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Andhra Pradesh

  • No rift with YSR, says APCC chief
  • Congress men angling for Cabinet berths
  • Foolproof arrangements for counting
  • Starvation death: NHRC plea for relief
  • Minister back to guessing game
  • TRS asks Congress to clarify stand on SRC
  • Up goes EVM dashing their hopes
  • Gutkha sale continues unhindered
  • Naidu's meetings with party men cancelled
  • Modern cyclone warning system for Machilipatnam
  • Doctors' demand
  • Bhashyam's aid for meritorious students
  • TTD plans uniform rate for tickets
  • Tributes paid to Sanjivayya
  • Briefly

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Questions with a corporate fizz
  • Sale of TTD seva tickets in black alleged
  • Two killed, five hurt in road mishap
  • Eco-friendly offering!

    Archery

  • India hopes to do well

    Assam

  • Govt. orders probe into textbook distribution
  • Oil scam: CPI(M) for time-bound probe

    Bangalore

  • Making life hell in the name of love
  • `Kidnapped' man found murdered
  • New property tax scheme likely this year
  • The mother of all days
  • Engineer's death: police file case
  • Role of Scouts and Guides highlighted
  • Drain being desilted
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    Barometer

  • Stock Market Index
  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    Basketball

  • Chinese women blank Indonesia
  • Kanaka beats Vivekananda

    Belgaum

  • Ban order in Belgaum from Wednesday

    Bellary

  • Water supply disrupted

    Bidar

  • DC's directive to poll officials
  • Samiti threatens dharna

    Billiards & Snooker

  • Peace Cup tournament in Chandigarh
  • O'Sullivan — reared for greatness

    Briefly

  • Efforts to resolve Dabhol debacle
  • Marginal drop in inflation
  • Trigger to launch kids wear
  • State Bank of Mysore net up 52 p.c.
  • Syndicate Bank to tap market
  • Crude hits $40
  • Templeton picks up stake in Aurobindo Pharma
  • Maybach lures billionaires
  • PCS' software for courier industry
  • Asian Paints gets APPCB funding
  • ISB's global executive programme
  • UCO Bank profit up

    Business

  • A bitter pill for small units
  • Big players can manage
  • DGFT launches digital signature facility
  • Lufthansa to introduce business class service
  • A committee approach to a burning problem?
  • HDFC net profit up
  • High oil prices dampen market
  • SFDL to distribute SBI Life products
  • Rupee steady
  • MRO-TEK pays 20 p.c.

    Cartoons

  • POCKET WATCH

    Chennai

  • Fire safety measures a far cry
  • Showers delay works to bring water from aquifer
  • TRAI lays emphasis on regulating industry
  • EVMs set up at 14 distribution centres
  • On-the-spot admissions to Newcastle varsity
  • Boy electrocuted, former MLA held
  • DMK alleges impersonation of polling officers
  • Intruders tie up youth, decamp with jewels
  • 'Film institute must be given autonomy'
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Tioday

    Coimbatore

  • Tab on fake insurance claims
  • Police take out flag march in city
  • Campaign ends today
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • Jayasuriya, Atapattu slam centuries
  • Windfall for domestic players in the offing
  • Dias trying to put Nepal on the dais
  • Reserve day for all matches in Asia Cup
  • `Inexperience of batsmen helped'
  • I am no allrounder: Pathan
  • Gavaskar, Shastri to skip ACC seminar
  • Ajitabh hits century

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 7978
  • Solution to puzzle 7977

    Cuddalore

  • 673 sensitive booths identified

    Cuddapah

  • Cuddapah tops in housing loans disbursal, recovery
  • Officials thanked for free and fair polls

    Dindigul

  • Physical handicap not an obstacle: Vaiko

    Editorials

  • CONGRESS ON NEW GROUND
  • DIVIDEND RESTRAINTS ON WEAK BANKS

    Elections 2004

  • In Punjab and Haryana, ruling parties up against the wall
  • The search for the Bahujan vote
  • The Left, the Right and the Mamata factor
  • Comfort for Chidambaram
  • The importance of being "Barkat-da"
  • POLL-POURRI
  • Touch and Go Seats
  • CANDIDATE WATCH: Smriti Irani, BJP
  • CHILD'S PLAY?
  • Everything at stake for Virbhadra
  • Floods issue dominates Raiganj

