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  • Fertilizer firm evolves scholarship scheme

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • YSR rules out Cabinet expansion
  • Naidu politicising debate on tenders, says Ponnala
  • European nations, Israel see potential partner in IndiaMissile development reaches `tactical' stage
  • State must clear the air: Telugu Desam
  • Mentally challenged worker among FAPCCI awardees
  • Top naxal leader surrenders
  • Still a Telugu at heart: Jayaprada
  • CPI, CPI(M) to skip meet on tenders issue
  • TDP's remarks unfortunate, says BJP
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Cellphone dealer asked to pay compensation
  • Naxal bandh peaceful
  • Tapancha seized, two arrested

    • Athletics

  • Yadava IC wins title
  • Lok Raj triumphs

    • Bangalore

  • Celebrities come together for a cause
  • Tight security for `Temptation 2005'
  • Man found murdered in lodge
  • Murder accused held
  • Two constables injured in accident
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Traffic police, public face-off taking an ugly turn

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
  • Bullion rates

    • Bellary

  • Over three lakh children to be immunised under Pulse Polio drive
  • Question papers stolen, examination cancelled
  • `Okuli' ritual banned
  • Short spell of rain in Bellary

    • Bidar

  • Chemists association withdraws bandh call

    • Bihar

  • Nitish's exercise an eyewash, says CPI(ML)

    • Bijapur

  • Rails for gauge conversion transported to work sites

    • Billiards & Snooker

  • Advani to skip Asian U-21 championship
  • Someswara Rao advances

    • Bridge

  • Tamil Nadu is champion

    • Briefly

  • Guarantee for DFIs
  • IOC to charter ships
  • TCS ties up with Canadian agency
  • Bokaro's Rs. 7,000 crore capex plan
  • HCL solution for BDA
  • HM sells more Ambassadors
  • Vaishnavi forays into global market
  • CCL records Rs. 900 crore profit
  • Dividend for Prudential ICICI Discovery fund
  • Idea Cellular's new service
  • GrapeCity launches testing tool
  • RITES gets $40 m contracts
  • eLitmus.com launches service
  • TVS Motor launches TVS Star range
  • Hitachi to accelerate NAS revenues
  • Novell delivers open enterprise server
  • Matrix Lab, Aspen Pharma join hands
  • Tanla Solutions pays 20 p.c.
  • Project Management Conference

    • Business

  • Chidambaram warns erring stock brokers
  • Centre not to allow closure of merged banks' branches
  • BSNL plans major network expansion
  • Build large capacities, textile units told
  • Rupee declines
  • NECC plea on VAT
  • Rover's decision would have no impact: Tatas
  • BHEL Ranipet unit's turnover crosses Rs.500-crore mark
  • Travel agents down shutters
  • Sensex extends losses
  • HLL to transfer plantation business
  • Chambers hail trade policy

    • Chennai

  • Organised crime at its `best'
  • Anna University to have national resource centre for free, open source software
  • State Government to blame for `bank' collapse, says Chidambaram
  • Travel agents observe bandh against cut in commission
  • RailTel to deploy broadband services in all cities
  • 35 maternity, child care hospitals get `safe' rating
  • Nod for makeover of post offices, postal services
  • Court orders reinstatement of 19 police personnel
  • Official held on rape charge
  • Valarmathi inspects Vanuvampet pumping station
  • 2 held for bomb hoax at Central
  • Pulse polio campaign
  • One more body recovered from building collapse site
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today

    • Chess

  • Eesha springs a surprise
  • Hari Krishna settles for a draw

    • Coimbatore

  • Entry of lorries to be curbed likely from Monday
  • Police counsel to discourage sex workers
  • Pulse polio campaign on April 10, 15
  • Free counselling camp on neurology
  • Pipeline burst disrupts Pilloor supply
  • Keeping tabs on rowdy elements

    • Cricket

  • Orissa outplays Karnataka
  • Five-wkt. win for GCE
  • Mithali determined to play despite injury
  • Wright replacement by month-end: BCCI
  • Narrow win for Associated CC
  • All praise for Indian women
  • Enriching experience
  • ICC's Associate and Affiliate Umpires Panel
  • Big win for SBM SC
  • Kapil in city
  • Shabbir ruled out
  • Malviya Club posts win
  • Wins for RRG, WDCA
  • Easy win for MP Colts

