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Anantapur

  • Mounting debts force another ryot to suicide
  • Subsidised fodder for ryots in Anantapar district
  • Rs.2.20 crores for hailstorm-hit farmers

    Andhra Pradesh

  • Cabinet formation today
  • CPI(M) keen on emerging an independent force
  • Removal of barriers stressed
  • My Government gives top priority to people's welfare: YSR
  • CPI asks YSR to learn from Naidu's `mistakes'
  • Double murder accused evade police
  • Steps to protect coastline sought
  • Specialist clears the air on organ donation
  • Advocates urged to ensure speedy justice to litigants
  • Dokra casting: Collector calls for new designs
  • Hunt on for kidnappers of businessman
  • Market intervention scheme extended
  • Naidu cheers up Kuppam voters
  • Animal Husbandry staff to contribute for free power
  • Seven held, stolen articles recovered
  • The Pulivendula connection to package for ryots
  • Police register land-grab case
  • BSNL slashes security deposit rates
  • Notices served on six junior colleges
  • JVV to seek ban on fish medicine camp
  • Spurious seed dealers warned
  • KTPS units' capacity up
  • Applications invited for SW hostel admissions
  • Panchayat raj staff gesture to ryots
  • Probe ordered into man's death
  • Wild fowls seized
  • Briefly
  • Crime Watch

    Andhra Pradesh - Others

  • Will HUDA get its Chairman?

    Assam

  • More powers sought for N-E Council
  • Welfare trust for children hit by extremist violence in Assam

    Athletics

  • Tamil Nadu triumphs

    Bangalore

  • Four-member gang robs two men of cash
  • Car pooling: what the doctor ordered
  • CBSE Class X results on May 27
  • Around the City
  • In Bangalore Today
  • Technology comes to the aid of traffic police

    Barometer

  • Stock Market Index
  • Bullion rates
  • Exchange rates

    Basketball

  • JSC in semifinal league
  • SJCE keeps title

    Bellary

  • Candidate denies helping BJP in Bellary
  • Two bodies found on railway track

    Bidar

  • Blackout in parts of Bidar district
  • Kashempur proves a point to Congress

    Briefly

  • Sensex gains 29 points
  • RBI to waive ECS charges
  • Moody's not to revise rating
  • Inflation static at 4.2 p.c.
  • Unichem recommends 60 p.c. dividend
  • Vijaya Bank pact with Nabard
  • Zoniac India's staffing management solution
  • Siemens introduces flip phone
  • HCL Tech solutions for retail trade
  • ISO 9001:2000 for PL Shipping
  • FedEx's online tools for customers
  • Tanishq launches wedding scheme
  • SMGB to open more branches
  • Sun Tech Days 2004
  • Rajnath lauds Monetary and Credit Policy
  • VIA Networking launches new chip
  • eGain Corp eyes India as global hub
  • BOBL branch at Indore

    Business

  • Six companies to enter pension sector
  • Asia Society leadership award for Mukesh Ambani
  • Sundram Fasteners' China facility on stream
  • Common myths of share market
  • Rupee recovers against $
  • Sensex rebounds after early slide
  • New tax rules likely for BPO firms
  • Fuel prices unlikely to be revised
  • Honest pricing key to Kinetic gameplan
  • Federal Bank to pay 70 p.c.
  • KVB net at Rs. 161 cr.

    Cartoons

  • Cartoon

    Chennai

  • Opposition members evicted
  • Tips to save water wasted in bathing, washing
  • In Chennai Today
  • Chennai Port Trust to replace seven cranes
  • Names of Cancer Institute staff missing from voter list
  • Mobile eateries closed down at Ambattur
  • No quorum during major part of the meet
  • Coaching for practicals
  • Two women killed in accident
  • Cholera incidence declining
  • RBI asks banks to accept coins from public
  • Tips to save water wasted in bathing, washing
  • Around the City
  • A thriving cottage industry

    Chess

  • Harini shocks Raghavi
  • Five men share lead

    Coimbatore

  • 40 children rescued from beggary
  • Army recruitment rally in June
  • Broiler prices may remain stable
  • Directive to pensioners
  • Around the City
  • In Coimbatore Today

