Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister for Higher Education Dr C N Ashwath Narayan on Tuesday said 30 engineering colleges in the state, including 14 government colleges, have been selected for Regional Ecosystem For Technical Excellence (RETE). The RETE has the objective of upgrading these select engineerin

Ahmedabad, Jul 19: The Gujarat police detained filmmaker Avinash Das from Mumbai on Tuesday in a case related to sharing on Twitter a photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, an official said. He was being brought to Ahmedabad for further action, the officia

Kollam, Jul 19: Police in Kerala on Tuesday registered a case in connection with an alleged incident, where young women and girls who appeared for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, were asked to remove undergarments to be allowed to write the exam in Kollam district. Police said a case

Lucknow, Jul 16: Two people were arrested after they entered the Lulu Mall here on Saturday and started reciting the Hanuman Chalisa, police said. At least 15 others were detained for creating a ruckus while trying to enter the shopping mall. Confirming the development, Deputy Commissioner of

Colombo(PTI): Sri Lanka's Acting President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday asked Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to nominate a Prime Minister who is acceptable to both the government and the Opposition. In a statement, the Prime Minister's Office said that Prime Minister Wic

Colombo(PTI): Sri Lanka's embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday fled to the Maldives on a military jet, hours before he was supposed to step down in the face of a public revolt against him and his family for mishandling the economy that has bankrupted the country. The 73-year-old le

New Delhi(PTI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear next week a batch of pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict refusing to lift the ban on hijab in educational institutions of the state. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli

Colombo (PTI): At least 10 persons, including a woman, were injured on Tuesday when a scuffle took place inside Araliyagaha Mandir, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's official residence, occupied by Sri Lankan protesters since Saturday, the media reported on Tuesday. At least 10 persons were a

Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Friday urged the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mumbai to name the newly-built international students' hostel after freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The Governor, who is also the Chancellor of public universities in the state, inau

New Delhi(PTI): Billionaire Gautam Adani's group is said to be planning a surprise entry into the race to acquire telecom spectrum, which will pitch it directly against Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio and telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal's Airtel, sources said. Applications for participating in the

San Francisco (AP): Elon Musk's tumultuous 44 billion bid to buy Twitter is on the verge of collapse after the Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter's board Friday saying he is terminating the acquisition. Twitter did not immediately respond to a message for comment. It is not entirely clear whether

Byndoor, Jul 5: Three people suffered injuries as the car in which they were travelling rammed into a KSRTC bus on the national highway here Tuesday, July 5 afternoon. The car was going towards Bhatkal from Kundapur and the KSRTC bus was moving at Navunda. The car hit into the bus in

Bengaluru, Jun 29 (IANS): The Karnataka government on Wednesday implemented a new set of guidelines as the Covid cases rose in the state. In view of the changing scenario, all residents of an apartment have been asked undergo Covid test if more than 15 infections are reported. Also, the new gu

Mumbai(PTI): Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said he will reach Mumbai on Thursday for floor test against the beleaguered Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra. There has been no formal announcement from Raj Bhavan that the floor test is slated for Thu

New Delhi(PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that during the Emergency imposed in 1975 attempts were made to "crush democracy" in India, and asserted that it is difficult to find another such example in the world where people defeated a "dictatorial mindset" through democratic means.

Mumbai, Jun 25 (PTI) The Shiv Sena has sent the names of four more rebel MLAs to the Maharashtra Assembly deputy speaker for initiating action of disqualification against them, a senior leader said. The party will also issue notices to 16 MLAs of the rebel faction and ask them to respond by Monda

New Delhi(PTI): The Congress on Tuesday staged a Satyagraha at the party headquarters here alleging "misuse" of the Enforcement Directorate and "harassment" of party leader Rahul Gandhi, who is being questioned by the probe agency for the fifth day in the National Herald money laundering case. Th

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that the ban on schools run by Falah-e-Aam Trust (FAT), an affiliate of banned Jamaat-e-Islami, is "another form of atrocity" inflicted on the people of Jammu and Kashmir to "sabotage" their future. After land ownership, resources and jobs, the last "target" i