Influenced by the spirituality and Hindu way of life, 23 Italians, including a couple from the Vatican, underwent a crash course in learning Sanskrit hymns and mantras at the Veda Patashala in Karuvad

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed concern over deterioration in quality of medical education in the country and said a credible regulatory and institutional mechanism should be put in place.

The events in eurozone should not cast a shadow on our efforts at building unity and eventually a South Asian union, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, declaring open the Unesco Madanjeet Singh Insti

While Tamil Nadu and Puducherry quibble over matters of jurisdiction in providing assistance under the Prime Minister’s Tsunami Scholarship scheme to children of fishermen from Villupuram district stu

The relief amount that the government is distributing to the cyclone-hit, to enable them to return to normal life by reactivating their source of livelihood, is, ironically, finding its way to the Tas

Lack of power and water in the aftermath of Thane in Puducherry and Cuddalore is making tempers rise among the residents.

In Reddiyarpalayam, the police resorted to lathicharge to disperse residents

Where there’s a will there’s a way — actually, a bridge.

Although the Pennaiyar river, flowing across the territorial limits of Puducherry and the neighbouring district of Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, i

As the results for the Assembly elections in the Union Territory were announced on Friday, it became clear that the All-India N.R. Congress (AINRC) was heading for a huge victory.

At a time when his party colleagues are clamouring for poll tickets, a Puducherry minister has shown he is a different breed by declaring retirement from active politics.
On record, Malladi Krishna Rao of Yanam, an enclave of the Union Territory situated in Andhra Pradesh, says he is quitting with a sense of fulfillment as he has done all that he wished for his constituency, but his aides insist that he wants to stay away because politics is becoming increasingly corrupt.

About 1,500 train passengers had a providential escape when suspected Tamil extremists blew up the railway tracks near Villupuram, about 145 km south of Chennai, in the early hours of Saturday in prot