In a major breakthrough in cardiac treatment, the main aortic valve can now be replaced without surgery and in a few months the technology will be available in India.

Monkeys may soon “officially” pluck coconuts in the state as they do in Sri Lanka or south-east Asia.

The Kerala police on Saturday night asked two persons on board the Italian oil tanker, who allegedly killed two Indian fishermen off the Kollam coast, to surrender by 8 am Sunday and warned them of action if they did not.

Two fishermen in a country boat were feared killed after security detail on board a merchant vessel allegedly fired at them off Alapuzha coast this evening, suspecting them to be pirates.

India's debt-laden Kingfisher Airlines said on Thursday its net losses almost doubled in the last quarter of 2011, plunging it further into a financial crisis that threatens its survival.

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Vedavyasa Srinivas Acharya, paterfamilias of the BJP in Karnataka, died of a heart attack, minutes before his address to government college teachers here on Tuesday, throwing the state unit into turmoil and an inconsolably sobbing chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda declaring it would be difficult for him to present his maiden budget in view of the void caused by the demise of this gentleman politician.

Three tainted BJP MLAs, who allegedly watched porn clippings on the floor of the legislative Assembly, will now face a police investigation. An additional chief metropolitan magistrate’s court on Monday directed the Vidhana Soudha police to conduct the investigation under section 156 (3) of the CrPC, which deals with obscenity, against MLAs Lakshman Savadi, C.C. Patil and Krishna Palemar.

No Indian government will ever censor social media, information technology minister Kapil Sibal said, seeking to calm fears of a China-style crackdown on companies like Google and Facebook.

The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa seems to be well ahead of its two main rivals — the Congress and the BJP — in the ongoing panchayat elections.