JD(S) Supremo HD Deve Gowda on Thursday said that Janata Parivar will not destabilize the BJP govt in Centre but will highlight its failure in delivering election promises. Deve Gowda claimed that even a year after Narendra Modi came to power, poor are still suffering from malnutrition and farmer ar

Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi will become the next Chief Election Commissioner later this month. The Law Ministry has initiated the file for the appointment as the incumbent, H.S. Brahma, retires on April 19. Highly placed sources in the government said here on Wednesday that the Law Minis

Satyam scandal prime accused B Ramalinga Raju, once the poster boy of the ITeS industry, and his brother B Rama Raju were sentenced Thursday to seven years rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 5.5 crore each after they were convicted by a special court in the Rs 7,800-crore accounting fraud that shook

CHITTOOR:  Among the 20 alleged sandalwood smugglers who were shot dead in the sandalwood forests of Andhra Pradesh this morning, many were reportedly from across the border, provoking strong protests from Tamil Nadu, which wants an independent inquiry to determine how the men were killed. "Such

NEW DELHI:  India today evacuated 1,052 more Indians - including 574 from the Yemeni capital Sana'a on three Air India flights and 479  from Al Hodeidah on board the Indian Naval Ship Mumbai. Nearly 3,300 of the estimated 4,000 Indians in Yemen have been rescued in Operation Rahat,  so far. Defen

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government on Monday told the Bombay high court that the beef ban law may just be the beginning, and indicated that the ban on the slaughter of other animals may follow. The statement was made by Maharashtra advocate general Sunil Manohar, who justified the new state law c

NEW DELHI:  The Indian Navy on Saturday evacuated 441 people, including a pregnant woman and children, from the Port of Aden in strife-torn Yemen in almost 'war-like conditions'. 175 of those evacuated are foreigners. "Absolute tough environment at Aden... Evacuation of stranded Indians were carr

With road safety becoming a constant concern in the country, the government is finally taking corrective and preventive measures for making our roads more safe. One such measures includes making it mandatory for all commercial vehicles manufactured on or after April 1, 2015 to have anti-lock braking

Mira Road (District Thane, Maharashtra): A BJP corporator from the Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has been booked for allegedly molesting a minor girl here. The girl is a 13-year-old, class 7 student, belonging to a minority community. Police said Ashwin Kasodriya, 38, the corpora

AIMIM MLA Imtiyaz Jaleel (middle) and his team holding interviews for candidates ahead of Civic Polls in Aurangabad Aurangabad: Buoyed after winning two seats in 2014 assembly election in Maharashtra – one of it being the Aurangabad (Central) seat – the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (A

BENGALURU: The first batch of Indians left the shores of Yemen on board INS Sumitra, the Indian Navy's off-shore patrolling vessel, on Tuesday night. 344 Indians and 40 other nationals were rescued from Aden, around 450km from Yemen's capital Sana'a. The vessel is sailing to Djibouti, in the H

National carrier Air India, which was to send an aircraft to Yemen for bringing back Indian nationals stranded there, said the flight to the strife-torn country did not go ahead today as clearances are awaited from overseas authorities. "The aircraft for evacuating Indians stranded in Yemen will

PANAJI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) condemned the statement made by Union home minister and BJP leader Rajnath Singh over the government's commitment to implement a ban on cow slaughter across the country. "We condemn this. The BJP, which has a majority, never had this on their manifesto whe

Jhelum river today crossed danger level in Srinagar and Sangam area of South Kashmir with heavy rains lashing most parts of the state which sounded an alert asking people to move to safer places. A senior official said water level of river Jhelum at 6 AM at Sangam (South Kashmir) and Ram Munshi B

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday backed the demand for a total ban on cow slaughter across the country but admitted that it would not be easy to get a law passed due to the present Parliamentary arithmetic. The former BJP chief was addressing a convention of Jain saints and sadhvis in

At the time when the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi was vaunting in Delhi state elections in January this year of being “Kismatwala” (the fortunate one) in having ‘controlled’ inflation by chance as a consequence of international devaluation of petroleum products, some chief ministers of his part

Panaji, March 27 (IANS) Asserting that beef is an essential part of the diet of the minority community, Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Friday asked animal rights activists to tone down their agitation against beef imported from neighbouring states, Parsekar asked the activists to ‘go ea

MUMBAI: The trend of Indians returning from abroad to work here has picked up pace with the recovery in the country's economy. Counter intuitively this is even as the monetary benefit that these executives could expect to earn has reduced over the last few years. The gap in premium between what the