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Chennai, March 8 : Vennira Aadai Nirmala, who made her debut in Tamil cinema along with now Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, will be one of the star campaigners for the AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

Premature deaths of their fathers has also propelled some yuvarajs into frontline positions, but in the Congress they cannot get to the top as the slot is pre-booked.

New Delhi, March 7 - Two Italian anti-piracy marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen two years ago filed a petition against Indian authorities permitting that country's NIA anti-terrorism police to probe the case, judicial sources told ANSA on Friday.

Seoul, March 8 : South Korea, almost a quarter of whose population of 50 million are Buddhists, has received a sapling of the sacred Bodhi Tree from India's Bodh Gaya town, a fulfilment of an offer Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, as a special gesture of India's friendship and goodwill, when she ... (more)

The right wheels of the Airbus 320 operated by budget airline Indigo caught fire during the landing and passengers were quickly evacuated.

A rear wheel of an Airbus A320 operated by an Indian budget airline caught fire after landing at Nepal's international airport in Kathmandu on Saturday, officials said.

A rear wheel of an Airbus A320 operated by an Indian budget airline caught fire after landing at Nepal's international airport in Kathmandu on Saturday, officials said.

Pakistan and India have agreed to form a joint working committee to finalise a 500MW electricity project after a successful visit of a Pakistani delegation to India this week, according to sources in the ministry of water and power.

An onlooker watches the digital broadcast on the facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange during intra-day trade in Mumbai yesterday.

An international tech consulting firm confirmed Friday the federal government is investigating its use of U.S. visas to bring in foreign workers.

It is the sheer scale of the endeavour that seizes the imagination - 814 million voters, 930,000 polling stations, 1.4 million electronic voting machines, 11 million police and security officers.

An Indian naval officer was killed and "some" dock workers were injured on Friday in a gas leak aboard a yet-to-be commissioned naval ship, the defence ministry said.

However, the talks were put on hold due to the entry of Japanese retailer Aeon," the Indian paper cited one of two sources familiar with the negotiations as saying.

None of the IITs have made it to the top 100 of a global list released by the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings on Thursday.

Bharat and India have come together to create a dangerous environment for working urban women.

He also took on the judiciary, saying it was the judicial system which failed to punish the corrupt.

And with that statement, seemingly innocent and complimentary, the whole context of my conversation with the Indian man sitting next to me was immediately altered from a friendly exchange aboard an overnight bus to Bangalore to a heart-stopping, potentially threatening situation.

The race near New Delhi, having joined the calendar in 2011, is absent from this season's schedule mainly because of the sport's issues with the Indian tax situation.

The voting will start in a month's time, on April 7, but the voting will move around the country on nine phases, ending on May 12. Then the votes will all be counted-there are 814 million eligible voters-and the result will be known on May 16. But a lot of people think they know the result now: Narendra Modi of the BJP will be prime minister, and ... (more)

After an acid attack disfigured her face when she was 16, it would've been understandable if Laxmi had decided to retreat from society.