stresses role of tourism in economic development
  • Ambassador Arif Khan laid to rest
  • All kinds of appeals choking Supreme Court: Bench
  • ‘Foreign varsities Bill won't infringe States' rights'
  • Railway advertisement goof-up condemned
  • Article 136 only a discretionary remedy, says Supreme Court
  • Four more women on Muslim Law Board
  • Holy men threaten dharna
  • Truce in Rajasthan
  • Maoists release kidnapped persons
  • Hearing adjourned
  • Priyanka roots for the girl child
  • For children
  • Centre, State keen on providing facilities to people: Raja
  • Congress corporator booked on rape charge
  • Lion's award
  • Two tigers released in jungle
  • Muslim leaders speak up for Women's Reservation Bill
  • Up to India to pass liability law: Blake
  • Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Rhino carcass found in Kaziranga National Park
  • Bandh to protest curbs on Togadia
  • Government will avoid acquiring fertile farmland: Buddhadeb
  • Table Bill in current Lok Sabha session: Brinda
  • Pranab calls for dialogue to promote West Bengal's growth
  • MNREGS funds main source for Rajiv Kendra buildings
  • Ramesh sees delay of States deliberate
  • Five shot dead in Bihar village
  • Concern over decrease in house sparrow count
  • Pune film institute, a great temple of learning: Dev Anand
  • Justice P.V. Reddy appointed Law Commission chairperson
  • Koirala had enlightened vision of India-Nepal ties: Manmohan
  • BJP for ‘second struggle' to scrap Article 370
  • Open up markets, U.S. tells India
  • Delhi, Dhaka sail through Teesta talks
  • No information on Modi's appearance before SIT

    • New Delhi

  • Tension after reported killing of 3 Manipuris
  • AMSU warns electricity staff against joining cease-work
  • Bypoll only after roll revision: Chawla
  • Baring the dark underbelly of Generation Next….
  • High Court upholds conviction of constable in murder case
  • BJP protests rise in milk prices
  • CNG prices go up too
  • Vector control teams set up
  • Youth kills himself
  • Suicide pact survivor unfit for statement
  • DU Convocation shows women on top
  • I'm more a PR person than Chief Minister: Sheila
  • A rare sentence for a rare murder
  • Women handicrafts sellers forcibly removed from Janpath
  • Electric scooters for NDPL maintenance fleet
  • “Clerics' opposition to women's Bill a diversionary tactic”
  • Past forward
  • In the Capital Today

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • Scholarship for Odissi dancers
  • Baleswar book fair gets under way
  • State promoting SRI cultivation, says Rout
  • BJP team barred from visiting Biripur, Badambada
  • Three found murdered
  • Irregularities in MGNREGA works alleged
  • Railways told to pay compensation
  • State hikes motor vehicles tax
  • 30 p.c hike in power tariff

    • Other States

  • Aiming at the wicket
  • In protest mode
  • Three held for trying to disrobe woman
  • Anna Hazare calls off hunger strike
  • Understanding climate change
  • High Court official killed in mishap

    • Palakkad

  • Kunchan Nambiar Memorial branches out into other arts

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Annual festival begins at Sabarimala temples
  • ‘Kettukazhcha' held at Pandalam temple
  • Syro-Malankara diocese inaugurated

    • Puducherry

  • Housing projects under JNNURM on in full swing
  • India's tsunami warning system best in the world, says expert
  • Training programme held
  • Awareness rally
  • Fake IMFL seized, 3 arrested
  • Passport office for Puducherry soon

    • Racing : Horse

  • Xisca and Beautiful Stranger fancied

    • Raichur

  • ICC decides to let water into TLBC till April 14
  • Yeddyurappa's visit

    • Rajahmundry

  • A none too attractive ‘offer'
  • Mini model dairy for SHG women with Rs. 30 crores
  • 108 service to focus on mother and child
  • Parents express concern over spot valuation

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Legal literacy club begins
  • Know all about HIV/AIDS
  • Study for petrochemical zone in final stages: Rithish Kumar
  • “Women must develop confidence”

    • Salem

  • Government committed to providing equal opportunities for rural students: Minister

    • Shimoga

  • Elaborate security in place in Shimoga for today's samavesha
  • Create greater interest in Kannada literature: Vaidehi
  • BSNL launches 3G service

    • Sport

  • CSK banking on ‘Mongoose-man'
  • Rajasthan Royals reigns supreme
  • OTA cadets' all-round abilities on display

    • Sports : General

  • Government issues age code
  • Jeev Milkha Singh misses the cut
  • Einstein wins main event
  • Grey Eagle hard to toss

