New Delhi (IANS): The Supreme Court has said that construction of buildings in the vicinity of a protected monument could only be permitted in "exceptional" circumstances if public interest was involved. The court said renovation of existing buildings near monuments only meant repair and not razin

Ranchi - 21 Jan 2012: Thirteen policemen including the officer-in-charge of Bhandaria police station were killed and two constables were injured in a landmine blast triggered by suspected CPI (Maoist) at Salho jungle in Jharkhand's Garhwa district. Confirming the casualties, Jharkhand police spokesm

New Delhi - 18 Jan 2012: Even as China cuts down drastically its oil imports from Iran, which is soon likely to run into fresh sanctions from the US and the EU, India on Tuesday declared it will continue to import crude oil from the country. Brushing aside US sanctions that prevent financial institu

Jaipur/New Delhi (IANS) Controversial writer Salman Rushdie is unlikely to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival beginning in Jaipur Friday, highly placed sources said Tuesday.Although there is no official announcement yet, the sources told IANS that the British Indian novelist may keep away from th

With more than 70,000 newspapers and over 500 satellite channels in several languages, Indians are seemingly spoiled for choice and diversity. Indiais already the biggest newspaper market in the world; over 100 million copies are sold each day. Advertising revenues have soared. In the past two decad

Bangalore - 16 Jan 2012 (PTI): Claiming it was the BJP government which has provided maximum allocation for minorities' welfare, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda today announced a grant of Rs 40 crore for the proposed Haj building here. Speaking after the ground breaking ceremony, he said the BJP

New Delhi: Angry over Baba Ramdev's remark that the 2008 Batla House shootout was not fake, a man threw black ink on the face of the yoga guru during his press conference here on Saturday. Police present at the venue escorted Ramdev to a safer place, while the supporters bashed the accused black and

Karwar - 12 Jan 2012: New Year appears to have brought new hopes to the people of coastal Karnataka with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) initiating steps to widen a 189-km stretch of the national highway between Kundapura and Karwar (up to Goa border). This NH 66 stretch is a part of

Jaipur: Fulfilling the long-standing demand of its diaspora, India on Sunday said it would allow Non-resident Indians (NRIs) to vote and participate in the election process. He also listed the number of initiatives undertaken by the government like voting rights for NRIs and the new Pension and Insu

Deoband - 06 Jan 2012: In yet another 'fatwa' (religious decree), the prestigious islamic seminary Darul Uloom in Deoband has termed bursting of crackers as 'haram' (illegal in the eyes of Islam) and has advised those, dealing in it, to shift to some other business. The 'fatwa' issued in response to

Hyderabad - Maintaining the spirit of preservation and protection of human heritage in general and 'culture and art' in particular, in all its dispositions, as encouraged by national and international laws and policies, an International Seminar on "Islamic Culture and Art" has been organised jointly

Bhubaneswar - 03 Dec 2012 (IANS): More than 15,000 delegates including scientists and students, talks by Nobel laureates and sessions on innovation, technology and research - all these and more are on the cards at the five-day 99th Indian Science Congress (ISC) which will be inaugurated here by Prim

Bhopal - 03 January 2012 (PTI): The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board today strongly criticised the Centre's Right to Education (RTE) Act alleging that minority institutions including Madarsas will lose their identity on account of it. AIMPLB Secretary, Maulana Mohammad Wali Rahmani told PTI that

Washington DC - 02 Jan 2012: The Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM), an NGO of Indian Muslims who live in US, has announced plans to build an English Medium Junior High School at a Madrasa in the town of Tewda in district Muzaffarnagar in Western Uttar Pradesh. Muslims comprise about 40%

New Delhi - 01 Jan 2012: Even as the state-owned oil companies cut aviation turbine fuel (ATF) price by Rs. 622 per kilolitre (kl) in Delhi, the government on Saturday decided to spare the public a petrol price hike on New Year's Eve. Officials in the oil marketing companies (OMCs) said the firms ha

Chennai - 30 Dec 2011 (PTI): A severecyclonedumped heavy rain and sent wind gusts up to 140 kmph after it hit theTamil Nadu coasttoday killing at least 33 persons and left a trail of destruction and threw life out of gear inCuddaloredistrict and adjacentUnion Territory of Puducherry. The cyclonic st

New Delhi: After the confrontation between a section of Muslim civil society and Salman Khursheed the Union Minister for Minority Affairs, over the issue of a separate Wakf cadre, now Wajahat Habibullah, chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has backed the proposal of "Wakf

New Delhi - 30 Dec 2011 (PTI): The Rajya Sabha witnessed a mid-night drama after the government said that there was no time left for voting and passage of the Lokpal Bill, while an angry Opposition accused it of getting into a "hopeless" minority and running away from Parliament. As the prolonged de