Police fire rubber bullets, lob teargas shells after students hurl stones at themHYDERABAD, January 6, 2011: Students agitated over the recommendations of the Srikrishna Committee clashed with police forces on the Osmania University campus throughout Thursday. Police fired 15 rounds of rubber bullet

New Delhi, January 6, 2011:Even as onion prices show no signs of cooling down due to inconsistent supplies, the prices are likely to increase further with Pakistan deciding to ban its export to India through the Wagah border.Terming it shocking, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma on Thursday said the is

Bangalore, Jan 4 :Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday emerged as a major winner in polls to the local governing councils but it suffered setbacks in the home turf of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and the powerful Reddy brothers. Of the 30 zila (district) panchayats, the BJP bag

BANGALORE: Though theWorld Urdu Conferencestarted on Wednesday to celebrate the sweetness of the Urdu language, it hit a bitter strain too. Organizers complained that numerous letters to chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, asking for support to hold the conference, fell on deaf ears. Though the letters

Mumbai,December 29, 2010: An Egypt Air aircraft made an emergency landing at Mumbai airport on Wednesday morning.The Cairo-Mumbai flight (MS 968) landed after a suspected fire was reported from its cargo hold.All the passengers on board were reported safe. Source : Gulf News

Mumbai - The Bombay Stock Exchange along with Taqwaa Advisory and Shariah Investment Solutions (P) Ltd. (TASIS), on Monday, launched a Sharia Index with 50 Sharia compliant companies within the BSE 500 that will be known as BSE TASIS Sharia 50. These 50 companies are the most liquid ones and are str

Bangalore, Dec 27, (PTI): Karnataka Government today said it was not in favour of a single common entrance test (CET) at the state level for admission to professional courses, as it would not benefit the state students.The government had no objection to the existing system of CET conducted by the Ka

Bangalore, Dec 27, (PTI) :Security was today intensified in Karnataka, particularly in coastal areas, after a terror alert was sounded by central intelligence agencies."A high alert has been sounded in the state, especially in coastal districts following an alert from the Centre" Chief Minister B S

Bangalore - On the occasion of World Urdu Conference and Mushaira which is scheduled to be held on 29, 30 Dec, three eminent journalists will be awarded in recognition of their services in the field of Urdu Journalism and Literature. According to the press release, Asst Chairman of Organizing Commit

Mumbai - Career festival 2011, in which Twocircles.net is media partner, will be held on 15 and 16 January 2011 at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering in Byculla, South Mumbai. Organizers of the carrier fest Associations of Muslim Professionals along with Anjuman-e-Islam, Urdu Markaz and ot

Sriharikota (AP), Dec 25 (PTI): India's space programme suffered a setback today when one of its communication satellites aboard a Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV) exploded mid-air less than a minute after lift-off from the spaceport here and fell into the sea. GSAT-5P, carrying 24 C-band and 12

Mangalore - Tense atmosphere prevailed in the coastal city of Mangalore on Friday afternoon following a joint operation by Coastal Security Police Force and Panambur police based on rumours of illegal weapons transportation. Claiming that they have received intelligence information of illegal weapon

Thiruvananthapuram, December 23: Veteran Congress leader K. Karunakaran, who was four times chief minister of Kerala, died in a hospital here Thursday, doctors said. He was 92.Karunakaran, who was admitted to a private hospital in the city on December 10, was taken off the ventilator last week after

NEW DELHI, December 23, 2010 :nion Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said he saw the private sector chipping in with $500 billion (about Rs.22.50 lakh crore) for development of the infrastructure sector during the XII Plan (2012-17)."We are already envisaging doubling of infrastructure

Bhubaneswar, December 22 (IANS): India Wednesday successfully tested its indigenously developed nuclear-capable ballistic missile Prithvi-II from a military base in Orissa, defence sources said.The surface-to-surface missile, which has already been inducted into the Indian armed forces, was blasted

Bangalore: In a move that could radically change the system of admissions to colleges and institutions of higher learning , the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) is contemplating introducing a national-level entrance test for different streams of learning.Speaking at the 17th National An

NEW DELHI, December 21, 2010 (PTI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the sharp rise in onion prices and said effective steps should be taken to bring down the prices to affordable levels. In a letter to the secretaries of Departments of Consumer Affairs and Agric

New Delhi - Strongly endorsing the secular and nationalistic nature of Muslims in India, the United States has acknowledged that India's over 150 million Muslim population is largely unattracted to extremism. Separatism and religious extremism have little appeal to Indian Muslims, and the overwh