Ahmedabad: The caste factor is likely to remain at the core of Gujarat Assembly polls following the emergence of caste-based movements, with major parties distributing tickets accordingly.

Both the BJP and Congress have kept the caste arithmetic in mind while given tickets for polls. The Patidars and Other Backwar

Chennai: Former AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa was today remembered on her first death anniversary with party veterans K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam leading workers in paying tributes to ‘Amma’ at her mausoleum here.

Clad in black shirts, AIADMK coordinator Pannneerselvam and co-coordinator Palaniswami led a silent

New Delhi: A court here said on Tuesday it would deliver its verdict on December 21 in the 2G spectrum allocation graft cases involving, among others, former Telecom Minister A. Raja and DMK Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi who are out on bail.

CBI Special Judge O.P. Saini has been hearing two separate cases related t

Do you know how Shashi Kapoor got his name? Kapoor was born as Balbir Raj but his mother did not like the name and began calling him Shashi – or moonbeam – since he was obsessed with the moon and spent long hours watching it.

Shashi Kapoor was born to Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni Kapoor on March 18, 1938 in then Calcutta.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government today said intensified search and rescue operations are on to trace the 92 fishermen missing in high seas after Cyclone Ockhi hit the state’s coast on November 29.

‘Operation Synergy,’ a joint rescue mission by the Navy, the Air Force, Coast Guard and state fisheries depa

Mumbai As Mumbai braces for Cyclone Ockhi, areas near the metropolis witnessed a spell of hailstorm, while schools and colleges in the city and adjoining districts have been closed today as a precautionary measure.

Some parts of the Munbai-Pune Expressway experienced a hailstorm early today, police said.

The

Bhubaneshwar: Air India will commence Bhubaneswar-Bangkok service from December 10, the second direct international flight from here, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said today.

The Bhubaneswar-Bangkok flight will leave the Biju Patnaik International Airport here at 3.45 p m twice a week – Thursdays and Sundays.

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New Delhi: The Delhi government would come up with a legal framework to check the “loot” and “criminal negligence” by the private hospitals, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today, in the wake of a premature baby being wrongly declared dead by a city hospital.

The chief minister said the

New Delhi: Setting Sri Lanka a target of 410, India declared their second innings at 246 for five on the fourth day of the third and final cricket Test against Sri Lanka here today.

Brief Scores:
Sri Lanka: 373 all out

India: 536/7d &

Disappointed with her poor performance in examination, a 19-year-old degree student committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her house at Chodavaram in Visakhapatnam district on Monday night.

P Haritha, a degree first-year student at a private college at Chodavaram, wrote her first-semester Chemistry papers on Monday.