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Passengers at airport taken for a ride (17 May 01:37 am)

With no comprehensive system of cab rates in place, hapless travellers are severely inconvenienced

Your closure report a bid to shield Modi, Bhatt tells Raghavan (17 May 01:27 am)

State government destroyed “potentially incriminating documents with tacit blessings of SIT”

Lensman and art collector Lance Dane is dead (17 May 01:26 am)

Photographer, art collector and numismatist Lance Dane passed away at a private hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday morning leaving behind a treasure trove of antiques, paintings and precious coins. H...

BSP bristles as Akhilesh targets Mayawati (17 May 01:25 am)

“The SP government is suffering from BSP mania”

Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dead (17 May 01:17 am)

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind.

I will not hesitate to bite the bullet if it achieves the goal, says Pranab (17 May 01:14 am)

“No need to press the panic button yet on fiscal situation”

MP seeks shift in India's stand on global Internet governance (17 May 01:12 am)

‘Proposal for government control ill-considered and dangerous\'

Ministers' absence causes furore (17 May 01:04 am)

The absence of Ministers during zero hour created a furore in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal was the only Minister present, when members were raising i...

Parliament's stand on Ambedkar cartoon disturbing: Panikkar (17 May 01:01 am)

Parliament hurriedly intervened in the issue that called for more serious thought

EC seizes Rs. 7 crore in poll-bound A.P. (17 May 12:59 am)

Election Commission officials have seized Rs. 7 crore in unaccounted cash from various parts of the election-bound constituencies in Andhra Pradesh. By-elections to 18 Assembly constituencies and f...

State to get new port at Kattupalli (17 May 12:28 am)

It can now unload imported goods in containers

VC to ask colleges to allow sale of SHG products on campuses (17 May 12:24 am)

At the day-long workshop organised by the Women\'s Studies Department of Bharathidasan University, women from various self help groups (SHGs) were instructed on the techniques of building their busi...

“Number of persons in family cards exceeds State population” (17 May 12:22 am)

The government auditor has come up with the startling revelation that the number of persons included in family cards in the State, as on March 2011, exceeded the population of the State by 1.16 cro...

State has failed to frame its own forest policy: CAG (17 May 12:20 am)

“This despite the recommendation of National Forest Commission\'\'

CAG paints bleak picture of State's financial health (17 May 12:20 am)

Painting a bleak picture of the State\'s financial health, the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has found that nearly 71 per cent of the State\'s revenue receipts were b...

Jayalalithaa radiates hope of overcoming power shortage (17 May 12:18 am)

“My regime is making concerted efforts to tide over the problem”

Alex Paul Menon thanks Jayalalithaa (17 May 12:14 am)

Alex Paul Menon, Collector of Sukma district in Chattisgarh, who was kidnapped by Maoists and later freed from captivity, met Chief Minister Jayalalithaa at the Secretariat on Wednesday and thanke...

Work out modalities for regulation of broadcast media, Centre told (16 May 11:52 pm)

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the Union government to consider working out the modalities for regulating the broadcast media through a statutory framework, including provision of...

RS nomination: court refuses to restrain Tendulkar (16 May 11:49 pm)

Refusing to restrain master blaster Sachin Tendulkar from taking oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Additional Solicitor-General A.S. Chandhiok to take in...

Mladic goes on trial at The Hague (16 May 11:47 pm)

The former Bosnian Serb army commander, Ratko Mladic, went on trial on Wednesday accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe\'s worst massacre since World War II. ...

Sri Lanka trying to locate three youths in The Hindu picture (16 May 11:46 pm)

Sri Lanka is trying to locate the three ex-combatants seen in The Hindu picture of October 1, 2011. The three were pictured at a function at the official residence of Sri Lankan President M...

Let's learn to talk, and listen (16 May 11:42 pm)

One of the biggest learnings for me in the process of researching for the issue of child sexual abuse came when I asked our expert, Dr. Anuja Gupta, why children who are sexually abused find it dif...

Visit despite lightning strike a good omen for ties: Merkel (16 May 11:40 pm)

The new beginning for the most important relationship in Europe — between Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Francois Hollande of France — started on Tuesday with a bolt from the

Ambedkar cartoon an example of creative pedagogic innovation, says Panikkar (16 May 11:37 pm)

Parliament hurriedly intervened in the issue that called for more serious thought

“Cartoon issue cannot be left to executive discretion” (16 May 11:37 pm)

Eminent persons express concern at Kapil Sibal stand