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Alappuzha

  • Women workers allege ill-treatment in UP
  • Thullal performed at Ambalappuzha temple

    • Anantapur

  • Call to promote handloom products
  • Seed groundnut supply from May 15: Minister
  • In-charge bank manager duped of Rs. 12.5 lakhs

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Police Commissionerates in five more A.P. cities
  • Bangladesh Minister taken ill
  • Glitter is missing! Missing glitter
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • CPI(M) accuses police of unleashing terror
  • TRS activists attack school under construction
  • 18 killed in road accidents
  • Collector reviews Indiramma works
  • SSC results: East Godavari stands 13th in State
  • Farmer killed in road accident

    • Athletics

  • Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam triumph

    • Badminton

  • Denmark prevails over Malaysia in a thriller

    • Bangalore

  • New wards facing water scarcity
  • Chief Minister not true, says High Court
  • Government urged to intervene in Chitrakala Parishat row
  • Computerisation to help improve work in district courts
  • Jairaj stresses on performance
  • Evening schools for working children termed a bad idea
  • Number of Assembly constituencies in Bangalore to go up from 12 to 18
  • Not much effort to establish medical colleges: Dharam Singh
  • HAL launches media campaign to attract young people
  • Lobbying on for post of city police commissioner
  • And now, a machine to make water from thin air!
  • Foot care programme for diabetics ready
  • Eight-year-old boy rescued from Gwalior reunited with parents
  • Summer jobs can be fun
  • Further trial of case involving Telgi, two doctors ordered
  • `Prepare contingency plan to tackle rain-related problems'
  • BWSSB chief's fiat to officials
  • Focus will be on improving infrastructure, says new BDA Commissioner
  • Sharad Yadav vows to unite Janata Parivar
  • Rs. 2.5 lakh was stolen from Mayor's chamber: BJP
  • Ombudsmen to be appointed soon
  • Two hacked to death in Nelamangala
  • Man strangled
  • Mock CET: names of top 10 announced
  • You can record television serials on computer
  • M. Mallappa passes away
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Utility of mobile phones in detection of crime

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • ICF derails Indian Bank
  • SAI Dharwad suspended
  • Kottayam boys record second victory

    • Belgaum

  • Farmers plan to stage `rasta roko' stir on Goa border

    • Bellary

  • Kumaraswamy visiting Bellary

    • Bihar

  • 740 policemen facing criminal cases in Bihar
  • Child labourers rescued

    • Briefly

  • Inflation falls to 3.54 pc
  • Gold zooms on frantic buying
  • ICICI Bank hikes home loan rates
  • Mobile operators form advisory council
  • Wipro acquires switches business of North-West
  • Secova, UltraLink to merge
  • Sequoia, WestBridge Capital unite
  • Esquire launches offshore development centre
  • Tamilnadu Telecom turns around
  • HCL, Dish TV team up
  • SkodaAuto India expands the Octavia portfolio
  • Ogilvy India wins awards
  • Priyadarshini Spinning net up 44 p.c.
  • Spice Telecom plans IPO by year-end
  • Vijaya Bank pays 10 p.c.
  • New MD for MRPL
  • SIA's special holiday package
  • Ogilvy India wins awards
  • Wipro Consumer launches Chandrika Amritam
  • Lucent to launch Employability fund

    • Business

  • High oil prices a risk to global economic growth
  • S&P ups India's rating
  • Sensex trims initial gains
  • Tata Motors, Marcopolo to form JV
  • Shree Cement to set up new plant
  • Microsoft offers EPG service
  • RCoVL to sponsor secondary market GDRs/ADRs
  • Bright future for mutual funds industry: study
  • State Cooperative Bank to promote rural tourism
  • BoI plans to raise $250 m
  • Rupee loses further ground

