Setting the stage for a high-stakes battle for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a large gathering at Maduranthakam near Chennai and declared that the countdown for the DMK’s exit has begun.

A Sri Lankan passenger was arrested at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport over an alleged fraud in which he let another person travel to London using his boarding pass and UK visa.

The National Weather Service warns the winter blast “will pose a life-threatening risk of hypothermia”. 

​The National Weather Service warns the winter blast “will pose a life-threatening risk of hypothermia”.