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Alappuzha

  • Muhamma to launch ‘totally clean village' project

    • Anantapur

  • Guntakal women lead in poverty-alleviation programme

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Supreme Court reserves verdict in Obulapuram case
  • Joint Collector held on graft charge
  • Steep fall in levels of groundwater
  • Shrinking Kinnerasani threatens wildlife
  • Six devotees injured in accident
  • Lane matters
  • Relatives of LeT operative in shock
  • SCR opens additional counters
  • 3,000 habitations face water scarcity
  • Medak district to get 43 model schools in next academic year
  • Fruitful venture
  • Devoid of green cover
  • What women want…
  • Life goes on
  • Praja Patham in naxal bastion
  • Legal clinics across the State
  • Register complete details, officials told
  • ‘Be available for patients'
  • NREGS work hit by crowbar shortage
  • Gram sabha with a difference
  • Flipside of summer showers
  • Buddhist site found in Kadapa
  • ‘Araku MP belongs to ST community'
  • Minister serves notices on Yanamala, media men
  • ‘TTD cannot be trusted in gold plating issue'
  • State to generate 200 MW wind energy
  • Fetching water becomes an ordeal
  • Property tax: no more interest waiver
  • Congress sore over TRCCC remarks
  • Rs.10 lakh stolen from rice mill clerk
  • No need for financial emergency: Rosaiah

    • Athletics

  • Sini, Seema and Sunil complete doubles

    • Bangalore

  • Children found in ‘illegal' custody
  • Protest against Hogenakkal project
  • Textbook shortage makes booksellers move court
  • ‘Government has no time for Dalits'
  • Call for his arrest growing
  • Panchayati Raj: the battle ahead
  • Houses of seven officials searched
  • Special trains
  • MNCs are vulgarising cultural fetes, says M.P. Prakash
  • Complaint against Chief Secretary, three others
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange Rates
  • Bullion Rates

    • Belgaum

  • Boys told to excel in extracurricular activities
  • CBI probe sought against Halappa

    • Bellary

  • Bombs in Bellary: one person arrested
  • Concern over finding of crude bombs

    • Bihar

  • ‘Maoists wanted to loot weapons'

    • Bijapur

  • ‘Students should be physically and mentally fit'
  • KSWU to start new courses

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Robertson reigns supreme

    • Briefly

  • HCL Tech in pact with Merck
  • Ramco Systems offers IP3 framework
  • RCom to offer Android bundled handsets
  • Axis Bank ties up with Max New York Life
  • Mahindra Satyam signs deal with BASF IT
  • Aircel deploys TeleDNA's suite
  • Jayakar Krishnamurthy, CMD of Ucal Fuel
  • New VP (Sales) for Ford India

    • Business

  • Sensex sheds 249 points on weak global cues
  • Videocon barred from doing business with World Bank
  • Scope for boosting trade with Australia
  • Non-trade issues not to hamper trade talks with EU
  • RBI revises pricing norms for transfer of shares
  • GEMAC to set up plant near Kumbakonam
  • Cognizant Q1 net income rises to $152 million
  • Samsung Engg bags Nagarjuna Oil contract
  • United Bank profit moves up to Rs. 322 cr
  • Jindal Steel & Power pays Rs. 1.25 dividend
  • SEBI extends tenure of Index options trade
  • Company move to revoke the ban

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Award for ophthalmologist
  • Chennai Corporation still has 12 doctor post vacancies
  • Stunning replicas a big draw at ‘Kodai Thiruvizha' in Chennai
  • Now, DVDs of classic films grab attention of movie lovers
  • Girl undergoes free cochlear implant surgery at GH
  • Police too will have a role to play in creating awareness of kidney problems
  • Puducherry bags pride of place at Shanghai expo
  • Interim stay granted on recruitment of P.Ed teachers
  • Elementary education curriculum to be revised in a month's time
  • Heritage panel to meet
  • Draft textbooks invited in the approved new syllabus
  • Funds for restoration of basketball ground
  • “Integration of human rights into curriculum is essential”
  • Website launched
  • No step without court order on Gokhale Hall: YMIA
  • Now garbage dump turns shooting spot
  • Commemoration of victory over fascism
  • French naval tanker to berth in Chennai
  • Traffic diversion
  • Fund mooted for free cochlear implant surgery
  • Noise pollution exceeds limits
  • 3 houses burgled at Rajamangalam
  • Scuffle ends in murder
  • Sanitary napkin incinerators to be installed in PHCs, hospitals
  • 93 mentally ill persons admitted to IMH
  • Snag hits online building plan approval system
  • Scheme to rectify pipeline leaks
  • Office-bearers
  • Dealers in expired food items to be punished
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Anand manages a draw
  • A super power in the making
  • Hetul, Aravindh in lead
  • Topalov draws level

