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    Alappuzha

  • Project to help unemployed proposed in budget

    • Anantapur

  • Paritala murder: suspect's contradictory statements

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Paritala case: five-day CBI custody for Suri
  • Partial response to VAT bandh
  • TDP MLAs offer to quit en masse Row over tenders deepens
  • Volkswagen unit for Vizag soon
  • BJP leader wants Speaker to examine records on tenders
  • New look to KGH on the cards
  • Recovery of murder weapon fails to help police probe
  • AIDS threat looms large over Warangal
  • Man blames faulty lifts at OGH for wife's death
  • Research awards presentation tomorrow
  • Drought forces villagers to migrate
  • Government shies away from debate, says Naidu
  • TDP stalling House results in Rs. 1.15-crore loss: CLP
  • Bandh against VAT total in Tirupati
  • Junior doctors boycott duties
  • SVU releases vision document
  • Writers want Maoist emissaries spared
  • 17 naxals surrender
  • YSR's relative pulls out of power project
  • Farm varsity student kills self in hostel
  • Top woman naxalite surrenders to police
  • Bid to kill trader, six held
  • Law to protect roads during next session
  • Issue of EAMCET hall tickets
  • Chief Justice inaugurates `Nyaya Vihar'
  • French Naval ships arrive
  • Lok Satta petition on civic polls admitted
  • Cases filed against Majlis activists
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Assam

  • Hanuman, Ravana to take on Barbie, Teddy

    • Athletics

  • Andhra athletes for Delhi National camp

    • Badminton

  • Abhinn bows out

    • Bangalore

  • `Withdraw special grants for legislators'
  • Lokayukta finds cash in official's chamber during raid
  • PU student attempts suicide
  • Mayor's appeal to vehicle owners
  • SUCI condemns BMP's proposal
  • Thieves cut sandalwood tree
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Probe likely into disappearance of books

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Belgaum

  • Concern over effects of WTO regulations on agriculture

    • Bellary

  • BJP opposes dissolution of Bellary CMC

    • Boxing

  • Balbir, lone Indian medallist

    • Briefly

  • ABT Info.net executes design orders
  • Centurion Bank opens branch
  • Cafe Coffee Day pact with AVRS
  • IDBI Homefinance hikes rates

    • Business

  • Tata Elxsi opens centre in Chennai
  • Second container terminal for Chennai port cleared
  • CECA with Singapore: `most issues resolved'
  • Raymond-Gruppo to set up JV
  • Ford, M&M sell cross-holdings
  • NHB guarantee for securitised debt
  • Sensex recovers 14 points
  • Allsec fixes price band
  • Polish venture in Escorts fold
  • Three bid for box terminal at Kandla Port
  • Panel to expedite POSCO investment
  • European business school looking for partner
  • Rupee edges up
  • Exporters protest

    • Carrom

  • Indian Airlines, BSB eliminated

    • Chattisgarh

  • Strike postponed
  • Chhattisgarh to get ADB loan for better farm facilities

    • Chennai

  • Techies no longer making tracks for U.S.
  • For bootleggers, a chance to start afresh
  • Jatropha cultivation `has great potential'
  • U.K. Rotary Club donates boats to Cuddalore fishermen
  • Tourist fair concludes
  • Barnala's appeal to shipping companies
  • Auditor arrested on cheating charge
  • Bank to accept taxes
  • Suspected dacoit held
  • Teachers seek regular jobs
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Anand ensures blindfold title

    • Coimbatore

  • BSNL revises pulse rate for coin box calls
  • Industries take a lion's share
  • Not a smooth ride this
  • Admission open
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  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Sri Lankan board offices sealed
  • Mudassar hits 109
  • Chetan Sharma misses century
  • Delhi gets support from PCB, pitches committee
  • Harbhajan confident
  • Sourav knows what to do: Dravid
  • Kaarthick should play ODIs too: Patil
  • Mohali performance was exceptional: Woolmer
  • Prince Charming
  • Savit, Rohit sparkle
  • PCB to appeal against Inzamam's ban
  • Sujith Somasundar to lead

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    • Cuddalore

  • Information centres for tsunami-hit villages

    • Cuddapah

  • Project to augment water supply in Tirumala

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule in Dharwad

    • Editorials

  • A HEARTENING RESPONSE
  • TIME FOR CHANGE AT THE HELM

    • Erode

  • Filing of nominations begins today
  • Councillors walk out of meeting

    • Football

  • Japan defeats Bahrain on own goal
  • Goalless draw
  • Jabba nets JCT's winner

    • Front Page

  • Our people want us to move forward: Manmohan
  • Mixed response to strike call against VAT
  • India may insist on co-production of F-16s
  • Gujarat BJP chief called to Delhi
  • Bus to Muzaffarabad will be safe, says Patil
  • India, China hold border talks
  • Permanent seat: Maldives fully backs India
  • Fast track courts to continue functioning till April 30
  • Quake again
  • Dance bars to be shut down in Maharashtra
  • O.V. Vijayan passes away
  • LIC staff strike today

    • Generalia

  • SAI-NIC sign MoU

    • Golf

  • PSPB Open from today; focus on Jeev Milkha Singh

    • Gulbarga

  • Devotees throng temple car festival

    • Guntur

  • Woefully lacking in facilities
  • Guntur-Vijayawada RTC passengers in for cool travel
  • Tap connections major achievement
  • Art exhibition from today

    • Haryana

  • Haryana teachers can e-mail grievances
  • Hooda to contest from Kiloi

    • Hassan

  • Rs. 662.43-crore credit plan for Hassan

    • Hockey

  • India qualifies for junior World Cup
  • India loses
  • KPT drubs Khalsa Blues

    • Hyderabad

  • Surface pipes could hold the key to problem
  • No stopping the netas' drama!
  • 31 new cases of jaundice confirmed
  • Bar owners' plea admitted
  • Rs. 168.37-crore annual credit plan for city
  • RBI tax counters open today
  • Change in traffic
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Syria to withdraw all troops from Lebanon by May
  • Russia seizes initiative in Kyrgyzstan
  • Britain moots global warning system
  • Report an "exoneration," says Kofi Annan
  • Indian Airlines launches Delhi-Kuala Lumpur flight
  • No direct access to A.Q. Khan: Pakistan
  • Reporters shown underground Iran nuke plant
  • "Small Island" wins prize
  • Wolfowitz wins Europe's support
  • Court agrees to review Schiavo case
  • Uncertainty over quake toll
  • Pope makes surprise appearance
  • Ex-Minister jailed for drug offence

    • Kancheepuram

  • Heated exchanges at council meet

    • Karnataka

  • Holiday weekend turns into nightmare
  • Siddaramaiah cracks the whip on live band joints
  • Opposition wants subject panels set up
  • Support price for arecanut sought
  • Committee to go into problems of areca farmers
  • Statewide trade bandh today against VAT
  • `Return excess land acquired for BMIC'
  • Concern over Mysore Medical College affiliation
  • `Teachers for differently abled needed'
  • `Implement directive against tree felling'
  • `Protest against illegal water projects'
  • Walkout over `inaction' against officials
  • Govt. taken to task for ignoring Tumkur
  • CMC member's plea to save tank
  • Postponement of panchayat polls ruled out
  • Yeshaswini only for farmers
  • Permanent schedule for House sessions planned
  • Janata Dal (S) to hold convention on April 13
  • 22 students debarred
  • Disruption in power supply
  • Panel submits interim report
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Rs. 15-lakh surplus budget for Davangere
  • Violence in Mushtigeri, 38 arrested
  • Filariasis cases increasing in Gokarna
  • Rs. 4,450 crores collected under small savings in State
  • Priority sector gets 85 p.c. of funds in credit plan
  • Rs. 592-crore credit plan released
  • Award for artiste from Belthangady

    • Kerala

  • Stir against VAT near total
  • Tax concession for small traders
  • The spiritual home that inspired him
  • Tax concession for small traders
  • `A colossal loss for Malayalam'
  • Petition against liquor policy dismissed
  • Probe turning into a farce, says Achuthanandan
  • Writers' fraternity bids adieu to Vijayan
  • `It is my personal sorrow'
  • Rail bookings through phone soon
  • Summons for Vakkom's appearance quashed
  • Malaysian Malayalis call on Speaker
  • House adjourned sine die
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Mapila artistes' pension to be raised

