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    Anantapur

  • Gavaskar, Laxman visit Puttaparthi

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Excise policy struck down by High Court
  • No change in power rates for 7 categories
  • Banking services hit by strike
  • Heritage rock on the brink
  • Kohir: home to red havelis
  • Naidu slams Government on liquor issue
  • Banking services paralysed
  • State may sound out panel
  • Minority status to B.Ed colleges: BJP cries foul
  • Woman done to death, one held
  • Centre's help sought for catching monkeys
  • 2 ex-naxals shot dead
  • Tax blues for dealers
  • `Priority for medicare'
  • Insurance staff strike from today
  • Efforts to promote soybean in Kurnool
  • Row over missing earring
  • Sops for revival of sick small-scale units
  • Ex-MLAs' pension hiked
  • Balakrishna case: police to move High Court
  • Woman falls to death
  • Two youths killed in mishap
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Village of widows looks to Government for succour
  • Check adulteration of petrol: Lok Satta
  • Feeder channel work set in motion
  • Degree student ends life

    • Badminton

  • Sudirman Cup groupings announced

    • Bangalore

  • Minorities development corporation chief held
  • Long queues at Test match ticket counters
  • Security guard accused of stealing laptops
  • A friend with HIV is still a friend: Tendulkar
  • Travel agents protest cut in commission
  • `Buy bus passes from counters'
  • Another flight to Bangkok
  • BMP budget on Monday
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • Tuticorin retains title
  • NIT-C in final

    • Belgaum

  • Sarvodaya Karnataka to provide value-based politics
  • Three assaulted, ornaments, cash taken away
  • Weavers threaten self-immolation

    • Bijapur

  • Rail clips diverted to Hassan-Mangalore line
  • Yatnal panel wins 11 seats on bank board

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Rousing reception for Advani
  • A tough choice for Pankaj Advani

    • Boxing

  • Chavez to take the ring again

    • Bridge

  • Venkatraman-Subhash duo wins title
  • Alagappan's team wins

    • Briefly

  • Seminar on VAT
  • Export excellence award for Autotex
  • Ucal Fuel to consider overseas acquisition
  • Tata Indicom launches `new smarter walky'
  • Prodapt forays into BPO
  • Eveready to set up plant in Uttaranchal
  • Baazee.com changes to eBay.in
  • Behuria is chief of SCOPE
  • ICICI Bank office in Johannesburg
  • Yahoo buys photo sharing company

    • Business

  • New insurance scheme for coffee growers launched
  • Australian bank keen to invest in India
  • Calsoft buys stake in U.S. firm
  • Itinerant fair reaps rich dividend
  • Sensex nosedives 121 points on selling
  • Assistance for Self-help groups
  • LG's Pune facility on stream
  • FICCI, CII urge BJP-ruled States to implement VAT
  • LIC presents Rs. 476-cr. dividend cheque to FM
  • Crescent Air Cargo's plans
  • Rupee ends lower
  • Chip players join to create `cool' silicon for mobiles
  • SWC's beer business not part of UB acquisition
  • Personal and Team software processes catching up
  • DHL's mango export service
  • Quality standards for wet grinders on anvil

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • BSNL executives step up protest, services hit
  • Power lines to go underground
  • Water conservation message `has to reach rural areas'
  • Rs. 20 crores for road development in Thalli
  • Clay dolls, jute backpacks and more
  • We will intensify agitation, warns bank unions forum
  • Short-term courses at Madras University
  • Koyambedu eviction drive turns violent, 14 arrested
  • State not to pursue summons to doctor in Sankararaman case
  • Police hold one over fake currency
  • Chamber regrets BJP-ruled States' decision on VAT
  • Film world pays tribute to Gemini
  • Women robbed at knife-point
  • U.K. university interviews
  • `Bureau pulling' cases: cash reward offered
  • Membership rates cut
  • P.S. High School annual day
  • Kasimedu fishermen set out to sea
  • BSNL sim cards distributed
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Humpy, Rohit to tour Germany, Dubai
  • Iceland comes to Fischer's rescue
  • Bonanza awaits enthusiasts
  • No stopping Anand

