Bangalore - Technical Department of Indian Air Force is conducting a recruitment drive to recruit fresh candidates. The positions are open for SSLC, PUC and Diploma holders who had secured 50% marks in their qualifying examinations and born between 1st April 1990 and 31st May 1994. Interested candid

BANGALORE - The uncertainty over the fate of the 11 Bharatiya Janata Party rebel legislators in Karnataka continues with a split verdict on Monday by a two-member Bench of the Karnataka High Court on their disqualification. While Chief Justice J.S. Khehar upheld the October 10 action of the Speaker

GUWAHATI - Freedom fighter Bholaram Das marked his 100th birthday this weekend, announcing he was going back to school. Mr. Das has enrolled for a PhD programme in Gauhati University, perhaps the oldest university student in the country. "In my 100 years, I have done many things in the sphere of soc

Is the full-time MBA programme losing its sheen among young graduates? Universities and institutions offering full-time and part-time courses in MBA and observers ponder over the question in the wake of the global economic recessionary trend and the shift to alternative postgraduate programmes for

New Delhi - Over 2,700 shots of fireworks, 25 stacks of speakers producing 500,000 watts of sound and 1,200 moving lights combined with the majestic aerostatto create a spectacular closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games, at the Jawaharlal Nehru, in New Delhi, on Thursday. Prince Edward, patron o

Bangalore - Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday expectedly won a vote of confidence in the truncated state Assembly, a victory which will depend on the High Court's decision on the disqualification of 16 MLAs.Facing the second trial of strength in four days, Mr. Yeddyurappa's motio

NEW DELHI: As the Centre pitched for thorough and quick subscriber verification exercise for security reason, the telecom operators on Wednesday assured the government of their cooperation in getting details of customers but asked the home ministry to ensure cellphone users were not harassed by the

BANGALORE: With the Karnataka high court ruling it will decide the plea by five independent MLAs against their disqualification on October 18, the fate of the B S Yeddyurappa government will remain uncertain until then despite Thursday's trust vote, which it's expected to win since the HC has also d

NEW DELHI: China recently started work on extending its rail link in Lhasa to its border with Nepal, but for India it might just be a red herring.In a development, which has alarmed officials and strategic community here, Beijing is simultaneously working on bringing its rail link right upto Nyangtr

NEW DELHI - The Allahabad High Court based a significant part of its judgment in the Ayodhya case on the evidence provided by the Archaeological Survey of India's report on its excavations at the site, submitted to the court in 2003.However, that report is still hidden from the public eye, and a vir

Bangalore - (PTI)In a new turn to political developments in Karnataka, Governor H R Bhardwaj today offered one more chance to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to prove his majority in the Assembly on Thursday. Holding that the trust vote taken in the Assembly yesterday by the BJP government was "not

Bangalore : Karnataka on Monday appears headed for President's rule with the State Governor is believed to have recommended such a step after Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa won a controversial confidence vote in the Assembly following disqualification of 16 MLAs.Governor H.R. Bhardwaj is believed t

On a winter morning in 1992, a frenzied mob of young men assaulted and triumphantly razed the three domes of a medieval mosque. I wept then, as did large numbers of my countrymen and women. Eighteen years later, the three judges of the Special Full Bench of the Allahabad High Court, hearing a 60-yea

Bangalore - (PTI)Amid scenes of pandemonium, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today "won" a vote of confidence in the Assembly under a cloud after the Speaker disqualified 16 MLAs, including 11 of BJP, hours before the trial of strength. High drama marked the proceedings when Speaker K G Bop

Bangalore - (PTI)In a setback to ruling BJP on the eve of the floor test, Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj today directed Speaker K G Bopaiah to maintain status quo on the House strength as on October 6. In a letter to the Speaker, the Governor said the strength of the 224-member assembly which stoo

It is more than a week that the Babri Masjid verdict has been announced. Zillions of words written and another zillion spoken lamenting injustice Lucknow High Court inflicted on Muslims by a verdict that splits the land and mosque between, Hindus, Muslims and Sadhus. Justice they say is blind and in

New Delhi - The legal cell of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board is thinking of becoming an intervener in the appeal the Sunni wakf board plans to file in the Supreme Court against last week's Ayodhya verdict.Several law board members said the Allahabad High Court judgment had legal "loopholes"

The Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system, aimed at lessening the burden of school students, has reportedly increased the stress factor among them as they now feel they are being observed and evaluated 24x7.The CCE was introduced in all CBSE-affiliated schools along with the transitio