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Alappuzha

  • Crisis in coir industry in focus at Mararikkulam
  • List of candidates for Alappuzha district

    • Anantapur

  • Rythu Sangham seeks waiver on loans

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Andhra MP, activists barred from visiting Babli site
  • 10 farm workers killed in road accident
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • When Lord Shiva turns into a bridegroom
  • Minister's ultimatum to Autonagar land allottees
  • City buses dwindling amidst competition
  • Stage set for celestial wedding
  • Praja Patham to cover 461 panchayats from April 10
  • Maharashtra violating river water pact: MP
  • Special squads to track psuedo-naxal gang
  • Pulse polio: mobile booths to be set up
  • Rural women get trained to tackle gender bias
  • Villagers lock up officials
  • Telangana: BJP to step up pressure on Congress
  • Lukewarm response to convention on Telangana

    • Bangalore

  • Bill on professional education lacks teeth: Opposition
  • Hospitals facing chronic shortage of paramedical staff
  • Enhance supply chain to create jobs: Infosys chief
  • Commissioner praises South division police
  • High Court jubilee today
  • Kalasa Banduri: Kumaraswamy ready to lead team to Centre
  • Teachers' demands will be met in six months: Kumaraswamy
  • Brand Bangalore will be promoted: Chief Minister
  • Two SPVs proposed to revive NGEF
  • University officials transferred
  • Government will recruit 10,000 headmasters, says Horatti
  • Canara Bank and Healthcare
  • Efforts on to control `chikun gunya': Minister
  • Disabled man knocked down by police jeep
  • Mysore to soon get water on alternate days
  • Gold festival opens
  • Accident triggers protest
  • Sukhabodhananda's book released
  • Judges to join `run for justice' today
  • Power cut may continue for some time
  • Sting operation
  • Ganja seized
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Belgaum

  • Probe likely into allotment of petroleum outlet

    • Bellary

  • APMC workers continue protest in Bellary

    • Bidar

  • Their hunger for success led them on

    • Briefly

  • HP unveils new Notebook with Gamut technology
  • Trinity Convergence opens centre in Pune
  • IBM and 3Com to offer VCX suite
  • ICA appoints Adarsh Shastri as National Secretary
  • Radiant Infosystems partners with Intel
  • SCMB former Deputy CEO on Indu Board
  • Accreditation for PR professionals
  • IDFC private equity fund II raises $430 m
  • Keventer Agro acquires EIL's food division
  • New global sales director for Saksoft
  • KSCAB achieves higher profit
  • Foreign Trade Policy today
  • Sun Centre for Java
  • Gold ends at new high
  • Teledata takes over I-Max Networks
  • Vodafone reveals restructuring

    • Business

  • Share of customs in government revenue will decline: FM
  • Transmission projects: mechanism for bidding
  • Reliance Communications plans to expand broadband network
  • TAFE becomes market leader
  • IACC advocates calibrated approach to rupee convertibility
  • Refex's expansion schemes
  • Tamil Nadu Oil & Seeds Assn.'s plea to Govt.
  • Talks on with steel majors for coking coal joint venture
  • Noida Toll Bridge to exercise over-allotment arrangements
  • Inflation falls below four per cent
  • Cost competitiveness drives India's manufacturing
  • 12 in race for grid lines

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOONSCAPE

    • Chennai

  • Call to raise consumer awareness in State
  • Experts want entrance exam system changed
  • Know the killer in your stimulant
  • Dutch universities scout for Indian students
  • Ripples in Congress over selection of candidates
  • Chennai port keen on interacting with public
  • Youth dies mid-journey, body left to rot
  • Court unveils scheme for regulating hawkers
  • Spending on drugs research to increase
  • 5 Kancheepuram villages get sanitation award
  • Expo aims at promoting Chennai as an all-weather business destination
  • Customer-friendly measures from Silk Mark Organisation
  • Natural coolant, `on the house'
  • Model test for B.E., MBBS aspirants
  • Pirated VCDs seized, nine persons arrested
  • Warwick Manufacturing Group to hold counselling session
  • Opportunities in Italy an option: V-C
  • Fire in scrap yard at Tambaram
  • True autograph hunter
  • Slice of Italian culture
  • Help computerise police stations, Nataraj tells students
  • Little to look ahead during summer holidays
  • High Court reverses acquittal of three in murder case
  • Man held on cheating charge
  • Chingari conveys a social message
  • Lions Clubs convention tomorrow
  • Plea to restrain UGC from granting deemed varsity status
  • One-month-long journalism course
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Sewage can be good
  • MG trains may be terminated at Podanur from May 1
  • SISSPA seeks TUFS for second-hand spinning machines
  • HIV care centre reels under public apathy
  • Fall of a bridge
  • Surgical Education Programme at CMCH
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Tendulkar back home to recuperate
  • Australian team arrives in Bangladesh
  • Dravid is third in ICC rankings
  • Zee bags global overseas marketing rights
  • `We need to rest a few people'
  • Twenty20 likely to get a boost in India
  • Bishnoi Club storms into final
  • Big win for BSNL
  • PCA enters last four

