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HINDU ON LINE (HOL).
We present an overview of the site to enable readers to have easy access to items of their interest appearing in HOL. When readers visit the HOL site, they are presented with a page of Highlights of the day. One can quickly go to the full text from the Highlights page or through one the 12 sections listed below, in which the news and features appear. The section includes most of the Front Page stories appearing in the print edition in Chennai, in addition to a few stories of national importance from the inside pages. Stories of national importance like Government policies, Parliament proceedings, party politics, foreign relations, court cases, population, environment. Stories from The Hindu correspondents based abroad, with the focus chiefly on India's neighbours, South-East Asian nations and the Far East. News from the 26 States, and the Union Territories are given under the respective States and UTs. Readers may find the emphasis generally on the four southern States and New Delhi, from where The Hindu editions emanate. This includes sub-categories like Editorials, Articles, Issues, Interviews, Letters to the Editor and the weekly (Monday) column `Between You and Me'. Editorials do not appear on Sundays. The Articles, by staff correspondents and freelance writers, are mainly analysis of the political and economic scenario, and also cover subjects like social issues, education, etc. They also include feature stories from the supplements, especially on Sundays and Tuesdays. Items published include foreign exchange rates, stock market trends, corporate results, tax laws, new products, analysis of the economy and market, and essays on management. Each game/sport appears under a sub-classification. Scoreboards of important events are also included. Profiles of sports personalities, analysis, and a round-up of racing news appear on Saturdays. Features on the following -- trends in science and technology, computer and information science, engineering, medicine, agriculture, profiles of great inventors, replies to readers' queries, besides occasional technology-related news items. This is a broad heading that covers a wide range of subjects running to nearly 30 sub-classifications which include: art, archaeology, book reviews, cinema, cuisine, culture, dance, drama, education, environment, events, festivals, gardening, heritage, hobby, humour, land & people, leisure and recreation, lifestyle, literature, mass media, music, painting, personalities, photography, places of worship, publishing, reflections & reminiscences, religion, travel & tourism, wild life and features from the children's section - Young World. This section features relatively more items on Sundays, Fridays and Tuesdays. Regular items like Crossword, Cartoons, Weather, Obituary, `This Day that Age'(snippets from The Hindu dated 50 years ago), and the Religion column. (The last two do not appear on Sundays.). Queries on astrology and weekly predictions for individual zodiac signs appear on Sundays. This is a section with advertisements classified under different heads such as matrimonial, real estate, business offers etc. The advertisements in this section are posted once week on Mondays and retained till that weekend. In this section on Wednesday and Saturdays, we post select job openings in India and abroad under different categories, picked from the print edition. The other features of the site A reader can search stories with keywords. All stories matching the keywords give in "and/or" combination are presented for viewing the associated full text. The items published from the start of HOL till date are archived and made available for reference. The reader can choose through a simple interface the stories for a given date in the case of daily issues (from 17th Aug 96) and from the list of weekly issues, can select the week of interest between the 4th June 95 and 31st Aug 96 during the period that HOL appeared as a weekly edition. The search facility is available for the weekly editions. HOL is available free to the readers. This is made possible thanks to the advertisers. On clicking this link, the reader is presented with an index of advertisers currently on HOL. While the individual advertisements appear at random in various section indices and in stories, the index of advertisers is a full list with links to respective advts. As an essential feature in all sites, this lists various changes in and milestones of HOL from the start. This is a general section which gives details of The Hindu newspaper in India, our partners for the Net edition, How to place advertisements in HOL, FAQ on the site, A summary of readers' email, Tips on navigation, Contact information, and Some access statistics of HOL. Improvements are possible only through feedbacks. A link between the reader and HOL is established through this. Through a simple form, readers' names, email and comments are captured and sent to The Hindu office at Chennai for necessary response. Home | Site Map | Search | Archives | Advertisers | What's NEW | About HOL | Feedback | |