Mumbai, India: President Barack Obama's pledge to ease export controls that have long vexed India came as an unexpected salve in a relationship irritated by frictions over outsourcing and market access, Indian business leaders said on Saturday. The export controls resulted from past concerns about

India's financial hub is US President Barack Obama's first stop on a four-nation Asia tour which is expected to be heavily weighted towards strengthening ties with fast-growing economies Mumbai: US President Barack Obama begins a trade-focused visit to India on Saturday in Mumbai with a sombre trib

MANGALORE: The National Highways Authority of India may complete work on National Highway 17 by December-end. Participating in a meeting on infrastructure development organised here on Thursday by the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Deputy Commissioner Subodh Yadav said that officials of t

Thiruvananthapuram -A survey conducted by a US-based agency in certain Muslim-dominated areas of the capital has sent intelligence agencies into a tizzy. Home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said that Central help was being sought to unravel the mystery, if any, behind the exercise.According to

Aligarh: Indian universities hold great potential, and are the powerhouses of knowledge, former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said at a convocation here Tuesday. "Our universities hold great potential for preparing India's next generation to face the upcoming challenges. They are the powerhouses of

New Delhi : The Allahabad High Court's verdict on the Ayodhya dispute did not condone the demolition of the Babri Masjid, Congress president Sondia Gandhi said Tuesday while asserting that the perpetrators must be "brought to justice". "The judgment in no way condones the demolition of the Babri Ma

Bangalore - On the occasion of Kannada Rajyotsava, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has announced that regions currently being called as 'Hyderabad-Karnataka' and 'Mumbai-Karnataka', will be re-named. Delivering his address at the official Rajyotsava celebration function at Sri Kanteerava Stadium in

Bangalore - Assembly Speaker K. G. Bopaiah had disqualified the independents after they withdrew their support to the BJP government The Karnataka High Court today issued notice to state Assembly Speaker K. G. Bopaiah on petitions filed by five Independent MLAs, challenging their disqualification f

MUMBAI -THE Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pick-up along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally. And not a single toilet or latrine for its 10,000 people.

Bangalore: Commonwealth Games medal winners, industry captains and a record number of 15 journalists are among the 162 people who have been accorded with the Rajyotsava Award by the Karnataka government for the year 2010. Announcing the list, Kannada and Culture Minister Govind M Karjol told report

New Delhi - The Supreme Court today asked former minister Amit Shah to stay out of Gujarat and leave the state by tomorrow morning but did not cancel his bail on which hearing will be held on November 15. The decision came at a special hearing at Justice Aftab Alam's residence in Delhi on the CBI's

NEW DELHI: About 7000 Indian Haj pilgrims would not be able get place in the Green category area of Makkah despite they paid for it. According to Haj committee of India 7000 pilgrims who had opted for the Green category will now be accommodated in the Aziziya, some 12 KM from Haram Sharif. Chief Ex

Bangalore - Outgoing Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President R V Deshpande today said the most herculean task he faced during his tenure was to brave the ''money power'' of the ruling BJP in the last two years in the state. "It was a mixed bag of luck for me in the last 25 months as KPCC chi

Kuala Lumpur - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said he would ask the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to look into what Malaysia was doing on Islamic banking practices. "I will certainly recommend it to the RBI to look at what is happening in Malaysia in this context. RBI is already looking into

Bangalore - The five disqualified independent MLAs on Wednesday filed a fresh petition before the Karnataka High Court, challenging the order of Speaker K.G. Bopaiah on a petition filed by some voters from their assembly constituencies. On October 9, some voters from the assembly constituencies of

Bangalore - The first batch of 300 Hajis from the state this year will start its journey on Sunday, October 24. The Hajj pilgrims will board the flight in Bangalore in the night for the annual pilgrimage to Makkah. The State Hajj Committee made two embarkation points in the state. About 7,500 pilgri

Mysore -The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka is continuing efforts to lure opposition legislators to its side and 30 Congress members are being wooed by it, senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah said on Saturday. "We have evidence to show that Shobha Karandlaje (power minister) has be

NEW DELHI - A senior RSS leader's name figured in the chargesheet in the 2007 Ajmer blast in Rajasthan, a development that was rubbished by BJP and RSS but latched onto by Congress which accused the outfit of disturbing communal amity. Indresh Kumar, the RSS leader, was present at a secret meeting