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8571
  • Solution to Puzzle 8570

    • Cuddalore

  • DMK's alliance arithmetic faulty: Thirumavalavan

    • Dharmapuri

  • Heavy rush for inclusion of names in voters' list

    • Dindigul

  • Congress harps on new faces
  • Training for election officials in handling EVMs

    • Editorials

  • BJP's difficult yatra
  • Best buys for health

    • Eluru

  • Tiny tot survives accident, but loses parents, sister
  • 10 die in road accident, 20 hurt

    • Erode

  • `Do not violate model code of conduct'
  • DMK kick-starts poll campaign
  • Stickers sellers get roaring business
  • Queues for name inclusion
  • Sandalwood smugglers get 2-year jail
  • In Erode Today

    • Football

  • Memorable day for Arsenal
  • Basheeru stars in AI's win
  • Easy for Independence Buds

    • Front Page

  • Medha continues fast in hospital
  • ``Work on dam must continue''
  • Five arrested in `War Room Leak' case
  • Team India scales a new high
  • "AICTE will not issue any directions to deemed universities"
  • CET to be held on May 18, 19
  • Resume work, Chidambaram tells SBI staff
  • Manmohan undergoes eye check-up
  • Advani appeals to Muslims to facilitate honourable settlement of temple issue
  • Ram Navami comes as a godsend for Delhi traders
  • Naushad returns home to an emotional welcome
  • Many development works to take off
  • MP prevented from visiting Babli site
  • A mine of wealth at official's house
  • Kidnapped girl rescued from armed gang
  • YSR denies allotment of farm varsity land for expressway
  • Praja Patham programme from April 10
  • Engineering, medical entrance tests postponed
  • Reports to EC soon on raids on CPI (M) office
  • Three killed in Aligarh clash
  • ``Work on dam must continue''
  • Firms blacklisted
  • Envoy reprimanded
  • 10 killed in Iraq
  • Cheer for immigrants
  • Tremors in Gujarat

    • Globescan

  • A million face flood risk
  • Fujimori marries from cell

    • Golf

  • Kapur, Jeev vie for British Open berths
  • Digvijay's lead down to one stroke

    • Gulbarga

  • Many Dalits to embrace Buddhism
  • Fresh elections ordered to education society posts
  • Hospital staff stage protest
  • Workers' conference on April 15, 16

    • Guntur

  • Plastic sachets beyond scope of ban
  • Noisy scenes mark DRC meet
  • Revenue Minister pulls up officials

    • Hassan

  • Greens, social activists support striking Medha Patkar
  • FKCCI favours sector-specific SEZs in State

    • Hockey

  • Army XI, BSF, IA advance

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • SBI staff strike hits 20,000 pensioners
  • We are ready for settlement of Idgah Maidan issue: BJP
  • Bench: Jagadish Shettar's father backs Hubli lawyers
  • Appeal to lawyers to withdraw protest
  • In Hubli-Dharwad Today

