Chennai, March 22: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday unveiled her government's Vision 2023 that envisages GDP growth at 11 percent per annum. The document also seeks to raise per capita income to Rs.450,000, provide piped and pressurised water to all citizens, eradicate slums by building 2.5 million affordable homes, achieving ...

Dubai, March 21: A pleasure trip for a group of students from an Indian school in Oman turned into nightmare as one of them died while another one is fighting for his life after being drowned. The victim, identified as Noor Mohammed a Class 12 student of Indian school in Muladha, went ...

Chennai, March 19: Tamil Nadu Monday gave the green signal for the Koodankulam nuclear plant, with an activist saying that 10 people opposing the project have been arrested. The state cabinet met Monday under Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa and decided in favour of the Koodankulam plant. "The government studied the reports of various ...

Chennai, March 17: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa that the state government would be informed in advance about the visits of dignitaries from Sri Lanka. In a letter to Jayalalithaa dated March 11, 2012, the text of which was released to the media here Saturday ...

Chennai, March 14: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday said India should support the US-sponsored resolution on the war crimes allegedly committed during Sri Lanka's civil war and added that she was not satisfied with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's response on this issue. "I had written two letters to the prime ...

Mumbai, March 9: The protests against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu leading to delays in its commissioning have started pinching the government -- to the tune of Rs.50 million per day (Rs.5 crore) besides cost overruns, a top official said here Friday. "We are already facing a loss of ...

Chennai, March 10: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday invited his Tamil Nadu counterpart J Jayalalithaa to participate in his swearing-in ceremony for the second term on March 14. The AIADMK supremo, however, expressed her inability to attend the ceremony as she was scheduled to undertake campaign for the March ...

Chennai, March 2: Speculation prevailed in Koodankulam and Idinthakarai villages of Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district Friday as a senior police official arrived to review the security arrangements near the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP). Police termed it a routine visit. Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) (Law and Order) S. George visited ...

Washington, March 2: The US has said it's strongly supportive of India's investment in civil nuclear power and its support to NGOs goes only for development and for democracy programmes and not for opposing projects like Kudankulam. Asked to comment on a reported remark of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that three US ...

Vienna, March 1: Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam's "Raavanan" is now part of the permanent collection at the Austrian Film Museum, which has so far only 15 Indian films in its list. Alexander Horwath, director of the museum, was trying to get a copy of "Raavanan" ever since he saw it at the ...