Three close aides of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy lost their job for their involvement in the scam and links with the con woman.

The average days of employment provided per household, too, fell to 40.01 from 45.97 in 2013-14 and 46.20 in 2012-13.

The 80.7 mm precipitation received as on Wednesday represents just over 9 per cent of the normal LPA for the entire season.

The Centre has effected a moderate Rs 50 per quintal hike in the minimum support price for paddy compared to an average annual increase of around Rs 76 during the 10 years of the UPA rule.

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency on June 25, L K Advani remembers it as the crime that has not yet been confessed to.

The camps were reportedly located in and around Tamu area in northern Myanmar, near the borders of Nagaland and Manipur.

The figures are lower than the Rs 44,000 crore demanded by the National Conference-Congress government from the Centre after the floods.

He added that the government’s priority should be to encourage children and youth to take up outdoor sports that involve running and walking.

Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in connection with Sopore killings called for a meeting of Unified Headquarters that was attended by the top brass of the all the security agencies.

Noted architect BV Doshi on his six-decade friendship with colleague and contemporary Charles Correa

A truly democratic architect, Charles Correa built walls to take people higher, not to separate them.

His contribution is enormous in terms of both ideas and buildings, says Delhi based architect Raj Rewal.

The Centre has told the court that as many as 20 states have approved the Constitutional amendment to replace the Collegium system with the NJAC.

The ECIR will be filed under provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act and Foreign Exchange Management Act .

Jagendra Singh was allegedly set on fire by policemen on June 1 during a raid at his Shahjahanpur home.

Jaitley said Rs 2,602 crore had already been released last year and added that a team of the Niti Aayog CEO and expenditure secretary will visit J&K to take stock of the situation.

Sources believe the group’s chief S S Khaplang is under medical treatment in a Tatmadaw facility inside Myanmar and could be subjected to pressure from the armed forces.

In letters to Centre, former director of Kolkata CFL highlights lack of standards, facilities, expertise and experiments in laboratories.

With the spotlight on packaged foods’ failure to clear safety tests, The Indian Express samples 11 states and finds out how ill-equipped and understaffed their labs are.

Senior transport officials said the inspection report had found that “the crash was a manual error not a technical one”.

Underground and exposed cables allegedly belonging to BEST caught fire at Worli on Tuesday evening.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on June 17, Forty Years Ago.

The total number of nuclear warheads in the world is declining, primarily due to the US and Russia continuing to reduce their nuclear arsenal.

The row has divided experts with his supporters accusing the two writers of behaving “like tabloids — surfing on the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death’’.