Lucknow - 25 Oct 2011: Taking cue from Team Anna, Muslims in UP have served an ultimatum to theCongressled UPA government asking for introduction of quota for `dalit' Muslims if the party wants Muslim votes in 2012 state assembly elections. Team Anna has launched a campaign in the state against th

Bhatkal - 24 Oct 2011: Popular Front of India (PFI) will hold a 'Social Justice Conference' in Delhi from November 26 to 27 for the upliftment of the Muslim community and other minority communities. Member of the Karnataka branch of the PFI Mohammed Farooq announced this at a function held here at

Hyderabad - 23 Oct 2011 (IANS): The world's largest airplane Airbus A380 made an emergency landing atRajiv Gandhi International Airportnear here Sunday, an airport official said. TheEmiratesflight, with 481 passengers on board, was on its way fromBangkoktoDubai. "The aircraft landed with 481 passen

Bangalore - 21 Oct 2011: Hundreds of Bangaloreans Thursday evening hopped onto the sleek air-conditioned coaches of the Metro rail for a joy ride and get a bird's eye view of the tech hub as the service was opened to commuters for the first time. Even an hour before the scheduled start of the servi

New Delhi: Darul Uloom Deoband, the centuries old Islamic seminary of the Indian subcontinent, has strongly objected to the allegations about the seminary getting funds from the Saudi government and it being a source of radicalization of Muslim youths in India. Talking to TwoCircles.net from Deob

Bangalore - 20 Oct 2011 (DNA): Twenty-five lakh families who face the threat of their LPG gas connections being scrapped could heave a sigh relief as chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday assured that the move has been put on hold for now. The assurance comes in the wake of anxiety that

Bangalore - 19 Oct 20-11: In a dramatic development former chief minister B SYeddyurappahas been discharged from state-runVictoria Hospitaland moved to Parappanna Agrahara Central Prison this morning.Yeddyurappa, to evade jail, shifted from Jayadeva Hospital to Victoria Hospital on Tuesday evening a

Mangalore - 18 Oct 2011: A worker was killed and at least three others injured, one of them critically, when paint caught fire at a construction site of the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) on Tuesday morning. A group of workers was applying paint to a huge over-ground crude oil t

Ranchi - 19 Oct 2011: Three people including pilot, co-pilot and a technical staff ofBorder Security Force(BSF) died when a helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning in the jungles near Ranchi-Khunti border.The chopper crashed at around 9 am and all the three people on board died. The chopper crashed

Bangalore, Oct 18 (IANS) Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, arrested Saturday in corruption cases, Tuesday avoided going back to jail as he got himself shifted to a second hospital amid high drama.The 68-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was taken to Victoria Hospital in th

Ahmedabad - 18 Oct 2011: Suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Monday walked out of the Sabarmati central jail to an enthusiastic welcome after being granted bail by the Ahmedabad sessions court. Judge V.K. Vyas granted the bail on condition that Mr. Bhatt would co-operate with the in

Lucknow: Hindus should strive for earning the confidence of Muslims. There should be confidence building measures so that Muslim community does not feel alienated in the country. The sense of insecurity among Muslims is a dangerous sign for the nation. These words of wisdom came from Congress gen

Bangalore - 15 Oct 2011: Sending ripples among the political class, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa was remanded to judicial custody till October 22 and sent toBangalore Central Jailafter he surrendered before the specialLokayukta courthere. Earlier, the special Lokayukta Court rejec

Bangalore - 15 Oct 2011: India has a strong democracy, said Governor H R Bhardwaj adding, "Internal factors are the weaknesses in this country and not external ones." Speaking at the inauguration of a three-day international conference on 'Power of Media in a Globalising World', he said that while t

Ahmedabad - 15 Oct 2011: Cutting across the clouds of economic slowdown, the sun is still shinning overIndian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad. More interestingly, the shine is emerging from where the recession clouds looked the darkest - the financial sector.In the last two months, three student

New Delhi - 15 Oct 2011: The bail plea of former Karnataka chief ministerBS Yeddyurappawas rejected on Saturday in a land denotification case. The Lokayukta court issued an arrest warrant against Yeddyurappa. In the complaint filed by city-based advocate Sirajin Basha, Yeddyurappa and five others in

Sriharikota - 13 Oct 2011: India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18) demonstrated its reliability and consistency yet again when it put four satellites in orbit with aplomb on Wednesday. The satellites were: Megha-Tropiques, an Indo-French mission to study the weather and climate in the t

NEW DELHI: Advocating "meaningful autonomy" and speedy development, the three interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir submitted their report to Home Minister P Chidambaram Wednesday, a year after they were appointed to draw a roadmap to peace, sources said. The interlocutors -- journalist Dileep Padgoan