Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai are among over 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as contenders by Time magazine for its annual ‘Person of the Year’ honour. The Time Person of the Year 2015 will be announced next month and the publication said the title will be […]
» Read moreThe Kerala Police on Wednesday arrested eight people, including “Kiss of Love” campaign organizer Rahul Pashupalan and his wife Resmi R Nair, over their alleged involvement in running online sex rackets across Kerala. The “Kiss of Love” campaign had raised a strong voice against the agents of moral policing. The movement was started after a mob of attackers demolished a […]
» Read moreTwo coaches of the Guwahati-Chennai Express derailed near Mantapampalli between Nandalur and Vontimitta railway stations in Kadapa District of Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours of Tuesday. However, there were no casualties or injuries to the passengers, according to railway officials. The derailment took place due to mud settling on a portion of the railway track as water flowed over […]
» Read morePithukuli Murugadas, the devotional singer aged 95, died here on Tuesday. Murugadas was a writer, lyricist and music composer too. The singer travelled extensively in the country and abroad and his songs on Krishna, particularly the compositions of Oothukadu Venkata Subbaiyer raised the bar for all other singers. Born at Coimbatore on January 25, 1920, in a Brahmin family, Murugadas […]
» Read moreChittoor Mayor Katari Anuradha was attacked with knives and then shot dead inside her office today by a group of five men who came disguised in burqas. Her husband, Telugu Desam Party leader Katari Mohan, was also injured in the attack. He has been admitted to a hospital in the city and is in critical condition. According to reports, the […]
» Read moreVishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ashok Singhal passed away on Tuesday, less than a week after he was admitted to a private hospital in Gurgaon following complaints of breathlessness. The death of the 89-year-old Hindutva veteran was announced by Singhal’s deputy in theVHP, Praveen Togadia. Singhal, who was diagnosed with right lower Lobe Pneumonia, was put on a ventilator on November […]
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