The 87th birthday celebrations of chief minister M. Karunanidhi began with planting a sapling at his CIT colony residence. The grand old man of Tamil Nadu politics started his day at 4 am like always.

For once, Central security personnel protecting the AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, employed their skills to do their duty without troubling road users and the public.

Japanese auto major Nissan Motor Company on Tuesday said it may partner Ashok Leyland for launching a global compact car in India.
“Compact car is a segment in which we want to compete. We are in the conceptual phase. We are still talking to a number of potential partners,” Nissan Motor Company Senior Vice-President, Mr Andrew Palmer, said.

In a move to prevent the PMK from straying back into the Jayalalithaa camp, DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday announced that his party high-level committee had decided to admit the PMK into the DMK-led alliance, accepting the plea made by its leader S. Ramadoss in two letters he recently received from him.

Argentina coach Diego Maradona’s selection of first XI at the World Cup may not go down well in the legend’s household. Maradona will incur the wrath of his younger daughter, Giannina, if he omits Sergio ‘Kun’ Aguero from the line-up because she is married to the Atletico Madrid forward. Aguero and Giannina have a son, Benjamin.

Around 300 athletes from the continent will participate in the Asian Grand Prix Athletic Championship to be held here on June 9, Organising Committee chairman W.I. Davaram said here on Thursday.

A decision on fuel price hike would be taken at the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) meeting slated to be held in New Delhi on June 7, the Union petroleum minister, Mr Murli Deora, said on Monday.

When Viswanathan Anand wins there is something for everyone to celebrate. The quintessential pro can learn a lot from Anand’s monk-like commitment to the game. A young sportsman can relate to how enjoying your craft can lead to greater deeds. And to an entire nation that continues to be deprived of even good roads and proper sanitation, Anand is a true inspiration, on what can be achieved if one puts mind over matter.

The Mangalore airport, with its table-top runway located on top of a hill, is not the only one in India where pilots find it difficult to land and passengers often get scared.

While the director-general of civil aviation is pointing to pilots’ mistake as the reason for the Mangalore crash, senior aviation experts and captains blame the flight duty time limitations (FDTL) ru