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

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