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  • Irish Setter adjudged best

    • Anantapur

  • CPI leader suggests shifting of Meena
  • Pulse polio drive launched

    • Andhra Pradesh

  • TDP `cleanses' Gandhi statue with milk
  • Easy visa procedures for US-bound students likely
  • New ration cards soon
  • BJP for all-party meeting on projects in dispute
  • TDP scores a point over Tadipudi scheme
  • TDPP leader hits out at Government
  • 6.10 lakh administered polio drops
  • Industrial houses promise to readjust MRP: Asim Dasgupta
  • Two naxals killed in encounter
  • Naidu visits injured party activists
  • Youth hostels in all districts mooted
  • NGOs sensitise Girijans on alumina mining
  • Bypoll: taking on the mighty
  • `No Telangana reference at Congress meet'
  • Paucity of Nobel winners rued
  • 13.34 lakhs stolen from bank in Guntakal
  • Case filed for fraudulently securing ration card
  • Closure of `belt' shops demanded
  • Ex-Minister quits TDP
  • YSR leaves for Delhi
  • Gulf money a bane for Jagtial's newly-wed girls
  • TDP vows to give a fitting reply to Congress
  • Bio-metric ration cards to be issued soon in Andhra
  • Briefly

    • Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Driver's death shrouded in mystery
  • All RTA offices to have own buildings
  • Bid to loot petrol pump

    • Assam

  • Tarun Gogoi visits ULFA chief's village
  • 41 donate body, eyes in Assam

    • Athletics

  • Ernakulam, Kottayam take the honours

    • Bangalore

  • Ramayana Mahanveshanam fifth volume released
  • BMP counting on joint ventures to boost revenue
  • Dead fish being removed from lake
  • `Concerted efforts will help eradicate polio'
  • 80 p.c. children given polio drops in State
  • Portico to be inaugurated today
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Basketball

  • Young Men win opener

    • Belgaum

  • BJP meet turns out to be a platform for Congress, JD(S) bashing

    • Bellary

  • `Funds not released for HIV/AIDS projects'

    • Bihar

  • Extortion threats haunt Bihar doctors again

    • Business

  • Job background screening
  • Time to end culture of exclusion
  • On-line periodical index
  • New regional travel body launched
  • Safeguard duty slapped on tapioca starch imports

    • Cartoons

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    • Chennai

  • Industrial pollution hits North Chennai
  • BJP rules out ties with DMK, AIADMK for the Assembly elections
  • A path driven by parental pressure
  • Adikesavan detained under Goondas Act
  • Community centre to focus on rehabilitation programme
  • Tambaram fire services department plagued by inadequate infrastructure
  • City transport buses all set to go green soon
  • Around the City
  • In Chennai Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Chess

  • Adams wrests sole lead
  • Two share lead

    • Coimbatore

  • City residents head for Ooty
  • More wetgrinder units expected to form consortium
  • Nurses to run health care centre soon
  • Rs 32 crores for improving Cuddalore roads
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    • Cricket

  • Ashwell Prince guides South Africa to easy win
  • Prasad offers himself as bowling coach
  • Middlesex signs Irfan Pathan

    • Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 8294
  • Solution to Puzzle 8293

    • Dharwad

  • Twin city water supply schedule

    • Editorials

  • Averting a meningitis epidemic
  • Stifling a movement for reform

    • Erode

  • Garment exporters plan to open training centre

    • Football

  • KSEB powers into final
  • Indian Bank signs off on disappointing note

    • Front Page

  • "Election Commission will not be cowed down"
  • Pranab Mukherjee faces angry party workers
  • High voltage campaign spurs big turnout
  • Mayawati reiterates threat
  • Uneasy calm prevails in Uzbek province
  • Militants kill 4 VDC members
  • Activists beaten up
  • Surjeet discharged from hospital
  • 11 killed in Bangla ferry capsize
  • Irish Setter adjudged best

    • Globescan

  • Drop in global smoking, says study
  • Equatorial Guinea plotters released
  • McCartney family faces threat

    • Haryana

  • Govt. plans to check illegal cutting of trees

    • Hubli

  • Truck terminal work soon

    • Hyderabad

  • Sanjay Jaju is all keyed up
  • Test of endurance on a trail of disorder
  • Take a peek at `New cosmos' in planetarium
  • ICRISAT meet on agribusiness
  • Get Vaastu-wise
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • India & World

  • Bangalore our priority: France
  • Woman awarded $4 million
  • Training centre for construction workers opened in Jakarta

    • International

  • Students defy ban order in Nepal
  • Donors to discuss post-tsunami recovery
  • Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq amid violence
  • Funds trial affects Hillary's hopes
  • Arjun, Maya popular Indian baby names in U.S.

