"They can get me anytime"
COLOMBO: "They [LTTE] can get me anytime. I get very serious reports things are hotting up," Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar told The Hindu on July 29 during an informal interaction. Mr. Kadirgamar, an ardent ...
Ganguly named captain again
MUMBAI: Sourav Ganguly has regained captaincy of the Indian cricket team for the tour of Zimbabwe that starts later this month. The decision came after a marathon meeting of the five-man selection committee here on Friday. The left-hander, who ...
Volkswagen-India official arrested, taken to Hyderabad
NEW DELHI: The CBI has arrested Ashok Jain, Chief Adviser in the India Project of the German automaker Volkswagen in connection with the Rs 11.7-crore car project scam in Andhra Pradesh. CBI sources said that Mr. Jain was arrested in the early ...
``Need for a better electoral system''
TUTICORIN: : T. S. Krishnamurthy, former Chief Election Commissioner, said youths should carefully study the history of our rich culture and vast civilisation so that they can avoid committing past mistakes in order to build a strong ...
Digging into garbage for a `kick'
KRISHNAGIRI: The shocking revelation of rag pickers in Krishnagiri getting addicted to use of the whiteners for providing them a required `kick' is proving to be a cause for concern. Rag pickers sniff a whitener, which reportedly contains some ...
Supreme Court issues notice to Coca-Cola
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Coca-Cola on a special leave petition (SLP) from Perumatty grama panchayat in Kerala seeking to stay an order of the Kerala High Court directing the panchayat to issue licence to the soft ...
No going back on Krishna water: Andhra Pradesh
CHENNAI: The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on Friday assured the people of Chennai that his Government would do everything to provide Krishna water to the city. "There is no going back on our decision to supply water ...
Narrow escape for 60 school children
VIJAYAWADA: Over 60 school children had a narrow escape when the school bus in which they were travelling skidded off the road and hung precariously on to a water pipe line that prevented the vehicle from falling into the Bandar canal on Friday. ...
Jail term, fine for Euro Lottery `winner'
VIJAYAWADA: Kola Krishna Mohan of the fake Euro Lottery fame was sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment and a hefty fine of Rs. 25 lakhs by the First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, P. Prabhakar Rao, in a cheque bounce case ...