    • Hyderabad

  • Medicos boycott classes
  • Flyovers' work on schedule
  • Country looking at State: YSR
  • Deck up the entire city and shell out mere Rs. 77,000 only!
  • Tomatoes to be supplied to hostels, bridge schools
  • Golconda Mahankali draws devotees even today
  • YSR misled people on Sripadasagar, say TDP leaders
  • Teachers' talks with State Government fail
  • HUDA chief inspects Jalvihar site
  • Christian institutions: law favoured to save properties
  • Medicos stay away from classes
  • Two States stop power supply
  • Niloufer Hospital to take care of conjoined twins
  • Court asks polluting units to deposit Rs. 3 crores
  • Protests galore
  • Naturol Bioenergy ties up with Belgian company
  • State BJP leaders to launch movement on Telangana
  • Global Hospitals plans healthcare facility
  • Trying to make inroads?
  • Don't blame Government: YSR
  • Bidar-based burglar gang busted
  • City records 40.2 degree C
  • Rumour mills working overtime
  • Reprieve for Commissioner
  • WWF to organise summer camps
  • Raising a stink
  • Six held on charge of forging documents
  • Info on flyovers to be displayed
  • Clarification
  • No shortage of revenue stamps
  • Celestial dazzle
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Girl dies in freak accident

    • India & World

  • We are pushing for South Asia moratorium on fissile material production, says Rice

    • International

  • Talks: safe travel promise for LTTE
  • Hundreds arrested in Nepal
  • A tale of two genders
  • India deplores arrests
  • Hamas Minister held, freed by Israel
  • Union's ultimatum to Villepin on job law
  • Scotland reports bird flu

    • Kancheepuram

  • Three killed in accident on East Coast Road

    • Kannur

  • In Kannur Today

    • Karnataka

  • `Brand Bangalore will be promoted'
  • A mine of wealth at official's house
  • A close shave
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Operation against unauthorised pumpsets launched
  • `Goa violence is part of strategy of political forces'
  • No regularisation on delayed representation: court
  • BJP workers urged to work in tandem with JD (S) workers
  • SBI ATM services remain affected for fourth day in Goa

    • Kerala

  • Naushad returns home from Saudi prison to an emotional welcome
  • Permission sought for power transmission line in forest land
  • Support sought for SBI staff strike
  • Taking a close look
  • Fighting injustice
  • Leading from the front
  • Nature's canvas
  • Today at Sabarimala
  • Readying for the ballot
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • LDF gains support of Muslim groups
  • Huge turnout for the funeral of Mar Valloppilly

    • Khammam

  • CPI(M) to step up `stop Polavaram' campaign

    • Kochi

  • City corporation, KCA clash over running of food stalls at match venue
  • Sex racket case: appeal admitted
  • Key constituencies to be under special observation
  • Sankara fellowships to be launched
  • `PDP support to LDF regrettable'
  • SCMS to start medical, engineering colleges
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • In Kollam Today

    • Kottayam

  • Infrastructure draws candidates' attention

    • Kozhikode

  • Pensioners express concern over SBI stir
  • 30 candidates file nominations
  • ISM annual meet on April 9
  • Hectic schedule at Calicut airport
  • Make registration of marriages mandatory, says NISA
  • Plea to withdraw changes in booking rule
  • K.T. Kanaran passes away
  • Plea to withdraw changes in rail reservation rule
  • Painting camp
  • Gangadharan honoured

    • Kurnool

  • RWS officials told to take up repair works
  • YSR to visit Kurnool district on April 20

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Where rags to riches stories are no longer rare

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Unfortunate
  • Fast as an instrument
  • An indelible blot
  • Thanks again

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Violence after girl crushed under wheels

    • Madikeri

  • 41 TB deaths reported in Kodagu last year
  • Madikeri spruced up to receive President

    • Madurai

  • Poll panel keen on pursuing election code violation cases
  • Bench rejects appeal challenging order against `jallikattu'
  • Karthik to be `removed' from party president post
  • Valuable study gets her award
  • Fair extension for students' sake
  • Special arrangement for fee payment
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Maharashtra

  • Maharashtra plan to de-silt Mithi

    • Mangalore

  • `Government should repay tax to cooperatives'
  • Preparations on for Chilimbi festival
  • Murder case: four declared proclaimed offenders
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Dharna in support of Medha Patkar
  • A patient wait fetches him dividends It was worth the wait
  • 56 tonnes of tomato destroyed at RMC yard

