Karnataka Assembly serves notice on 11 BJP legislatorsThe political crisis in Karnataka, arising out of 14 Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs withdrawing support to the Yeddyurappa government, continued on Friday, with at least 10 of them sticking to their stand.Sources in the government and the Janata Dal

New Delhi - A body of Muslim scholars and clerics from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh today rejected the verdict of the Allahabad High Court on the Ayodhya title suit or any reconciliation bid and demanded that the Centre clear its stand on the issue. Led by Shahi Imam of the Delhi Jama Masjid Maulana Syed

New Delhi - BJP today said its dissident MLAs in Karnataka, who had raised a banner of revolt against Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, may be served a notice under anti-defection law if they did not fall in line. "We are confident that the crisis in Karnataka will be resolved soon.We would like to wa

New Delhi- India is expected to launch six more nuclear reactors in the next two to three years, a top government atomic scientist said here."Six more reactors are scheduled to be launched in the next two or three years," Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India R Chidamabaram said he

Bhopal /New Delhi - Incensed over being equated with SIMI, RSS hit out at Rahul saying he needs to learn more about the country before making such "meaningless" statements.In unusually strident remarks, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday equated the RSS with banned terror outfit, the Students Islamic Movemen

NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding the dismay and disquiet among Muslims over the Allahabad high court verdict on Babri Masjid, a group of some Muslim organization and a small section of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) are reportedly engaged in the reconciliation move.Though the little known Al

Bangalore - Embattled Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, whose government plunged into a major crisis after 19 MLAs withdrew their support, today said he will prove his majority in the Assembly on October 11, a day ahead of the deadline set by Governor H R Bhardwaj. "I have requested the gove

The absence of any condemnation of the vandalism of the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 is a conspicuous aspect of the Ayodhya verdict of the Allahabad High Court.The Supreme Court in its judgment of 1994 said of the demolition: "Within a short time, the entire structure was demol

New Delhi: After months of uncertainty and controversies, Delhi has finally decided to put behind all cynicism for the Commonwealth Games. As the Delhi Metro corridor between Sarita Vihar and Central Secretariat - the main link to the Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Stadium - opened for the public on Sunday,

The reliance of the Allahabad high court on the "faith and belief of Hindus"-that Lord Rama was born in the "area covered under the central dome of the disputed structure"-in trifurcating the Ayodhya title suit, has come in for sharp criticism across the English media. *** The Hindu's deputy edito

The Hindu ROMILA THAPAR: We cannot change the past to justify the politics of the present. Photo: S S Kumar It has annulled respect for history and seeks to replace it with religious faith. The verdict is a political judgment and reflects a decision which could as well have been taken by the stat

India's ambitious Unique ID project dubbed "Aadhaar", which aims to give every Indian citizen a unique number mapped to biometrics, was launched on Wednesday in the Nadurbar district of Maharashtra. The Technoholik.com team got a sneak peek at the UIDAI (Unique ID Authority of India) tech centre in

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has made judicial history by deciding a long pending legal dispute over a piece of property in Ayodhya on the basis of an unverified and unsubstantiated reference to the "faith and belief of Hindus."The irony is that in doing so, the court has inadverten

New Delhi, October 1: Syed Shahabuddin, President of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, has termed the Allahabad High Court verdict on the Babri Masjid as extra-legal based on myths and legends and not on evidence on record, and one that has exceeded the mandate of the Supreme Court."The AIMMM is

Bangalore - Lokayukta Santosh Hegde on Friday October 1 apprehended that witnesses may be ''influenced''and ''threatened'' in the KIADB case in connection with which state minister Katta Subramanya Naidu's corporator son Jagdish Katta was arrested. "We apprehend the witnesses might be influenced or

Bangalore: The sons of some of Karnataka's most senior politicians are threatening to provide vertiginous shifts in their fathers' fortunes. First, the son of Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe an official to not name him in a questionable land deal. "Whether

NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said a bill for setting up a National Council for Human Resources in Health will be introduced in Parliament soon to address issues of quality, quantity and equitable distribution of medical education resources.Addressing students at the 38th convocation cer

NEW DELHI - The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has made judicial history by deciding a long pending legal dispute over a piece of property in Ayodhya on the basis of an unverified and unsubstantiated reference to the "faith and belief of Hindus."The irony is that in doing so, the court ha