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

HYDERABAD: Loans continue to evade minorities and figures show that less than Rs 14 crore of the earmarked Rs 32,219.85 crore priority sector lending (PSL) was disbursed to minority communities in FY 2012-13. Worse, the 46 banks of the State Level Bankers' Committee (SLBC) have recorded an abysma

New Delhi/Kolkata/Patna, June 12, 2013, (IANS): The political drama around the rise of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday threatened to impact Bihar, with the state's ruling JD-U expected to snap its 17-year-old alliance with the BJP and the impending development triggering talk of a th

NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday asked Saudi Arabia to reconsider its decision to reduce the number of overseas pilgrims to the country by 20%. "We have been informed by the Saudi government that they intend to bring about reduction of 50% internal pilgrims from Saudi Arabia for the Haj and 20% fr

MUMBAI: Train passengers will be able to use their mobile phones to book tickets through a simple text-messaging-based facility or a menu-based dialling service from July 1. The two non-internet systems developed by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) can be used with eve

The Elector’s Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) will be treated as residential proof of a citizen in India, an Election Commission official said here on Tuesday. "An intensive house-to-house survey will be launched soon to incorporate latest information about the residential address of a citizen. T

From outside it may look to be a crisis within BJP. It appears as if Modi and Advani, the former King and the grooming Prince, are in an open confrontation. Within less than 24 hours of Modi’s elevation as the Leader of BJP for the coming Lok Sabha elections, Advani has expressed his anguish at the

NEW DELHI: The rift in BJP was on Monday wide open with LK Advani quitting from all the party posts, apparently opposing the elevation of his one-time protege Gujarat chief ministerNarendra Modi as election campaign committee chief. 85-year-old Advani, a founder member of the BJP and consider

AURANGABAD/PUNE: An 11-month-old boy from Maharashtra's Beed district has been found infected with the vaccine derived polio virus (VDPV). This is the first such case in the state and the third in the country since March 2012. Health officials said the boy's stool sample tested positive for VDPV

JEDDAH: Last Update 4 June 2013 10:26 am Individuals and companies in the Kingdom have been instructed to register their local addresses with the Civil Affairs Department or Saudi Post as the Council of Ministers yesterday passed a decision making it mandatory. The Cabinet passed a law activating

Mumbai: A Delhi-bound Jet Airways flight from Mumbai aborted take-off today after the aircraft’s cargo door was found open, airport sources said. The runway was vacated following the incident which happened around 6 PM and the aircraft taken to a parking bay, they said. “The pilot of the Jet Air

New Delhi, Jun 3, 2013 (PTI) Setting a new bench mark in transparency in politics, the Central Information Commission today held political parties are answerable under the Right to Information Act. A Full Bench of the Commission comprising Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra and I