    • Nagapattinam

  • 434 houses to be constructed in Nagai

    • National

  • No compromise on illegal migration, says Sonia
  • Retain right to conduct nuclear tests: Vajpayee
  • Indian, American nuclear regulators exchange views
  • War Room Leak case: other accused asked to join probe
  • UPA policies dangerous: Rajnath
  • Taking rent does not mean waiver of quit notice
  • IAF to retire the last of its secret planes
  • Additional allocation for 7 engineering institutions
  • Amnesty seeks water for gas tragedy victims
  • Court: merit selection cannot be considered quota appointment
  • Doha round: India firm on protecting interests of farmers
  • IAF asked to reduce joint exercises
  • Sati: 4 jailed in M.P.
  • Mandal formula under consideration
  • "Only legal heirs of victim can pardon Sarabjit"
  • 3 persons killed in Aligarh clash
  • Mulayam, Chandrababu Naidu form "anti-Congress, anti-BJP" front
  • Uma Bharti to field candidate against Sonia
  • CPI(M) protests against raids
  • PanAm hijack victims file suit against Libya
  • "Developed world wants to destroy India's self-sufficiency"
  • Release Medha, demands NBA

    • Nellore

  • Debate on development of Udayagiri today
  • BSNL to improve mobile connectivity

    • New Delhi

  • Power charges all set to go up again?
  • Blurring boundaries with music
  • DDA's private partnership pilot project gets a good response
  • Celebrating mankind's first foray into space
  • `Manmohan, Sonia should intervene'
  • Bid to make travelling by auto safe for visually impaired
  • Fun, food, frolic, a worthy cause too
  • Books, writers, readings and much more
  • Burglars' gang is busted
  • BJP leaders court arrest
  • `Her paintings depict Indian-ness'
  • Notices on legal sanctity to homosexuality
  • Police plan for security during Games-2010
  • BJP MLAs demand special session of Delhi Assembly
  • Notices over destruction of historic monuments
  • SBI strike continues
  • Setting the ramp on fire
  • With devotion
  • `No Ordinance now'
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Destruction of Amazon forest linked to fast food
  • The evolution of the model code
  • The problem that refuses to go away
  • Corrections and clarifications
  • TV giants `stifle creativity but Internet will free it'

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Rytu Coolie Sangham backs farmers' stir

    • Palakkad

  • In Palakkad Today

    • Pathanamthitta

  • TDB move to widen Sabarimala trekking path opposed
  • Parties trade charges over development at Aranmula
  • Mafia culture flourished under UDF rule: Pinarayi

    • Pondicherry

  • Police search for arms in fishing hamlet
  • BJP goes to polls after losing significant gains made in last elections
  • New political outfit to contest five seats
  • Special check posts to prevent illicit arrack movement planned

    • Punjab

  • Move to bring all kids under basic education
  • Sonia's third resignation
  • Court to be moved on farmers' suicides
  • Erratic flowering of kinnow no cause for panic, farmers told

    • Racing : Horse

  • Cosmopolitan, Patroclus and Cromwell impress
  • Tactical Advantage appeals most
  • Moon Beam triumphs

    • Raichur

  • Concern over poor response to public grievances cell

    • Rajasthan

  • Coal at lower prices planned
  • Pressure for early passage of anti-conversion Bill
  • Central fund for urban development

    • Religion

  • Keep away from evil

    • Salem

  • Pulse polio immunisation programme on April 9
  • Gang assaults youth; Rights organisation observes fast
  • Council delegates powers of Mayor to Deputy Mayor
  • EPIC distribution in progress
  • Gang assaults youth
  • Need for PhD programmes in basic sciences stressed

    • Shooting

  • Shooter Sanghi selected for World Cup

    • Sport

  • India wraps up series comfortably
  • Fleming expecting South African backlash
  • Koneru Humpy is just too good; beats Deepan Chakravarthy handily

    • Sports : General

  • Vinod, Vikas bag titles
  • KSCA `A' defeats BEML Club
  • Indian masseur sentenced
  • Gush Club in semifinals

