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Learn from India, says Chinese think-tank (7163)

China is fast outpacing India in terms of national competitiveness, but needs to learn from India\'s legal system and protection of “vulnerable” groups, the country\'s top think-tank has...

S. Ramachandran passes away (4565)

S. Ramachandran, former Senior Reporter of The Hindu, died in a private hospital here on Wednesday. He was 87. He is survived by his wife and a son.Mr. Ramachandran began his career...

Mahadevan's suicide shocks music lovers (3964)

The suicide of V. Mahadevan, husband of carnatic vocalist Nithyashree Mahadevan, on Thurday was a big shock to music lovers, at a time when the ‘Music Season’ is at its peak in the city. ...

Job visas only for highly-skilled, well-paid foreigners: Govt. (3730)

In an attempt to prevent foreigners filling non-technical jobs, India has made it clear that they would be taken in only for highly-skilled work and provided they draw a salary of not less than $...

Concern over Aishwarya film poster (3411)

National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) India, the body working for tobacco eradication, on Tuesday wrote to actor Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan expressing concern over use of her images smo...

Boy trapped in apartment complex lift, dies (3234)

A 14-year-old boy bled to death after his leg got trapped in a lift in an apartment complex on Nelson Manickam Road on Tuesday evening. The incident came to light after the security guard of...

Madras nalla Madras! (2905)

Madras might have become Chennai, but the old name lives on in checked cloth, curry powder and a colloquial lingo…

India to get its first AC double-decker train (2905)

India\'s first air-conditioned double-decker train is expected to be launched on the Howrah-Dhanbad sector before the Diwali celebrations. While a few old double-decker coaches are still oper...

How bin Laden emailed without being detected by U.S. (2873)

His methods, described in new detail to The Associated Press by a counterterrorism official and a second person briefed on the U.S. investigation, frustrated Western efforts to trace him through

Prithviraj may surrender the flat follwing RTI revelation (2598)

A Right to Information (RTI) application seeking the names of owners of flats in the Chief Minister\'s quota for weaker sections has revealed that Maharashtra\'s new head Prithviraj Chavan owns a fl...

International shame for India: Subramanian Swamy (2561)

Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has criticised the arrest of civil activist Anna Hazare, saying it has “completely eroded India\'s unique selling proposition of being the world\'s largest

Nobel Peace Prize: Pak comes out in support of China (2424)

Pakistan on Friday came out in support of its ``all-weather friend’’ China by questioning the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize 2010 to Liu Xiaobo ``for his long and non-vi...

Hyderabad a U.S. visa fraud hub (2137)

Consular offices across India outline a growing trend of sharp practices resorted to by applicants

Norwegian mass killer's manifesto hails Hindutva (1943)

Goals of Indian Hindu nationalists were identical to Justiciar Knights, Anders Breivik claimed

Midnight drama at Chennai airport as passenger creates ruckus (1913)

There was drama at the Chennai Airport in the early hours of Sunday when a 30-year-old Japanese passenger was forced to get down from a flight as he created a ruckus, reportedly under the influence...

Girl beheaded on college campus (1885)

A girl student was beheaded on the campus of St. Xavier\'s College here by a person on Wednesday evening, police said. “Kusum Kumari (17) was beheaded with a sharp weapon by a you...

U.S. embassy stirs a hornets' nest in Pakistan (1884)

The U.S. has stirred up another controversy in Pakistan, this time by organising the first ever ‘gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) pride celebration\' here on June 26. Though the e...

Tejas makes successful flight, to be inducted into IAF soon (1817)

The fifth limited series production Tejas Light Combat Aircraft successfully completed its first flight near Bangalore on Friday.V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister, made...

Rohit Nandan appointed Air India chief (1737)

Air India got a new chairman-cum-managing director as the government on Friday formally notified the appointment of Rohit Nandan, a U.P. cadre IAS officer of 1982 batch, to head the ailing nationa...

A.Q. Khan's ‘secret agreement' (1735)

Cable reveals the conditions brokered by a Pakistan court between him and the government for his freedom\'

India protests U.S. remark on Hazare stir (1697)

Taking a strong exception to the comments by the U.S. State Department on handling of peaceful protests, India on Friday termed the remarks as “needless” and said freedoms of speech and

‘China dumped Pak in Conference on Disarmament’ (1636)

A top British diplomat in September 2009 told a visiting American diplomat that China has “dumped” Pakistan in the Conference on Disarmament, according to a US cable leaked by whistleb...

Pakistan accepts Osama death on its soil with quiet resignation (1628)

It was with quiet resignation that Pakistan on Monday morning absorbed U.S. President Barrack Obama’s announcement that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed in Abbottabad; a distr...

‘After Rahul's gaffes, Congress hopes shifted to Priyanka' (1623)

U.S. Embassy cables reflect family insider\'s ‘brutally frank\' assessment

Lalu has scripted his own fall, say former aides (1598)

With Lalu Prasad facing an unprecedented drubbing in the Bihar Assembly polls, his former close aides are rejoicing, saying the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief had scripted his own fall by focussing on...