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  • Speed up work on drought relief projects: Gouri

    • Anantapur

  • Orientation meet: MLAs raise security issue

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Cyber campaign against ship-breaking units
  • YSR woos Gujarat industrialists
  • Autonomy for Silver Jubilee College
  • ISB paves the way for girl power
  • Chilli ryots go on the rampage
  • Five held for goldsmith's murder
  • Ready to face changed situation, says DGP
  • Dacoits flee fearing locals' reprisal
  • `Praja Patham not akin to Janmabhoomi'
  • Mala Mahanadu hardens stand on categorisation
  • Bhanumati alleges smear campaign
  • Police seek custody of Suri
  • YSR for strengthening vigilance set-up
  • Three killed in road mishaps
  • 15 naxalites surrender
  • Stir will not hit Inter valuation: Minister
  • Tanker blaze triggers panic
  • Naxals kill former comrade
  • Girl's murder: police gain clues
  • 3 held in power project case
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • BJP committed to smaller States: Naresh
  • 77 industries to go for public hearing in Medak
  • Donor cell inaugurated

    • Archery

  • Jayant Talukdar, Ranu record upset wins

    • Athletics

  • Amrik wins gold
  • Vikas Gowda betters National mark

    • Badminton

  • Gopi's academy to be ABC training centre
  • Hyderabad to host ABC meet

    • Bangalore

  • Concern over women dying during childbirth
  • BMP refutes Suprajaa charge on works in V.V. Puram
  • Fire destroys furniture, gadgets in live band joint
  • KSRTC to run 300 extra buses for Ugadi
  • Woman allowed to stay in estranged husband's house
  • Four die in road accidents
  • Blood camp; baby show
  • `Complete Blacktop' inaugurated
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today

    • Basketball

  • Thiruvananthapuram triumphs

    • Bidar

  • Confusion over sahitya sammelan venue

    • Bijapur

  • Woman commits suicide

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Rout, Srihari post wins

    • Briefly

  • ITC management, unions sign deal
  • DIFX deal with TCS
  • IDBI's Omnibonds issue
  • Allahabad Bank's offer oversubscribed
  • TCT records higher throughput
  • R World reaches more subscribers
  • L&T-led consortium bags ONGC order
  • Citibank's customer awareness programme
  • Elected to CII
  • embWise Tech launches Linux based software
  • Vinod Dasari new COO of Ashok Leyland
  • Sierra Atlantic in pact with Grand Central
  • New Chairman for CII, AP unit
  • SECL plans e-auction system
  • Viteos changes name

    • Business

  • Nokia to set up handset plant near Chennai
  • Canada sees investment opportunity in infrastructure
  • Hyundai launches Tucson
  • MUL board clears Rs. 3,272 cr. investment plans
  • Maran welcomes decision
  • Rupee moves up
  • Rs. 88-crore penalty slapped on M&M
  • PM to open FICCI summit on farm sector
  • Sensex recovers 56 points
  • Tata Ficosa's Pune facility
  • Continental's New York service
  • FCI ties up with futures exchange
  • ICICI OneSource buys Rev IT Systems

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • `Cocktail of air pollution' in north Chennai
  • City reservoirs receive good inflow
  • Rescue workers recover two bodies
  • Building site safety norms `not followed'
  • Property tax: the 50,000 `zero cases'
  • NCC acquiring motorised gliders, advanced rifles
  • Prizes for school toppers
  • Three-year financial technology course
  • Metrowater open house on April 9
  • Flat promoters stage protest
  • Turkish film festival inaugurated
  • Building contractor arrested
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Kunte shares lead
  • India has unearthed serious talent in Dhoni
  • Hari crushes Illescas
  • HC grants stay in Koya case

    • Coimbatore

  • Sirumugai Pudur shows the way
  • Opposition blames it on poor monitoring
  • Police provide counselling for sex workers
  • Police act on a 13-year-old girl's petition
  • Training for automobile service station entrepreneurs
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Obaidullah bowls SCRSA to big win
  • Sumit Dogra Academy registers win
  • Wisden award for Warne
  • Australia enters final
  • Big win for Essex Farm
  • Easy win for RNSIT
  • Thumbs up for Jamshedpur pitch
  • Six-wkt. win for Empire Club