    • Jammu & Kashmir

  • Zee Kashmir from May 27

    • Kannur

  • 93 p.c. achievement in anti-polio drive

    • Karnataka

  • France keen on tie-ups in Bangalore
  • From workers to owners
  • Farmers to oppose move on Act
  • It may not be easy for Bangarappa
  • Rising concern over LPG-related fire accident
  • Film on released prisoners
  • Lakhs of children employed in State mines, says report
  • Ayurveda, Allopathy integration stressed
  • Govt. planning to amend APMC Act, says Hukkeri
  • Eight-year-old boy electrocuted
  • Audit on paediatricians' prescriptions suggested
  • Devaraj resigns from Legislative Council
  • Prabhakar cremated
  • Anupama Award presented
  • Shivalingaswamy is Janata Party candidate
  • Dharam Singh for Delhi
  • Briefly

    • Karnataka - Others

  • Yellamma cotton mill on the verge of closure
  • Chitradurga slips to 26th place in II PU results
  • Civic employees demand restoration of pension

    • Kerala

  • The killing fields of Kerala
  • KSRTC embarks on oil-saving drive
  • For Guinness, this is not the smallest yet
  • Data shows no visible trend in favour of any district
  • `Industrial progress, tsunami rehabilitation major challenges'
  • First phase of Congress polls passes off peacefully
  • Too early to support NC(I): CPI
  • Hazardous waste: units observing PCB norms
  • Role of Sanskrit stressed
  • ATM revolution in Thiruvalla
  • Government will ensure jobs for Dalits
  • Kambli ready to act in Malayalam movies
  • Briefly

    • Kerala - Others

  • Around the City
  • In Thiruvananthapuram Today

    • Kochi

  • Report on development to be submitted soon
  • Chandy stresses role of cooperative banks
  • Congress party polls postponed in 220 booths
  • In Kochi Today
  • Pulse Polio programme inaugurated

    • Kollam

  • March to hillock on May 21
  • AKADD meet on May 29

    • Kozhikode

  • More facilities likely at Neelichira
  • A.K.B. Nair felicitated
  • Cardiology meet held
  • Three of a family killed in accident

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  • Technologies for societal transformation
  • `Universities must heed wake up call'

    • Letters to the Editor

  • Immortal song
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  • Childish behaviour
  • Information Bill
  • Paswan's demand
  • TDP tactics
  • Violence in Valley

    • Madikeri

  • Water scarcity in Madikeri

    • Madurai

  • Survey to cover children left out of polio immunisation from today
  • MKU results
  • Pensioners' plea
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Maharashtra

  • Support Godbole in Enron deal: Patkar

    • Mangalore

  • NGO wants condition of schools run by ashrams to be improved
  • Three held, pistol seized
  • Two killed in accidents
  • In Mangalore Today

    • Mysore

  • Clock tower may chime again
  • Rally in Mangalore on May 26
  • Pulse Polio campaign begins
  • Opposition growing to helmet rule
  • Coaching for NET candidates

    • Nagapattinam

  • 1.50 lakh children covered in Nagapattinam
  • `Permanent houses to be constructed soon'

    • National

  • Manmohan, Advani share a dais, ideas
  • CPI(M) to stay away from UPA Government's celebrations
  • Lakhs of children given polio drops
  • CWC meet today
  • BJP will watch Government's conduct: Jaitley
  • Panel for equal property rights to women
  • A-I resumes service to Toronto
  • `Gyanendra has assured that democracy will return to Nepal'
  • Maternal health, nutrition key to healthy babies
  • Jharkhand: BJP hopeful of solution
  • Call for focussed agenda to develop eastern region
  • `Nikahnama' has wide acceptance: Muslim board
  • HC constitutes bench to hear Lalu's plea

    • Nellore

  • Rs. 25 lakhs for water supply sanctioned

    • New Delhi

  • Delhi Tourism to set up designer coffee homes
  • Transco all set for major overhaul
  • New dimension to illegal trade of animal skins
  • AIIMS workers protest against `ills in the system'
  • Meningitis toll 23
  • Five trains to be upgraded
  • New law for accountability of judges on anvil
  • Robbery bid foiled
  • "Drastic steps needed for disposal of cases''
  • Notice to Home Ministry
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • News Analysis

