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Alappuzha

  • Interest-free loans for paddy farming
  • Seminar on health care begins
  • Demand within SNDP Yogam for launching political party

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Lalitha Kumari Vizianagaram TDP president
  • Moment to cherish
  • It's hot again
  • Call to officials
  • Polavaram: villagers a worried lot
  • No differences with Jagan: Rosaiah
  • Simply incorrigible!
  • ‘India should leverage international collaborations'
  • Trafficking gang busted, minor rescued
  • Two new rice varieties developed
  • VHP activists attack church
  • Irrigation: Srikrishna panel to depute experts
  • Kala Venkata Rao quits PR, to rejoin TDP
  • 5,873 State pilgrims selected for Haj
  • Thyroid disorders on the rise
  • Sambasivudu plans Telangana ‘yatra'
  • Jayalalithaa prays at Tirumala
  • A serial with social message
  • Congress MLAs seek action against erring colleagues
  • Jeep rams stationary two-wheelers in Secretariat
  • Odarpu Yatra is personal, not political: Jagan
  • Ravindra's suspension demanded
  • ITU mulling ‘cyber treaty' to curb cyber crime
  • Eco-friendly cell phone chargers to be launched
  • Prasar Bharati to digitise archives
  • ‘Whistle blower scheme' to nab spurious drug manufacturers

    • Bangalore

  • Panel clears investments worth Rs. 60,000 crore
  • No decision yet on tie-up with Congress for RS polls: Deve Gowda
  • State mulling over folk varsity
  • NTR Puraskar for Hirannaiah, Umashree
  • Halappa case: court asks CID for CD
  • Traffic diversion on Hosur Road
  • Driver robbed of chain, cash
  • Three commit suicide
  • CBSE results on May 28
  • Toppers acknowledge hard work is the key to success
  • 1,850 valvemen to regulate water supply
  • Student dies in road accident
  • Three commit suicide in city
  • JLR to develop new lodges
  • Nithyananda bail hearing today
  • Court notice to officials
  • Need for creating more awareness on thyroid
  • Interest waiver for excise, commercial tax defaulters
  • Burglars make away with gold ornaments
  • Is the city prepared for the monsoon?
  • BESCOM getting ready
  • The same story over and over again
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange Rates
  • Bullion Rates

    • Belgaum

  • Unorganised sector workers advised to unite
  • 100 ENT surgeons to participate in meet

    • Bellary

  • Bellary ZP members discuss plight of flood victims
  • Janardhan Reddy absent in court for fifth time

    • Bidar

  • Higher education made affordable
  • Students to be felicitated in Bidar

    • Bijapur

  • Lecture on protection of monuments for officials

    • Briefly

  • New video phone from Spice Mobiles
  • TAKE Solutions pays 20 paise final
  • Yatra.com makes foray into Andhra Pradesh
  • AFL chooses iLOG software of IBM
  • Madras Cements pays 50 paise final dividend
  • Canara Robeco launches InDiGo Fund

    • Business

  • GSM operators move TDSAT
  • Industry endorses Manmohan's thrust on double digit growth
  • ‘Exempt exporters from paying service tax'
  • Tata Chemicals reports lower profit
  • Jobs, perks to go in £6 billion U.K. public spending cuts
  • New handset from Zen
  • Tax sops for Industrial Park Scheme extended
  • Cotton under restricted list
  • 3G subscriber base to touch 100 m
  • Monotona Tyres becomes Falcon subsidiary
  • Oriental Insurance in pact with PNB
  • Wild swings in Sensex
  • Nissan starts Micra production

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • Ban on smoking at offices welcomed
  • “FICCI office-bearers will not attend IIFA”
  • Applicants line up for auto permits
  • Light thrown on science courses
  • No funding for cancer prevention in contrast to treatment
  • High Court directs State to set up panels for resolving disputes over free fly ash allocation
  • CB-CID acting impartially in fake drugs cases: DGP
  • Foreign cigarettes seized
  • Health inspectors told to chlorinate water sources
  • Chennai film festival to have a dash of Cannes
  • Scouts to focus on street children
  • Elders' helpline, police receive more calls as temperature soars
  • Lifting of ban on auto permits can have positive effect
  • Revised curriculum for teaching persons with mental retardation
  • Mint flyover approved
  • Begging ban deadline set
  • New TNEB collection schedule
  • Australia keen to boost ties with film industry
  • Order reducing pay of conductor stayed
  • Australia woos businessmen in smaller cities
  • AUT not for more unitary universities

