Police on Thursday filed a case against suspended head constable Giriprasad Sarma who had taken the Superintendent of Police of the Police Transport Organisation (PTO) E Lakshmi Narayana hostage.
The hostage drama in Hyderabad involving a suspended head constable and a superintendent of police ended on a peaceful note. The state Director General of Police Dinesh Reddy intervened and successfully persuaded Head Constable Giriprasad Sharma to release SP Lakshmi Narayana. The drama ended four hours after it started.
Keith Vaz, the Indian-origin Labour member of Parliament, has emerged as Britain's most influential Asian in a list of 101 powerful people from the region, which includes the likes of steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, the billionaire Hinduja Brothers and leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul.
As the city that never sleeps prepares to usher in the festival of lights, Nadisha Daniel captures the celebratory mood on camera.
Padma Lakshmi, Anushka or Kriti -- who gets your vote.
The steel magnate, however, said that with the measures that the Indian government has announced in last couple of months, the confidence is starting to build up.
S Saraswathi met up with international Silambam champions N Nagabhavani and N Lakshmi Soujanya and their coach in Korattur, Chennai. Here's what she learned about the two young experts and the dying sport.
'This is the first time when you see the story of the Azad Hind Fauj through the eyes of the soldiers.'
Watching a remake is not always fun, but Jyotika excels in the role made famous by Vidya Balan in Tumhari Sulu, feels A Ganesh Nadar.
There are two major impact of a "transfer raj". First, criteria other than merit often determine the assignments of bureaucrats to specific positions. So the most important positions may not always go to the most qualified or competent bureaucrats. This naturally means that there are inefficiencies in policy formulation and implementation, Harvard Business School's Lakshmi Iyer tells Faisal Kidwai
The ashes of the late Pandit Ravi Shankar, the noted sitar player who passed away last week, will be taken to Varanasi for the final rites, Lakshmi Shankar, the musician's sister-in-law, told rediff.com at a memorial service held at the Self Realisation Fellowship Ashram Center in Encinitas, Southern California.
Analysts said even though the Indian economy is expected to slow down to 7.2 per cent in fiscal 2020, it is still the best bet for investment for foreign investors.
With average capacity utilisation now touching 76 per cent, Indian companies are going back to the drawing board to add capacity but the plans to build new factories and plants are still some months away.
The Supreme Court on Thursday paved the way for the screening of Tamil film Vanayuddham based on the life of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan after the producers agreed to pay Rs 25 lakh as compensation to his wife.
The oil companies will meet on Friday for the review meeting on pricing in which petrol price could be increased by Re 1 and diesel prices by 50 paise by this weekend.
Naan Sigappu Manithan has an honest narrative, excellent performances and many twists and turns that keep you entertained
It will not shut down two blast furnaces at the Florange facility which will retain 650 workers whose jobs were under threat.
According to sources, government officials have asked industry bodies and manufacturers to submit key concerns and requirements to begin manufacturing activity.
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The special trading session would be conducted to pay obeisance to Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity.
Apoorba Kumar Patranabish, 37 from Hyderabad reveals how he went from 127 kg to 90 kg in 11 months.
The temple incident is the latest in a series of incidents of a communal nature over the last two weeks. Tension was still prevailing in Kulsumpura and Sabzimandi areas of Hyderabad where communal clashes took place on Monday night over the burning of a religious flag by miscreants. Stone-pelting was reportedly continuing for the last three days despite the presence of the police
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A CBI court on Saturday extended till September 7 the judicial custody of former minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and four others arrested in the illegal mining case of Associated Mining Corporation owned by him.
An amazing architectural masterpiece, 'ArcelorMittal Orbit' is a 115 metres (377 ft) high observation tower in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London.
The company had initially objected to audit by CAG for time barred years as per Production Sharing Contract and had not accepted the 'exceptional circumstances' advanced by the ministry
One person was killed in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Vijayawada city but no other casualties have been reported from elsewhere so far, according to sources in the State Disaster Management Authority.
Media professional and traveller Lakshmi Sharath writes about her tryst with Torun, the city of gingerbread men.
Dileep will play a villager who comes to Kochi.
If you think the film is gutsy, you are simply being blind to the truth that the whole men-are-worthless slant is saleable right now, argues Sreehari Nair.
The remake of 1970's hit film, fails to connect with the audience.
Why is the majority of fresh graduates in the field deemed unemployable? Divya Nair speaks to industry leaders, recruiters and academia who analyse the crisis and explain why there is a demand in institutes for trained faculty, as well as a mechanism to test and upgrade job-relevant skills.
State-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) Krishna Godavari basin well that had been leaking natural gas for over two months now, has stoped flowing gas, the government said.
Lakshmi Sharath is a media professional and traveller who recently visited Segovia in Spain. Here is her travelogue:
Director Ashwin Saravanan's Maya is a gripping supernatural thriller. S Saraswathi recommends.
At the zenith of his success in capacity consolidation marked by acquisition of Arcelor in June 2006, and, in the process creating a steel behemoth of over 100 million tonnes (MT) capacity, Lakshmi Mittal, credited with spotting opportunities ahead of his peers, used to say that his squaring the circle would be complete with his setting foot in China and India.
As a new Samwat year begins tomorrow on Diwali, the stock market is looking up to prosperous gains after an increase of over Rs 5 lakh crore in the overall investor wealth over the past year.
The who's who of the Telugu film industry made sure to attend his prayer service on Sunday.
The company got possession of land in Karnataka for Rs 30,000-crore steel plant, six years after it announced grand India plans.
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