AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa on Saturday sworn in for the fifth time as Tamil Nadu chief minister, nearly eight months after she was forced to quit over corruption charges. Governor K Rosaiah gave oath to Jayalalitha at the Madras University Centenary Auditorium. Actor Rajinikanth, ICC Chairman N.

After samples of “Maggi” noodles manufactured in March 2014 were reportedly found to contain high lead content and Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), orders have been issued by the State Food Safety and Drug Administration Department for taking “surveillance” samples of the product of recent make. The U

Jammu: Bollywood actor and Congress leader Raj Babbar on Wednesday alleged that the BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a "suit, boot and loot Sarkar". Addressing media persons here, Raj Babbar accused the central government of having failed to fulfil its electoral promises even

A management graduate was allegedly denied a job by a Mumbai-based firm for being Muslim, forcing a lawyer to move the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Thursday. "I have a copy of the mail where it is mentioned that my application has been rejected because I am a Muslim," Zeshan Khan s

NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force has carried out a successful trial of landing a combat jet on a road runway. The IAF's Mirage 2000 successfully landed on Yamuna expressway near Mathura on Thursday. It's a kind of first for military aviation in India. The aircraft landed at about 6:40am, sen

NEW DELHI: One of India's largest Muslim organizations on Saturday said the community would fight efforts by communal forces to create fear among the minorities even as it urged the Centre and states to firmly deal with such elements. Reading out the declaration of its general session held at Ram

Patna - Muslims in Bihar, in a stellar demonstration of communal harmony, have donated land to help build the world's largest Hindu temple which will have the capacity to seat a staggering 20,000 people. "Muslims have not only donated land, they have also provided land at a nominal rate for const

BHUBANESWAR: A Delhi-Bhubaneswar Air India flight (AI 873) made an emergency landing at Lucknow airport with 169 passengers onboard at about 12.30 pm on Tuesday. All the passengers were safe after the landing. Airport sources here said that there was minor crack in the windshield forcing the pilo

MUMBAI: Aruna Shanbaug, the former KEM Hospital nurse who has been lying in a vegetative state for the past 40 years, passed away at 9.40am on Monday. Doctors at KEM Hospital said that she had been fighting pneumonia for the last six days. Shanbaug, 67, was taken to the medical intensive care uni

Guwahati: It has been one year since Narendra Modi ‘stormed’ in New Delhi. There were fanfare and hope. But now they feel the broken promises are too heavy. Many in the north-eastern states were extremely hopeful that the Narendra Modi government would at least settle a few issues which the previous

TCN News, Hyderabad: Emergency kits containing food, grains, first aid items, hygiene items, water purification tablets, tarp and more were distributed to over 1,000 quake affected people in Nepal by the US-based Indian Muslim Relief & Charities (IMRC). Sahayata Trust, the implementation part

NAGPUR: BJP President Amit Shah today met RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat at the Sangh headquarters here today, apparently to brief him on the organisational matters ahead of the completion of one year of the Narendra Modi government. Significantly, Shah is the second senior BJP leader to have called on

The Lucknow-based St Joseph's Inter College has refused entry to a young girl student for wearing a hijab (head scarf) on campus. On her first day at the St Joseph's Inter College, on May 7, Farheen Fatima (15), was not allowed to attend class as she wore a head scarf. She was told to spend the e

NEW DELHI: Petrol prices were on Friday raised by Rs 3.13 a litre and diesel by Rs 2.71 per litre. The increase in petrol and diesel prices will be effective from midnight tonight. State-owned fuel retailers IOC, Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) revise petrol an

NEW DELHI: India's monsoon rains may arrive at the southern Kerala coast around May 30, earlier than the usual June 1 onset date, India Meteorological Department said on Thursday. In 2014, the annual rains hit the Kerala coast on June 6. India received deficient rains during the four-month lon

Indian PM Narendra Modi has begun a three-day visit to China as the two countries seek to boost economic co-operation. Mr Modi has met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Xian, capital of Mr Xi's home province of Shaanxi, and will later travel to Beijing and Shanghai. The leaders of the world's tw

At least 15 people were injured in West Bengal after a crude bomb exploded in a local train on the Sealdah-Krishnanagar line early on Tuesday morning. The blast, which left three passengers critically injured, exposed the glaring lapses in the passenger security system in local trains. The explos

For once, it might be a good thing to be dropped from an Indian Railway waiting list at the last moment. IRCTC has launched a new scheme that lets customers who have been dropped from a waiting list avail a last minute flight ticket at a “competitive” fare. This is how the scheme works, as per IR