NEW DELHI: Outrage over the rape of a five-year-old in Delhi spilled onto the capital's streets on Sunday as scores of angry protesters stormed the barricades outside the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The protests that started early morning took

New facility to help citizens of 11 countries in getting visa on arrival Thiruvananthapuram: The central government has approved the introduction of visa-on-arrival (VoA) service at Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi airports, a minister said Sunday. “The new facility will allow citizens of 11

New Delhi: A five-year-old who was kept hostage, mutilated and raped by her neighbour, is fighting for her life at Delhi's famous AIIMS hospital. The barbarous attack on her - she was violated with pieces of a candle and a bottle - has outraged the city. Through Friday, protestors shouted slo

BANGALORE: When every parent in Bangalore scrambles for a seat in a private school, the scene in this village on the outskirts is different. Here, parents are pulling out children from private schools and getting them enrolled in a government school. Such is the popularity of Government Primary

New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar  was sanctioned a financial package of Rs 12,000 crore  today by the centre. The first of four installments of Rs 3,000 crore will be paid to his state over the next few months, ahead of the national election. The centre's generosity comes as  Mr K

BANGALORE: The BJP government could not repair the targeted number of roads in its five-year regime, despite money being available for approved works. However, just before the assembly elections, it was suddenly able to take up pending road repairs and implement work orders on some of the art

  Bangalore: A blast rocked Bangalore's Malleshwaram, a largely residential area, just 100 metres from the ruling BJP's office this morning, injuring 16 people, including 11 policemen and two teenaged girls. The explosion occurred at around 10.30 am. Today was the last day for filing nomi

  Let’s look at the myth of Narendra Modi as a development candidate. There is no problem with the idea of him being projected as a candidate, or even as THE candidate, for development. This is because it is a good and positive approach in what is generally a country where politics is done o

Ahmedabad, Apr 15 (PTI) Zakia Jafri, wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, today filed a protest petition in a local court seeking rejection of the SIT report giving a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the Gulburg Society riot case. The p

NEW DELHI: Smarting under Nitish Kumar's frontal assault on Narendra Modi, BJP on Monday fired back at the Bihar chief minister amid mounting indications that it was preparing to pull out of the Bihar coalition. Sources said the BJP was readying itself to disengage from the Kumar-led governme

Mumbai/Bangalore: The Election Commission has issued notices to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa and Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil for allegedly making provocative speeches in poll-bound Karnataka in violation of the election code of conduct. The ministers have time till 5 pm t

MUMBAI: Doordarshan's popular Urdu channel has landed in the soup with many Muslim viewers by airing a cooking show featuring a pork dish. In its April 9 episode, DD Urdu's series 'Taste Ki Baat Hai' (Talk of Taste) presented a recipe with pork and went on to speak of its deliciousness. Th

India and Germany Thursday signed six agreements to enhance cooperation in the areas of green energy, education, agriculture and science and technology.  The agreements were signed in the presence of visiting Indian  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the seco

CHENNAI ( DHNS):Eleven coaches of the Bangalore-bound Muzaffarpur-Yeshwantpur weekly express train derailed on Wednesday morning near Chitteri, close to Arakkonam in North Tamil Nadu, about 65 km from here. The accident killed one passenger on the spot and injured 33 others. As a result, many Bangal

NEW DELHI // An Indian court has ordered federal investigators to reopen a case against a ruling Congress party leader over 1984 riots that killed at least 3,000 members of the Sikh community. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had earlier cleared Jagdish Tytler and closed the case but a l

New Delhi: Union Minister Manish Tewari today took a dig at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is being described in the cyber world as 'Feku' (bragger). The Information and Broadcasting Minister was addressing a gathering after unveiling the 24th 'Cinema Special Edition' of the Limca

NEW DELHI: The unity of BJP-led National Democratic Alliance looks set to be tested this weekend with Janata Dal (United) likely to ask the saffron outfit to declare shortly its candidate for prime minister while making it clear that it would not accept a person lacking in "secular" image: polit

New Delhi, Apr 10 (IANS): The Congress will target the BJP in Karnataka on corruption and will release a charge sheet ahead of the assembly polls, said party sources Wednesday. "The charge sheet will be released April 13. We will also release our manifesto," said a Congress leader dealing with th