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8261
  • Solution to Puzzle No. 8260

    • Cuddapah

  • Somasila-displaced paid compensation
  • Women stage dharna for water

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply schedule for Dharwad, Hubli

    • Editorials

  • BACK TO SQUARE ONE
  • JOINING THE MADRID SYSTEM

    • Erode

  • 50 doctors to donate organs
  • `Do not privatise TNEB'
  • DMK candidate files nomination

    • Football

  • An emotional win for Liverpool
  • Al Hussein blanks Dempo
  • Sony signs deal with FIFA
  • KTC drubs Independence

    • Front Page

  • Militants attack Government complex
  • I can work only up to a point: Vajpayee
  • The bus will roll, says Manmohan
  • Fans too harsh on their heroes
  • Dhoni may be the solution
  • Oil price hike?
  • Nokia to set up handset plant near Chennai
  • Support to UPA need-based: CPI(M)
  • Medha Patkar arrested
  • CBI searches premises of government officials
  • Dandi march stretch declared "heritage path"
  • Six-month mourning in Monaco
  • Fee increase
  • 11 killed
  • Court stays arrest of Dwarka Acharya

    • Golf

  • Masters wears an open look
  • Rafick Ali on song
  • Frustrating day for Indians

    • Guntur

  • Rights group nails policemen
  • Colony sans roads, drains
  • A water success story
  • TDP leader held for possessing bombs

    • Haryana

  • Interest-free wheat loan for govt. staff
  • Hooda lays stress on health sector

    • Himachal Pradesh

  • Trekkers rescued in Manali
  • Govt. avoiding debate: Dhumal

    • Hockey

  • Big win for AOC Centre
  • Kodava hockey tournament
  • IOC wins

    • Hubli

  • Illicit liquor seized

    • Hyderabad

  • Cuddapah girl's parents a picture of agony
  • Pre-construction work on flyovers at crucial stage
  • Water board-MCH spat over repair of roads
  • Free health camp for women, children
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • An unpardonable crime: Pakistan
  • Wanton act of terror: U.S.
  • Arson, says Russian circus company

    • International

  • Indian-style campaigning in U.K.
  • Kurd leader chosen Iraq President
  • China is no threat, says Wen
  • China-Pakistan relations enter a new phase
  • Pakistan not a perfect story, says Rice
  • Saudi Al-Qaeda chief killed?

    • Karimnagar

  • Resurvey of ryots for free power scheme sought
  • Officials briefed on Praja Patham

    • Karnataka

  • More land likely for electronics units
  • Records sought on cases against official
  • For the pachyderms it is an annual retreat
  • Sahitya Parishat's proposal kicks up a storm
  • JD(S) refutes reports of Jarkiholi's resignation
  • Decks cleared for launch of airport project
  • Hindus urged to allow business on Idgah Maidan
  • Minister lauds role of health workers
  • Young and old re-enact Dandi March
  • Centre approves fishing facilities
  • Three convicted in fake stamp paper case
  • Govindpuram yet to get water connection: residents
  • Construction worker electrocuted
  • Raids on top official's office, residence
  • Law on service in rural areas for doctors likely
  • No decision on new nursing colleges
  • BMIC: Hearing to resume today
  • Scientist's death: police awaiting autopsy report
  • Two snatch part of woman's chain
  • Water Adalat today
  • Woman electrocuted
  • Man dies after tree falls on him
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Firemen struggle to put out blaze at Sirigere
  • Complaints of corruption continue to pour in
  • Doctors urged to be sincere to their job
  • `Reserve seats in Parliament for BCs'
  • Minister opposes appeal against court order on relief
  • Lokayukta promises follow-up work
  • `Clean' toilets
  • H.S. Parvathi to get Karanth award
  • Around the City

    • Kerala

  • INS Zamorin commissioned at Ezhimala project site
  • Focus on maternal and child health
  • Ban on air-horns upheld
  • Anti-dumping duty evasion rampant in State
  • An opportunity at Ezhimala
  • Tackling tsunami the Maldivian way
  • Banks seek tsunami victims' list
  • Special seal, packing for SSLC question papers
  • Amrita TV to begin telecast from April 14
  • VHP warns against reservation for converts
  • Seafood exporters threaten to suspend production
  • Court directive to produce missing girl
  • Consider emotions of local people: Math
  • Pillai, Jacob call on Karunakaran
  • Briefly

