More Congress leaders jump into Karnataka CM race Bangalore, May 9: Ahead of Congress observers' arrival here for selection of Karnataka's new chief minister, the race for the post intensified with more Congress leaders wanting their names to be considered. Siddaramaiah, who was leader of the

JAIPUR: For about a month now, eighty-two wage-earners from the country including 33 from Rajasthan are stranded in Saudi Arabia. A travel and placement company from Jaipur had sent them to Saudi Arabia, where they were made to work as labourers for a few months and then left stranded in Riyadh. It

HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: India could witness large-scale reverse migration in the coming months as the three-month grace period given by the Saudi Arabian government for implementation of the Nitaqat law comes to an end soon. Over 18,000 Indians have already approached the Indian Embassy in Riyad

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has questioned the credibility of CBI probe into the coal scam and has asked for a thorough and qualitative investigation. Expressing strong displeasure at govt's interference in the Coalgate probe report, the apex court said, "the heart of the report was changed on t

Buoyed by its success in Karnataka, Congress Ministers today said this was an "innings defeat" for BJP and the verdict has exposed its star campaigner Narendra Modi. "In Karnataka, the match is over and BJP has suffered an innings defeat. It will now blame the bat, the ball and the pitch for

  The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) rout in Karnataka "is a clear result against (its) ideology", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. "The people of the country know what's what and they will reject the BJP ideology as the result in Karnataka shows," he told reporters. &

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