BANGALORE: Karnataka on Friday night appeared heading for a showdown with Governor H R Bhardwaj granting sanction for prosecution of chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on corruption charges and a defiant CM asking him to apologise for remarks against the BJP government. The stand off came to a head wi

Udupi, January 19,2011 : An important inscription of 15th century belonging to the Sangama Dynasty of Vijayanagar Empire is discovered at Rattadi, a small villege in Kundapura taluk of Udupi District.The stone record was preserved in the Bhandarkars College Kundapur and brought to the notice of Prof

New Delhi, Nov 20,2011 ( DHNS) :Tired of your existing cell phone service provider? Just dump it by paying Rs 19 and go for a new service provider without changing your number under the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) scheme.The MNP, which allows cell phone holders to change their service provider w

New Delhi, January 19, 2011 :In a minor expansion of his Council of Ministers on Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh introduced three new faces, upgraded five Ministers and shuffled the rest of the pack. The top four jobs - Finance, Home, External Affairs and Defence - were left untouched, and

New Delhi, Jan 20,2011 :Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will formally announce a nationwide roll-out of the much-awaited mobile number portability (MNP) service on Thursday. This facility will allow mobile subscribers to switch operators without changing their phone numbers, thus forcing telecom compa

New Delhi, January 19, 2011 :Describing black money stashed away abroad by Indians as "pure and simple theft of national money," the Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the Centre's approach to tackling this menace and retrieving the huge amount kept in foreign banks.When Solicitor-General Gopal S

A local court in Ajmer on Tuesday issued a fresh warrant against Swami Aseemanand directing the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad to produce him before it at the earliest in connection with the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Ratan Lal Moond issued a fresh production warrant a

Mumbai, Jan 17 (PTI) Nine persons arrested in connection with the 2006 Malegaon blasts today moved a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, seeking bail in the wake of Swami Aseemanand''s confession pointing to a right-wing group''s involvement in the case."From the confes

Mumbai, Jan 17 (IBNS): The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in Nashik has received bail applications from nine alleged Islamic terrorists charged in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. The accused have cited Swami Aseemanand's confession where the Hindu extremist leader admitted to the

The new Mohtamim or head of the Dar-ul-Uloom, who took over on January 10, has a Facebook page devoted to him by his fans.That, among other things, is what Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Wastanavi brings to one of the Islamic world's most well-respected seminaries. A lesser-known scholar outside the Muslim

New Delhi, January 15, 2011 (PTI): State-owned oil companies on Saturday raised petrol prices by Rs. 2.50-Rs. 2.54 per litre, the second hike in a month, on back of rising crude oil prices.Indian Oil Corp, the nation's largest fuel retailer, will raise petrol prices by Rs. 2.50 per litre with effect

NEW DELHI, Jan 13, 2011 (AP): A new row has erupted between India and China following Beijing's refusal to stamp visas in passports of residents from the disputed eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.Both India and China consider Arunachal Pradesh to be part of their territory and the neighbors

MYSORE, Jan 11, 2011,(PTI) :Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, former Mysore Maharaja, the late Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar, and Law Minister M Veerappa Moily will be conferred with honorary doctorate degrees by the Mysore University.The University Syndicate, at its meeting held on Wednesday, also chos

New Delhi, January 10, 2011 (PTI) : The 2007 Ajmer Shariff blast was carried out to deter Hindus from going to the famous shrine and the act was carried out by a group of extremists whose members belonged to both majority and minority communities, Swami Aseemanand, an accused in the case has said in

New Delhi, Jan 8 (PTI) A thick layer of fog engulfed the city this morning even as the cold wave continued unabated leaving Delhiites shivering and disrupting flight operations.The minimum temperature was recorded at 4.3 degrees Celsius, the same as yesterday.Heavy fog in the morning hours disrupted

Lucknow, Jan 7 (PTI):Government is considering allocation of quota to minorities within the existing 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in central services, Minority Affairs minister Salman Khurshid said today.Granting separate quota to the minorities within the 27 per cent being given to OBCs is unde

"We are extremely pained at the methodology adopted" New Delhi, January 7, 2011:The government on Friday described as "utterly erroneous and without any basis" the estimated loss of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore arrived at by the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) on account of allocation of 2G spectrum to

It offers good mobility and does not produce debris that may be harmful to bodyCHENNAI, January 6, 2011:Medical technology is constantly evolving and what was the best a few years ago is no longer good enough for patients. The latest to join that list is Delta Motion, a ceramic hip-replacement devic