New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday expressed concern over the increasing incidents of communal violence and said government will ensure those guilty are punished. Speaking at the inauguration of the National Integration Council (NIC) meet in Delhi, the prime minister said the me

BJP MLA Sangeet Som, accused of allegedly circulating a hate video that allegedly led to the recent riots, being produced in a court in Muzaffarnagar. LUCKNOW: A day after the arrest of BJP MLA Suresh Rana, two more MLAs, Sangeet Singh Som of the BJP and Noor Salim Rana of the Bahujan Samaj

Chennai: The Makkah Masjid on Chennai's busy Anna Salai road is like any other mosque as you approach it. But enter and walk up the stairs and you find 40 young men listening to a lecture or thumbing through reference books. They are all preparing for the civil services examination. The mosque

What’s the most important need of Muslims right now? The mosque built on a disputed land for barely 200 Muslims? The promises made in Parliament or the rightful share in the resources and policies of the country? In order to help you move to the right pole we will expose you to some uncanny statisti

BANGALORE: Jnanpith awardee and acclaimed Kannada writer Dr UR Ananthamurthy has said he will not live in a country with Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister, triggering angry reactions from BJP which said he was free to leave India. As a controversy broke out over his strident anti-Modi remar

NEW DELHI: India on Sunday successfully test launched over 5,000-km Agni-V missile, which will be able to hit even the northernmost part of China, from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast. This is the second test launch of the long range missile. The first test was conducted on April 19,

NEW DELHI: Convicting the four accused for murder in the Nirbhaya case on Tuesday, the fasttrack court observed that the internal injuries caused by the accused were an "intended act don e with the sole intention of causing death." Hence they were clearly indicted for murder. "The accused person

DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday extended till September 17 the NIA custody of Yasin and his close associate Asadullah Akhtar after the agency claimed they were involved in a deep rooted conspiracy and had executed various blasts in India. Yasin (Ahmed) and Akhtar were produced before District jud

Shoot-at-sight orders were issued in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, 450 km from here, as the toll in the communal violence that led to tension in three other districts rose to 19. Situation remained "very tense” as violence spread to rural areas in the riot-torn district despite the

As per the practice, EPFO is supposed to provide annual PF account slips for its subscribers by September 30. NEW DELHI: Retirement fund manager EPFO on Friday launched a facility to enable its over 5 crore subscribers view updated accounts online on real time basis without waiting for their

MUMBAI: Indian railways will install fire and smoke detection system on air-conditioned coaches. The system is capable for checking and giving alarm to passenger during initial stages of fire, thereby giving valuable time for shifting to safe areas and evacuation. A senior railway official sa

Jodhpur: Asaram Bapu, accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in his ashram, is said to have told police that “if a grandfather spends one-and-a-half hours alone with his granddaughter in a room and says something lovingly, it is not a crime”. But he denied all allegations of sexual as

BANGALORE: After facing humiliating defeat at the hands of Congress in the just-concluded bypolls to LokSabha and the Upper House, the grand plans of alliance among opposition parties appears to be doubtful for the 2014 parliamentary elections. All the three prime opposition parties — JD(S), BJ

AYODHYA/ NEW DELHI: Senior VHP leader Praveen Togadia was taken into preventive custody on Sunday morning after he defied prohibitory orders. Togadia was arrested from Gola ghat in Ayodhya. VHP chief Ashok Singhal left for Lucknow on Sunday morning on way to Ayodhya. However, the UP govt m

The skyrocketing prices of onion in the State are mainly because of lack of awareness among farmers on storage facilities for the harvested crop and the subsequent dependence on the yield and supply from Maharashtra.  In a survey conducted by the National Research Centre for Onion and Garlic

Delhi: Manmohan Singh's last Independence Day speech from Red Fort before general elections was an appeal for a third straight term for the Congress-led UPA at the Centre. The Prime Minister detailed his government's achievements over 10 years - which the BJP yesterday called the "dark decade

[caption id="attachment_40472" align="aligncenter" width="630"] Indian Navy sailors work at the naval dockyard where a submarine caught fire and sank after an explosion on Wednesday in Mumbai.[/caption] New Delhi: The Indian Navy on Thursday released the names of the 18 crewmen who were present in

HUBLI -After stray cattle, miscreants are attacking people with acid in the city. On Tuesday night, in an hour, three people were attacked with acid in two separate incidents. In one incident two motorbike-borne miscreants attacked Allahbaksh Balaganur and his son Sharukh with acid near their