The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to the former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in a case registered against him by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Lokayukta for alleged misuse of his office to show a favour to a mining company when he was the Chief Minist

Over 30 heads of Lingayat mutts met here on Thursday and passed a five-point resolution to press ahead with the demand for minority religion status for the community on the lines of Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. Later in the day, the seers also presented a joint memorandum to Chief Minister Sidd

ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities today detained a Russian suspected member of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group for allegedly plotting a drone attack on an American warplane at a US base in southern Turkey. State-run Anadolu news agency said that Renat Bakiev is accused of seeking to stage an at

HYDERABAD: Twelve years after a suicide bomber blew himself on Dasara in front of the Task Force office in Hyderabad, the first fidayeen attack in the city, all 10 terror suspects with alle ged links to Harkal ul Jehad al Islami (HuJI) were acquitted by the Nampally court on Thursday. A home guard,

A local court Thursday sent Vikas Barala, son of Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala, and Vikas’s friend Ashish Kumar to police custody for two days. Both will again be produced in court on August 12. Vikas and Ashish are facing charges of stalking, wrongful restraint and abduction attempt on Haryana I

NEW DELHI: In a surprise move unmindful of the huge controversy it had sparked, the Maharashtra government has moved the Supreme Court seeking revival of a provision of law that made it an offence to carry or keep beef at home in the state. More than a year ago, the Bombay high court had doused p

Former union minister M Venkaiah Naidu will take oath as the 15th Vice-President of India on Friday in New Delhi. Naidu, 68, will be administered the oath of office by President Ram Nath Kovind at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan. He was elected to the post after he defeated Opposition vice-presiden

Mumbai: Former captain Kapil Dev says India finally possess a bunch of world class pacers and the team could rely on them besides the spinners. In recent times, India pacers have strongly aided the spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. They have played a key role in the Test team’s

Bengaluru: State-run International Institute of Information Technology-Bengaluru (IIIT-B) on Wednesday said it is starting a post-graduate diploma programme to train about 10,000 students and engineers in smart software skills. “The 11-month programme will provide hands-on learning to students an

Islamabad: An aggressive Nawaz Sharif, leading a mammoth rally from Islamabad to his hometown Lahore, on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Supreme Court for ousting him as Pakistan’s Prime Minister. Sharif spewed fire as he addressed large groups of supporters gathered on the rally route

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of 18 opposition parties on Friday, the last day of Parliament’s monsoon session, to discuss the future course of action of the joint opposition and chalk out a strategy against the Modi government. The meeting will be chaired by Son

Washington: The FBI in July raided one of Paul Manafort’s homes, a spokesman for the former campaign chief for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Wednesday. “FBI agents executed a search warrant at one of Manafort’s residences,” said the spokesman in a brief communique. The s

San Francisco/New Delhi: WhatsApp will soon facilitate instant money transfer via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transaction system, shows a new Beta update by the Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform. According to a blog website WABetaInfo late on Wednesday, WhatsApp was finally giving

RIYADH: For all those passengers taking its flights to Saudi Arabia, the national carrier Saudia Airlines announced a strict dress code, BBC reported. The airlines placed the details of its dress code on its website stating that it will refuse to fly travelers that are not “clothed in a manner wo

New Delhi [India]: The Indian national football team have dropped a place to the 97th spot in the latest Federation Internationale de Football Association(FIFA) rankings. The downward movement in the rankings came as India did not play a single international match in last one month. India are

Reacting on the verdict of the court on Begumpet human bomb blast case, MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi today lashed out at the police saying that they kept 10 innocent persons in the jail by filing cases but the Court dismissed the cases. Taking to twitter, Asaduddin said “2005 Hyderabad Task Office

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