New Delhi - 08 Sep 2012 (PTI): Telecom regulatorTraihas asked telecom companies to de-activate the international calling facility in pre-paid numbers and restore it only after a subscriber gives his explicit consent to avail this facility. "Inform all pre-paid subscribers having ISD facility, throug

Sivakasi - 05 Sep 2012: A major fire broke out at a firecracker factory inSivakasiin Virudhunagar district in southTamil Naduon Wednesday. According to TV reports, at least 40 people were feared dead, while dozens more injured in the explosion. While police confirmed that 10 bodies were pulled out o

Mumbai - 05 Sep 2012 (PTI): Unfazed by strident criticism of his cousin MNS leaderRaj Thackerayover his anti-Bihari remarks,Shiv Senaexecutive presidentUddhav Thackerayon Tuesday sought a permit system to check influx of Bihari migrants into Mumbai.Uddhav also declared that his party would not accep

Mumbai - 04 Sep 2012: One person was killed and seven others were injured when a slab of a staircase of an under-construction Metro railway station collapsed here Tuesday, officials said.The incident took place on Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro line in Andheri east late afternoon, officials said. The slab

Bangalore - 03 Sep 2012 (PTI): Widening the net, police have arrested one more person allegedly linked with a terror module that was unearthed last week with 14 suspects now in custody.The City Crime Branch picked up Dr Nayueem Siddique here last evening on the basis of information provided by those

Gujarat's suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had once accused chief minister Narendra Modi of instructing bureaucrats and top cops to allow Hindus to vent out their anger against the minority community, has written scathing open letters to Modi and Maya Kodnani, the BJP MLA, who has been sente

CHANDIGARH: A dalit from Patiala district of Punjab is fighting for a government job despite his topping the SC category merit list 11 years ago. Gurmit Singh, a resident of Sarai Banjara village in Patiala district, had applied for the post of Lascar (sewadar), a fourth class post in higher educat

Ahmedabad - 31 Aug 2012: A special SIT court has awarded life term to BJP leader and former minister Maya KodnaniandBabu Bajrangiin the Naroda Patia massacre case.Maya Kodnani has been convicted under two sections of IPC and sentenced to 28 years in prison.The court has ordered thatBajrang Dalleader

The government on Thursday withdrew the ban on bulk SMS and MMS which was imposed to check spread of rumours related to the violence in Assam that led to exodus of people hailing from the northeastern states from Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and Pune. The decision was taken after the social unrest th

Ahmedabad: A special court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday convicted 32 people, including a former BJP minister Maya Kodnani andBajrang DalleaderBabu Bajrangi, in the Naroda Patiya case, the biggest massacre of the post-Godhra riots.The special trial court will pronounce the quantum of punishment for 32 c

New Delhi / Mumbai - 29 Aug 2012 (PTI): TheSupreme Courtverdict upholding the death sentence ofAjmal Kasabin 26/11Mumbai attacks caseon Wednesday led to a vociferous demand for execution of the Pakistani terrorist at the earliest from parties, kin of the victims and other quarters in the country.Hom

New Delhi - 25 Aug 2012 (PTI): Rubbishing the no loss argument of the government in the coal block allocations, BJP today made it clear that it is in no mood to allow Parliament to function till its demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation is met."A nation wide debate is on on this iss

According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Communication, it has been decided to revise the permissible limit of "bulk SMS/MMS to 20 in place of five with immediate effect"."The other conditions will remain the same," it added.The decision to put a cap on the number of SMSes was taken aft

"The truth is that the media is biased against some communities. It's surprising that the recent killing of Sikhs in a gurudwara in the US has got more media coverage than the death of 70 people in Assam." This extract from the brief letter of Subrata Mukherjee (Delhi) in The Hindustan Times (13 Au

MUMBAI: (TNN) Samajwadi Party state president and MLA Abu Azmi on Wednesday announced a Rs 2-crore award if Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray proved that his voters in Govandi-Shivaji Nagar included Bangladeshis. Thackeray had alleged that Azmi won the assembly elections with Bangladesh

Mangalore, August 21: Tension prevailed there for a while in Pilikula Nisargadhama following an altercation between a group of tourists and a security guard over a trivial issue near Manasa Amusement and Waterpark on Monday. The police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse a crowd. According to the p

Mangalore, Aug 20: In the wake of rumours regarding suspected contamination of Nandini milk, as reported by Daijiworld earlier, Raviraj Hegde, president of Dakshina Kannada Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation (DKCMPF) convened an emergency press meet and clarified that Nandini milk was safe and u

New Delhi - 18 Aug 2012: It's official now. The Comptroller and Auditor Generalhas said that the government extended windfall gains of Rs 1.86 lakh crore to private players by distributing coal blocks without bidding over years, escalating UPA's fight with the opposition over corruption amid the lat