    • Cartoons

  • CARTOONSCAPE

    • Chennai

  • Chaos at Ripon Buildings
  • Paramilitary forces arrive for poll duty
  • Residents want candidates to notice their problems
  • Tips to keep heat away
  • Keeping restless youngsters occupied in the heat of May
  • Novel ways of the campaign
  • Wrong diagnosis complicates asthma treatment
  • Filmmakers catch `high speed hunters' in action
  • Judicial officer's suspension quashed after 10 years
  • Rajiv Menon's institute offers course in cinematography
  • Sathyabhama deemed varsity students turn violent again
  • `DMK has evidence of graft in AIADMK rule'
  • Sunder C dons a new role
  • Salsa, anyone? Learn to groove this summer
  • Craft Bazaar opens at C.P. Art Centre
  • Anna FM talent hunt deadline extended
  • Bril teams up with CRY for a cause-related initiative
  • Christian forum's appeal to voters
  • Interview for students
  • Correction
  • Zoo closure for Assembly elections
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Muralikrishna struggles to beat Iyan
  • C.V. Raman Chess Club tournament
  • Three share under-7 title

    • Coimbatore

  • `Give importance to welfare of farmers'
  • `Avoid overloading children with summer courses'
  • TNAU signs pact with tractor manufacturer
  • Sensitising students to AIDS
  • Face of Coimbatore
  • Court convicts bank manager
  • Students undertake parthenium eradication rally
  • Air Marshal's visit
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today
  • Of campaigns and motorists' woes

    • Cricket

  • New Zealand batsmen falter
  • ICC panel to decide on players' plea against umpiring decisions
  • Siddarth shines
  • Zimbabwe wants Speed to quit
  • CAB asked to disclose details
  • Pakistan `A' sets a stiff target for Indians

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword 8596
  • Solution to Puzzle 8595

    • Cuddalore

  • Panruti witnessing a multi-cornered contest
  • Tension in prison
  • "DMK, AIADMK keep altering manifestos"

    • Dharmapuri

  • Control rooms opened at Collectorate
  • Good response to CM's announcement: Thirumavalavan

    • Dindigul

  • Elaborate arrangements made
  • Tough battle on the cards in Oddanchatram
  • Will Congress beat AIADMK?
  • DMK seems to be sure of itself
  • Using them for wider reach?

    • Editorials

  • A fiat Gujarat could have done without
  • Missing the April deadline

    • Eluru

  • Viral fever claims six lives in Adamilli village

    • Erode

  • Candidates bank on door-to-door campaigning
  • Cameras to be installed in sensitive booths
  • Mechanisation hits bullock cart owners
  • DMK stages road roko
  • Tigers kill buffalo

    • Football

  • Italy's maiden title comes on home soil
  • Ronaldo ready to silence his critics
  • End of the road for captain Beckham?
  • Technology's way of greeting the WC
  • Reyes keeps Arsenal in Champions League hunt
  • Exciting finish on the cards
  • Xavier gives HAL full points

    • Front Page

  • Manmohan for steps to tackle global economic imbalances
  • No quota for all-India seats
  • Gangster killed in Gurgaon court
  • Gains of unity
  • Sonia pleads for repeat massive mandate for DPA
  • Jayalalithaa promises computers for students
  • Glowing tributes to Naushad
  • A daring experimenter
  • Srinagar protest against sex scandal turns violent
  • Massive new power cuts for Capital's citizens
  • Blast toll seven; Minister visits accident site
  • Order issued on loans at 4 per cent interest
  • Criminal complaint filed against students
  • Hunt for Sukumara Kurup hots up
  • 280 protesting fishermen held
  • Budhia undergoes medical check-up
  • Curfew to be relaxed further in Vadodara
  • Bomb threat: Police do anti-sabotage checks
  • Ten Sports moves Court
  • Police Commissionerates for five more cities
  • Record gold prices
  • Manmohan's wife calls on Manjula
  • Remove all hawkers from Delhi's roads: Supreme Court
  • CIA chief quits
  • Bangladesh Minister taken ill
  • Notice to Centre seeking CBI probe in helicopter deal
  • Speaker serves notice on JD(S) MLAs
  • Rahul Gandhi ordered to leave Rae Bareli

    • Globescan

  • LTTE attack warded off
  • Nepal panel to probe atrocities
  • Economy, security in poll focus
  • Vows to oust Qarase