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Officials violating poll code, say DPA leaders
  • BJP reiterates commitment to Hindutva ideology
  • S.Ve. Shekher, down to earth and intense
  • Dravidian parties lock horns in eight Coimbatore seats
  • CPI renominates two sitting members
  • A one-member Commission
  • Sharing the spoils
  • Parties exploit loophole in model code of conduct
  • Industrialists want VAT regime implemented
  • Red Cross cries foul over symbol
  • Golden jubilee of Potato Research Station today
  • Crocodile creates scare
  • Sticker vendors do roaring business
  • Election strictures a relief for people
  • DMK's alliance arithmetic faulty, says Thirumavalavan
  • Pulse polio programme on April 9 and May 21
  • Mangoes may not taste sweet this year
  • Salt manufacturers, exporters stage protest
  • Poll observers for Vellore district
  • Candidates interact with civic activists, residents' welfare fora
  • Opposition to candidature of Gnanasekharan mounts in Vellore
  • Briefly
  • In Tiruchengode Today

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • She combines traditional art forms to add life to contemporary dance
  • Blood centre set up
  • Chronic shortage of paramedical staff in public health sector
  • Elaborate measures for giving polio drops in Theni, Dindigul
  • Poll stricture, a relief to people
  • Tirupur to get more traffic signals
  • Vaiko highlights welfare schemes of government
  • Polling stations inspected
  • Cable TV Bill: State likely to take legal action
  • Posters against AIADMK candidate
  • Collector inspects distribution of ID cards

    • Tennis

  • T.N. boys in final
  • Bopanna to meet Qureshi in opener
  • Schnyder sails into third round
  • Hewitt will be the key
  • Rushmi bows out in the quarterfinals

    • Thanjavur

  • Congress retains present legislators for three seats
  • In Thanjavur Today

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Income disparities sharpest in Kerala, says KSSP study
  • Shortage of anti-rabies vaccine triggers protests
  • `Decision not to lose votes led to tie-up with DIC(K)'
  • 145 more file nomination papers
  • Attack on guru mandiram: BJP observes hartal in Nedumangad
  • Election duty: action against officials refusing to receive appointment order
  • Sarathchandra Prasad to be in the fray
  • The land of `dosa' eaters!
  • Pedestrian killed in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananathapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated April 7, 1956: Demarcation of border
  • dated April 7, 1956: Reverse for ruling party
  • dated April 7, 1956: Nehru on astrology

    • Thrissur

  • P.P. George pens book on political career
  • Isaac murder: accused gets life term
  • In Thrissur Today

    • Tiruchi

  • Master plan for Tiruchi airport development
  • Vaiko's tirade against DMK
  • Photographing schedule for identity cards
  • Red Cross cries foul over misuse of its symbol
  • To bring out the Sania Mirza in them
  • Medha has her `tiny followers'
  • Bank employees stage dharna
  • SCOPE receives award from President
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirupati

  • National seminar on `bluetongue' disease
  • TDP holds dharna against irregularities
  • Lecture on Bharatiya vidya
  • In Tirupati Today

    • Tumkur

  • Tight security in Tumkur

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Ooty Lake divided to separate motor boats from others
  • Flower carnival on May 20, 21
  • New party aims to make impact

    • Udupi

  • Rs. 100 crore granted for Varahi Irrigation Project
  • `Gear up to face competition'

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Yoga varsity launched
  • Court takes umbrage at lawyers' action
  • Speaker urged to disqualify MLAs

    • Vellore

  • Opposition to candidature of Gnanasekharan mounts in Vellore

    • Vijayawada

  • Ancient tank to be a tourist destination soon
  • Online trading volume reaches Rs. 300 cr. a day
  • Chikun gunya scare in city
  • Separate Telangana not easy, says Jairam Ramesh
  • Railway Minister's Award for three
  • CPI plans to restructure city unit
  • Loans distributed to SHGs
  • Is TTD Chairman's post an office of profit?
  • Highway to Hyderabad
  • Developments in Pakistan are conducive for friendship: Lavanam
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Vizag Port Trust surpasses own record
  • Reema Sen falls for Port City
  • Junior doctors go on indefinite strike
  • Demolition proves fatal for welder on KGH premises
  • ENC celebrates Flotilla Evening
  • Gangavaram fisherfolk boycott grama sabha
  • GVMC eyes unassessed properties in panchayats
  • Temples gear up for Rama Navami fete
  • Aries Agro to double its turnover to Rs. 120 crores
  • Protest day by Maoists today
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • BSNL Warangal earns better revenue than last year
  • Auto drivers turn charitable to their tribe
  • KU gets Rs. 59.10-lakh AICTE grant

    • Weather

  • Weather

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