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Alappuzha

  • Farmers sore over tardy procurement of paddy

    • Anantapur

  • Indiramma phase I cost estimated at Rs. 563 crores
  • Wardens demand shifting of accused in Paritala Ravi murder case
  • Rights bodies seek parties' stand on `encounters'

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Four corridors planned for gas grid in Andhra Pradesh
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Let down by guava, bailed out by papaya
  • RMC launches campaign against `chikun gunya'
  • SSC exam: no furniture in some centres
  • Improve inter-personal skills, students told
  • Municipality may get a tax boost
  • Raghavulu's padayatra to highlight `neglect' of Kadapa
  • J&K Governor visits Tirumala temple
  • Telugu Desam takes up a `powerful' cause
  • High Court says no to conversion of playground
  • Rs. 12-lakh revenue loss for marketyard
  • Four killed in collision of RTC buses
  • Pulse polio programme
  • Plea to spend funds by month-end
  • Exam centre inspected

    • Athletics

  • All eyes on Anju

    • Bangalore

  • Citizens want more funds for roads, pavements
  • Rescue wagon for road accident victims launched
  • Offering a peep into the world of marketing
  • Government urged to make officials more accountable
  • Bangalore student wins third prize in DuPont science paper contest
  • GI tag may help revive Coorg orange cultivation
  • Deve Gowda stands exposed: Siddaramaiah
  • Ramanagaram to be made a satellite town
  • People visit Lokayukta office looking for their jewellery
  • Single-judge order on NGEF stayed
  • Introduce more buses for students, KSRTC told
  • Ananthamurthy to seek Deve Gowda's intervention
  • State wants MTP Act amended
  • Conjunctivitis cases on the rise
  • IT sector employees working under too much of stress
  • Absence of Ministers irks Opposition
  • BMTC seeks upgradation of infrastructure on Volvo Corridor
  • Three houses burgled; cash, jewellery stolen
  • Helping women to be better professionals
  • Training programme on two-wheeler repair
  • Freedom Park still a pipe dream
  • Corruption: House panel likely
  • New mining policy to be announced soon
  • Court dismisses petition filed by taluk panchayat members
  • BESCOM mass disconnection drive
  • Trial of Tamil activists transferred to Special Court
  • Bank withdraws complaint against staff
  • Teachers warned against harassing students
  • Painting show
  • BMTC seeks suggestions on passes
  • Support for noble work
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Bellary

  • A trust for protecting the sloth bear
  • People upset over change in sammelana venue

    • Bidar

  • Basava Kalyan needs committed officials
  • Widespread protests against desecration of Ambedkar statue
  • Teachers to be appointed for medical colleges

    • Bijapur

  • NABARD to finance rural tourism activities

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Manan posts win

    • Briefly

  • Professional Aptitude Council emissary
  • FSS to develop Techno Park at SIPCOT
  • Pratibha Industries bags Rs. 70 cr. order
  • Today's Writing plans EOU
  • IVRCL Infra to set up unit in Nagpur
  • Zydus buys stake in Carnation Nutra-analogue
  • LIC South Central Zone's achievement
  • SBT to increase disbursements to farmers
  • Indian Hotels' investment plans
  • Convergence India 2006
  • New variants of Dettol on anvil

    • Business

  • TRAI fixes norms for lifetime plans
  • Barclays to infuse $70 million
  • Jet Airways-Sahara deal heading nowhere
  • Sensex touches 11000-mark
  • Airtel launches Easy Music
  • IDFC, Feedback Ventures launch `3I' scheme
  • JV floated for health insurance
  • FACT CMD to head regional council of FAI
  • Pesticide residue test facility for cardamom growers
  • Global meet on entrepreneurship
  • Federal Bank opens new branch
  • SSL-TTK Sriperumbudur facility on stream
  • Sundaram Mutual launches rural India fund
  • BSE NOTES
  • Reliance Industries eyes agri-business
  • Rupee drops three paise

