Steady and continuous rains throughout the night kept people in Tamil Nadu's capital Chennai awake due to concerns over the rising water levels, residents said. "Water came into our apartment and we had to shift to our neighbour's house on the first floor," Revathi Vasan, resident of west Mambalam, told IANS on Wednesday. Another family living on the g...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled the Tamil Nadu government has no suo moto power to grant remission and release the convicts accused of conspiracy in the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The apex court's constitution bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu said that the state government could grant re...
Earth's oxygen could dramatically fall due to change in ocean temperature of just several degrees, thereby resulting in mass mortality of animals and humans, scientists have warned. An increase in the water temperature of the world's oceans of around six degrees Celsius -- which some scientists predict could occur as soon as 2100 -- could...
India on Wednesday sought a political solution to the problems in Nepal, where protests against the new constitution have virtually closed the borders with India and led to massive shortages. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj conveyed this message when Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kamal Thapa met her here. Sushma ...
Rajya Sabha members on Wednesday demanded a "transparent mechanism" to fix their salary, while one of the members suggested that it can be fixed at Re.1 more than that of cabinet secretary. The issue was raised by Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agrawal in the upper house as a point of order. A point of order is a matter raised dur...
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said anyone seeking to disturb communal amity will not be spared and the government was prepared for a CBI probe into the lynching of a Muslim man in Dadri so that the truth comes out....
Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being silent on incidents of intolerance, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday sought union minister V.K. Singh's removal from the ministry for comparing Dalit children with dogs....
The Indian central bank on Tuesday kept its short-term lending and borrowing rates unchanged, balancing its policy action between a comforting 7.4 percent economic growth for the fiscal's second quarter and a creeping inflation, a decision which India Inc said was on expected lines....
Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday advised BJP MPs to desist from making statements which can cause controversies, saying they divert the attention from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's development agenda....
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended, till January 31, bail of social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand in the case of alleged misuse of funds collected by their NGO Sabrang Trust for a museum at a spot witnessing one of the worst massacres in the 2002 Gujarat riots....