    • Kochi

  • Traffic regulations for ODI match
  • Study on drainage system planned
  • Anti-VAT strike hits commercial activities
  • CPI(ML) stages march
  • Disruption in power supply
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Sanskrit university to develop regional centres

    • Kollam

  • Hartal total in Kollam
  • New complex for ayurveda institute
  • Education Minister should step down: BJYM

    • Kottayam

  • Local initiative to empower panchayat
  • Strike against VAT total
  • M.G. University staff to launch stir
  • Sub-station commissioning

    • Kozhikode

  • Aid for stem cell research

    • Kurnool

  • Credit plan focuses on crop loans
  • Fire in automobile complex

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Can the BJP afford to backtrack?
  • India's energy quest in Latin America

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Indonesian quake
  • L'affaire Modi
  • F-16s issue
  • VAT fuss
  • Secrecy & governance

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • `Good governance can tackle unemployment'

    • Madurai

  • Govt. urged to fill vacancies in varsity: VC
  • A deficit budget
  • Bench denies man custody of his twin children
  • Cultural programme on road safety
  • Women seek job guarantee
  • BDO `assaulted'
  • Bench rejects father's plea for custody of children
  • `New Veeranam project will harm ecology'
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • `Tulu can become classical language'
  • Set up board to check copyright infringement: Nagabharana
  • Adopt original model of reforms, banks told
  • Agitation against school's decision tomorrow
  • Orthopaedic surgeons' meet in Mangalore
  • Centre for women's studies inaugurated
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Forum asks MUDA to keep site for applicant
  • MGP tells corporation to hold monthly tax adalat
  • Zoo employee suspended
  • Activists campaign against animal sacrifice at Kappadi
  • Man arrested in Saraswathipuram robbery case
  • Tsunami victims paid compensation
  • VAT: Trade bandh today
  • You can pay tax till midnight
  • Five houses demolished

    • Nagapattinam

  • `Form panel to revise wages of farm labourers'

    • Nagercoil

  • Rs.14 cr. disbursed to SHGs

    • National

  • Militants warn against travelling on bus
  • A political journey with Jyoti Basu
  • O.V. Vijayan, the quintessential modernist
  • Left unity needs to be further strengthened: Bardhan
  • Orissa MLAs seek Governor's intervention
  • Reshuffle of Central Secretaries
  • "Jayalalithaa's statement totally incorrect"
  • Slow and steady progress in peace process desirable: Vajpayee
  • Supporting HIV/AIDS-affected children
  • Options open in larger interests of the State: Kamlesh Kumar
  • Charge sheet against 3 BJP MLAs in Goa
  • Janani Suraksha scheme gets Cabinet approval
  • `NSCN factions must give up violence'
  • ``Inaugural bus must include people from all walks of life''
  • Gujarat dissidents to meet Advani
  • IA offer for Chennai-Port Blair sector
  • Government to prevent poaching of pilots of national carriers
  • Leaders condole death
  • New drug authority set up
  • Media not allowed to view video of Best Bakery incident
  • India-Saudi Arabia tie-up planned in oil refinery project
  • Second major quake confirms warnings
  • Decision to allow women to work in night shifts hailed
  • `Sale of F-16s will fuel arms race in South Asia'
  • Kalam condoles loss of life in Indonesia quake
  • Shivaji Terminus in World Heritage List

    • New Delhi

  • DDA works out a new cost calculation formula
  • All major markets down shutters
  • Govt. reduces VAT rate on many items
  • Delhiites resent tariff hike
  • Water issue rocks Assembly
  • DU may offer adventure sports to students
  • CBI probe in Matharu case demanded
  • Delhi to get first CNG crematorium for stray dogs
  • MCD bid to check dog menace
  • DDA sets aside over Rs. 450 crores for housing
  • Bharti Yadav dropped as witness in Katara case
  • CINEMA
  • Kalam's intervention sought in IIT scientist's removal
  • Airport PCO operator held
  • FIR ordered against India TV CEO
  • IIS officer shoots himself
  • Prompt action on complaint by Lalu's kin
  • Rs. 3,334-crore State-Wide Area Networks planned
  • East Delhi to gain the most from Commonwealth Games
  • Zaheera seeks probe into Teesta Setalvad's bank accounts
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In The Capital Today
  • Concern over lack of good tourism training institutes