    • Coimbatore

  • A `mock' act, and action-packed
  • Restive relatives of undertrials removed
  • Bank staff strike
  • Fiat on roll revision
  • Grievances Day
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Lara sets condition
  • Rain bails out the Kiwis
  • Premkumar, Jegan shine
  • `BCCI to approach ICC on Harbhajan issue'
  • Venkatesh Prasad calls it a day
  • Fighting for a cause
  • Delhi Administration posts win
  • Four wkt. win for Golden Chariot
  • Terapanth XI gets the better of Twinkling Stars XI
  • RVCE beats RNSIT
  • Rajesh hits century
  • Vikas Vij claims four wickets
  • Ticket sales from today

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8248
  • Solution to puzzle 8247

    • Cuddapah

  • Dattatreya sees hand of `Cuddapah lobby'
  • Sarpanches face suspension, arrest
  • Nine held on bus-burning charge

    • Dharmapuri

  • Mild tremors in Dharmapuri, Salem

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule for Dharwad

    • Editorials

  • GET THE SCIENCE RIGHT IN SCHOOLS
  • IRA'S REALITY CHECK, THE LTTE'S TOO

    • Erode

  • Five villages selected for water supply scheme
  • SHG members start own business

    • Football

  • South Zone bags title

    • Front Page

  • Lok Sabha passes Patents Bill amid walkout
  • Willing to discuss any issue with Musharraf, says Natwar Singh
  • Gemini Ganesh, `King of Romance', passes away
  • Virtual halt to banking transactions
  • `Denial of visa to Modi has nothing to do with India-U.S. ties'
  • Worst shooting since Columbine massacre
  • 'Prevent child marriages'
  • Onus now on Pakistan to force a win in Bangalore
  • Attitude and approach, the positives from Kolkata
  • Amarinder Singh receives 564 prisoners at Wagah
  • Merger talks today
  • To join Ministry
  • Quake in Andamans
  • Security for Anil Ambani

    • Generalia

  • A roof for Nehru Stadium at last

    • Golf

  • Indians rule the roost

    • Gulbarga

  • `My experiences forced me to write about the plight of women'
  • `Groom' lured into police net

    • Guntur

  • Cyclist run over

    • Haryana

  • Kidwai draws a road map to make Haryana model State

    • Hockey

  • Karnataka makes the grade with strong performance
  • All-India SBI inter-circle meet from tomorrow
  • Indian juniors hoping for good results

    • Hubli

  • `Women can help bring back dharma in society'
  • Night flights from Hubli approved
  • Tension as bus hits pourakarmika
  • Shandilya swamiji's birth anniversary

    • Hyderabad

  • Outbreak of jaundice in city
  • Powerlines for lift schemes
  • Nehru zoo gets `dancing deer'
  • Water board offers discount on sewerage cess
  • Avoid roadside eateries, say doctors
  • No power supply today
  • Warning on illegal phone cards
  • B.Ed. admissions: ABVP stages dharna
  • Water board swings into action
  • Hoteliers' plea
  • Nominated
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Rice visit to India `excellent': U.S.
  • Former Pakistan Prime Minister to visit India

    • International

  • Worst shooting since Columbine massacre
  • Arabs stick to basics on Israel
  • Kyrgyz crisis hots up
  • U.S. wary of Annan suggestion on force
  • A party that Blair would have loved to join
  • Camilla will be Queen, says U.K. Government
  • Religion column back on Pakistan passports
  • $10-million smoking damages upheld
  • Yemenis jailed for Al-Qaeda links
  • Racist attacks in France up

    • Karnataka

  • Fervour marks Vairamudi festival
  • Montek promises better facilities at Hampi
  • Redefine development: Medha Patkar
  • It's just not cricket, say elders
  • Bank officers threaten more agitations
  • Bangalore needs 1,050 million litres of water daily
  • Chairman sends for Ministers
  • CPI(M) leader hits out at software firms
  • Minister withdraws reply
  • `Appoint board chairmen soon after session'
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • CoD to investigate cheating case
  • ZP to entrust work to engineering division
  • Survey to identify families for ration cards
  • Four killed in accidents
  • Water conservation conference in April

