In this photograph taken on July 24, 2013 Pakistan candidate for the upcoming presidential election of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN), Mamnoon Hussain arrives to submits his nomination paper at the High Court in Islamabad.  Pakistan on July 30, 2013 elected businessman Mamnoon Hussain

New Delhi: Telangana, one of the three regions of Andhra Pradesh, will be carved out as India's 29th state; the industrial hub of Hyderabad will be a common capital for the next 10 years, the Congress said today. The decision to create a Telangana state, a process that's likely to take six months,

Washington: The controversy over Indian MPs' letters to President Barack Obama for denying visa to Narendra Modi has taken a new turn with a California-based Forensic Document Examiner certifying that the signatures of the lawmakers are "original and authentic" and not a cut and paste job as cla

India's advanced meteorological satellite INSAT-3D was successfully launched by an European rocket from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana early today, giving a boost to weather forecasting and disaster warning services. European space consortium Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket launched I

Andhra Pradesh chapter of the Students Islamic Organisation of India held a protest in front of Rajiv Vidya Mission State Office followed by a huge rally complaining that the Right to Education (RTE) Act was not being implemented in rural areas and demanded that steps be taken to increase the

BANGALORE/CHENNAI (TNN): Navaj Sharief, 39, left the family steel business to start Ammi's Biryani in Bangalore five years ago. It delivers traditional biryani hassle-free to hungry diners at their homes. Private equity firm SAIF Partners whetted this self-proclaimed foodie's appetite with an in

July 05: (Dr. Ram Puniyani) From 2002 Gujarat carnage Gujarat in particular and India in general has seen the rise of Narendra Modi on the political firmament. His propaganda machinery has given him the image whereby he is regarded as the ‘development man, non corrupt, strong and all that. A subs

New Delhi, July 05: Many innocent Muslims languish in Indian jails on fake terror charges. After the recent acquittal of hundreds after lengthy periods of incarceration, activists put pressure on the government to stop demonizing Muslims. Nine years after Ishrat Jahan, 19, was killed along w

In a statement before the Magistrate, DIG of crime branch D.G. Vanzara reportedly claimed he got the nod from Gujarat’s political leadership for the encounter. CBI is probing “all angles” in the Ishrat Jahan case including the statements of some witnesses claiming knowledge of political consp

PATNA (TNN): In an important decision in the light of JD (U) parting ways with the BJP recently, the Bihar cabinet on Tuesday OK'd a sum of Rs 800.30 crore for the development of minorities under the centrally-sponsored Multi-Sectoral Development Programme (MSDP) in 75 blocks and eight towns wit

Mumbai (Indian Express): In a raid that lasted six hours, a joint team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Income Tax (Vigilance) wing seized 102 bags, each containing packets of gold, diamonds and cash, after it intercepted four trucks at Mumbai Central railway station on Monday nigh

NEW DELHI (TOI): The fear of an epidemic outbreak in flood-ravaged areas of Uttarakhand may be turning into reality as hundreds of people from local villages reported to medical camps set up by the forces complaining of fever, diarrhoea and vomiting. At least 128 people reported high temperature

  As authorities try to analyse reasons for the unprecedented death and destruction caused by the rain-induced disaster in Uttarakhand, the unusually high rainfall in Dehradun on June 16 and 17 will have to take part of the blame. Though the 370 mm of rainfall recorded in Dehradun wit

Bangalore, June 24, 2013, (IANS) Karnataka's state forest department Monday launched a operation to send back a herd of 15 wild elephants, including four calves, into the forest corridor from where they strayed into the city's outskirts, a senior official said. "About 50 officers and guards ente

  The police on Saturday night have taken three persons into custody in connection with the gang-rape of an MBBS student of Manipal University here. According to sources they are said to be from Athradi and Hiriyadka.  Earlier, the police claimed that they have gathered crucial clues

Ahmedabad: A Special CBI court in Ahmedabad on Friday declared Gujarat IPS officer PP Pandey an absconder in the 2004 fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of the special CBI court H S Khutwad on Friday passed an order proclaiming Additional DG

The Indian rupee made a fresh all-time record low of Rs16.033 against Dh1 (Rs58.89 vs. $1) at 9.30am on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, sinking through yesterday's lifetime low of Rs16.026 vs. Dh1, and was trading at Rs15.99 against the UAE dirham at 5pm UAE time. Dh1 is fetching upwards of Rs15.85 at th

Bihar: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU) is expected to part ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP and end the 18-year alliance this weekend, sources have told NDTV. A final decision on snapping ties could be taken at a JDU meeting in Patna on Saturday. BJP Pre