    Football

  • It's Marseille vs Valencia
  • Consolation win for ASEB
  • NFL fixtures for final phase

    Front Page

  • Army admits Siachen unit faked enemy kills
  • Bush apologises to prisoners, but backs Rumsfeld
  • Best Bakery: Gujarat's plea rejected
  • Trial against Vaiko, 8 others stayed
  • AIADMK, BJP failed people: Sonia
  • Civil Services exam results
  • 240-260 seats for NDA: opinion poll

    Globescan

  • Wife of ex-Enron executive jailed
  • 'Budget deficits threaten stability'
  • Awami League MP shot dead
  • New group of astronauts

    Golf

  • Triplett steals the show
  • Johl keeps lead

    Gulbarga

  • Pulse Polio drive to cover 4.86 lakh children
  • Arrangements made for counting votes
  • Cong. accused of filing false cases against CPI(M) workers

    Hockey

  • IHF hints at including Dhanraj

    Hyderabad

  • Community halls in name only!
  • Power shutdown in several areas
  • Mediciti moves to save accident victims
  • Unaccounted cash recovered from AMVI
  • Model code helps MCH keep city clean
  • Dismissed from service for taking bribe
  • Charminar Bank to settle claims
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    International

  • My deepest apologies, says Rumsfeld
  • 14 killed in Karachi mosque blast
  • Al Sadr breathes fire on U.S.
  • Insider lifts lid on Abu Ghraib failures
  • Red Cross says U.S. ignored jail warnings
  • Probe will not restore honour, says former prisoner
  • 'Osama reward' for U.S., U.N. killings
  • Nepal Prime Minister resigns
  • Exhibition re-traces Silk Road to China
  • The hero of Dien Bien Phu
  • Putin pledges push to economy
  • Gold reward for U.S., U.N. killings
  • Madrid blasts: American held
  • NATO force 'feeds Kosovo flesh trade'

    Jammu & Kashmir

  • Six Lashkar militants gunned down
  • J&K Congress activist shot dead

    Jharkand

  • Militants kill two jawans in train

    Kancheepuram

  • Villagers to boycott poll to protest tapping of water

    Kannur

  • 18 fishermen still missing

    Karnataka

  • Rural students fare better in SSLC exam.
  • Govt. hospitals still in a dismal state
  • Kodagu, a land with many charms for tourists
  • New textbooks for next SSLC examination
  • EVMs may influence poll outcome
  • State should be a global player: Krishna
  • Drip, sprinkler irrigation to be subsidised
  • Separate entrance test for MBA/MCA management quota
  • 69 lakh hectares of land to be cultivated in kharif season
  • Malaprabha Bank records Rs. 34.49 crore profit
  • Railway Museum jubilee on June 2
  • BJP for curbs on `caretaker' Govt.
  • Mango growers seek retention of market on Palace Grounds
  • Krishna's statement on report criticised
  • Industries Dept. being reorganised
  • Leave vital decisions to new Govt.: JD(S)
  • Arrangements made for pulse polio programme
  • Newspaper hawker has a fatal fall
  • More coaches
  • Veerappa in hospital
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Villagers deny reports of boycott of Dalits
  • Gang arrested for forcing driver to part with vehicle
  • Seer dedicates silver chariot to Jayatirtha
  • Arrangements made for pulse polio programme
  • Steps taken to tackle water shortage in Jagalur

    Kerala

  • Court notice to Minister in Graphite case
  • Nayanar's condition still critical
  • Nambadan makes it tough for Padmaja
  • Keen contest on the cards
  • Undercurrents will decide the winner
  • Chemplast Sanmar wins quiz contest
  • Three killed, 23 missing in heavy rain
  • Anti-Congress stand will split CPI(M): Thankachan
  • Petition of P.C. Thomas dismissed
  • Congress hobnobbing with the Left: Advani
  • No differences of opinion in Congress: Muniyappa
  • Congress should attempt Government formation: Antony
  • NCP to support LDF
  • 1,904 booths `sensitive'
  • S. M. Krishna's remarks criticised
  • Briefly