    • Coimbatore

  • Newborn handed over to adoption centre
  • Education fair today
  • Mahatma Gandhi Study Centre at KCT
  • Plan to give a facelift to Marudamalai foothills
  • Photography camp
  • Encroachments removed to enable development works
  • Over 40,000 water sachets seized
  • Exporters' chamber plea on duty drawback for cotton yarn
  • Yarn prices reduced by Rs. 5 a kg
  • ‘Collect hall tickets'
  • Flu-affected woman delivers male baby
  • Boy included in Indian team
  • Better amenities demanded
  • AIR programmes
  • West Zone police to improve traffic in districts
  • Grievance redressal
  • Load shedding schedule change
  • Collector's call to shops on name boards in Tamil
  • Efforts to decongest Gandhipuram begin
  • MLF workers to stage demonstration
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • ‘T20 is serious business'
  • Badarudin shines
  • Alappuzha defeats Kollam
  • Matches drawn
  • Ishant strikes for ONGC
  • Sri Lanka refuses to give up on Murali
  • ‘Reform D/L method'
  • Sri Lanka registers win
  • Ashraful back
  • Perfect 10 for Suresh
  • Manikandan's effort goes in vain
  • Trotters poised to make semifinals
  • Duckworth defends D/L method
  • India needs to back match-winners

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 9834
  • Solution to puzzle 9833

    • Cuddalore

  • Drive against vehicles with registration numbers of other States
  • Pension for noon meal centre workers

    • Dharmapuri

  • Hand over Tamil works

    • Dindigul

  • ‘108' emergency services in State to be increased
  • Extend full support for agitation to block roads to Kerala: Vaiko

    • Editorials

  • Wide-open race
  • Don't blame it on bad arithmetic

    • Eluru

  • Rain makes farmers jittery

    • Erode

  • Works for UGD project begin in Erode
  • Autorickshaws operating without permit detained
  • Collector receives over 300 petitions
  • Power shutdown on May 7
  • Seniority list published

    • Football

  • Brace by Beikhokhei
  • Sporting beats Mahindra
  • Much-needed win for Viva Kerala
  • HASC, Malabar Utd. score
  • Blackburn stuns Arsenal
  • Tottenham, Man City play-off for CL spot

    • Front Page

  • Government not for caste census
  • Uproar in Lok Sabha over motormen's strike
  • Pakistan-born man held for Times Square bomb
  • Kasab to be sentenced tomorrow
  • Mumbaikars relieved as motormen call off strike
  • No rollback of fuel duty hike: Pranab
  • Videocon barred from doing business with World Bank
  • Rain helps West Indies advance
  • Kiwis make it to the Super Eight
  • Zulfikar's daughter, nephew dispute claim in Fatima's book
  • Motormen threaten to go on strike again
  • Mini-buses in three months: Minister
  • Detailed feasibility report approved for expressway
  • Cabinet clears State Legislative Council proposal
  • Kohli held guilty
  • Gill stands firm
  • GPs have plenty of monetary and administrative clout
  • Six boys held while trying to cross LoC
  • Rajaji ‘illam' kept under lock, tourists disappointed
  • SSLC, PU results on May 6 and 7
  • “Handicrafts artisans need resource centre”
  • Windmills for smaller stations
  • BJP, Sena protest
  • Education Minister, DPI warn of action
  • Technopark firms lift ban on poaching
  • Kasab continues to hog the headlines in Pakistan

    • Gulbarga

  • Students' demand
  • CPI(M) extends support to agitating pourakarmikas
  • Traineeship

    • Guntur

  • VITEEE: second rank for local lad
  • Medical college to hold health camps
  • Farmers on warpath at Praja Patham
  • In charge chairman appointed
  • Action initiated against IAS officers
  • Village in grip of severe diarrhoea in Guntur dt.
  • Evening shower brings respite from heat

    • Haryana

  • Remain vigilant, Minister tells Mirchpur families
  • Railway team to visit Rohtak

    • Hassan

  • Health officer taken to task for ‘inaction'
  • ‘Grassroots-level polls provide the foundation'
  • 420 candidates elected unopposed in Hassan

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Boring for Rohtang tunnel project to start in June

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Rasto-roko against ‘irregularities' in allotment of Ashraya houses
  • 5,405 contesting gram panchayat polls in Dharwad