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    • Cuddalore

  • Schoolboy drowned

    • Cuddapah

  • Fresh tenders for sand quarries

    • Cycling

  • Armstrong mulls retirement after Tour de France

    • Dharwad

  • Water supply in Dharwad

    • Editorials

  • ARMS AND THE MAN
  • FIGHTING FACTIONALISM

    • Erode

  • Call for immediate help to accident victims
  • Touch screens generate Rs. 60 lakhs
  • Steps to curb pest impact

    • Football

  • Newcastle posts win
  • Dudu nets winner for Sporting Clube

    • Front Page

  • Millions bid farewell to Pope John Paul II
  • Cess on farm exports to go
  • India, China to agree on protocol on CBMs
  • It's just not cricket
  • Once again, batsmen will call the shots
  • No immediate hike?
  • Telgi to confess
  • Cabinet nod for second administrative reforms panel
  • Notice on poaching
  • Court directs AIIMS to examine Kanshiram
  • Kanishka: new decision
  • Cross-examination of Bilkis continues

    • Golf

  • Celebrity golf for a noble cause

    • Guntur

  • Least developed area
  • Marriage halls her achievement
  • Using free power to sell water?

    • Haryana

  • Minister says Haryana has paid for upkeep of canals

    • Hockey

  • TN still in the hunt
  • SAI defeats SBI
  • India in group B
  • Pakistan veterans to play in Bhopal

    • Hubli

  • Lokayukta detects violation of building bylaws, seeks action
  • `No birth, death records since 1975'

    • Hyderabad

  • Man who put the case on right track
  • Cases against emissaries to please World Bank: RK
  • City joins in bidding adieu to Pope John Paul II
  • Oil palm processing plant in Khammam district
  • Move to upgrade civic body challenged
  • OU notification
  • SBH staff gesture
  • Convocation held
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Spurt in robbery

    • India & World

  • U.S. hails Indian, Pakistani leaders' `vision'
  • Musharraf, Aziz condemn attempts to sabotage bus link
  • Musharraf, Aziz discuss visit to India
  • `Allow Hurriyat leaders on bus'

    • International

  • Bill against F-16 sale expected next week
  • Bangladesh, China sign nine agreements
  • Quake jolts Tibet
  • Independent adviser
  • Charles, Camilla to acknowledge "sins''
  • Three killed in Cairo blast
  • Flesh-eating infection
  • British spy chiefs admit to error on WMD
  • Spanish blow to Latin machismo
  • Bush rating slumps in poll
  • Police image takes a beating in Brazil over killings

    • Kancheepuram

  • Government officials stage demonstration

    • Kannur

  • Tourism Minister visits Kannur fort
  • `Scientific awareness in sports sector needed'

    • Karimnagar

  • Karimnagar centenary celebrations from today

    • Karnataka

  • Bangalore beckons jewellers from Kerala
  • Cabinet records on BMIC project placed in court
  • Growers' society to settle cases out of court
  • Centre for Autism Spectrum Disorders to be opened on Monday
  • Steep fall in agricultural growth rate
  • Bangalore beckons jewellers from Kerala
  • Rs. 44 crores to improve drinking water supply
  • Jarkiholi goes back on decision to quit Ministry
  • RTPS may face water shortage
  • Lokayukta seeks more powers
  • Leaders extend Ugadi greetings
  • Speed limits for vehicles notified
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Action plan for Sam Vikas Yojana approved
  • State to get sheep rearing research centre
  • Doctors told to ensure quality healthcare to all
  • Seer to attend international convention
  • Puttur RTO collects record revenue

    • Kerala

  • Third Front will help BJP: Banatwala
  • Coke to hold talks with panchayat
  • BJP not catering to Hindus: Singhal
  • SSLC question paper leak: bail denied
  • Coca-Cola to hold talks with people, panchayat
  • Free LPG connections for tsunami-hit in Alapad
  • Indo-U.S. air exercise likely by October
  • KPCC finalises `salt procession' programme
  • Left-Congress alliance will ensure justice: Natesan
  • Explosives seized at Amaravila check-post
  • Sathish Dhavan's bust handed over to VSSC
  • Seafood exporters hail foreign trade policy
  • Biggest-ever funeral: Mani
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Work on mini-harbour to begin soon
  • 8 children employed as domestic servants rescued

