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  • Chandy calls for new development culture based on consensus

    • Anantapur

  • Police terrorising rights groups: APCLC

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • Naxalism a moral and political issue, says YSR
  • Court allows police to probe into Rajendranagar clash
  • Only 2.12 lakh SHGs eligible for loans
  • State to tighten grip on private hospitals
  • State agrees to release more water to Yanam
  • KCR offers assistance for film workers' housing project
  • Tension over unveiling of martyrs memorial
  • KCR, Narendra must quit: Dattatreya
  • No expansion plans for Simhadri: NTPC
  • All developmental schemes put on hold
  • SSC exam: good show by BC hostel students
  • White paper sought on DPEP, SSA
  • MBA supplementary exams of BRAOU from May 6
  • Two jailed for graft
  • Panel declines nod for release of three cotton varieties
  • City to host national management meet
  • No pressure from NDA for House boycott: TDP
  • Bridge to be closed for repairs
  • Devineni alleges protocol lapse
  • Chaitanya tests for scholarships
  • Mixed response to `shanti yatra'
  • Report on '04 polls published
  • The cutting edge
  • Crude cut
  • Teachers vent their ire
  • Five jailed in suicide case
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    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Rain lashes Nellore; one dies
  • Krishna offers prayers at Tirumala temple
  • Drama contest

    • Badminton

  • Anuradha wins title
  • Aparna withdraws

    • Bangalore

  • CET off to a quiet start on the first day
  • Health varsity goes the herbal way
  • How safe is it to travel to work late at night?
  • Water supply cut off to Coffee Board layout in the city
  • Japan to assist in forestry programme
  • 2 software engineers robbed
  • Ganja seized
  • Around the City

    • Barometer

  • Exchange rates
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    • Basketball

  • Indian Bank advances
  • Signals (Delhi) beats Artillery Centre

    • Bellary

  • Administration to act tough against hooch business
  • Bellary ZP gets four more seats
  • Interest waiver on crop loans

    • Bridge

  • Indian women and Jordan men on top

    • Briefly

  • Consumer index static at 525
  • Oracle to buy PeopleSoft centres
  • Hero Honda April sales up
  • Andhra Bank net profit at Rs. 520 crs.
  • Steel Strips to float subsidiary in Slovakia
  • Jewellery exhibition

    • Business

  • Panel on excise abatement set up
  • SBT reports higher operating profit
  • `New drawback rates to spur value added exports'
  • Super Spinning to raise garment production
  • RBI unveils payment system
  • `Continuation of FBT to hit competitiveness'
  • Knitwear units upset over low drawback rates
  • NRIs, rural markets promising segments for life insurance
  • Fire destroys IJMA records
  • Rupee little changed
  • Sensex gains further
  • Software for cash withdrawal tax
  • Draft legislation on MFIs shortly

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • Hoardings: eye candy or potential danger?
  • Bypolls: Jayalalithaa kicks off campaign
  • Diploma course in diabetology yet to be recognised
  • Gang abducting children busted
  • Anti-social elements `behind encroachments'
  • Unconscious man operated on for head injuries, dies at GH
  • Tree in police station felled, activists unhappy
  • Summer specials
  • Baha'i community honour for five
  • In Chennai Today

    • Coimbatore

  • Eye on polls, stocktaking begins in Corporation
  • CODISSIA deplores ESI move
  • Huge haul of PDS provisions
  • Three held for currency doubling
  • E-post greetings launched in city
  • Silence that is deafening
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Sobers' tips pay off for Chris Gayle
  • Six-match ban on Ganguly harsh: Visvanath
  • Easy win for Pakistan
  • 8-run win for Andhra Bank

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    • Cuddapah

  • Three die in two mishaps
  • Yagnam for rain, peace

    • Dharwad

  • Water schedule in Dharwad, Hubli
  • Samiti seeks funds for reviving bank

    • Editorials

  • The new taxes and compliance questions
  • Romania & Bulgaria take the first steps

    • Erode

  • IVRS system introduced in regulated market
  • Illegal water tappers to be punished
  • Bird menace on onion fields

    • Football

  • Rose on song

    • Front Page

  • NDA again puts off decision on ending Parliament boycott
  • Lalu wants to confide in judges
  • Panel rules in favour of Bechtel
  • Security tightened at Baglihar
  • ``Implement Dowry Prohibition Act''
  • Weather may hold the key to PSLV-C6 launch
  • Bar girls' demand
  • A homecoming for Akram
  • Naqvi meets Advani

    • Gulbarga

  • BJP gears up for zilla, taluk panchayat polls

    • Hassan

  • `Aiyar should apologise for his statement'
  • Factory to start crushing operations in July
  • Compensation sought for Sakleshpur hooch victims
  • Four killed in road accident

    • Hockey

  • U.P. XI posts win
  • Probables for junior WC
  • ITRC records win

    • Hyderabad

  • City chokes with biomedical waste
  • Rs. 10-cr. to tackle water scarcity
  • Welfare associations' charge against water board
  • Smiles follow showers
  • Suicide prevention programme
  • Counselling sessions for motorists
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    • India & World

