32 killed as heavy rains lash AP Incessant rains for the last 24 hours due to a depression in the Bay of Bengal has taken a toll of 32 lives in Andhra Pradesh while seven fishermen are missing...
Bride walks out on drunken groom 24-year-old gutsy girl, Tuni Jena from Indupur village in Orissas Kendrapara district called off her marriage on the mandap when she found her fiance to be a drunkard...
Rain claims 19 lives in Kerala In all, 15 more people died in different parts of Kerala in the past 24 hours as the monsoon powered by high-speed winds continued to wreak havoc pushing the death toll to 19...
A boy looks at a globe left behind by floodwaters in Kolluru village in Kurnool, some 212 Kms from Hyderabad on Saturday. Three days of heavy rain and flash floods has left 41 people dead and forced more than 55,000 from their homes in Andhra Pradesh, according to official figures released. AFP
The nations conscience is divided between whether to retain incumbent President Abdul Kalam or anoint a woman president in the form of Pratibha Patil. Will the UPA candidate Ms Patil make a better constitutional head than Mr Kalam? Certainly not, feel a majority of Deccan Herald readers. Since Ms Patil will become a pawn in the hands of her political boss, they want someone with a firm hand to be in the post.
