After 19 years of being in prison Rajiv Gandhi's killer Nalini Sreeharan could be freed on Thursday (March 11), with the Madras High Court set to review the controversial advisory board report on her premature release.

Once the object of envy of its counterparts elsewhere in the country, the commercial film industry in Kerala has lately been keeping the audience engrossed in the drama unfolding behind the screen. The controversy surrounding the outburst of senior actor Thilakan refuses to die down, hurting the already crisis-ridden industry.

Google has not changed its decision to stop censoring its Chinese search site even if it means leaving that market, a senior executive told a U.S. Congressional panel on Wednesday.

A day after Trinamool Congress (TC) abstained from voting on women's reservation bill in Rajya Sabha, party supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday night (March 10) met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and explained her party's stand. Banerjee, a key UPA constituent, and her party leader and Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi held a 45-minute meeting with Gandhi at her residence, which was described as "very positive".

New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to accord urgent hearing to a plea to derecognize major political parties for launching welfare schemes in the name of their leaders and issuing advertisements enhancing their poll prospects at the cost of the public exchequer.