Within hours of being named as Karnataka Chief Minister, a private complaint was on Wednesday filed against Jagadish Shettar in the Lokayukta court alleging irregularities in land denotification by him six years ago. The complaint filed before Lokayukta Judge N K Sundhindra Rao alleged that Shettar

New Delhi - 10 July 2012 (PTI): The government today said remittances from abroad will not attract service tax, putting to rest the concerns raised in view of new tax norms."The matter has been examined and it is clarified that there is noservice taxper se on the amount of foreign currency remitted

Mumbai / Nashik - 10 July 2012 (PTI): Police on Tuesday found human remains, including three skulls, near a farm house of starletLaila Khan, raising suspicion that they could of theBollywood actressand her family members who had beenmissingsince early last year.The remains were dug out after a day-l

Bangalore - 10 July 2012: Amidst confusion and dissidence by outgoing chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda, rural development and panchayat raj minister (RDPR) Jagdish Shettar was formally elected as theBJPlegislature party leader in Karnataka.In what was to be a smooth affair, the meeting turned out

New Delhi - 10 July 2012 (PTI): BJP on Tuesday lashed out at home minister P Chidambaram for his remarks that themiddle classis ready to pay for mineral water and ice cream but can't bear an increase of Re 1 in price of wheat and rice, saying he has shown insensitivity towards them and ridiculed the

New Delhi - 10 July 2012: Amid increasing complaints about misuse of the Tatkal scheme, the railways has introduced a slew of measures that will come into effect from Tuesday.Under the revised scheme, passengers can bookTatkal ticketsfrom 10 am instead of 8 am.No authorized agents, including those o

New Delhi - 09 July 2012 (IANS): The Delhi government plans to appoint around 1,000 Urdu teachers , an official said Monday. "The government has sent a proposal for appointing around 1,000 Urdu teachers to directorate of education ," said the official. Besides, the government will recruit 100 Urdu l

States advised to give preference to drinking water and irrigation and enhance groundwater use. Alarming depletion in water levels (at 57 per cent of last year's storage) of important reservoirs, owing to delayed and weak southwest monsoon, has prompted the Union government to issue an advisory to

Mumbai - 09 July 2012 (PTI): TheBombay high courton Monday acquitted five accused in the 2002Best Bakery riots casefor want of evidence but upheld the conviction of four others sentenced to life term by the trial court.A division bench comprising Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode, who had on July 3 r

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Gujarat government to file a survey report of the religious sites which were damaged and destroyed during the 2002 riots in the state. A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra also asked the state government to quantify the amount needed for bui

A New Delhi-bound Air India airplane made an emergency landing at Nawabshah in southern Sindh on Monday after developing a technical problem with its hydraulic system, an official spokesman said. All 122 passengers and crew members on board the plane are safe. The captain of the Airbus aircraft, go

Bangalore - 07 July 2012 (PTI): Jagdish Shettarwould be the new chief minister of Karnataka. The decision to make Jagdish Shettar the CM of Karnataka was taken at theBJPcore group meeting in Delhi on Saturday, sources said.Karnataka chief minister Sadanand Gowda will resign on Saturday evening, sour

NEW DELHI: It's not just India that is baking. Globally, this seems to be one of the worst summers in recorded history. The global average temperature for May was the second hottest ever since 1880 - the year records were first compiled --US National Climatic Data Centre(NCDC) has said. Only 2010 wi

New Delhi - 04 July 2012 (PTI): The 58-day protracted strike byAir Indiapilots was called off on Tuesday night after the Delhi high court asked them to join duty within 48 hours and the management to sympathetically consider their grievances.The decision to end the strike was announced by the Indian

The Supreme Court has refused to entertain the Narendra Modi government's plea for staying the Gujarat High Court's February 8 order to pay compensation to over 500 shrines damaged during the infamous 2002 riots in the wake of Godhra train carnage. While declining to entertain the plea, a bench of

Kalladka, July 2: (CD Network) As many as 38 persons including 24 from minority community and 14 from majority community have been arrested by the Bantwal police following Saturday evening's group clash in the sensitive town of Kalladka. Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Abhishek Goyal told

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have confirmed to the CBI, the nodal agency for the Interpol in India, that they have nabbed Fasih Mehmood, an alleged terror suspect. Mehmood is wanted by the Delhi and the Karnataka police for his alleged involvement in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blasts in Bengaluru and t

New Delhi: One by one, 59 witnesses, all from the Army, have told a Court of Inquiry - step one of Army's legal process- why they believe Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit was just doing his job by fraternising with right-wing extremists. Lt Col Purohit was arrested in November 2008 for a bomb blas