    • Khammam

  • Druggists' bandh total

    • Kochi

  • Procurement of Pokkali seeds begins
  • Somayagam rituals begin
  • Ornamental fish farming centre to be set up
  • Protest against capital punishment
  • National seminar on arbitration
  • Around the City
  • Kindling interest in science

    • Kollam

  • One feared killed as well caves in
  • Guruvayur Padmanabhan for Kollam `pooram'
  • Man dies in police custody

    • Kozhikode

  • Exemption for hill produce from VAT sought
  • Project to conserve Malabari goat

    • Kurnool

  • Heavy rush at medical shops

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Russia's neighbours
  • Promising prospects

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Undercover journalism
  • Mourning the Pope
  • Television woes
  • Good manners
  • Dandi March
  • Needed, caution

    • Madikeri

  • T. John tipped to be Kodagu DCC chief

    • Madurai

  • Accelerated use of LPG as fuel in cars
  • Contest Pappapatti, Keeripatti byelections, Collector tells residents
  • Two flights diverted
  • Armed robbers loot jewels
  • Grievance day meet
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • LPG for vehicles once outlets are opened
  • Efforts on for developing biodiversity network
  • KRRS plans rally on April 17
  • 12 truck owners charged with possessing fake permits
  • Meet on limericks
  • Banks accused of neglecting farmers
  • Senior leaders of BJP to attend jubilee function
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • CDP to assess needs of Mysore for next 15 years
  • `Panchayats must meet once in six months to identify beneficiaries'
  • Corporation nets property tax of Rs. 24 crores
  • Securing birth, death certificates made easy
  • Junior doctors resume work

    • Nagapattinam

  • Permanent shelters to be built in tsunami-hit areas soon
  • Dutch NGOs' gesture

    • Nagercoil

  • Forum comes forward to desilt Pazhayar
  • Fire in tsunami shelter

    • National

  • Total commitment to Ram temple: Advani
  • Veteran Communists honoured
  • Congress, Left condemn attack
  • UNICEF to tap India's eagerness
  • Dabbawallahs get Air India tickets to London
  • `An act of cowardice'
  • Bus passengers unfazed
  • Geelani, Bar Association oppose bus service
  • We do not want the Government to fall: Basu
  • Call-centre manager `commits suicide'
  • "Good mother, wives and daughters"
  • 3 injured in blast
  • Debate over authenticity of Best Bakery police video
  • Planning Commission for highway regulatory authority
  • Population control: `implementation is the challenge'
  • India can achieve 8 per cent growth, says World Bank
  • ADB forecasts fluctuation in growth
  • Secrecy boomerangs on Maoists in Andhra Pradesh
  • "Need for policy on disaster management"
  • All living beings have rights: Dalai Lama
  • Assam to adopt Bangladesh power model
  • ``Courts should not interfere in orders to ban entry of a person''
  • Kalam asks banks to be more pro-active

    • Nellore

  • Rain causes concern to farmers

    • New Delhi

  • Yamuna plan a `big flop', says CAG
  • An uneasy session for Congress
  • Opposition to water privatisation snowballs
  • BSES marches into Lutyens' Delhi despite NDMC opposition
  • CBI raids surprise DCP's colleagues
  • NDPL surpasses targets, brings down T&D losses
  • Nod for Metro link to Noida by month-end
  • Three held for murder
  • Rai University duped us, allege students
  • PIL against ASI chief dismissed
  • Man shot dead in moving bus
  • `Balle Balle' on animation music video
  • Canadian national thrashed by cops
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Taking the short cut to research

    • News Analysis

  • A tale of two celebrations
  • Bus, a threat to jehadis

    • Obituary

  • Obituary

    • Pathanamthitta

  • FOTA proposals: meeting of investors, political leaders soon
  • Faithful offer prayers for Pope
  • 25,000 Congress workers for rally