    • Khammam

  • Praja Patham to focus on repairs to small tanks

    • Kochi

  • `Arbitration effective in redressing disputes'
  • Special prayers held for the Pope
  • Civic administrators join issue with MLA
  • Zonal panels formed for rally
  • Work on rebuilding North Gate to begin
  • Foreign trade policy hailed
  • Strike postponed
  • Somayagam concludes
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Combating the drug menace

    • Kollam

  • Custodial death: policemen likely to be suspended
  • Mystery shrouds detection of deer
  • Workshop on learning disabilities in children

    • Kottayam

  • Pope remembered

    • Kozhikode

  • Kin of schizophrenia patients to meet
  • `Tourism Department neglecting Malabar'
  • Medical aid scheme
  • Meet

    • Kurnool

  • SIs shuffled in Kurnool district

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Challenge to science: attracting youth

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Messengers of peace
  • Praiseworthy
  • Police action
  • Pope's views
  • On good manners

    • Madhya Pradesh

  • Massive tax evasion by traders detected

    • Madikeri

  • A.K. Subbaiah defends Barapole hydel project

    • Madurai

  • Tremendous turnaround in water position
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • On the trail of a murder case

    • Mangalore

  • Padayatra to press for additional vented dam
  • Bhajana Mandali to celebrate centenary
  • Bangarappa to tour Dakshina Kannada
  • Bus to Hyderabad flagged off
  • New auditorium at St. Aloysius College
  • Woman kills husband, ends life
  • Power shutdown on Monday, Wednesday
  • New apron to be inaugurated today
  • Mangalore RTO nets Rs. 41.61 crores
  • Eye camps
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Civic body appoints 50 pig-catchers
  • Corporation stops construction of building
  • One lakh children to be covered under Pulse Polio
  • College teachers plan demonstration
  • Lokayukta traps PWD engineer
  • MESCOM sets April 30 deadline to regularise pumpset connections
  • Shoppers throng markets for Ugadi purchases
  • Aneesh's violin concert tomorrow

    • Nagapattinam

  • Collector inspects temporary shelters affected by rain

    • Nagercoil

  • Dams in Kanyakumari record comfortable storage

    • Nalgonda

  • Murder-accused fall in `mobile' trap

    • National

  • CPI(M) to continue fight against neo-liberalisation
  • `These walls, these rooms remind me of my childhood'
  • Left parties seek clarification on "clean chit" to Fernandes
  • Congress assails BJP for not supporting bus service
  • ``Ties with U.S. have never been better''
  • India should declare sanctions against U.S.: Canadian Minister
  • Zubin Mehta, Rostropovich to perform in Mumbai
  • Desire to see birthplace made his date with bus
  • Dabhol: Centre to stand guarantee
  • Withdraw excise duty hike on petrol: CPI(M)
  • Scheme for handicapped: Cabinet relaxes norms
  • PM steps in to resolve row over export sops
  • We talked about India's economic reforms: Shinde
  • U.S. to bring F-16s for joint exercise
  • "U.S. ready to give information on Patriot missiles"
  • Buddhadeb meets Sonia
  • Modi to meet RSS chief
  • Supreme Court moved against ODI at Ferozeshah Kotla
  • Not a demotion: Venkaiah
  • Struggle for alternative farm policy planned
  • Car Nicobar base is combat-worthy: Air Chief
  • Flowers trigger famine alert
  • Manipur to crack down on Meitei activists
  • Kalam extends Ugadi greetings
  • Rotten flowers, betel leaves yield dye, soft drink
  • Natwar to visit U.S.
  • Apex court to hear plea against `Black Friday'
  • Moral teaching needed in education: Gowda

    • Nellore

  • BSNL announces new plans for B-fone users

    • New Delhi

  • Tall claims of Delhi Government "exposed''
  • `Civilisation is a uniting force'
  • Worried Sheila calls Cabinet meet
  • VAT confusion hits medical equipment market
  • Jal board fined for deficiency in service
  • New drive against stray cattle, illegal dairies
  • Wildlife conservation award presented
  • Automatic kitchen for mid-day meals opened
  • Demonstration by Bar associations
  • Cash snatched
  • Vijayan's nephew barred from immersing ashes
  • And now a Confucius Institute for JNU
  • New force to aid tourists
  • Wen no stranger to Delhi
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Child labour keeps this industry thriving

    • Palakkad

  • Minister to inaugurate tourism project

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Arrangements for pulse polio programme
  • Believers pay homage to Pope

