Lipin Raj,24, was not born blind. The boy from Pathnamthitta in central Kerala, who secured 224th rank in the UPSC exams this year, lost his sight at the age of nine but as it turns out, not his vision.
Ramesh Babu reports.
Low-cost eateries Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa opened in Chennai in February are turning out to be a foil to food inflation.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi wants the new Karnataka government to adopt a “balanced approach, fiscal prudence and quick delivery” on governance and address concerns of all sections, particularly Dalits.
Three persons, including a woman,were injured when a box containing "some chemicals" exploded at the main road in Pethaniapuram in Madurai today, police said.
Kerala speedster S Sreesanth's father Shantakumaran Nair today retracted from his earlier allegation that captain MS Dhoni and spinner Harbhajan Singh had implicated his son in the match-fixing scandal and issued an apology to them.
HT reports.
After the BJP's maiden government in south India was routed in May 5 elections, the party on Wednesday lost its claim to the main opposition in the Karnataka assembly.
India's monsoon rains may arrive on the southern coast around June 3, the weather office forecast Wednesday, a late debut that will raise fears any revival for drought-hit tracts of southern and western farmland could be delayed.
Two persons were killed and six injured in an explosion at a private fireworks factory at Singampatti near here today.
Taking its cue from the Karnataka voter who ousted the BJP government over corruption, the Congress high command is understood to have told its chief minister, Siddaramaiah, to keep tainted MLAs at bay.
Naveen Ammembala reports.
Tamil Nadu government today said it will formulate a separate policy for sports and youth welfare covering various aspects such as infrastructure and promoting sporting activities.
Anti-nuclear activists have sought details of the emergency plan from the authorities to check their preparedness in evacuating people living within the 16-km radius of the Tamil Nadu's 1,000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), an activist said on Tuesday.
Rejecting Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's charge that his party was behind the violence in various parts of the state, PMK founder S Ramadoss on Tuesday alleged that pro-Dalit Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi was behind the incidents.
Tamil Nadu government’s decision to withdraw structural licence to all the nine stands of the Chepauk stadium, which is to host the CSK versus DD T20 league match on Tuesday, has left cricket fans shocked and anxious.
A 50-year-old Congress supporter died today following a cardiac arrest soon after Karnataka's new chief minister Siddaramaiah took oath at a public venue in the city centre, police said.
Soon after assuming office as 28th chief minister of Karnataka on Monday, Siddaramaiah, 65, announced
Rs. 4,410-crore bonanza for the poor, SC/STs, OBCs, minorities and farmers.