    • Coimbatore

  • ODL admissions begin
  • Remove confusion over Vacant Land Tax issue, say councillors
  • Hop-on hop-off bus services in Coimbatore for Tamil meet
  • Engineering units seek special fund for modernisation
  • Admission to training institute
  • Award for toppers
  • Interactive seminar on May 29
  • Constant vigil against fleecing at Corporation's public utility areas
  • Two-day orientation programme
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Good spell by Vinoth
  • Thumping win for South Delhi Colts
  • Rain ruins play
  • Manav sparkles for Century
  • Thrilling win for Gee Ge CA
  • Sri Lanka scores a seven-wicket win
  • Clarke retains Twenty20 captaincy

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 9851
  • Solution to puzzle 9850

    • Dindigul

  • Three persons killed in two accidents

    • Editorials

  • Drift, dissonance, disappointment

    • Erode

  • Lack of access road hits residents of Samathuvapuram
  • Heavy rain lashes Erode district
  • ‘Flyover should not affect temple'

    • Football

  • HASC joins ONGC in top division
  • South Korea beats Japan
  • Battles, injuries and second crown for Brazil
  • Highlights of 1962 WC

    • Front Page

  • Manmohan rules out retirement till his task is finished
  • Six Naxals held for Dantewada massacre
  • Soren asked to prove majority by May 31
  • Pune bombing suspect held
  • “Government will take action if corruption is proved”
  • Caution pays, yes, but leadership is also about taking a stand
  • SpiceJet aircraft makes emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport
  • Black box of flight IX-812 yet to be recovered
  • Air India offers jobs to crash survivors
  • Silda: court refuses to take cognisance of UAPA charges
  • A series of firsts for me, says Anand
  • “Nepal Maoists not involved”
  • Karunanidhi reviews progress of work for classical Tamil meet
  • Civic body puts Neel Metal Fanalca on notice
  • Five months later, Brittany Murphy's husband found dead
  • Privacy concerns will be met: Facebook founder
  • Verdict on Rathore's plea likely today
  • Proposed college closure withdrawn
  • KC factions adopt interim constitution
  • Tiger spotted in Shenbagathoppu forest area
  • Traffic assistance facilities ready
  • Oman deadline for overstaying Indians
  • Communal clashes in Ahmedabad
  • Six injured as chimney collapses
  • India, U.S. firm up agenda for dialogue
  • CBSE Class X results on Friday
  • A deadly affliction that has almost immobilised them

    • Golf

  • Atwal finishes tied seventh
  • Chowrasia ends tied 34th

    • Gulbarga

  • Career counselling session for students in Gulbarga today
  • SIO to educate poor students
  • Article 371: Government draws flak
  • Pourakarmikas complete their duties; fast continues

    • Guntur

  • Medical camp to be held for cyclone victims
  • Tailor's daughter overcomes odds to top in Class X exams

    • Haryana

  • Woman attempts suicide outside DGP's office
  • ‘UPA's wrong policies fanning Naxalism'
  • CPI(M) to contest civic polls in Haryana

    • Hassan

  • Aamir Khan visits Hassan
  • ‘Do not raze structures on Hosaline Road'
  • Three-day music festival in Rudrapattana concludes
  • Mysterious fever haunts Siddaiah Nagar
  • Animal sacrifice attempt thwarted during jathra

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • NGOs highlight high pollution levels in Himachal

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Several trains cancelled
  • Horatti criticised
  • Woman with symptoms of gastroenteritis dies

    • Hyderabad

  • Airmen recruitment rally on June 19
  • Toguta MPDO in ACB net
  • City to host WWW2011
  • They try to do their own thing
  • Bhasyam students excel in SSC
  • Daily chores no substitute for exercise
  • ‘Rajini' to stay put in Nehru Zoo
  • I-T exemption for Housing Board profits
  • Vegetable prices go beyond reach
  • Two-tier fee structure for non-immigrant US visas
  • Water Board ‘Praja Vaani' held
  • Power shutdown
  • Pulses too pinch the purse
  • New Customs Commissioner
  • CPI-ML Janashakti naxal held
  • Cash, jewellery of telecom meet delegate stolen
  • $10,000 stolen from house
  • KCR decides to attend Vijayawada meeting
  • TPCIL to sign MoU with Singapore firm
  • Power conservation is SCR's forte
  • 60-yr-old found murdered at Injapur
  • RTC gets go-ahead to borrow 400 cr.
  • Swanky new premises for maternity hospital
  • Rs. 10-cr. museum project proposed
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • China, U.S. discuss Yuan
  • U.S. ‘‘unequivocally'' supports South Korean response
  • Gilani allays fears of a face-off with judiciary
  • Mixed response to Sri Lankan panel
  • Iran notifies IAEA
  • Afghanistan delays peace assembly for second time

