Joining issue with the DMK on its criticism of superstar Rajinikanth over his comments on the violent anti-Sterlite protest in Tuticorin last week, a senior BJP leader today took exceUnioption to it and said the actor was just speaking the people's mind on the issue. Union Minister of State Pon Radhakrishnan took exception to DMK Working Pre

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached assets worth over Rs 4,700 crore of Sterling Biotech Group, a Gujarat-based pharmaceutical firm, in connection with a Rs 5000-crore bank fraud and money laundering case, the agency said.

The ED had registered the case in October last year and the attachment amount is the sec

Congress and JDS will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as part of an alliance, Congress' KC Venugopal said on Friday. "We(Congress-JDS) have come to a conclusion regarding cabinet expansion and portfolio allocation. JDS will be holding the finance portfolio. Everything is settled," he added. He was speaking after Congress an

The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench on Friday ordered the Tamil Nadu government to state the reasons, by June 6, for the May 22 police firing in Thoothukudi which left 13 persons dead. The court's order came as it heard a petition demanding registration of murder cases against senior police and other government officials for the firing

Terrorists launched multiple attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, injuring at least one civilian and two security personnel, news agency ANI has reported. In the first incident in Anantnag, terrorists hurled a grenade on the police, injuring one civilian and two security personnel. In another incident, a vehicle belonging to the 183

A major fire broke out at Mumbai’s Scindia House Building Friday afternoon.

12 vehicles of fire brigade have reached the spot and the rescue operations are underway.

All 25 people who were stranded inside the building have been resued.

The building has many government offices inside it. 

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