
Defence Analyst Brigadier Mahalingam says politicians owe the Army Chief an apology in the letter leak row. ...

10:35 AM, May 14, 2012

Puducherry: Lieutenant Governor Iqbal Singh has been accused of helping facilitate a fake passport for India's alleged tax evader Hasan Ali Khan, who's now in judicial custody. Singh has denied the allegations. He told CNN-IBN that he has no plans of resigning. Meanwhile, the state government has distanced itself from Iqbal Singh. Chief Minister V Vaithilingam has said the government had not allocated any land to the Lieutenant Governor to...

08:08 AM, Apr 18, 2011

Puducherry: In the Union Territory of Puducherry 83.62 per cent of the 8.10 lakh voters exercised their franchise on Wednesday to constitute its 30-member Assembly. Revenue Minister Malladi Krishna Rao is seeking election for the fourth successive term from Yanam, which also involves a multi-cornered contest. The turnout of women was considerably larger than their male counterparts in rural and semi urban areas. There were also several first time voters...

02:33 PM, Apr 13, 2011

Chennai: Dismissing the opposition charge that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was "weak", Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday asserted he was "very much alert and proactive" to all issues including corruption. "The Prime Minister is very much alert and proactive. He is taking appropriate action," Mukherjee told reporters in Chennai after releasing the Congress manifesto for the April 13 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. Responding to queries on AIADMK chief...

05:10 PM, Apr 09, 2011

Puducherry: Revenue and Tourism Minister Malladi Krishna Rao on Monday retracted his decision to contest the April 13 assembly polls and said he would seek re-election from his home constituency of Yanam (an enclave of Puducherry in Andhra Pradesh). He said he had taken the decision as he could not overlook the wishes of the people, especially more than 15,000 of them who had held a meeting in this regard...

02:00 PM, Mar 22, 2011

Chennai: Former Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy, who floated his own outfit All India N R Congress, after quitting from the territorial assembly and Congress, on Saturday called on AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa at her Poes Garden residence. An AIADMK release described it as "a courtesy call". AIADMK party treasurer O Panneerselvam, Headquarters Secretary K A Sengottaiyan and N R Congress party General Secretary V Balan, State Secretaries N...

03:09 PM, Mar 12, 2011

The '3 Idiots' actor will be seen in Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji' ...

01:53 PM, Aug 02, 2010

Lingaram Kodopi is accused of masterminding an attack on a Congress leader in which two people died. ...

10:47 AM, Jul 13, 2010

Police want to know if Mahalingam's death was accidental or a suicide. ...

04:20 PM, Jun 14, 2009

Ring on the finger of the body found helped identification. ...

10:30 AM, Jun 14, 2009

Loknath Mahalingam missing since Monday, say police. ...

11:55 PM, Jun 13, 2009

Police probing if personal problems caused disappearance of scientist. ...

01:20 AM, Jun 13, 2009

Nuclear scientist Lokanath Mahalingam missing for five days. ...

01:43 PM, Jun 12, 2009

Mahalingam went for his morning jog on June 8 and did not return. ...

08:58 AM, Jun 12, 2009