Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, who is arriving here on Wednesday on a two-day trip at the head of a 15-member Parliament committee, will be using a helicopter to visit the Kalpakkam atomic power station and Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited plant at Manali instead of driving by road to the two venues from his hotel, reliable sources said.

There’s more trouble in store for the self-proclaimed godman Nithyananda Swamy who has run away from his ashram and is being pursued by the police. Several buildings on his 42-acre estate at Kallugopanahalli, off Bengaluru-Mysore highway, may face the axe because they are illegal.

After having gone into a hiding, 'tainted' godman Nithyananda has surrendered in Ramanagaram district court near Bengaluru on Wednesday.

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday held a meeting with several senior police officers of the state, and later went on to meet Union home minister P. Chidambaram. Although the agenda of the meeting was not disclosed, sources have confirmed that the killing of alleged Indian Mujahideen operative Qateel Siddiqui in the Yerawada Central Jail was the main subject of discussion.

The Congress’ defeat in the local bodies elections continued when its candidate for the Bhiwandi mayoral election was defeated by two votes.

The police is all set to question superstar Mohanlal within two weeks in connection with his possession of a pair of tusks, which was revealed in an Income Tax raid held in last June.

Yoga guru Ramdev on Monday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should display “political and constitutional responsibility” in cracking down on corruption.

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday filed a petition in the special CBI court seeking permission to conduct a BEAP (brain electrical activated profile) test, a lie detector and narco-analysis test on Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and his auditor, Vijay Sai Reddy, on the grounds that information regarding suspected hawala deals needs to be elicited.

The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board is vexed over the rampant burning of household trash in personal backyards in complete violation of instructions from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

A consumer forum has held that insurance companies must pay medical claims even when a person opts for medical treatment without hospitalisation.