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Alappuzha

  • Arrangements made for counting in Alappuzha

    • Anantapur

  • Vandana Shiva on seed campaign drive
  • Gales, rain damage crops
  • Minister testifies in court

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Scientists complete work on gene knockout technology
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • City seen as being ideally suited for MRTS
  • YSR hints at curbing funds for road works
  • Service to people, not power, comes first: Naidu
  • Congress to celebrate two years of YSR's rule with `Vijayotsava' meet
  • TD leaders heckled at YSR's meet
  • Jayaprakash cadre to join Congress
  • Heat turns agonising at YSR's gram sabha
  • Naidu demands transfer of Kadapa SP
  • YSR to visit East Godavari on May 12
  • `Harithandhra in 3 years'
  • RIMS to function from this year
  • Bheema project to be ready in two years
  • Indian hangs himself in Dubai
  • `Job guarantee scheme tardy'
  • Caught in ACB net

    • Athletics

  • Soma, Susmita for Italy

    • Bangalore

  • `Inauspicious time' cited for delay in Ministry expansion
  • `Set up rain gauges in areas prone to flooding'
  • `Recruit police personnel after psychological tests'
  • Young woman found murdered
  • Bangalore City Railway station to be wi-fi enabled
  • Congress calls for higher wage in job guarantee scheme
  • Forum to hold rally for quota
  • Panel drops breach of privilege move
  • Rain causes flooding in several areas
  • Probe sought into affairs of Mysore Minerals
  • `Accommodate people from other States'
  • An unusual series of scenes on stage on May 14
  • Junior doctors to boycott work from today
  • Focus on single women
  • `Hamza had recruited Lashkar's operatives'
  • Elections to 17 Council seats on June 1 and 8
  • Two persons robbed of Rs. 6 lakh at gunpoint
  • `New Police Commissioner for Bangalore soon'
  • Traffic jams are welcome
  • Panel discussion on social issues
  • Triple murder: acquaintances' role suspected
  • Locker facility opened at Lalbagh
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Barometer

  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    • Basketball

  • AP inter-district championship from today
  • AP inter-district championship from today

    • Belgaum

  • `Develop Bhimgad into a wildlife sanctuary'

    • Bellary

  • Call to withdraw ban on movement of mine lorries during day

    • Bihar

  • Brothers sacrificed by kin in Bihar

    • Boxing

  • Indian women win a silver, three bronze

    • Briefly

  • Tata Sky partners Humax
  • RPL shares to be listed on bourses on May 11
  • Notification on GMOs kept in abeyance
  • Nasdaq forms alliance with Equilar
  • Ashok Leyland April sales up
  • Centurion Bank, Indecomm Global form Centillion
  • AVT Natural's net up 63 p.c.
  • AstraZeneca to split stock in 1:5 ratio
  • CNBC-TV18 and ICICI Bank felicitate SMEs
  • CADS Software plans to double headcount
  • Mistral Software opens design centre
  • Cubex Tubings bags NTPC order
  • AstraZeneca to split stock in 1:5 ratio
  • Titan takes stake in Innoviti
  • MindTree joins WiMAX Forum
  • Vijaya Bank raises PLR, deposit rates
  • Max New York opens office
  • MTNL ties up with Novell

    • Business

  • IPO order will go forward, says SEBI Chairman
  • WB gets CDM funding for rice husk power
  • Mittal willing to revise bid
  • Toshiba introduces new Notebook PC
  • CDMA, GSM operators harden stand on spectrum
  • Rabo to help Rajasthan Govt. develop policy on agri sector
  • Bharti bags licence in Jersey
  • AP Govt. to divest its share in HIL
  • Rupee surrenders gains
  • Sensex closes at new peak, up 51 points
  • UPPCL fined
  • Federal Mogul raises offer price

