Verdict in Rathore case deferred to May 25
CHANDIGARH: A sessions court here on Thursday deferred to May 25 its verdict on a plea for enhancing the sentence to the former Haryana police chief, S.P.S. Rathore, in the 1990 molestation case. Judgment lengthy Additional ...
World Tamil meet theme song at The Hindu website
CHENNAI: The theme song of the World Classical Tamil Conference, written by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and set to music by maestro A. R. Rahman, is available for download on the website of The Hindu, ...
Storm likely to re-enter Bay of Bengal
NEW DELHI: Cyclonic storm ‘Laila' crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast on Thursday evening at Bapatla, wreaking havoc over large tracts of the coastal area. However, the damage was lesser than feared. The India Meteorological ...
How did ‘Laila' become less ferocious?
NEW DELHI: Even as late as Wednesday evening, cyclonic storm ‘Laila' was forecast to hit the Andhra Pradesh coast in a ferocious manner. But it lost steam significantly overnight, resulting in a substantially lower loss of life and ...
CBI to seek extradition of Ravi Shankaran
NEW DELHI: Nearly four years after he was declared a proclaimed offender by a Delhi Court, Ravi Shankaran, one of the main accused in the Naval War Room leak case, has been arrested in London. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ...
Tendrils of spill enter Gulf loop current
Washington: A long “tendril” of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig that exploded last month has entered the Gulf loop current and this could carry the oil to the Florida Keys and even up the Atlantic Coast, said ...
After Facebook, Pakistan bans YouTube
ISLAMABAD: On a day when Pakistan extended the ban on social networking website Facebook to the online video-sharing platform YouTube for carrying caricatures of the Prophet, the Foreign Office urged the international community to address the ...
Kanishka memorial vandalised
TORONTO: A monument built for the victims of the 1985 bombing of Air India's Kanishka flight has been vandalised ahead of the incident's 25th anniversary. The Indian-Canadian community is outraged that a stainless steel gnomon or shadow ...
Expired drugs in government hospitals seized
CHENNAI: The CBI has seized time-barred medicines from Central government hospitals in Chennai, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. During a surprise check between May 15 and 18 in seven hospitals/dispensaries, it found expired drugs being ...
