Bowing to his conscience, solicitor-general Mohan Parasaran has withdrawn from pleading the Centre’s petition before the Supreme Court for the implementation of the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project. While his reason on the record is that his father K. Parasaran, eminent lawyer and former attorney-general, is appe-aring for one of the petitioners arguing against the Sethu project, there is a strong second reason too — Mr Parasaran’s devotion to Lord Ram.

Both were acts of terror but the case of Afzal Guru is very different from that of the three Tamils condemned to death for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. The belief in Tamil Nadu is the ending in the two stories need not be the same. Many political parties and social outfits here insist the three convicts must not meet Guru’s fate.

Among the 61 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees caught trying to sail to Australia by the Tamil Nadu police late Thursday night was a very angry woman. Pamini Nagula, 32, had planned to take along her three li

Even as hundreds of Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu perished at sea in recent months undertaking the perilous journey to the faraway Christmas Islands and Cocoa Islands, in the hope of winning asylu

It’s now 10 years since she passed away, yet ‘Krishna Sweets’ Murali remembers his mother so vividly and fondly, as the time when she hand-fed him and his elder brother Krishnan during their childhood

We celebrated the sixth anniversary of Deccan Chronicle amid much heat and despair last March, albeit without losing hope for better days ahead.

There were dark clouds hanging low. The Spectrum scam

Sri Lankan defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stoutly denied he was militarising the northern region and insisted troops “are maintaining absolutely essential presence” and were spread across al

Sri Lankan defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has pleaded for a “fair assessment” of the development work and restoration of normal life in the northern region “within a short time of ending the 30-

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday asserted that his government would build a new dam to replace the 116-year-old Mullaiperiyar dam but made clear he would not undertake the work without

Driving on the potholed A9 highway to Jaffna that could break the strongest of spines, it was great relief spotting a volleyball match in progress at a wayside playground.

It was in Kilinochchi, whi