    • Cartoons

  • Cartoonscape

    • Chennai

  • DPA complains to Governor over filing of case
  • New government likely to be in place by Saturday
  • Steps on the anvil for better protection of tiger reserves
  • New markets usher in change in buying trends
  • Frontier Lifeline's pact with Japanese hospital
  • Lukewarm response to Braille signage system in Chennai
  • Frontier Lifeline to tie up with Japanese hospital
  • Plea to restore structure of Thyagaraja's house
  • Chennai accounts for 64.37 per cent polling
  • Gummidipoondi records highest percentage
  • Police personnel miss chance to vote
  • Supplement technical skills with latest technologies, students told
  • PIL plea against TNHB land dismissed
  • Masquerade to organise theatre workshop from May 22 to 30
  • Disability not a hurdle to finding employment
  • Chennai students to participate in `Know U.S.' contest
  • Cho's `Mohammad bin Thuglak' in VCD and DVD formats
  • OBC employees stage protest
  • First-time voters an enthusiastic lot
  • Youth killed in accident
  • College girl found dead in her house
  • Not so `indelible'
  • Youth sentenced for rape
  • Orientation course for lecturers
  • Keeping the terror alive
  • To prevent bogus voting
  • Jewellery stolen
  • Correction
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Soumya and Prince assured of titles
  • Three share lead
  • Sudhakar Babu triumphs
  • Ganguly pulls out of Olympiad camp

    • Coimbatore

  • District records over 70 per cent polling
  • 100 hamlets to be covered under Village Energy Security Project
  • Students take up summer jobs in mills
  • CITI seeks clearance of TUFS backlog
  • Project to improve quality of textiles
  • Three students selected for `Know U.S. Challenge'
  • World Asthma Day
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Brilliant knock by Sumit Rana
  • Vaughan's wait for comeback prolonged
  • In search of spinners
  • Salwan Boys School in final

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8599
  • Solution to Puzzle 8598

    • Cuddalore

  • Life term for 10 in murder case
  • 71 per cent in Cuddalore, Villupuram

    • Dharmapuri

  • 71.8 per cent polling recorded in Dharmapuri
  • DMK booth agent killed in poll clash

    • Dindigul

  • Re-polling in two booths

    • Editorials

  • Pakistan's jihadi problems
  • India's children: imperilled by hunger

    • Erode

  • 88 per cent used EPIC for voting
  • Rural voters helped achieve higher turnout
  • Agricultural activities begin in Erode district
  • Poll observers verify voting list

    • Football

  • McClaren looks to fulfil UEFA Cup destiny
  • Venkatesh does the star turn for Mahindra United
  • Bridge injured in nightclub brawl
  • TFA emerges winner

    • Front Page

  • Accord signed for moon mission
  • Office of profit issue: more posts may be exempted
  • Chappell — a man of ideas
  • Anbumani, father named in murder case
  • Alang yard back in news
  • Varanasi blasts suspect shot dead in J&K
  • Private colleges asked to choose between CET, TNPCEE marks
  • Rogue tiger brought to Vandalur
  • Arrested militants had planned to target Kandla
  • Tender for wheat import
  • Chinese garments being dumped into India
  • German tourist found dead
  • CET begins; 62,175 candidates appear for biology paper, 79,200 for mathematics
  • Private colleges asked to choose between CET, TNPCEE marks
  • Quota for Muslims: court declines early hearing of plea
  • KCR meets Manmohan
  • First poll results to be out before noon
  • Bharathi Urs's bail application dismissed
  • Court declares UHS action illegal
  • Attack on ex- Minister
  • 11 die of sunstroke
  • Sonia's citizenship

    • Goa

  • Goa to host three-day wine festival from Friday

    • Golf

  • Gaganjeet leads the pack
  • Gaganjeet leads the pack

    • Gulbarga

  • Cultivation target fixed for Gulbarga district
  • Reintroduce POTA, says BJP Yuva Morcha

    • Guntur

  • Four-hour power cut in Guntur district
  • Panchaloha idols worth 5 lakhs seized
  • Free health camp held
  • Major fire in fruit market

    • Haryana

  • "HAFED to buy State's mustard crop"
  • Information Commissioner takes oath

    • Hassan

  • Doddakere tank bears the brunt of development
  • `Utilise computing power to promote IT sector'

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • CPI-M protests against price rise continue

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Speed limit fixed on several roads in Hubli-Dharwad
  • Police arrest seven persons, recover jewellery and electronic goods
  • Literary critic Amur felicitated
  • Special train between Bangalore and Mysore
  • In Hubli-Dharwad Today

