One of the country’s top aerospace scientists, Prof. Roddam Narasimha, who along with former cabinet secretary B.K. Chaturvedi, probed the Antrix-Devas contract, has written to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, expressing his distress over “unjustified” orders against the “Moon man” and others as the row over the government’s action against former chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (Isro), G. Madhavan Nair, and three other technocrats, escalates.

Having fought the 2011 Assembly polls shoulder-to-shoulder but drifting apart before the local bodies’ polls, the ruling AIADMK and DMDK have finally chosen to part ways. An acrimonious debate in the state Assembly on Wednesday, which left the Opposition DMK amused, saw the other parties being left dazed.

Vigilance officials on Wednesday conducted raids at the premises of former DMK minister N.K.K.P. Raja in Erode and Chennai districts in connection with a case of possessing disproportionate assets.

An Indian Air Force (IAF) trainer aircraft, part of the ageing Kiran fleet, exploded “midair”, broke into four pieces and crashed into a lake at Iyancherry village in Urapakkam, 25 km from Chennai, Tu

The ministry of external affairs has informed an American woman that she will be issued the certificate of identity for her seven-week-old surrogate baby, Emperor, if she produces either a DNA test to

For the first time in the history of Indian higher education, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended the creation of 400 “college cluster universities” in the country with greater administrative and full academic freedom on the lines of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).

The Indian scientific community is up in arms against the Union government for its decision to bar former chairman of Isro, Gopalan Madhavan Nair, and three other technocrats from positions in the government, questioning why scientists are being punished while the real corrupt are walking free.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday filed a defamation complaint against DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin accusing him of making “false and malicious” statements that defamed her in the discharge of her public duties.

The Isro row escalated on Thursday with former chairman G. Madhavan Nair rubbishing allegations of a scam in the scrapped controversial Antrix-Devas deal while space agency chief K. Radhakrishnan defended the decision to bar four scientists from any re-employment.

Bitter over the action taken against him and three other eminent space scientists on the controversial Antrix-Devas deal issue, former ISRO chairman Madhavan Nair on Wednesday slammed it as “an act of cowardice” and accused his successor K. Radhakrishnan of being behind the move and “misleading” the government.