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Anantapur

  • Inspector’s wife hangs daughter, kills self

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • YSR ineligible to be CM: Naidu
  • 16 test positive for cholera in Hyderabad
  • Riding the wave
  • Free consultation
  • Research scholar gets aid for project work
  • ECET (FDH) 2009 tomorrow
  • Gets patent for anti-diabetic drug
  • Doctors treat rare case of heart attack
  • ‘Declare health emergency in Agency’
  • DPC to finish works under BRGF
  • Tribute to Annamayya
  • Bond of love
  • Fake cotton seed confiscated
  • Helping the hapless
  • Target ICET
  • Musical concert
  • ATAI to conduct feedback session
  • Mother’s Day menu
  • Rice seized
  • IGRT for cancer
  • Laptops expo
  • Visakhapatnam Today
  • Drawing competition
  • Mock DSC exam
  • crime watch
  • Annamayya Jayanti off to a gala start
  • TDP activist’s house set ablaze

    • Archery

  • Indian men take gold

    • Athletics

  • Surinder Singh bags 5000m gold
  • Two records set

    • Bangalore

  • More rainy days ahead as monsoon nears
  • Three die of asphyxiation
  • Factory employee succumbs to burns
  • Swine flu: anxious passengers check themselves into hospital
  • Rural students miss out on loans for higher studies abroad
  • ISRO sets its sights on Mars
  • Ticket-less bus passengers fined
  • Improve government hospitals: Vatal
  • Territorial Army invites applications
  • 74 colleges draw a blank
  • Five days to apply for photocopies
  • Protest against tree-felling turns ugly
  • Meditation for world peace
  • Talk on violation of human rights
  • IPL cricket goes mobile
  • Canon to teach nuances of photography
  • Not such a long wait for results online
  • Samples of two travellers test negative for H1NI virus
  • Girl ends life
  • Pedestrian subway inundated
  • PU toppers attribute it to hard work
  • Bangalore Today

    • Basketball

  • Karnataka posts win
  • Kerala in final
  • Indian team leaves for Jakarta

    • Belgaum

  • ‘FJEI accreditation modules paying rich dividends’

    • Bellary

  • SUCI candidate’s doubts clarified

    • Bidar

  • ‘Expedite drain construction work’

    • Bihar

  • Three of a family burnt alive
  • Bank manager arrested for graft

    • Bijapur

  • Notice to pig-rearers

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Rafath lifts title

    • Business

  • SBI net up 36 % at Rs. 9,121 cr
  • Signs of recovery in manufacturing
  • IndusInd to focus on 4 themes
  • Cadila to launch blockbuster combination drug

    • Cartoons

  • POCKET WATCH

    • Chennai

  • Handloom exhibition gets under way
  • Hospital to issue more privilege cards
  • Training programme on stem cell research
  • Bank’s gesture
  • Poll boycott
  • NDEW survey
  • Lottery scam suspect arrested in Mumbai
  • Stress on more awareness of thalassaemia
  • Panel to select best teacher
  • BSNL Chennai Telephones launches BlackBerry services for post-paid users
  • Spend a day at Science City
  • Voluntary organisations urged to help State in providing medical services
  • Nursing staff vow to serve society better
  • Corporation to spend Rs.3.50 cr. on polls
  • Pollution level
  • Jewellery stolen from house
  • Chain snatched
  • Fatal fall
  • Abductors abandon victims, as police lay trap
  • They dream of bigger role in films at work
  • “Successful Independent candidates have vital role”
  • Showcasing creative skills
  • Digital time boards not yet popular
  • Girl dies in accident
  • Madras High Court extends validity of its order
  • N.S. Murali “patriarch of NGO movement in State”
  • Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Rest of the World keeps lead
  • Areshchenko clinches title

    • Coimbatore

  • Elected
  • Army exam results
  • Seminar for parents
  • Industries seek priority to solving power problem
  • Consumer forum slaps fine on cell phone firm
  • Modi’s pat for Coimbatore industry
  • Fine imposed on firms
  • AIADMK assails Congress over sewage plant project
  • Coimbatore Today

    • Communication

  • We were happy to beat Mumbai

    • Cricket

  • Daredevils takes on Knight Riders
  • Mumbai Indians eyes revenge
  • Fleming rejects Buchanan’s idea
  • Take up non-allocation of match: Man Singh
  • Aussies disappointed at missing out on IPL
  • 17-run win for Sensan Renji
  • RP Academy posts win
  • England thrashes West Indies
  • De Villiers powers Daredevils to victory
  • My over changed things: Tendulkar
  • Pollock, Rhodes in awe of Tendulkar
  • Players’ fatigue worries Kirsten
  • Yuvraj showers praise on Jayawardene
  • Pakistan Board serves legal notice on ICC