    Kochi

  • Flood: relief operations on
  • A paid service
  • Preparations for poll nearing completion
  • IMA State meet begins
  • In Kochi Today

    Kollam

  • One more person found missing from Kollam
  • `No new scheme for fish workers'
  • KSFE staff to back UDF
  • `Demand compensation from U.S.'

    Kottayam

  • One washed away

    Kozhikode

  • Relief camps set up in Kozhikode
  • V.P. Singh attacks BJP policies

    Kurnool

  • Prohibitory orders

    Leader Page Articles

  • NGOs in the crossfire
  • Two Indias

    Letters to the Editor

  • Best Bakery case
  • Use of EVMs
  • Elections 2004
  • Shocking
  • The smoking ban
  • Court vacation

    Madikeri

  • Kudiyas threaten to stage dharna

    Madurai

  • Now begins the countdown
  • Measures for smooth polls discussed
  • Periyar dam water released
  • Azhagar leaves for abode
  • `Chenda was played only to entertain crowd'
  • Fernandes meets DPI members
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    Maharashtra

  • 26 injured in Shirdi violence, police firing

    Mangalore

  • Pulse Polio to cover 1,82,796 children
  • Arrangements for counting of votes in Mangalore
  • Muslims told to encourage writers
  • Rough seas wreak havoc in Ullal
  • Hospital to be inaugurated
  • Man found dead near rail track
  • In Mangalore Today

    Mizoram

  • Church hall desecrated

    Mysore

  • Children's theatre festival begins today
  • Rangayana to hold children's theatre festival from today
  • Campaign against tobacco use
  • Rangayana to hold children's theatre festival from today
  • Scouts and Guides highlight the harm in tobacco use

    Nagercoil

  • `Connectivity revolution on'

    Nalgonda

  • Pulse polio: officials aim at 100 p.c. immunisation

    National

  • The 'tadka' game
  • Total ban ordered on illegal recruitment to Iraq
  • Modi has lost moral right to rule, says Congress
  • Steep petrol price hike ruled out
  • Modi's tirade against Sonia
  • Women top Civil Services exams
  • First woman to top the list in Orissa
  • TRAI opens discussion on CAS, FM radio
  • Congress condemns U.S. treatment of Iraqi prisoners
  • EC observers acting partisan in West Bengal: CPI(M)
  • Supreme Court notice to Bihar Government
  • 'Bihar Government expecting report on Pappu Yadav's whereabouts'
  • BJP rakes up Congress allegations against DMK
  • Telecom firms cashing in on poll fever
  • Sonia is a better choice, says Jethmalani
  • Sri Sri Ravishankar meets Bush
  • Bilkis case: court rejects police officers' plea
  • Status quo in PG medical seats quota
  • Policy on Government accommodation revised

    Nellore

  • IIT screening test: good show by Nellore institutions

    New Delhi

  • 15 women in fray for place in Parliament
  • Campaigning in Capital reaches a crescendo
  • Using pressure tactics to solve cases
  • `Mini Atal' BJP's star campaigner
  • Laloo steals the show
  • `Cleaner' choice for the Capital
  • SHO beats up boy, probe ordered
  • `Goel misusing his position'
  • DDA official held for graft
  • Ramps coming up on war footing
  • DTC may ply special buses for Yamuna Pushta
  • Clash between party supporters
  • JNU entrance examination from May 15
  • Man kills wife
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    Nizamabad

  • Gauge conversion to be ready by 2005: SCR

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Orissa

  • Feline additions to Nandankanan Zoo

    Pathanamthitta

  • Ramesh Chennithala's plea to CPI(M) cadres

    Perambalur

  • Child labour still prevalent in quarries

    Pondicherry

  • Pro-Vajpayee wave sweeping across country: Thirunavukarasar
  • Parties intensify campaign
  • PMK promises to get additional powers to administration

