New Delhi | 10 hours ago
'Headley had surveyed area near Pune blast site'
New Delhi, Feb 13 - Lashkar-e-Taiba - operative David Coleman Headley had surveyed the Osho ashram area, which is 200 yards from the German Bakery where a bomb blast Saturday evening killed eight people, including a foreigner, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said.'It may be noted that Osho Ashram is 200 yards from the bakery and was one of the sites surveyed by LeT operative David Headley,' Pillai tol ... read more

Chennai | 14 hours ago
Third win for Karnataka, TN in South Zone One-dayers
Chennai, Feb 13 - Tamil Nadu and defending champions Karnataka swept to their consecutive victories in the South Zone Subbaiah Pillai One-day cricket tournament here Saturday.Karnataka, thanks to an unbeaten 121 - by Ganesh Satish, overwhelmed Kerala by seven wickets while Tamil Nadu cruised to an eight-wicket win against Hyderabad. Kerala, weakened by the departure of S.Sreesanth, who left for Ko ... read more

Chandigarh | 15 hours ago
Punjab to explore three-shift system in industry
Chandigarh, Feb 13 - The Punjab government will examine the possibility of legalizing the three-shift system in the industry, as prevalent in Tamil Nadu, to increase productivity and ensure more employment opportunities for the youth.Punjab Chief Minster Parkash Singh Badal Saturday asked the state's industry secretary to study the Tamil Nadu model and work out a similar plan for Punjab. 'Unemploy ... read more

New Delhi | 19 hours ago
Denied apex court job, Shah gets online petition for CIC
New Delhi, Feb 13 - An online petition to have the outgoing Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Ajit Prakash Shah as India's Chief Information Commissioner has been launched with many supporting the bid.Shah retired Saturday after being denied elevation to the apex court. The online petition started by Milan Choraria, a Right To Information - activist, has so far received over 50 signatures fro ... read more

Bangalore | 1 day ago
India plans to build seed reserves for hard times
Bangalore, Feb 12 - India plans to build seed reserves to ensure national food and income security to millions of its farmers, reeling under the impact of a deficit monsoon and a harsh drought in 2009, a top official said Friday.'We are working with the seed industry to produce surplus high-yielding, pest and disease-resistant seeds to build reserves that can be used in the event of crisis arising ... read more

Chennai | 1 day ago
AIADMK legislator meets Karunanidhi, slams Jayalalithaa
Chennai, Feb 12 - In a state where even exchanging pleasantries with opposition party leaders is considered blasphemous, an AIADMK legislator met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and criticised his own party chief J. Jayalalithaa.K. Rajendran met DMK chief Karunanidhi Friday morning and said he had submitted a memorandum to the chief minister to carry out development works in his Jayamkond ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
Quickly build Sethusamudram canal, says CPI-M
New Delhi, Feb 12 - Hundreds of youth activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist - observed a hunger strike here Friday to demand the early building of a controversial shipping channel to link India's eastern and western coasts.The Sethusamudram project will help ships avoid a 785-km detour around Sri Lanka. CPI-M politburo member Brinda Karat inaugurated the protest organised by the Demo ... read more

1 day ago
Indians deserve access to pain treatment, says rights body
Tiruchirapalli, Feb 12 - The central government should act urgently to ensure access to pain medications, Human Rights Watch said ahead of a national conference on palliative care here in Tamil Nadu.Hundreds of thousands of Indian patients with cancer and other conditions experience agonizing pain every year because they do not have access to morphine - an inexpensive, safe, and highly effective p ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
CPI-M youth wing strikes for implementation of Sethusamudram canal
New Delhi, Feb 12 - Hundreds of activists from the youth wing of the Communist Party of India-Marxist - Friday began a 24-hour hunger strike to demand implementation of the Sethusamudram project, the shipping channel to link India's eastern and western coasts to avoid a 785-km detour around Sri Lanka.CPI-M politburo member Brinda Karat inaugurated the hunger strike organised by the Democratic Yout ... read more

Chennai | 2 days ago
Poll panel urged to hold Tamil Nadu by-poll soon
Chennai, Feb 11 - A delegation of MPs from Tamil Nadu belonging to United Progressive Alliance - Thursday met Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla in New Delhi and urged him to hold the by-poll for the Pennagaram assembly constituency soon.'Around 25 MPs belonging to DMK, Congress and VCK met Chawla and urged him to hold the election at the earliest. We told him that it is not right to postpon ... read more