    • Carrom

  • Arockiaraj triumphs

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOONSCAPE

    • Chennai

  • Insurance job market poised for big growth
  • Facilities at smaller airports in the State will be enhanced, says official
  • 120-year-old herbarium dying of neglect
  • Majority of the hoardings unauthorised, says outdoor advertising association
  • Sathyabama students resume agitation
  • New lease of life for marsh
  • Life skill support for engineering students
  • Exposition highlights jobs in IT sector abroad
  • No place for science here
  • Brush with `erukkam flowers' proves costly
  • CITU activists demand settlement of wages
  • Political activity banned within court premises
  • Stay against prohibition of parking granted
  • NABARD urged to provide reimbursable credit at 3 per cent
  • Enjoy a five-course meal at Nikki's on March 24
  • VC seeks master plan to check traffic problems
  • Sewage overflow in Ambattur Industrial Estate
  • "Reserve 50 per cent of seats for women"
  • Youth drowned on birthday
  • A walk on the wild side of Kerala and Tamil Nadu
  • Dance drama wows audience
  • `Swagat Seva' will meet and greet passengers in Chennai now
  • `Imayam' TV channel to be launched
  • BJP to interview ticket seekers
  • The `Great Gold Rush' ends
  • TANSI case prosecutor seeks legal fees
  • POTA detenus "not cooperating"
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Anand beats Vallejo Pons; in third spot

    • Coimbatore

  • Awareness is half the battle won
  • Farms hoping for a windfall
  • `Rectify frequent grievances'
  • Childline sets up contact centre
  • EPIC distribution centres in city for March 23 and 24
  • Power shutdown tomorrow
  • Team visits CMCH
  • TNAU crop campaign to be telecast live on DD
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Super-Sub rule scrapped
  • Jadeja to lead RCA against England
  • GoAir is official carrier for ODI series
  • Injured Tendulkar out of ODI series
  • Majestic CC emerges champion
  • Arun scalps seven
  • We would have liked to score faster: Fletcher
  • `Happy that I am bowling well'
  • Munaf included in ODI squad
  • CDCA tournament

    • Crossword

  • THE HINDU CROSSWORD 8557
  • Solution to Puzzle 8556

    • Dharmapuri

  • Outbreak of foot and mouth disease confirmed

    • Dindigul

  • Rs.976.73 crore for priority sector advances
  • `Follow guidelines of Election Commission'
  • Weapons seized, four arrested

    • Editorials

  • Revisiting capital account convertibility
  • Back to square one

    • Eluru

  • Operation Kolleru to resume today

    • Erode

  • `Garbage lies uncleared for days'
  • Over 90 per cent of voters will have EPIC: Collector
  • Call for energy conservation
  • `Local bodies should be vested with more powers'
  • Killed in accident

    • Football

  • West Ham in semifinals
  • U-14 team for AFC tourney
  • Keltron SC wins
  • MCC triumphs

    • Front Page

  • Delhi, Dhaka to fight terrorism
  • We've brought down Scorpene price: Pranab
  • No decision yet on convertibility: Chidambaram
  • An interesting final day on the cards
  • Samaresh on top of the podium again
  • Varghese and Harpreet in semifinals
  • Indian women swamp Malaysia
  • Marathon seat-sharing talks under way
  • Promote tourism in Pondy, says study
  • Sripadasagar: YSR offers to place files
  • All question papers leaked out: CBI
  • New parameters for defining BPL category
  • Yoga, meditation enter college campuses
  • Railway projects in State set to pick up steam with more funds
  • Bench ruling on transporting excess weight
  • `Legislature party leader status thrust on us'
  • A day of protests by students in city
  • New TRAI chief
  • `Save Cauvery' march takes off from Tiruchi
  • German raped
  • CPI(M) Polit Bureau to meet State-level bodies
  • Four corridors proposed for gas grid
  • CBI, FIA meet to discuss issues "for mutual benefit"

    • Golf

  • Indians slip in rankings

    • Gulbarga

  • Man injured in shootout dies; police leave for Maharashtra

    • Guntur

  • GMC firm on cellar parking
  • Two suspended in Guntur
  • Jairam Ramesh to tour Guntur
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Haryana

  • AIDS Society sets up more counselling centres
  • Register FIRs, police told

    • Hassan

  • Help desks for women at police stations soon

    • Hockey

  • Violence mars match between DBHA and MLI

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • `Targeted efforts needed to address gender issues'
  • Vice-Chancellor refutes charges of mishandling patent row issue
  • Samajwadi Party plans rally in Hubli on April 5