    • Pondicherry

  • Rangasamy dismisses allegations against PWD
  • Clarify stand on VAT, demands ex-minister
  • Additional quota of kerosene
  • AIADMK complains about impure water
  • `Separate recruitment commission soon'
  • AIADMK, BJP stage walkout
  • Noisy scenes in Assembly
  • Members seek early distribution of free saris, dhotis

    • Punjab

  • Pranab to broker peace in Punjab PCC

    • Racing : Horse

  • Quintet clinches Dangerous Romance Cup
  • Santarelle for main event
  • Ocean Of Angels, Oscar Star shine

    • Raichur

  • 13 arrested

    • Rajasthan

  • After Congress, Gandhians to re-enact Dandi March
  • Akashvani goes the `radio' way, renames stations
  • Focus on health of each mother, child
  • Housing scheme to be extended

    • Religion

  • Subtle nature of truth

    • Salem

  • Roads dug up to lay cables

    • Shimoga

  • Dharam Singh to open Youth Congress meet
  • Rs. 2 crores sanctioned for carriageway

    • Sport

  • Fans too harsh on their heroes
  • Dhoni may be the solution
  • Atapattu, Jayawardene lead Lankans' fitting reply

    • Sports : General

  • UNICEF launches campaign against AIDS

    • Tamil Nadu

  • State Government unveils plan to mitigate disasters
  • Declare girivalam path part of heritage town: Centre
  • Smiles are back after heart surgeries
  • `Distinguished MCCian Award' for Vijay Kumar
  • Government opposes deemed varsity concept
  • Chennai Port to get second terminal in 10 months
  • Debate in House over solatium for rain victims
  • CBI moves court to close cremation shed scam
  • Sethusamudram project: everything is fine: Baalu
  • WHO increases budget by $4 million
  • Members gets a taste of Telugu
  • Secure release of Kanyakumari fishermen, says Jayalalithaa
  • Paying phone bills through credit card
  • New system of shorthand takes off
  • Police act on a 13-year old girl's petition
  • Farmers form SHGs to take up sericulture
  • 2.4 lakh children to get pulse polio vaccine
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Heavy demand for organic manure
  • Two held for auto driver's murder
  • Rain lashes Tirupur, low-lying areas inundated

    • Tennis

  • Yuki Bhambri in quarterfinals
  • Rushmi in last eight
  • Arup shocks Arpit
  • Contrasting wins for Venus, Davenport
  • Sania ranked 75

    • Thanjavur

  • Thanjavur moving towards total sanitation
  • Solid waste management — SHGs show the way
  • 60 habitats getting protected drinking water

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Computerised network at MCH
  • Exchange programme with Newham Council
  • Concern over rise in cost of health care
  • One arrested on charge of impersonation
  • Arrested Lankan woman hospitalised
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Of chits and photocopies

    • This Day That Age

  • dated April 7, 1955: Sangeeth Nataka Sangham
  • dated April 7, 1955: Churchill resigns

    • Thrissur

  • Industrial park at Puzhakkal
  • Migratory birds set to fly back
  • Former bank chairman dead
  • Consecration rites begin

    • Tiruchi

  • Depleting tank leaves farmers high and dry
  • Team finds local bodies in Pakistan enjoying more powers
  • AIR special programmes on Tamil New Year day
  • Training for visually challenged
  • Tributes paid
  • Around the City
  • IN Tiruchi Today

    • Udupi

  • Lack of slipway, a problem for Malpe fishermen
  • Corporation Bank holds customers' meet

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • U.P. to get more girls' hostels

    • Uttaranchal

  • Education Minister cracks the whip

    • Vellore

  • Police station opened in Anaicut

    • Vijayawada

  • Lecturers boycott Inter valuation
  • Chemists observe bandh
  • Railways set to cope with summer rush
  • BJP celebrates foundation day
  • One killed in attack
  • House burgled
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Abducted baby traced within hours
  • Marine police stations in the offing
  • Quota sought for garments in apparel parks
  • Graft case against former NSDRC Director
  • Plea against another term for former V-C
  • CPI(M) planning agitation
  • Human chain by Steel Plant union
  • BJP silver jubilee celebrated
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • Police strengthen `informer' network

    • Weather

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