    Cricket

  • Sammy named in West Indies squad
  • BCCI discussing financial control
  • All-round show by Rajeev
  • Kranthi, Sumanth score centuries
  • Seven-wkt. win for Sonnet Club
  • Hot Cairns blazes Lord's
  • Nice gesture by BCCI: Milkha Singh
  • Pension scheme launched
  • HCA presents pension cheques
  • Pension cheques disbursed
  • Naveen hits 114
  • Big win for SCFA
  • The towering ten
  • Ravneet, Manish excel
  • Kapil donates his pension to orphanage

    Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword No. 7990
  • Solution to puzzle 7989

    Cuddapah

  • Agri-export zone sought at Mydukur
  • Sonia's loyalty to nation proved, says Congress leader

    Dindigul

  • `Increase production of vermicompost'

    Editorials

  • POLITICAL AND FOREIGN POLICY TASKS
  • LOST OPPORTUNITY IN MYANMAR
  • Calling India's freethinkers

    Football

  • Abdul Hakkim is SBT's hero

    Front Page

  • Draft CMP proclaims six governing principles
  • RJD, NCP ready to join government
  • Monsoon sets in
  • Ansari offers to step down
  • Court quashes notification on abolition of districts
  • Ghauri-III launch
  • Death for Pakistani
  • CBSE results tomorrow
  • Kanshi Ram mother's charge against Mayawati
  • 2 killed, British envoy among 50 injured in Bangladesh blast

    Golf

  • Sandhu shines

    Gulbarga

  • Janata Dal (S) eats into Congress vote bank

    Guntur

  • Priorities listed in agriculture plan
  • Donation for blood bank
  • Scooterist dies in mishap

    Hockey

  • Champions Trophy returns to Lahore
  • Barog camp called off

    Hyderabad

  • Now, it's for State Government to pursue with RBI Part recovery of dues raises Prudential depositors
  • No level-playing field this!
  • Power shutdown in many areas
  • RBI's response awaited
  • Education official cautions students
  • Attack on girl: police still clueless
  • Student ends life
  • Village servant's killing condemned
  • Cop held on theft charge
  • Around the City
  • In Hyderabad Today

    International

  • 18 killed in Karbala battle
  • Wedding that turned into a mass funeral
  • Russia strikes WTO deal with E.U.
  • Israeli troops leave Rafah
  • Koizumi to visit N. Korea for crisis talks
  • Gene firm develops desert crops
  • Tahr cull causes dismay
  • Latvia to open old KGB files
  • Meet reviews Pakistan suspension
  • `Some Abu Ghraib prisoners were ridden like animals'

    Kancheepuram

  • Anti-terrorism pledge administered

    Karimnagar

  • Steps to check viral encephalitis
  • TDP seeks relief package for weavers

    Karnataka

  • Deve Gowda leaves it to legislators
  • Rs. 20 lakh crore for infrastructure development
  • `Bangalore becoming a terrorist haven'
  • Devaraja Market crying for attention
  • SCRB develops Kannada software
  • VC calls for reorientation of technical education
  • Poor focus on legumes lamented
  • Savita Samaja seeks separate category for quota
  • Man arrested on abduction charge
  • Applications invited for awards
  • JD (S) warns Congress
  • Couple hacked to death near Bijapur
  • Three killed in road accident
  • Briefly

    Karnataka - Others

  • Online facility planned for entrepreneurs
  • Validity of MRP questioned
  • Storage of ore causing pollution, say villagers
  • Call to preserve local seed varieties

    Kerala

  • Tearful farewell to Nayanar
  • Metropolitan's petition admitted
  • Pathrakkadavu project: angry scenes at hearing
  • Decision binding on 86 colleges
  • How the fee was worked out
  • NAAC accreditation for Zamorin's College
  • Unity of Kerala Congress factions mooted
  • Manmohan in bad company: Rajagopal
  • Rigveda chanting begins
  • SBI to launch Trade Finance Cells
  • Fee structure opposed
  • Temporary stoppage of trains extended
  • 20,000 litres of `wash' destroyed
  • Accreditation for TKM College of Arts and Science
  • CPI warning to Government
  • Padmarajan award to be presented tomorrow
  • Admission to Higher Secondary course
  • KSEB suspends load-shedding
  • Briefly