    • Hyderabad

  • Rosaiah lauds AP Transco
  • Now, demand for separate Rayalaseema
  • HPCL truck owners to go on indefinite strike
  • Focus on empowering girls
  • JNTU entrepreneurship development programme
  • Fiat Classic Car Club launched
  • Chris Pfeiffer enthrals city
  • Taking the eco-friendly path
  • SBH donates 10-bed ward to hospital
  • Sania, Shoaib land at Gymkhana
  • Tanishq Akshaya Tritiya offer
  • GHMC aims to double property tax revenue
  • Spurt in malaria cases in city
  • Godavari project to start by May-end
  • 3 rag-pickers buried alive
  • HUDCO extends Rs.700-crore loan to HMDA
  • Bachelors' Quarters to be history soon
  • IIT Hyderabad in expansion mode
  • New wedding collection launched
  • Free EAMCET practice tests
  • Techie's wife “commits” suicide
  • Illegal buildings in gram panchayats worry officials
  • Life term for rowdy-sheeter in lawyer's murder
  • State suggests new scheme to check insurgency
  • Census-2011 set to be significant for disabled
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • China must seek NSG exception, says U.S.
  • Questions in U.S. if Shahzad is a “lone wolf”
  • Difficult to say no to U.S.: Japan
  • Maoists to intensify strike
  • Will help in probe: Islamabad

    • Kadapa

  • ‘Don't compare RIMS with Osmania '
  • ‘Pollution, cosmetics aggravating asthma cases'
  • Programme for children with autism

    • Kalpetta

  • Wild elephant dies at Kottamkara forest

    • Kannur

  • Local body poll preparations to begin this month: BJP
  • BJYM supports stir against toddy shop

    • Karnataka

  • BMIC project: Karnataka gets eight weeks' time to convene HLC meeting
  • Village residents spew venom on elected representatives
  • Hospital official's office searched
  • Lone candidate to contest GP elections in Kuderu
  • Up in arms
  • Documentary to promote Goan handicrafts
  • Desecration of statues condemned
  • 4,409 in fray in Gadag district
  • ‘Police prevented candidate from withdrawing nomination'
  • ‘There is a fall in standard of education'
  • Development is an unknown word here
  • BJP slams Misra panel report
  • Halappa's fate hinges on initial investigation

    • Kattappana

  • Elephant died of haemorrhage: vet

    • Kerala

  • Probe into exit from school of Muslim girl over headscarf
  • Curbs on release of new films in Kerala to be lifted for a month
  • Movie devoid of suspense
  • Fruits of labour
  • Thalassery to get modern fish market
  • Keeping with the tradition

    • Khammam

  • Blaze in SCCL
  • CITU's plea to make coal workers strike a success

    • Kochi

  • Hridayathalam a big success
  • Thachankary case adjourned to May 17
  • Special tribunal holds sitting on SIMI ban
  • An avoidable risk for two-wheeler riders
  • IGNOU extends date
  • Meet on advanced computing
  • Central team finds Act violation in Munnar
  • Pull test facility for ships to come up at Vizhinjam
  • Samithi plea for reconciliation
  • NCP calls for consensus on development issues
  • Clearing of drains before monsoon
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Ombudsman directs replanting of saplings
  • Chandanapally church festival from Friday
  • Sacerdotal golden jubilee on May 8

    • Kozhikode

  • Handicrafts show begins today
  • Good SSLC result poses a problem
  • IMA opposes State move
  • Chandy: take over Comtrust
  • Merger not to affect UDF unity: Chandy
  • No formula on merger: Chennithala

    • Kurnool

  • ‘Faction violence under control'
  • CPI delegation unhappy with canal works
  • Airtel donates traffic barricades

    • Leader Page Articles

  • U.K. poll headed for the unknown

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Mumbai verdict
  • Education business
  • Water woes
  • Wife-beating
  • Poor housemaid

    • Madurai

  • KVIC introduces new assistance scheme
  • South India a prominent destination for British varsities: Nithavrianakis
  • Three tiffin centres sealed near Madurai railway station
  • Scholarships for students choosing basic science courses
  • “UK offers huge business opportunities for firms”
  • Hostel invites applications
  • Additional buses being operated to clear rush
  • Farmers go on a Kerala tour
  • Travellers can file complaint with nearest police station: IG
  • Power shutdown
  • “State must take responsibility for providing education, medical care”
  • Letika Saran hands over aid to kin of slain policeman
  • In Madurai Today