    • Hyderabad

  • Need to recast PPAs of Hinduja, BPL projects
  • Common Act mooted for all varsities, says K.C. Reddy
  • YSR lays foundation for Genome valley Phase III
  • ISB forays into real estate research
  • TDP asks YSR to prove claim
  • Man charged with killing son to marry again
  • Junior doctors hail court verdict
  • APSRTC increases bus frequency
  • 153 qualify for admission to Ramaiah institute
  • Court for issue of warrant against Passport Officer
  • No power
  • Dharni P. Sinha passes away
  • Suravaram launches website
  • Accused in murder case stabbed to death
  • Grenade made in China, say police
  • Moddu Sreenu grilled
  • BJP asks UPA to take lead on Telangana bill
  • JVV opposes astrology course in Telugu varsity
  • Writ plea against film dismissed
  • Walking coolly
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Stalemate persists in Italy
  • Colombo, LTTE blame each other for violence
  • Blair denies Straw-Iran link
  • Relocation of refugees
  • Bush faces battle over CIA choice
  • Protests mark V-Day
  • Short of breath and short of a record too
  • Fury over degrees of deafness
  • Jackie Chan the generous
  • Students die in accident
  • Rigging charge in Fiji

    • Interviews

  • "Evictions now a national crisis"

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Livelihood a major issue for quake survivors in Uri

    • Judo

  • Junior judokas for Asian meet

    • Kancheepuram

  • Repoll ordered in booth at Sriperumbudur

    • Karimnagar

  • Private school ransacked

    • Karnataka

  • CET commences in Karnataka
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Ensure rehabilitation of people displaced by project: Bangarappa
  • Palimar Math to install Hanuman idol at Hardwar

    • Kerala

  • Chinese garments being dumped into India
  • Estate owner's bungalow to be auctioned off
  • New daily train to Bangalore demanded
  • Efforts on to solve water crisis at Elamakkara, Perandur
  • Islets along Valapattanam river beckon nature lovers
  • Bank of India to increase total credit
  • All set for counting of votes
  • `Polluter pays' principle hanging fire
  • Event management companies mushrooming in State
  • Chasing a lifeline
  • Complaint against Corporation for violating lease agreement
  • Saving them from the butcher's knife
  • Thripunithura water supply work begins
  • Accreditation for 3 branches of Apollo Hospital
  • TRL revival yet to bear fruit
  • FACT hands over 50 acres of land to set up TSDF
  • BMS stages dharna
  • Elderly persons on the run
  • Cleaning up
  • Neurologists' meet on May 20
  • Deported
  • Modernisation fails to impress
  • First poll results in Kerala to be out before noon
  • Candidate's name missing from electronic files of EC
  • Vice-President of Mauritius to visit Cusat
  • Nature's splendour
  • Encounter of a different kind
  • Briefly

    • Kochi

  • Residents block traffic through Goshree bridges
  • Putting banana stem to better use
  • Social wedding of physically challenged persons on May 25
  • A long gap... for candidates and voters
  • Cashing in on development
  • Iyer opens `Janaseva' office
  • Wooing gourmets
  • Double Keli at temple
  • Special election programmes
  • Immersed in thought
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kozhikode

  • Akademi initiates efforts to rejuvenate theatre
  • Forest staff seek parity in pay
  • All set for counting of votes
  • Teachers allege violation of norms
  • Call to join peace initiative
  • Teachers seek investigation
  • In Kozhikode Today

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Three steps to mid-course correction

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Exit polls
  • Vijayakant factor
  • Hats off!
  • Disconcerting
  • Justice in a flat world
  • Hollow argument
  • Avoidable deaths

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Mid-day meals for kids during summer vacation

    • Madikeri

  • Official to assess social status of Kodavas

    • Madurai

  • Fresh air fans out in all directions
  • Celestial fervour marks `Tirukkalyanam'
  • Men voters outnumber women in 9 segments
  • Every dog has its day
  • Expert committee to visit university from May 28 to 31
  • Bahrain to get university distance education centre
  • More of poll analysis assembling in the air
  • This summer camp is for a select few
  • In-service training for KV primary teachers
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • Postal Finance Mart may be opened in June
  • New runway at Bajpe to be used from today
  • Sandesha to host Binodini today
  • Al-Azhariya Jumma Masjid to be inaugurated tomorrow
  • Handset helps police trace `chain-snatchers'
  • Power shutdown
  • A test of nerves
  • Applications invited
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • `Most comprehensive' English-Kannada dictionary to be released tomorrow
  • `Save Chamundi Hills' campaign gains momentum
  • Textbook press workers stage hunger strike
  • Mysore university to release major publications
  • Thalassemia Day goes unnoticed
  • Cane growers' meet on May 23
  • Killed in road accident
  • Sugarcane farmers' conference
  • In Mysore Today

