Mumbai - 19 Nov 2011: Therupeedropped to a two-and-half year low of 51.34 against the US dollar on Friday after the Bombay Stock ExchangeSensexclosed 90 points down at 16371 after pulling back from the day's low of 16165. Both the rupee and sensex witnessed their worst weeks in this quarter. The key

Vice President Hamid Ansari has come out in favour of a media regulation framework, agreeing with Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju that self-regulation has failed. "Collective self-regulation has yet to succeed in substantive measure because it is neither universal nor enforceable. In

Mumbai - 17 Nov 2011: Finally on Wednesday six Malegaon blast 2006 accused were released by the Arthur Road Jail authorities after completing long formalities which took nearly 11 days. A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on 5th November had granted bail to the nin

Lucknow - 16 Nov 2011: Chief MinisterMayawatiwho has been trying hard in recent months to fend off allegations of corruption and misgovernance in the poll bound state has tried turning the tables on her political rivals especially the Congress by getting her cabinet to propose the division of Uttar

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi - 16 Nov 2011 (IANS): India Tuesday succeeded with a very high level of accuracy in its first test of a new-generationAgni-IVstrategic nuclear-capable missile with a 3,500-km range from a defence base in Odisha, an official said. "The missile, which has the capability to hit ta

Lucknow - 14 Nov 2011 (IANS): Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal met several Muslim clerics and intellectuals here Monday to garner support from the minority community for the Jan Lokpal movement, officials said. According to sources in India Against Corruption (IAC), Kejriwal's meetings were also

Lucknow - 14 Nov 2011: Congress general secretaryRahul Gandhiand UP chief ministerMayawatiwere engaged in another round of war of words on Monday as Rahul launched his party's campaign for the 2012 assembly elections with a scathing attack on Mayawati's government. Tearing into BSP government's rule

New Delhi - 14 Nov 2011 (PTI): The lead auditor of the 2G telecom audit today stuck to his stand that the loss due to spectrum allocation was Rs 2,645 crore and he had signed the final report on the alleged scam on the direction of his superiors. Appearing before theJoint Parliamentary Committee(JPC

Rome - 13 Nov 2011: Berlusconi, who failed to secure a majority in a crucial vote on Tuesday, stepped down as prime minister after parliament passed a package of measures demanded by European partners to restore market confidence in Italy's strained public finances. Former European Commissione

Makkah - 13 Nov 2011: The Haram Mazjid around the Holy Kaabaa in Makkah is overflowing with Haj pilgrims as they begin to return. The annual pilgrimage ended last Wednesday. Around 3 million people from all over the world had come for Haj. 'Farewell Circumambulation' around the Holy Kaabaa is the la

New Delhi: Educational institutions at all levels across the country have celebrated November 11 as the 'National Education Day', commemorating the birthday of Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, an eminent educationist and the first Union Ministerof Educationof independent India. As India's Education Ministe

New Delhi: Former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked not once but twice at an US airport in September, an act that violates protocol followed by almost every other country. The incident had occurred at New York's John F Kennedy airport on September 29. Security personnel patted Kalam down

New Delhi - 11 Nov 2011 (Reuters): State-run retailers may cut petrol prices by about one percent or at least 0.60 rupees a litre excluding taxes from November 16 as softening Singapore prices have partially offset the impact of a declining rupee, an industry source said on Friday. It would be the f

Gulbarga - 11 Nov 2011: It is strange but true. For the 158 schools in Karnataka which have not seen a single student enrollment, there are 196 teachers and 261 classrooms. The records available with Express reveal this shocking state. The Education Department sought information from the offices of

New Delhi - 11 Nov 2011 (PTI): Facing serious financial turbulence,Kingfisher Airlineshas sought government help for a bailout even as it continued its flight curtailment spree for the fifth consecutive day on Friay and its stocks plummeted by over 19 per cent to an all-time low but recovered slight

Mehsana (Gujarat), Nov 9: A special court in Gujarat today convicted 31 of the 73 accused in the 2002 Sardarpura post-Godhra riot case in which 33 people of a minority community were burnt alive. All the 31 convicts were later sentenced to life imprisonment. The quantum of punishment was pronounced

Bangalore - 08 Nov 2011: Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa will walk out of Bangalore's Central Jail this evening, 23 days after he was sent to prison by a Lokayukta court. The Karnataka High Court granted the BJP strongman bail in a corruption case this morning. He had been given c

Haridwar - 08 Nov 2011 (Agencies): At least 16 people, mostly women, were killed and several others injured in a stampede during a religious ceremony attended by tens of thousands of devotees near Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar on Tuesday. The stampede occurred when the people tried to enter the Yajnash