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From the Print Edition
Games: Manmohan orders probe into ‘irregularities'
Secretaries panel to have jurisdiction over Organising Committee

Omar: we will engage 50,000 youths in public service
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Saturday that his government would soon take steps to engage 50,000 youth in public service. He asked separatists to come to the dialogue table for resolving political ...

Kerala police to help execute warrant against Maudany
KOLLAM: A high-level police meeting here on Saturday decided to help the Karnataka police execute the arrest warrant against People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasir Maudany, after Sunday afternoon. An accused in the Bangalore serial ...

Two killed in CRPF firing
SRINAGAR: Two persons were killed in CRPF firing at Anantnag and Narbal even as curfew was clamped in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir Valley on Saturday to thwart protests following the death of four civilians in Friday's police ...

Pranab calls on Mamata
Kolkata: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday called on Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee at her residence here, to enquire after her health. He rubbished media reports that he had come on a ...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Now, viruses target mobile phones too
Newer kinds of spying tools start invading mobile domain

Reading about the spill is one thing, but seeing it is different, says Jairam
Sand, water and shrivelled mangroves bear witness on Elephanta Island

All authors ‘approved final version' of superbug report: Lancet
CHENNAI: All the authors, including the Indian researchers, involved in the project approved the final version of the paper on the superbug that appeared in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The fine print in the journal explicitly states: ...

Come for talks, Pratibha tells Maoists
“Proponents of extreme ideologies must abandon their path of violence”

Delhi T3's carpet not so welcoming
A traveller's guide to the good, bad and ugly of New Delhi's new airport terminal

“DMK regime anti-farmer”
TIRUCHI: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Jayalalithaa on Saturday accused Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi of betraying the interests of farmers and held the DMK government responsible for causing a downslide in ...

78-year-old robber in police net
TAMBARAM: A 78-year-old man was arrested on Thursday on charges of robbing gold jewellery and silver articles from more than two dozen houses of senior citizens in the southern suburbs of Chennai. The accused confessed to the police and ...

FROM THE PAGES OF THE HINDU
Recreating the spirit
On India's 64th Independence Day, The Hindu tries to recreate the spirit of that historic occasion. In this special two-page feature, we reproduce excerpts from special reports published in The Hindu on August 15, 1947. Prime Minister ...

FROM THE PAGES OF THE HINDU
FREE INDIA IS BORN: UNION CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ASSUMES POWER
MEMBERS TAKE PLEDGE OF SERVICE TO COUNTRYRAJEN BABU’S ASSURANCETO MINORITIES

FROM THE PAGES OF THE HINDU
A RED-LETTER DAY
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1947

FROM THE PAGES OF THE HINDU
MR. NEHRU’S MESSAGE
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in an Independence Day message to the nation, has appealed to the people "as citizens of a great country" to live up to that high standard. Explaining the task ahead, Pandit Nehru says they should endeavour "to build ...

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