    • Nalgonda

  • Lok Satta to field trained novices in panchayat polls
  • FCI, millers' succour to ryots

    • National

  • Tamil Nadu's changing political landscape
  • NASA Administrator impressed with Indian space capabilities
  • Future lies in gene revolution, says M.S. Swaminathan
  • ONO's first member from India
  • LTTE's efforts to provoke Colombo have not succeeded: Samaraweera
  • Use e-governance to fight corruption: Kalam
  • "Verdict on quotas in promotions reserved"
  • Medha vows to continue struggle
  • `Mahajan developed healthy relations with rivals'
  • Trial in perjury case against Zahira from today
  • Panel discusses survey methodology
  • Supreme Court restrains DD from interfering with rights of Ten Sports
  • For better air connectivity
  • Accreditation for 3 Apollo Hospital branches
  • 4 youths shot dead in encounters
  • Guwahati IIT student tops CAT
  • `Budhia's medical report premature'
  • Mona Pruthi tops Civil Services exam
  • Dabhol: a challenge
  • Pravin Mahajan allowed home food in jail
  • Left to raise procurement issue
  • Talks on oil prices today
  • Statutory powers for Project Tiger
  • India elected to Human Rights Council

    • New Delhi

  • TRS delegation meets Manmohan Singh
  • DDA team prevented from implementing court orders
  • Zoo residents cramped for space
  • A major power crisis averted
  • Centre assures allocation of gas for Delhi power projects
  • MCD squad faces stiff resistance from traders
  • Need for computer waste management
  • Extraordinary tale of a domestic worker
  • Quizzing for a cause Quizzing for a cause
  • Pro-Reservation Front to stage rally
  • Delhi Govt. accused of siding with traders
  • Director-General of ASI summoned by High Court
  • Court directive to Delhi University
  • Demonstration by medicos
  • In full bloom
  • `Foreign channels can be shown by cable operators after May 11'
  • Spine gourd good for diabetes patients: ICAR
  • Model village resource centre for backward areas in three months
  • Quota for Muslims: court declines early hearing of plea
  • Supreme Court dismisses Bharathi Urs' bail plea
  • PIL against Virbhadra dismissed
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Abandoning the displaced
  • Ahmadinejad's letter to George Bush
  • Corrections and clarifications

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Ongole

  • Promising shelter for all
  • Doctor passes away

    • Palakkad

  • Avishkara fete
  • Jesudas to lay stone for school

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Elaborate arrangements made for counting
  • Demolition of Kozhippalam bridge under way
  • Foreigners stage Kathakali arangettam in Aranmula

    • Pondicherry

  • Pondy records highest percentage of polling
  • Leaders, observers hail heavy polling in the Union Territory

    • Punjab

  • SAD to move court over `land scam'
  • Eight killed due to squall in North-West India
  • `Residents' participation in policy implementation must'
  • New PPSC chief sworn in

    • Racing : Horse

  • Winfoot and High Tower please

    • Racing : Motor

  • Armaan's managers decline offer

    • Rajasthan

  • Rajasthan Cong. alleges anomalies
  • Reduce working time for drought relief workers: Gehlot

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Large turnout of women voters in Ramanathapuram

    • Religion

  • Cultivate virtues

    • Salem

  • EPIC coverage led to heavy turnout
  • EVMs reach counting centres
  • SSI criticises Government
  • Re-lay damaged road, say residents
  • `Opportunities aplenty in cooperative sector'

    • Shooting

  • Rathore finishes sixth

    • Sport

  • Chappell — a man of ideas
  • NCA's mantra
  • Justin Langer likely to retire after Ashes
  • Coria's first round blues continue
  • Board warns Sehwag

