The Congress Wednesday won a thumping victory in Karnataka to wrest power after a seven year gap, crushing the BJP in a key election ahead of next year's Lok Sabha ballot. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi voiced their satisfaction over the Karnataka result tha

Bangalore: The votes are in. The people have decided. Karnataka will soon know who has been chosen to represent the people in the next state assembly. Counting in the 2013 assembly elections begins at 8 am and the final outcome should be known by early afternoon at the latest. The ruling BJP is

NEW DELHI: Under fire from the opposition for its "soft" foreign policy in the face of Chinese incursion in eastern Ladakh, India has finally started to show some teeth to Beijing. The initiative has come from PM Manmohan Singh himself who, in a not so subtle message to Beijing, has decided to e

You cannot ignore BS Yeddyurappa. His Karnataka Janata Party or KJP is not expected to perform brilliantly in the state elections on Sunday. Yet, the BSY factor figures in every political discussion on the subject. For Mr Yeddyurappa, no more a contestant for the throne, could well play kingm

AHMEDABAD: The CBI has finally obtained an arrest warrant against additional director general of police P P Pandey in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. The CBI had unsuccessfully petitioned the court last month for the arrest warrant. It then filed a review petition before the sessions co

NEW DELHI: A third flag meeting between Indian and Chinese troops failed to break the deadlock between the two sides, with the Chinese insisting that India take down security structures in Fukche and Chumar in Ladakh without offering reciprocal commitments. "The meeting was unsatisfactory," f

Leh: The possibility of a third flag meeting in Ladakh today between Army commanders from China and India seems remote for now, as a stand-off continues over a Chinese platoon setting up camp 10 kilometres inside Indian territory in the Depsang Valley.   Two flag meetings in the last 10 days hav

LEH/NEW DELHI: As the intruding Chinese soldiers refuse to budge from their occupied position in Daulat Beg Oldi(DBO) sector in Ladakh, two Chinese military helicopters have violated Indian airspace at Chumar, several hundred kilometres southeast of Leh, adding to the prevailing tension. The Chi

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