New Delhi - 05 Oct 2011 (PTI): Around 4,000 Chinese including the troops of thePeople's Liberation Armyof China are inPakistan-occupied-Kashmir(PoK), Army Chief Gen. V K Singh said today amid the unease in the Indian establishment over their presence there."There are certain construction working tea

New Delhi - 05 Oct 2011: The Coalition Against Genocide, an advocacy coalition of around three dozen civil society groups in the United States, has sought intervention of President of India, Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India in the case of the arrest of whistle-blower Gujarat IPS officer

Jeddah - 05 Oct 2011 (IANS): Over 23,000 Indian Haj pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage. According to a release of the Consulate General of India here, a total of 23,078 pilgrims have arrived from India, of them 2,018 are in Makkah and 21,059 pilgrims are in Madina. So

Ahmedabad - 04 Oct 2011 (PTI):Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhattrefused to make any compromise with the Gujarat government after a local court proposed that if he went on police remand for about three hours his bail plea could be heard today itself.The response by Bhatt, who has accused chief minist

New Delhi : It was a sensational claim. Presenting 24-year-old Imran Kirmani before waiting cameras on November 21, 2006, the Delhi Police's Special Cell called him a member of "a Lashkar-e-Toiba module" that was "planning a 9/11-type strike in Delhi". Kirmani had a degree in aeronautical engineeri

Dehradun - 02 Oct 2011 (PTI): Two persons were killed and several injured in communal clashes that broke out on Sunday following an alleged act of sacrilege inRudrapur townofUdhamsinghnagar district, prompting authorities to impose an indefinite curfew. As tension flared up in the area, authorities

New Delhi - 02 Oct 2011 (ANI): The nation on Sunday paid homage to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on his 142nd birth anniversary. Vice-president Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and other political leaders offered fl

New Delhi - 02 Oct 2011: The arrest of Gujarat's DIG rank police officer Sanjeev Bhatt and the prime witness in Gujarat carnage, has created uproar amongst civil society organizations, civil rights groups and activists. Activists and Civil Rights' groups have given a nationwide call of protest ag

Ahmadabad - 02 Oct 2011: On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Saiyad Imam is observing Sadbhavana fast today here at Gandhi Ashram to make people aware of Gandhi's message of communal harmony and his philosophy of non-violence. At this occasion he remembered the victims of 2002 Gujarat riots. Sai

Bhopal - 02 Oct 2011 (IANS): Saba, the elder daughter of the late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, has become the first woman to head the Awqaf-e-Shahi, becoming the patron of Waqf properties in Bhopal and abroad worth over Rs.300 crore, an official said Sunday. Saba officially took charge of as Mutawal

Chandigarh - 02 Oct 2011 (IANS): Salman Ali from Haryana's Mewat district who emerged as a runner-up in Zee TV's singing reality show "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs" will be rewarded Rs.21 lakh by the state government, a spokesman said Sunday. "Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announ

AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI: Senior IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, in the eye of storm after he filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court implicating Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 communal riots, was sent to judicial custody by a court in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Bhatt will now be lodged in Sabarm

GANDHINAGAR: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had implicated Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots, was arrested by the Gandhinagar police on Friday, Times Now reported. Bhatt was arrested in connection with an FIR filed against him by a police constable for allegedly threate

New Delhi - 26 Sep 2011: In her effort to control the damage done by the controversial 2G note, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday separately met both Home Minister P Chidambaram and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to ascertain their views on the issue. She met the two top Cabinet minist

New Delhi - 26 Sep 2011: In the first ever indirect admission of the police atrocities on Meo Muslims, during the communal violence in Gopalgarh, on Saturday, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot criticized the role played by the local police and administration in dealing with the riot, which br

New Delhi - 23 Sep 2011:Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, one of India's greatest cricket captains ever and whose flair and acumen inspired a generation of cricketers, was laid to rest at his native village in Pataudi on Friday.He was buried within the Pataudi town, next to his parents' graves. Some broke in

New Delhi - 23 Sep 2011: The promotion of Urdu got a major boost on Tuesday when the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) put online one million pages of writings by Ghalib, Maulana Azad, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Krishna Chander, Kaifi Azmi and Bekal Utsahi, besides hundreds of others. Th

New Delhi - 22 Sep 2011 (PTI):Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, one of India's greatest cricket captains ever and whose flair and acumen inspired a generation of cricketers, passed away on Thursday after battling a lung infection for the last few months. The 70-year-old cricketer, one of India's early supers