    • Kadapa

  • TDP leader drops ‘rivals' from committee

    • Kalpetta

  • IUML stakes claim to post
  • KSEB claims creditable work

    • Kancheepuram

  • Domain Expert appointed for evaluation panel

    • Kannur

  • Stress on vocational education

    • Karnataka

  • Children also fall prey to false promises
  • ‘Laila' wrecks farmer's life
  • Awareness on child labour needed at panchayat level
  • Protect heritage sites: official
  • Goa leaders draw flak
  • Four from family killed in accident
  • Opposition to mega township project gathers steam
  • BSNL offer
  • SBM's agricultural productivity month
  • ‘Place PWD's stand on land allotment to NICE before Supreme Court'
  • Indoor stadium
  • Handling an emergency

    • Kerala

  • Direct flight to Kolkata
  • Rural vista
  • New academic year
  • Divakaran contests FICCI's proposal to privatise PDS
  • Ceremonial
  • Five-day Shata Chandi Mahayagam at Kalady
  • Show of strength
  • Speaking out
  • An Indonesian viewpoint
  • Kerala Minister invited to Barcelona
  • Of aural associations
  • Kasaragod's sorrow lingers
  • Promoting cultural ties

    • Khammam

  • Play key role in society, students told

    • Kochi

  • Teenager attends NASA course
  • IG's suspension as per rules, CAT told
  • Balakrishnan: it is my personal view
  • Registration of options for Cusat courses
  • Court flays Sivapuram village officer
  • Workshop conducted
  • Part-time M.Tech. in software at Cusat
  • Report on sustainable modes of transport to be presented today
  • GCDA toilet complex opened
  • Coach of shunting train derails
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • State conference concludes
  • Folklore encyclopaedia to be brought out
  • Amrita varsity ties up with IIT

    • Kottayam

  • Call for steps to bring fallow land under cultivation

    • Kozhikode

  • English Reader for the digital age
  • Industries Secretary rues Plachimada Coke unit closure
  • Second ILS at Calicut airport in June
  • LIC help desks for kin of crash victims
  • 20 lakh saplings to be planted
  • Reward for helping air crash survivor

    • Kurnool

  • Voters' list: Collector seeks parties' cooperation
  • ‘State in financial crisis'

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Public-private partnership in education

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Mangalore tragedy
  • Welcome
  • Death penalty
  • Clean India

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Measures to promote tourism in M.P.

    • Madurai

  • EVMs are vulnerable to fraud, reiterates Swamy
  • Visually challenged persons stage protest
  • Bajaj launches variant of Discover motorcycle
  • Residents asked to keep details ready for census
  • 2-day tribunal in Madurai
  • ‘Varichiyur' Selvam held
  • Huge market for eco-friendly jute products: official
  • Arts and science colleges gearing up for admission
  • In Madurai Today

    • Malappuram

  • Workshop on herbs quality standards begins
  • MGS defends entry of foreign varsities

    • Mangalore

  • DNA samples of crash victims sent to Hyderabad
  • ‘First police team was there in 28 minutes'
  • Make runway safer: Poojary
  • What is a cockpit voice recorder
  • Doing their best during the distress

    • Manipur

  • Autonomous District Council polls in Imphal; first phase begins on Wednesday

    • Mysore

  • An attempt to save the slender loris
  • Stepping into the world of IT
  • BC commission chairman wants caste-based census to start
  • Agitated pourakarmikas begin relay fast
  • Four killed in two separate accidents
  • 1,000 saplings planted on Kukkarahalli Lake premises

    • Nagapattinam

  • Health Mela organised in Kothankudi village

    • Nagercoil

  • Government urged to regulate rock quarries in Kanyakumari district
  • Cadres stage demonstration seeking release of water

