Chennai, February 21: A two-member International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team completed the annual inspection of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) Tuesday, said a senior official of the Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL). "The IAEA team went in around 8.30 a.m. Monday and completed the job around 1 a.m. ...

Patna/Bhubneshwar/Chennai, February 20: The clamour against the proposed anti-terror hub continued Monday with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar writing to Prime Minister Manmonhan Singh expressing his opposition while his Odisha and Tamil Nadu counterparts Naveen Patnaik and Jayalalithaa sent second letters seeking dialogue between the two sides. In his letter, Nitish Kumar ...

New Delhi, February 21: The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on a CBI petition challenging the quashing of its FIRs and chargesheets by the Madras High Court in a case against her under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The apex court bench issued the notice ...

Chennai, February 16: The four-member expert committee to look into safety aspects of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu and address fears of locals about the project will meet here Friday. "We are meeting tomorrow (Friday). After that we will chalk our future course of action," M.R. Srinivasan, a ...

Chennai, February 10: A woman teacher who was stabbed to death by a student was consigned to flames here Friday, with hundreds of teary-eyed relatives, friends, colleagues and students packing the funeral. Uma Maheswari stabbed to death Thursday by a disgruntled Class 9 student in the class room of St. Mary's Anglo ...

Chennai, February 10: Activists spearheading the anti-Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) protests on Friday requested the Tamil Nadu government to expand a new four-member panel that will look into the plant's safety aspects and also remove an atomic scientist from it. The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) welcomed the setting up ...

Chennai, February 9: A Class 9 student Thursday stabbed to death a teacher in his school here for complaining to his parents about his poor academic performance. Mohammed Irfan of St. Mary's Anglo-Indian School killed Uma Maheswari, who taught Hindi and Science, in the classroom. Maheswari, a mother of two, raised an alarm ...

Bangalore, February 9: For the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka, nothing seems to be going right as the state's advocate general B.V. Acharya has quit citing "pressure from the government" to do so. Acharya, a very senior lawyer, is also special public prosecutor (SPP) appointed by the Karnataka chief justice ...

New Delhi, February 7: Around 60 supporters and DMK party colleagues of jailed former communications minister A. Raja met him Tuesday in the premises of a Delhi district court complex where he is facing trial in the 2G case. Raja's supporters arrived early in the morning at the Patiala House court complex ...

Chennai, February 3: The DMK party would align with a secular party having the nation's interest in mind in the next Lok Sabha elections, party president M. Karunanidhi said Friday. Speaking to reporters here after chairing the party's general council meeting, Karunanidhi said: "The Lok Sabha elections are far away. The party ...