    • Polo

  • 61 Cavalry in semifinals

    • Pondicherry

  • Assembly witnesses noisy scenes
  • `Confer more powers on Additional Secretaries'
  • Lakhera, Rangasamy greet Telugus
  • Token fast by the disabled
  • Interest on excise duty due from arrack merchants to be waived
  • Delimitation panel's order on Karaikal opposed
  • Centre's nod for duty-free port

    • Punjab

  • Panjab varsity to host meet on biotechnology
  • Punjab's assurance to chemists

    • Racing : Horse

  • Thundering Star appeals most
  • Little Emperor wins main event
  • Aleksei shows out

    • Racing : Motor

  • Nine teams to boycott meeting with FIA
  • Pune to host GDTNC opener

    • Rajasthan

  • Liquor shops in tribal areas brew trouble in House

    • Ramanathapuram

  • Give priority to Manamadurai, Rameswaram BG project: BJP

    • Religion

  • The Lord's accessibility

    • Salem

  • Supply of dhal, cement hit
  • Compound wall of water tank damaged

    • Sport

  • It's just not cricket
  • Once again, batsmen will call the shots
  • Can Younis Khan do it again for Pakistan?
  • Wet and wacky start to the Masters
  • Plucky Fleming does the rescue act

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Sethu project gets conditional clearance
  • Cleaner identifies 3 accused in bus burning case
  • Water supply augmentation by December 2006
  • AIADMK, DMK take credit
  • MLAs get hike in pay
  • Request to defer gauge conversion rejected
  • Making sincere efforts for release of Krishna water: Jayalalithaa
  • `Tamil Nadu should play major role in enhancing trade ties with Canada'
  • Teachers role models for students, says Barnala
  • Will more storage points serve any purpose?
  • Career counselling
  • Award for T.N. Krishnan
  • RailTel Corporation plans to deploy broadband services in all cities
  • Eight children rescued
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Hard times ahead for coop. sugar mill
  • Palladam chickens head for Karnataka, Chennai
  • Credit link extended to 2,351 self-help groups
  • Toll up in Pallipalayam flash floods; search on for the missing
  • Demand for organic manure up

    • Tennis

  • Yuki makes final
  • Chan in line for double
  • Davenport sails ahead on rain-hit day
  • Matthew ousts Vishal

    • Thanjavur

  • SHGs plan to set up eco-friendly kiln

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Work on Amayizhanjan canal likely to be hit
  • Custodial battle over palace buildings
  • Health department employee found hanging
  • Women's panel visits Sri Lankan woman in jail
  • Three arrested
  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today
  • Hotbed of crime

    • This Day That Age

  • dated April 9, 1955: Public services: Pant's call
  • dated April 9, 1955: New port on west coast
  • dated April 9, 1955: The Eden Cabinet
  • dated April 9, 1955: Pak. PM's marriage

    • Thrissur

  • Mata arriving in Thrissur today
  • Pro-life day to be observed

    • Tiruchi

  • Varsity donates computers to Government schools
  • Masons demand hike in pension
  • Need to censor advertisements
  • Good response to motor vehicle tax collection
  • Science camp at planetarium
  • Pulse Polio campaign tomorrow
  • Two die in flash floods
  • Books for sale
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    • Tirunelveli

  • Steps to establish a comprehensive herbal garden
  • `Constitute Sixth Pay Commission without delay'

    • Tirupati

  • Rural sports meet heads for a colourful finish

    • Tuticorin

  • `Chitin' production unit set up at Tuticorin Fisheries College
  • Construction of new buildings for police stations
  • Employment mela held at Tuticorin

    • Udhagamandalam

  • Arrangements for flower show begin

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • U.P. officers to identify `most honest'
  • Real-life twist to reel-life drama
  • Couple abandons infant daughters, arrested
  • U.P. on success path to eradicate polio

    • Uttaranchal

  • Threat to thwart opening of hill shrines

    • Vellore

  • 75 candidates in fray for 29 local body posts in Vellore

    • Vijayawada

  • Fire service staff to launch awareness drive
  • Star-struck in temple
  • Around the City
  • In vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Seafood exporters to stop purchases
  • Nedunuri's autobiography to be released tomorrow
  • Bill collection centre open today
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Warangal

  • RTC to run more buses on Warangal-Hyderabad route

    • Weather

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