Cracks widened in the ruling Congress in Puducherry on Thursday as estranged party leader N Rangasamy and loyalist P Angalane resigned from their Assembly membership.
One more witness on Tuesday turned hostile in a court in Puducherry during cross examination in the Sankararaman murder case in which Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi is the prime accused.
Two functionaries of DMK and Periyar Dravida Kazhagam, detained under NSA for the past one month for allegedly trying to illegally transport Sri Lankan refugees from the union territory to Australia in October, have been released.
A CBI team on Friday conducted searches in the Department of Radio Diagnosis at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research here.
Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh contributed to the Armed Forces Flag Day fund on the occasion of the celebration of the Flag Day here today.
Normal life remained affected in Puducherry with rain continuing unabated for the sixth day in succession.
Devotees from all over the country today paid homage to revolutionary-turned-spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo at his ashram here on the occasion of his 60th death anniversary.
The Pattali Makkal Katchi on Wednesday alleged that the government was resorting to political vendetta by getting one of its party functionaries arrested under the National Security Act.
BJP activists today dragged the golden chariot within the precincts of the Manakula Vinayakar temple as a mark of celebrating the 83rd birthday of party veteran LK Advani, party sources said.
Leaders and volunteers of the Left parties today held a demonstration near the Head Post Office in Puducherry protesting against the visit of the US President Barack Obama to India.
Puducherry Chief Minister V Vaithilingam accompanied by Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs V.Narayanasamy were among those who paid homage to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 26th death anniversary on Sunday.
Dusting his blue overalls, 23-year old Narendra Kumar smiled when asked what he was doing near Puducherry, 2,000 km away from his village in Jajatpur, Uttar Pradesh.
A councillor of commune panchayat and three others were arrested on charges of attempting to send some Sri Lankan Tamil refugees from here to a foreign country.
BJP Puduchery unit has condemned the rermarks by Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi that RSS was no different from banned terror outfit SIMI and described it as "immature and highly objectionable".
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi would declare open the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Research Institute at Kadirkamam near here on September 18.