    • Sports : General

  • Padukone compliments Indian cricket board
  • Catch them young, but not so young: P.T. Usha
  • Five-wkt. win for SAAP
  • Dipika, Mahesh clinch titles

    • Srikakulam

  • `Parisramika chaitanya sadassu' tomorrow

    • Tamil Nadu

  • PMK behind killing: Jayalalithaa
  • Parties by and large observed model code of conduct, says Naresh Gupta
  • 70.22% polling recorded in State
  • Industrial units get pollution board letter of consent on the dot
  • Scrabble to promote Tamil
  • Mode of admission for management quota seats spelt out
  • Hope it doesn't turn out to be a Pandora's box
  • Man with heroin capsules in stomach held
  • Protecting the mandate
  • Hopeful of a huge catch
  • 60 per cent in Villivakkam
  • A long trek to polling booth
  • North Chennai seats wear a festive look
  • Tambaram records 65 per cent polling
  • Over 74 per cent polling in Tiruvannamalai
  • Watchtowers erected to maintain vigil at counting centres
  • `Gnanapeetam' voted best drama at Nataka Utsav
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Polling heavy in Andipatti constituency
  • 78.2 per cent voting recorded in Karur
  • Future citizens come out with manifesto
  • Re-polling ordered in Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram districts
  • Stage set for counting of votes
  • Rasipuram records 73 per cent
  • Arrack brewing rampant in Pernambut
  • Madavamedu fishermen get 25 houses
  • Pondy records highest percentage
  • Fire destroys huts, sheds
  • Watchtowers erected to maintain vigil

    • Tennis

  • Kuerten pulls out of French Open
  • Sonal in pre-quarterfinals
  • India's hopes dashed

    • Thanjavur

  • Valangaiman tops in polling
  • EVMs taken to counting centres

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Severe water scarcity in outlying wards
  • Rainwater harvesting system in three Government hospitals
  • Examining a system wrought with illness of commercialisation
  • RSS functionary killed, hartal today
  • National Technology Day celebrations tomorrow
  • 10 more Indian workers return
  • Magic festival
  • Centralised arrangements in place to announce poll results live
  • Two found hanging
  • Book on freedom movement released
  • Sooryakanthi Dance and Music Festival from today
  • Crime Branch to investigate murder case
  • State honour
  • Bank staff protest
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 10, 1956: Hindu Succession Law
  • dated May 10, 1956: Russell hails India's policy

    • Thrissur

  • Probe to uncover source of chemical explosives at fireworks unit

    • Tiruchi

  • Average voter turnout 73 per cent in Tiruchi district
  • A tiger's transit halt near Tiruchi
  • Motivation matters a lot to make all people vote
  • Jayankondam records highest voting
  • Vote counting at five centres
  • 3 Tiruchi students for US programme
  • Beware, third eye is watching
  • These BJP cadres toe the line, but from a distance
  • Testing times for Plus-Two students
  • Plea on Cauvery Tribunal
  • Gold for Tiruchi boy
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Focus shifts to counting of votes

    • Tirupati

  • Traditional start to `Ganga Jatara' at midnight
  • Clear picture on third front only after poll results in 5 States: Naidu
  • Tirupati Utsav: women to play key role
  • Cricket coaching for girls

    • Tumkur

  • Fire claims girl's life in Tumkur

    • Tuticorin

  • Record use of EVMs in Tuticorin

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Average polling in Nilgiris put at 65.4 per cent

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • U.P. Governor returns amended University Bill

    • Vellore

  • Counting centres in Vellore, Tiruvannamalai

    • Vijayawada

  • Mark Twain classics in Telugu released
  • Canal bund dwellers' fate in YSR's hands
  • Opt for other schools, Mittal tells Ravindra Bharathi students
  • NCC laurels for Loyola dean
  • Farmer killed in accident
  • Health varsity may go for fresh counselling
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Rs. 24-crore cancer hospital coming up in city soon
  • FM revolution revives radio service, says Congress MP
  • Road-widening work doubles traffic woes
  • Veda vidya sammelan at Tuni
  • Woman alleges humiliation
  • Oakridge diploma programme
  • Yoga camp for children
  • Congress councillor dies in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • KUCET rescheduled

    • Weather

  • Weather

    • Weightlifting

  • Rich haul for Indian lifters

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