    • Malappuram

  • Adivasis' problems to be addressed with urgency
  • Better SSLC results pose a problem

    • Mangalore

  • Rainwater harvesting has many benefits
  • Falling water-table calls for urgent action
  • Groundwater use to be regulated soon
  • Poojary seeks CBI probe
  • More borewells may make matters worse

    • Mysore

  • Mysore residents become ‘green activists'
  • MoEF representatives visit Bolegowdanakatte
  • Good response to UIDAI pilot project
  • Board to hire consultants to improve palace ambience

    • Nagapattinam

  • Tension over patient's death; relatives refuse to accept body

    • Nalgonda

  • Village adopts renewable energy

    • National

  • CPI(M) seeks apology from Trinamool MP
  • Jamaat-ud-Dawa protests indictment of Saeed, Lakhvi
  • Documenting the state of freedom of speech in India
  • Support will continue: Qureshi
  • BJP calls for new Kashmir led by youth
  • Natural resources under threat from eminent domain doctrine: Binayak Sen
  • A killing machine from Pakistan factory, says Nikam
  • Modi: Why another environment panel on Narmada dam project?
  • A jolt to Congress in West Bengal
  • Still waiting for justice
  • RPF revives ‘leave Manipur' demand
  • SFI opposes Foreign Educational Institutions Bill
  • Efforts on to restore tainted MCI back to health: Azad
  • Meeting point
  • Cabinet clears T.N. Legislative Council proposal
  • Indian scientist on IPCC review panel
  • Court norms for compounding in cheque bounce cases
  • Cancel 2G allocation, says Swamy
  • Leader remembered
  • In a surprise move, IPS officer held in Prajapati case
  • Strategic India-EU ties favoured
  • Pact on linking of rivers signed
  • Shortage of medical isotopes hits patients
  • Lashkar operative remanded

    • Nellore

  • Four women thieves nabbed
  • Security: alarm bells along sea coast

    • New Delhi

  • Prabakaran's mother likely to be allowed entry
  • Disqualification of ex-MP advised
  • Heat, heat go away
  • Young musician enthrals audience
  • Unravelling deep sea mysteries
  • Colourful artistic impressions from South Asia
  • ‘Deceased journalist tricked by her family'
  • Lok Sabha passes labour welfare Bill
  • High Court acquits man accused of wife's murder
  • Call for “inclusive education”
  • Wait for power tariff order getting longer
  • Raising their voices
  • Complaint against MNC for trading in shahtoosh
  • March for peace
  • Inspector booked on corruption charges
  • Centre studying State's plea on Parvathi
  • Supreme Court to hear Jayalalithaa's plea on May 11
  • A huge pay hike for judicial officers

    • News Analysis

  • At healthcare's fountainhead
  • In Pakistan politics, it is all in the family
  • The possibilities for Mauritius and India
  • Therapy for depression
  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • Former DCC president dead

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Orissa

  • SMEs seek intervention of Naveen
  • Lawyers boycott courts in Berhampur
  • Veteran theatre artiste passes away in Puri
  • Villagers hold protest demo against Mayor
  • State blamed for drinking water crisis
  • CITU opposes proposal to disinvest equity in NALCO
  • Cooling off
  • Red Ribbon Express reaches Koraput
  • State women athletes win laurels at national meet

    • Palakkad

  • Extension of passenger trains

    • Perambalur

  • Eye camp organised

    • Puducherry

  • Renovation of building at GH over
  • Ariankuppam bridge construction resumes
  • Road works begin
  • More power from Central grid sought
  • Welfare officers on mass casual leave
  • Drawings showcase eclectic styles of young artists
  • Second Saturday music fest in Puducherry

    • Punjab

  • Bus from Jalandhar to Delhi airport flagged off

    • Rajahmundry

  • Bus yatra to give a boost to PRP morale

    • Rajasthan

  • Gehlot cuts short Jaisalmer visit, warns Gujjars
  • ‘Rajasthan move a violation of Supreme Court order'

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Two women killed

    • Religion

  • Where is God?