    • Hyderabad

  • Secunderabad Cantonment Board faces refund blues
  • TDP papers fake, says Ponnala
  • Students' protest turns violent
  • It's not a free delivery here
  • Wakf Board goes for ISO certification
  • Shooting star dedicates third gold to Hyderabadis
  • YSR orders probe into land allotment
  • Naidu's admission of `misleading' House draws flak
  • BJP to hold relay hunger strike from April 8
  • Delhi Public School on the right track
  • Make pre-marriage thalassemia test mandatory: expert
  • Microfinance agencies evolve code of conduct
  • YSR pushes for encouragement to women entrepreneurs
  • Now you can SMS your resume
  • Telugu Desam, Congress cross swords in House
  • Goud offers to quit politics if charges not proved
  • TDP chief in limelight for `false figures'
  • Passion for bikes lands student behind bars
  • TDP accuses Speaker of scuttling strategy
  • Ryot's suicide bid: Report sought
  • YSR turns the tables on TDP
  • Act fast on Batakammakunta: YSR
  • PNDT Act: call for total compliance
  • Screening of wildlife film for raising funds
  • Victims of exploitation share experiences
  • Court stays regularisation of Imax
  • TRS leader doubtful of BJP support
  • Course for pharma graduates
  • IT lab to help farmers launched
  • Chief Minister to launch automated parking system at railway station
  • Man `kills' wife
  • Tension at Gandhi Hospital
  • Power shutdown
  • Water works association office-bearers
  • CITU deplores ADB conditions
  • Textile traders to organise rally
  • B-Fone bill info through SMS
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Crime Watch

    • India & World

  • Nuclear deal is in our interest: Bush
  • Kissinger hails pact
  • Dubai for refurbishing its image
  • India helps set up bio-resource institute in Sri Lanka
  • India, Pakistan making progress: Boucher
  • Russia's Glonass satellites available by 2009

    • International

  • Pakistan test-fires Hatf missile
  • Russia, China sign three pacts on energy cooperation
  • Labour discloses names of donors
  • Colombo, LTTE trade charges
  • Military asked to stay clear of politics
  • Archbishop against teaching creationism
  • Jeans for prayers
  • A grim outlook
  • 7,000 rendered homeless

    • Kancheepuram

  • Villagers demand jobs in industrial estate
  • Children of Telugu migrants attend school, thanks to NGO initiative

    • Kannur

  • Call to preserve wetlands
  • Cooperative deposit mobilisation under way
  • Technical fete concludes
  • Sportspersons awarded
  • In Kannur Today

    • Karimnagar

  • Two sentenced to life imprisonment

    • Karnataka

  • Legislature party leader status thrust on us: M.P. Prakash
  • 1,000th live session via EDUSAT
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Anegundi bracing itself to charm tourists
  • Lokayukta hauls up officials in Belgaum
  • Rs. 4.62 crores for Jog Falls development
  • Call to create fund for child labourers
  • Adopt modern farming practices, women told

    • Kerala

  • CPI(M) Polit Bureau to meet State-level bodies in Kerala
  • Priests, nuns can enrol as lawyers
  • A 10-year-old's marathon feat
  • EC office in dumps
  • Mosquito menace in the time of polls
  • One-man mission
  • Next issue
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • IUML announces candidates
  • Rail electrification in State hits a roadblock
  • Jaleel to take on Kunhalikutty
  • Peacocks found dead

    • Khammam

  • SSC exam: no furniture in some centres
  • Water woes: focus on 16 mandals
  • Ex gratia granted

    • Kochi

  • Kalamandalam to stage Koodiyattam
  • Edakochi residents seek steps to end water crisis
  • Priests, nuns can enrol as lawyers
  • Residents picket train demanding development of Kalamassery station
  • Eye-catching display
  • Stringent action taken in burglary case: Cusat
  • Back to the basics
  • Hospitals warned
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • RSP(B) for uninterrupted LDF rule
  • Helpline for students appearing for examinations

    • Kottayam

  • `Karunakaran's claims deceptive'

    • Kozhikode

  • Farm, education sectors get priority in district panchayat budget
  • Twin blasts case: four persons held
  • Bomb scare: security tightened at university
  • JD(S) to discuss Karnataka issue
  • PCB asked to file report on radiation from mobile tower

    • Kurnool

  • Amway India sets a target of Rs. 700 cr.

