The police questioned two Kanchi Mutt officials in connection with the assault on former Mutt official Radhakrishnan
The arrest of Paravai Badusha will help the police solve many terror cases including the BJP office blast in Bangalore and the 1998 Advani assassination bid in Coimbatore. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Kanchi Shankaracharya was produced before a magistrate in Kancheepuram on Friday and was remanded in judicial custody\n
Following the elimination of LTTE, Pakistan-based terror groups are leaving no stone unturned to take advantage of the vacuum, and slowly recruiting youth for terror activities from South India. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
While there is likely no bar on Jayalalithaa meeting with Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and his cabinet colleagues, she may not see senior government officials or see official files.
Any official-level talks between India and Sri Lanka, without any clear-cut understanding on the livelihood issues, could end up in India having to acknowledge bilaterally even more than what it had no hesitation in accepting in Parliament and outside, says N Sathiya Moorthy
Justice S Muralidhar on Thursday apprised judges and lawyers of the Delhi high court about the sequence of communication on his transfer to Punjab and Haryana high court, saying that he was informed about it on February 17 and had no problem with it.
Indian Mujahideen had plotted to target cash-rich IPL and one of its operatives had surveyed the Wankhede Stadium here from inside during a T20 match in 2011 but the plan was aborted owing to tight security, a Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad officer said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Chengalpattu sessions court adjourned the hearing on Vijayendra's bail plea to January 25 following a request from the prosecution.
He was chargesheeted for the offences punishable under section 120-B
After a high-level party meet in Chennai, Vaiko said his party has unanimously decided to support the DMK in the by-election.
The arrest follows investigation into the murder of Sankararaman, who had once managed the accounts of the Mutt.
Sherine Xavier, a Sri Lankan Tamil filmmaker from Canada, is happy. After months of struggle with the Indian censor board, she has finally obtained approval to screen her film Muttrupullia?, which deals with the post-war situation in Sri Lanka's Tamil areas.
Aam Aadmi Party, whose main poll plank is fighting corruption, on Wednesday announced it would field candidates against 2G spectrum scam accused and former telecom ministers A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran of DMK in the April 24 Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu.
The bench also wanted to know as to what extent details of treatment of people can be placed in the public domain merely because they held a public office.
A sessions court directed the Shankaracharya to furnish a personal bond for Rs 25,000 with two sureties for like amounts.
By a standing high court order, the seer cannot be arrested in the case till his bail application is disposed of.
The Kanchi seer has moved the Principal Sessions Court in Chennai for anticipatory bail, apprehending arrest in another case.
BSF troops guarding over 180 km of IB with Pakistan have strengthened their observation posts and 'listening posts' to keep a close watch against any intrusion by drones.
'What does the nation get out of the CBI's fabulous infrastructure? Very little that is useful.'
India's tough measures against United States diplomats following the arrest of a senior Indian diplomat in New York has impacted US Ambassador Nancy Powell who called off her travel to Nepal after her special privileges were withdrawn.
Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati was arrested near Hyderabad last night as a prime accused in a murder case.
The candidate is from the DMK's ruling family, and the sky is the limit -- for both expenses and expectations.
Decks were cleared on Friday night for an ordinance on Jallikattu after Tamil Nadu and the Centre worked feverishly even as the state stood on the edge and protesters on Marina beach and elsewhere refused to relent until the sport is held.
N Srinivasan refuses to confirm whether he is back in office as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Among the series of questions raised were how self-loading riffles found their way out of the armoury and came to be used in the firing, how snipers were perched atop vehicles and how persons came to be shot in the face and chest.
The startling story of how a bitter ex-girlfriend helped capture artifacts raider Subhash Kapoor.
Even as the unity moves between the two AIADMK factions seem to be going nowhere, former chief minister O Panneerselvam is working on a grand alliance of other Opposition parties, reports R Rajagopalan.
An official at the Pakistan high commission in Colombo planned strikes on American and Israeli consulates in south India, reports Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com
Outlawed outfit Students Islamic Movement of India's possible role has come under the scanner of investigators probing the terror attack outside a restaurant here that killed a woman and injured three others, as government announced a raft of measures to ramp up security, particularly in crowded areas.
'These protests are not just about the CAA. It is against allowing fascism and religious discrimination to creep into our legal system.'
Maran was called on Monday but he skipped the scheduled meeting.
Following is the course of events in the disproportionate assets case against Jayalalithaa, Sasikala and 2 others.
Malkani complained of chest pain at around 1700 hours IST. He breathed his last at 1915 hours.
Recent statistics show that the situation is no different across the country with several hospitals lacking the infrastructure to manage a breakout of a blaze.
The questioning of Ramachandran comes barely two days after he took over his portfolio.
The chief minister skipped meals and remained awake the entire night on a makeshift dais along with some senior ministers and party members.
In a letter written by Director General of DRI Najeeb Shah, Air India has been asked to sanitise its staff, especially those involved in ground-handling duties, official sources said.
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