    • Golf

  • Jeev in joint third place
  • Ashok triumphs

    • Gulbarga

  • Name Gulbarga varsity after Ambedkar, Government told
  • Over 40 peafowl die in one week
  • Ministerial berths sought for Scheduled Caste members

    • Guntur

  • Collector asked to improve facilities in Guntur village

    • Hassan

  • Decision yet to be taken on distributing Ashraya houses
  • Hassan district to have `parisara vana'
  • Development works: Chief Minister seeks people's cooperation
  • Farmers take away sunflower seeds

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • CPI (M) to campaign against price rise

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • KVG Bank records 22.26 p.c. growth in 2005-06
  • Take up multi-disciplinary studies, students told
  • Contractors asked to speed up works
  • Power shutdown in some areas today

    • Hyderabad

  • The wooing game begins
  • Orphans get new life, but not a roof
  • Seminar discusses labour market strategies
  • Grain bank scheme to aid poor families
  • The twain shall never meet
  • Fun and laughter all the way
  • Focus on clean energy at mock ADB meet
  • Glitter is missing! The glitter is missing
  • ADB president floors one and all with `Hi-tech' speech
  • `Hi-tech' speech floors one and all!
  • `Sainikudu' film shooting: cameraman electrocuted
  • Good response for ADB-funded project
  • Inter fee through Tatkal scheme
  • TDP delegation calls on Governor
  • YSR lauded for balanced growth
  • Driver held on cheating charge
  • Motorcycle-borne youth snatches cash from old man
  • Trains delayed as buffalo comes under train wheels
  • Failure of students triggers attack on school
  • Saboo group chairman dead
  • State has not asked for ADB aid, says YSR
  • Azad to be chief guest at Congress plenary
  • Clarification
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Holding one's attention pays

    • India & World

  • Steps to protect Indian workers, says Vayalar Ravi

    • International

  • Jack Straw removed from Foreign Office
  • Iran for sober discussion
  • Decision on gas pipeline within 90 days: Iran
  • Defence Minister says she was targeted in scandal
  • Measles outbreak link to religious tour denied
  • Europe's most expensive public toilet opens in Berlin
  • Khartoum, rebels to sign Darfur peace pact

    • Kancheepuram

  • Symbols hold the key in Uthiramerur constituency

    • Kannur

  • SFI demands Central legislation to implement reservation

    • Karnataka

  • Karnataka to computerise judicial system in the State
  • Bomb threat: Police conduct anti-sabotage checks
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • New type oven for puffed rice factories
  • Health officials pulled up for poor conditions in hospitals
  • `Government will respond positively to development works in Dakshina Kannada'
  • Former Minister opposes power project at Tadari
  • Decision on CET marks will hit rural students: H.K. Patil
  • Veerashaiva Panchamasalis to set up peetha
  • British Airways introduces another flight from Bangalore
  • Prime Minister opens Goa campus of BITS
  • Venkaparao Katti dead

    • Kerala

  • Kerala women workers allege ill-treatment in U.P.
  • Red alert at Kozhikode railway station
  • `Moves on to amend Immigration Act'
  • Large presence of police force pays off
  • Probe into Thrissur Pooram fireworks blast begins
  • Court stops appointment of Director of Prosecutions
  • Tax revenue fell short of target by Rs.1,220 crores
  • Fireworks mishap: relief announced
  • Lok Ayukta seeks explanation
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Controversy over appointments to Sanskrit university
  • Meeting to commemorate Kattumadam tomorrow
  • Non-teaching staff State meet begins
  • Commemoration

    • Khammam

  • Waiver on farm loans only way to prevent suicides: CPI leader

    • Kochi

  • Spreading the message of love
  • Body of Keralite killed in Iraq brought home, buried
  • Focus on the present, says Amritanandamayi
  • Obtaining information
  • AIU call to ensure equity in higher education
  • Car gutted in city
  • SC/ST body threatens stir for quota
  • Power disruption
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kozhikode

  • Steps to ensure smooth counting of votes
  • Red alert at Kozhikode railway station
  • Alert sounded at Kozhikode railway station
  • Relishing the magic of mango tang
  • Technology quiz for school children
  • Art for painlessness
  • Authorities adopt steps to combat fever

