Chennai recorded 67 mm of rainfall till 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday, making it the second highest for a single day in the month of May. The well-marked low-pressure area lying over Sri Lanka and adjoining Gulf of Mannar and southwest Bay of Bengal had brought…

NEW DELHI: The government today admitted in Lok Sabha that it has not been able to provide the three per cent reservation to differently-abled people in government services as per law."The provision is for three per cent reservation, but it is far less," Social…

An under-construction flyover collapsed in North Kolkata near Ganesh Talkies (Girish Park), Thursday afternoon leaving several trapped under the debris. The location of the bridge is in a densely populated locality in BarraBazar.West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has arrived at the flyover collapse…

A woman in Bengaluru was booked for allegedly trying to kill eight puppies. This incident comes to light just a day after a man in Delhi was seen stabbing dogs.According to the woman’s neighbours, Poonamma flung the puppies onto a boulder to teach the…

The BJP-led government has boosted spending under the UPA's flagship rural jobs scheme MGNREGA to a record high and will for the first time ever provide funds over and above the budgeted amount, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday.Dispelling doubts over the fate…

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday left the key policy rate unchanged but indicated at accommodative stance saying with "inflation moving closer to the target" there would be more room for rate cut to support growth.He also said that if the Budget makes enough…

Seven years after the State Department was restructured to ‘de-hyphenate’ U.S. relations with India and with Pakistan, it is considering a reversal of the move.De-hyphenating refers to a policy started by the U.S. government under President Bush, but sealed by the Obama administration, of…

Leaving the BJP in Madhya Pradesh red-faced, police have arrested a party leader and four of his relatives for allegedly slaughtering a cow at his home in Tonkkhurd, about 30km from Dewas.Anwar Mev alias Anna, who was associated with the party’s minority cell in…

India's banks, struggling to boost mainstay corporate loans, are finding a bright spot in a home-buying spree in the country's towns that has driven mortgage-loan growth to the fastest rate in at least six years.Top lender State Bank of India (SBI) (SBI.NS), and two…

Three days after PhD student Rohith Vemula was found hanging in a hostel room in the Hyderabad University, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday sought to downplay the caste angle to the incident, terming it a 'malicious attempt to ignite passions.'Claiming that…