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    Alappuzha

  • Tidal waves damage houses, cause panic
  • UDF Government unpopular: Murali

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Andhra Chief Minister announces sops to farmers
  • Real-life drama precedes Telugu film's release
  • Heat spell: Collectors asked to focus on poor
  • Counter Karnataka's campaign, says CPI
  • His date with death
  • Kitchen cabinet running the show, says Yanamala
  • `Robots set to play major role in heart surgeries'
  • No let-up in heat wave
  • People told not to fall prey to cynicism
  • Multiple bypass sans anaesthesia
  • Varsity releases counselling booklet
  • Fire at tyre godown
  • Shortage of complex fertilisers feared
  • TTD funds misused: BJP
  • BJP to work for Sriramulu's defeat
  • Health varsity awaits State nod for PG counselling
  • War of words at TDP meet
  • Scribes observe demands day
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • YSR tells ryots to curtail expenses
  • Police don new role for a noble cause
  • Long absentee list greets new district Collector
  • Minister terrorising cadre, says TDP
  • Congress flayed for failure to honour promises

    • Athletics

  • It'll be tough grind for runners
  • Dindigul dominates

    • Badminton

  • Four Indians in qualifiers list

    • Bangalore

  • Cobra squads to hit the road today
  • Travellers protest late running of trains
  • Anti-social element murdered
  • Christ College gets A+ grade from NAAC
  • BWSSB using GIS to plug leakage
  • `A radically different film'
  • Official convicted
  • Digging on M.G. Road inconveniences people
  • Housewife found murdered
  • In Bangalore Today
  • They are the preferred ones

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Basketball

  • Kaushal and Sonam to lead

    • Bellary

  • Life gets difficult as mercury level rises in Bellary

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Siddharth beats Manoj

    • Briefly

  • Electrosteel to issue GDRs
  • Satnam to raise up to Rs. 110 crs.
  • Bajaj Auto to develop a quadricycle
  • Sasken files draft Red Herring Prospectus
  • Canara Bank implements Polaris solution
  • Award for Pareed Kannankandi
  • NCDEX plans copper cathode futures
  • UB to buy Airbus Jetliner
  • SingTel invests $252 m in Bharti
  • Inflation slides to 5.61 p.c.

    • Business

  • Centre favours lower landline, roaming charges
  • SBI net profit up 17 p.c. at Rs. 4,300 crs.
  • Scrip-specific activity on BSE
  • Leela Palaces plans 3 new hotels
  • ICICI Bank's Russian outfit will promote two-way trade
  • Modernisation time for Tirupur processing industry
  • Powerloom units seek removal of benchmark value
  • Grand Group to set up 8 hotels
  • China raises export duty on textile goods

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    • Chennai

  • Lake near Avadi poisoned?
  • Poor facilities a dampener to pursuing legal education
  • At Central, railway police feel the heat!
  • NABARD, Postal department sign MoU
  • Handloom, crafts fair on at Alwarpet
  • Development bodies get together to exchange ideas
  • A daylight robbery in Madhavaram
  • CBSE lists steps to make learning process meaningful
  • Need a tanker?
  • New Archbishop for Madras-Mylapore
  • Government staff take anti-terrorism pledge
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Goldsmith society secures orders worth Rs. 20 lakhs, finalisation next week
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Effort to streamline city traffic begins

    • Cricket

  • Big win for SRCA
  • Padma Sheshadri BB SSS in final
  • Second defeat for Kodagu

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No: 8299
  • Solution to Puzzle 8298

    • Cuddalore

  • Rains wash off salt on tsunami-hit farms
  • Coaching centre for Indian Institutes of Technology entrance examinations at Neyveli Township

    • Cuddapah

  • TDP district chief offers to step down
  • Good rule a myth, says Telugu Desam

    • Dharmapuri

  • Liquid waste management plant for Palacode

    • Dharwad

  • `Take steps to improve groundwater level'
  • Dharwad water supply schedule

    • Editorials

  • A slipshod piece of legislation
  • The best man for the job

    • Erode

  • Health Minister inaugurates emergency ward in Erode
  • Government to sanction ambulance vans for all panchayat unions
  • Pandemonium in panchayat meeting
  • Drop-out rate comes down

    • Football

  • Sporting Clube confident

    • Front Page

  • "Implement new deal to rural India"
  • Greg Chappell appointed India coach
  • India's ties with Israel will not affect our relations: Abbas
  • Bid on Gujarat BJP MLA's life
  • Make boundaries irrelevant: Musharraf
  • If you're a big cat, you're better off in Tamil Nadu
  • Inflation rate falls
  • POTA panel submits report
  • Emergency landing
  • Train coach derails

