Aadhaar,the Unique Identification number concept of the Centre was well on its way to achieving its target of enrolling 600 million people by 2014, with three million already being brought under it, a top official involved said in Coimbatore on Friday
In a major breakthrough, one of the seven persons who allegedly carried out the Taliban-style attack on a college lecturer in Moovattupuzaha, Kerala, has been arrested by the special investigation team probing the case. Acting on information, the personnel of the special investigation team took into custody Shamsudeen alias Shamsu of Arackapady in Ernakulam district from Ukkadam on the outskirts of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu on Thursday night.
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The searches at the Tamil television channel were conducted over alleged tax evasion.
Carrying on with its low-fare offers, SpiceJet has now started giving limited-period discounted tickets to flyers from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
More than 750 constituencies spread across four states and one union territory will go to the polls on Tuesday
Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu, led by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, on Tuesday appealed to President Pratibha Patil to give consent for use of Tamil as the official language in Madras high court before attending the World Classical Tamil Conference in Coimbatore this week.
Police teams from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu on Saturday busted a major group of terror outfit Al-Ummah in a 11-hour operation. What is unique about the Al-Ummah is that it is in all respects a homegrown terror outfit born in the early 1990s, with no Pakistan link.
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Air travellers may have to shell out hefty amounts if the fare bands proposed by airlines -- which will also take into account the distance factor -- are approved by the civil aviation regulator DGCA.
Mumbai and Delhi NCR, country's two largest markets, do not fare very well.
Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to launch Oceansat-2, an exclusive satellite to track marine life and identify potential fishing zones in September.
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The sub-quota scheme may now lead to a ganging up of non-Vanniyars in individual constituencies against the Vanniyars just as in the past, such ganging up against SC-ST candidates was seen in the non-quota constituencies, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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Air India will introduce new flights and also increase frequency of flights on various sectors from March 28, when summer schedule comes into effect.
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Kanagaraj, 36, was employed at Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden home in Chennai and sacked three years ago.