    Racing : Motor

  • Schumacher, Button top practice times
  • Alonso's personality as simple as his driving
  • Same rally, different challenges

    Religion

  • Devotion, an end in itself

    Shimoga

  • Rally, interaction with candidates
  • Valedictory of camp for Sanskrit teachers today

    Sikkim

  • Sikkim welcomes China's move

    Sivaganga

  • Poll arrangements reviewed

    Stocks & Shares

  • IA honours its sports persons

    Swimming

  • KAA to launch talent search programme

    Table Tennis

  • Swarna shines

    Tamil Nadu

  • AIADMK, BJP failed people: Sonia
  • Consider withdrawing POTA case against Vaiko: govt.
  • Where the caste colour is pronounced
  • Cheer for farmers, problems to Metrowater
  • A daunting task for AIADMK
  • 2,000 policemen deployed in Dharmapuri
  • Radhika Selvi's Mumbai supporters allege police harassment
  • Apex court extends order on extra seats in medicine, engineering
  • Anna varsity to enlarge placement cell for rural students
  • Be vigilant in selecting college: Balagurusamy
  • Appreciable rise in reservoir levels
  • Fernandes rules out seeking support of former NDA allies
  • Sonia discusses poll scenario with Karunanidhi
  • Vote for DPA, says panel against anti-conversion Act
  • Rain damages flower beds in Ooty
  • Neyveli water in a few days: Jayalalithaa
  • Substantial rise in LBP
  • EC transfers Mylapore police official
  • Seminar for energy consultants
  • Welfare programmes to help rural women
  • Consortium of college associations meeting on May 12
  • Voter indifference, low level of campaign worry a Gandhian
  • Briefly
  • ENGAGEMENTS

    Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Police take out flag march in Karur, Pudukottai
  • Information centre to be opened soon
  • Training classes end

    Tennis

  • Costa enters semifinals
  • India beats Uzbekistan

    Thanjavur

  • Hundreds witness Thiruvaiyaru temple festival
  • Level in tanks goes up
  • Villagers to boycott poll

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Rajagopal focussing on development issues
  • UDF believes in politics of development, says Antony
  • Sea erosion: one more relief camp opened
  • Epidemic alert: DMO reviews measures
  • Around the City
  • Criminal gangs flourishing on sale of drugs

    This Day That Age

  • dated May 8, 1954: Compensation to refugees
  • dated May 8, 1954: French PM wins vote
  • dated May 8, 1954: National anthem
  • dated May 8, 1954: Mango yield above normal
  • dated May 8, 1954: Bannister's grand feat

    Thrissur

  • Floods: 1,000 people shifted

    Tiruchi

  • Gaping trenches harrowing Srirangam, Golden Rock residents
  • Farmers may take up summer ploughing
  • Flag march taken out
  • Vehicle-lifter held, mopeds recovered
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today

    Tuticorin

  • Security beefed up in Tuticorin

    Udupi

  • Steps taken in Udupi as cyclonic storm approaches
  • Two constables suspended

    Uttar Pradesh

  • Faulty voters' list blamed for poor polling in Lucknow

    Vellore

  • 10,696 personnel to be deployed
  • IMFL shops to be closed

    Vijayawada

  • Corporate colleges project `achievements' of students
  • Desilting on in Krishna river
  • Parties await results with bated breath
  • A car in her kitty for Re.1
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    Visakhapatnam

  • `Separate Telangana inevitable if Congress-TRS forms Government'
  • Refund of deposit ordered
  • All set for `pulse polio'
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Warangal

  • Officials to take up works to ease drinking water crisis
  • All set for counting of votes

    Weather

  • Weather

    West Bengal

  • 'Chances of third front government strong'
  • Six ISI suspects arrested

    World View

  • 12 countries bid for venues
  • BALCO imbroglio haunts star athletes
  • Human error, bad weather led to Cronje plane crash
  • Ramanathan Krishnan expresses doubt
  • Maradona remains hospitalised

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