    • Golf

  • Randhawa, Soi triumph

    • Guntur

  • `Naidu has no right to speak about farmers'
  • Maoists kill sarpanch

    • Hassan

  • Clampdown begins on trade of illicit liquor in Hassan
  • `NTPC move to take over MESCOM under study'

    • Hockey

  • Indian team for Azlan Shah tournament

    • Hubli

  • Krishna waters: State Govt. should protest, says Vaijanath Patil
  • Two complexes built in violation of bylaws

    • Hyderabad

  • No control on speeding
  • Rs. 47.97 lakhs of stolen money recovered
  • Ill-equipped to catch up with offenders
  • Health camp
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • Ties with U.S. do not hinge on U.N. reform: Saran
  • India signs maritime accord with Thailand
  • Resume arms supply, Nepal urges India

    • International

  • South Korean team of scientists develops patient-specific stem cells
  • Nobel laureates call for fostering peace, global efforts to combat inequity
  • U.S. military angry over Saddam pictures
  • Human embryo cloned in Britain
  • Cloning: hope for the childless
  • Berlusconi gets in shape for poll
  • U.S. military angry over Saddam Hussein's pictures

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Four Armymen killed in ambush

    • Karimnagar

  • Kadiam lashes out at KCR
  • YSR to inaugurate Rythu Sadassu

    • Karnataka

  • Spirit of accommodation marks Dharam Singh's year in power
  • Why should Ramanagaram pay for destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas?
  • Commission for children to be set up in State
  • Shraddananda convicted; court sentence today
  • Seshappa was not a police informer: Shankaramurthy
  • Govt. yet to take off despite one year in office, says Yediyurappa
  • MCI team to visit State on May 31
  • Software companies turning away fresh graduates
  • When passion overtook age
  • Work on next phase of Cauvery Fourth Stage to start soon
  • Parties launch bypoll campaign
  • `JD(S) is sympathetic to problems of Malnad region'
  • Four charred to death in accident
  • 48 lecturers to be recruited for Ayurveda colleges
  • `Name airport after Tipu'
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • MLA promises grants for groundwater conservation
  • Sarvodaya Party to contest zilla, taluk panchayat elections in 20 districts

    • Kerala

  • High waves lash several coastal villages
  • T.M. Jacob to sit on Opposition benches
  • SEC issues notice to P.C. Thomas
  • Antony rules out ties with CPI(M)
  • Coke plant did not comply with requirements: panchayat
  • `Maudany arranged for Pak training'
  • 176 Akshaya centres to be set up in district
  • Sushma visits NSS headquarters
  • Three get life term for murder
  • Withdraw strike plan, doctors told
  • BJYM activists take out protest march
  • Spend funds as per norms: Vakkom
  • Work on KSEB sub-stations in progress
  • Nothing unusual: scientist
  • B.Ed. results announced
  • Kissan Sabha for import curbs
  • Association for technical staff in film industry
  • Vanilla Tea launched
  • Briefly

    • Kochi

  • High Court asks Pollution Control Board to file report on waste dumping
  • Plea on cancellation of bid admitted
  • In Kochi Today
  • On a different battle

    • Kollam

  • High waves trigger panic at Alapad
  • Amrita TIFAC-CORE inauguration

    • Kurnool

  • K.E.Krishnamurthy to stay
  • Ex-councillor dead

    • Leader Page Articles

  • America and the roots of Afghan rage

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Yale, India, and the 'global university'
  • Left-BJP row
  • By-elections
  • High Court ruling
  • Gruesome incident
  • Empowering women
  • Scarred for life
  • Go slow

    • Madurai

  • Tamil Nadu marching ahead in using renewable energy sources: TEDA
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Living amid the din

    • Maharashtra

  • Bharat Shah's secretary charge sheeted
  • Another bookie held

    • Mangalore

  • Cashew cultivation to be taken up in 3,662 hectares
  • `St. Agnes College gets `A' grade in NAAC ranking
  • `Achievements of Govt. a result of JD(S) pressure'
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Incorporate scientific methodologies in study of history, says expert
  • Melapura project work to begin soon: MLA
  • MATF for restoration of chiming in clock tower
  • State-level presentation competition

    • Nagapattinam

  • Yatra for livelihood rights of tsunami-hit fishermen
  • Adequate paddy seeds available for cultivation

    • Nagercoil

  • Seawater enters villages, residents panic

    • National

  • Kalam to leave on four-nation tour
  • Parties in row over transfers
  • We are against hike in oil prices: Jyoti Basu
  • New officer to defend Anjali Gupta
  • Lalu puts on hold new catering policy
  • Judges vacancies: apex court rejects petition
  • BJP, Congress cross swords over AMU's policy
  • FDI for newspaper project cleared
  • "Entry of foreign law firms will cause havoc"
  • Ministry clears upgrading of temporary forest roads
  • AIDWA wants GCM procedures amended
  • Hybrid cotton: go-ahead for Monsanto
  • UPA's one-year in office a failure, says Swamy
  • IGNOU to launch seven new courses
  • Ajit N. Haksar dead
  • NCW recast