    • Kerala

  • `I' group Minister submits resignation, Chandy rejects it
  • Anil Kumar's resignation exposes disquiet in Congress
  • KSEB corporatisation under way
  • Opposition boycotts replies by Ministers
  • All help to set up power generating stations
  • Further action against Murali likely
  • Anti-filaria drug safe: Government
  • Crime Branch probe on
  • Question paper leak: 10 suspended
  • Chandy issues show-cause notice to 13 MLAs
  • Stir hits banking operations
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Action against Youth Congress activists likely
  • Flights rescheduled

    • Kochi

  • Stop exploitation of water resources: Vice-Chancellor
  • Work on GCDA flats to begin soon
  • Protesters lay siege to Collector's camp office
  • Meet reviews development projects
  • Murder case: three get life term
  • Antique shop robbery: one held
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Bank strike total in Kollam
  • Chamayavilakku from Thursday
  • Kollam panchayat budget presented

    • Kozhikode

  • `Olavanna model' water schemes come in for praise
  • Hajira remanded to judicial custody
  • VAT cell in Kozhikode

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Needed, a constructive Opposition
  • Righting a wrong

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Restoring the balance
  • Visa row
  • Not viable
  • Unacceptable

    • Madikeri

  • Police arrest group for blocking road

    • Madurai

  • `No blanket power given for removal of encroachments'
  • Dalits protest `denial of entry' into temple
  • Telecom services disrupted
  • Banking activities paralysed
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Readers' Mail

    • Mangalore

  • Saksharatha Vedike to stage Satyagraha
  • Proposal to rename circles dropped
  • Samithi opposes shifting of protected cattle
  • Centre for Gandhian Studies inauguration today
  • Man assaulted
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Corporation to waive interest on water bill dues
  • Councillors' outburst against MATF criticised
  • `110 crore people lack access to safe water'
  • Surgery without blood transfusion

    • Nagapattinam

  • Thideer Kuppam fishermen venture into sea
  • Special loan waiver scheme sought

    • National

  • Modi's trip to U.K. on
  • U.S. stand will hit bilateral ties: BJP
  • Left opposition to Pension Bill continues
  • Shabana Azmi in NIC
  • AIDS awareness programme for BSF jawans
  • U.S. Navy to come to the aid of Indian submarines in distress
  • Wheat production will be higher despite cold weather
  • Large ammunition haul from train
  • India condemns attack
  • Oil price hike issue before Government, says Aiyar
  • Gollapudi Srinivas award for Shonali Bose
  • Air Force to conduct inquiry into sexual harassment charges
  • 10 IIM(A) graduates spurn overseas offers
  • Kerala High Court not to pursue contempt proceedings
  • Another Kalam poetry collection coming soon
  • CPI (M) against Pension Bill
  • Buses for PoK being readied
  • Deficit budget for West Bengal
  • Repeal of Freedom of Information Act recommended
  • Pollution-affected communities stage rally
  • India slow to accept foreign investment: Murdoch
  • ICSSR chairman
  • WORLD WATER DAY: Start acting, Government urged
  • Court issues summons to Joshi
  • Kalam condoles Gemini Ganesh's death
  • `Only doctors with 5 years experience can perform sterilisation'
  • Trade unions for changes in employment Bill

    • Nellore

  • Power staff plan strike
  • Three killed in accident

    • New Delhi

  • No compromise on quota for poor students: Minister
  • Dilli Haat has unique facility for the disabled
  • Sheila justifies power, water hikes
  • Delhi's water dreams turning sour
  • Jal Board sets deadline for hi-tech meters
  • Police may seek Interpol help in nabbing human traffickers
  • Engineers held for vehicle thefts
  • Two auto-lifters arrested again
  • Ban non-iodised salt, say AIIMS scientists
  • President encourages children to compete
  • NCERT bid to make books available
  • Freedom fighters want pension raised
  • Health advocates protest against Patents Bill
  • CISF continues to nab guilty at airport
  • Two held in burglary case
  • Protest by electricity consumers
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • Nizamabad

