New Delhi - 18 July 2011 (PTI):US secretary of state Hillary Clinton arrives on Monday to attend the second round of Indo-US strategic dialogue on Tuesday during which a host of key bilateral, regional and international issues including situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and security cooperati

Bhopal - 17 July 2001: Vice President of India Mr. Mohammed Hamid Ansari has stressed the urgent need to regulate media while expressing deep concern and anguish over "paid news" phenomena which has raised its ugly head. Any discussion on the issue of regulation of media should not avoid "paid ne

New Delhi - 17 July 2011: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday said involvement of Hindu outfits could not be ruled out in Wednesday's blasts in Mumbai. Asked if he suspected the involvement of Hindu outfits in the latest Mumbai blasts, Singh told The Indian Express: "Nothing can be

BANGALORE: The High Court on Thursday ordered a CBI probe into the murder of Naushad Kasim, a Mangalore based human rights advocate and lawyer of underworld don Chota Shakeel's aide Rashid Malbari.Hearing a petition seeking a CBI probe into the murder and the allged involvement of four police offic

Bangalore - 17 July 2011 (IANS): Karnataka's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has landed in a row over its support to teaching of Hindu holy book 'Bhagvad Gita' in schools.The controversy took a new turn after Primary and Secondary Education Minister Vishwanath Hegde Kageri said July 14 that

Mumbai - 17 July 2011 (PTI): A man questioned in connection with Wednesday's serial blasts died while undergoing treatment in a civic-run hospital in Mumbai, police said.Faiz Usmani, brother of 2008 Ahmedabad blast accusedAfzal Usmani, died at 1:30 AM while he was undergoing treatment for hemiparesi

New Delhi - 16 July 2011: Maulana Mahmood Madani, Rajya Sabha MP and General Secretary of Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, while strongly condemning the Mumbai serial blasts and demanding the government to bring the culprits to justice, warned against harassment of innocent Muslims in various parts of the c

Mumbai - 16 July 2011: To protest the cowardly bomb attacks, 72 ulemas will march from Minara Masjid to Opera House on Saturday. The protest of the 72 ulemas will recall the memory of the Muslims' first battle against terrorism in Karbala.A meeting to discuss the issue was conducted on Thursday nigh

Mumbai - 16 July 2011: Like after every blast, this time too the police are not sparing former members of the banned outfit Simi (Students Islamic Movement of India). Some are ruing the day they decided to join the organization.Take Kamal Khan, for example. The 46-year-old production engineer said:

Chennai - 15 July 2011: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Friday successfully launched itsPolar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV- C17) from theSatish Dhawan Space Centreat Sriharikota, 100 km north of Chennai, carrying to space GSAT-12, a communication satellite. This is the 18th success

Hyderabad - 15 July 2011 (PTI): After it's Rs 1-lakh wonder car 'Nano',Tata Groupis all set to launch a house for nearly Rs 32,000 aimed atrural marketby the end of next year."At present, the housing project is in the pilot stage in 30 locations spread across the country and we are in discussions wi

Lucknow: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has condemned the serial bomb blast which occurred in Mumbai on Wednesday. The board has termed this dastardly incident as an inhuman cruel act. President, AIMPLB and Rector, Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulema, Maulana Rabey Hasan Nadwi while decr

Mumbai - 14 July 2011 (PTI): Strongly condemning the "barbaric" bomb blasts here, Prime MinisterManmohan Singhon Thursday said the perpetrators must be pursued relentlessly to bring them to justice quickly and promised the government will do everything in its power to prevent such attacks in future.

New Delhi - 14 July 2011 (PTI): Prime MinisterManmohan Singhon Thursday announced ex-gratia assistance of Rs two lakh each for the kin of the deceased in Wednesday's terror attack and decided to visitMumbaito personally take stock of the situation there.He also announced Rs one lakh each for the ser

Mumbai - 13 July 2011: MUMBAI: Three near-simultaneous explosions rockedMumbai at rush-hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in what the government said appeared to be another terrorist strike in the city hit by a major attack nearly three years ago.Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chav

Allahabad - 13 July 2011 (PTI): In an early morninghighway robbery, two motorcycle-borne assailants shot dead a lawyer and took away his car after forcing other occupants to leave the vehicle inHandia areanear Allahabad, police said.The incident took place in Handia police station area, around 40 km

New Delhi - 13 July 2011 (IANS): Bringing his signature style of public consultation to his new job as rural development minister , Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said a draft of the new land acquisition bill will be put online next week for feedback, and introduced in the monsoon

Ahmedabad: The reconstruction of the Ishrat Jahan and Javed Pillai encounters by the Special Investigations Team (SIT) two days ago, has pointed out several loopholes in the FIR previously filed by cops involved in the encounter. The SIT led by Maharashtra senior police officer Satyapal Singh has