  • Acrimony in Parliament

    • Nizamabad

  • Maharashtra projects hit Sriram Sagar project inflows: BJP

    • Pathanamthitta

  • Teach Gita to the young: TDB chief
  • `Grandma' takes to the waters
  • Idol installation anniversary
  • Pharmacy college opened

    • Pondicherry

  • 87,000 children immunised
  • Bank merger move `threat to rural branches'

    • Punjab

  • Govt. all set to boost religious tourism

    • Rajasthan

  • State to showcase IT education plan

    • Religion

  • The quality of mercy

    • Shooting

  • Bindra fails to make the cut

    • Sport

  • Sweet revenge for Roger Federer
  • Bell gets a call
  • Ramu overcomes Ethiopian challenge
  • Eto'o takes Barcelona to Spanish Glory

    • Sports : General

  • Irish Setter adjudged best

    • Squash

  • Ritwik bows out

    • Swimming

  • Good show by Thiruvananthapuram

    • Tamil Nadu

  • Virtual classroom to be launched in July
  • High voltage campaign spurs big turnout
  • U.K. varsity teams to interact with students
  • Banks urged to honour credit rating of small scale units
  • `Parents must guide, not influence, children'
  • State committed to eradication of leprosy: Minister
  • New lease of life for Sembakkam lake?
  • Woman inspector asked to pay compensation for rights abuse
  • Veterans fight for their hard-earned money
  • Conservation reserve planned in Tirunelveli village
  • Medicinal plants `awareness low'
  • `State officials boycotting Union Ministers'
  • Apex committee established to implement e-Governance plan
  • Veteran trade unionist felicitated
  • Voter mood clearly in favour of DPA, says Vasan
  • Percentage of votes polled higher than in Assembly elections
  • Polio drops for over 2 lakh children
  • Repaired boats handed over to fishermen
  • City remembers HIV/AIDS victims
  • Tender coconut dearer in Tiruchi
  • This robot can go where humans cannot
  • Plan to create buffer stock of textbooks
  • Safeguard duty slapped on tapioca starch imports
  • Briefly

    • Tamil Nadu - Others

  • Fifth economic census till May 31
  • Prakash's bail plea rejected again
  • MP threatens to block trains
  • Jamabandhi concludes
  • Draft electoral rolls

    • Tennis

  • Vinod loses

    • Thanjavur

  • Jamabandhi to be held from May 25
  • Special gram sabha meetings held
  • `Ensure Cauvery water release for `kuruvai' cultivation'

    • Thiruvananthapuram

  • Vattiyoorkavu residents plan road blockade
  • Defections rampant in local bodies
  • Constable killed in accident
  • Male macaque born at zoo
  • More time for submitting projects sought
  • Elephant succumbs to injuries
  • A panchayat's tryst with women's empowerment

    • This Day That Age

  • dated May 16, 1955: Pak. PM meets Nehru
  • dated May 16, 1955: Indian coaches for Pak
  • dated May 16, 1955: Communist Alliance

    • Tiruchi

  • No longer tender the cost is
  • Polio drops administered to 2.65 lakh children
  • Efforts on to create an awareness of road rules among the public
  • Illegal LPG-filling unit detected
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today
  • Reporter's Diary

    • Tirunelveli

  • 2.98 lakh children given polio drops in Nellai dt.
  • Minister consoles kin of gas tragedy victims
  • Panchayat chief's farm damaged

    • Tirupati

  • BJP evaluates Congress performance
  • ISKCON padayatra ends
  • Insurance cover urged

    • Udupi

  • 85,495 children given pulse polio drops

    • Uttar Pradesh

  • Heatwave continues
  • Dacoits killed

    • Vijayawada

  • Siddhartha Academy secretary dead
  • An achiever all through
  • VMC clarifies on fixing of water meters
  • Krishna district's manual released
  • CPI's stir on people's woes from today
  • Transport workers hold `candlelight' rally
  • Pulse Polio gets under way
  • Around the City
  • In Vijayawada Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Visakhapatnam

  • Three directional mines recovered
  • Collector stresses people's participation
  • Two killed as lorry knocks down moped
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today
  • Reader's Mail

    • Warangal

  • Land acquisition incomplete for Godavari lift irrigation scheme

    • Weather

  • Weather

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