    • Kurnool

  • Plan to promote new variety of paddy
  • Minister inspects work at general hospital
  • B.Ed study circle opened

    • Leader Page Articles

  • China — reaching out to the world

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Nurture him
  • Commendable
  • A visionary
  • Consumerism
  • Viewing India
  • Keep it up
  • Serious offence
  • Inimitable Naushad

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Minister sees poverty, but blames Congress for it

    • Madikeri

  • Officials told to utilise funds for District Stadium

    • Madurai

  • Will Chief Minister be from the south yet another time?
  • Where students are bitten by an inquisitive bug
  • Major aspirants focus on development in Madurai Central
  • Hospital claims to have restored HIV count machine
  • God, how symbolically these members perceive you!
  • An opportunity for the visually challenged
  • Gauge conversion work
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • A march for smooth May polls

    • Mangalore

  • Water situation comfortable, says Mayor
  • Development works taken up in naxal-prone areas
  • `Quota in premier educational institutions is long overdue'
  • Auradkar's appointment as IGP of Western Range put on hold
  • Rituals for Ashtabandha Brahmakalashabhisheka from today
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • State woos entrepreneurs to set up units at Mysore textile park
  • Pay panel chairman hears grievances of employees
  • Additional rail service on Mysore-Bangalore section likely
  • `Julius Caesar' and coalition politics
  • Admission to hostel
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nagapattinam

  • 338 cases registered

    • National

  • Final order on Cauvery panel on May 10
  • Evidence of Lashkar role in massacres
  • Bridge manpower gap, says Manmohan Singh
  • Ten Sports against sharing signals with Prasar Bharati
  • 16 Bollgard cotton hybrids cleared
  • Airports modernisation: Court admits Reliance appeal
  • Prisoners escape from police custody
  • Deadline extended
  • Plea against poll survey dismissed
  • Foreigners Order: verdict reserved
  • Panel will look into rich-poor gap: ADB Chief
  • For hiking student intake

    • New Delhi

  • Probe ordered into tampering of Uphaar documents
  • DDA `go-ahead' to many projects
  • Sheila Govt. gets a snub
  • "Poseidon" to hit silver screen with special effects
  • Metro achieves yet another engineering feat
  • Dusty classrooms, stinking loos; still MCD schools a big draw
  • Showcasing works of artists with different styles
  • Delhi Congress urges PM to bring Ordinance on sealing
  • MCD targets MLA's property
  • Phone firms to blacklist retailers flouting verification norms
  • Baby alive, declared dead
  • Power situation grim
  • Cochlear implant operation carried out on a year-old girl
  • Delhiites to get a taste of Bali's culture
  • `Gangster' gunned down in Gurgaon court premises
  • Standard helmets
  • Top cop questioned in Jessica case
  • Bharti commits Rs. 200 crore for rural schools
  • Notices issuedover unhygienic food to train passengers
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • A significant decline in hawala transactions

    • News Analysis

  • Resolving the Kargil conundrum
  • Jaduguda's hapless children
  • Corrections and clarifications

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • `Black Cobras' blast Kala Mandali activist's house

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Stress on building healthy parliamentary democracy
  • Action council formed against 400 kV lines

    • Perambalur

  • AIADMK and DMK crossing swords for fourth time in a row
  • 1,055 EVMs kept ready for polls

    • Pondicherry

  • Pondy port `vulnerable' to anti social activities: CG chief
  • Opposition disturbing law and order, says Narayanasamy
  • Braille-signage EVMs
  • Anbalagan's request to EC

    • Punjab

  • Punjab all set for a `blue revolution' in farm sector
  • Rs. 800-crore dam over Ravi cleared

    • Racing : Horse

  • Hunting Memories shines
  • Mighty Flash claims main event

    • Racing : Motor

  • Schumacher, Alonso competitive in practice

    • Raichur

  • Jatha demanding amendment to Article 371

    • Rajasthan

  • State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur's business up

    • Religion

  • Infinite power of Bhakti

    • Salem

  • Restrictions on use of mobile phones in polling stations
  • Children seek exclusive panel
  • `Right sizing will help achieve higher productivity'
  • Flag march taken out
  • In Salem Today

