New Delhi - Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened random fire at one of the entrances to the Jama Masjid here Sunday, leaving two Taiwanese tourists wounded and sparking panic, police and shrine officials said. The attackers fired at least 10 rounds from an automatic weapon at a group of tourists alight

ALKHOBAR - The Indian government has honored International Indian School-Dammam Principal Dr. E.K. Mohammed Shaffe by conferring a national award on him.Shaffe received the award from Indian President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi last week. The annual award, which is given away every year, is meant t

Bangalore - The two-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministry in Karnataka will soon see a major overhaul to improve its image and functioning. Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and senior party leaders begin discussions on Saturday to decide who to include and who to drop.''A meeting of party lea

NEW DELHI - The all-party delegation, visiting Jammu and Kashmir on Monday to assess the ground situation in the State which has been in the grip of violence since June, will be led by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram.Almost all parties have nominated their parliamentary party leaders or senior le

Lucknow - The Special Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday rejected a plea for deferment of the verdict in the Babri Masjid title suit and imposed a heavy fine on applicant Ramesh Chandra Tripathi. The judgment on the 60-year-old title suit will be pronounced at 3.30 p.m. on September 24. The

New Delhi - The Muslim MPs in the Lok Sabha seem to be first rate laggards. Not only that they shirk their duty of raising questions in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament, they even lag behind when it comes to spending the money available to them under Member of Parliament Local Are

New Delhi: Ahead of the court verdict on Ayodhya dispute, a French writer on India says it would be a moment of reckoning and an opportunity for Indian leadership to bring Muslims back into mainstream."September 24 would be the next turning point in India's history. I hope the judges are aware of it

New Delhi - Common Aptitude Test (CAT) aspirants now will have a "practice test paper" to familiarise them with the online format of the examination.Prometric, which is entrusted with the task of conducting CAT, has designed the test paper to provide a comprehensive overview of what to expect on the

Bangalore - Reserving 25 percent of seats for children of poor families in private schools would be mandatory and its violation would be punishable, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Monday."We will not budge an inch from this mandatory provision in the Right to Free and Compulsor

Hyderabad, August 30: The Prof. G. Ram Reddy Centre for Distance Education, Osmania University, has invited applications for admission to Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A) and Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from candidates without entrance test across the country.In a press note,

Hyderabad - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched the RBI Young Scholars Award Scheme to create awareness among young scholars about the Indian banking sector and RBI. Under the Scheme, the RBI will select 125 scholars through a countrywide competitive examination and award a scholarship.Sele

New Delhi - Sheela Bhatt meets Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha chief Mohan Bhagwat at a media interaction in New Delhi. She says that while he was rigid on his stand on the Ayodhya issue, he impressed with his simplicity and clarity of thought."Hindu society in India wants to see a Ram temple in Ayodhy

BANGALORE - Islamic scholar and former Imam of Kachchi Mamon Masjid at Mangalore Bunder area Moulavi Hafiz Abdussami Nadvi died at his residence in Bangalore on Monday after a prolonged illness.He was 65. He was bedridden for over a decade after suffering a paralytic stroke. His condition deteriorat

Everybody is waiting holding their breath and apprehensive as to what the verdict will be on 24th September 2010 by the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court in the Title suit of Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case. There are no two opinions that in the year 1528 a mosque was built by Mir Baqi by o

Washington, September 12:Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani will become the world's richest man in 2014 with a net worth of $62 billion, overtaking Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, Forbes magazine has forecast."Indian commodity king Mukesh Ambani tops Forbes' rich list at $62 billion. Former No. 1 C

Lucknow, September 10: Ahead of the much-awaited verdict in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid legal dispute in Ayodhya Sep 24, Muslims in this Uttar Pradesh capital will hold special prayers for communal harmony and peace."Lakhs of Muslims will offer special prayers for strengthening Hindu-Muslim tie

New Delhi- Aiming at doing away with multiple entrance tests and reducing burden on students, the Government on Friday decided to set up a committee to suggest a suitable entrance model for engineering examinations.The decision was taken at the IIT Council meeting chaired by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal

Institutes to allow foreign faculty, studentsNew Delhi - Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may soon lose their exclusivity as centres of excellence in engineering sciences as they soon will branch out to include studies in medicine.The IITs can provide medical education except awarding a degree