Ghaziabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will on Monday give away 8,000 laptops to students in Ghaziabad near Delhi. Ghaziabad Development Authority chairman Santosh Yadav said today that projects worth Rs.3,750 crore would be launched by the Chief Minister on Monday. In addi

PUNE: When D Vijay and his family stepped off the Air India flight from Dubai on Sunday afternoon, little did they know that they would have to rush to a shopping mall to get some essentials. Only two of their six items of checked luggage had arrived and after the family had waited by the bag

GWALIOR: Barely two weeks after he embarrassed BJP by saying the party lost Karnataka due to "opportunistic" politics, L K Advani sought to run down Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi suggesting his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan deserves more credit. Advani reiterated his

MANGALORE, May 30, 2013 Three students from Mangalore colleges, who are among the top five rank holders in engineering and medicine streams in the Common Entrance Test, have welcomed initiative of the State government to reimburse course fees for the top five rank holders if they join colleges in t

The Bangalore City Traffic Police will strictly enforce driver display card rule for cab drivers, introduced to ensure the safety of passengers, from June 1. More than 35,000 drivers have obtained display cards and another 5,000 to 6,000 drivers are yet to obtain them. The authorities have gea

A charge sheet was filed against the jailed former Minister G. Janardhan Reddy, his aide Mehfouz Ali Khan and five others before the Special CBI Court here on Monday by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation. The case, which was referred to the CBI by the Supreme Court o

Bangalore. May 23, 2013. While majority of the Urdu readers aren’t aware of the laws mentioned in the Indian Constitution or find difficult to comprehend as fewer books on legal matters were penned in Urdu, Mr. Zia-ul-haq Karnataki, a well known writer, an Urdu columnist for various news papers and

Under sharp attack from the BJP on the fourth anniversary of the UPA 2 government it leads, the Congress can draw some solace from the fact that the main opposition party too is struggling with a leadership battle now playing out for all to see. Not only is there a divide on who should be the

  The Supreme Court has dubbed the CBI as "caged parrot" for showing its report to a minister and compromising on its independence. But the SC-appointed special investigation team (SIT) to probe the 2002 riots had acted in a similar fashion and this was brought to the apex court's notice in

[caption id="attachment_34942" align="alignleft" width="318"] U.T. Khader.[/caption] MANGALORE, May 21, 2013The government will attempt to develop a general health insurance that assures economically-backward people of up to Rs. 2 lakh cover for surgeries and other treatments, said U.T. Khader, M

ALIGARH May 21: On the recommendations of the Discipline Committee, the Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University has ordered that the admission of Mr. Shahzad Alam, a PhD scholar, be cancelled with immediate effect from the rolls of the University. Mr. Shahzad has been debarred from seeki

Faizabad: Hindutwadi lawyers here attacked and seriously injured a lawyer defending Khalid Mujahid who was murdered in police custody on 19 May while being transported from Faizabad to Lucknow. A large march was organised yesterday, Monday, at Faizabad from the Eidgah to the Commissioner’s office

Bangalore, May 19, 2013, DHNS & Agencies: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has retained key portfolios of Finance, Industries and Energy, while K J George would be the new Home Minister.   Here follows the list of portfolios:  Siddaramaiah (Chief Minister):  Finance, Energy,  La

Two Indian girls have scripted history by becoming the first twins ever to climb Mount Everest together. 21-year-old Tashi and Nancy Malik from Dehra Dun achieved this feat by successfully reaching the world’s highest mountain peak at 8,848 meters, an official at Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism and C

India and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday in his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just weeks after a military stand-off between the Asian giants in the Himalayas. The number two in the Chin

New Delhi, May 19, 2013, (PTI) : In a firm message to China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight voiced India's serious concern over the recent Chinese incursion in Ladakh and told his counterpart Li Keqiang that in the absence of peace and tranquility along the border, bilateral ties will suff

LUCKNOW: Khalid Mujahid, one of the accused of 2007 serial blasts in Lucknow, Faizabad, Varanasi and Gorakhpur, died on Saturday. According to police, Khalid, who was lodged in Lucknow jail, was taken to Faizabad for a hearing in a local court in connection with the blasts. On the way back, he f

PUNE: The southwest monsoon has advanced over parts of Andaman Sea, while conditions are favourable for its further advance over some more parts of the south Bay of Bengal and remaining parts of Andaman Sea and the east-central Bay of Bengal during the next two to three days, the India Meteorolo