One more person succumbed to injuries at Madurai Rajaji government hospital today putting the death toll in the explosion at a cracker manufacturing unit near Sivakasi up to six, police said today.

Free-market ideas usually find a way to stage a fightback. It’s hard, if not impossible, to keep people away for too long from the quest for material prosperity. It would be wasteful to use a rare ...

The first and, as it happens, last time I wept at the death of a political leader was on December 26, 1972. I was already distraught, for the previous day I had watched the last day of my first test ...

Fifty years ago today, December 25, 1972, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of the titans of India's freedom struggle, passed into the ages. Kalki Krishnamurthy, who penned the Tamil classic Ponniyin ...

When Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan demitted office as India’s head of state in 1967, he returned to his own home, books and Carnatic music in the city he regarded as his own – Madras. Among the numerous ...

2016 marked half a century since Indira Gandhi first came to power in 1966 in the shadow of the 1965 war and the demise of Lal Bahadur Shastri. But the political culture that would propel Indira ...

Spread over 820 sq km, Rajaji National Park is a part of three districts of Uttarakhand: Dehradun, Saharanpur and Pauri Garhwal. Three sanctuaries — Rajaji, Chila and Motichur — were merged into one ...

DEHRADUN: A young elephant died in Dholkhand range of Rajaji Tiger Reserve on Friday night. This makes it the 10th elephant having died for various reasons in last eight months besides poaching in ...

PTI Feeds January 1, 2019 12:39 PM IST HIV blood transfusion case: Madras HC directs autopsy be recorded on video PTI Feeds December 30, 2018 7:15 PM IST Youth whose HIV positive blood was transfused ...