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 2532
  • Solution No. 2531

    • Cuddalore

  • Temple festivities in Neyveli Township
  • Citizens’ Charter sets agenda for governments, contesting candidates
  • All polling stations to get permanent ramps

    • Dindigul

  • Collector inspects fixing of ballot papers in EVMs

    • Erode

  • NGO asks candidates to help Noyyal farmers
  • 28 arrested for attempting to protest in front of Elangovan’s house in Erode
  • 175 cases registered
  • 28 held for attempting to protest in front of Elangovan’s house

    • Football

  • Delhi Administration beats AAI
  • Easy for MEG
  • Football clinic
  • Punjab blanks Kerala, enters last four
  • Scintillating show by the Indian girls

    • Front Page

  • Manmohan hopes all segments of Tamils will be consulted
  • “DMK is a valued friend”
  • Pakistan shifts troops from Indian border
  • “Priyanka-Nalini meeting took place with Karunanidhi’s knowledge”
  • Karat says onus is on Congress to decide
  • Journal critique on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant pattern
  • We will form next government: Advani
  • Kings XI prevails in exciting encounter
  • Cloud computing — simple and cost-effective IT
  • TAMIL NADU: It is all about the arithmetic
  • A stroll in the park for Super Kings
  • Fighter all his life
  • Mamata has the edge
  • “Our report card is good, and we will do well in Uttarakhand”
  • Lord Sundararajaperumal enters Vaigai river at Paramakudi
  • Cholera alert sounded in Hyderabad
  • ‘Canada concealed key Kanishka report’
  • CBI challenges order
  • Grand entry
  • Gunmen kill 3 in Assam village
  • Mulayam criticises Azam Khan
  • More heat wave deaths in Orissa
  • UDF to chalk out action plan
  • Mulayam slams rebel Azam Khan; backs Jayaprada and Amar Singh
  • 43 per cent pass Second PU examination; girls do better
  • Repolling at 70 booths in Bihar peaceful
  • Pakistan Army fires mortar shells

    • Golf

  • Jeev slips

    • Gujarat

  • IIT student arrested for credit card fraud

    • Gulbarga

  • Take steps to control donation menace: ABVP
  • ‘Buddha’s teachings still relevant’

    • Guntur

  • Stringent measures against ragging
  • Tulasi Seeds licence cancelled
  • Kanchi seer launches Arogyasri at Sankara hospital
  • Man murdered

    • Hassan

  • 15 elephants to be caught
  • Rs. 100 cr. sought to re-lay Shiradi Ghat road

    • Hockey

  • Match drawn

    • Hubli-Dharwad

  • Wedding bells ring again at Rajya Mahila Nilaya
  • Two-day management festival in Hubli
  • Search for ‘lucky’ kittens in Haveri goes in vain
  • Basavaraju’s Pampa Bharata released

    • Hyderabad

  • 3-day training programmes at NALSAR
  • Teachers’ union meet
  • JNTU-H to conduct ECET
  • ‘Cholera never heard of earlier’
  • Woman air passenger tests negative
  • Manifestos: LSP hails apex court observation
  • Central nod for classical status
  • Additional train services
  • Haj applications
  • Maytas to be referred to CDR Forum
  • Secretariat fire: TD demand rejected
  • 16 test positive for cholera
  • On a daunting mission
  • When will the ordeal end?
  • ICL cricketers defiant
  • International education fair on May 11, 12
  • Power cables to be ready by Monday
  • HMWSSB control rooms
  • GHMC report blames HMWSSB officials
  • Possibility of cholera spreading to other areas
  • Water pollution: old city a ticking bomb
  • TRS “moving closer” to NDA
  • Woman sets self ablaze, husband dies too
  • Two students drown in tank
  • Woman, son take poison with food, die
  • Two held in Rs. 48-lakh fraud
  • ‘Residents also to be blamed’
  • OU students stage demonstrations
  • Legal luminary in the making
  • Spot the glint, save the eye
  • PR to elect legislature party leader on May 16
  • Hyderabad Today

    • International

  • Path of reconciliation: Zuma
  • Israel plays spoilsport
  • A war for survival, says Gilani
  • 49 Tiger cadre killed: Army
  • Russia displays military might
  • Consensus eludes Nepal’s parties
  • Fighter all his life
  • U.S. must put an end to air strikes: Karzai

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Denied leave, cop opens fire in air

    • Kadapa

  • YSR compliments IAS ranker
  • ‘Buddhism against discrimination’
  • Surgeon, others feted
  • Protocol violation alleged in YSR’s meets

    • Kalpetta

  • VS to inaugurate mobile medical unit
  • Survey of tiger population gets under way

    • Kannur

  • Government schools fare well in SSLC exams
  • IUML, DYFI offices attacked at Pappinissery

    • Karimnagar

  • Invited for seminar
  • SPR Schools to open branch in Karimnagar today

    • Karnataka

  • An assault on public decency film review
  • Directive on teachers’ transfer evokes mixed reaction
  • Suspended
  • PU results: Chamarajanagar improves on last year’s performance
  • In reverence
  • New amendment
  • Special day
  • Seven year old dies in accident
  • Hampi paintings being restored
  • Beedi union to file cases against manufacturers
  • Linganamakki evacuees still waiting for amenities
  • Looking ahead

    • Kerala

  • LDF convener denies move to remove Achuthanandan
  • Odessa completes shooting of fourth documentary
  • Thousands throng Mangaladevi temple for festival
  • Bill to check multiplicity of trade unions
  • KSBC to start de-addiction centre
  • Tension at Pappinissery
  • He gives character artistes their due
  • Cultural affairs
  • Lord’s of the hills
  • Air traffic to pick up: AAI chief
  • A day of fun and frolic for the less privileged children
  • New swine flu kit at airport
  • Security tightened along Kerala, Andhra coasts

    • Kochi

  • Ramankutty Achan award for social activist
  • Ethnic products from Gujarat on show
  • Painting contest
  • Hartal opponents to honour scribes
  • Port to introduce wheeled cargo vessels
  • Talent development programme
  • KSEB: manpower shortage delaying response time
  • State urged to procure copra
  • Forum’s stance
  • Coconut board’s lab to get accreditation
  • Drama at MACTA meeting
  • New chairman for FAI
  • Curbs opposed
  • Residents’ association apex council splits
  • Alert driver averts boat collision
  • 120 cases settled at accident claims adalat
  • Parking restrictions inside Broadway from tomorrow
  • Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Greens plan march against mining
  • Bus operators threaten to stop services
  • Road widening slow-paced, say Asramam residents
  • Kerala NGO Union plea
  • Seminar on legal aspects of Ayurveda
  • Discussion

    • Kozhikode

  • Office building gutted
  • Travellers warned against use of ‘fake’ passports
  • Body found in temple pond
  • Stir planned

    • Kurnool

  • Nabard launches new subsidy scheme

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Two TTEs suspended for smoking

    • Madikeri

  • Several aspirants for top posts of Kodagu Zilla Panchayat

    • Madurai

  • Lord Kallazhagar enters Vaigai
  • DMK delegation blames it on Opposition parties
  • “Bribing voters will demoralise youth”
  • WHO-aided project to be excuted in Chennai

    • Malappuram

  • Highlighting modern issues
  • Computer training to poor youth
  • Vacation classes
  • Cyber security seminar

    • Mangalore

  • 25-km stretch on Shiradi Ghat section to be concreted
  • AMUCT seeks CoD probe into manipulation of LL.B. marks
  • 60 per cent of consumers yet to clear water bills

    • Mysore

  • President calls for law to end ragging
  • Suspected chikungunya cases put Health Department on alert
  • Forest officials seize tiger skin
  • ‘Efficient healthcare system needed’
  • Tourist flow to Mysore picking up
  • Pratibha Patil gets a glimpse of king’s life