    • Salem

  • Village people desilt Panankadu Kateri Lake
  • Ganja seized
  • Regulatory order in city
  • Heavy security at Mettur dam

    • Sport

  • Rain helps West Indies advance
  • Kiwis make it to the Super Eight

    • Sports : General

  • Progress in CWG sponsorship deals
  • Guidelines issue: IOC backs IOA
  • Asian conference
  • Seven batsmen score centuries
  • SJFI convention from today
  • Kedar CA in final
  • Double for Manipur

    • Squash

  • Mohd. Azlan, Nicol David emerge champions

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Compensation given
  • Innovation is the key to successful career, says official
  • Career guidance programme
  • Goats handed over to Irulars
  • Ration card-holders' list
  • Getting ready
  • Protective gear
  • Pensioners' grievances day
  • Yarn price reduction has no impact in Tirupur cluster
  • Karnataka beckons Tirupur knitwear entrepreneurs
  • Collector distributes community certificates
  • Over 1,000 pirated DVDs seized
  • Remove encroachments on public land, Dalits demand
  • Census enumerators called upon to deliver tasks with pride
  • Correction
  • Precious waste
  • Couple found dead
  • Six-week training in Chennai
  • “Prevent pilferage of petroleum products”
  • Legal aid camp for labourers evokes good response
  • Collector inspects samathuvapuram
  • Thirst quencher
  • Jewellery stolen
  • Date to submit Haj applications extended
  • State to consult legal experts on relaxation of jallikattu norms
  • Manipur MLAs witness proceedings
  • Pratibha Patil to inaugurate classical Tamil conference
  • Puzhal inmate escapes in transit
  • CAT vacation sitting
  • Warrant issued against former railway official
  • CPI (M) seeks ‘pattas' for poor in the Nilgiris

    • Tennis

  • Baghdatis bounces back
  • Lakshmi stuns Karishma
  • Ranjeet upset
  • Indian boys ensure quarterfinal entry
  • Pranjala moves up

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • International film festival from May 7
  • Doctors in Malappuram to strike work today
  • RSP may object to Cabinet berth for KC(J) faction
  • Nod for vegetable farming plans
  • Narrow NHs may choke growth
  • Campaign to corner dissidents
  • Mental arithmetic contest
  • Media awards announced
  • IMA against provision in medicare service Bill
  • With their eyes set on the stars
  • GTECH outlines roadmap for IT growth
  • Call to protect traditional rights of inland fishermen
  • Drive to ensure safety of pedestrians begins

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 5, 1960: Reserve Bank's measures
  • dated May 5, 1960: U.S. foodgrains for India
  • dated May 5, 1960: Award for K. Balaraman

    • Thrissur

  • Electrical Safety Week begins

    • Tiruchi

  • Idea to post a coach cheers tennis enthusiasts in Tiruchi
  • The Hindu Education Plus pre-counselling session
  • Community college to be established soon
  • TPL's second edition on May 22
  • Education Department initiates cohort analysis
  • “Students must find solutions to problems”
  • Rally marks Electrical Safety Week
  • Conserve monuments, says historian
  • Electric fish cart introduced
  • Arts college for Manapparai: Nehru
  • Collector inspects enumeration of huts
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Chellapandian statue removed in Tirunelveli
  • Man held for slapping official

    • Tirupati

  • ‘Evaluate existing SEZs before adding more'
  • DIG reviews Tirumala security

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Move to boost organic tea cultivation

    • Udupi

  • GP polls: 1,669 candidates for second phase
  • Concern over child marriages in State

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Court orders status quo on Lucknow green belt
  • Court gives divergent verdicts on B.Ed. test
  • Koli held guilty in second Nithari case
  • Hailstorm lashes UP, six killed

    • Vellore

  • TNPCB slammed “for not taking effective steps”
  • SFI volunteers arrested
  • Rs.65,000 dividend for SHG
  • New BSNL facility

    • Vijayawada

  • Manna from heaven, verily
  • Top B-schools to conduct group discussion
  • Study camp on magic
  • ‘Go on a hunt for sporting talent'
  • ‘Make Polavaram a national project'
  • Man held on murder charge
  • CPI(M) team visits mango market
  • VMC finances in a disarray?
  • Another chance to regularise encroachments
  • Man wanted in Karnataka held
  • Charge against corporate colleges

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Rosaiah supports establishment of atomic power plants
  • Ascent students excel
  • Rosaiah opens art gallery
  • Offers galore at GRT Jewellers
  • Summer camps a hit with kids
  • Electronic fund transfer introduced at EPFO
  • Ramana Murthy feted
  • Chief Minister opens College of Excellence
  • More water for city from Godavari
  • Directive to VPT on pollution
  • Good response to Kankatala annual sale
  • Biosphere reserve status to Chintapalle dropped?

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • RPF to set up its first commando training unit
  • Two killed as BSF constable fires on mob
  • IGNOU to provide free education to sex workers
  • Justice Sen files reply
  • CISF may guard explosive depots of coal companies

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