    Kochi

  • Pension for Welfare Fund staff mooted
  • New Chief of Staff for Southern Naval Command
  • Tributes paid to Rajiv Gandhi
  • Special prayers
  • Six injured
  • Around the City
  • In Kochi Today
  • Safety takes a back seat

    Kollam

  • DTPC's `Ashtamudi' sinking

    Kottayam

  • HNL staff heave a sigh of relief
  • Gang robs textile owner of cash, gold
  • Psychiatric society meet

    Kurnool

  • Helpline set up for distressed ryots

    Leader Page Articles

  • The right to contest

    Letters to the Editor

  • Right choice
  • Not an issue
  • Shock treatment
  • Communalism
  • Party & government
  • All-time low

    Madhya Pradesh

  • Rich tributes to Rajiv Gandhi

    Madikeri

  • `Withdrawal of order on minority languages unconstitutional'
  • Forest Dept. accused of harassment

    Madurai

  • Revised textbooks for Std. X to be distributed from May 27
  • Lawyers to seek Kalam intervention
  • Power shutdown postponed
  • Around the City
  • In Madurai Today
  • Pursuing cooperatives with conviction

    Maharashtra

  • POTA court to frame charges in Mumbai blast case on June 7

    Mangalore

  • Rs. 10-cr. FCI rice seized in Mangalore
  • People seek nod to set up power plant
  • Apiculture recovering in coastal districts
  • IUML complains of police inaction
  • Farangipete tense after murder attempt
  • Workshop on drains
  • In Mangalore Today

    Mysore

  • Animals being taken to abattoirs rescued
  • VIPs to grace swamiji's birthday celebrations

    Nagercoil

  • Rs. 54-cr. police academy proposed in Chennai

    National

  • BJP meeting discusses shape of party
  • More funding for education, health
  • BJP ignored Hindus' interests: Singhal
  • Somnath Chatterjee offered Speaker's post
  • A rare spectacle
  • Draft CMP promises state funding of elections
  • Student visa to Australia: process simplified
  • Manmohan's appointment welcomed
  • Election Commission orders deployment of Central forces in Chapra
  • NHRC seeks report on suicides in J&K
  • Bhutan, Bangladesh help sought for tracing MiG-27
  • Kakrapar atomic power station shut down
  • Will strive to remove urban, rural disparities: Chamling
  • `Non-ratification of Kyoto Protocol a hurdle'
  • India, Pakistan to discuss common fishing zone
  • Monsoon set to advance further
  • No plans to reduce troops in J&K: Vij
  • Centre scraps sugar buffer stock
  • New Chief Justice for Chhattisgarh
  • BARC launches probe
  • Diplomatic corps watching allotment of key portfolios
  • `Mulayam should resign'

    New Delhi

  • Metro's mantras for safe travel
  • `Unreliable' BSES way behind `quality' NDPL
  • Daggers are out in Delhi BJP
  • Housing societies term Cooperative Act illegal
  • New underpass planned at Moolchand flyover
  • Report to help tackle air pollution
  • `Foreign Minister' in police net
  • Jamia offers other options
  • Water shortage in NDMC areas persists
  • Discoms get ownership of streetlights
  • Congress Councillor resigns from MCD
  • CINEMA
  • Drive against mosquito breeding
  • Robbers' gang busted
  • DU set for student-friendly admissions
  • Important dates for Delhi University admissions
  • Are rivers a source of life or death?
  • Around the City
  • Briefly
  • In the Capital Today
  • Metro's mantras for safe travel

    News Analysis

  • Negotiating CBMs with Pakistan

    Nizamabad

  • Two farmers end life due to debts

    Obituary

  • Obituary

    Orissa

  • Heat wave claims two lives in Orissa
  • Mohanty elected Orissa Speaker

    Pathanamthitta

  • Service pensioners' State meet in Pathanamthitta
  • Two held on charges of murder

