People from across the country thronged the Sri Aurobindo Ashram here on Wednesday and offered prayers on the occasion of the 134th birth anniversary of 'The Mother'.

They later participated in a mas

Much to the discomfort of the UPA, the temperamental chief minister of West Bengal, Ms Mamata Banerjee, appears to be going the way of her Uttar Pradesh counterpart, Ms Mayawati. Even after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh instructed food minister K.V. Thomas to speak to Ms Banerjee to address her concerns on the Food Bill, his ministry appears to be running from pillar to post to get an appointment with the Trinamul Congress chief.

Union minister V. Narayanasamy has said the Prime Minister can get involved in finding a solution to the long-drawn Mullaiperiyar dam tussle only if Tamil Nadu and Kerala withdraw their petitions from

Union food minister K.V. Thomas said he was ‘trying to meet’ TN chief minister J. Jayalalithaa to sort out the differences over the implementation of the Food Security Bill.

Sharing the achievements

Calling the CBI and the CAG two pathologists who do mostly post-mortems, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that he has proposed to establish an independent network of institutions to undertake concurrent evaluation of all projects of his ministries. He said the idea is to have not only financial performance reports but also physical performance feedback on the real time basis.

In a bid to improve the UPA-II’s image, the top ministers of the Union government are likely to travel across the states to interact with the local media and hold GoM briefings there if need be.

Union Minister of State in the PMO, V. Narayanasamy, on Saturday denied the allegations of Puducherry Chief Minister N. Rangasamy that he has made 'intimidatory comments' against officials and said he

Observing that cylone Thane had caused extensive damage, the CPI has slammed the Centre for 'delay' in sanctioning relief to Puducherry.

It is a pity that the Centre is yet to announce relief for Pud

Assuring all assistance to the cyclone affected, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said a Central team would visit Puducherry and Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district soon to make an on-the-spot asses

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