Uma Sudhir Sandeep Phukan

JC Diwakar Reddy, the TDP lawmaker banned last month by domestic airlines for creating a ruckus at Visakhapatnam airport, can fly again. IndiGo, the budget airline that first grounded the 73-year-old lawmaker for misbehaving with its officials, said he had expressed regrets at a meeting today. Senior airline officials had met the lawmaker over a lu...

The new state of Telangana will consist of the region's 10 current districts, the cabinet has decided. This evening, it abandoned a plan to annexe two more districts.

The union government has abandoned a plan that would have made the new state of Telangana larger than originally discussed. The Centre's decision comes just hours after exit polls showed the BJP winning four of the five states that voted recently.

In Kasargod district in north Kerala, 28-year-old Shailini has had two stillbirths and her third pregnancy had to be aborted. Doctors have linked her condition to years of exposure to endosulfan.Kasaragod in Kerala has become an overwhelmingly tragic Exhibit A for those who are campaigning to have the pesticide banned. Thousands have been affected ...

Hours after he met Home Minister P Chidambaram as a peace offering, sources in Jairam Ramesh's party say that while he has been reprimanded, he will not be asked to exit the government for now.Ramesh has, instead, been told by the Congress high command to stop speaking out of turn, and to "stay within party limits."In China last week, Ramesh, who i...

JC Diwakar Reddy, the TDP lawmaker banned last month by domestic airlines for creating a ruckus at Visakhapatnam airport, can fly again. IndiGo, the budget airline that first grounded the 73-year-old lawmaker for misbehaving with its officials, said he had expressed regrets at a meeting today. Senior airline officials had met the lawmaker over a lu...

The new state of Telangana will consist of the region's 10 current districts, the cabinet has decided. This evening, it abandoned a plan to annexe two more districts.

The union government has abandoned a plan that would have made the new state of Telangana larger than originally discussed. The Centre's decision comes just hours after exit polls showed the BJP winning four of the five states that voted recently.

In Kasargod district in north Kerala, 28-year-old Shailini has had two stillbirths and her third pregnancy had to be aborted. Doctors have linked her condition to years of exposure to endosulfan.Kasaragod in Kerala has become an overwhelmingly tragic Exhibit A for those who are campaigning to have the pesticide banned. Thousands have been affected ...

Hours after he met Home Minister P Chidambaram as a peace offering, sources in Jairam Ramesh's party say that while he has been reprimanded, he will not be asked to exit the government for now.Ramesh has, instead, been told by the Congress high command to stop speaking out of turn, and to "stay within party limits."In China last week, Ramesh, who i...