    • National

  • Good ties with Pakistan vital to realise development potential: Manmohan
  • Prime Minister talked but did not speak: Jaitley
  • A year of disappointment, says BJP
  • Samad could have been one of those caught on camera outside Pune cafe
  • EGoM to decide on revision of fuel prices, says Deora
  • Law will take its own course: Raja
  • Madan Tamang's body taken out in massive procession
  • “Inflation will be reduced to 5-6 per cent by year-end”
  • When the ‘Q' was longer than the ‘A'
  • Manipur's PULF activist held in Belgaum
  • Actor Tapen Chattopadhyay passes away
  • Plea against Reddy brothers to be heard by Forest Bench
  • Countrywide agitation if wage boards' tenure is not extended: unions
  • Shibu Soren asked to prove majority by May 31
  • 26/11: Tahaliyani pulls up Azad Nagar officers
  • Mayawati in fray for Legislative Council polls
  • Centre not “mere bystander” in water disputes: Manmohan

    • Nellore

  • Rythu bazaar lies vacant as traders refuse to move in
  • Government school students excel in SSC

    • New Delhi

  • Supreme Court stays order on holding polls to advocates association
  • Murali's return still uncertain
  • CBSE Class X results on Friday
  • Sajjan case charge sheet put off
  • New KVB branch for Delhi
  • ASI clears Humayun's Tomb of encroachments
  • Tihar jail inmate's family gets Rs. 3 lakh compensation
  • ‘Two Delhi Chief Secretaries had warned of law and order problem'
  • Woman officer gets relief in sexual harassment case
  • Court reserves order over mobile towers' installation
  • ‘RS poll: choice left to core panel'
  • Morena sizzles at 49.2 degrees
  • City petrol pumps remain closed
  • Contractor, friend held in murder case
  • Cars, two-wheelers to become costlier in Delhi
  • Robbery during marriage function
  • Power demand reaches a pinnacle
  • MCD meeting adjourned amid scuffle
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Corrections and Clarifications

    • Nizamabad

  • Collector cracks down on errant fair price shops

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Op-Ed

  • Reflections on my country's 200th birthday
  • Mass politics and military power

    • Orissa

  • Chess Championship for U-13 from June 2
  • Plea for smooth passage of Women's bill
  • Oriya film industry set to enter Limca Book
  • Large quantity of ganja seized
  • B-School bags prestigious New Era Award
  • Climate change: action plan on websites soon
  • Cuttack gears up to meet flood fury
  • Prativa Award conferred on NCC cadet

    • Palakkad

  • Collector warns of stern action against littering
  • Additional coach

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Idol installation anniversary celebrated at Sabarimala
  • Farm sector gets a booster dose
  • Minister: priority to welfare plans
  • LDF plans rally in Pathanamthitta

    • Perambalur

  • 239 petitions received

    • Polo

  • 20 drivers shortlisted

    • Puducherry

  • Renovation work of indoor stadium starts
  • Man held for theft
  • Four arrested
  • Villianur car festival

    • Racing : Motor

  • Armaan finishes fifth
  • Narain 17th

    • Raichur

  • Tungabhadra bridge damaged, traffic disrupted

    • Rajahmundry

  • RPL matches resume
  • HIV positive cases on the rise in Rajahmundry Central Jail

    • Rajasthan

  • Flying foxes dying of dehydration
  • New Rajasthan judges take oath
  • Rajasthan Govt. told to explain Mathur panel appointment

    • Religion

  • Nature of the Self

    • Salem

  • Head Constable killed in road accident
  • Protest against rise in prices of essential commodities
  • Bodies recovered

    • Shimoga

  • Issue of EPIC cards in Shimoga from June 1
  • Village forest committees to hold meet on May 28
  • ‘Agriculture Department cheating farmers'

    • Sport

  • ICC has to tackle ‘whereabouts' issue, says Howman
  • A series of firsts for me, says Anand
  • Superstars to fight for survival

    • Sports : General

  • Rajiv wins title
  • Jay Prakash records best time
  • Friends BBC emerges champion
  • Synthetic football pitch may not become a reality
  • Gill backs WADA's programme

