[caption id="attachment_26784" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Commuters wait for transport beside parked taxis during the first day of a two-day nationwide strike in India on Wednesday. (AP)[/caption] NEW DELHI: Many Indian banks were closed and public transport disrupted on Wednesday because o

On a visit to Amritsar, British Prime Minister David Cameron  described the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 as "a deeply shameful event in British history." "We must never forget what happened here," he said of the shooting of nearly 1000 peaceful Indian protestors by British troops on the orde

  PATNA: Despite global economic slowdown and sagging domestic demand, Bihar has managed to record 11.95% annual growth rate, the highest among all the states, during the 11th Plan period. According to the Economic Survey 2012-13 tabled by deputy CM and finance minister Sushil Kumar Modi

New Delhi: I had to speak out as people of India are being misguided by Modi. I have criticized Delhi govt, I have criticized Maharashtra govt in the Aseem Trivedi case. Look at the level BJP is stooping to calling me a vagabond. I think Mr. Jaitely should resign and take sanyas. He t

New Delhi: After Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley asked Markandey Katju to quit, the Press Council Chairman today shot back, saying it is Mr Jaitley who should resign as "he is unfit for politics." In an article on the BJP website, Mr Jaitley had written that Justice Katju's a

Mangalore: Union Minister for Minority Affairs K Rehman Khan inaugurated the renovated Jamiya masjid in Kudroli here on Saturday. Addressing the gathering, he said that the most difficult task among the Muslim community is achieving unity. However, here two separate jamaths have been united to const

  Ahmedabad, Feb 15 (PTI) The Gujarat High Court today upheld by a majority verdict the constitutional validity of the Centre's pre-matric minority scholarship scheme, saying that it was "affirmative action" and not a discriminatory scheme. It also said that such a scheme would be permissib

NEW DELHI: The Rs 3,546 crore deal for 12 AgustaWestland AW-101 helicopters is going to be scrapped. The defence ministry (MoD) on Friday initiated action for cancellation of the contract inked in February 2010. It issued a formal show-cause notice to the UK-based subsidiary of Finmeccanica to e

New Delhi,:Over 200 academics, writers, artists and filmmakers have written to President Pranab Mukherjee saying that he erred over the hanging of Afzal Guru and expressed deep "anguish and outrage". In the letter submitted to the president Wednesday, they said: "We believe that you made a grave

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation will investigate a 4,000-crore helicopter deal between the government and Italian defence giant Finmeccanica, whose CEO was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly offering bribes in India to land the contract, according to Italian media. The Defence M

Kolhapur: In a speech that could well attract another case against him, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray today threatened the family of the state's Home Minister and NCP leader RR Patil in the presence of police at a rally in Kolhapur in Maharashtra. "When my workers are t

Allahabad, India:  A stampede at a railway station in northern India killed at least 36 Hindu pilgrims on Sunday, the busiest day of the world's largest religious festival at which some 30 million had gathered to wash away their sins in the sacred Ganges river. Twenty-seven of the dead were wom

New Delhi: A court here today directed Delhi Police to lodge an FIR against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray for allegedly branding Muslims from north India as insurgents and threatening them to throw out of the state. The court said it was “primary and bounden duty of the police to

[caption id="attachment_25929" align="alignleft" width="380"] Reuters[/caption] Hyderabad: In a move towards ensuring women’s safety, the Andhra Pradesh government today decided to set up all-woman police station in every district of the state. It was decided to open two to four women police s

HYDERABAD: Veteran Muslim leader and vice-president of Majlis-e-Tameer-e-Millat (METEM), Maulana Sulaiman Sikander died here on Sunday morning after a prolonged illness. Maulana Sikander, 86, trusted lieutenant of Maulana Syed Khaleelullah Hussain founded METEM to rejuvenate declining morale of t

  Srinagar: The entire Kashmir Valley remained under curfew for the second day after the execution of Afzal Guru at Delhi's Tihar Jail yesterday for his role in the attack on Parliament in 2001. Top Jammu and Kashmir officials reviewed the security measures last night. No major incide

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief ministerAkhilesh Yadav on Saturday midnight undertook a major rejig of the state bureaucracy, transferring 56 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 60 Indian Police Service (IPS) officials. In one of the biggest reshuffles of the state bureaucracy since he took over

  NEW DELHI: As Praveen Togadia faces denunciation and arrest for his provocative rhetoric, BJP leaders seem uneasy about the way the VHP leader upped the ante. Saffron strategists see the provocation from the VHP firebrand as an unnecessary distraction at a time when they were hoping to