'Those days, none of the leaders thought of amassing wealth.' 'All of them wanted to sacrifice their all for the country.' 'There are many who didn't have any money, but sacrificed their lives for the country.' 'There are many who spent their own money and worked for the country.' 'There are many more about whom we do not even know what they had done; they did everything so silently and selflessly.'
The temple, situated in scenic landscape on 100 acres of land, has been made with 1.5 tonne of pure gold
The CIC order came on an appeal filed by a citizen in February this year invoking the Right to Information Act.
The President has given his assent to the Disaster Management Bill.
Education consultant NNS Chandra shares advice on entrance examinations, admission procedures at international universities.
Rajiv assassination convicts hospitalised
With the latest stay, the actress has so far succeeded in obtaining 15 orders from the Madras high court and its Madurai bench
The apex court said the killers of the former prime minister will stay in the jails of Tamil Nadu, thus overruling the state government's decision to release the convicts.
The spectacles on the Gandhi bust in Kannur were broken while the Ambedkar bust had red paint splashed across it.
'Testing is a very good strategy if only symptomatic people are transmitting the disease.' 'Here asymptomatic people, with minimum, trivial symptoms, are transmitting too.' 'Testing, treating, tracing contacts and quarantining them -- yes, it will work up to a certain extent.' 'But more important is physical distancing, hand hygiene, cough etiquette and cocooning, protecting with reverse quarantining the most vulnerable people, senior citizens, people with other major medical problems.' 'To me, that makes much more sense.'
The seer had spent two months in custody in connection with a murder case.
Asaithambi Balakrishnan tells us how he discovered the secret to happiness from his father's simple lifestyle
The seer, in his petition, said the Madras high court had erred by not considering the basis of facts narrated by the prosecution.
This one relates to an attack on a former official of the Kanchi Mutt, G Radhakrishnan, and two others in September 2002.
The arrest follows investigation into the murder of Sankararaman, who had once managed the accounts of the Mutt.
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa announces Rs 4 lakh compensation for the kin of dead.
The party workers were busy overseeing the preparations for the D-Day and said the exit polls had underlined what they were always confident about.
The Kanchi seer has moved the Principal Sessions Court in Chennai for anticipatory bail, apprehending arrest in another case.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted him bail in the Sankararaman murder case with the condition that he will not visit the Kanchi mutt till investigations in the case are over.
The Shankaracharya was brought in a convoy of cars from the Vellore prison at 1115 IST to the court of a first class judicial magistrate.
Joshi termed as 'absurd notion' the prosecution's view that the Shankaracharya could poison himself if he was allowed to cook his own food in jail.
His daughter Arithra, who is a Sri Lankan citizen, will now be able to meet her parents Murugan and Nalini, who is also serving a life sentence in the same case.
Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati was arrested near Hyderabad last night as a prime accused in a murder case.
'We were lucky, in many ways, that we got the disease late.'
Tamil Nadu minister Sellur K Raju said the death of Amma was a huge loss.
Colleges are witnessing more offers, with better salary packages. Median salary packages offered have improved over last year.
Six establishments -- including Tata Motors -- have been selected as the best employers by the Central Board of Trustees of Employees Provident Fund Organisation.
Elections will also be held in 35 assembly constituencies in Odisha.
According to Yadav's counsel, the two cases have a lot in common.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea moved by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassin Nalini Sriharan seeking early release from prison.
The court directed the Tamil Nadu police to produce the entire case diary in original before it on January 6 for further hearing.
"None is above law. Whatever the misfortune I am suffering, I am okay," the seer was quoted as saying by former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti, who met him in jail in Vellore on Tuesday.
A "land based explosion" rather than a meteorite is more likely to have killed a man and injured three others in a mysterious blast in Tamil Nadu last week, NASA scientists said on Wednesday.
'People are already sending congratulatory messages. But I have said, "Please don't until the trials are over".'
Veerasamy was the electricity minister in the previous DMK government.
At a time when many Lok Sabha candidates are declaring assets worth crores, 14 candidates in the poll fray in Tamil Nadu, mostly independents, have declared zero assets. They are among 845 candidates of well-established political entities, among whom are 14 contestants with high liabilities of more than Rs five crore, as per an analysis by Association for Democratic Reforms-Tamil Nadu Election Watch.
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