    Perambalur

  • Banks exceed target under ACP
  • Steps taken to prevent outbreak of cholera

    Pondicherry

  • Annadhanam, blood donation mark Rajiv death anniversary

    Punjab

  • Bouquets for Manmohan, brickbats for Congress

    Racing : Horse

  • Red Chief in fine nick

    Rajasthan

  • Khurana resumes `sunwai', plays it safe
  • Cabinet panel to visit dyeing, textile units

    Religion

  • Forms of sacrifice

    Shimoga

  • Colleges warned of action
  • Congress lost mandate to rule says JD(S) leader

    Sikkim

  • Will strive to remove urban, rural disparities: Chamling

    Sports : General

  • A rewarding experience for Shikha and Nisha
  • Yadav, Pratyusha win titles
  • Elite Xtreme Sports Club launched
  • Senior National from today
  • Erode stuns U.P.
  • Vivek honoured

    Swimming

  • Muralikrishnan makes a splash

    Tamil Nadu

  • Secretariat project postponed
  • `HC Bench inauguration as planned'
  • Singapore still the most preferred tourist destination
  • Biochemistry, microbiology in Plus-Two from this year
  • Wildlife census to help in forest management
  • CII identifies new sectoral initiatives for southern States
  • Special supplementary exam for higher secondary from June 25
  • Muster roll scam rocks Ooty municipality
  • Desaffronise administration, education: Veeramani
  • Terminal benefits for kin in a month
  • IMFL sale, revenue up after govt. takeover
  • Rain a boon for summer ploughing, standing crops in Namakkal
  • Annual floral carnival opens at Ooty today
  • Sethu project: Tuticorin port to seek TNPCB permission
  • Project to provide technical support to mulberry farmers
  • Anti-terrorism pledge administered at Secretariat
  • Another chance for TANCET registration
  • Priority for creating water resources
  • Madurai GH gets modern machine for orthopaedic surgeries
  • Permission sought to fill up vacancies of teachers
  • Results
  • Briefly

    Tennis

  • Krishnan's comments unfair: Bhupathi
  • Chaudhuri in final
  • Prakash Amritraj breaks into top 250
  • Sanaa Bhambri has no entry for French Open
  • Xavier Malisse enters final
  • Raghav stuns Rahul

    Thanjavur

  • Anti-terrorism pledge administered
  • Delta farmers happy

    Thiruvananthapuram

  • Wanted man held
  • Mushroom poisoning cases on the rise in MCH
  • Plea to retain KSEB in public sector
  • Application for engineering courses invited
  • CPI(M) condemns Rajagopal's remarks
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruvananthapuram Today
  • Campus Notes
  • Three murders fox city police

    This Day That Age

  • dated May 22, 1954: Foreign policy of China
  • dated May 22, 1954: Churchill flayed
  • dated May 22, 1954: Awards for films

    Thrissur

  • `Make ayurveda accessible to the poor'
  • BEFI hails Manmohan's statement

    Tiruchi

  • Corpn. plans monthly review of underground drainage project
  • UPSC topper unveils secret of success
  • Centre urged to solve unemployment problem
  • Around the City
  • In Tiruchi Today

    Tirunelveli

  • It is the topmost grievance for him

    Tirupati

  • STC sees huge market for Lepakshi notebooks

    Udupi

  • Udupi Taluk Panchayat to get quarters vacated

    Vijayawada

  • Eviction move raises residents' hackles
  • Gearing up to fulfil poll promises
  • Nehru asks officials to ensure water supply
  • Banks urged to play facilitator's role
  • Water Service Centre inaugurated
  • Tobacco ryot ends life
  • Tributes to Rajiv Gandhi
  • Around the City

    Visakhapatnam

  • Railways directed to pay compensation to consumer
  • Rangaraju vows to make city slum-free
  • Rajiv Gandhi remembered
  • CAs asked to be impartial
  • Sikhs hail Manmohan Singh
  • Private hospitals asked to pay minimum wages
  • House burgled
  • Kinetic launches two new models
  • Around the City
  • In Visakhapatnam Today

    Warangal

  • Kakatiya degree results out
  • Instant exam

    Weather

  • Weather

    World View

  • FIFA signs WADA declaration
  • Charges dropped against Leicester players
  • Warne's advice to Murali
  • Benaud's unique feat

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