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Privatisation: come hell or high water

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Model Code
  • Unfortunate
  • Shocking
  • Judgment revisited

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Chauhan announces new IT policy

    • Madikeri

  • Mystery shrouds death of driver
  • Codava council members stage satyagraha

    • Madurai

  • `Western Ghats being denuded of eco charm''
  • Panel outlines criteria for getting re-accreditation
  • Petitioners seek free textbooks for students in unaided schools
  • The art of delivering an `automatic speech'
  • `Fitness hall' in university
  • Fuzzy research fetches them a fitting award
  • Prizes motivate persistent commitment
  • Now they will practise in a different field
  • TNGEA president dead
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Media not focussing on environment: Heblikar
  • Poultry outlets taking consumers for a ride?
  • Draft statute on PG department approved
  • Man arrested on charge of taking `dowry', cheating a woman
  • Squads formed for II PU exam
  • Pa. Go. Award for N.S. Govind
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • NGOs urge MCC to adopt modern accounting
  • Water crisis likely this summer
  • Wadiyar to open heritage hotels in south India
  • Kukkarahalli Lake turning into a picture of neglect
  • `Do-it-yourself' exhibition from Friday
  • Tax on cooperative banks resented

    • Nagapattinam

  • Annamalai University to introduce new courses

    • Nagercoil

  • A platform to interact with one another
  • Youth exchange programme

    • Nalgonda

  • Fake note trade can't get any blacker
  • Two charged with beating up rag picker

    • National

  • Lawyers, doctors to be brought under service tax net: Minister
  • Rajya Sabha expels Sakshi Maharaj
  • BJP suspends Sangh Priya Gautam
  • New party on April 30, says Uma Bharti
  • Assam pays homage to Bhrigu Phukan
  • EC can make only preliminary enquiry: Sezhiyan
  • Majuli voters seek protection from floods
  • WHO puts China ahead of India in incidence of diabetes
  • ``UPA policies driving farmers to suicide''
  • Khaleda appreciates India's help in 1971
  • Confusion over office of profit
  • Committed to Women's Bill passage, says Manmohan Singh
  • Petroleum regulatory soon
  • CAG favours reforms in use of assets
  • Vigyan Rail awaits Pakistan response
  • Biswas is "stable"
  • BJP challenges amendment to Foreigners Order
  • Chief Justice felicitates Padma awardees
  • Guidelines sting operations
  • MP's call not to `minimise' RBI's role
  • Bench not for new panel on additives
  • Non-consummation of marriage a ground for divorce: apex court
  • Project on thunderstorm warning system by April
  • "Manmohan-led team should visit dam site"
  • "UAE will not be a sanctuary for terrorists"
  • CBI probe sought into purchase of bird flu vaccines
  • Four militants killed in J&K
  • `Deve Gowda should quit'
  • A Jurassic Park of sorts
  • Soft drinks: court not for probe
  • Kurien writes to PM, seeks probe
  • Urban transport policy draft ready

    • Nellore

  • BJP for categorisation of SCs

    • New Delhi

  • Political parties demand mixed land use policy
  • It's party time for Delhi Govt.
  • MLA constituency fund does not lapse: Walia
  • Power theft worth Rs. 1 crore detected in North Delhi
  • MPs demand withdrawal of user charges levied by AIIMS
  • Businessman shot dead in Mongolpuri
  • Threading the Commonwealth in fabric
  • Mixed response to "Delhi bandh''
  • Precaution best method to contain meningitis
  • Police notices to swimming pools
  • Ramanis questioned by new police team
  • Spotlight on energy markets
  • A doctor with a mission
  • `Demolitions would lead to social unrest'
  • Bid to enhance the quality of elementary education
  • Man found with leopard skins gets jail
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • India's water and sanitation challenges
  • Corrections and clarifications
  • Two British-Indians in cash-for-peerage row
  • Who's stone age, U.K. politicians or bushmen?

    • Nizamabad

  • 2 held, electronic goods recovered
  • Ganja plants, powder destroyed

    • Ongole

  • Groups clash over a 'thorny' issue

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • 75th death anniversary of Muloor today
  • Traffic thrown out of gear
  • JMA takes out march

    • Pondicherry

  • CPI (ML) to contest elections on its own
  • PMK wants abolition of Central Sales Tax
  • Collectors designated as election officers

    • Punjab

  • "Do Pranayam, become strong"
  • `Chandigarh fast emerging as hub of socio-economic growth'

    • Racing : Horse

  • Abraxas, Cedros impress
  • Ministrel Heights runs with a good chance
  • Cupid's Glory has an edge
  • Julia wins main event