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Pathanamthitta

  • `Speed up land acquisition for Angamaly-Erumely rail line'
  • Episcopal Synod of Malankara Catholic Church begins
  • Trading comes to a standstill

    • Pondicherry

  • Bharathi, Swadeshi mills takeover under way, says Rangasamy
  • Tsunami relief: `Lakhera extended full cooperation to Government'
  • Anbalagan displays sari, blouse bit in House
  • Government will protect interests of students:Rangasamy

    • Punjab

  • Dissidence growing in Punjab Congress, CLP meet today
  • Punjab imposes levy on IMFL, country liquor

    • Rajasthan

  • Country not yet ready for VAT, says BJP leader
  • `Government laxity hitting farmers'
  • Royal statue anchors in `controversial' spot

    • Religion

  • Epics give moral guidance

    • Salem

  • Rs. 14-crore project for Periyar University

    • Shimoga

  • Rs. 74-lakh surplus budget for Shimoga
  • `Use of computers has strengthened teaching methods'
  • Students demand withdrawal of rustication order

    • Sport

  • Sehwag and Younis batted like champions
  • India paid the price for a negative mind-set
  • Pakistan romps home in style
  • Punjab and Sind Bank reigns supreme
  • Sensible batting by Railways

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Supreme Court upholds order asking Kalimuthu to face trial
  • Water level goes down, business soars in Vellore
  • Engineering graduates bring laurels
  • DMK Ministers delaying project clearance: Jayalalithaa
  • State Government plans to amend labour laws
  • Jayalakshmi, advocate get anticipatory bail
  • Witness examination may take one more month
  • FERA cases come up for hearing after nine years
  • `Travel As You Please' scheme to be extended
  • `Self-confidence, hard work and perseverance'
  • Charge sheet filed in Maraneri kidnap case
  • Six children hurt in school roof collapse
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Biomass power for three tribal villages
  • Rs. 423.39-crore credit plan for Krishnagiri
  • Appeal to Taluk Supply Officers
  • Buildings demolished near MIT gate
  • Defence land sought for bus stand
  • Saplings planted

    • Tennis

  • Venus gets past Serena
  • Prakash in last eight
  • Albina — a star in the making
  • Graf to play WTT match
  • Binoj in last eight

    • Thanjavur

  • Rs.751.42-cr. ACP for Thanjavur
  • `Guide students properly'

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Agenda set for railway development: Chandy
  • TRIDA to develop five major roads
  • Agriculture gets top priority
  • SSLC question paper leak: accused remanded
  • `Vijayan gave global status to Malayalam'
  • Gayoom arriving today
  • Youth gets life term for murder
  • Run over by lorry
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes
  • KU to shore up conduct of examinations

    • This Day That Age

  • dated March 31, 2005: Programme of Congress
  • dated March 31, 2005: Renaming of Rly. classes
  • dated March 31, 2005: Fighting in Saigon

    • Thrissur

  • `Cultural amnesia cripples post-colonial Indians'

    • Tiruchi

  • Rs.506.13 crores earmarked for agriculture in ACP
  • NIIT to conduct model AIEEE on April 15
  • `Check fall in prices of farm produce'
  • Ministry, UGC grant for varsity
  • Houses gutted
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Residents block traffic with empty pots near Nellai
  • 10 passengers hurt as bus hits tree

    • Tirupati

  • Dattatreya throws challenge at KCR
  • `Sri Venkateswara Vaibhavam' meet begins
  • TUDA readies mega plans for Ugadi fest

    • Tuticorin

  • Hoarding stolen

    • Udupi

  • Annual credit plan released for Udupi
  • Cases booked against two BJP MLAs
  • Murder accused dies in hospital
  • Man run over by train

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Good response to bandh call in U.P.
  • Mulayam lays foundation of Haj House

    • Uttaranchal

  • Near total response in Uttaranchal

    • Vellore

  • Copying charge

    • Vijayawada

  • Traders down shutters in protest against VAT
  • Collector compliments outgoing corporators
  • BSNL revises tariff
  • Faster clearance for industries sought
  • Dharna by BJP activists for houses
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • ECoR to operate summer specials
  • KGH wall demolition: protest continues
  • Trade bandh total in Vizag
  • Last date for excise licence
  • AU ex-professor dead
  • BSNL service centre opened
  • Power shutdown
  • RTC staff protest
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

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