    • Nagapattinam

  • Particulars of candidates fed into EVMs

    • Nagercoil

  • People’s welfare will be safeguarded, says Modi

    • Nalgonda

  • Campaign to curb child labour

    • National

  • Dwivedi to hold Moily’s post temporarily
  • “Third Front will change policies”
  • BJP-JD(U) delegation meets EC
  • Azam Khan indulging in anti-party activity: Mulayam
  • Advani promises pension to farmers
  • India will set up field hospital at Vavuniya
  • Base station on moon is the next dream: ISRO chief
  • The electronic campaign
  • Jayaprada’s battle for Rampur
  • Raw deal for women
  • First name ‘Urdu’
  • I have committed no crime: Varun
  • Supreme Court judge Pasayat retires
  • Talks on with JD(U) for post-poll tie-up: CPI(M)
  • FASTFACT
  • Baby’s day out
  • Election focus shifts to north Kashmir
  • Congress, NCP seek to form government in Meghalaya
  • Ansari in South Africa
  • Congress chargesheet a work of fiction: Dhumal
  • Semester system
  • “Mamata indulging in false propaganda”
  • Third Front will expand after polls: Biman Bose
  • Three militants killed
  • Precarious perch Anything for a view
  • Cut it out
  • Can’t do without cut-outs
  • Slow boat on the Hooghly
  • Kanimozhi calling A helping hand
  • Prime time and real time
  • Battle with backwardness
  • SOUNDBITES
  • The Buddha and terror-torn times
  • A keen contest in Punjab
  • Buddha Purnima
  • “A normal practice”
  • Remembering Tagore
  • Reservoir levels low
  • Militants gun down three Dimasa tribals
  • Rahul woos Sikhs
  • 12-year wait for justice
  • New UGC Vice-Chairman
  • New HPV test holds promise for India

    • Nellore

  • New PG courses in agriculture to be introduced

    • New Delhi

  • Bringing digital skills to raw learners
  • Jamia team does the country proud
  • Fake visa racket smashed
  • Demand to scrap Renuka dam project
  • IGNOU plans new courses for financial markets
  • Congress, NCP seek to form Govt.
  • Some heavy metal magic and a light-hearted comedy
  • Court provides lawyer to alleged militant
  • Spiritual session
  • Policemen injured in attack by mob
  • Man hacks wife to death
  • Kidnapped boy rescued
  • Auto-lifter gives police the slip
  • Re-poll today in Delhi, Bihar and Rajasthan
  • Income-Tax Dept. gunning for all those ‘crorepati’ candidates
  • Parents sell vegetables, polish shoes to protest fee hike
  • More Sunday Classifieds: Page 6
  • Voters’ turnout outnumbers Delhi Assembly poll figures
  • BJP questions delay in allotment of flats to poor
  • Court notice to civic bodies, Delhi Transco on recruitment
  • Beating a drum to celebrate fair trade values
  • Complaint against Sheila
  • Shoe hurling incidents deplored
  • Desraj Chaudhary Memorial Lecture
  • Weatherman predicts a pleasant Sunday
  • Sarna elected SGPC president
  • Remembering the Buddha
  • ‘Giving up smoking brings down health risks’
  • Mixed response to apex court suggestion on ragging
  • In the Capital Today

    • Nizamabad

  • 13 injured in road accident
  • Man kills mother-in-law, ends life

    • Orissa

  • A disappointing debut
  • Coupled held
  • Dry spell rekindles hopes of salt producers
  • Malkangiri Congress candidate seeks second repoll
  • BPUT takes tough line on attendance
  • ‘Few slum-dwellers getting bank loans’
  • Yi-Net on KIIT University campus
  • PDS rice worth Rs 10 lakhs seized
  • One killed in attack
  • Seminar on education

    • Other States

  • The hand that protects
  • Day of the Buddha
  • Two held
  • Election focus now shifts to North Kashmir

    • Palakkad

  • Convention
  • Fruit processing workshop
  • Passes away

    • Puducherry

  • Election Department begins to receive postal ballot papers
  • 5 companies of paramilitary force to be deployed
  • Pneumonia, leading cause of mortality among children
  • Kamban Vizha celebrated

    • Racing : Horse

  • It’s Quest Of Victory vs. Cosmic Explorer
  • Originality excels
  • King’s Envoy wins main event

    • Racing : Motor

  • Force India likely to introduce KERS in Germany

    • Raichur

  • 400 villages facing drinking water shortage

    • Rajahmundry

  • Fund crunch hits two Jalayagnam projects
  • Counting staff to reach by May 15

    • Rajasthan

  • Dalits prevented from voting in Rajasthan
  • Re-polling ordered at 60 polling stations
  • Troubled times ahead for Rajasthan Govt.
  • Revised polling estimates perplex political parties

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Bahujan Samaj Party candidate receives threatening calls

    • Salem

  • Enhancing the learning experience for students
  • Salem Steel Plant gets safety award
  • Spurious liquor seized; three arrested
  • Seized

    • Sport

  • Kings XI prevails in exciting encounter
  • A stroll in the park for Super Kings

    • Sports : General

  • Eden Gardens to be renovated
  • Dhoni, Hayden trade compliments
  • M.S. Gill expresses concern over IPL prediction game
  • Om Prakash registers ‘no mark’
  • Kaushik Ram sizzles in CSSF A’s title triumph

