India

New Delhi, Dec 3: Strongly pitching for surveillance of sex crime convicts after release, the WCD minister Maneka Gandhi has asked the law minister for enactment of a law for mandatory registration of such offenders, ahead of the release of the December 16 gangrape juvenile convict later this month. In a letter to Law Minister Sadanand Gowda, the Women and Child Development Minister said, "In

New Delhi, Dec 3: The heaviest rains in Tamil Nadu in over a century and floods have claimed 269 lives, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, describing the situation as "alarming". The minister also told the Lok Sabha that 54 people had been killed in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and two in Puducherry. "There are no two opinions that the situation in Tamil Nadu is alarming. It is not an

Chennai, Dec 3: Veteran industrialist and founder of the Rs 10,000-crore business empire Chettinad Group, M A M Ramaswamy, died here on Wednesday at the age of 84 following brief illness, his family said. The former Rajya Sabha MP was admitted to a hospital here following heart and kidney related ailments and breathed his last around 4:30 pm, they said. “He was suffering from heart and kidney

Chennai, Dec 2: As many as 3,500 people, including 1,500 passengers, were stranded this morning at the Chennai international airport, which has been closed for operations till next morning following flooding of the runway. Airports Authority of India (AAI) said all the stranded passengers are being moved out of the airport, but did not reveal the exact number of those evacuated so far. A NOTAM

Chennai, Dec 2: Life today came to a grinding halt in Chennai and its suburbs following the unprecedented deluge, with scores of stranded citizens making their way through waist-deep water with all modes of transport and communication falling prey to the rain fury. While the Army and Air Force were involved in rescue work and distribution of food packets at suburban Tambaram and Oorapakkam, ships

Chennai, Dec 2: Rain-ravaged Chennai was today crawling with air and road traffic severely hit as Army, Navy and NDRF teams stepped up rescue operations in worst-hit localities of the city that is also witnessing power outages. The non-stop torrential rains pounding the city since last night showed some let up in the morning but the inundated streets left commuters stranded. In view of the water

Ahmedabad, Nov 2: In what could be a setback to the ruling BJP in crucial civic polls in Gujarat, the Congress is leading in district and taluka panchayats even as the saffron party is ahead in corporations and municipalities, as initial counting trends start pouring in from across the state. The BJP had held almost all the local bodies earlier in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Chennai, Dec 2: Steady and continuous rains throughout the night kept people in Tamil Nadu's capital Chennai awake due to concerns over the rising water levels, residents said. "Water came into ourAPARTMENT and we had to shift to our neighbour's house on the first floor," Revathi Vasan, resident of west Mambalam, told IANS on Wednesday. Another family living on the ground floor has also shifted

New Delhi, Dec 1: Rahul Gandhi today launched a scathing attack on the Government on the issue of intolerance telling it not to learn the "wrong lessons" from Pakistan and pleaded that it should listen to the people who have been "disturbed" over recent incidents. "People like Narayana Murthy, Raghuram Rajan and P M Bhargava are among the many protesting... They are disturbed like millions of

New Delhi, Dec 1: BJP MPs were today asked to avoid making provocative statements amid the debate in Parliament over the issue of intolerance where controversial comments by some party leaders, including ministers, have come in handy for the opposition in its attack on the government. In the first parliamentary party meeting during the Winter session, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah