[caption id="attachment_16632" align="aligncenter" width="318"] Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Monday said that the State had stopped releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu since Sunday evening, File photo[/caption] BELGAUM (KARNATAKA), December 10, 2012 : The Karnataka government ha

[caption id="attachment_16621" align="aligncenter" width="475"] Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar and his wife Saira Banu arrive at the premier of Hindi film Talaash, directed by Reema Kagti in Mumbai in November.[/caption] Mumbai: He never allowed her to hold his hand in public but 46 years of marriag

College in India's Haryana state to fine students Rs100 for breaking the dress code New Delhi,December 10, 2012 (AFP) : The Adarsh Women’s College in Haryana state, 110km west of New Delhi, said students would be fined 100 rupees (1.8 dollars) each time they broke the dress code.Picture used for

New Delhi - 10 Dec 2012 (PTI): The disclosure that global retail giant Wal-Mart had spent about Rs 125 crore in the last four years to lobby with US lawmakers kicked up a political storm here with opposition creating pandemonium in the Rajya Sabha and promising to create further trouble tomorrow.

Vansada: With less than a week to go for the Gujarat elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today launched a frontal attack on the Narendra Modi government. Addressing a poll rally in Vansada in the state, Dr Singh today appealed to the voters of Gujarat to get rid of politicians indulging in divi

Opening a new chapter in Karnataka politics, former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Sunday formally launched Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) and took over as its President at a massive rally here in North Karnataka. In a potential sign of trouble for the BJP government in the state, at least 10 r

The Union government will notify the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, announced in 2007, by the end of the month, Chairman of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) and Water Resources Secretary D.V. Singh told the committee members here on Friday. This was as per the orders of th

Aligarh - 8 Dec 2012: Miss Shilpi Gupta of the Residential Coaching Academy at the Aligarh Muslim University has topped the All India Geological Survey of India Examination – 2012. She stood fourth in the Hydrologist Category and ranked second in Geologist category. Prof. Mirza Asmer Beg, Directo

NEW DELHI, December 7, 2012 :The ordeal is over for the United Progressive Alliance government which on Friday won the vote on the policy on FDI in multi-brand retail sector in the Rajya Sabha with generous help yet again from the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party. Just before the Oppos

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI) Government today won the approval of Parliament to its controversial decision of allowing FDI in multi-brand retail with a motion against it being defeated convincingly in Rajya Sabha, as BSP voted in favour of UPA.

New Delhi: The Bahujan Samaj Party's 15 Rajya Sabha MPs will vote in favour of the government's decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail. This could help the government scrape through by a whisker and win tomorrow's vote in the Upper House, where it is in a minority. The

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today upheld the election of Pranab Mukherjee as the President of India and dismissed former Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader PA Sangma's petition against him. The verdict was delivered by a five-judge constitution bench and went 3:2 in favour of Mr Mukherjee.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today directed Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of water from Cauvery River to Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Cauvery monitoring committee to meet on Thursday to decide the water requirement of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The court had earlier

FDI in multi-brand retail on Wednesday got the approval of the Lok Sabha as the Opposition motion seeking immediate withdrawal of the decision was rejected convincingly as the BSP and the SP staged a walkout. The Opposition motion got 218 votes in favour and 253 against with 471 members participa

Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa says he is disappointed with the BJP leadership and will have no further discussions with anyone. He also says he is not going to destabilise the Karnataka government but at least 50-60 legislators will join him in his new party. Highlights of an exc

Mohali: It was a promise delivered floor by floor. In just 48 hours, an entrepreneur has constructed a 10-floor building in Mohali, a suburban town in Punjab. The red and grey facade building, Instacon, stood tall on an industrial plot in Mohali, 10 kilometres from Chandigarh today, two days afte

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS): The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is executing the "Aadhaar" scheme pan-India, Friday launched a new facility to enable people update their demographic profile by post or by way of an online application. The authority said in a statement that upda

Gandhinagar: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj will be in Gujarat today to campaign for the assembly elections that are less than two weeks away. Mrs Swaraj will address a rally in Vadodara. Mr Advani is scheduled to campaign in the state over the next two da