    • Swimming

  • Damini continues her good run

    • Table Tennis

  • Triple crown for Rishabh Kapoor

    • Tamil Nadu

  • An open secret
  • Engagements
  • Ration cardholders stage protest
  • Pilgrims stage road roko
  • Nilgiris remains an outsiders’ constituency
  • ‘Get prior approval for using vehicles for campaigning’
  • CDs to impart training in poll procedures for Villupuram
  • Directive to dealers in explosives
  • Election complaint cell set up
  • Road blocked
  • BJP promises automobile cluster
  • Veeramani accuses Jayalalithaa of changing stand on Sethu project
  • Action against absentees
  • Over 2,900 included as new voters in Krishnagiri
  • Flag march taken out in Tirupur
  • Workers stage road roko
  • Show of strength
  • Flag march taken out
  • KCCP to celebrate silver jubilee
  • Evidence of pre-historic humans in Thanjavur
  • Independents stand out
  • Evidence of pre-historic humans in Thanjavur
  • IMFL bottles seized
  • Security reviewed
  • How ‘Pasanga’ turned out to be a path-breaker
  • Narendra Modi’s pat
  • Now, its canvassing through booklet
  • ‘Super Mom’ contest
  • New booths created, old ones relocated
  • Villagers threaten to boycott polls
  • 26 poll code violation cases registered
  • Seminar
  • Man killed in accident
  • Sewage, garbage disposal major problem here
  • Attempt to snatch chain
  • “Need for changes in foreign, economic policies”
  • Jayalalithaa’s stand on Tamils issue contradictory: Stalin
  • Karunanidhi discharged from hospital
  • Court helps civil services aspirant to take exam on May 17
  • Nilgiris remains an outsider constituency
  • Pollution a major problem facing the constituency
  • Chennai airport to get new radar before year-end
  • Tension at Puduvayal

    • Tennis

  • Safina beats Kuznetsova, bags title

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Awareness campaign for travelling public
  • Murder attempt: four persons arrested
  • KSBC plans centre for de-addiction
  • Farm Journalists’ Forum award
  • Brought back to life by a noose
  • Centre cuts power quota
  • Sukumar Azhikode enlivens ‘Mambazhakalam’ camp
  • Technology day observance tomorrow
  • Counselling for parents, students
  • Plea to revive Parvathy Puthanar
  • Man held in murder case
  • Hard won, with generational difference
  • Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • Thrissur

  • 42 vehicle inspectors join the force
  • ‘Section of media biased against Communists’

    • Tiruchi

  • “People looking for alternative development model”
  • Special sessions on memory power mark summer camp
  • Students get insight into latest trends in academics, job market
  • Training in banana fibre extraction for women
  • Mutt to start arts and science college
  • “Gajendra Moksham” rituals performed
  • Introduction of Braille ballot paper evokes good response
  • Free consultancy on reducing use of Carbon Tetrachloride

    • Tirunelveli

  • Kanimozhi campaigns at several villages in Nellai
  • Centre for Special Education inaugurated
  • Seeman’s appeal to Jayalalithaa

    • Tirupati

  • ‘Ponnakaluva Utsavam’ performed
  • PRC Chairman interacts with pensioners
  • Grants to Sanskrit university under special assistance scheme

    • Tumkur

  • Man run over at bus station

    • Tuticorin

  • Supplementary poll roll-II out
  • Sale of applications for UG courses under way

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Golden Retriever, German Shepherd corner glory at Ooty dog show
  • Digital readers cannot be a substitute for books, says N. Ram

    • Udupi

  • Congress in a quandary over top posts in Udupi ZP

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Case against Azhar
  • Three cops injured in mob violence

    • Vellore

  • BSNL launches Black Berry service in Vellore
  • “UPA government has not helped the Dalits”
  • Training class for poll officials tomorrow
  • Call to ex-servicemen
  • Local holiday in Vellore

    • Vijayawada

  • ‘With support, tribal students can work wonders’
  • ‘Enhance enrolment in distance education’
  • How safe is Vijayawada from cholera?
  • Gold-plated vimana gopuram of Kanakadurga temple unveiled
  • Swine flu: VMC not to take any chance
  • New animation training institute
  • Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • A day to recognise, reward selfless love
  • Multi-level exit courses advocated
  • ICET results in 15 days
  • Home guards return
  • Inspector caught demanding Rs. 2 lakh bribe
  • Power shutdown
  • Career guidance on hardware today
  • Expert for vaccination to prevent anthrax
  • Bank of America MD feted
  • All set for counting

    • Warangal

  • Miniature art is his passion

    • Weather

  • Weather

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