  • 1984 anti-Sikh riots an issue in U.K. elections
  • PoK Prime Minister's family awaits reunion

    • International

  • Nepal journalists take out march, demand press freedom
  • First Lady raids newspaper
  • Jaafari sworn in amid violence
  • `Major challenges ahead for media worldwide'
  • Moratorium on Sri Lankan debt
  • Search for survivors of arms cache blast
  • Anti-poverty march planned
  • Japan will resume yen loans to Pakistan, says Koizumi
  • U.S. names Bangladesh outfit a terrorist group
  • Fishes for the heart
  • Taking turns with the laundry
  • Two island nations' bid to join euro zone
  • U.S. demands Iran dismantle all nuclear facilities
  • Chirac calls for E.U. yes vote
  • Kuwait House fails to agree on voting rights for women
  • Media organisations condemn murder of journalist
  • "Extinct" Angolan antelope found
  • "India may not join U.S. against China"

    • Kannur

  • Soil testing lab gaining popularity among farmers
  • Akshaya scheme to be implemented in Kannur
  • Five injured as concrete slab collapses

    • Karnataka

  • Court directive to Karnataka Government on BMIC project
  • Anjali Gupta case hearing to resume today
  • Govt. has no right to stay: BJP
  • Creating brand images for crafts
  • CET off to a quiet start on day one
  • SHG-bank linkage registers growth
  • Talks between Govt., COMED-K inconclusive
  • Govt. urged to provide land to Dalits, landless labourers
  • `H.D. Revanna must resign'
  • St. John's College asked to allow govt. quota
  • `White stem borer causing damage'
  • Single-judge order on Arkavathy stayed
  • SWR workshop bags order from Concor India
  • RPI to field candidates for byelections in State
  • Four more held for illicit liquor deaths in Hassan
  • Additional tax likely on evening lotteries
  • Cramming all the way
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • People may use barges to cross the river Sita this monsoon
  • Approval for Kabini project to be sought soon
  • Grameena bank nets Rs. 7-crore profit
  • Siege laid to HESCOM office in protest against erratic supply
  • Aiyar's remarks criticised
  • Survey to identify child labourers in Chitradurga
  • Govt. to expedite irrigation projects in district

    • Kerala

  • ECI ready to give EVMs for local body polls
  • `Eye in the sky' for development
  • New party will have no impact, says Chandy
  • Civic chiefs: direct poll unlikely
  • Police in the dock over death
  • Strike hits coir industry
  • CPI(M) to pick bypoll candidates by weekend
  • Thrissur
  • Elephant census begins tomorrow
  • Organisations seek closure of Pepsi unit
  • Anticipatory bail granted
  • KOLLAM
  • 12(B) status for university
  • Answer key of aptitude test in Architecture
  • Remnants of celebration
  • On electoral reforms
  • On a holy mission
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Passenger dies at airport
  • Around the City

    • Kochi

  • Kudumbasree: Ernakulam shows the way
  • Film producer's murder: theft as motive ruled out
  • IIT: Central team to assess Cusat's proposal
  • CPSA calls for trade union unity
  • Tributes paid to Swami Ranganathananda
  • Remembering a statesman
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today

    • Kollam

  • Mechanised boat owners declare fishing holiday
  • Hooch tragedy case: accused acquitted

    • Kozhikode

  • Mujahid convention to focus on divorce issue
  • `Too many rain pits cause soil erosion, other eco hazards'
  • BJYM plans stir against water theme park
  • Cinemas asked to pay service tax
  • ALA video film awards announced

    • Leader Page Articles

  • Yale, India, and the failure of the `global university'

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Finance Bill 2005
  • Koizumi visit
  • Good riddance
  • For an alternative
  • No private matter
  • Dalits' plight
  • Press freedom
  • A colossus

    • Madikeri

  • Water shortage in Madikeri as sources dry up in summer

    • Madurai

  • Clean playground
  • BSNL set to emerge as a market leader
  • Lok adalat award on a par with civil court decree: HC Bench
  • Doctors directed to file counter affidavits in abduction case
  • Visually impaired observe fast
  • Balaprasanna allowed to write examinations
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today

    • Mangalore

  • ZP members unhappy with officials' failure to implement water schemes
  • Rs. 203-crore budget for zilla panchayat
  • `Benefits of science should reach all '
  • Doctors should serve in rural areas: Ansari
  • 4,000 appear for CET
  • Members, CEO congratulate official
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • No takers for units at textile park
  • Drinking water quality in city good, says corporation
  • Two arrested on charge of extortion
  • Buses collide, 20 injured

    • Nagapattinam

  • Nagai Collector inspects development works

    • Nagercoil

  • Install platform ticket vending machine: forum
  • Rs.12 lakhs alloted for desilting Pazhayar

