NEW DELHI: The CBI will soon question some officials of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in connection with a 2004 alert generated by the agency regarding Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) plan to attack some BJP leaders leading to an alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan by the Gujarat Police. The CBI will que

BANGALORE: Karnataka BJP president K S Eshwarappa on Sunday stirred up a hornet's nest, advising education minister Visvesvara Hegde Kageri to saffronise schools. Eshwarappa was speaking at a programme involving the education department's greening programme in Shimoga. Appreciating the education mi

New Delhi: Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday expressed concern over the mysterious disappearance of Bihar engineer Fasih Mahmood from his home in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia over a month ago. Paswan said he will meet External Affairs Minister SM Krishna this week over this issue. Kri

Bangalore, Jun 18 (PTI): Aged 103, D G Thimmegowda gracefully accepted felicitations as Karnataka Legislative Assembly marked its 60th anniversary at a special function.Thimmegowda from Tiptur was feted along with four others - U M Madappa (Chamarajanagar), Mulka Govinda Reddy (Chitradurga), Vasanat

New Delhi / Kolkata - 18 June 2012:Former President Dr APJ Kalam is, according to sources, likely to announce his decision today on whether he will contest the Presidential election. That could change the political landscape considerably. The BJP is itching to take on the ruling UPA, which has annou

Chickaballapura - 16 June, 2012: Praja Pragathi Ranga(PPR), the People's Progressive Alliance or the third front of Karnataka was formed on 14-April-2012, the birth anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Social Democratic Party of India along with Republic Party of India(RPI), Bahujana Samaj Party(BSP),

New Delhi - 17 June 2012 (PTI): Strong reservations from key ally JD (U) over pitting a candidate against UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjeetoday forced the NDA to defer its decision on the presidential election. At a two-hour inconclusive meeting of the NDA, the JD (U) is believed to have disfavoured a f

New Delhi - 15 June 2012:Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee was today named the UPA candidate for the President's post as the TMC-SP combine, which had proposed APJ Abdul Kalam as their nominee, appeared to have broken in a significant gain for the ruling coalition. Sonia made the announcement after

New Delhi, June 15 (PTI) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was chosen by the ruling UPA as its candidate for the President's post on Friday, ending months of speculation. The nomination of 77-year-old Congress veteran from West Bengal was made at a meeting of the UPA chaired by its Chairperson and

New Delhi: Syed Akbaruddin (@AkbarMEA) official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, responding to a tweet by TwoCircles.net editor Kashif-ul-Huda (@kaaashif) regarding whereabouts of Fasih Mahmood said that they are working to find that information. This is a first official communicat

The door between the cubicle of suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Mohammad Qateel Siddiqui and that of his killer, Sharad Mohol, was left unguarded, and the guard and hawaldar concerned have been suspended, official sources said on Tuesday. Siddiqui, a key accused in the Bangalore blast case an

HYDERABAD, June 11: Jamaat-i-Islami Hind chief Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri has said that Indian Muslims are worried about situation in Pakistan. Addressing a reception hosted in his honour by local chapter of the JI here on Sunday evening, he emphasised the need for amicable solution of Kashmir di

New Delhi - 14 June 2012 (PTI): Unfazed by Congress rejection of her three candidates, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said former President A P J Abdul Kalam is her nominee for the Presidential poll. "We are for Kalam," Banerjee told PTI when asked whether she would support Finance M

NEW DELHI: Unable to break the deadlock on the Siachen Glacier-Saltoro Ridge imbroglio, India and Pakistan on Tuesday reaffirmed their "resolve to make serious, sustained and result oriented efforts for seeking an amicable resolution" of the dispute. In a joint statement issued at the end of the t

Panaji: The Roman Catholic Church in Goa Monday said the Israeli youth who vacation in Goa after serving their compulsory stint in the army were ''dehumanised''. In an open letter of solidarity addressed to the Jerusalem Inter-Church Centre and Kairos in Palestine, the Council of Social Justice and

New Delhi : The Centre on Monday again denied that engineer Fasih Mohammad from Bihar, who had gone missing from Saudi Arabia after being allegedly picked up by Indian intelligence sleuths on May 13, was in the custody of any Indian law enforcement agency. The Delhi Police also filed an affidavit i

A former Indian Army officer wanted in the 1996 killing of a human rights lawyer shot and killed his wife and two of their children in their California home before apparently committing suicide, authorities said. A 17-year-old believed to be the man's son also was shot in the Saturday morning attac

A day after terror suspect Mohammed Qateel Siddiqui was murdered in the high-security ward of Yerwada Jail in Pune allegedly by two of his fellow inmates, a Delhi-based civil rights group, the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), has approached the National Human Rights Commission (NH