Puducherry Lt governor Dr Iqbal Singh unfurled national flag on the occasion of Republic Day celebrations in Puducherry on Thursday.
A central team will arrive soon to assess the damage by cyclone Thane, which left a trail of death and destruction in Puducherry and Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu.
Puducherry education minister PML Kalyanasundaram facing charges of impersonation in the SSLC public exam was on Saturday sacked from the cabinet by the Union Territory chief minister N Rangasamy.
Puducherry state unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI) today slammed the Union Territory's chief minister N Rangasamy for "keeping mum" on the Centre's controversial decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail.
Union home minister P Chidambaram is scheduled to participate at a function to felicitate "thavil" maestro Valayapatti A R Subramaniam here on Sudnay.
The Rangasamy ministry in Puducherry was expanded on Sunday, with the induction of one more minister, taking the strength of the nearly four-month-old All India (NR) Congress government to six.
Puducherry’s education minister, who had used a proxy to write his class X exams recently, faces possible arrest. A probe by senior education department official of the Tamil Nadu government has confirmed that the minister had used an impersonator.
Puducherry chief minister N Rangasamy paid floral tributes at the statue of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the occasion of the leader's 67th birth anniversary on Saturday.
Ousting Congress, AINRC-AIADMK combine on Friay secured a majority winning 17 of the 26 seats for which results were declared and was leading in two in the elections to the 30-member Puducherry Assembly.
Making an impressive electoral debut, the All India NR Congress (AINRC) in alliance with ADMK today secured a two-third majority in the 30-member Puducherry Assembly, ending the DMK-supported Congress rule.
All India NR Congress founder N Rangasamy, whose party made a stunning electoral debut in alliance with AIADMK to dethrone his former party Congress in the assembly elections, is likely to be sworn in as Puducherry Chief Minister tomorrow.
N Rangasamy, who ended the reign of his former party Congress in a stunning electoral debut for his outfit, was on Monday sworn in as Chief Minister of Puducherry for a third term.
AICC would soon depute a team to the union territory to ascertain reasons for poor performance of the party in the April 13 assembly polls.
BJP has demanded a probe into alleged corrupt practices of the previous Congress regime in procuring rice from private rice mill owners for the free rice scheme.
CBI has registered a case against Collector and Special Secretary to Puducherry government G Ragesh Chandra and others over alleged irregularities in constructing houses under the tsunami rehabilitation project.