Many Farmers in Coimbatore region on Friday threatened that they would resort to mass suicide if government goes ahead with its plan to increase power tariff. Representatives of various farmers’ associations told a public hearing on tariff revision here that the agriculture sector in Tamil Nadu is already in doldrums due to failure of monsoon and resultant drought.

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to interfere into the functioning of the Group of Minister (GoM) appointed to examine the issue of CBI's autonomy.

Pakistan's interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Thursday promised to transfer power to the new government on time. The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) party of two-time Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general elections and Sharif is set to lead the country for the third time.

Asserting that the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) had full safety measures and four-tier security, Union Minister of State in the PMO, V Narayanasamy, on Tuesday said the Plant would soon begin functioning with Tamil Nadu government's cooperation.

An anti-nuclear movement opposing Koodankulam Nuclear power plant on Sunday described as an 'absurd drama', the Offsite Emergency exercise conducted by senior officials and scientists of KNPP at Nakkanery village, about seven km from the plant site.

Optimistic about India's electricity grid becoming the largest in the world, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that checks and balances have been put in place to avoid re-occurrence of any major grid collapse, similar to the one witnessed last summer.

India's nuclear regulator ordered replacement of four defective valves of the system that cools the reactor of Kudankulam nuclear power plant after the problem was detected during ongoing pre-commissioning tests.

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday hoped that India will continue to have good relations with Pakistan if former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif retains power. The neighbor nation went into polls on Saturday amidst terror threats and explosions and the election has been tagged as the democratic transition in Pakistan

North Korea vowed on Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea.

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant return to the centre stage of Pakistani politics at a time when the country is bedeviled by immense problems ranging from a tanking economy, corruption to Taliban insurgency.