    • Raichur

  • Medical team heads for Lingsugur taluk

    • Rajasthan

  • Members come close to blows in Assembly
  • Raje seeks PM's help for water release
  • Thousands join silent march

    • Ramanathapuram

  • VC makes it easy where it's not
  • Sea cow washed ashore

    • Religion

  • A state beyond words

    • Salem

  • Contract workers stage demonstration
  • Dalit youth beaten up
  • Lukewarm response to regularisation of layouts
  • Demand to restore benefits

    • Shimoga

  • A pleasant surprise for the people
  • Preparations on for Ramayana Mahasatra
  • Marikamba jatre gets off to an enthusiastic start

    • Sport

  • An interesting final day on the cards
  • Butterfingers are toast of the week
  • Samaresh on top of the podium again
  • Varghese and Harpreet in semifinals
  • Indian women swamp Malaysia
  • Seema Antil rises to the occasion
  • Sonal gets past Savu

    • Sports : General

  • Indian Goldies
  • Pini — instant national hero
  • Double for Sriram
  • Mumbai, Chennai clinch team titles
  • The Results
  • State fencing team
  • MEG and Centre wins title

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Polluted rivers in sharp focus on Water Day
  • Ads granted on objective considerations, court told
  • Dalit cook gets a raw deal
  • Construction of complex: court orders status quo
  • PT to go it alone, contest 150 seats
  • Direct purchase centres opened
  • Tamil federation gifts clothes to flood-affected
  • Hungarian stamp exhibition
  • Arrhythmias set to rise, say cardiologists
  • "Cognizant driven by customer satisfaction"
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Showcasing products made from waste
  • `Help students develop qualities'
  • Counselling centres planned
  • CPI (ML) to contest elections on its own
  • 620 bags of ration rice seized
  • Recruitment drive held
  • Job-oriented courses

    • Thanjavur

  • Dug-up roads make the going tough in Thanjavur
  • Dandi March revisited
  • Appeal by and for natives

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Tie-up: battle of wits on the cards
  • Rajagopal to contest in Palakkad
  • Focus on the life of Chief Minister
  • Staff shortage hits SAT hospital
  • Polit Bureau decision reopens Achuthanandan's candidature
  • Adopt fearless attitude in protecting forests, says Sugathakumari
  • RGCB mulls business incubator facility
  • Minister should quit: DYFI
  • SriLankan Airlines announces summer schedule
  • Chickens to call the shots
  • CPI State panel approves list
  • Tourist found dead
  • Food for thought
  • Minister removed from investigation list
  • Artistes as candidates
  • SBI staff organise mass dharna
  • Training in plant cultivation
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated March 22, 1956: Radhakrishnan's analysis
  • dated March 22, 1956: Mountbatten in Madras

    • Tiruchi

  • Catering technology institute to include communication skill in syllabi
  • Forum plea on police action against quacks
  • Mobile voluntary counselling centres
  • Association plea on police action against quacks
  • `Threat letter' author arrested at Tirunelveli
  • IA schedule
  • Voluntary plea
  • A symbolic representation
  • Wonderful response to Women's Day
  • Mettur level
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Tough days ahead for troublemakers
  • Collector inspects counting centres

    • Tirupati

  • TTD plans botanical garden at Tirumala
  • TTD to celebrate Annamayya fete

    • Tuticorin

  • Project to give more thrust on ecology development

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Malfunctioning of sewerage scheme - a cause of concern
  • Mudumalai elephant camp shifted

    • Udupi

  • Udupi chamber, fishermen welcome State Budget

    • Union Territories

  • Babbar Khalsa militants held
  • `Big push for rural infrastructure'

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Master Plan to check Ganga pollution

    • Uttaranchal

  • Will N.D. Tiwari stay?

    • Vijayawada

  • Health University V-C in fray for MCI membership
  • Lorry driver's body found hanging
  • A case of slip between the cup and the lip
  • Timing troubles in SSC centres
  • Around the City

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Further drop in chicken price from today
  • Setback to summer solace on Ramakrishna beach
  • Free Jaipur foot camp to be held tomorrow
  • BSNL customer meetings in city
  • Judge treats letter as complaint
  • Cloth traders plan protest
  • Driver's presence of mind averts rail accident
  • Bar behind the bars
  • Mock interview
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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