Chennai: Students who have other languages as their mother tongue should learn Tamil till Class 6 in all schools across the state, Tamil Nadu government on Friday made it clear in the assembly. "Students in Tamil Nadu have to learn Tamil as a language. There is no change in that," chief minister Jayalalithaa said, responding to a query by Congress member Gopinath who said students from ...Read More

Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday ruled out a probe into the allegations of graft against Praful Patel, who once held the portfolio, even as the man in the eye of the storm has strongly denied any wrong-doing. Canadian daily Globe and Mail reported on Wednesday that the country's justice department was going to prosecute an Indian-born businessman Nazir Karigar for bribing some Indian officials ...Read More

Bangalore: The Indian Air Force (IAF) plans to induct more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones in its fleet for surveillance and reconnaissance on the borders as an effective weapon for deterrence, a senior official said. "We are ready to induct more drones in view of their capability to perform specific tasks on borders. There is a team in Delhi which is studying our present and ...Read More

methi: The Congress and the BJP will be pulling out all stops on Saturday in their election campaigns in Uttar Pradesh with Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi visiting several cities, including Varanasi and Jaunpur, across the state. Rahul is expected to meet supporters in Siddharthnagar and Gorakhpur on Saturday. Meanwhile, his sister Priyanka will focus on Amethi and Raebareli. She has ruled out campaigning across the ...Read More

CHENNAI: The succession issue dominated a crucial general council meeting of the DMK in the city on Friday, with supporters of Union minister M K Alagiri and party treasurer M K Stalin bringing up the issue and provoking party chief M Karunanidhi to rise to the challenge. Upset with the demand for handing over charge to younger son M K Stalin, Karunanidhi threw a challenge, saying, ...Read More

New Delhi: The Income Tax department has been trying to establish links between liquor baron Ponty Chadha and Uttar Pradesh's Orai-based mining mafia head Sukhdev Singh. Recently, Rs 1.5 crore were recovered from Sukhdev's office in raids conducted by the IT department. The I-T department also raided liquor baron Ponty Chadha's premises across Delhi and UP. Jewellery worth Rs 4 crore and Rs 50 lakh cash was ...Read More

The Congress on Friday disapproved of Rajya Sabha member and party leader Mani Shankar Aiyar appearing on a Pakistan TV talk show, in which alleged 26/11 attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed also participated through a video link. “I certainly think propriety would require that such situation should be avoided... unless trapped in a situation,” party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said. He added that though Aiyar was ...Read More

The suspense over home minister P Chidambaram's alleged role in the 2G scam is likely to be over on Saturday when a Delhi court would decide the plea of Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy to make him an accused in the case. With the Supreme Court leaving the issue to be decided by the trial court, the ball is now now in the court of Special ...Read More

Russia shot down suggestions from some UN Security Council members that a deal on a draft resolution aimed at stopping Syria’s bloody upheaval was at hand, warning it would veto the current text if it were put to a vote on Friday. Pakistan’s UN envoy said on Thursday the council was “two words away” from agreement and ...Read More

An NGO had sought directions from the court to the Nanavati Commission to summon Mr Modi in connection with the 2002 riots. In a relief to Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday rejected a petition of the Jan Sangharsh Manch seeking a direction to the G.T. Nanavati - Akshay Mehta judicial inquiry commission ...Read More