In a marked difference from press conferences during her earlier tenures, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, sporting a smile, had a freewheeling chat with reporters for almost an hour on Tuesday at the Secretariat.
Responding to queries on the 2G spectrum issue, Ms Jayalalithaa said the apex court action has restored

Setting at rest speculation about an imminent realignment of political forces, AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday called on DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi, who was in New Delhi to meet daughter Kanimozhi, now in jail as an accused in the 2G scam.

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s wife Surinder Kaur Badal passed away on Tuesday afternoon after a two-year battle with cancer at Chandigarh’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research.
The chief minister, his son deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal, daughter Preneet Kaur and daughter-in-law

The Central agencies’ operation of outsourcing the firing job on fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim’s brother, Iqbal Kaskar, has drawn positive results as the intelligence agencies say they have managed to trace the location of mafia don Chhota Shakeel.

Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti has dubbed the ruling National Conference (NC) as a political deadwood and urged the people to weed it out which, she insisted, was in their interest.

In a bid to revive the higher education system, new state higher education minister Bratya Basu asserted that higher education would be made free from political influence and even a search committee would be constituted to look into the appointments made by the previous Left Front government.

The crime branch has arrested three members of an organised gang who were allegedly involved in carrying out a broad daylight robbery at east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar branch of Muthoot Finance on May 10.

Two CPI(M) workers — a man and his son — were burnt to death and three others injured at Kapasdanga village under the Beldanga police station area in Murshidabad on Monday night.

A 75-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a young florist in northwest Delhi’s Keshavpuram area, the police said on Tuesday. The police said the accused identified as Prahlad, 22, has been arrested in the case. According

The impasse over the construction of the Joka-BBD Bag proposed Metro rail connection was resolved on Tuesday after the state transport department gave its NOC (no objection certificate) to the Railway ministry to implement the project. The construction work will resume on Wednesday.