UDUPI: Swami Vivekananda, already standing tall in the annals of Indian history, is about to stand taller – at about 100 feet to be precise. Coming up at Bailur village near Udupi, the statue will be the tallest monolith in India. The monument will be erected adjacent to the Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama

Hyderabad, November 17:Going by the latest report from New Delhi, the Congress high command is planning to rope in its high profile MP and former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin to take on Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi in Hyderabad in the next Lok Sabha elections

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Bal Thackeray, a Hindu extremist leader linked to waves of mob violence against Muslims and migrant workers in India, died Saturday after an illness of several weeks. He was 86. Jalil Parkar, a doctor who treated him, said the politician had gone into cardio-respiratory arrest

GUWAHATI: The district administration of troubled Kokrajhar of Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) of Assam imposed indefinite curfew on Thursday morning after suspected militants shot one person dead and stabbed another in two separate incidents in the district. The Army, which was called

Lashkar operative Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal sent money through acquaintances from Saudi Arabia to India on several occasions, the supplementary charge sheet filed in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case reveals. The charge sheet has, however, does not mention what the money, which acco

HYDERABAD: It was a curfew-like situation for the second consecutive day near Charminar on Monday. Though no violence was reported on Monday, police took extra precautions to prevent any possible trouble and arrested a seer who wanted to perform puja at the Bhagyalakshmi temple. Since morning, poli

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's career provides a classic example of how a kinky ideology can thwart political ambitions in a pluralistic society. Yet, when the same ideological outlook enabled him to scale the heights of political power by winning the 2002 assembly elections in Gujarat, he m

Sources indicate that Saif Ali Khan, the current Nawab of Pataudi, has a huge ancestral property in his name in Pataudi. It is said that the palace and some of the the other family properties collectivelly are reportedly valued around Rs 750 cr. Our source says, "Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi has left

Pulling up the government for not taking immediate action over the issue of garbage disposal in the city, the Karnataka High Court today directed the government to identify five more landfill sites around Bangalore within two weeks. Hearing a PIL filed by advocate G R Mohan seeking superseding of

New Delhi - 21 Sep 2012:In a televised address to the nation tonight, the Prime Minister justified the new economic reforms that have hurtled his government into a minority. "The time has come for hard decisions. For this I need your trust, your understanding, and your cooperation," he said on a day

New Delhi - 21 Sep 2012 (PTI): Trinamool Congress on Friday formally withdrew support to the UPA government and its six Ministers quit in protest against FDI in retail. The party, which has 19 members in the Lok Sabha, gave a letter withdrawing support to the government to President Pranab Mukherjee

Bangalore, Sep 21: The long-pending wish of the people of coastal region will finally be fulfilled as Indian Railways has planned to extend the night train plying from Bangalore to Mangalore up to Karwar.The 24-bogie 'slip coach' train will arrive from Bangalore to Mangalore and then leave for Karwa

Kochi - 20 Sep 2012: A meeting of the Board of Directors of Air Kerala in Kochi on Friday decided to launch the proposed airline with an initial capital of Rs. 200 crore as soon the Union government grants it exemption from a couple of norms to start international operations. The State government, C

New Delhi - 20 Sep 2012 (PTI): A bandh called by NDA, Left parties and the SP to protest against diesel price hike, FDI in multi-brand retail and cap on subsidised LPG on Thursday evoked mixed response as protestors disrupted road and rail traffic in parts of UP, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha but it

New Delhi - 20 Sep 2012:Team Annaformally split on Wednesday withAnna Hazareannouncing his opposition to Arvind Kejriwal's plan to launch a political party, and forbidding the use of his name or photograph for the venture.The blunt announcement marked a blow to Kejriwal and his colleagues and provok

On a day when Chennai witnessed yet another anti-U.S. protest that turned violent, city Police Commissioner J.K. Tripathy was transferred. The transfer came days after the U.S. mission in the city was attacked by a large crowd of Muslims protesting against the controversial film Innocence of Muslims

New Delhi, Sep 19 (DHNS): Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Tuesday admitted that the charges of misuse of over Rs 600 crores of central government money deployed for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) were true, but said the whole truth would be known

Kolkata / New Delhi - 19 Sep 2012: Trinamool Congress boss Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday delivered a stiff blow to the UPA government by withdrawing her support in protest against the hike in fuel prices and the decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail, reducing the regime to a minority and to criti