New Delhi - With theSupreme Courtbringing all recognized schools under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the government will have to boost spending on its flagship programme to meet the estimated Rs 2.3 lakh crore needed to fund the initiative over 2010-2014.RTE has been plagued with fund shortfalls

Lucknow - 12 April 2012: Imam of Masjid Al Aqsa, Akramah Abdullah Sayeed Al Sabri today after-noon paid visit to India's famous Islamic seminary, Darul Uloom Nadvatul Ulama here in Lucknow. On this occasion while interacting with the students he highlighted the importance of education. He advised th

Sindhanur (Raichur dist), April 10, 2012: Twelve people were killed, 11 of them on the spot, in a head-on collision between a lorry and an ambulance near Dadesugur in the taluk in the wee hours of Tuesday. Gangamma, another victim, died during treatment at a hospital in Bellary. The victims, laboure

A special fast track court here on Monday convicted 23 persons of murder, conspiracy and abetment to murder and acquitted 23 others in the 2002 Ode communal riot massacre in Gujarat. District and Sessions Court judge Poonam Singh said the quantum of punishment would be announced on April 12. The Od

LEAD Trust, Bangalore, is conducting LEAD Talent Search Examination (LTSE) 2012 on Sunday, 22nd April 2012 in Karnataka and AP. The exam is open for all students who will/have completed 10th std in 2012 and have scored more than 70% (80% in Maths and Science) in the 9th standard and wish to pursue

Justice (Retd.) Markandey Katju, Chairman of the Press Council of India, has given the young chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav strange advice "to study Chanakya's principles". It is as if to advise him to run the affairs of his government in the light of these principles. But in fact he

Bangalore, Apr 6 (DHNS): The ghost of Influenza A (H1N1) which spooked the State three years ago has returned to haunt it again.The State Health and Family Welfare Department has said that the disease has killed three persons since January 2012.A 45-year-old man from Chikaballapur and two women, one

Panaji, Apr 3: As expected, people residing around Karnataka - Goa border are rushing to Goa to grab litres and litres of petrol for their vehicles. The new petrol price was introduced in Goa on Saturday March 31 midnight. By Sunday evening, almost all petrol pumps around Polem, a place near Goa-Kar

Mangalore,April 2: The New Age India Forum (NAIF) will hold the valedictory of the month-long "Prophet Mohammad's Life and Message" on Friday at 4.30 pm in Town Hall.The theme of the closing ceremony will be "Social Justice and Prophet Mohammad". Every year the NAIF conducts the campaign across the

Bangalore - 02 April 2012:With the PU exams in troubled waters, the Karnataka State Secondary Education Board (KSEEB) has taken all measures to ensure that no untoward incident occurs. As many as 8.39 lakh students across the State are writing the exam this year. The police department would look int

Bangalore, Apr 1 (DHNS) : Fees for undergraduate medical, dental, engineering, and architecture courses from the academic year 2012-13 will go up by 10 per cent but the seat-sharing ratio will remain unchanged, the State Government announced here on Saturday. The decision was taken at a meeting Chie

New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) :Banks from today will stop honouring cheques and drafts if they are not presented within three months of the date of issue as against six months earlier. The decision to reduce the validity of cheques, bank drafts and other instruments to three months announced by the Reserve

NEW DELHI: Come Saturday and there is a strong possibility that you won't be able to indulge in your favourite internet activities like shopping and surfing due to a hacking group - Anonymous - which has threatened to shut down the net. "Operation Global Blackout 2012 looks to shut down the interne

Bangalore - 28 March 2012 (DHNS): Minorities' panel 'implicates' politicians, IAS and KAS officers; chief fears for life. Misuse and encroachment of Wakf properties in the State have caused a whopping Rs two-lakh crore loss to the exchequer, dwarfing the 2G spectrum scam, the Karnataka State Minorit

New Delhi - 15 March 2012: Hardening its stand against the Congress' position, theTrinamool Congress(TMC) has indicated that it will not wait till March 30 for the sacking of railway minister Dinesh Trivedi. A Times Now report says that the party wants him to be sacked immediately after the presenta

New Delhi - 13 March 2012: Over hundred people aboard Air India's AI-614 flight had a miraculous escape on Monday when the tail of the aircraft hit the runway at a very high speed while landing. The incident occurred at 8.30am when the plane was flying into Mumbai from Ahmedabad with 121 passengers.

New Delhi - 10 March 2012: Three-time MP from Kanauj Akhilesh Yadavis the new chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh Yadav has also been elected as the leader of the Legislative Assembly Senior SP memberAzam Khanproposed Akhilesh yadav's name as UP chief minister. Akhilesh Yadav's name has been e

New Delhi - 09 March 2012: Akhilesh Yadav will be the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, according to TV reports. Sources say that Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav has convinced senior leaders of the party on Akhilesh's candidature.At 38, Akhilesh Yadav will be the youngest CM of Uttar