    • National

  • Media and the people of India and Pakistan should hold onto peace, says Najam Sethi
  • Disclose the names, MPs urge Chidambaram
  • BJP to go it alone in Tamil Nadu, Pondy
  • Speed up trials on Tejas: MPs
  • Buddhadeb rules out removal of Kolkata Mayor
  • Coastal Aquaculture Authority to be set up
  • Last chance to end manual scavenging: Supreme Court
  • Mission nostalgia for Kalam now
  • Muslim women oppose model `nikahnama'
  • Bid to enter LoC
  • 3 new members on IRDA panel
  • Plea for including forest-dwellers in ST Bill
  • Lying dead, identity less
  • No specific request placed for F-16 or F-18: IAF
  • J&K appeals against order on Amarnath yatra
  • Gen. Aurora passes away
  • CPI leader dead
  • Panel on trade, economic ties
  • Modi announces programme to educate farmers from May 11
  • "Andhra Pradesh tops in farm indebtedness"
  • Outrage over alleged rapist proposing to victim
  • No plan to adjourn House early: Congress
  • Congress councillor killed in Kashmir
  • FCI functioning being toned up
  • Byelections pep up Goa politics
  • Make adequate funds available: House panel
  • NCW team meets rape victim
  • Bar dancers take to the streets
  • Dabhol: Paris court ruling "non-executable"

    • New Delhi

  • New projects to make Ring Road signal-free
  • Taking the bull by its horns, literally
  • Water crisis has been artificially created, say residents
  • Katara murder case accused denied bail
  • Lecturer assaulted by three
  • Citizens reassured on meningitis scare
  • Apollo centre at Supreme Court
  • Complete Lajpat Nagar flyover by May 31, officials told
  • Juveniles arrested
  • `Pani Adalat' held
  • Diesel becomes cheaper from today
  • School founder statue unveiled
  • Bid to reduce alcohol production
  • Burglary solved, three held
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today

    • News Analysis

  • Iraq's deepening sectarianism
  • Gaza dreams of life after the Israelis
  • From killing to killing
  • Himachal Pradesh shows the way
  • The problem of e-waste

    • Palakkad

  • Recruitment rally

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Consecration ceremony
  • MYL plans march

    • Pondicherry

  • JD (S) threatens to stage road roko at Marapalam
  • Recruit on seniority basis, jobless youth demand
  • New CEO takes charge
  • Over 100 stray pigs caught in Pondicherry

    • Punjab

  • Punjab to move apex court against Rajasthan High Court verdict
  • Wide-ranging tax concessions approved

    • Racing : Horse

  • Ocean Ballad for main event
  • Arturo pleases

    • Racing : Motor

  • 27 from TN qualify

    • Rajasthan

  • Bill to protect children's rights welcomed

    • Religion

  • Path of Self-enquiry

    • Shimoga

  • Residents stage protest as boy is electrocuted
  • Appeal against renewal of land lease

    • Sport

  • Aarthie regains winning touch
  • India clinches overall championship title

    • Sports : General

  • IOA tops list of beneficiaries

    • Squash

  • Aditya Khatri advances

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Writ against new polls in Keeripatti
  • IT corridor to be made eco-sustainable
  • BJP's bid to emerge as an effective alternative
  • Briton gets ailing shoulder fixed in Chennai hospital
  • Drive at the push of a button
  • Stop the sneeze to prevent the wheeze
  • Over 100 cases registered in Gummidipoondi
  • State-of-the-art technology park opened
  • Rats in coaches
  • Narcotics case accused gets bail
  • Unorganised workers list demands
  • An evening of S. Janaki's songs
  • `Syllabus revised to meet present-day needs'
  • Vedic mathematics for CAT aspirants
  • 4 injured as bus hits auto
  • Three inmates of Pondy Central Prison dead
  • Squeezing through
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Status quo on erecting CM's birthday arches to continue
  • Steps to redress woes of pensioners
  • Two die of cholera in Krishnagiri
  • Around the City

    • Tennis

  • India to host Sweden in Davis Cup
  • Kiefer packs off Haas
  • Top seeds have it easy

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Special cells to tackle crime against the aged
  • Students urged to interact more with teachers
  • One killed as lorry hits van
  • KSEB union to align with NC (I)
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 4, 1955: Not our responsibility: PM
  • dated May 4, 1955: Visitor from zoo

    • Thrissur

  • Hospital to be relocated

    • Tiruchi

  • On a domestic trade with new spirits
  • Bitter fall in mango prices, thanks to huge arrivals
  • Celebrate `Arulalar' Day, says HR & CE
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Tirunelveli

  • Fisherwomen to be trained on making value-added products
  • Cell phones, cash burgled
  • Power shutdown
  • Old man commits suicide

    • Tirupati

  • Hectic schedule for YSR today

    • Tuticorin

  • 120 sovereigns of jewels stolen

    • Udupi

  • Congress keen on having coordination committee

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Nawab honey to go global
  • BJP wants Mulayam to go

    • Vijayawada

  • City's drainage system under severe strain
  • Mango crop badly affected
  • Man electrocuted
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today

    • Visakhapatnam

  • GO ends confusion over ban on fishing
  • Inspection to decide fate of housing project in Madhurawada
  • The heat is on
  • 2 bodies washed ashore
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    • Volleyball

  • Karnataka Hoody Club overcomes Indian Bank
  • FIVB EC's decisions

    • Weather

  • Weather

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