National

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the country's preparedness to deal with potential floods and heatwaves and directed a National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) study to find out how many states are following the guidelines for dealing with forest fires, heatwaves and floods,...

Port of Spain: India and Trinidad and Tobago have signed eight agreements in sectors including tourism, healthcare, infrastructure and Ayurveda during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's two-day visit to the Caribbean nation, according to an official statement. Jaishankar, who visited the Caribbean nation on May...

Srinagar: The Blackberry Messenger (BBM) application has again surfaced on the terror network in Jammu and Kashmir, with the interrogation of a key Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist indicating the use of several applications, including some banned ones, to communicate with other members, officials said Sunday. An...

Chennai: TVK chief Vijay Sunday attempted to convert the oath-taking ceremony into a powerful oath-speech by going off-script and making hand gestures to signify his strength and power, but Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar intervened and asked him to confine to the official oath....

Bhubaneswar: BJD president Naveen Patnaik Sunday congratulated C Joseph Vijay on being sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Patnaik, a former five-time Chief Minister of Odisha, said he was hopeful that Tamil Nadu would reach new heights of development under Vijay's leadership....

New Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh wrote to Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav Sunday, claiming that the Great Nicobar Island development project would "destroy" the unique ecosystem there, and urging him to pause, reflect, and revisit the venture in its present design and detail. In his...

Kadapa: Prohibitory orders were clamped here following an agitation and stone pelting at Almas Pet junction over naming of a centre, police said Sunday. According to police, members of a community wanted the junction to be named after ruler of the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom, Tipu...

Guwahati: Himanta Biswa Sarma was elected as the leader of the BJP-led NDA in the Assam assembly Sunday, paving the way for him to become the chief minister for the second consecutive term in the state, Union minister J P Nadda said. It will be...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay Sunday announced 200 units of free electricity and the formation of the "SingaPen" Special Task Force as among the first major decisions of his government shortly after taking the oath. Soon after the swearing-in ceremony at the...

Chennai: Actor-cum-Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) President C. Joseph Vijay was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Sunday, marking a historic political shift in the state, which saw an end to nearly six decades of alternating rule by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)...