New Delhi - 07 Dec 2011 (PTI): Bowing to intense pressure from within and outside, government today announced suspension of its decision to allow FDI in retail, bringing Parliament back to business after nine days of logjam. The breakthrough in the standoff came at an all-party meetingthis morningwh

Lucknow - 06 Dec 2011 (PTI): Security has been stepped up across Uttar Pradesh on Babri mosque demolition anniversary on Tuesday to check any untoward incident, official sources said here. Besides sensitive locations in Ayodhya like the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri mosque, security has been tightened on gh

Lucknow: The All India Babri Masjid Action Committee (AIBMAC) will demand framing of charges against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani on December 6 to commemorate the demolistion of Babri Masjid on that date 19 years ago. Convenor, AIBMAC, Zafaryab Jilani stated that charges of consp

Srinagar - 05 Dec 2011 (IANS): Winter continued its relentless onslaught in Jammu and Kashmir with authorities closing down schools in the Kashmir Valley till Class 8 and the Ladakh region shivering with the mercury at a biting minus 11.4 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature in the summer capita

Bangalore, Dec 3 (IANS): Three former Karnataka chief ministers, including present External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, are now caught in the illegal mining row rocking the state as a court Saturday ordered a probe into their role during their rule.The other two are Krishna's successor N. Dharam

New Delhi - 01 Dec 2011: Traders across the country have downed their shutters to join the protest against government's decision to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail. The impact of the strike has been visible in several cities. In some cities, shopkeepers took out marches demanding a r

New Delhi - 01 Dec 2011 (PTI): With global crude rates coming down, petrol price has been cut by Rs 0.78 per litre, the second reduction in two weeks. The reduction, which will be effective from midnight tonight, was lower than the anticipated cut of Re 1 per litre because of drop in rupee and firmi

Hyderabad: Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad has decided to provide coaching to the Muslim aspirants for the UPSC examinations for civil services. The University's civil services coaching academy is offering coaching for minorities, especially for Muslim women for the admission into

New Delhi: It was a sea of humanity which descended on the Ramlila Maidan as the two-day Social Justice Conference, organized by the Popular Front of India, concluded with a mammoth Public meeting here on Sunday. The venue was overflowing with tens of thousands of Popular Front activists from al

New Delhi - 27 Nov 2011 (PTI): Under attack from the Opposition and UPA allyTrinamool Congresson allowing global retail chains in the Indian market, the government on Sunday launched a campaign to sell advantages ofFDI in multi-brandretail.In a full page advertisement in newspapers, the commerce and

New Delhi: The National Conference organized by Popular front of India is started in Ramlila Maidan today. Popular Front of India chairman EM Abdulrahiman hosted the flag in presence of thousands of participants. The Maidain has stood testimony to several historic events since Independence. This soc

Spelling fresh trouble for former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, Lok Ayukta police today filed an FIR against him, Housing Minister V Somanna and two others, alleging irregularities in denotification of land. "An FIR has been filed against Yeddyurappa and Somanna, mainly under the prov

New Delhi - 25 Nov 2011 (IANS): A year-and-a-half after the tragic Air India crash, Mangalore Airport has earned the tag of being among the most unsafe airports in the country.The government said that it had identified 11 airports which posed a safety risk to flight operations in the country. The sa

New Delhi - 24 Nov 2011: Agriculture ministerSharad Pawarwas today slapped by a youth at a public function claiming he was angry with corruption andprice rise.71-year-old Pawar, who went to a literary function at a public auditorium onParliament Street, was slapped byHarvinder Singh, a transporter i

Pune - 24 Nov 2011: Additional sessions judge SD Darne on Tuesday sentenced Bangalore serial blast suspect,Maulana Hussain Shabbir Meheruddin Gangavali(32), of Bhatkal village in Karnataka, to five years rigorous imprisonment for the seizure of 250counterfeit currency notesof Rs 100 denomination fro

Ahmedabad - 22 Nov 2011:A Special Investigation Team today told the Gujarat High Court that the Ishrat Jahan encounter of 2004 was fake. The High Court ordered FIR to be filed against guilty police officers and men responsible for the killing. For further investigation and indentifying the guilty, t

New Delhi - 19 Nov 2011: Alarm bells are ringing in aviation ministry with Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher indicating to government that it is looking at curtailing 200 flights from its daily winter schedule of 418 domestic flights. Realising that such a drastic reduction in capacity in the peak se

New Delhi - 19 Nov 2011: The CBI on Saturday registered a fresh case regarding allocation of additional spectrum during BJP leader - the late Pramod Mahajan's tenure as telecom minister in connection with the2G scam. The CBI is carrying out searches at theVodafoneoffice in Mumbai,Airteloffice in Gur