New Delhi - It promises to be a diplomatic marathon for External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna as he gears up to meet foreign minsters of the US, France and Russia this week to firm up the agenda for the visits by their leaders to India this year.Besides participating in the 65th session of the UN G

Lucknow - As the nation braced itself for upcoming judicial verdict on contentious Ayodhya title suits, Muslim clerics today appealed to all communities to exercise restraint irrespective of which way the judgement goes.Every religion preaches peace and harmony and these should be maintained at all

Mobile telecom services providers asked to ban all bulk SMS and MMS service till SaturdayThe Centre on Wednesday banned all bulk SMS and MMS across India for next 72 hours with immediate effect in view of the impending verdict on Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suits by the Special Lucknow Bench o

Ahead of the judgment of the Allahabad High Court in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suits on Friday, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday appealed for maintaining peace, order and harmony. It would be inappropriate to reach any hasty conclusion that one side has "won" or that the

Ashok replaces Acharya in Home, Shobha Karandlaje gets PowerBANGALORE - After successfully conducting the first ever major surgery of his 28-month-old Cabinet, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday confidently shuffled portfolios of ministers, sending a strong signal to his detractors that he

NEW DELHI: India scrambled against the clock to save the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday after a ceiling collapsed in the weightlifting arena and the chairman of England's athletics team said the entire squad's participation was "on a knife-edge."Sir Andrew Foster, the chairman of Commonwealth Games

A young Bangalorean will be rubbing shoulders with world leaders on a global forum soon. Viren Pradeep (11), a student of Akshara Montessori House of Children in Yelahanka, has been chosen by the U.S.-based World Leadership Forum to participate this year. So far, around 45 children from India have b

Ahead of a Cabinet reshuffle and expansion of the 32-month-old BJP government on Tuesday, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa sacked three Ministers, including Gulihatti D. Shekar, who had threatened to commit suicide if dismissed.The Ministers who have been dropped are Shivana Gouda Naik (Adu

NEW DELHI - A footbridge being built for the Commonwealth Games in India collapsed on Tuesday, injuring 23 people and highlighting the raft of problems that have so far blighted the event, meant to showcase the emerging global power.Preparations for next month's Commonwealth Games, intended to be th

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