  • Land information system launch in Nizamabad soon
  • Bank employees flay Centre's `inaction' against defaulters

    • Pathanamthitta

  • BSNL staff strike hits online money transfer
  • Left parties accused of deceiving people

    • Pondicherry

  • Divergent trends in sex ratios in Pondicherry
  • Budget session begins today
  • JIPMER employees stage fast

    • Punjab

  • Petrol, diesel to cost more in Punjab

    • Racing : Motor

  • Narain happy after making the impossible happen

    • Rajasthan

  • Traders back Vasundhara's stand on VAT
  • Rajasthan promises `a lifetime bonanza in just 10 days'

    • Religion

  • God submits to devotion

    • Salem

  • `Meet safety standards'
  • Bank employees stage demonstration
  • Award for Salem Corporation
  • Raid on sub-registrar office

    • Shimoga

  • Students to go on strike

    • Sport

  • Onus now on Pakistan to force a win in Bangalore
  • Attitude and approach, the positives from Kolkata

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Easy science papers put Plus-Two students on cloud nine
  • `Many States not equipped to tackle naxal menace'
  • New corporation to mobilise resources for infrastructure projects
  • We were left out: Dalits, Irulas
  • `Making Tamil official language at Centre is our goal'
  • 198 `auctioned' children rescued
  • `Poverty drives them away from home'
  • Security to be enhanced in central prisons
  • Rs. 219.35 crores more for village panchayats
  • Opposition walks out on road mazdoors issue
  • An era has ended: Jayalalithaa
  • Jayalalithaa's plea to PM on release of fishermen
  • Matriculation, Anglo-Indian examinations begin tomorrow
  • Foreign currency seized
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Couple die of burns
  • Specialists to treat cancer patients at Karaikal GH
  • Student's death leads to road roko

    • Tennis

  • Harsh Mankad overcomes Jaco Mathew's challenge
  • Money for Fed Cup team
  • Roddick to play Stella Artois

    • Thanjavur

  • End English domination: Collector
  • Staff strike hits banking services

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Vellayani Lake highly polluted: study
  • Unity, friendship mark Tech-A-Break
  • KU not to recognise degrees of private universities
  • Maldivian couple held on charges of murder
  • Education Minister should resign: DYFI
  • Dies after consuming pesticide
  • Gang-rape: four get rigorous imprisonment
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated March 23, 1955: PM on role of the Press
  • dated March 23, 1955: Deshmukh defends budget

    • Thrissur

  • Vice-Chancellor violated KAU Act, say unions

    • Tiruchi

  • `AICTE approval not necessary to start MCA, MBA courses'
  • Corporation bags three awards
  • Strike hits banking operations
  • Exhibition on TB
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Readers' Mail

    • Tirunelveli

  • Steps to provide healing touch
  • Banking activities come to a halt

    • Tirupati

  • Hospital chief in ACB net?
  • Red sander logs seized

    • Tuticorin

  • Stress on water conservation
  • Man assaulted

    • Udupi

  • `Moodabettu case has exposed extremist designs'
  • Peace committee decides to ensure communal harmony

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • VAT okayed by `default' in U.P.
  • Mulayam refutes Rahul's charge on cane dues

    • Uttaranchal

  • Ruling MLAs force Uttaranchal Assembly adjournment

    • Vijayawada

  • Public happy with rythu bazaars: survey
  • `VAT may hamper industrial growth'
  • CPI for CB-CID probe into housing scheme
  • 3 held on charge of cheating goldsmith
  • NU to honour Montek Singh
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Higher FDI in telecom sector opposed
  • Strict eco norms for beach road widening
  • A threat to sanitation
  • KGH wall demolished for road expansion
  • Poorna market vendors observe bandh
  • New services by Vizianagaram RTC
  • Cheque presented
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Tuticorin advances

    • Warangal

  • SP asks naxals to give up arms

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • WADA says IOA action not compliant with Code

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