New Delhi - 16 July 2012: TheNDAhas decided to field senior BJP leaderJaswant Singhfor the post ofVice-President.The name of Jaswant Singh was finalised and announced after a meeting of the coalition here on Monday morning.Announcing the name of Jaswant Singh, LK Advani said the NDA had decided not

Jammu - 15 July 2012 (PTI): Fifteen people, believed to beAmarnath pilgrims, were killed and 18 others injured when a state road transport corporation bus skidded off the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway and rolled down into a deep gorge in Ramban district. The state road transport corporation bus wa

Incumbent Hamid Ansari is the UPA's candidate for the Vice President's post and is all set to get a second consecutive term. The name of the 75-year-old Mr. Ansari was announced by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at a meeting of the Congress-led coalition at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence. A

Bangalore - 14 July 2012:A day after Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar assumed office, Governor H R Bhardwaj fired his first salvo at him by pointing at "tainted" ministers in his Cabinet. "There are tainted ministers. There should have been an effort to clean up. While wrong persons have been inducte

Bangalore - 12 July 2012: Racked by intra-party conflict, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka gave the state its third chief minister in less than a year along with an unprecedented two deputy chief ministers on Thursday. Jagadish Shivappa Shettar was sworn in as the CM andstate BJP chief

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