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

Thiruvananthapuram: The chief minister of Kerala Oommen Chandy was escorted by police officers to a cabinet meeting today, as thousands of workers from the opposition surrounded the government's offices at the secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram, demanding his resignation over what's known locally a

MANGALORE: Haj operations from Mangalore International Airport (MIA) at Kenjar near here are scheduled to commence from September 7 and Haj departures will run up to September 9. This is the fifth year of operation from Mangalore. The arrival of Pilgrims will start on October 20 and the last flight

NEW DELHI: Muslims think Congress is "defensive and apologetic" about their welfare because of RSS propaganda, minority affairs minister Rahman Khan has told the Congress leadership, urging a course correction to bridge the trust deficit with the community. The minister said Congress turns up

JABALPUR: Madhya Pradesh's BJP-run government has ordered state-funded schools and even madrassas to introduce stories from the Bhagwad Gita in junior classes, triggering a storm in the Muslim community. Minority leaders on Monday accused the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government of saffronisation of Isl

MUMBAI: Runny noses and stomach flu aren't the only ills associated with overcast skies. The absence of sunlight hits production of Vitamin D in the body, adversely affecting blood pressure. A recent study in London by an Indian-born researcher has proved beyond doubt that the lower the vitamin

Bangalore: Puniyakoti, the famous poem about a cow and a tiger that is part of the Hindi Text Book of Class 8 has been amended to the original climax. Earlier, the previous BJP government during its tenure has modified the ending of the poem to suit its ideology of anti-cow slaughter. In the climax

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