Throwing ethics to the wind, “divorce” dramas are being enacted on a large scale across the state — and the right time for a divorce, it turns out, is just before the admissions to medical and entranc

About 500 CPI activists, including CPI state secretary D. Pandian, were arrested here today for trying to block trains, demanding continuous release of water to Tamil Nadu as per the orders of the Cauvery River Authority.

In an exemplary quick delivery of justice, Sambalpur sessions judge on Monday awarded death penalty to a 30-year-old man on the charges of raping and murdering a seven-year-old girl.

The world’s largest gathering ever on biodiversity began here on Monday with experts and policy makers from 170 countries trying to work out the Hyderabad roadmap to achieve the biological diversity a

Launching another phase of their agitation against Kudankulam atomic power project, anti-nuclear protestors on Monday began a day-long 'siege' of the plant by placing fibre boats and floating buoys in the sea.

A 12-year-old boy was allegedly chained by the authorities of a local madrasa to prevent him from escaping from the school, following which a case was registered against its management, the police sai

Throwing cold water on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s plan, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday made it clear that the All-India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS)-like ho

A CPI(M) worker’s murder put Nabagram on the boil, days before the Jangipur Lok Sabha bypoll in Murshidabad. Abdul Hamid Sheikh was shot dead by unidentified miscreants on Saturday evening.

A lot of excitement is being generated about Vedic ecology at the on-going Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

Greenpeace on Sunday demanded that the Indian government re-look at its massive expansion of coal mining in forest areas. It also demanded a moratorium on new coal mines.