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Driven by desire to reach out to the needy
  • Neglected
  • Air pollution
  • Fast by guest lecturers enters third day
  • Talent test for students
  • Better teacher-student rapport in colleges stressed
  • Namakkal district gets 3G services
  • Proposal to renovate Thovalai Channel
  • Seven arrested, idols recovered
  • MKU urged to recognise Institute of Gandhian Studies as research centre
  • School function ends in a tragic note
  • 3-G mobile service to be launched before April 30
  • “Approach Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum”
  • ‘Increase use of Tamil in office correspondence'
  • ‘Little journals have played key role'
  • Underwater corridor to watch excavations envisaged
  • Bishop Caldwell memorial house to be developed
  • Gang held
  • “Transparent policies fetched lot of FDI”
  • “Not possible to insulate petroleum consumers continuously”
  • Over 100 men, women join Army
  • Bharathi's works being translated into English
  • Dawn of success
  • “Acting will be my ladder to become director”
  • Cooling time
  • Ready for summer
  • “Come forward to shift patients from smaller to bigger hospitals”
  • Cumbum-Mettu Road closed till April 3
  • Emphasis laid on using simple language
  • Safe, off stage
  • Foresters learn about mangroves
  • Joining the mainstream
  • Wasted effort
  • Brightening up
  • CPI (M) flays State budget
  • CII, FICCI hail budget as development oriented
  • Train services rescheduled
  • Gopalkrishna Gandhi calls for lifestyle changes

    • Tennis

  • Suresh in final
  • Soderling stops Murray
  • Thompson claims title

    • Thanjavur

  • “Education sector getting right preference in State”
  • “SHG movement ushered in women empowerment”

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Summer camps in capital
  • Essay contest winners
  • Quota will not lead to elitism: Mridul
  • RSP begins to speak its mind
  • KPCC for consensus on Devaswom Bill
  • Meet discusses power situation
  • Luxury on wheels: Golden Chariot chugs into capital
  • Administrative tribunal to be set up in city
  • Review meeting on drought control held
  • Four killed in accidents
  • Rallying around parents of children with Down's
  • Re-routing of trains for six days
  • Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • Thrissur

  • Rich tributes paid to Arnos Padre
  • AIR programme on farming launched
  • Call to revamp education sector
  • Marad case: 13 in Viyyur jail
  • Rs.50 crore for Muziris project
  • Central probe sought into land deals

    • Tiruchi

  • Police-public meet under way
  • University to work for cause of differently abled
  • National Safety Week celebrated
  • IECD offers summer courses
  • Trade body hails State budget
  • Residents seek new bus stand at Thuvakudi
  • Rs. 36-lakh grant for college
  • Call for better utilisation of press
  • Improve tourism facility: Tiruchi Travel Federation
  • Tiruchi Today

    • Tirumala

  • Kishen Reddy to assume office tomorrow

    • Tirunelveli

  • Kandigaiperi Hospital integrated

    • Tirupati

  • State BJP chief Kishen Reddy visits Tirumala
  • It's awards galore for SVU college teachers
  • Pre-Ph.D. examinations from April 6
  • Need to save the sparrow from extinction
  • Chinmaya Vidyalaya in Tirupati
  • Dress code for TTD staff

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Nilgiris becoming a concrete jungle
  • Government asked to bring down prices of essential commodities

    • Udupi

  • Tributes paid to Namboodiripad on birth centenary
  • Literature should promote humanism: Upadhyaya
  • Infrastructure high on agenda: Acharya

    • Vellore

  • Stone laid for Combined Court Building in Arakkonam
  • Second phase of DIES project inaugurated
  • Lawyers to abstain from courts on Monday

    • Vijayawada

  • Drinking water facility inaugurated
  • Farmers hopeful of bumper rabi
  • Know the message, Bishop tells devotees at Gunadala shrine
  • Focus on skill development in Loyola's twinning programme
  • For the disappearing house sparrow
  • All set for ITF meet
  • Vuma depositors distraught
  • Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • In the service of the disadvantaged
  • Stone laid for AU geology block
  • RTC marketing campaign from today
  • ‘A searchlight to understanding violence'
  • Meet discusses capacity addition to fisheries
  • Chintapalli consumer council tops
  • ‘Save water for next generation'
  • Consumers cautioned against use of Penz-40
  • Araku MP's stand on bauxite mining hailed
  • Provident Fund authorities file complaint against official
  • Call to make inclusive policy a success
  • Impromptu speaking contest
  • Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Indian volleyball teams felicitated

    • Warangal

  • Red Cross volunteers told to work selflessly
  • Women demand SHG benefits

    • Weather

  • Weather

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