Indian intelligence agencies launched a comprehensive media and psychological warfare against Pakistan prior to their Prime Minister Visit to USA.

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"There is a price [tag] for a Vice-Chancellor. You pay [Rs.] 20 crore, 10 crore to become one." In a blunt denunciation of the ills of higher education on Friday, M. Anandakrishnan, member of the Yash Pal Committee, pinpointed rampant corruption as among the root causes.

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After spending nearly half her life behind bars for her role in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Nalini Sriharan launched a hunger strike on Monday demanding her release from the Vellore Central Prison.

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A big dolmen with four petroglyphs that portray men with tridents and a wheel with spokes has been found at Kollur, near Tirukoilur, 35 km from Villupuram in Tamil Nadu.

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Two gangsters suspected to have been travelling with financial services executive Paul George Muthoot the day he was murdered surrendered in a court in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu on Tuesday.

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Gatherings in Madurai, New Delhi, Bhopal to remember the martyrs killed in Kandhamal and to strengthen the foundations of coexistence among religions and groups in India, after the "shame" of the massacres in Orissa.

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The Kerala police have arrested a Nigerian national, a member of the notorious '419' fraudsters or 'Nigerian bank fraudsters' who have duped several people in South India of crores of rupees through an email racket.

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Kochi: Robust trend in bean prices triggered by a global shortage of cocoa has prompted some southern states to spread the cultivation to more area.

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Her voice is phenomena. Her songs simply give you soulful ecstasy. No wonder she is rightly called the Nightingale of South India.

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Coimbatore, July 8 (ANI): A poultry farm in Coimbatore has developed selenium-enriched eggs to counter selenium deficiencies.

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Trichy (Tamil Nadu), July 8: In a unique protest, scores of temporary employees of the State Road Transport Corporation at Trichy in Tamil Nadu have draped themselves in shrouds demanding permanent jobs.

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Only dalits wield the scalpel in Tamil Nadu's mortuaries. Successive generations work in sordid conditions and see no way out...

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Uddinapally, 8 June 2009: Pastor Paul Chinnaswamy (50) was attacked by two young men on Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. while he was sitting in front of his church in Uddinapally, Hosur Taluk, Krishnagiri District in Tamil Nadu...

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The arrival of the AWACS (Air Borne Warning and Control System) is a formidable leap for the Indian Air Force (IAF) in initiating a new structure in the air defence network for India but only a small step towards filling this capability gap.

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A couple of years back I happened to come across four Sri Lankan's Army officers who reveled that their country is passing through a Indian sponsored war with Tamils .

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India and Sri Lanka have both been holding elections.

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As I step out of the sliding doors at Chennai airport I'm greeted not only by a wall of eager faces but also by an invisible wall of wet, sticky heat.

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The decisive defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which is ferociously fighting probably its last battle in a small piece of land (about 20 sq.

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The world economy went bust dragging along with it our economy. Recession struck. Many became unemployed. Those seeking jobs found it difficult to find one. There has been no access to primary education for the underprivileged. Many people still suffer in poverty.

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India general election juggernaut is on the move with polling, announced yesterday, on five days from April 16 to May 13, and vote counting on Saturday May 16. So India should have a new government by the middle-end of May.

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Despite the large deployment of government forces, armed groups claiming to protect the rights of the various ethnic communities in Manipur have succeeded in imposing their will on many communities.

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A young American architect who has worked in the USA for 14 years, goes to Tamil Nadu after the tsunami of 2004 to help with long-term reconstruction. She collaborates with villagers to design community centers.

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[Excerpt:] - At first glance, Sri Lanka's vicious civil war might appear to have little consequence beyond the island's own teardrop-shaped shores. But the conflict has rapidly come to reflect tectonic shifts in global power.

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The radiocarbon analysis at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, has put the antiquity of Pattanam to the first millennium BC. What is more, the studies suggest that the canoe found in a water-logged trench at Pattanam canoe could be the earliest known canoe in India.

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A man in southern India has married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony in a bid to atone for stoning two dogs to death, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

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