Decks have been cleared for the re-entry of Mr K. Muraleedharan, son of the former chief minister, Mr K. Karunakaran to the Congress.
A former KPCC president, Mr Muraleedharan had been expelled from the party in 2005 after he formed the Democratic Indira Congress along with his father. Though Mr Karunakaran returned to the Congress, his son was left in the political wilderness with Kerala leaders opposing his re-entry.

The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh has busted a job racket and has arrested three persons, including two government employees. The fourth accused is said to be absconding.

You might feast at gourmet restaurants and pig out on yummy tidbits when you are on the go, but when the moods turn blue, the only thing that can soothe you is comfort food.

Two hundred years after it flashed against the Redcoats, the sword of Velu Thampi Dalawa, a minister of erstwhile Travancore who fought against the British decades before the 1857 revolt, is set to return to Kerala for a year.

In a bizarre display of ignorance, court officials and lawyers wore medical masks during a rape case hearing where the victim, a young woman, was HIV positive.

CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Friday dubbed chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s Thursday talks with the local legislators of Jagatsinghpur district as “disappointing” and claimed that it would not lead to any “tangible solution.”

Following Nationalist Congress Party chief and Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar’s opposition to the separate Vidarbha, pro-Vidarbha leaders have accused him of backstabbing. Jambuwantrao Dhote, who led the first major public agitation in 1971 for the demand of separate Vidarbha, has said that the NCP chief has made baseless statements regarding the demand.

The main Opposition BJP on Friday accused the Congress-led UPA II’s first year at the Centre of “full of corruption, conspiracy, contradictions and compromises.” Party’s national vice president, Mr Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said soaring prices, corruption, terrorism, Naxalism and unemployment are at their peak in the UPA’s rule.

The ITC Limited on Friday reported a 27.1 per cent jump in its post-tax profit for the fourth quarter of 2009-10 at Rs 1028.22 crores, while the post-tax profit for the last fiscal stood at Rs 4,061 crores, registering a growth of 24.4 per cent.

President Pratibha Patil on Friday led the nation in paying tribute to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 19th death anniversary. She was first to pay floral tribute at the departed leader’s memorial Vir Bhumi here in the morning.