    • Squash

  • Joshna triumphs

    • Table Tennis

  • Second win for Indian men

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Gearing up for Equitable Standard Education
  • Crying for attention
  • How Corporation takes initiative
  • 3 robbers detained
  • TNPCB orders closure of 65 dyeing units
  • Admission worries make parents throng collectorate
  • Welfare assistance given to 41 beneficiaries
  • Village people want action taken against industries discharging effluents
  • Sky marks
  • Horticulture has huge potential to raise socio-economic status of farmers: VC
  • TASMAC finalises list of licensees for 221 wine shops
  • Petitioners from Kerala meet SP
  • Deadly turn
  • Applications invited from entrepreneurs for award
  • ‘Many tribals living in pathetic conditions'
  • To lead a normal life
  • AIADMK stages demonstration in Ariyalur
  • 18 Government schools register record pass percentage in Pudukottai district
  • Saplings to be moved to distribution centres
  • Seven killed in two different road accidents
  • Dindigul–Coimbatore gauge conversion to be over by 2011
  • Felicitation
  • Special task force for Tirupur to boost pulses production
  • Collector inaugurates NCLP camp
  • Wind power generation picking up well in Theni
  • Easy rider
  • Software engineer dies
  • On recent trends
  • Focus on health
  • Big and beautiful

    • Tennis

  • Glitches to the fore at ‘test event' for CWG
  • Shivika moves up
  • Mohit, lone Indian in fray for juniors
  • Murray claws back from the brink

    • Thanjavur

  • “ Preserve the house of Tanjore quartet”
  • New hospital complex to function from June

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Thilakan appears before Labour Commissioner
  • Two-day Tri-Service meet begins today
  • Protest against Secretary's stand
  • C.P. Narayanan is political secretary to VS
  • Conditions favourable for onset of monsoon
  • Meets all regulations, says AIE
  • Principal Secretary goes on leave
  • Factionalism hallmark of LDF: KPCC
  • Reading Week to be observed in June
  • ‘India, Indonesia have built strong trade ties'
  • Police patronising sand lobby: INTUC
  • 60 kg more of gold for GKSF
  • Water supply scheme hangs fire

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 25, 1960: Nehru arrives in Beirut
  • dated May 25, 1960: Tidal waves hit Japan
  • dated May 25, 1960: Dr. Ida Scudder dead

    • Thrissur

  • 1,674 families in Thrissur to benefit from debt relief scheme
  • KAP buildings
  • Ahamed stalled CBI probe into Marad riots: Kodiyeri

    • Tiruchi

  • CD released on the importance of Kalady
  • Mayor inspects water supply works
  • Exposure visit for panchayat presidents
  • Attendants' block opened at Railway Hospital in Tiruchi
  • Application forms being issued for DM/M.Ch three-year courses
  • Commissioner's order prohibits meetings, agitations
  • In Trichy Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Awards for groundwater recharge initiatives
  • Eleven killed, 12 injured in accident near Tirunelveli
  • Panthapuli protest continues
  • 11 die as bus, van collide

    • Tirupati

  • APSFC nod for Rs. 348 cr. aid
  • Respite for 27 families caught in bonded labour?

    • Tuticorin

  • Appointment orders given
  • Transgenders demand housing facilities

    • Udhagamandalam

  • A glimpse of the vehicles of yore
  • I will visit HPF with an open mind, says Vilasrao Deshmukh

    • Udupi

  • Condolence meeting
  • Experts describe land snails as ‘soil engineers'
  • Three die as mud caves in
  • ‘Tala Maddale reflects cultural heritage'

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Four killed by speeding bus

    • Uttaranchal

  • Tourist rush, power cuts make Dehra Dun summer hotter
  • 5 die in car crash

    • Vellore

  • Financial assistance and benefits worth Rs.18.20 lakhs given
  • Vellore facing acute drinking water scarcity
  • Plea to honour Tamil medium students

    • Vijayawada

  • Corporate schools put up good show
  • Panchaloha idol seized
  • Satyambabu brought to city
  • No progress under UPA's rule, says Telugu Desam leader
  • Food kiosks to replace roadside eateries in city
  • Uma new district president of TDP
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Trial operations of Bronto Sky lift begin
  • Artistes' plea to Collector on setting up of auditorium
  • Irrigation land allotted for mega power plant
  • GVMC to maintain one-hour water supply
  • Computing centre opened
  • Making friends with timid creatures
  • Plans afoot to improve medicare, PDS
  • Power cut today
  • GVMC school student excels
  • Plan to provide Braille material for Telugu medium schoolchildren
  • Ayyanna Patrudu elected Vizag TDP president
  • Murder case accused arrested
  • Stone laid for special school
  • Welfare hostels perform well
  • In Chennai Today
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • ‘Bandh' called by Telangana JAC
  • Students launch hunger strike

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • RPF advisory to travellers passing through LWE-hit areas
  • Bengal court refuses to take cognisance of UAPA charges
  • 5 tigers stray from Sunderbans
  • ‘I don't want to be in the news all the time'
  • Forces arrive for Bengal polls

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