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

Bangalore, Jun 30 (PTI): The turmoil in the BJP government showed no signs of abating as B S Yeddyurappa camp today stuck to its one-point agenda of removing Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, who appeared unfazed hoping for a solution.The central leadership stepped in to resolve the cris

BANGALORE: The festering crisis in the BJP government in Karnataka today reached a flash point with eight ministers loyal to party state strongman BS Yeddyurappa submitting their resignations to chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda, who they want to be removed. Precipitating the crisis, the ministers

From July 10, 2012 reservation of tatkal tickets will start from 10 a.m. instead of 8 a.m. and no authorised agents will be allowed to book them during the first two hours, the Railways on Friday said. "Railways have decided that from July 10 booking of tatkal ticket will start at 10 a.m. on the pr

NEW DELHI:28 June 2012 (PTI) In a relief to inflation-battered common man, petrol price was today cut by Rs 2.46 per litre, the second reduction this month. Petrol price in Delhi will cost Rs 67.78 per litre with effect from midnight as compared to Rs 70.24 a litre rate now, state-owned oil companie

Mumbai - 28 June 2012 (PTI): In the first major downpour of this monsoon season, heavy rain lashed Mumbai since Wednesday night, disrupting vehicular and rail traffic.The maximum rainfall was observed in suburbs, the Met department sources said.Kandivili and Malad suburbs recorded around 45 mm rainf