    • New Delhi

  • Delhiites reel under power cuts
  • CAG points out financial irregularities in IITs
  • Concern over contamination of water from landfill sites
  • Trouble for Delhi Govt., power firms
  • Change of guard at Vir Bhoomi
  • `Kabari Bazar' to reopen at a new venue
  • Venkateswara forms available from May 26
  • Abducted boy rescued
  • Fresh cases of meningitis reported
  • Police medals
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Tihar Jail staff in need of an identity

    • News Analysis

  • UPA: bruised but not wounded
  • Manmohan Singh and the economy

    • Nizamabad

  • Water supply not to be hit: Collector
  • Pocharam re-elected

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Government likely to give land to Forest Department
  • Chandy inaugurates college in Pathanamthitta
  • Medical camp

    • Perambalur

  • Funds sought for rehabilitation of reformed offenders

    • Pondicherry

  • CAG report forwarded to Government
  • `Upgrade post of administrator'
  • SP's house burgled
  • Jail deaths' probe
  • Panel formed

    • Racing : Motor

  • Trulli ready for an encore
  • Valimaki optimistic
  • JK Tyre national racing on May 22

    • Rajasthan

  • Infocomm services launched in Churu

    • Religion

  • Evanescence of life

    • Shimoga

  • Remarks against Dharam Singh irk Poojary

    • Sport

  • Chappell pledges commitment to excellence
  • The right choice
  • Anand defeats Kramnik; Ponomariov, Topalov share lead
  • Sania loses

    • Sports : General

  • CM's gesture to athletes
  • Overwhelming response to MCH camps
  • St. Pius girls win
  • Olympic Day run
  • Ashok wins

    • Tamil Nadu

  • If you're a big cat, you're better off in Tamil Nadu
  • Joint venture with Jindals to exploit iron ore
  • Sethu project launch in June third week
  • A rough ride for the disabled
  • Krtimanimalai English version
  • Free textbooks up to Plus-Two
  • Two-tumbler system: court orders probe
  • Trust to provide social security cover to Carnatic musicians
  • SSLC results by June first week
  • Palanivel Rajan opens Kiruttinan memorial
  • Clinton's Nagapattinam visit on May 27
  • Vasan meets Sonia
  • Training camp for NCC cadets
  • Copper coins found at Tiruvarur temple
  • Girl fails exam, immolates self
  • New MLAs administered oath
  • Offer to computerise relief logistics
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Ryots seek monitoring of watershed programme
  • Bike rider killed in collision
  • Wasteland scheme to be extended
  • 62 child labourers rescued in Tirupur

    • Tennis

  • Justine Henin-Hardenne raring to go
  • Spain on verge of entering final
  • Nadal, Gasquet set to battle it out
  • Ritu advances
  • Sanam Singh's departure delayed

    • Thanjavur

  • New courses introduced

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Underpass work hit as crane overturns
  • Tidal swell floods coastal villages
  • Three of a family commit suicide
  • Kerala University B.Com. results out
  • DMO visits relief camps
  • Holiday for Air Cargo Complex
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 21, 1955: PM criticises Akali morcha
  • dated May 21, 1955: The Bhoodan Yagna
  • dated May 21, 1955: "Saviour of the Nation"

    • Thrissur

  • Row over railway gates over?

    • Tiruchi

  • Government Railway Police put on alert
  • Copies of chargesheet in cheating case served on Jayalakshmi, inspector
  • BHEL offers new course for doctors
  • Training programme in herbal products
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirupati

  • Choice of DCC chief surprises all
  • Hut-dwellers' protest
  • TTD plans to air-condition Vaikuntam queue complex

    • Tuticorin

  • 10 arrested for gambling

    • Udupi

  • Moral values declining: Pejawar seer
  • Woman killed as bus overturns

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Four U.P. officials suspended

    • Vijayawada

  • VGTM-UDA in a spot as arrears mount
  • Protection work at a brisk pace
  • New water connections at World Bank's mercy: CPI(M)
  • CPI flays official laxity over civic issues
  • Five members of gang surrender
  • Labourers stage protest
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Chit fund company directed to pay damages
  • A cry for justice
  • Motorcyclist knocked down
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • VFI delighted by Youth team's feat
  • Warangal boys, Nalgonda girls triumph

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • West Bengal

  • Japan to consider aid for Bengal

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