An elaborate Satha Chandi Maha Yagam to propitiate Badrakali is underway at Manapakkam in the city for “ensuring a magnificent victory” for AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa in the Assembly election.

Shares in India’s largest microlender SKS Microfinance fell more than 14 per cent on Monday, the second straight trading day of heavy losses, following an analyst downgrade and weak earnings.

Indian equities markets on Monday closed on a flat note with a benchmark index ending a volatile day of trading dull. Broader indices too ended in the red.

Assured of a berth in the play-offs, table-toppers Mumbai Indians will start outright favourites when they take on bottom-ranked Kings XI Punjab in an Indian Premier League encounter at the PCA stadium here on Tuesday.

Signalling a potential re-alignment of political forces in Maharashtra, a prominent Dalit party on Monday agreed to join hands with the saffron brigade on common issues to counter the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party ruling combine.

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Saturday hit back at Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar for saying that he did not discuss major issues like the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant (JNPP) with "kids" — an oblique reference to his son Uddhav Thackeray.

In order to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore, Enlighten Film Society will organise a film festival based on his text in Mumbai in August — but before that two films will be screened in May as a beginning.

The extradition trial of Ravi Shankaran, the main accused in the Naval war-room leak case, started on Thursday with the prosecution, led by barrister John Hardy QC, presenting evidence in private.

As US forces entered Pakistani airspace to hunt down Osama bin Laden without prior notification, Islamabad went into the process of scrambling its jets believing that it was an attack from India, Paki

Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has decided to file a defamation suit against the office of the charity commissioner of Pune for wrongly sending notices to his Ahmednagar-based trust.