New Delhi: Noted Urdu poet Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, generally known,' Shahryar' has been selected for Jnanpith Award-2008 which is the highest literary award in India. This prestigious award will be given to him in the recognition of his contribution for Urdu language.The Award was instituted in 1961 a

Lucknow: Muslim religious leaders Sunday joined their Hindu counterparts in opposing any further postponement of the Allahabad High Court's verdict on the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi issue, noting both sides have reposed faith in the court's decision."Isn't the issue already pending for too long? Su

New Delhi: Renowned Islamic Scholar and General Secretary of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (Salim Group), Maulana Ameeduzzaman Keranawi passed away on Friday morning. He was 72 and suffering from brain tumor. He took his last breath at his residence in Jamia Nagar.Maulana Keranwi was also Wor

Bengaluru, Sept. 24: The Indian Institutes of Management and Prometric have extended the registration period for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010 to October 7. The sale of CAT vouchers will be open till October 4 while registrations will be open till October 7.The decision to extend the registra

The Gujarat High Court on Friday constituted a new three-member Special Investigation Team for a fresh probe into the alleged fake encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan in 2004. It will be headed by Joint Police Commissioner of Delhi Karnail Singh, and will have senior Gujarat cadre IPS officers Mohan J

Bangalore -Engineering colleges in the city are getting better employment offers for their pass-outs this year indicating the job market skies that were so far overcast with clouds of recession are slowly clearing.While big IT firms are yet to line up to the campuses, the total number of offers fres

New Delhi - A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia will on Tuesday decide the fate of the special leave petition seeking deferment of the Allahabad High Court verdict on the Ayodhya title suit.Besides the Chief Justice, the bench would include Justices Aftab Alam and K S Radhakrishn

New Delhi - Announcing a eight-point Kashmir formula, the Centre today said a Group of Interlocutors led by an eminent persons will hold ''sustained dialogue'' with all sections of Jammu and Kashmir and also review deployment of security forces in the Valley, especially in Srinagar.Unveiling a packa

KOLKATA - Seven elephants of a herd died after being hit by a goods train in the Banarhat area of Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday night.While four were killed on the spot, the rest died on Thursday. The dead include a sub-adult and two juvenile elephants, Divisional Forest Officer (Wild Life II) Su

India's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a lower court in northern India to delay a verdict on whether Hindus or Muslims own land around a demolished mosque in northern India.The postponement of Friday's verdict to September 29 came after a man appealed to the Supreme Court for a stay on the judgme

BANGALORE: The State Government on Wednesday declared a two-day holiday for all educational institutions in the State on September 24 and 25 in view of the Allahabad High Court verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit on Friday.Addressing presspersons here, Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurap

Bangalore - Congress president Sonia Gandhi has rejected the resignation of Siddaramaiah as the leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly, Union Minister Gulam Nabi Azad said here on Wednesday. "Gandhi has asked Siddaramaiah to continue in the post," Azad, who is in-charge of Congress affairs in Ka

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