Sriharikota - 20 April 2011: India's PSLV-C16 rocket on Wednesday successfully launched into orbit the latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 that would study and help manage natural resources along with two nano satellites. ISRO's homegrown workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle place

New Delhi - 19 April 2011: (Press release) The Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah (IDB), in pursuance of its policy of helping students belonging to Muslim Community around the world, is pleased to announce Scholarships for students from the Muslim Community of India for study in a recognized Universi

Bangalore - 19 April 2011: Results of theKarnatakaSSLCExamination2011 are scheduled to be announced before May 15, 2011. Primary andSecondary EducationMinister Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri has said that though a re-examinationof the SSLC Third Language Hindi subject will be held on April 27, 2011 at 14

Ratlam - 19 April 2011: The pantry car of the 12951 Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express caught fire in the early hours of Monday. Two coaches were affected, but all passengers are safe. Railway authorities said the accident happened at 2:20 am near the Thuriya station between Aalot and Vikramgarh near Rat

New Delhi: Minister of Minority Affairs, Salman Khurshid, yesterday launched the 'Student Module' of the Online Scholarship Management System (OSMS) for Merit-cum-Means based scholarship scheme of the Ministry of Minority Affairs. With this facility now the students can apply online from anywhere fo

Chennai - 14 April 2011: In an exercise that will see a ripple effect or more on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government, elections to the politically significant states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as Puducherry ended with millions voting peacefully to bring in new assemblies.While Kerala sa

NEW DELHI: Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Saturday broke his fast after over 90 hours of spearheading the campaign against corruption after government issued a gazette notification constituting a 10-member joint committee of ministers and civil society activists, including him, to draf

NEW DELHI: After a last-minute twist almost derailed a peace deal between Anna Hazare and the government, the Gandhian on Friday announced that he would call off his fast at 10am on Saturday with official negotiators accepting all his conditions. Civil society protesters laying siege to Jantar Ma

NEW DELHI: The government has rejected the demand of Anna Hazare to issue an official notification to constitute the draft committee for Lokpal Bill and also rejected the proposal for an outsider to lead the new committee of government and civil society. The protesters announced that Kapil Sibal

MUMBAI: Several hundred activists from various parts of the city, who were part of the Anna Hazare-led campaign against corruption, were prevented by the police from staging a road blockade outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus at 5.30 pm on Tuesday The activists, waving national flags, shouted sloga

PANAJI - Under Section-20A of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, every overseas Indian elector is now entitled to have his/her name registered in the electoral roll of the constituency in which his/her place of residence in India, as mentioned in his/her passport, is located. Meanwhile,

New Delhi - 04 April 2011: An eye-catching spectacle will greet star gazers today when Saturn, the Lord of the Rings, will be brightest and biggest in the night sky making it visible to the naked eye."Jovian planet Saturn will shine like a bright golden object in the night sky theater on Monday as t

NEW DELHI: India's population rose to 1.21 billion people over the last 10 years - an increase by 181 million, according to the new census released today, but significantly the growth is slower for the first time in nine decades. The population, which accounts for world's 17.5 per cent population, c

New Delhi - 29 March 2011: The Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Dr. K. Rahman Khan welcomed Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah to India and held a banquet in his honor here on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Khan lauded the role of the Al-Sudais as a voice of sani

New Delhi - 27 March 2011: Imam Masjid-e-Haram, Dr. Shaykh Abdur Rehman Al Sudais addressed the gathering at SIO Headquarters after laying the Foundation Stone. The Foundation for Students' Islamic Centre was laid by His Excellency Dr. Shaykh Abdur Rehman Al Sudais at the Students Islamic Organisati

NEW DELHI: Launching cricket diplomacy to give a fresh impetus to bilateral ties, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday invited the Pakistan president and prime minister to watch the Indo-Pak cricket encounter in Mohali on March 30 when he will also be present. In an identical letters to President

Washington DC - 22 March 2011: The Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM), a Washington DC based NGO of Indian-American Muslims and Muslim Educational, Social, Cultural Organization (MESCO), a Hyderabad based NGO plan to join hands to help some madrasas in Uttar Pradesh to build English medi

Bangalore - 22 March 2011: Senior IPS Officer H N Satyanarayana Rao is the new Additional Director General of Police, Crime and Technical Services, Bangalore. In a reshuffle of IPS officers, the State government on Monday appointed 1985 batch IPS officer Ashit Mohan Prasad as Additional Director Gen