The exit of DMK ministers from the Union government appeared certain on Sunday night with the Congress making it clear that it would not try to persuade them to desist. This is being perceived as the first step in the party’s departure from the UPA. The DMK has, however, maintained that even after its ministers resigned it would extend “issue-based” support to the Manmohan Singh government.

There is a new celebrity drawing in hordes of tourists at the Kodanad elephant training centre on the banks of the Periyar River — a six-month-old baby elephant.

In what can be seen as an attempt of repression by the state, the police on Sunday disallowed former judges B.G. Kolse-Patil and P.B.

Sixty-seven per cent of hospitalised patients are at the risk of suffering from deep-vein thrombosis (DVT), the largest Indian study of hospitalised patients has revealed.

A Trinamul Congress activist tried to commit suicide by setting himself ablaze in front of party chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence at Kalighat after failing to get a job in the ra

Food minister K.V. Thomas is likely to hold consultations with C.

The principal of a government school has been suspended for allegedly molesting girl students in Hamirpur district.

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday hinted that he was open to the idea of postponing the proposed “Million March” scheduled in Hyderabad for March 10.

Civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi could personally intervene by Tuesday to avert a strike called by a section of Air India (domestic) pilots on Wednesday even as talks between the agitating pilots

Women officers of Indian security forces may soon impart training lessons to their US counterparts in peacekeeping duties.