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

Mumbai/Bangalore: The Election Commission has issued notices to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa and Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil for allegedly making provocative speeches in poll-bound Karnataka in violation of the election code of conduct. The ministers have time till 5 pm t

MUMBAI: Doordarshan's popular Urdu channel has landed in the soup with many Muslim viewers by airing a cooking show featuring a pork dish. In its April 9 episode, DD Urdu's series 'Taste Ki Baat Hai' (Talk of Taste) presented a recipe with pork and went on to speak of its deliciousness. Th

India and Germany Thursday signed six agreements to enhance cooperation in the areas of green energy, education, agriculture and science and technology.  The agreements were signed in the presence of visiting Indian  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the seco

CHENNAI ( DHNS):Eleven coaches of the Bangalore-bound Muzaffarpur-Yeshwantpur weekly express train derailed on Wednesday morning near Chitteri, close to Arakkonam in North Tamil Nadu, about 65 km from here. The accident killed one passenger on the spot and injured 33 others. As a result, many Bangal

NEW DELHI // An Indian court has ordered federal investigators to reopen a case against a ruling Congress party leader over 1984 riots that killed at least 3,000 members of the Sikh community. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had earlier cleared Jagdish Tytler and closed the case but a l

New Delhi: Union Minister Manish Tewari today took a dig at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is being described in the cyber world as 'Feku' (bragger). The Information and Broadcasting Minister was addressing a gathering after unveiling the 24th 'Cinema Special Edition' of the Limca

NEW DELHI: The unity of BJP-led National Democratic Alliance looks set to be tested this weekend with Janata Dal (United) likely to ask the saffron outfit to declare shortly its candidate for prime minister while making it clear that it would not accept a person lacking in "secular" image: polit

New Delhi, Apr 10 (IANS): The Congress will target the BJP in Karnataka on corruption and will release a charge sheet ahead of the assembly polls, said party sources Wednesday. "The charge sheet will be released April 13. We will also release our manifesto," said a Congress leader dealing with th

Rohtak/New Delhi: The Delhi Police has recovered two country-made pistols that were allegedly used to murder BSP leader and real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj at his farmhouse last month. The guns were found in a canal in Rohtak, Haryana last evening. Meanwhile, the cops continue to search for a

 Key ministers who served the BJP government pitted against each other, brothers crossing swords, erosion of Bellary mining baron's influence, a ruling party minus heavyweight B S Yeddyurappa and a fragmented political landscape -- the May five Assembly elections in Karnataka have all the ingredient

Thane: Ten-month-old Gudiya, found alive under rubble 29 hours after a seven-storey building collapsed in Thane, is well and being looked after by the staff at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Hospital in Kalwa, who named her. Her parents are untraced. Four-year-old Sandhya Thakur didn't have to be na

[caption id="attachment_30351" align="aligncenter" width="600"] AirAsia on Friday said it has received formal approval from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to launch an airline in the country in association with the Tatas.[/caption] AirAsia on Friday said it has received formal approval fr