    • Shimoga

  • Ensure there is only one CET, Government told

    • Sivaganga

  • Tirupattur heading for a photo-finish

    • Sport

  • Gains of unity
  • BCCI confident of staging 2011 WC final
  • Joshna leaves for Amsterdam
  • Sonia thrilled by WC feat

    • Sports : General

  • Harihara team triumphs
  • Cricket camp concludes
  • India's first radio sports channel

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Trade and industry too have a wish list
  • When children occupied seats of power
  • IPS officers' select list quashed
  • It will not be a cakewalk for O. Paneerselvam
  • Paramilitary forces arrive for election duties
  • Poll panel lists alternative documents
  • Vellore student bags top rank in model TNPCEE test
  • Vote for DPA, Ahamed urges minorities
  • Survey predicts 168 seats for DMK front
  • Sivanandi shifted from his post
  • One crore more women for SHG scheme
  • Water supply, a major issue in Alandur
  • Kalamkari art on display in Chennai
  • Polish film festival opens in city
  • Government neglecting unemployment problem, says Manik Sarkar
  • `A battle between secular democracy and autocracy'
  • Lok Paritran campaign mantra is good governance
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Issues of basic amenities remain unresolved
  • New wards in Bangalore facing acute water scarcity
  • AIADMK takes on DMK
  • Bodinaickanur, an AIADMK bastion
  • Cameras installed in sensitive booths
  • Facility for visually challenged voters
  • The neem's bane
  • Flag march in Tirupur, Pollachi

    • Tennis

  • Clijsters sails into semifinals
  • Thumping win for Indian boys
  • Double for Divija
  • Double for Vinod

    • Thanjavur

  • Vairamuthu's offer on bookstalls

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Trial transmission of Radio Alakal begins
  • New platform ticket vending machine at central station
  • Thiruvananthapuram Zoo to get green pigeons, lion
  • Major hawala racket busted
  • Training for drivers
  • Talent hunt for singers by Amrita TV
  • Workshop on holistic medicine
  • Three youth arrested
  • Ambulance donated
  • Marketing division of Prasar Bharati to be opened
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Police face mammoth problems

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 6, 1956: Effect of cold war on UN
  • dated May 6, 1956: P.C. Joshi denies split
  • dated May 6, 1956: Elections in Nepal

    • Thrissur

  • Vilasini award presented

    • Tiruchi

  • How will voting turn out in Tiruchi?
  • Damage control exercise of sorts by parties
  • A beaming campaign from stars
  • Police take out flag march
  • Ex-servicemen for election duty
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Parking, a perennial problem

    • Tirunelveli

  • Can she emulate her father?
  • Keen contest in Kadayanallur
  • Copter makes emergency landing

    • Tirupati

  • YSR, Naidu to visit Chittoor district
  • Toy train in Tirupati zoo

    • Tuticorin

  • MDMK, Congress lock horns in Sattankulam constituency

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Row between Ministers intensifies
  • U.P. to protest against penal action for `grid indiscipline'
  • Five dead as heat wave intensifies

    • Uttaranchal

  • Badrinath and Kedarnath shrines reopen for `darshan'
  • RBI to open regional office

    • Vijayawada

  • Collector to decide future of Ravindra Bharati School
  • Naidu for `party as a family' slogan
  • Notices to be served on canal bund residents
  • Elderly woman, daughter killed
  • Laughter all the way
  • Children recreate Brundavan magic
  • The golden touch goes missing
  • Water supply: officials asked to change timings
  • Telugu Desam will fight `murder politics': Naidu
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Fun and laughter all the way
  • Glitter is missing!
  • Fishermen are being misled: Konathala
  • `Beware of diabetes'
  • New DRM for Waltair division
  • Gangavaram case hearing adjourned to May 9
  • Tension at King George Hospital
  • Moonlight hiking
  • Power shutdown
  • Security beefed up for naxal bandh
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Weather

  • Weather

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