Sunita Dugar, Parneet Sandhu and Neetha Jegan set out on a dream trip that changed their life. This is their story.
'Ek ghante ke andar humare paas 78,000 calls aaye.' '78,000!'
He has driven into the Limca Book of Records twice. Tamanna Naseer finds out more about the battles Eric Paul fights despite being paraplegic.
Continuing their protest against the conviction of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa for the third day, party workers and sympathisers on Monday observed a fast and staged demonstrations across the state.
A Ganesh Nadar shares interesting vignettes that usually get lost in the heat-and-dust of election coverage.
Anti-nuclear activist S P Udayakumar has sent a legal notice to the Union home ministry seeking action against an official for allegedly defaming him by "leaking" a secret report recently.
When Nitin Gadkari took charge as Road Transport and Highways Minister in 2014, he had set a target of constructing 40 km a day in two years. But construction at this point is a mere 16 km a day. Megha Manchanda on what ails the road sector.
Shubhankar tied 110th after Rd 1 of English Championship
'We should move forward with a conviction that in 40-50 years we have to bring major changes in the country,' he said.
Sunil Paliwal is managing director of Aavin, the highly successful milk cooperative of the Tamil Nadu government. He has worked with J Jayalalithaa for 12 years. He pays tribute to the departed leader.
While Health minister K K Shylaja would lead the chain at Kasargod, senior CPM leader Brinda Karat would be the last person at the end of the chain in Thiruvananthapuram.
Before the MCC came into effect, Modi was busy laying stones, cutting ribbons, and unveiling plaques across the country.
Great chefs are alchemists. They put ingredients and flavours together in ways that are sometimes unfathomable, says Rahul Jacob.
As many as 48 ministers of National Democratic Allaince government were in the fray in the general elections.
For a party that has adopted the successful social re-engineering model from Gujarat, Rajasthan and across the rest of the 'Hindi belt' over the past decades, Tamil Nadu continues to remain a tricky customer, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Riders Karanbir Singh and Pankaj Trivedi rode their way into the Limca Book of Records (validation by Limca Book of Records awaited) by successfully completing the run from Kanyakumari, India's southernmost tip to Khardungla, the world's highest motorable road up in the Himalayas, in 5 days, 5 hours and 45 minutes.
'I expect normalcy to return in one or two days,' says Tuticorin's new Collector Sandeep Nandur.
Jothi Nirmala, the collector of Kanyakumari district, was awarded the Kalpana Chawla award by the Tamil Nadu government for taking on the sand mafia in the district and also bringing about harmony after violent clashes between communities and also intra-community violence among fishermen here.
Almost all prominent leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as members of the National Democratic Alliance and North-East Democratic Alliance accompanied Modi.
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation has introduced online booking of tickets for superfast trains departing from Chennai.\n
In a candid chat with A Ganesh Nadar, S P Udaykuamr's wife Meera speaks about Idinthakarai's struggle, the sacrifices made by her and her two sons and more.
A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and J M Panchal refused to interfere with the Madras High Court judgment upholding the validity of the Tamil Nadu Tamil Learning Act of 2006. The bench dismissed a bunch of petitions from the Kanyakumari District Malayala Samajam and others challenging the law. It said it couldn't interfere with the policy decision of the state and cited similar laws in Karnataka and Maharashtra, making Kanada and Marathi as a compulsory subject.
These trips will fill you with wanderlust.
The BJP and its allies now rule over 70 per cent of the country's population, marking an unprecedented saffron footprint.
Sixteen deaths in rain and flood-related incidents have been reported from western Maharashtra in the last seven days, while the toll in Karnataka rose to five since Sunday.
According to the New York Times, Tamil Nadu has a 'rich and undiscovered history'.
The incident occurred about 30 nautical miles from the Indian coast where a group of nine fishermen from Kanniyakumari in Tamil Nadu were fishing.
Tamil Nadu parties are using Hindi to woo north Indian voters in the upcoming elections.
Stars not to twinkle in tsunami-hit villages
Taking part in the discussion of the situation in the Valley on Wednesday, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP Navaneethakrishnan couldn't hide his love for Kashmir.
From Kutch to Itanagar, Kashmir to Kanyakumari, there is only one emotion, it seems. Fear. Of coronavirus.
An unspecified number of people were evacuated from coastal areas of Odisha where Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore were likely to experience heavy rainfall accompanied by high-velocity winds, particularly on May 19 and 20, IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said.
In a state where Hindu social identity continues to remain in the overarching Dravida umbrella, the 'Hindutva' political identity does not have the same, or even near-similar electoral purchase, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The environment ministry on Thursday gave its nod to a plan for constructing a grand statue for Maratha warrior king Shivaji in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai.
The BJP's hobnobbing with M K Alagiri and ally Vaiko's controversial demands has the potential to rock the BJP's boat in Tamil Nadu, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Anything can happen, says a young Congress leader.
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